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Post by duskwuff »

mr-wendel wrote: post #228
agumonkey wrote: post #227

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> - a solid (but wildly misplaced) basis in reality can you explain this more ? I recognize some traits of these in me and siblings but we're not on meth at all.. so I find the psychological flaws interesting. sorry about your friend too

You bet, and thanks for your condolences. In short, almost certainly this doesn't apply to you. The pattern is that in these scenarios, usually the people are quite intelligent and often accomplished. This gives them a repository of valid phrases and concepts to draw upon to breath legitimacy into their boogeymen. The evidence they present, however, is completely benign. That person, however, has quite the story they…

In my experience... a characteristic of this type of condition is a tendency for the brain to make connections too eagerly, and to jump to conclusions. His computer did something weird, therefore it must have been hacked. He heard about the Solarwinds breach in the news, therefore it must be related. He opened some files and saw Daniel's name, therefore he must be responsible. And so on.

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Post by mchusma »

bagder wrote: post #221

Daniel here. Thanks everyone for the positiveness and expression of appreciation I've sensed here. The threat has been reported to the police and I'll move on. I love you all. Now I'll go back and continue working on curl.

You have done great work and I appreciate it.

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Post by Griffinsauce »

arcatek wrote: post #144
cmsefton wrote: post #125

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> 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…

I can answer this a bit - I maintain Yarn, a JS package manager. While nowhere near Curl, it does have a fairly significant user base - at least a few million devs, from what I understand. For all this work, I received exactly two emails thanking me for my work during the past four years. I also happen to maintain a little "Secret Santa" website, hosted on a GitHub page. Nothing too fancy, just a static app that lets…

FWIW, I am a very happy user of yarn, it always works so smoothly. Thank you!

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Post by unanswered »

blinkingled wrote: post #81

This reminds me of the OK city manager threatening Centos developer - https://www.theregister.com/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/ Although in that case the city was not actually hacked. It looks like this person actually got hacked by someone using curl and he is complaining that curl made it possible. I wonder if he knows anything about the people who wrote the actual exploit(s).

Woah, that should have been reported to the FBI as extortion. Through the (interstate) threat to report a crime falsely to the FBI, the extortioner successfully extracted a valuable service, viz. tech support, from the victim.

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Post by kiko_2 »

fxtentacle wrote: post #184
arp242 wrote: post #124

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> 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…

My guess would be that you're too peaceful and it shows. There are some people who will try to bully their way through life. They will apply violent behavior (e.g. breaking your phone) to get their way. The way to stop that is to make it clear that you can apply violence, too. Most of society works by peacefully interacting with each other. But it is crucial that everyone knows that there is a threat of violence (e.g…

Well that only works with people that are not afraid of fighting you and possibly winning against you - and there's always somebody that's better trained and/or stronger then you. When you encounter that kind of person, if you challenge them, they will step up and fight you, because they will feel they have no other choice. Reasons could range from pride, (imagined) loss of (self) respect to just being aggressive bullies that enjoy hurting other people. Of course if you're 6'7'' and 240 lbs not a lot of people would want to start arguing with you in the first place.

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Post by kiko_2 »

arp242 wrote: post #75
pmiller2 wrote: post #21

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Yeah, I agree. In his place, I either would have done nothing, or, maybe made a police report (not that I'd expect the police to actually do anything at this stage). Generally speaking, the less you antagonize someone whose first exchange with you is "I will slaughter you," the better, IMO.

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…

Moving to NYC couple of years ago I learned the best way to deal with those type of people is to let go and move on. It really isn't worth wasting your time and energy on those people, because they will just ruin your day. Best case scenario you feel better for couple of minutes and then you forget about it. Worst case you end up dead, in jail or worse.

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Post by princesse »

arcatek wrote: post #144
cmsefton wrote: post #125

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> 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…

I can answer this a bit - I maintain Yarn, a JS package manager. While nowhere near Curl, it does have a fairly significant user base - at least a few million devs, from what I understand. For all this work, I received exactly two emails thanking me for my work during the past four years. I also happen to maintain a little "Secret Santa" website, hosted on a GitHub page. Nothing too fancy, just a static app that lets…

Just switched from npm to yarn and I love it. Thanks for your work.

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Post by amablue »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #141
cmsefton wrote: post #125

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> 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…

> how many people contact individuals who are behind Open Source projects just to say "Thank you." Open-source developers occasionally express dislike of "thank you" messages. They may have written that software mainly to scratch their own itch, and dealing with messages that don't say anything but thanks takes precious time out of their day. Donating money, however, is usually more welcome.

I've written one small open source library, which I publicized a little bit back when I first released it. Like you said, I wrote it mostly to scratch my own itch, but it was really nice to see it get some use out in the wild, and I have gotten a few emails about it over the years. Personally, I really enjoy getting any kind of emails about it from people who are using it or who have questions. (To be fair, I've never gotten the murdery emails abou it)

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Post by SomaticPirate »

arcatek wrote: post #144
cmsefton wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

I can answer this a bit - I maintain Yarn, a JS package manager. While nowhere near Curl, it does have a fairly significant user base - at least a few million devs, from what I understand. For all this work, I received exactly two emails thanking me for my work during the past four years. I also happen to maintain a little "Secret Santa" website, hosted on a GitHub page. Nothing too fancy, just a static app that lets…

Also wanted to chime in here and say thank you for maintaining Yarn. I don’t use js often but yarn has always been my preferred tool when I do. Great to know that it has an awesome maintainer like you

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Post by kstrauser »

bagder wrote: post #221

Daniel here. Thanks everyone for the positiveness and expression of appreciation I've sensed here. The threat has been reported to the police and I'll move on. I love you all. Now I'll go back and continue working on curl.

We love you too. Thanks for everything!
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