Deskthority Secret Santa 2015

[kbdfr]

So this is the list 7bit sent me:
(1 5 12 24 7 18 27 19 26 23 13 9 31 15 10 22 2 14 42 7 4 21 28 17 27 19 21 6)

Do whatever you want with it, you know better than I do.

[7bit]

Here comes my number:
6578439658743926478320147892789178974654

So this is the list 7bit sent me:
(1 5 12 24 7 18 27 19 26 23 13 9 31 15 10 22 2 14 42 7 4 21 28 17 27 19 21 6)

Do whatever you want with it, you know better than I do.

Noooo!

It was supposed to be kept secret!!!


But, nevermind.

[kbdfr]

7bit, read my list and you will see that it is not yours - it even contains 31.
I may be stupid, but not that stupid

[7bit]

OK, so we have:
11034711%29=8
42%29=13
1337%29=3
3%29=3
2015%29=14
10212015%29=13
28%29=28
19032013%29=9
6578439658743926478320147892789178974654%29=0
1
5
12
24
7
18
27
19
26
23
13
9
31%29=2
15
10
22
2
14
42%29=13
7
4
21
28
17
27
19
21
6

[kbdfr]

25439347013

[7bit]

Here is the initial list:

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     0  7bit
     1  Compgeke
     2  Findecanor
     3  Halvar
     4  HzFaq
     5  JanitorJoe
     6  Madhias
     7  Muirium
     8  Nuum
     9  Ray
    10  Redmaus
    11  Spikebolt
    12  XMIT
    13  andrewjoy
    14  chzel
    15  gogusrl
    16  guk
    17  hypkx
    18  jou
    19  kbdfr
    20  lolpes
    21  matt3o
    22  photekq
    23  scottc
    24  seebart
    25  sethk
    26  shrubbry
    27  snoopy
    28  webwit

Here is the list after choosing each user by your posted numbers:

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     8	Nuum
    13	andrewjoy
     3	Halvar
    14	chzel
    28	webwit
     9	Ray
     0	7bit
     1	Compgeke
     5	JanitorJoe
    12	XMIT
    24	seebart
     7	Muirium
    18	jou
    27	snoopy
    19	kbdfr
    26	shrubbry
    23	scottc
     2	Findecanor
    15	gogusrl
    10	Redmaus
    22	photekq
     4	HzFaq
    21	matt3o
    17	hypkx
     6	Madhias
    11	Spikebolt
    16	guk
    20	lolpes
    25	sethk

I will feed the bot tomorrow with the necessary information.

[kbdfr]

or perhaps rather: 2493248628457139563

[matt3o]

we should find an intricate net of proxies in Europe to anonymize our gifts

[guk]

Being located in Germany provides sufficient anonymity already.

[Ray]

so you are still taking random numbers?
789624125444444 ≡ 27 (modulo 29)

[lolpes]

Hey @Murrium , 7bit took your zero! :O

[Muirium]

Blast! Thief!! He took my nothing!!!

True enough, I could probably quite easily guess the identity just by the address of my, um, female Santa and male Santa. (No, there's no good way of wording that!) The, uh, sender and the receiver. Anyway, there will only be a good shot at anonymity if they're in Germany and don't happen to be Kbdfr or 7bit.

[kbdfr]

[…] Anyway, there will only be a good shot at anonymity if they're in Germany and don't happen to be Kbdfr or 7bit.

I remember some hilarious conjectures about me being a certain Secret Santa last year

[Muirium]

I'm sure. But not from me. At least not directly. I was on the sidelines last year, not a participant.

Spoiler: I actually do know your address.

[7bit]

Here is the list of users, who did not submit their address to CherryMX:

user Ray not found!!!
address for 7bit not found!!!
user Compgeke not found!!!
user JanitorJoe not found!!!
user XMIT not found!!!
address for seebart not found!!!
user shrubbry not found!!!
user Redmaus not found!!!
user guk not found!!!
address for sethk not found!!!


Please pm user CherryMX:

your e-mail address
ADDRESS
your shipping address

Example:

email@yourdomain.tldyettoberegistered
ADDRESS
Walter Cherry
Cherrystr. 1
91275 Auerbach/OPf.
DE

Add instructions to the address, if you like, but keep in mind that your address ends at an empty line:


ADDRESS
Walter Cherry
Cherrystr. 1
91275 Auerbach/OPf.
DE
\
\
Lieber Secret Santa,
\
Bitte keine Cherry-Tastaturen schenken!
\
Danke,
\
Walter.

[Muirium]

Alternatively, if you don't want the bot mailing you key cap propaganda from this day on, ORDER MORE TO IMPROVE YOUR RANKING!, we could choose someone besides the guy with an automated spam system to plug our names into random and to pair us up by addresses. It's not too late for those of you above! There is hope!

[7bit]

Well, the email address and shipping baddress can be cleare right afterwards, by sending this to user CherryMX:

EMAIL
ADDRESS

[Muirium]

Sure the bot doesn't ever forget to forget? He'd be the most honest robut on the internet, and the first!

[kbdfr]

Have you ever tried to squeeze a GB or Hongkong address to fit on a German DHL shipping label?
This here feels similar.

Somehow things used to be easier in the days:
you just put slips of paper in a hat and someone pulled them at random.
Now it takes modulos and bots and whatnot

[Muirium]

Only because we all invited this by letting 7bit take charge. We can still do it by postcards if you like. I even have several large hats…

[Ray]

okay, this was my first time starting private conversation with a bot.

On another note: Is it okay to ask "Hey Secret Santa, if you happen to live in the US of A, would you mind to proxy me some keyboards. I know this defeats anonymity when money gets handed over, but I don't get packeges from overseas often."
It is probably frowned upon, so I'd better not ask unless I get an okay from the powers in charge.

[7bit]

Only because we all invited this by letting 7bit take charge. We can still do it by postcards if you like. I even have several large hats…

Yes, right, but even the conventional way, I would need some more addresses!

Also, you can be lucky my original plan failed, because I had no time to either write a script to map natural numbers to permutations or get my old Group Theory library compiled.


Next year, I will do it more fancy.


BTW, if anybody has Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer), volume 559, available, I would be interested.

[guk]

Address sent to CherryMX. Feels weird. Don't fancy fancy, would prefer simply simple.

[mr_a500]

okay, this was my first time starting private conversation with a bot.

I remember my first conversation with a bot. It was way back in 1995 when I first discovered IRC. I was talking to that damn bot for 5 minutes before I realized. (I think it was an Australian bot)

Ah, but back then bots were different - not at all like the arrogant asshole bots you see these days.

[guk]

I remember my first conversation with a bot. It was way back in 1995 when I first discovered IRC. I was talking to that damn bot for 5 minutes before I realized. (I think it was an Australian bot)

Did it use any pickup lines on you?

Aussie pickup lines are the best.

[7bit]

okay, this was my first time starting private conversation with a bot.

I remember my first conversation with a bot. It was way back in 1995 when I first discovered IRC. I was talking to that damn bot for 5 minutes before I realized. (I think it was an Australian bot)

Ah, but back then bots were different - not at all like the arrogant asshole bots you see these days.

You did not meet German bots back then, so no arrogance and assholeness.


Apropos (output from santa.pl):
user Compgeke not found!!!
user JanitorJoe not found!!!
user XMIT not found!!!
address for seebart not found!!!
user shrubbry not found!!!
address for scottc not found!!!
user Redmaus not found!!!
address for sethk not found!!!


I also need your e-mail addresses, to make sure the bot can send you an e-mail with the information where to ship your Secret Santa package!

[matt3o]

Next year, I will do it more fancy.

no, dear. Next year I'll take care of it!

[seebart]

Next year, I will do it more fancy.

no, dear. Next year I'll take care of it!

Good, then both of you have clear new year's resolutions already!

[matt3o]

this year resolution is to upgrade 7bit firmware because it is getting old [kidding, buddy]

[kbdfr]

this year resolution is to upgrade 7bit firmware because it he is getting old [kidding, buddy]

Fixed that for you.