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What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

drdiamo wrote: post #18
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #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 hat…

> Lovely, but naive. it’s unbelievable to me that anyone would do this to him. are you familiar with what he’s done? the amount of work he’s put into helping people? you should dig a little bit more into the story before badmouthing someone.

No intent to badmouth from my side. I'm not trying to come from whatever angle it might look like to you that I'm coming from.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by wizardforhire »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #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 hat…

Regardless of the moral and ethical implications brought up in response to the individual in TFA, you’re spot on. One of my favorite reasons for creating is that it’s me against myself vs reality. Theres not an endeavor I find myself in that this is not true… of course I have the privilege of having accomplished all of my life goals from childhood at an early age, which only led to depression. So I set loftier goals only to complete them. It was only the third time around and confronting failure did it finally click that it wasn’t about accomplishing things and it was all about the journey. I was a latch key kid, so basic stuff like this and everything else that people from well adjusted families that are not poor af I’ve had to learn the hardest way possible. Which I guess in a way is a super power because now whatever I want to do I know what the learning curve looks and feels like and I know that failing a lot is the only way to crawl out of the trough of disillusionment.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by acomjean »

FreeTrade wrote: post #22

It's traumatic to be victim of malevolence. There's the injury, but it is the lack of a motivation which is disturbing - it's a loss of innocence.

It does suck. Because it’s a reminder that they’re are jerks out there and hard to avoid. Especially on the web. It also must sting because he’s trying to be a good citizen.

We see this in abusive behavior towards open source maintainers. It saps their will. And 100 thanks About a year ago the site I worked on had a hacking attempt. I’m not sure why, it was a site that provided online genetic tools for researchers. We had no financials, or even logins. I felt bad in a similar way as when someone broke into my car years ago, or when I had a package go missing.

Move forward/ move on is how I handled it.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by dewey »

Aurornis wrote: post #14
emmelaich wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'.

The article explains that it started as a hacking attempt with requests to inject code. It’s not a simple AI company scraper.

Without knowing more about it, this coulda also just be one of the uncountable amounts of automated scanners that are iterating the whole internet constantly trying to find wp-admin etc. type vulnerabilities.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by smoll »

sorry to hear that and i can absolutely relate to this feeling of losing something, of perhaps even being dragged into a game you never wanted to even play, where no one wins and everyone loses something.

the one silver lining is that it seems to have strengthened your resolve, to keep planting and keep building instead of just letting chaos and destruction stop you in your tracks. so in that way maybe you haven’t lost after all and maybe this isn’t even a bad thing, it helped clarify the things you find important in life and even inspire others (me included). thank you!

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by StanislavPetrov »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #13

The MyNoise app has tangibly improved my life. I use a white noise machine at home, but when I travel, MyNoise is my sleep companion and I particularly appreciate that I can set the EQ to block the particular noises that are likely to wake me. Sorry to hear about the annoying hack…

Agree completely and have been doing the same for years.

And what I find especially nice, when I'm on a spotty connection, is that once you load up your preferred noise it runs locally in your browser, so when your connection craps out it keeps playing seamlessly.

Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by saulSaul1998zx »

smoll wrote: post #27

sorry to hear that and i can absolutely relate to this feeling of losing something, of perhaps even being dragged into a game you never wanted to even play, where no one wins and everyone loses something. the one silver lining is that it seems to have strengthened your resolve, to keep planting and keep building instead of just letting chaos and destruction stop you in your tracks. so in that way maybe you haven’t lo…

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Re: What a Hacker Stole from Me

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Post by strogonoff »

Recently I have had to live in a building with severe noise issues, and running appropriately EQed white noise on my speaker helped mask it and maintain at least some sanity and sleep. The mynoise app might not be the fanciest but it does exactly what it says without fail or frills, and works across devices. I don’t think I knew who made it when I bought it, but this story put a face on the app.

When someone attacks you, it is additionally traumatic in that it undermines your trust in people. In this way, it can breed trauma if it makes you become more defensive/distrustful and/or offensive/trust-violating to others. This is not an excuse to the attacker, but if I were asked how we can end this vicious circle I would probably say it’s about long-term mental health (across generations).

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