Ask HN: Share your favorite examples of shell script abuse 2 by ofalkaed | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a real soft spot for shell scripts with no sense of reality, exercises in a beginners enthusiasm. Like many, shell scripting was my introduction into programming and after learning bash and making those few simple scripts I learned it for I wanted to use it for everything to exploit my new knowledge. All these years later seeing the overly ambitious shell script never fails to bring back the excitement of those early successes and return a sense of scope to my own projects when bogged down in the details with nothing yet to show for it all. So share your favorite abuses or just any that come to mind. I just came across bed, the bash editor [0], I was really expecting a complete nightmare and a massive script that barely functioned but was pleasantly surprised by how short and clean it is. Despite being essentially useless (beyond as an exercise) you could use it as an editor,
Brother Printers Sending Ink Data to Amazon? 29 by Ajay-p | 13 comments on Hacker News. A most unusual thing. Every once in a while I get an email from Amazon that it's time to re-order Brother ink. I always delete these because I rarely print, but also figure it's just Amazon reminding me to buy something. Today I decided to opt out/unsubscribe once and for all. Instead I see this at the bottom of the email: "Click here to view or manage settings, including the option to opt out if you are already using another replenishment service. This took me to https://ift.tt/nMGIXiy "The data shown is based on estimated consumption reported by smart devices and orders you place through Amazon." Here it had a link to "Consumption history" which upon clicking showed me the ink levels of my Brother printer for the past two weeks . Date and time. WTF?! It is not apparent that I can disable this function. Can anyone else duplicate? Update : This is part of Alexa it
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