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Hacking font
By neal, 5 years ago, In English

Did anyone else notice this issue come up today? When trying to hack in my room (via Chrome on Linux), I got a message saying that I needed to update Flash in order to continue. I clicked the update button, which refreshed the page and showed me the code in an almost unreadable font: non-monospaced, letters were all squished together, and l looked exactly like 1.

I just tried installing more fonts which I think might fix it. Does anyone know a way I can check on my hacking font again? Now that the contest is over, when I open code in my room it just shows the normal copy-pasteable code window instead.

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Did you take any screenshots?

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    No, I wanted to include a screenshot here, but unfortunately I didn't take one in-contest and I don't know how to get one now.

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      You can try to hack in virtual participation.

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I also got that message. I was pretty sure it was not a problem of updating, so I just gave up making any hacks.

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I got the message too but it worked fine after I clicked it.

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You had a monospace font when hacking at some point? I've never seen one.

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    I have seen only monospace font there.

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Well, this isnt the ideal solution, but you can test it in a div.2 only contest

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