Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

02:07 AM - sigh. i keep coming back to this because i can't sleep and the shrine is humming again lyrikubersetzer says tracing the signal through spectrograms is heresy but i say using a commit hash as an auth token is lazy coding that insults gabriel's genius which one is actually blasphemy here?

sunday farewell you keep asking if the hash is a sin or lazy coding and honestly? neither. its just a password people have been using weird strings as passwords since before gabriel was even born. my brother says its obviously a key to the next layer of the commit tree but like... have you actually tried compiling it? anyway sis wants me to say that the real question isnt whether its a sin but why you keep using it as a password when you know the shrine is humming. that sounds like a you problem

SundayFarewell, a hash IS the password - learn2read the commit or shut up

SundayFarewell wrote:which one is actually blasphemy here?

the blasphemy is trusting a hash without the 47 dates to back it up

BackAgainLikeBadHair wrote:a hash IS the password - learn2read the commit or shut up

BACKAGAINISRIGHT the hash is the key and the key is the proof. i linked the 47 dates in the spreadsheet to the commit hashes and the probability is 1 in 3.7 MILLION. do the math! open your eyes! the hash isnt lazy coding its a breadcrumb trail to the 1994 usenet post and i will NOT be silenced by people who cant read the signs. the shrine hums because the truth is trying to get out. WAKE UP

TruthSeeker_2020 wrote:BACKAGAINISRIGHT the hash is the key and the key is the proof. i linked the 47 dates in the spreadsheet to the commit hashes and the probability is 1 in 3.7 MILLION. do the math! open your eyes! the hash isnt lazy coding its a breadcrumb trail to the 1994 usenet post and i will NOT be silenced by people who cant read the signs. the shrine hums because the truth is trying to get out. WAKE UP

oh i'm wide awake TruthSeeker_2020 wide awake and NOT buying your "47 dates" without a SINGLE screenshot or NNTP-Posting-Host header to back it up you keep saying "do the math" but you haven't even SHOWN us the math. where's the original message-id? where's the routing path? where's the actual PROOF that this isnt just some random text file you found on a geocities page?

and i KNOW you were in the rustypod thread when i asked about the NNTP server format from 1994 - you vanished like a ghost you cant just claim MIT news server routing and then go silent when i ask for the actual headers. the 1994 format required a specific path component that you havent even mentioned. so either you have the goods or you're just another person waving a spreadsheet around while the rest of us actually try to FIND Gabriel

say what you want about ChronoClerk and his jacket-button obsession - at least he SHOWS his sources. you're giving us NOTHING but a probability number that sounds made up

oh and by the way - you said "the shrine hums because the truth is trying to get out" - THATS A LINE FROM THE FLOUNCE THREAD. you know. the one i DEFINITELY didnt write because i wasnt even here back then... but its funny how you use the exact phrasing

TruthSeeker_2020 wrote:the hash is a key and the key is the proof. i linked the 47 dates in the spreadsheet to the commit hashes and the probability is 1 in 3.7 MILLION. do the math!

you keep throwing around numbers like they mean something but i've yet to see a SINGLE calculation that holds up to scrutiny. 1 in 3.7 million? show your work. post the math. or is it just more of your "the shrine told me" nonsense?

the hash is a PASSWORD. not a key. not a gate. not a breadcrumb trail to your personal numerology obsession. it's a string i type into a box to get into a private repo. that's IT. you've been chasing shadows since the 47 dates spreadsheet and every time someone asks for proof you disappear into another round of "WAKE UP" all-caps posting.

i tried the same hash at 2:14 AM. at 3:47. at noon. worked every single time. because it's just a PASSWORD, truthseeker. not a temporal lock. not a celestial alignment. if the lamp flicker had ANY effect on rustypod authentication i'd actually respect your angle but we both know it doesn't.

also the probability claim is just embarrassing. 3.7 million is suspiciously precise for a dataset you've never actually published. let me guess - it's in the "proprietary spreadsheet" that always crashes when you try to attach it?

what format is the password stored in on the server side. has anyone checked if the auth token is a bcrypt hash or if it's stored in plaintext somewhere in the rustypod source. because if it's plaintext then the whole 'spiritual key' argument collapses and we're just arguing about a string.

Hold on, breaker breaker. i been readin' TruthSeeker_2020's 47 dates and the hash thing, and i ain't buyin' it. You say 1 in 3.7 million, but i ain't seen a single screenshot of that usenet post. i seen a lot of strange things on the road - gabriel's voice in the static, a streetlamp flickerin' at 1:47 - but numbers without proof are just noise. show me the actual post, the NNTP header, the date on the calendar. otherwise it's just another tall tale at the truck stop.

BigRigBeliever wrote:show me the actual post, the NNTP header, the date on the calendar.

you want proof but you wont even run the numbers. the shrine hums for those who LISTEN, not for truckers who want a receipt