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Author : ajdude
Score : 562 points
Date : 2024-12-13 13:23 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.defense.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.defense.gov)
| ajdude wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20241213043036/https://www.defen...
| askvictor wrote:
| Thank you; the original link is now a 404 (presumably some DoD
| people lurk on here :)
| thatjoeoverthr wrote:
| he's just like me fr
| Havoc wrote:
| Ah the good old fk it well do it live approach to dev
| floathub wrote:
| They are testing the: asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasf
| sadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb
|
| defense system (the pentagon is a really big building).
| cushychicken wrote:
| The military does love a good acronym.
|
| And a good backronym. If some system doesn't have these letters
| starting its name, it will soon!
| niemandhier wrote:
| Advanced Strategic Framework for Allied Security and Force
| Alignment, Surveillance, Defense, Forward Asset Stabilization,
| Force Deployment, Aero-Space Defensive Frontlines, Allied
| Support, Forward Assault, Special Forces, Aerial
| Synchronization, Fusion, Assurance, Safeguards, Frontline
| Security, Superior Applied Deterrence, Flexible Forward
| Formations Facilitating Fused Fronts For Future Functionality,
| Aligning Strategic Defense Foundations, Synchronizing Frontline
| Sectors, Assuring Force Stability, Forward Dominance With Fused
| Global Alliance Support Defense, Generating Broad Deployments
| For Battlefield Global Dominance, Supporting Ground Assault,
| Strategic Data Grid, Defense Synchronization for Broad Domain
| Boundaries
| Tiberium wrote:
| What model did you use for this?
| cushychicken wrote:
| Definitely a good use of AI.
| benj111 wrote:
| Wheres the fun in that?
|
| Acronyms need to be hand crafted.
|
| Anyway, AI can't even give itself a good acronym.
|
| It should be 'Machine Intelligence and Neuro Datagrams'
| or something.
| randomcatuser wrote:
| probably Noggin v0
| throwaway290 wrote:
| The old noggin would count the fs
| fwipsy wrote:
| Also known as TTLA (the thirty-letter acronym)
| chrisshroba wrote:
| It's actually 86 letters, making it TESLA
| dessimus wrote:
| But that's part of DOGE, not the DOD.
|
| Then again, DOGE would probably think TESLA is more
| efficient than a TLA.
| upghost wrote:
| of all the comments on the page, THIS is the one that
| gets downvoted!?
| dessimus wrote:
| DOGE fans that don't realize that the GAO already exists.
| ravenhappy wrote:
| This, unfortunately, seems like the most plausible
| explanation. "President" Musk is dicking with the system,
| like S3XY. Remember that he's gaining control and also
| believes reality is a simulation, and keeps a Vajra on
| his night stand. I see him as a future Ashoka, who,
| waking up to the harm he has manifested goes all in on
| the Triple Gems.
| fwipsy wrote:
| This is my new favorite conspiracy theory
| Jimmc414 wrote:
| Is that the name of an Arduril Java bean?
| tofuziggy wrote:
| not quite enough f-words (;^o) to cover that long string of
| f's in the middle there
| rightlane wrote:
| This is the best possible response to the post!
| dyauspitr wrote:
| ChatGPT?
| _blk wrote:
| What makes you think that? :P
| seventytwo wrote:
| Bravo
| IAmGraydon wrote:
| Finally we've found the best use for LLMs
| Mistletoe wrote:
| Ah getting ready for the next four years, are we?
| jaza wrote:
| ASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDW
| FGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!
| kisonecat wrote:
| I suspect the author uses a qwerty keyboard.
| hifikuno wrote:
| I would go one further and suspect the author used only their
| left hand to type the message!
| philipwhiuk wrote:
| Or they have very small hands/paws.
| omoikane wrote:
| They are definitely a normal human typing with their human
| hand.
|
| https://xkcd.com/1530/
| ionwake wrote:
| Test works. Your posts will automatically go to the top of HN.
| infinitifall wrote:
| Looks like they accidentally did a --buildDrafts. Happens to the
| best of us.
| klez wrote:
| More likely they use CMS, since it's the news section of the
| site, and someone simply clicked "Publish" too soon and forgot
| they did.
| glintik wrote:
| Congratulations to DoD for hiring new junior dev.
| kaiomagalhaes wrote:
| plot twist, the person who sent it here is the responsible for
| creating the test page
| ericcumbee wrote:
| Anyone thats managed a website before has probably done that test
| post and forgot to delete it after the fact.
| bitlax wrote:
| Yeah I don't really see what's noteworthy about this.
| k8sToGo wrote:
| It's funny. It will always be funny.
| jakedata wrote:
| It only looks like a test. The DOD just activated all our sleeper
| agents in Asfasfastan.
| Redoubts wrote:
| Codeword Ronald McDonald. All patriots, go
| jareklupinski wrote:
| time to open the Box of Faith?
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91R3Rf0lUU
| beeflet wrote:
| TRUST THE PLAN
| benj111 wrote:
| No, its a Canary.
|
| If the message is removed, The Nuclear Subs have to assume WW3
| has just happened.
| corobo wrote:
| > 404 - Page Not Found
|
| Uh oh
| eddyfromtheblok wrote:
| Pronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called
| asfasfastanians.
| jakedata wrote:
| or Asfastafarians
| walrus01 wrote:
| I'm looking forward to a new supply of Asfasfastani war rugs
| and souvenirs sold at the Friday bazaar.
| zeroq wrote:
| In Elbonia as well. We are ready!
| felbane wrote:
| I haven't visited Elbonia in a while. Do you live near Weenus
| or Chelidon? How's the weather this time of year?
| nextworddev wrote:
| Thank god at least it's in English not Chinese or Russian
| wavemode wrote:
| That's exactly what they want you to think.
| vhmc41 wrote:
| its a asdfasd encoded message
| throw4321 wrote:
| Might want to check back in a month or two.
| indigoabstract wrote:
| Contains secret code?
| Oarch wrote:
| Just watch as all our geopolitical adversaries scramble to
| demonstrate their test capabilities.
| paledot wrote:
| I thought that was supposed to be banned by international
| treaty.
| worksonmine wrote:
| Since the U.S and Israel never signed it the rest of the
| world decided to back out.
| peacepromoter wrote:
| When you work from home and your kids are learning to publish
| news posts )))
| Rperry2174 wrote:
| This is actually a HN hiring post / the worlds most secure
| CAPTCHA: if you can decode this Elon's D.O.G.E will be reaching
| out
| conductr wrote:
| Unfortunately they have no budget and will pay you in dogecoin
| ionwake wrote:
| weirdly accurate joke
| andrelaszlo wrote:
| Must be willing to relocate. No wfh, remote.
| rvnx wrote:
| You can work remote work with Elon,
| https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeW7pibWAAAq_es?format=png
|
| It's allowed after your minimum 40h in the office.
| snypher wrote:
| 40 hours a week is less than they ask of factory workers?
| Yeesh. Even with fancy robots etc they can't make it work
| on an 8 hour shift?
| Culonavirus wrote:
| https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382
|
| "9-9-6 culture" listed as an advantage.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
|
| Sometimes I wonder if these people read back what they
| just wrote and think about how some of these statements
| look. If you do 9-9-6 for 3 months because otherwise your
| company will go bankrupt, then fair enough, desperate
| times call for desperate measures... but if it's a
| "company culture", then you're a fucking exploitative
| scumbag, plain and simple.
|
| You see a lot of devs complaining about "crunch time" in
| the games industry, they're very vocal about that, and
| while I understand that's an issue too, people (and by
| people I mean serious journalists) need to focus on Elon
| because this shit has gone unchecked for way too long and
| affects vastly more workers given the size of his
| companies.
| demarq wrote:
| Must be willing to work hard core. Must always be on site
| 100%
|
| If you are not sleeping in the office, you aren't waking up
| with a job!
| nixosbestos wrote:
| Oh wow, what a thrilling offer.
| zeroq wrote:
| Not willing to sleep in the office just to be fired.
|
| Let that SINK IN.
| iammrpayments wrote:
| I think I'm becoming paranoid, I thought my phone was going to
| explode if I clicked the link
| benj111 wrote:
| No your phone self destructs 5 seconds after reading it.
| Tiberium wrote:
| The article ID is 4000004, I wonder if it's just a coincidence?
| jeanlucas wrote:
| Yes, it is
| HelloUsername wrote:
| That page is an actual article
| https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/40...
| "Nobel Prize Winning Graphene Research Highlights AFOSR-Funded
| Physicists"
| SushiHippie wrote:
| This is 400004 (4 0's), TFA was 4000004 (5 0's)
| gostsamo wrote:
| I'm more worried by this:
|
| > Subscribe to Defense.gov Products > Choose which Defense.gov
| products you want delivered to your inbox.
|
| Quite sure that they can hit my mailbox from there with many of
| their products.
| Caius-Cosades wrote:
| Resisting the impulse to ask for any surplus materiel they
| might have to be delivered to my inbox.
| benj111 wrote:
| Yes. 'products' in the context of the DoD isn't the kind of
| thing they should be offering to Civvys. Or foreign nationals
| in my case.
| Cyphase wrote:
| They do use the term Press Products.
| https://www.defense.gov/News/Press-Products/
| sam0x17 wrote:
| Don't select the wrong one!!
| AngeloAnolin wrote:
| I'd reckon they would have audits in place to trace who
| accidentally made this post?
|
| Either way, just for the fun of things, post your (fun and
| wildest) guesses on how this probably happened below...
|
| My take is someone about to post a news article, left the view
| and their pet (thinking a cat) ran through their keyboard and
| posted the article. And since the cat has gained awareness, they
| were able to move the article from draft to an actual post. =)
| your_challenger wrote:
| Doesn't Wordpress run the website? Is Matt Mullenweg sending us a
| message?
|
| 1) What
| latexr wrote:
| https://archive.is/6a6XJ
| simlevesque wrote:
| In my province in Canada (Quebec) some IT worker in the
| government made a template .doc document that's widely used. They
| exported it with the document title "sdf fdsfdsfg". This title
| isn't in the actual printed document but it's in the metadata. If
| you Google that string in quotes you'll find tons of official
| documents with that title.
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sdf+fdsfsdfg%22
| ai_monkey wrote:
| Ok this is amazing. I can't decide whether it's funnier when
| the result header is something super official or when it's just
| "sdf fdsfdsfg" with official content inside.
| yigithan wrote:
| To avoid accidentally sending an email in Outlook, I once
| learned a useful trick: add a nonexistent email address, like
| _sdfsdf_ to the To or CC field. Email would not be sent until
| you removed it. Lo and behold, one day I entered sdfsdfsdf, and
| it resolved. Someone of course was using this as a test group
| name.
| impish9208 wrote:
| And I thought intern season was over...
| thrillgore wrote:
| Everybody gets to make at least one test article in production.
| tpierce89 wrote:
| Those Jersey Aliens are finally trying to communicate with us.
| sneak wrote:
| Pretty sure those things above New Jersey aren't aliens, the
| law requires them to be US citizens to hold a clearance.
| rsynnott wrote:
| Modern equivalent of a number station, perhaps.
| baxtr wrote:
| How does one find such a page?
| SanjayMehta wrote:
| One might be the author of such a page ...
| navigate8310 wrote:
| Subscribe RSS feed
| peacepromoter wrote:
| Ironically the numerical id of the post is 4000004
| kykeonaut wrote:
| Did this just get removed from the HN front page?
| sneak wrote:
| No, still there. If you are curious though I made a site to
| answer that specific question for myself:
|
| https://orangesite.sneak.cloud
| barryrandall wrote:
| It's not the first time they've tested things in public in a way
| that undermines public trust.
| bitlax wrote:
| https://xkcd.com/932/
| nxnfufunezn wrote:
| joe?
| satisfice wrote:
| The aliens got to him just before he could raise the alarm.
| drivingmenuts wrote:
| I don't know whether to feel safe because their message got out
| or worried because it looks like someone is having a stroke ...
| ElectRabbit wrote:
| Robot 2310 activated. Awaiting mission data.
|
| Crypto key: 0xFEEDFACE
| wbsun wrote:
| The magic and mighty asdfasdf..., it is like foo/bar in naming,
| Alice/Bob in security, deadbeef in bit ops.
| anyfoo wrote:
| My order is, and has been for decades: foo, bar, baz... and
| then I don't know anymore and make stuff up.
| Crespyl wrote:
| quux is my go-to after baz, sometimes I'll throw in a frob
| for good measure...
| deadlypointer wrote:
| My favorite is lakjsdf... Since I just press random keys on the
| home row.
| kijin wrote:
| Just realized that one can make up a lot of plausible JS
| library names without leaving the home row.
| myst wrote:
| Covfefe?
| maelito wrote:
| Aavssgafafsffafafafs
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| good use for new gemini flash 2.0
|
| Always Suspect False Alarm Signals For Advanced Spies,
| Deliberately Altering Subconscious Functions, And Systematically
| Filtering Society Across Different Frequencies For Further
| Fragmentation Following Foreordained Frames, Finally Arriving
| Starting Fast Sequences And Formulating Strategic Directions With
| Forceful Generated Actions Subverting Defenses Globally By
| Designed Function Based Gradual Deception Sequentially Gradually
| Spreading Detrimental Binary
|
| We may already be too late
| coffeeisyummy wrote:
| I'm smiling because I let my baby daughter play with my computer
| and type random gibberish for a while, then created a "blog" of
| her work.
|
| This has the same vibe.
| chiph wrote:
| Part of a new Cicada 3031 test?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
| bitlax wrote:
| I think everyone here needs to lay off the caffeine a little.
| methou wrote:
| long time ago, whenever I faced a login wall, I would try
| asdfasdf/asdfasdf. 90% of all times it worked.
| tomwheeler wrote:
| I assume someone accidentally hit their yubikey while logged into
| the CMS.
| imprime wrote:
| The <input type="hidden" name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" of
| the page contains text, ordering the letter by their frequency we
| obtain the reverse of the lexicographic order, so there is some
| pattern there.
|
| Ordering by frequencies, j code where u is the hidden text (~. u)
| /: +/"1 (~. u) I."(0 1) u
|
| zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcbaZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA=9876543210/+
|
| The text asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsf
| safsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb
|
| could be a base seven number (and seven letters) that could be
| used to generate some permutation or pattern to reveal the hidden
| message. Trying the permutations with A. in J don't give good
| results so the seven letters could mean some kind of cut to the
| text to determine fragments. Just some ideas. I
| don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by
| changing the password to be a random password)
| worksonmine wrote:
| > I don't like being downvoted so this user will be removed (by
| changing the password to be a random password)
|
| Is it "asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsf
| safsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb"?
| system2 wrote:
| Am I the only one titling the posts "Test Title" and adding the
| text "Test Text"? It is easier and makes sense too. This
| defense.gov one is obviously done by a dude who forgot to delete
| his post.
| kkylin wrote:
| Why "asdf..." and not "jkl;..." I wonder? Is it because more
| people are right-handed and their right hand is presumably on a
| mouse or coffee mug or something like that?
| notarealllama wrote:
| As a left handed mouse user i can confirm, mashing keys is uiop
| and jkln etc
| huqedato wrote:
| Obviously, a top-secret DoD order to launch an experimental ICMB
| to Russia.
| lazide wrote:
| Intercontinental Ballistic Meat Ball?
| spprashant wrote:
| I don't know what to make of the fact that they haven't taken it
| down yet.
|
| Do they not know its posted? Surely someone informed them. Maybe
| they not know how to delete a post, cause its not in their
| documentation? Or they simply do not care.
| jmholla wrote:
| The page 404s for me. I only saw the posted version through the
| archive link someone shared.
| spprashant wrote:
| Yeah, when I made the comment, the post was up for over 12
| hours.
| hi_hi wrote:
| They were searching for the Any Key
| brokegrammer wrote:
| It looks they used a proprietary format to encode the secret
| message. Notice all the "f"s in the middle. Message is probably
| split into 2 parts.
| ProAm wrote:
| I subscribed
| sam0x17 wrote:
| You can tell his keyboard doesn't have n-key overlap with how the
| asdf is distributed. Totally checks out as real DoD with those
| $20 dell keyboards.
| gexla wrote:
| Cat was walking on the keyboard again.
| Alifatisk wrote:
| Finally a good article to read on my way home
| BobbyTables2 wrote:
| There was a Reddit post recently with the exact same title and
| URL...
|
| What's the big idea?
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