I've got the username 'admin' on imgur.
I constantly get password reset requests from people trying to get admin access to imgur.
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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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'.
> requires that your claiming for some kind of (small) financial harm.
There may be very small differences, but I believe it is also exactly the same in USA.
Judge Judy is not going to give you a dime just because GitHub changed your username. You might still get on the TV show though but only so that she can yell at you publicly for wasting everyone's time.
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I have no great fondness for big tech companies, but equally I do believe that society is made worse by people who behave like this.
I am unsure how society is "made worse"
On the contrary, this is playful, it is not evil or abusive. also helps keep companies on their toes. Changing someone's username without notifying them AND consent should be frowned on. Taking a large company to small claims will not make the company worse or hurt anyone. Most of the time it is helpful and sometimes brings about the creation of needed regulations. It is feedback in a professional manner for disrespecting one of their users/clients.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#164I 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.
Steve Wozniak had 888-8888 for a while. Which is a très cool number to have, but he was getting hundreds of calls with nothing but random sounds in the background. Eventually he figured out that babies were pushing the buttons on their parent's phones, and all-eights were apparently easy for them to press.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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'.
> requires that your claiming for some kind of (small) financial harm. There may be very small differences, but I believe it is also exactly the same in USA. Judge Judy is not going to give you a dime just because GitHub changed your username. You might still get on the TV show though but only so that she can yell at you publicly for wasting everyone's time.
In a more illustrative example, twitter.com/x was up until a few days ago, a protected account owned by someone? and now it is Twitter... X's handle.
I bet he wasn't paid a dime either.
Be careful, Devon. https://github.com/x
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#166I 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.
You need to go to stores in those areas and collect all the rewards points people have gifted to you by putting your number in at checkout!
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#167I 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.
I knew the guy who had 1-800-FUCK-YOU, and he used it to sell those classic bumper stickers: "How's my driving? Call 1-800-FUCK-YOU!"
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#168I've got the username 'admin' on imgur. I constantly get password reset requests from people trying to get admin access to imgur.
It's probably bots that request it most of the time.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
#169I accidentally pasted a backtrace into a github issue outside of a code block. It was a deep stack, with each line prefixed by "#0" "#1", "#2", etc. GitHub decided to turn these into links to the corresponding numbered issues, for every issue , (including back-reference notifications in each of those issues) and there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.
>there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action. Well thank God there isn't a button to undo sent mails.
In many email systems there is an undo send feature. Outside of those closed contexts where yanking a message out of the recipient’s inbox is possible, it is generally implemented by waiting a few seconds between when the UI says the message has been sent and when the message is actually sent. During that interval, an undo send option is offered which simply cancels the upcoming send action.
Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub
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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.