I am so sorry to hear this story, and I am so glad to have found this website!
What a Hacker Stole from Me
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#32Lovely, 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.
A bored teenager doesn't care.
There are people in the world who are profoundly nihilistic [0]. They will do mean shit for no reasons, and move on without caring.
This has always been true throughout human history.
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"
0: often without actually knowing what that word means
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#33…people downloading a bunch of stuff from your website, even maliciously, is not a tenth of the tragedy this webpage seems to make it out to be.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
A bored teenager doesn't care. There are people in the world who are profoundly nihilistic [0]. They will do mean shit for no reasons, and move on without caring. This has always been true throughout human history. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" 0: often without actually knowing what that word means
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#35Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.
It’s not targeted. Having maintained a site, my experience is the internet is a wasteland of AI crawlers, script kiddies trying to turn every form into an amplification vector, or vulnerability probers.
Right? I got his email too and man, I love what he does, I'm glad he's recovering from his illness etc. I've donated many times. But it's insane for him to think this was targeted. This was some bot/AI gone rogue. Or similar.
If someone wants to take you DOWN they will. And not by downloading a bunch of a files a heap.
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#36Lovely, 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…
Doesn't have to be naive we have just decided to not allow this kind of website to exist by forcing them to deal with anyone else.
Want to know why? Because major websites have to do is no matter what so figure minor websites getting screwed doesn't matter.
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#37I, too, just keep going back to mynoise.net for ambient sounds. It just looks "right" for the task, and is clearly designed to get out of your way and let you choose the kind of sounds that you want. Amazing site, I highly recommend it.
The attacks are painful, I hope the creator can attract some competent help from here or elsewhere to mitigate this problem.
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#38I hope Stéphane doesn't let this sort of thing get to him too much - focus on the happy users of the site, learn to combat this sort of attack, and move on. Don't give these assholes any sort of attention.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bored teenager doesn't care. There are people in the world who are profoundly nihilistic [0]. They will do mean shit for no reasons, and move on without caring. This has always been true throughout human history. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" 0: often without actually knowing what that word means
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And many fathers are useless.
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#40Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.
If all my years on the internet have taught me anything, it's that some people are just severely mentally unwell and will attempt to destroy anything they can get their hands on, purely because they can. Sometimes it's for attention, sometimes they just want to watch the world burn, but either way, asking "what did their target do to deserve it?" is pointless because the attacker likely never asked themselves that question either, and could very well just be a straight up sociopath.
As the internet grows, so grows the number of such people on it. In days gone, these people would've been rightly shunned from society, and their ability to cause harm to others was severely limited, unless they were willing to resort to more... extreme methods that would usually come with serious consequences. But the internet has given them a new outlet, a new way to ruin things for people from across the world that would've been far, far beyond their reach before, usually without any risk of punishment.