Hi, rant. I've just finished one of my hobby work. :D
Just another O'RLY book cover generator, written in Golang/Vue, supporting more glyph like CJK.

You may try it on https://rly.nanmu.me/

Source code is available via MIT license on https://github.com/nanmu42/orly

Cheers. :)

Hey everyone, cozyplanes here with another quick excel prank i thought of.

It is called TEEST, and the technique behind is simple, but interesting. Recommend taking a look, and pranking with your friends.

The following is the README of TEEST (Text in Excel Every Single Time) in Github.
You can check the simple project here ( https://github.com/cozyplanes/teest )

Disclaimer: Do not use or modify neither the program or the source code to make software violating the law.

### How do I use it?

1. Head to https://github.com/cozyplanes/teest and download the latest release `EXE` file.
1. Windows may warn you with the missing signature. The file is a DEBUG file, so there isn't a publisher signature. You can proceed downloading anyway since it has been virus checked by the developer.
2. Type the message you want to display in the textbox.
3. Click `Save text` button.
5. To check the file, click `Cancel` button in the opened popup dialog.

### What happens?

When an MS Excel file (`.xlsx`) has been opened, by using TEEST, two files gets opened.

1. The original file user opened
2. Excel file named `message.txt` with the custom message you have written.

`message.txt` excel file will open every single time a person opens a excel file.

*In some older versions of Excel, the message may overlap with the user opened file.*

### Why does this happen?

When MS Excel program is executed, it is programmed to check the files in the following 2 folders.

- `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office[versionnumber]\XLSTART`
- `C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART`

In normal conditions, there is no file in those folders (or the folders doesn't exist at all) but when you use TEEST and click `Save text` button, it saves `message.txt` file in the folders above. From MS Excel is executed again, it will find out there is a file in the folders above, so it will show those text files in Excel.

### Where is this technique used?

There should be a lot of software using this trick, but it is widely known for ransomwares such as `GandCrab` and `TeslaCrypt` displaying decryption methods in MS Excel by this trick.

### How can I disable it?

1. Open TEEST again.
2. Click `Save text` button and click `Cancel` in the following popup.
3. Delete `message.txt` file in the opened explorer.

### LICENSE

This software is under the MIT License. Refer to the `LICENSE` file for more information.

### Contact

<cozyplanes@tuta.io>

Spam/Ads not allowed. Please only send questions or concerns about the software. It may take up to 48 hours to get a reply.

I'm raging all over the place at the moment. I've just inherited possibly the worst PHP project (Codeigniter) in 10 years.

Apart from the fact that the previous developer has created 87 different header and footer files (same content, but each screen has different footer file for some reason, i.e. footer-login.php, header-login.php, footer-profile.php, header-profile.php etc.), he seems to like adding the following comment all over the place: "Released under MIT license: http://opensource.org/licenses/..." to some how protect is shitty code. I mean take a look at the below of some high quality,propriety Jquery he's written, under MIT.

**I move away from the mic to prepare for the --'s

Lol @ GPL... No license which proposes a restriction on the user's actions can be considered "free as in freedom".

The MIT license comes close, but mandates the inclusion of a copy of the license.

The WTFPL, while designed to use humor to bring attention to this very problem, still fails in its goal by incorrectly stating that "changing [the license] is allowed as long as the name is changed". Wrong: it's allowed because anybody is allowed to type what they want into a text document.

The only good one I've found is the Unlicense (http://unlicense.org). Unlike the others, it's not a prescription for what you may do with your own property, under threat of force; it's simply a friendly notice that you actually respect the rights of the user and would never imagine legally violating them.

How I hate all those people who think VisualStudio Code is Open Source. It's not! Read the f*cking license!
https://code.visualstudio.com/licen...

In fact, you aren't even allowed to inspect its network traffic. Not to mention reverse engineering. That's nowhere near OpenSource.

You sure can download the source code, licensed as MIT, but building it won't give you the same piece of software.
Don't believe in everything someone tells you. Use your brain and check the facts.