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hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

say hello to zendesk

If you've spent some time online, you’ve probably come across Zendesk.

Zendesk is a customer service tool used by some of the world’s top companies. It’s easy to set up: you link it to your company’s support email (like [email protected]), and Zendesk starts managing incoming emails and creating tickets. You can handle these tickets yourself or have a support team do it for you. Zendesk is a billion-dollar company, trusted by big names like Cloudflare.

Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

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The 5-minute guide to the fediverse and Mastodon

There are lots of guides explaining Mastodon and the broader fediverse, but they often go into way too much detail. So I've written this guide - it only talks about the basics you need to know to start using it, and you can then gradually learn the rest from other helpful fediverse users. Let's get started!

The fediverse is not Twitter!

The fediverse is very different from Twitter, and that is by design. It's made for building close communities, not for building a "global town square" or as a megaphone for celebrities. That means many things will work differently from what you're used to. Give it some time, and ask around on the fediverse if you're not sure why something works how it does! People are usually happy to explain, as long as it's a genuine question. Some of the details are explained in this article, but it's not required reading.

The most important takeaway is the "

Building an assistant (chatbot) that translates languages, integrated with Slack

If you're trying to do this, you came to the right place!

See this code in action here: https://twitter.com/CodingDoug/status/953031540811825152

Setup

Create a Firebase project at the Firebase Console

Find the original here article here: Devops Best Practices

DevOps started out as "Agile Systems Administration". In 2008, at the Agile Conference in Toronto, Andrew Shafer posted an offer to moderate an ad hoc "Birds of a Feather" meeting to discuss the topic of "Agile Infrastructure". Only one person showed up to discuss the topic: Patrick Debois. Their discussions and sharing of ideas with others advanced the concept of "agile systems administration". Debois and Shafer formed an Agile Systems Administrator group on Google, with limited success. Patrick Debois did a presentation called "Infrastructure and Operations" addressing

	#!/bin/bash

	# ANSI Colors (Fix: Use \033 instead of \e)
	RED="\033[31m"
	GREEN="\033[32m"
	YELLOW="\033[33m"
	BLUE="\033[34m"
	CYAN="\033[36m"
	WHITE="\033[97m"
	RESET="\033[0m"

	I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction
	ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to
	make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it
	because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how
	nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand
	adventure.

	Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy
	into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of
	mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much

	let regex;

	/* matching a specific string */
	regex = /hello/; // looks for the string between the forward slashes (case-sensitive)... matches "hello", "hello123", "123hello123", "123hello"; doesn't match for "hell0", "Hello"
	regex = /hello/i; // looks for the string between the forward slashes (case-insensitive)... matches "hello", "HelLo", "123HelLO"
	regex = /hello/g; // looks for multiple occurrences of string between the forward slashes...

	/* wildcards */
	regex = /h.llo/; // the "." matches any one character other than a new line character... matches "hello", "hallo" but not "h\nllo"
	regex = /h.llo/; // the "" matches any character(s) zero or more times... matches "hello", "heeeeeello", "hllo", "hwarwareallo"

	/*
	* (un)comment correct payload first (x86 or x64)!
	*
	* $ gcc cowroot.c -o cowroot -pthread
	* $ ./cowroot
	* DirtyCow root privilege escalation
	* Backing up /usr/bin/passwd.. to /tmp/bak
	* Size of binary: 57048
	* Racing, this may take a while..
	* /usr/bin/passwd overwritten

	// Usage:
	// Copy and paste all of this into a debug console window of the "Who is Hiring?" comment thread
	// then use as follows:
	//
	// query(term \| [term, term, ...], term \| [term, term, ...], ...)
	//
	// When arguments are in an array then that means an "or" and when they are seperate that means "and"
	//
	// Term is of the format:
	// ((-)text/RegExp) ( '-' means negation )

	import sys
	import colorsys
	from colorz import colorz

	WALLPAPER = '/home/james/.wallpaper'
	COLORS = '/home/james/.colors'
	XRESOURCES = '/home/james/.Xresources'

	cols = ''
	xres = """