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sam henri gold

have i ever told you all about how i got a call down to my high school principal’s office for inappropriate content in my school google drive?

they used this tool called Gaggle to parse all files stored in school drive accounts and if it found anything objectionable, it forwarded it to your administrator.

i had a web dev project in there, which had an HTML file containing some lorem ipsum text, which in turn contains the pseudo word “cum”. that was enough to trip the system.

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sam henri gold

in fairness, on a separate occasion it flagged me for a comment in a JS file where I had wrote “// fuck it. i don’t know how better to do this. nothing matters anymore. i’m so tired of living.” followed by a grotesque number of if-statements.

got a VERY panicky call down to the principals office and guidance counselor that day. a two for one!!

Ryan Lodter

@samhenrigold I got a letter from the principal saying I was looking at inappropriate websites and it ended up being because I visited a font store with a font named “graffiti”

sam henri gold

@RyanLodter i looked up the wikipedia page for graffiti and now im walking the streets, selling drugs :((

Greg Kemp

@samhenrigold I found a bug once where a 12-bit control bus went to all unknown state (X state in the sim). Title for the bug was “control bus goes to XXX”. Nastigram from HR, copied my manager, threatened me with “disciplinary action up to and including termination.” Manager thought it was funny. I changed the title.

Tyler Hillsman

@samhenrigold To answer your question, no you haven’t.

And my goodness, I forgot about Gaggle.

sam henri gold

@thillsman $200,000 annual contract with the school board and they can't be bothered to create something more robust than

```
let badWords = []

files.forEach { file in
let content = read(file)
if badWords.any { content.contains($0) } { … }
}
```

Ian Douglas Scott

@samhenrigold @thillsman That's what happens when you put a bunch of scunthorpes in charge of things.

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