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Post by ThankYouBernard »

bombcar wrote: post #116
bjarneh wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree; this seems like someone with so little technical ability, that I wouldn't be surprised if he did manage to talk someone into a buying a multi million dollar defense project he could not deliver... > I lost my family, my country my friends, my home and 6 years of work trying to build a better place for posterity. I get loosing your family / home / friends, but a country? Where did that go?

This sounds like the result of unscrupulous "boot camps" that are common in countries like India - people are told if they sign up and pay $life_savings they can become a programmer and be hired by "The US Government" or other companies for enormous amounts of money. A mundane class is offered with impractical advice and they're left with no money, little skills, and spamming the internet trying to get "their contrac…

Really? The kind of language used in that post about defense contracts and "my country" and "dipshit" screams India to you?

Or do you just have a prejudice about India and you wanted to make that point anyway?

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Post by [deleted] »

notthegov2 wrote: post #88
bartread wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't respond but I probably would notify law enforcement and give them a copy of the exchange.

Good luck telling local law enforcement that a federal officer bricked your iPhone or that plausible denial intelligence agents are threatening you.

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Post by arp242 »

javajosh wrote: post #96
arp242 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I once tried to have a conversation with a women who tried to drive me and my bicycle off the bus lane (where she shouldn't be driving in the first place); and shouted "fuck off you pissy little cunt" to me. For some reason I thought that if I explained my perspective, she would understand. It ended up with a broken back wheel (she kicked it) and a damaged phone (she took it out of my hand when I wanted to take a pic…

A sad sentiment of giving up, but I think it is premature to abandon your approach. I think it may be worth trying for that small-ish fraction (call it 10%?) of people who can be talked back from their anger. Those are good conversations to have for both parties, and worth trying to have, even if it results in failure 90% of the time. That said, I think the real lesson for you is: don't make yourself more vulnerable…

> I think the real lesson for you is: don't make yourself more vulnerable (e.g. letting her touch you or your stuff) if you decide to try to start a conversation!

I didn't "let" her, she just did it.

I know you mean well and that you probably didn't intend it like this, but this comment comes off as victim blaming quite a bit.

As for the rest: thus far I've never managed to talk random strangers down from these kind of rages; but maybe I just don't have the charm shrug Last time I tried was with my neighbour and he ended up calling the police three times over a four-day period on me. My crime? I kindly asked him to not play his music so loudly all day long at the start of the lockdown (especially at 7am) and not backing down when he tried to shout me away. I had "invaded his home" by knocking on his front door... This isn't a fit of anger, some people are just like this.

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Post by cmsefton »

nullc wrote: post #37

I'm sorry to hear that. libCurl is great and my life is better for it. It's really best to not reply to the mentally ill people (and you can be pretty sure anyone sending something like the first is at least temporarily mentally ill). It can sometimes be extremely tempting, I know-- especially when they've managed to say something almost perfectly constructed for pithy comeback. But it will not help you and it will n…

> libCurl is great and my life is better for it.

This is not directed at you specifically, but your comment got me wondering how many people contact individuals like Daniel who are behind Open Source projects like this to share positive feedback, or even just to say "Thank you." I know I've not done it anywhere near as much as I should, and I suspect that doing so would help take the edge of what can often feel like a thankless task.

I imagine it's a bit like reviews: people with a bad experience are more likely to leave a review. Perhaps the best way to help people like David is to stop once in a while and thank them for the things they've done.

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

eznzt wrote: post #99
sunir wrote: post #66

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That isn’t doxxing. You have no expectation of privacy if you send a threatening letter to another person.

And you base that on what? At least where I live I can't even record a phone conversation without informing the other party, much less divulge it...

Publishing the emails is copyright infringement; I don't think it's any other crime. And good luck trying to get someone for copyright infringement when you're threatening them with “slaughter”.

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Post by M3phist0 »

lrossi wrote: post #58

The elephant in the room is the poor choice of domain name. A lot of people are getting the wrong idea about the purpose of his software.

This is some victim blaming here. The domain is not the website of curl, but the personal blog of curls main developer. Not the same thing.

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Post by type0 »

brunes wrote: post #79
Nextgrid wrote: post #15

The general demeanor of that person, some of the lingo used like "rooting" or "federal server hijacking", the fact that in the screenshot he's using some text editor with ads in it to browse the offending code combined with the fact that he doesn't know what Curl is (if he did he wouldn't have sent this e-mail) screams "script kiddie" to me. I'm not sure whether this person is actually responsible for a multi-million…

I am pretty sure they are not even a script kiddie... they are just a fairly immature troll. Not sure what caused the original email, but the reply is just a copy/paste of various unrelated things and security incidents that the person Googled without even understanding enough about them to form a comprehensible narrative. Which tells me they are simply trying to get a rise out of someone. The way the grammar is cons…

If it's not a troll I don't know what is, if it's for real that person has to have some serious mental health problems.

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

growt wrote: post #119
Nextgrid wrote: post #15

The general demeanor of that person, some of the lingo used like "rooting" or "federal server hijacking", the fact that in the screenshot he's using some text editor with ads in it to browse the offending code combined with the fact that he doesn't know what Curl is (if he did he wouldn't have sent this e-mail) screams "script kiddie" to me. I'm not sure whether this person is actually responsible for a multi-million…

My bet is on GPT-2 (GPT-3 would probably generate better text). This whole reply just isn't coherent (first it's a defence contract, then it's learning software for kids?). So either AI generated or someone with some mental illness.

Yep, I was going to suggest this too. It feels copy/pasted from Talk to Transformer.

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Post by vdfs »

Tepix wrote: post #28
m12k wrote: post #20

The is the equivalent of sending death threats to the car company that manufactured the car that the robbers used to get away in after robbing your bank.

It's more like a death threat against a popular light bulb used in all cars

Right, Car company in this analogy would be SolarWinds or Windows 10
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