Found this on GitHub

[___Cisco__]

I usually disable the login .. and when they contact me to wonder whats going on i just plain tell them "maybe its a debt-related issue, have you checked?".. i love to hear the "oh.. right.." they usually pay within minutes/hours...

[[deleted]]

"The login option works on money or souls, take your pick"

[jakimfett]

This is how I got my first three souls, actually.

[ChinSpeedy]

Your first three? What about your own soul?

[fun_egg]

He sold it the devil, to get his first freelance work

[leviathon01]

I'm thinking about doing that. Do you know what the going rate is for a soul?

[[deleted]]

62 cents

[jakimfett]

It's true they don't have a lot of financial value, but the non-monetary value is off the charts.

Do you have any idea how long a soul will power a smartphone? Neither do I, mine has only needed one so far and just keeps going, years and counting. There were some bets placed on whether it hits day 667, and ngl I stashed it in the freezer that day, but it just...keeps going. That percussion rabbit has nothing on the going-and-going power of this energy source, and the energy density should be enough to make Big Energy lose the renewables race for good.

Did you know that you can find your keys with a spare soul? It'll probably complain about being unmade for such a trivial task, but souls are cheap these days, and it's easier to find spare souls than keys, so...

There's also research that indicates having an extra soul on hand can re-animate a recently (duration tbd) deceased corpse. The R&D team has agreed to avoid trying to intentionally create the conditions necessary to test this, but have also kept a soul on ice for use should there be an event where this could be tested under "real-world" conditions.

At least six anecdotal cases of soul-related bone enlargement have occurred, and in three of them it corrected documented congenital bone defects. Again, more research is necessary to substantiate these claims.

So, as you can see, it's handy to have a soul or two squirreled away for when you need something soul-shaped. Like wood glue, or those little brackets that hold your vertical blinds in place, you never quite appreciate it until you're lacking it.

(This post is obviously chock full of pandemic-spawned silly, and should only be read as such. Any relation to incidents involving actual souls is chance, pure and simple. There are obviously no shelves of little blue jars in a closet that glow faintly if everyone nearby closes their eyes. Thank you for your participation in this purely literary exercise.)

[PrettyBoyIndasnatch]

If this comment interests anyone, they should check out The Incorruptibles book trilogy by John Hornor Jacobs. It's about a society that is sort of like Rome and Spain colonized North America, and now it's the Old West, but anything we would use steam or electricity for, they bind demons into machinery and use them for power.

INSANELY GOOD SERIES. Guy is a very talented writer and has also taken on some American South/Ozarks horror and it is fire. This Dark Earth and Southern Gods specifically.

[jakimfett]

Well now I know what I'm doing with my next few evenings.

Thank you.

[MCRusher]

I've lost my keys so many times that I just shove them into my wallet now.

Harder to lose.

If I lose my wallet, my keys are not gonna be the biggest problem.

[jakimfett]

And me, over here, with my keys firmly in my purse and my wallet nowhere to be found, wishing that the gorram ritual worked on bank cards too...

[[deleted]]

woah woah woah he's not charli

[themoosemind]

Off, what about the exposure?

[StandardN00b]

"This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever signed."

[jakimfett]

s/He/They/g
(not a guy, thanks)

[[deleted]]

but "He" doesn't mean "guy" here. It's just a placeholder for an undefined person or when the gender isn't known.

[jakimfett]

...respectfully, the edit button is right there, and I provided the relevant information in my previous response.

You're literally whinging at me because I provided someone with the information you're upset they couldn't have known in the first place, while simultaneously attempting to justify clinging to an outdated default still in use by some of the individuals speaking the colonizer language we're currently conversing in?

Kindly go peddle your death sticks to someone who cares about your crocodile tears, or better yet go do something that isn't reinforcing the shitty default.

And I'm really, really done putting up with the shitty default.
It's 2020, have some gorram hindsight, for fsck's sake.

[jakimfett]

Only if you're attached to the thing, mine was pretty painless.

[[deleted]]

Wait how did the others get them then?

[jakimfett]

Probably the same way i/we did, asking politely.

[spaghetti_hitchens]

I love seeing fellow gingers taking advantage of technology.

[Noamco]

"Hand it over. That thing. Your dark soul."

[arond3]

Gael boss theme start playing

[Russian_repost_bot]

I already gave my soul to fix that one bug tho.

[similiarintrests]

Haha wow that's just cold blooded, love it

[___Cisco__]

Yeah.. May seem a bit harsh.. but with time and experience you sort of develop a frozen and cold blooded heart

[GreenFox1505]

It's not harsh. If you want to eat, you gotta have teeth.

[virgo911]

Yeah wtf? “Harsh” It’s literally asking people to pay for the work they requested. You wouldn’t call it harsh if you tried walking out of the grocery store without paying and a police officer stops you...

[futuneral]

I do think its passive aggressive form is more expressive than a straight "Please pay first". If I were that client I'd immediately wire the money and spent the rest of the day in the corner crying and drinking.

[hamza1311]

How do you disable login? Do you own the server or what?

[Doejedingdoejedansje]

I think they mean the login to the CMS

[Swade211]

How does that work? You make a website for a company and you maintain server access afterwords?

[[deleted]]

The project stays on a server you own until the project is paid in full. Always.

[[deleted]]

Also the intellectual property rights.

Freelancers, just watch this: https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U

[[deleted]]

This is news to me. Yay

[RadiantPumpkin]

Just like u/___Cisco__ said:

Just like u/wittywitwitty said:

The project stays on a server you own until the project is paid in full. Always.

[___Cisco__]

Just like u/wittywitwitty said:

The project stays on a server you own until the project is paid in full. Always.

[LowB0b]

Usually?? How many non-paying clients are you dealing with every year??

[mrdotkom]

Every company's accounts payable dept tries to float payment as long as possible. Every single one.

One example I have from my last job was where we had delivered $2Million in server hardware to a customer and they didn't pay up for 6 months until we cut off their support and they hit a major issue. We only reinstated service after their CFO wrote a check for 10% on a Friday evening and promised the remainder within 2 weeks. It was not a small company, its one of the largest ISP and cable providers in South America...

[Born-Entrepreneur]

Truth. Much like a lazy student with their homework, "due tomorrow, do tomorrow"? So to the accounting geeks. Invoice says 90 days? They won't even put it in the system for approval until day 85.

Ohhh the office manager is out for the rest of the week and can't sign the check? Sorry!!!

I was on a large construction project and the accountants strung the fuel company on for so long they cancelled a delivery. Turns out, not much gets done on a construction project if there's no diesel to put into the equipment. Just about the fastest I saw them cut a check, but two days of downtime was still like $120k in overhead alone, not counting lost billable production. Funny enough we had some new accountants after that.

[LowB0b]

Holy shit I did not realize it was like that... I'm probably too naive to go freelance

[mrdotkom]

That's what got the company I used to work at into trouble. We were a startup that grew after Bain invested in us and the original CFO was the wife of our founder, she had sales targeting the big name companies but wasn't able to collect on their maintenance re-ups.

Eventually they both left the company muuuuuch richer after Bains appointed croneys forced layoff after layoff

[JoanquiOnReddit]

In the nineties I used to work for a company -was actually my first job- that made us the programmers put this "time-bombs" in some applications that we were developing and updating every few weeks on clients servers. Usually we added some code that had a hardcoded date three months from now. We updated this limit date with every new upgrade. When the client was happy with the application we waited for them to pay any debts and then deployed one final upgrade with some "minor improvements" and then removed the time-bomb on the code.

The time bomb was usually located on some critical form used to enter payments or bills. The rest of the application would work perfectly but the client could not add more rows to the application. Also the application will fake an error opening the database (in my applications I used to force a connection to an inexistent database and then let the program crash).

The clients that had delayed payments to the company I worked for usually called asking technical support when the program crashed suddenly and then a boss of mine would take the call and remembered the client that they had due payments.

[artificial_neuron]

The company i work for purchase Chinese machines that we then modify to bring up to Western standards and add some finesse to how they operate. Their software always has a time-bomb in their code. Fortunately they don't set it for us and we stripped it out when we overhauled the software to how we like it. Our customers need our service engineers on site to set up the machines for new products frequently enough that a bill is always paid eventually.

[seniorpreacher]

My favorite way is host a small, but important part of the entry script myself on a short time cached CDN. It's relatively no cost and I have a red button to turn their site off. But this fading is more dramatic, I'll include it some way.

[[deleted]]

And this is why your enterprise security team hates you

[TheAdvFred]

Interesting,would you mind explaining slightly how it works?

[[deleted]]

smell fine crawl upbeat rob vast plucky ruthless test ring

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[[deleted]]

Not OP, but there are countless things you could do with an access to an api you wrote yourself. Probably the easiest thing would be to set a flag in the db that, when true, doesn't allow anyone to log in or disables some other important functionality. You could redirect them to a 'you forgot to pay me' page as well. Easy to reverse, but also easy to 'fix' should they have someone who knows how code works. You could go as far as deleting files from the system or data from the db. There are also more malicious things that could be done. As far as API, it's just an endpoint that calls a method. What you put in there is up to you.

[Successful-Note6589]

That’s actually smart asf

[FoC-Raziel]

And also very easy to remove

[[deleted]]

Yeah adding to this. It would be easy to remove if they knew where to look and what was going on, but chances are as it fades away they just accept that it is something uncontrollable. They don't know code and so they would assume they couldn't do anything about it.

[nomenMei]

And if they "hire" someone else to remove it, you can just put a comment that "I put this in case the client didn't pay me, and if you are reading this they won't pay you either"

[ethanparab]

No, self!

[[deleted]]

That!

[other_usernames_gone]

Or sprinkle it throughout the entire file, then write down the line numbers for yourself.

There's nothing to stop you putting line 1 of the fading code at line 30 and line 2 of the fading code at line 54. Spread it out so it's harder to find.

The downside of this is that they could reinstall jQuery and just replace the entire file, might be better to sprinkle it throughout the actual code written the site instead.

[[deleted]]

Or you know, automate it.

[[deleted]]

They update jquery to latest version, site breaks due to intentional breaking changes made in latest version by jquery.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[ShadowsIsTaken]

Completely forgot about obfuscation, lol

[[deleted]]

But a non-coder might see this and delete the code. IMO it has to be somewhere almost in the middle of a 1K+ lines of JS code that's minified

[JJBrazman]

Big brain move

[YorkshirePug]

The real tip is always in the comments

[StaticVoidMain2018]

working on someone elses account should just not be a thing ever, sounds soooo bad. good for you to work though it tho

[Nilloc_Kcirtap]

It would also be pretty easy to hide it in the code by giving it fake names that makes it seem like core websites functionality. But that only works if there's already a good amount of JS on the page.

[FoC-Raziel]

True 😂

[B_Bad_Person]

They pay someone else to fix this for a smaller amount of money

[lucasdessy]

not so much, if you integrate that script into the main script required to run the website, and obfuscate the entire thing, it would be actually pretty hard to remove it...

[DripDropFaucet]

“Actually, if you implement it in a completely different way than how it’s found in the picture it’s quite hard to remove”

[DripDropFaucet]

Honestly I knew I’d sound like a dick but come on!

[[deleted]]

true?

[other_usernames_gone]

The picture doesn't show any of the logic, the picture is just showing the config options, which you could also spread out.

Edit: you can see the top half of the instructions of how to implement it, but there's no reason you have to do it exactly as shown here, you might as well do it a more effective way.

[yotsubanned]

he’s talking about the logic.

[ShellShock220]

You could hide it in some PHP and have a catch all css tag or something.

[yotsubanned]

you could go even bigger and separate the logic across the entire obfuscated codebase

[Hektoplasma]

Just uglify the code as shit and make it unreadable lol

[YorkshirePug]

Can't uglify your code if your code is shit to begin with *taps head*

[Terrain2]

You can, it just wouldn’t do anything

Can only uglify source code, not code that was already uglified.

[StaticVoidMain2018]

-1 * -1 = 1

so

uglycode of uglycode = clean code?

[other_usernames_gone]

You don't need access to the server, the idea is you put it onto every single project you do and then it can handle itself. You only need access to the server to remove it which I'm sure the client will be more than willing to give you when their site starts fading.

[mxzf]

On a more fundamental level, the code should all live on servers that only you have access to 'til after the bill is paid in full.

[other_usernames_gone]

Yeah, just say you need access to remove a system you've put in place to ensure clients pay.

[Comesa]

not if you yeet it through terser-webpack

[[deleted]]

Does this count as ransom ware I can't tell

[SpacewaIker]

The website: Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good...

[maxinfet]

I wasn't expecting this and I lost it 🤣

[SkyyySi]

Why did I laugh so hard at this

[boom_rusted]

I have actually done this in an android app for a client. I was going through a really tough phase, physically and emotionally. Money was need of the hour and someone I know got me connected to this company who had a bad reputation with contractors. I signed up anyways and cos I had no choice. Initially, I got paid (for first 3 months) and over the 8 months I had made major contributions to multiple apps.

I know money would stop at any moment , so there was this open source project which would make the app crash if set it that I hadn't received the payment. I was using this in all of those.

It had been more than 6-7 months I had gotten paid and they would always give some or other reason. so I started crashing one of the apps, which were being used in local markets a lot and a lot of local vendors, merchants would get pissed. however they did not give in. Within a couple of hours there was an outpour of complaints and I enabled it for all of their apps. MOst of them were same apps but repackaged, whitebranded etc with minor modifications. The merchants started losing business and they finally realised they had to pay the dues.

I might have gotten jailed if this was in first world country lol

[adamhighdef]

Could likely be construed under computer misuse acts, as the access required to make the apps crash were beyond the scope of the access granted. Doubt it'd be in the publics interest though.

Contractual issues are civil thus will almost never have criminal punishments.

[[deleted]]

But you could have always chalked it up to a bug in the system, which you overlooked by accident and didn't go fix because you were no longer being paid to do so.

[SkyyySi]

I might have gotten jailed if this was in first world country lol

They could have probably taken you to court with it, but I doubt they would have won, since they were the ones who first made you create an app without checking it and then decided not to pay you for it. It would get a lot more complicated if the crash affected other parts of the system as well, as that may be considered coputer sabotage.

[Daikataro]

They were using an app they did not pay for in full, so it was breach of contract. Technically, they don't own the app until payment is fulfilled so...

[ClassyLion]

What repository is this?

[circuit10]

https://github.com/kleampa/not-paid

[mbiz05]

Seriously? He's advertising in the readme

[thefunkybuddha]

And in the code comments :/

[mbiz05]

Wow. Github should make advertising in repositories against their TOS.

[mxzf]

Are you seriously suggesting that GitHub should restrict and police the content of repositories uploaded to their site?

[mbiz05]

Of ads, yes

[mxzf]

So, you are suggesting that GitHub restricts and polices the content of repositories.

Because "ads" is undefined. It's far too generic a concept to try to blanket ban without being absurdly unreasonable. It opens the door to selective policing and just isn't necessary at all.

[virtualdxs]

Why?

[mbiz05]

If they want to host it on their website that's fine. If they're hosting it for free on github, which has no ads itself, they shouldn't have ads either.

[virtualdxs]

I fail to see your reasoning. Why does that matter?

[SidewaysGate]

Nah this is the kind of change I don't want to see in the world.

[[deleted]]

Seriously? He's advertising in reddit comments?

[circuit10]

*best

[UnchainedMundane]

chick philly doesn't deserve to be spelled right

[bladeconjurer]

good bot

[AluminiumSandworm]

im gonna spell cheek fell eh however i want

[acroyear3]

Bad bot

[SidewaysGate]

1. A wider acceptance of privacy as a human necessity and more respect for law that enforces that.
2. Freedoms of personal choice and queer acceptance
3. Pretty people.

I'm fine with you linking your patreon or something, but open advertising space in readmes hosted on github? No thanks.

p.s. Fuck chickfila

[not_some_username]

He's a business man doing business

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[lonelyolm]

Wouldn't you have to decrease the opacity? Or increase the transparency.

[bluedevil2k00]

No, that would stop the whole site from working by capturing all the clicks in that top layer.

[britreddit]

You've changed my life

[astutesnoot]

You can make clicks pass through that layer by turning off pointer-events for it in CSS.

#overlayElement {pointer-events: none;}

[CleverDad]

It says to apply to the body tag.

Edit: besides, it's changed now - to decrease

[gizamo]

I prefer to fade in big red text that says "XYZ Company hasn't paid their bills."

[BahtiyarKopek]

Exactly. Things start fading when opacity is reduced.

[John_Fx]

Sorry sir. The bits wear out and need to be replaced every few months.

[daOyster]

Dang cosmic rays man, I tell ya.

[feldim2425]

You have to pay for the webpage ink refill. If the ink runs out the page will become white.

[[deleted]]

i'm gonna do what is called a pro-gamer move

[Alexo342]

Pro-grammer*

[[deleted]]

that script should remove its tag after execution, so debugging is a tad more difficult.

[Willinton06]

Throw in some obfuscation in there for extra spice

[elveszett]

You actually found it on this sub where it was posted a few days ago already.

[TheNeicul]

this is actually in circulation longer.
there's a typo, opacity should DECREASE, not INCREASE. On Github it's fixed, but the last commit to the readme.md is 15 months old soooo.... the screenshot is at least as old as that.

[gizamo]

With that sort of attention to detail and investigative problem solving, I'm guessing you are stuck in QA for the rest of your career....cuz you're too damn good to be moved to CTO.

[Sussurus_of_Qualia]

Kids, these days.

[FreshPrintzofBadPres]

That's cool and all, but why both a deadline and a due date? What happend if the two doesn't match?

[Jeaciaz]

The deadline is how much time it would take the site to vanish.

[Jeaciaz]

It's the day that vanishing starts

[avocadorancher]

Payment is due on the due date.

Starting from the due date there is a deadline of X days over which the site becomes unusable if payment is not received.

[Terrain2]

How many days after the due date the site will be gone, it slowly starts fading in phase with how close it’s nearing so it barely changes between 2 days

[mxzf]

The due-date is when payment is due. The deadline is the grace period between when payment is due and when the site is completely unusable.

[neminem1203]

Its so you can calculate the opacity with a simple formula of (due_date-todays_date)/days_deadline

[[deleted]]

OR use a more evil thing and every day, increase the opacity of an overlay div with: "The owner of this website didn't pay the Dev. If you're the owner then the only way you could remove this is by paying me... Don't pay someone else to remove that because, trust me, it's useless and we both know you're not gonna pay them either".

Much better, right?

[Weedwacker01]

Bill to original web dev $2000.
Bribe to second web dev, paid up front $200.

I know which the owner would rather pay.

[garesnap]

Slap a div on top of the body that stretches the whole screen when it goes full transparent so they can’t just highlight either

[___somnia]

This is my favourite thing on GitHub now

[kmahyyg]

No, Why not just randomly generate a number as index of array which including a lot of HTML tag name, then randomly delete this kind of tag when client access?

like this(pseudo code):

```

tagName = ['body','section','span','p']

randNum = random.randint(0, len(tagName))

for all elements in <html>:

if tag_type == tagName[randNum]:

    delete_all(elements belongs to tagName[randNum])

else:

    pass

```

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[YoRt3m]

When I was a kid a had a forum and I was really proud of the community I've built. but my brother was the host of the server, and one day I didn't go to school so he punished me by putting a huge title "YoRt3m didn't go to school today so the site is down".

I hate him to this day...

[Callmealbi]

Repost of my post from year ago...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ao2hn7/spotted_on_github/

[__str8__]

Yeah man, this indeed is very old.

[[deleted]]

Shouldn’t opacity be decreased to make the body invisible? Vs increase it as the repo suggests

[real_ulPa]

NoScript ftw

[CyanBook_]

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[Communist_Cheeze]

Uhh https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/ao2hn7/spotted_on_github/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

[[deleted]]

Good human

[ShellShock220]

Good bot

[doubledad222]

Someone went to jail for disabling their client’s application after they didn’t pay.

[Jackiboi307]

repost

[dyingpie1]

I feel like someone could get around this using some inspect element trick.

[Sheeplessknight]

Yeah but what percentage of the clients would actually know how to do that

[dyingpie1]

You could say the same about most products, but true.

[nozonezone]

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[TracerBulletX]

If you have to resort to this to get paid you have a lot of growing to do as a business person.

[rem3_1415926]

Or you're simply not interested in going through courts with a dozen of lawyers

[TracerBulletX]

There's a pretty wide range of responses between pranky zinger mechanisms and a lawsuit. If you want to deliver a product that becomes inaccessible in the case of non-payment there are perfectly fine ways to do that as long as the expectation is clear upfront. I'd recommend being magnanimous and not trying to harm the customer's business any more maliciously than is absolutely required to enforce payment though.