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Bash.org is back
- Hawkee 12y agoIt's been years since I've visited this site. While it could use a technology update, the content is still quite humorous.
- JadeNB 12y ago> While it could use a technology update, the content is still quite humorous. Why? I love the fact that there is at least one site out there that remembers that plain-text web pages can run just fine if all you're doing is delivering plain text. (Hacker News is another nice, nearly-plain-text example.) What purpose would be served by a technology update?
- drinchev 12y agoThat's really cool. A dozen of my bookmarks don't return 404 anymore.
- koichirose 12y agodid they remove rss though?
- nvk 12y agoAdd a Bitcoin Donation link like https://coinkite.com/u/OpenBazaar/ https://coinkite.com/u/OpenBazaar/
- pp19dd 12y agoThe very first page on it and I get this random gem: (do a ) tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173 ; after the 10th hop or so, watch for an imperial star destroyer.
- gizmo686 12y agoTry 'traceroute -m 255 obiwan.scrye.net' By suggestion of your command
- BuildTheRobots 12y ago`tracert -h 255 obiwan.scrye.net` for you windows bunnies out there
- jalfresi 12y agoHA HA DISREGARD THIS POST I SUCK COCKS
- JoshTriplett 12y agoGood time to revisit some of the classics that have propagated into general geek culture: The origin of "hunter2" as a password: http://bash.org/?244321 http://bash.org/?244321 Sysadmin problems: http://bash.org/?5273 http://bash.org/?5273 (Ever had a server accidentally walled up into an inaccessible space, but it kept working?) "The keys are like right next to each other": http://bash.org/?5300 http://bash.org/?5300 IRC pong: http://bash.org/?9322 http://bash.org/?9322 Boolean awesomeness: http://bash.org/?10958 http://bash.org/?10958
- signa11 12y agorap: http://bash.org/?870063 http://bash.org/?870063
- peterwwillis 12y ago<djahandarie> dont mind me while i emerge my ownage haha, emerge. remember when Gentoo was a thing?
- qnaal 12y ago"its -O3 the letter, not -03 the number" http://web.archive.org/web/20060513022941/http://www.funroll-loops.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060513022941/http://www.funroll...
- JoshTriplett 12y agoStill is. Chrome OS is based on Gentoo and Portage.
- krylon 12y agoThose were the days... =D I used Gentoo on my desktop for about three and a half years. I loved it. But then several things kind of added up. First, while a lot of the software was kind of bleeding edge, they took forever (more than a year IIRC) to support Python 2.5. Then POE broke, on which I had built a couple of scripts I used on a regular basis back then. All of a sudden, some of the coolest programs I had written back then stopped working. :( And then, I was kind of offline for about a year. When I had Internet access again, the first thing I did was try to update the system. Gentoo went on a compilation spree that lasted about 36 hours, then something broke. I thought rebooting the system might help, only to discover that my system had become kind of not-booting. So I installed Debian and haven't seen or heard much of Gentoo since. A while later somebody told me that stage-1 installs were no longer possible and was quite sad. But none of the Linux distros I use nowadays allows you the kind of control over your system that Gentoo gave you.
- math0ne 12y agoI love their variety of slightly racist humor!
- gknoy 12y agoIt's interesting how many of the things make me think, "This is awesome!" (like the "boolean awesomeness" one that JoshTriplett linked), and yet so many also are such examples of hatefulness (e.g., top ones) and the kind of things that I would not want anyone to read.
- JoshTriplett 12y agoSee also 4chan. Pervasively offensive and frequently hateful, yet also the source of impressive content, touching moments, activism, and miscellaneous awesomeness.
- csennn 12y agohuman nature in a nutshell
- AliAdams 12y agoI'm feeling a bit ignorant - could someone give a bit of background about bash.org and its history?
- slifty 12y agoLong ago in the dark days of the internet, before Facebook and social networks, and Reddit, everyone communicated using a group chat service called IRC. On IRC people often said very funny things! Bash.org is a collection of user contributed quotes from IRC conversations. When you would see someone say something funny on IRC, you would instantly load up bash.org and submit your quote. Moderators would then approve the ones they thought were funny. If they were actually funny they would get upvoted. About two years ago the site simply stopped updating with new quotes. People like me, who had incorporated bash.org into their "I have 30 seconds to kill, type random urls into my browser and hit enter" process still visited pretty regularly in desperate hope to see a new quote. Finally a few days ago, after years of silence, a new one appeared.
- AliAdams 12y agoExactly what I was looking for - thanks slifty!
- mpyne 12y agoThis deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
- peterwwillis 12y agoThe main rule on HN is you have to be nice, and the main rule on IRC is exactly the opposite, so I don't see it getting many upvotes here
- mpyne 12y agoThere's a fair amount of IRC channels which are nice (and where that's enforced). IRC is a technology, not an ideology, just like the WWW that underpins HN.
- peterwwillis 12y agoYes, I agree that it's not all IRC channels, but you can see from the average bash.org quote how 'the social crowd' feels about this kind of talk. WWW is a hypertext transport protocol, so it's not really like IRC at all. IRC is a group communications platform, and when you compare it to every other group communications platform, it's obvious it has a very particular culture. Part of that is inherent to the technical design of the protocol and its admin features. But mainly it's how humans interact in groups, and the features of the protocol being used by that nature, that shifts expected behavior. The only things I can think of to compare IRC to is YouTube and Xbox Live voice chat. Short messages that are often a running commentary on some subject, which can devolve into unrelated argument, and is often filled with hateful and insulting diatribe. Anonymity preserves the behavior, and the lack of down-moderation of these comments, along with a total lack of consequence, means people get to say whatever they like. And often people have some pretty fucked up things to say. In IRC's case, the technology can actually encourage the behavior because the ops decide what is acceptable or not. If the ops condone hate speech, it becomes acceptable culture. And due to the 24/7 nature of IRC, there's little way other than bots to monitor a channel all the time. You're right that the technology itself is not the main factor in how people behave using it, but human nature itself - when run amok - can often result in negative behavior. So IRC is a shithole not because of the technology, but because of people.
- Doches 12y agoNow that we've got Bash.org back, what will it take to get Randall Munroe to restart LimericksDB?
- realusername 12y agoFor french speakers who might not know, there is also the french equivalent of bash.org previously called bash-fr (now renamed to danstonchat) http://danstonchat.com/ http://danstonchat.com/, it also has a quite large community.
- sktrdie 12y agoThis one is my personal favorite: http://bash.org/?104052 http://bash.org/?104052 <NES> lol <NES> I download something from Napster <NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done <NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you" <NES> "getting my song back fucker"
- webnrrd2k 12y agoNext up: Robot Wisdom.
- DCoder 12y agoSee also: * http://qdb.us/latest http://qdb.us/latest - more active than bash. * http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/browse http://quotes.burntelectrons.org/browse - quotes from irc.mozilla.org , mostly Mozilla-focused. * http://www.xkcdb.com/ http://www.xkcdb.com/ - covers #xkcd and related channels. Randall Munroe participates sometimes.