freitasm

So, what will be the follow-up? Will he be brought back home?

This. I am a gen X and still employed. Repurposed my mainframe knowledge into general tech then marketing.

Still kicking.

Yes. Also received invoices, past due notices and more.

A couple of times I contacted the companies to let them know their notices did not reach the right person. No reply or acknowledgement.

Both sides are bad. Not my problem. My problem is people using my email and creating trash in my inbox.

I have a common lastnameinitial @ email provider. It's the same username from my mainframe days. Some people with similar surname use that, probably because they either don't want to receive emails or because they are just... I don't know, clueless?

Usually I takeover an account and change the password. Then add a 2FA if possible and update the details to my name and address. This way people can't say it's their account anymore.

A couple of times there were credit card numbers. I just delete those if possible.

I have cancelled hair appointments and car services. I have received flight information multiple times. I have locked out an account on a French dating site, which had some interesting exchanges (the guy's missing out!).

I did not cancel a vet appointment. Pets need to see a vet and their owners being dumb is not an excuse. I won't interfere with that. But I did book a full grooming for a week after.

When I takeover I just use a random password from Bitwarden and don't even bother saving the account, as I don't plan to ever use these again.

Including "YCombinator".

Add to this the government destroying the institutions that exist to prevent exactly that from happening.

It is part of a plan. Tech bros allied to corrupt officials.

Congrats to the team. Disappointed there was no stream of actual touchdown or maneuvers.

Unreal how quickly this topic was flagged.

Almost like some people don't want to see the truth about tech-led or tech-supported corruption coming out.

So true.

There's a big move to online game marketplaces because of health restrictions enacted five years ago, but let's blame wokeness, DEI and liberal policies for our failings to identify market shifts in time to prevent negative impact in our operations.

The problem is not The Privacy but the consequences of non-vetted, inexperienced kids allowed to access systems and processes that are vital to the nation.

Kids that because of the lack of vetting could be susceptible to approaches by enemies—private or state actors—for the knowledge and access they now hold.

Unless it ends up like the Twitter situation and he is forced to put the money up.

Some people still need to feed themselves and their families.

But if there was an option, they definitely should.

They didn't vote for this. I bet the majority of those voters cast their vote trying to get better egg prices. They aren't going to get that.

> Where are the Democrats on all this? There is hardly any opposition. Are they not interrupting their enemy while he is making mistakes? That would be the only explanation.

You mean the same Democrats who were not given a majority on neither legislative houses, nor the Presidency?

Some people voted against their best interests. Consequences.

> this seems pretty hard to argue against!

Removing consumer protection would be something hard to argue against too, but yet, here we are: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/bessent-pauses-cfp...

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in his new role as acting director."

Nothing of this makes sense in that all these actions don't seem to make life easier or better for citizens in particular or the world in general.

No one (inside the government) probably considers that EO to be valid. It's just for "the others".

And it's flagged.

I think the interesting is the tech community that used to be liberal and loving turning to something completely the opposite. Blindly following some playbook by "luminaires", and adopting the most awful parts of the discourse.

I know I am now going to be voted down, but it's the truth.

Truth. I follow the RSS and there are so many flagged or dead posts that never make the front page.

There seems to be a hard right turn in the tech circles.

Or perhaps sending spam was just a ploy to divert attention from something happening on a different server while people were trying to stop the flow of emails?

Distraction. Like a magician.

> AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

> That's likely an appealing bonus feature for any site owners who, like Aaron, are fed up with paying for AI scraping and just want to watch AI burn.

Website owners aren't "haters" if bots ignore robots.txt, consuming resources that translate to expenses and a bad experience for legitimate website visitors.

Why would the website owner have to commission much larger server(s), pay more for this traffic and get nothing in return? At least search engines send human visitors your way.

It's not "AI haters". It's exploitation hating.

Strangely missing from the article: instant or soluble coffee was invented and patented in 1890 by David Strang of Invercargill, New Zealand, under patent number 3518 sold under the trading name Strang's Coffee citing the patented "Dry Hot-Air" process.

On that note, Facebook suggestions are 3:1 or 4:1 in relation to my friends.

The reason I only visit FB once a month to check for messages from some people who still use Messenger.

Some can't detect humour and sarcasm.

That's why following HN from a RSS feed is invaluable. You get to see everything, even the things groupthink filters out.

So true. I mentioned this to a group of friends. The number of people saying this move is good news for speech just shows how people see free speech as being good only when it fills their pockets or aligns with their interests.

I think ads on mobile apps is a much bigger problem for these users.

I'm sorry you are going through this.

I'll be blunt. I believe in the UK (as in NZ) a statement of truth or opinion is not defamatory. One would still have to go through the motions though, to prove it.

Reading the blog post I am left with the feeling you are on thin ice. You don't qualify it as an opinion and it doesn't sound you have evidence to support the claims. Screenshots may not suffice. You would need witnesses and statements or documents to prove it.

You will need these if the person unmasks your address and brings a case to court.

As usual IANAL.

I don't think it's an IPv6 problem. IPv6 clients are more static than IPv4, which is usually shared amongst many clients (at home) or at the network level (CGNAT).

It could be the address is being reused - is it home, cloud or corporate? Have you tried different browsers? Incognito mode?

I have an IPv6 block at home and have no problem accessing that site.