The thing I couldn't comprehend was where 1000000000050 had come from.

You mean holding the scroll-wheel and dragging moves around, yes? (And the scroll-wheel was for zooming.) I think I'd accidentally triggered the colour picker accidentally, since I did find that I often had black when I was expecting something else - now I know why!

Oh, really? I thought middle-click was for scrolling.

That works too! I went with my assumption because of the phoenix being between the blue (little blue dot) and black(ness of space).

The styles you were leaning towards were giving me somewhat fascist vibes, but it also makes sense for a militarised group. I suspect that as a rebel group they'll be more in the grey than straight good or bad, despite being (I assume) the good guys for the audience.

To fuzz this, I simply used Burp’s intruder to enumerate from %00 to %FF at the end of the URL.

I like to think about what normal people would think when they read something like this. It sounds like a line from a cyberpunk wizard.

We had confirmed that we could bypass authorization for the API endpoints by simply replaying the HTTP request multiple times

Not really replaying, since his initial request worked. Feels like it's going through a load balancer and one from that group of servers didn't have authentication enabled (accidentally included a test/dev server, maybe).

I just now noticed it was gone. Did it just vanish one day, or did its users at least have some hint?

edit: looks like it was a surprise: https://lemmyverse.link/mander.xyz/post/12163154

Thanks for the link, I forgot about CLAs. Interesting - this kind of thing seems to be controversial but common.

First thing I did was check the date, but if it's a joke, it's nine days late.

Maybe if that site's also hosted on an old phone running Termux.

haha, ok thanks. So https://github.com/dtrx-py/dtrx

I'd initially assumed that it was a mnemonic but yes, listing and appending and extracting together is nonsensical, as tar notes: tar: You may not specify more than one '-Acdtrux', '--delete' or '--test-label' option

Interesting article, thanks, although I don't know what the page is doing to make Firefox offer to kill it. Maybe it's something to do with the 1455 comments.

The he's a puppet misunderstanding reminded me of a similar scene in The Big Lebowski.