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

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Post by OJFord »

arcbyte wrote: post #170
OJFord wrote: post #155

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What is the claim? In the UK at least SCC requires that your claiming for some kind of (small) financial harm. What's that here? Even if that's not the case in the USA (small civil claims against un-pursued crime?) it's still not clear to me what the issue is, or what 'right' they've violated. The judicial system isn't there for 'how displeased you are'.

Maybe I have my github account printed on business cards or even plastered on my car as advertising for my consulting practice. Or its embedded on marketing pages for consulting support for my open source project that now I need to pay a dev or dedicate time to update. Or any other scenario where o have customers and potential customers that discover or interact with me at least partly through my github account.

But that does actually need to have been the case, you can't just contrive a hypothetical financial loss.

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

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Post by kubanczyk »

onionisafruit wrote: post #205
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #130

At my previous job, I decided to make a Slack channel named after one of the C preprocessor directives (#define I think, or maybe #endif). A handful of people found it and appreciated the joke. But then, a few months later, one of the admins contacted me to ask if it would be okay to delete the channel. You see, in large organisations, Slack knows which channels are not meant to be visible to other parts of the org,…

Funny that slack’s attempt to keep it from being mentioned revealed the existence of a private channel.

I don't think it works for private channels.

Since, as OP says, non-members occasionally could find the channel, it was probably a public channel. The people who complained were probably "multi-channel guests". They'd see masked-out channel names except where they are explicitly allowed.

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

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Post by acters »

KMnO4 wrote: post #202
acters wrote: post #140

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As a non-American I’m just curious: where does this ideology start to be pushed? The whole idea of “I don’t like this, so I will sue” isn’t really present to nearly such an extent in the rest of the world. I’m just wondering if it’s something they teach in school (like a civics class), or if it’s introduced in a more causal fashion (making jokes like “don’t do that or I’ll sue you”), or is it just popular on the news…

It is not pushed; it is a right. It is just a difference in culture. We americans have a strong legal system that is made for small and large cases. On top of that, we are allowed to do it privately by settling matters outside of the legal system when possible. It is not meant to be a “I don’t like this, so I will sue” however a lot of bad actors have popularized this. In fact, if a business acted in a way that was offensive, we have a right to defend ourselves. If there is no way to do that then we are losing something necessary to prevent a dystopian future. I do believe the american schooling system has become to naive and only teach the abstract general education classes.

I believe a lot of it came down to how much American companies had to be sued in the past and presently are because of the lack of regulations. Especially for a lot of newer technologies, or reduction of cost for previously discovered technologies. With current lobbying practices and ease of influence on our government, many people are forced to take things to court to cementify regulations or rights. Sometimes we are forced to take a business or individuals to court because many americans are uncaring for one another and some have tried to screw each other over.

It is not to say this does not happen all around the world. America seems to very loud. It is easy to see and hear about all kinds of things that happen to a large nation like america. While other larger nations either shut down the press or news coverages and are blatantly corrupted. Some of the large nations in europe are not all roped into one another under a single name like "Europe." It is all odd and complex.

I have jumped the gun too early on telling him to sue. I should have asked if he spoke to github before making that suggestion. my bad.

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

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Post by moojd »

lopis wrote: post #97
jer0me wrote: post #51

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Looks like they were #23,570 (see the URL https://github.com/est.png redirects to)

My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username

4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo

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

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Post by _huayra_ »

ipaddr wrote: post #171
iamthejuan wrote: post #135

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Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.

There use to be a site called batcave.net that gave free space and a subdomain. I had the name search.. search.batcave.net until one day when they decided to take back the search subdomain name and use it for themselves. From that point I've avoid great common usernames that one day might be too great

> From that point I've avoid great common usernames that one day might be too great

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-takes-over...

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

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Post by hbn »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #84
qingcharles wrote: post #50

I once changed my mobile phone number so the last 8 digits were 69696969. I thought this was hilarious. Then I found out that people have randomly scrawled that number on every toilet cubicle "For a good time call XYZ69696969" and I would get calls all the way through the night, every night.

I own a few 867-5309 numbers for different areas. I have them do nothing these days but for a while I let them hit a pbx and we’d get up to 2500 calls a day on each line. Lots of drunk dudes trying to call Jenny.

There's a prank call podcast called The Snow Plow Show, and the guy set up a bot at a phone number that will automatically reply to callers with voice clips from a lady who yelled at him in a prank call one time. So fans of the show will put the number on windshields or craigslist ads so people will call the number and get yelled at, and the calls are all recorded so he can listen back to them later and pull out the better ones.

I think you should utilize a similar technology for your phone numbers.

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

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Post by thayne »

ipaddr wrote: post #171
iamthejuan wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.

There use to be a site called batcave.net that gave free space and a subdomain. I had the name search.. search.batcave.net until one day when they decided to take back the search subdomain name and use it for themselves. From that point I've avoid great common usernames that one day might be too great

That's one reason why if you give out subdomains to users, you should do so on a different base domain than you use for your own subdomains.

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

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Post by smcl »

moojd wrote: post #214
lopis wrote: post #97

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My ID is #2,715,751 and I still somehow have a 5-letter username

4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo

I somehow ended up with #510,566 https://api.github.com/users/smcl but I don't think I was a particularly early adopter.

I joined two years after they started which is earlier than I realised. And apparently we're both relatively early adopters given that there's supposedly >100,000,000 users now.

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