Gregory's Servergetting fired from apple for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".DS_Store" and leaving them everywhere
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 @chrisisgr8 *etching .DS_Store into all the cafeteria tables*  @chrisisgr8 @dragonminded @chirpbirb mastodon needs a ds_store bot.  @chrisisgr8 @dragonminded Maybe you just clean carpets. If you do, you're lucky. You're gonna live a long, happy life. But if you other guys are out there, if you're picking this up, forget about .ds_store. They didn't do it. It was a mistake. Someone else did it. .ds_store is just a bunch of dumb kids playin' revolutionaries. Listen. I've done my job. I did what you wanted.  this looks like it's getting around so also: consider hiring me if you want to :blobfoxhyper2: (it doesn't have to be apple) (but that would be cool and it would really complete the joke) @chrisisgr8 I was confused which synchrotron that was until I read the Alt Text! See https://lightsources.org/ for similar looking buildings with very different purposes. @DanielEriksson huh, pretty interesting! i suppose they've got an extra use for that building if they ever want to  @chrisisgr8 That’s what happens when you remove the `.` from `.DS_Store`, making it visible.  @fivetonsflax overall or in detail? i program! and i've been getting into software reversing lately which has been pretty fun  @chrisisgr8 imagine an autonomous RC-sized car with a thermal printer at the back that can cut the paper after each print. All you would have to do is find a way to get on the apple campus and leave the car in a hallway.  @chrisisgr8 @chirpbirb By successfully reverse engineering the source code, one can decipher the following message: - ⁽ʸᵒᵘ ᶜᵃⁿⁿᵒᵗ ᵏⁱˡˡ ᵐᵉ ⁱⁿ ᵃ ʷᵃʸ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵐᵃᵗᵗᵉʳˢ⁾  @catsalad @chrisisgr8 @chirpbirb  @chrisisgr8 getting fired from microsoft for printing out little pieces of paper that say "desktop.ini" and leaving them everywhere @nano@yiff.life @chrisisgr8@tech.lgbt and one that says “System Volume Information” just inside every building  @nano @chrisisgr8 add autoexec.bat in all my software releases in case they get repackaged as bootable floppies.
 @nano @chrisisgr8 (not) getting fired from Linux conference for hiding .desktop files everywhere
And getting jailed for tossing random .randomshitrc files in homes of random linux users (I wish we could jail software that does that too...) @nano @chrisisgr8 getting thrown out of KDE developer homes for printing out little pieces of paper that say ".directory" and leaving them everywhere @nano @chrisisgr8 Getting a raise at Microsoft for leaving little folded scraps of paper that say “autoexec.bat” on the outside and “give @kfury a raise” inside.   we should get all their fax numbers and fax them hundreds of thousands of blank pages with nothing but the filename at the top see how they like it and if they get the hint @chrisisgr8 what’s funny about this is that once an apple employee becomes jaded, they start little acts of rebellion like this and it’s hilarious because mgmt barely knows a lightning from mini usb. practically wearing a sign that says “fk this shit!” yet they’re none the wiser @tothedaring in my case it would not so much be an act of rebellion as it would be me thinking it would be really funny if people kept finding those everywhere. if i was gonna do an act of rebellion i'd make them extremely large     @chrisisgr8 They can't really see them when you leave them lying around in file folders on the desk tops but it was when you started tacking them up on the windows that it became a real issue  @chrisisgr8 I wrote a Python script to clean up my digital comic book collection. The very first feature was to remove that file, and all .thumbnails folders @chrisisgr8 @aardvark Oh yeah, Desktop Services is the non-UI part of the Finder code. Its functionality is also used by other parts of macOS - open/save UI, migration assistant, etc.  @jimluther @chrisisgr8 @aardvark If it weren’t for the fact that Spatial Finder is still (poorly) supported on modern macOS, would we even need .DS_Store files any more? @chrisisgr8 @jimluther that’s a picture celebrating John Sculley, captioned using words he once infamously spoke to a system software engineer right before entering what was going to be a long slog of a beta to get it out the door. @chrisisgr8 My first instinct when I saw your display name was to wrack my brain for which project's .gitignore file I hadn't initialized properly.   It's better having them just scattered around, but I could also picture a "take one these" fliers with tear-off slips that just said ".DS_Store" Post them up around Cupertino and crowd-source it to see where they turn up. @f i believe it's the file that contains all the macos-isms for a folder, like what size the icons are, where they're placed, that sort of stuff @f @chrisisgr8 from build this.com; @f @chrisisgr8 more: “Back in 2015, a .DS_Store file was exploited and used to gain access to an admin portal of the TCL Corporation, a multinational Chinese electronics company. The entire backend and database of the application were exposed to anyone that accessed the .DS_Store file”  @flame @chrisisgr8 That guy sometimes forgets the little pieces of paper and just writes it out with a Sharpie, wherever. @chrisisgr8 consider yourself fortunate you don't work at Microsoft, holy moly! https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/VisualStudio.gitignore  @chrisisgr8 can you make all of them different, with the leaf nodes and tables in different offsets suddenly in a undocumented way so they're difficult to parse blind? just for that extra authenticity. @chrisisgr8 Then getting hired by Microsoft and fired again for leaving pieces of paper with "System Volume Information" on it everywhere.   Currently trying to archive something, making sure NOT to open any of its folders with the finder to keep the directory's mtime and not having to clean up the plops. @chrisisgr8 Me walking into the the Apple store with 500 tiny stickers saying ".DS_Store" and mischievous intent @zwarich @chrisisgr8 many years ago a friend working at a large ins co was on late shift and decided to play hide and seek. @chrisisgr8 well, good joke, have enough of macOS's mess of a file structure made without my agreement to create them, even I don't know what they are doing.  @chrisisgr8 Leave a hundred or so copies of that paper lying around an Apple Store. Not the one closest to you, that would be too suspicious... 😉  Linn County Oregon Unfortunately mostly MapServer and not FeatureServer  @chrisisgr8 write a worm that does nothing but infect OSX and place .DS_Store everywhere before moving on.  @chrisisgr8 getting fired from apple is when you take those Mandatory Service Sheets you mention and scribble them out, writing "System Volume Information" in their place. @chrisisgr8 I dont think anyone at Apple would get it... Seeing as they are using Macs xD @chrisisgr8 Whoa, I was literally the 500th to "favorite" this. Do I get a cookie? Wait, not that kind!   @chrisisgr8 getting fired from apple by replacing the contents of people's desks with a photocopy of said item with ".icloud" overlayed on it @chrisisgr8 that's almost as good as getting a robots.txt tattoo to stop facial recognition software from scanning you |
usually im joking when i make these posts but if i got hired there i really might not be able to prevent myself from doing this