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What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

#3
I heard of this on other websites. AI chatbots are web scraping data off websites, and you have to use fail2ban to block them. People are learning how to teach AI Chatbots to hack websites as well. My website http://blastar.in/ was affected, and I don't host it; a friend runs it for me, but he doesn't respond to email.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

#6
Lovely, but naive.

But naive in a way that most people (?) would like the world to be.

But ultimately, unfortunately, unrealistic.

Building has always been the kind of difficult that, had you known at the beginning then maybe you wouldn't have started. And still quickly and easily destroyed.

Keep creating and building, otherwise there's nothing else to do. Love the obstacles for challenge of defeating them, don't hate them for their existence. To build X you often have to build A, B, and C (and sometimes all the rest of the alphabet) just to have the right setup to maximise the success of X. It can grind, but focus on the benefits of X.

Which sounds like the position they've taken, thankfully.

(Where X represents "anything" and is specifically not the platform formally known as Twitter).

The melancholy will return, just ride it out each time. It gets easier, gradually.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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post #4

Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.

I have found that there are people who just want to watch the world burn. There are many reasons, but, at its most basic, hurt people hurt people.

That's something I like to keep in mind, when I'm reacting to someone being ... less than friendly ... By reacting badly, I then make it all right for them to justify doing it again, to someone else. I've found that I can defend myself, without becoming a foaming-at-the-mouth maniac. We can enforce our boundaries with water pistols, most of the time. We don't need nukes.

Everything is connected. This chap may be naive, but he's actually trying to set good connections in motion. I applaud that.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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post #4

Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.

I have found that there are people who just want to watch the world burn. There are many reasons, but, at its most basic, hurt people hurt people. That's something I like to keep in mind, when I'm reacting to someone being ... less than friendly ... By reacting badly, I then make it all right for them to justify doing it again, to someone else. I've found that I can defend myself, without becoming a foaming-at-the-mo…

I feel like a lot of people desperately want to make some kind of impact on the world. Something that causes some number of people to acknowledge their existence (or the effects of it).

It takes real effort to do that in a positive way with a society built around surfacing negativity.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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post #4

Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.

It's just possible that someone at some big AI company just pressed a button to add this to their collection of training material. And lazily or otherwise just hit the checkboxes for 'repeat' and 'forever'.
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