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The Bang With Friends Story (2023)

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Reverse the flag. This is a great read and is very much something that good hackers will find interesting.

enjoyed the read as well but support the flag as it's just folklore w/o technical/hacker merrit

The blog post reminded me that Tucker Max was a celebrity

Blast from the past that one is

He is a homesteader now, seems to be doing great too

I looked up his twitter and he just seems like an average conservative Trump supporter

>> We lamented that dating sites discouraged people from being upfront about their sexual desire; we decided you could simply say that you want to ‘bang’ someone.

I agree there needs to be an outlet for people to say those things. I was chatting on the phone with a match from FB Dating and asked why she disappeared last year. She said a couple times she just got so disgusted with the men saying stuff (she wasn't explicit) she deleted the profile and left conversations hanging.

Sure, everyone knows sex is part of (or all of) what you want to find in dating apps, but there needs to be some filtering. Maybe DTF and LIKE need to be orthogonal options - either or both. And "like dirty talk" is a filter.

> Maybe DTF and LIKE need to be orthogonal options

This is why I really liked the idea mentioned in the article where you swipe up to indicate like/date and down to indicate primarily sexual interest.

I strongly suspect many humans would be better off with more clarity up front in such things.

But why not both? You can do up for either, and if so you should be told what type of swipe they did so you know their expectations.

https://archive.is/daY3S

Anyone else having trouble with ads in archive.is links on mobile lately? They completely take over the page and cover all text after a few moments.

I can't even get past the CAPTCHA.

I've never used my phone for an archive.is link until your comment; I just clicked on the one above your comment on my phone (iPhone 15 Pro Max with yesterday's iOS 17.3 update).

What I got is vertical ads in the upper right and left hand columns and an ad below the article text, each of the three changing on their own to new ads after 15-20 seconds.

As I scrolled down to read the story, new ads appeared; at no time was any of the text obscured.

I never got a CAPTCHA.

Note: I'm not a techie and have NO ad blockers/VPNs/whatever on my phone, it's never been modded or anything.

Thanks for the extra data point! Mine will start as you describe, but every time the ads update, their elements seem to get appended instead of updating the existing ads. Then the browser kinda zooms in but won't let me zoom back out. After 30s I can't see any text lol. It's quite crazy.

A workaround for me was to request the desktop site, which actually looks the same. Then it works just like you described. Probably just a weird responsive web mobile Chrome zoom thingy.

I assume my phone browser is Safari as Apple's default; thus, web mobile Chrome is something that won't intersect with my phone unless I use the Chrome app, right? Asking for a TechnoDolt©®™ aka me.

It's been a while since I've been in hardcore web development, but it used to be that all browsers on ios used the same rendering engine. WebKit I think. I believe that's still the case!

sidenote: afaik ios employs vpn-light (private relay) by default for some online content, even more if the user pays for icloud+

Interesting. I do pay for iCloud+

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I Built Bang with Friends, “The Evilest App Ever” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35930776 (May 13, 2023 — 38 points, 11 comments)

"Someone even falsely claimed to be our CMO Founder on camera, causing a small crisis for our anonymous founder story."

This is my favorite part of the article.

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