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If for work your machine has installed Hubstaff or any of these hyper-invasive things that micromanagers love, then you can have the bad luck that a bad taste spicy pic get screenshot and shown in your user activity. But nobody ever should by any reason ever use these zero-privacy apps, right?

SFW. But this (probably) won't get me promoted!

This reminds me of like 15 years ago when python.com was a porn site. Now it’s just a redirect to some sort of cam splash page.

Better than the old lemonparty.com link (now a porn site, I think). We used to send that to scammers.

It was pretty gross. Not quite as bad as goat.se.

[nsfw]

python with only c-string

lol

Funny, but posting a NSFW site without a warning on a message board frequented by people at work is not okay.

I think the misspelling is more likely for someone who’s not super capable with English and doesn’t have familiarity with Git. Even for people who usually operate in (natural) languages that use the Latin alphabet (or something close to it, like the Greek or Cyrillic alphabets), without recognizing the cue word “hub,” “guthib.com” is as meaningful and memorable as “github.com.”

I'm sure dsylexia gets the best of many capable people when banging out URLs.

I suspect that there's also a rather large overlap in the Venn Diagram of "people who use Github regularly" and "people who are sufficiently mentally toasted as to regularly make implausible errors".

There are a lot of causes for misspelled words. Most of them are not of mechanical nature.

It happens more often than one might think. I know I've typed "guthib" at least a few times in the last decade or so that I've been using github, and coincidentally I just caught myself mistyping "decade" as "dedace". I pressed all the right keys, but in the wrong order.

I guess that packets from the brain sometimes suffer from a kind of race condition as they arrive at the fingers.

Maybe it's related to fact that we're surprisingly good at reading words with teh lettres shffuled aorund. Perhaps my brain is trying to type a word at a time, instead of individual letters, so the packets go out in parallel. Perhaps the last point has something to do with the fact that my native language is Korean, where a word is written as a compact two-dimensional arrangement of symbols rather than a simple sequence of symbols. I dunno, it just happens a lot.

>if you touch-type, they belong to different fingers

Not all touch-typers use or ever even learned the formal touch-type method.

I used almost never to make any sort of error whatsoever when typing, that I didn't immediately catch and fix.

IDK if it's age-related decline (I'm not even quite 40 yet...) or what but now I make all those homophone and bizarre-letter-substitution errors that I never, ever used to, constantly. I have to re-read everything I type or I'll have a stupid error like that every few hundred words.

I recently found that I had typed 'hexadecimal' as 'hexademical' multiple times (only caught it via a spell checker).

To my understanding, letter transpositions are common even for great touch typists. Especially letters in the same "category" (such as shifting vowels around in this instance). Sure, it's a different "feel" when typing it wrong and if you are paying attention you might catch it, but you generally when touch typing don't think about the specific feel of individual letters, but the pattern or "shape" of the overall word. "gut" is a common enough word pattern (and an English word in its own right). "hib" is not, but if your brain/muscle memory is expecting the full "word" "github" and knows it uses both fingers "in the middle of the shapes" and it already used "u" it can be a likely transposition to wind up with "hib".

Doesn't seem that implausible given that we can read words just by reading the first letter and last letter, even if the letters in the middle are in the wrong order. We take words as lump-sum abstract objects instead of focusing on each of the letter.

> this seems like a totally implausible accidental misspelling

Yeah, I remember seeing this website as "a typo of github", but wasn't able to rediscover it.

Anecdotally, I've typed gihtub many times, but never guthib. Related: enabling a spell checker in my editor was a very humbling experience.

Wow, that's interesting. I would have thought it would be fun to own a popular mis-typed domain, but apparently not.

>> As for why there is very little content here, we wanted to keep the server's attack surface as small as possible to keep it safe.

I see gamil.com emails all the time in the company database.

Unfortunately Microsoft already owns guthub.com and redirects it to github.com, ruining a perfectly good idea.

GitHub already owns that GutHub.com iirc

Or a gun site called Gathub.com.

> The most dangerous thing for the frontpage is stuff that's too easy to upvote. If someone proves a new theorem, it takes some work by the reader to decide whether or not to upvote it. An amusing cartoon takes less. A rant with a rallying cry as the title takes zero, because people vote it up without even reading it.

Paul Graham, What I've Learned from Hacker News[1]

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

For me, at least, It's just nice to see a perfectly useful, quirky "thing" on the internet that isn't monetized or having some ulterior motives.

Hearkens back to that feeling of all of us being internet citizens and laughing that I'm not the only one that makes this mistake.

Maybe I'm looking into it too much, though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm normally in favour of lighthearted stuff (to a degree), but in this case I agree with you. It seems a bit too low effort to warrant the high number of upvotes...

It's a Single Serving Site[0]. Not every URL needs to be a big diatribe of text.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-serving_site

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/single-serving-site

Yes

certainly funny, too shallow to be interesting

Calm down. There are plenty of other, more serious links for you to click on this site. No need to be a buzzkill.

It's the abstract art of posts

Yes.

But mysteriously all slightly different.

  guthib: “You spelled it wrong.”
  gatlib: “You spelled it wrong.” + Google Analytics
  butbicket: “You spelled it wrong!” + meta refresh redirect

Too bad about http://www.dicker.com (surprisingly non-NSFW link)

feacesbook

I prefer `sl-h`

On point. Though if someone struggles with repeating themselves, I can recommend oh-my-zsh git aliases. They replace common git commands with shorter equivalents, like git push -> gp, git pull -> gl, etc

I wish there was a list of these novelty web addresses.

http://www.blankwebsite.com/

https://www.blank.org/

https://isoaklandburning.com/

http://isitraininginportland.com/

Vroom vroom

gethub.com

For anyone not aware:

* don't search for that at work

* if you search for it elsewhere, watch your volume level

I'd prefer a redirect.

Where's the fun in that?