I once reported an API bug to LinkedIn.
Received an email that I initially thought was a thank you note, but it turned out to be about my avatar (a stylized animal picture) being removed.
Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise
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Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise
#82Some time ago I was banned as well, even though I don't remember exactly why but it was a similarly petty reason.
What solved it for me was telling that my account was hacked in the support ticket. If this was an automated ban, maybe shifting the blame to the "hackers" might get your account back if you're lucky.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Contribute exclusively to open source and let big software corporations die. Sounds like you’re either in the privileged position to not have to earn a living or you earn a living outside the software industry. For many of us, we prefer to get paid to write software and make interesting products.
Thousands of people make a living off open source and many are interesting products. Going commercial makes it easier to make a living. If making a living on open source is privileged, that privilege comes from hard work and some luck.
> Thousands of people make a living off open source
Meanwhile, there are an estimated 26.9 million professional software engineers in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demograph...
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Contribute exclusively to open source and let big software corporations die. The Linux kernel has been developed by email since the beginning. It runs the world. All the other crap we layered on was resource wasting “job creation” that gave MS, Meta, and the like outsized reach and influence These days I appreciate my computer engineering degree; we’ll always need AI capable hardware. Not so much the filesystem taxon…
> Contribute exclusively to open source and let big software corporations die. Sounds like you’re either in the privileged position to not have to earn a living or you earn a living outside the software industry. For many of us, we prefer to get paid to write software and make interesting products.
Many of us prefer otherwise. Why is my identity coupled to serving your sensibilities?
Compensation just means money cause the story goes that makes primates still coupled to Earth and social norms (make money) freer?
Ok. Yeah.
Why is how I have to utilized technology coupled to your preference to make money? Just as arbitrary a social ideology as religion, since it’s not a divine mandate. It’s just clinging to some abstract historical barnacle, LARPing proper stewardship of reality.
LLMs hallucinate because humans hallucinate.
Re: Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Contribute exclusively to open source and let big software corporations die. The Linux kernel has been developed by email since the beginning. It runs the world. All the other crap we layered on was resource wasting “job creation” that gave MS, Meta, and the like outsized reach and influence These days I appreciate my computer engineering degree; we’ll always need AI capable hardware. Not so much the filesystem taxon…
How old are you? I ask because this is puerile nonsense.
You’re just another of billions of primates. It’s just as puerile to think your view is sacrosanct.
None of the primates eviscerating the environment for video games and comic book movies have the moral high ground.