As of posting, 1812—you can verify this yourself by going to the homepage, opening up your browser's Developer Tools with F12, pasting this into the console
window.isoData.site_res.taglines
and hitting Enter^[Generally DON'T run arbitrary JavaScript in your browser console at the request of random people on the internet unless you enjoy getting you shit jacked, but in this case hopefully you can see that there's nothing to fear. All that this one-liner is doing is accessing the isoData variable (which stores some Hexbear data) and drilling down to the array of taglines], which will show you that the tagline array has 1812 elements. The tagline in question is at index 1740 (i.e. the 1741st element), so it's definitely a relatively recent addition; the comment it quotes is from about 5 months ago.
While we're on the topic, here's my own personal favorite:
::: spoiler spoiler
get home from work in the United Soviet States of America in 2024
thirty hour weeks are tough, but I get more vacation days than most people in order to make up for it
boot up my home PC, an Electronika 9100 XMT
it's located in my garage, in a standard rack mount along with its standard power source and network components
head to the terminal in my living room to actually use it
computer monitor makes a satisfying hum as it comes to life
see the logo for the default OS pop up
it's a Linux distribution maintained by the Computing Centre of the Academy of Sciences
it's good enough
go into Firefox, log onto my favorite website
it's called Hexbear, it's a pretty standard BBCode forum
see that I have a private message
a comrade is calling me a revisionist
they sent me a picture of a pig pooping on its balls
:::
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Carl [he/him] - 2mon
I love that so many people like my little peek into the good universe where the soviets won the cold war.
17
Awoo [she/her] - 2mon
computer monitor makes a satisfying hum as it comes to life
They tried to release a new model without the hum but people complained that they liked it.
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Cat_Daddy [any, any] - 2mon
That one is my favorite tagline, too
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 2mon
Amazing, outstanding
5
FumpyAer [any, comrade/them] - 1mon
A more obviously safe command (to me) is to use the .length method.
window.isoData.site_res.taglines.length
Will give you the number directly, and putting .length on the end guarantees that all you're doing with that array is printing the length of it. But I'm a JS beginner!
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AernaLingus [any] - 1mon
Very true! Although, in a scenario in which I were actually doing something nefarious, it's not difficult to run arbitrary code whenever a property is accessed—here's a relevant example from StackOverflow using Proxy() and modified to fit our scenario:
// Source - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44691071/how-do-i-invoke-a-function-whenever-a-property-of-an-object-is-read
// Posted by Andrew Li
// License - CC-BY-SA 4.0
const obj = {};
const windоw = new Proxy(obj, {
get(target, property, receiver) {
console.log('HACKERMANS I\'m in');
}
});
windоw.isoData.site_res.taglines.length; //A property is accessed and the console is logged to
In this case, it'll throw an error, since there is no site_res (or anything below it) in our toy example, but the code in get runs all the same. Also, since window is a reserved global variable, I had to be a little sneaky and swap out the Latin o for a Cyrillic o to avoid the naming conflict.
Anyhow, another advantage of accessing the array is that you can then click to expand it in your browser console and peruse the taglines at your leisure!
Also, hello, fellow Aer!
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FumpyAer [any, comrade/them] - 1mon
Oh what a coincidence! I didn't notice!
3
Meltyheartlove [love/loves, comrade/them] - 2mon
I think I saw a post from a few days back on the tagline and "childish response" that comes often now for me was from someone that got dunked on a month or two ago
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PolyethylenePt2 [he/him] - 2mon
the anti-Tenna
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Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 2mon
They can't be talking about Tenna because he's NEVER glooby, only groovy. 😤
5
BadTakesHaver [he/him, they/them] - 2mon
everyones a little glooby sometimes
5
Dort_Owl [they/them, any] - 2mon
It can't just be me! ...glooby ...against the world.
5
FumpyAer [any, comrade/them] - 1mon
I just learned a bit of JavaScript. Here is a line of code you can put into the console on Hexbear to log (print) a random tagline without a page reload:
Obligatory: be careful when you copy/paste JavaScript into the console! Ask an LLM what it does if you can't decipher it yourself yet. Here I am multiplying the length of the taglines array by a random number between 0 and 1, then printing the tagline inside that item's "content" object.
Dort_Owl in main
We're still getting new taglines I see
Uuuuh just how many of these do we have?
I'm in awe of whoever is in charge
As of posting, 1812—you can verify this yourself by going to the homepage, opening up your browser's Developer Tools with F12, pasting this into the console
and hitting Enter^[Generally DON'T run arbitrary JavaScript in your browser console at the request of random people on the internet unless you enjoy getting you shit jacked, but in this case hopefully you can see that there's nothing to fear. All that this one-liner is doing is accessing the
isoDatavariable (which stores some Hexbear data) and drilling down to the array of taglines], which will show you that thetaglinearray has 1812 elements. The tagline in question is at index 1740 (i.e. the 1741st element), so it's definitely a relatively recent addition; the comment it quotes is from about 5 months ago.While we're on the topic, here's my own personal favorite:
::: spoiler spoiler
I love that so many people like my little peek into the good universe where the soviets won the cold war.
They tried to release a new model without the hum but people complained that they liked it.
That one is my favorite tagline, too
Amazing, outstanding
A more obviously safe command (to me) is to use the .length method.
window.isoData.site_res.taglines.lengthWill give you the number directly, and putting .length on the end guarantees that all you're doing with that array is printing the length of it. But I'm a JS beginner!
Very true! Although, in a scenario in which I were actually doing something nefarious, it's not difficult to run arbitrary code whenever a property is accessed—here's a relevant example from StackOverflow using Proxy() and modified to fit our scenario:
In this case, it'll throw an error, since there is no
site_res(or anything below it) in our toy example, but the code ingetruns all the same. Also, sincewindowis a reserved global variable, I had to be a little sneaky and swap out the Latin o for a Cyrillic o to avoid the naming conflict.Anyhow, another advantage of accessing the array is that you can then click to expand it in your browser console and peruse the taglines at your leisure!
Also, hello, fellow Aer!
Oh what a coincidence! I didn't notice!
I think I saw a post from a few days back on the tagline and "childish response" that comes often now for me was from someone that got dunked on a month or two ago
the anti-Tenna
They can't be talking about Tenna because he's NEVER glooby, only groovy. 😤
everyones a little glooby sometimes
I just learned a bit of JavaScript. Here is a line of code you can put into the console on Hexbear to log (print) a random tagline without a page reload:
window.isoData.site_res.taglines[Math.floor(Math.random() * window.isoData.site_res.taglines.length)].contentObligatory: be careful when you copy/paste JavaScript into the console! Ask an LLM what it does if you can't decipher it yourself yet. Here I am multiplying the length of the taglines array by a random number between 0 and 1, then printing the tagline inside that item's "content" object.
This tagline is at least several years old lmao
Are you suuuuure?
No