Easy living. Go try to register company, open a bank and then send few payments if your name is "Vladimir Putin".
I Am Mark Zuckerberg
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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Close approximation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft (this was not Mike from "Dirty Jobs" but a different person)
Man, litigating versus a 12 year old boy has got to be the easiest job in the business - "Will you settle for an Xbox and a bundle of games?"
12th grade, not 12 years old.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#53Good for you, Mark! I had a nice chuckle. On a more serious note, I really feel for the people that cannot get any kind of support and try to get some help by messaging "the owner" of the social network they are in. With big companies, you used to be able to get someone to talk to you when you had a problem. Not anymore. The best you can get is a well trained LLM
I mean another theory is that those people are misguided and vexatious, and that this correlates with them not actually checking which Mark Zuckerberg they are sending their urgent complaint email to.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#54This is why we should replace names with uuids.
"Ohhh, if it isn't 99adbad3-f3c8-4c52-99d8-be692c62b9db again! Man, what a blast last Friday at e128001f-9737-4245-b08b-73bc50db0204's party, right?"
That's impractical. Someone made a base8192 Hangul UUID conversion, only ten characters long.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#55He could easily use his middle name or go by Marcus. Just saying...sounds terrible having to deal with all the insanity.
Why should I change my name? He's the one that sucks.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#56Interesting look into what Zuck and other mega celebrities experience day to day. I'm sure Zuck and others of a certain stature have many protection layers, but surely some things slip through and it's interesting to consider those just a tier lower that can't afford all of the security, etc. Reminds me of the Bill Murray quote: "I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. S…
The website security model breaks down when people constantly try to enter your password.
The currently model assumes good behavior by most people most of the time in order for basic web services to function. Seems like an obvious vulnerability to malicious activity.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#57On the "fake name" thing: I felt guilty reading it, as in many past companies "Mark Zuckerberg" (and Bill Gates, and Tim Apple, Elon Musk etc) was indeed often used as a placeholder for test accounts and test data, and it never crossed my mind that we were basically training ourself to also treat a "Mark Zuckerberg" on our service as an account that escaped the sandbox or some other attack on the service.
Hopefully there aren't too many people with the name "First Last" running around.
It was tricky to use too literal names, as they're basically the placeholders in the input forms for instance, or the translations keys.
To defend a bit the choice for somewhat realistic names, there is a gestalt decomposition where you're looking through "First name" first names for hundreds of lines. Same for Lorum ipsums, designers' reaction are completely different when the page looks somewhat realistic and isn't just a blatant test.
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#58This is why we should replace names with uuids.
Sorry but I am voting for the opposite solution, meaning:
with Session( engine ) as session:
youngest_ids_subq = (
select( func.max( People.id ).label( "max_id" ) )
.group_by( People.name )
.subquery()
)
purge_stmt = (
delete( People )
.where( People.id.not_in( select( youngest_ids_subq.c.max_id ) ) )
)
session.execute( purge_stmt )
session.commit()
unique_idx = Index( "uq_people_name", People.name, unique=True )
unique_idx.create(bind=engine)Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#59Easy living. Go try to register company, open a bank and then send few payments if your name is "Vladimir Putin".
any sanctioned individual. Some of their names are super common. Sorry Ivan Ivanov, you are on the list, no bank account for you. based by a true story.
(meanwhile the sanctioned Ivan is chilling on his yacht with 3 passports and 5 golden visas)
Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg
#60This is why we should replace names with uuids.
An IPv6 would also. Then this chap could have his website hosted on it.