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by cperciva 3935 days ago
a friendly guy reported to tarsnap that you could sign up without needing the emailed confirmation link by creating that same confirmation link yourself with the cookie/token being hidden, but present in the HTML code.

That's a decent summary, but I didn't think I was all that long-winded...

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Quite the opposite, it's nice to see someone put some effort into their write-ups. It's so much more readable as a story.
Oh it really is just a summary, and no commentary as to whether TFA was long-winded or not. That's left to decide for each individually.
When you write tl;dr followed by a very short summary, doesn't that itself imply that the article was long?
tl;dr has also become a general shorthand for a summary.
It's almost an abbreviation for summary!
The summary was certainly shorter than the article!
Maybe the guy who found the bug won't get $1000, according to your rules, but he definitely deserves a cookie.
Please don't turn this place into a pun-fest.
I did pay out a bounty of $200 for this.