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Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by wisemang »

gambiting wrote: post #389
antidamage wrote: post #387

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My deadname was not only owned by some other people in my industry, it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating. Glad to see that after five years post abandoning it my contribution to the name is basically gone from the internet now.

>>it was also used by someone else born in the same hospital, same ward on the same day, on the same morning as me. That was endlessly irritating How so? Other than a funny coincidence, how would that ever come up anywhere in anything unless you both lived in a tiny community where everyone knows each other. I just don't understand how someone born on the same day as you having the same name was "irritating".

An ex-gf of mine’s dad had the same name and birthday as a convict. Caused him plenty of trouble when crossing the border apparently. Hopefully that’s not the case for GP

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by apparent »

squigz wrote: post #170
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #107

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With the Internet, you can now be famous, without being rich. Many of the truly rich people are quite anonymous. The billionaires you read about are really just the tip of the iceberg.

Rich is relative. Famous YouTubers/streamers/etc making even a few hundred thousand a year would be considered rich by much of the world.

Considering that you can be a youtuber from anywhere, making a few hundred grand annually would make you actually quite wealthy. It's not the same thing as working for a big tech company but being required to live in a very high cost of living area.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by krainboltgreene »

amarant wrote: post #358
krainboltgreene wrote: post #320

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This answer is not actually correct. I have an account I deleted 18 years ago, still can’t make it again.

Could in theory be because someone else grabbed the account 16 years ago tho, unless I'm missing something?

I emailed the address to make sure: It bounce due to not existing.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by sysworld »

mrec wrote: post #305
zukzuk wrote: post #166

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I have a relatively rare name — I’ve actually never met anyone with my last name, never mind someone with my full name — and this happens to me regularly. Last week I got a job rejection from New Zealand post, for a while I was getting someone’s pay stub notifications from the US, etc. I suspect it’s because I was the first to register the first.last@gmail.com address for my name. I guess it’s a bit like owning a sim…

I'm in exactly the same situation - very rare last name, first.last@gmail.com address, wrong mail from all over including NZ.

I have pretty rare first and last name, but somehow have gotten random person's car service receipts (and reminders) from a service place in the US (I live in NZ).

There car has a lot of problems.

I got on twitter pretty early too, and just have a short first time as my @, and occasionally get DMs about getting my @, but no one wants to hand out cash for it. The most I've been offered is $50. But most just expect me to give it for free.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by marcusb »

missedthecue wrote: post #388
citizenkeen wrote: post #235

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Your use case is why I bought my own domain name. My wife and I create shared aliases we can both send from. It’s made spousal ensuing with schools so much easier, etc.

I've noticed a lot of sites and orgs wont accept email domains that aren't gmail, hotmail, outlook, icloud, or yahoo.

Interesting. I've used my personal domain name for email for almost 30 years and I've never had that problem.

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Post by Symbiote »

vintermann wrote: post #192
Symbiote wrote: post #167

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In The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, the anarchists have names assigned at birth by a computer, guaranteed to be unique. They are gender-neutral (I think their artificial language doesn't have the possibility for gendered names) and monomial. (I highly recommend reading the book, it's one of my favourite novels.)

They are not guaranteed to be unique as I recall, at one point the main character gets in a fight with a guy who demanded he change his name since he was tired of getting confused. Ursula Le Guin didn't sugarcoat anarchism, at least, though I still think the depiction of the main planet system is a lot more depressingly plausible.

Those two names, IIRC, are unique but similar. (Shevek and Shevet, or something like that.)

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by eru »

dahart wrote: post #294
eru wrote: post #199

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What are you talking about? If you send emails from eg GMail to Gmail, it's fairly secure.

Why’s that even relevant if the recipient is the wrong address? Email isn’t particularly secure anywhere, and gmail has forwarding and IMAP and aliases and other services that send emails outside of gmail. But sending sensitive documents to the wrong recipient, which was the topic that started this sub-thread, is a case where it does not matter how secure your servers are.

> [...] and gmail has forwarding and IMAP and aliases and other services that send emails outside of gmail.

No matter what format you hand a recipient a document in, they can always make a photocopy and pass it on.

Re: I Am Mark Zuckerberg

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Post by eru »

reactordev wrote: post #212
eru wrote: post #197

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I wonder if I'm accidentally doing that to someone. My complete name is rare, but I share it with a journalist who's quite a bit older than me.

This is why actors and musicians use stage names.

Using a stage name doesn't protect you from someone else coming along later and sharing the same name (as your stage name).

If you are famous enough, people might even deliberately name their kids after you.

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