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Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by quickthrower2 »

dpedu wrote: post #27
quickthrower2 wrote: post #25

Makes me think: Interesting spam vector: create a PR advertising whatever and then @ a bunch of people you scraped. Also interesting attack vector: get a easily mistaken @ name and then see what you become reviewer on. Add malicious code to that PR and merge. Edit: also what is stupid is at work when setting up your organisation security access you can add anyone globally in the combo search. No org-only filter is ev…

Some people have done it by accident: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users [2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061

Oh that made my day (the file changes that is…!)

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by szundi »

qup wrote: post #18
raverbashing wrote: post #11

Your username should pass the "search engine" test as well That is, calling yourself a too short or generic name might have been a brag 20 years ago, but now it's just an annoyance

Failing the search engine test is a feature, not a bug.

Parent commenter probably would use the word antifeature for it

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by szundi »

petesergeant wrote: post #17

I used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf

Mine is x@x.com, Elon gets those now

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by luag »

rootsu wrote: post #15
TylerE wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e gmail, which of course routes to...

Yep, I have an incredibly common firstname@gmail.com email address and I get hundreds of emails daily with random bills, reservations, bank statements and so on.

I'm not alone

The number of people who just didn't understand the implications of not using their own email for banks, etc is too many.

The fault is partially on the banks too IMO. Why don't they verify the emails first before sending sensitive information.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by lgeorget »

petesergeant wrote: post #17

I used to have an email similar to ps@qs.com, and would get a fair amount of email suggesting people would use that as their made up email. In a similar vein I’d like to apologise to knobs@bobs.com for the amount of captive portal spam you receive on my behalf

I usually use arthur@example.com, guaranteed to be a permanently valid domain name and also not to spam anyone.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by Cadwhisker »

muzani wrote: post #10

I try to register @null wherever I go. Most places don't allow it, and the one place that did force changed the name at one point.

Sounds like we need to use the Big List Of Naughty Strings to weed out troublesome usernames...

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

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