deskthority

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.

Here comes my number:
6578439658743926478320147892789178974654

kbdfr wrote: 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.

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

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

25439347013

Here is the initial list: Here is the list after choosing each user by your posted numbers: I will feed the bot tomorrow with the necessary information.

or perhaps rather: 2493248628457139563

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

Being located in Germany provides sufficient anonymity already.

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

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

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.

Muirium wrote: […] 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

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.

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.

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!

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

EMAIL
ADDRESS

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

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

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…

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.

Muirium wrote: 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.

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

Ray wrote: 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.

mr_a500 wrote: 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?

Muirium wrote: Aussie pickup lines are the best.

mr_a500 wrote:

Ray wrote: 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!

7bit wrote: Next year, I will do it more fancy.

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

matt3o wrote:

7bit wrote: 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!

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

matt3o wrote: this year resolution is to upgrade 7bit firmware because it he is getting old [kidding, buddy]

Fixed that for you.