Readit Newslorenzsell commented on Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline engadget.com/how-small-cl... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
My Facebook account got hacked last year and it was a nightmare. They got access to my ad account and racked up $4k worth of charges.
And, somehow they were able to get into my account over and over again. I’m super technical and careful about these things. Even after changing all my passwords and resetting everything, multiple times, the hacker was able to steal my account.
After being locked out for several days, I finally managed to reclaim access to my account through an old reset email that I found.
I changed my account email address and that finally stopped the hacking.
The worst part is that Facebook support completely denied that my account was hacked and refused to refund the ad spend.
It was so obvious that I had been hacked. You could see the spammy ads and the sketchy email addresses that had been added to my ad manager account.
I tried everything and Facebook told me that there was nothing suspicious.
I finally went through my LinkedIn network and found someone who works there and they helped me get the issue resolved.
Horrible experience.
lorenzsell commented on What If Consciousness Comes First? psychologytoday.com/us/bl... · Posted by u/devilcius
Sure maybe from a philosophical point of argument consciousness trumps all and physical existence and objective external reality should be viewed through that lense. But every single particle has a worldline tracing back to the Big Bang, where there were no conscious beings present yet. Only until the universe cooled and became less dense did consciousness become possible. So can consciousness really claim supremacy over external reality. To do so would require retroactivity or bootstrapping. Unless you accept the idea of a timeless universe where no point on a worldline (or collection of worldlines) is privileged, and now is a statistical reality more than anything in that there are more collections of worldlines with consciousnesses when the universe is relatively evenly made up of dark energy and regular matter+energy (highest amount observers compared to much closer or much further from Big Bang).
The flow of time may be a subjective illusion.
Conscious beings not being present does not mean that consciousness is not. This article basically asserts that your cognition of yourself as "conscious of the world" (as you imply here) may be inverted. The big bang may actually be the birth of consciousness, which we, as human beings, are gradually becoming more conscious of.
lorenzsell commented on Slack Security Incident keybase.io/blog/slack-inc... · Posted by u/malgorithms
I’m a little confused here. Isn’t Keybase a slack replacement product? Why is the CEO of Keybase using Slack for any company communication instead of his own service? Am I missing something obvious here?
lorenzsell commented on Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/wcunning
What if our intuition is wrong about the relative costs, both economical and environmental of some repairs? In particular, just because a small part of a larger whole is broken, doesn't mean repair is the more economical or environmentally friendly act.
To take a facetious example, suppose I broke 300 random pixels of a 1000x1000 LCD display that cost $100.
On visual rough intuition, it's seems clear that less than 1% of the screen is broken, it intuitively would seem absurd to toss the LCD screen versus fix it. But automated manufacturing technology is so good that it really doesn't cost a lot to make a totally new one.
On the other hand, your time is relatively valuable, as are some replacement parts. Suppose you spend 10 hours ordering parts, soldering wires, debugging, testing, etc to get it to fully functional. Why not spend a fraction of that time at work, and another fraction of time volunteering at park cleanups or buying carbon offsets?
The numbers above may be off in one way or another, and depends on the product, your pay, and belief of environmental impact of things like throwing stuff away vs volunteering / carbon offsets.
But one point seems clear to me -- which is that if I broke what visually seems like 10% of a $100 product, the fully-burdened real economic and environmental cost is a lot more than $10 to repair it. And the lynchpin is the automated production makes new stuff relatively cheap.
I’m not sure your point about the fully burdened real economic and environmental cost being higher than the repair cost makes sense.
First, you’re assuming a world of infinite resources where production and disposal have no burden beyond their direct consumer cost which is simply not the case. Common consumer goods have massive externalized costs that are not reflected in the final price tag.
And second, the idea that I can offset environmentally detrimental choices by volunteering elsewhere also assumes that we live in a world where those original choices don’t compound.
lorenzsell commented on Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/wcunning
Recently I almost threw away our stove because one of the burners melted. I was about 2 seconds away from submitting an order online for a new stove when my wife asked how we were going to dispose of the current one. Suddenly, I realized how tragic it is to throw something so massive. I got my screw driver out and tinkered behind the stove for 20 minutes, ordered a couple parts, soldered a little here and there, and had the whole thing 100% operational with a total output of about 2 hours. I honestly could hardly believe it myself. I did the same thing with a broken chainsaw too. And it’s so rewarding to actually fix something.
If you’re even remotely handy it’s remarkable how easy it is to fix things that you might otherwise just throw away and replace.
lorenzsell commented on A Mother’s Ninth-Century Manual on How to Be a Man theparisreview.org/blog/2... · Posted by u/mgdo
I don’t see a link to the actual text. Is there somewhere to read it?
lorenzsell commented on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups? · Posted by u/seahckr
A marketplace for specialized micro-consulting(30 minutes to an hour).
I've seen plenty of projects that are rife with anti-patterns because a team was unfamiliar with a problem or technology and made a bunch of bad decisions while they were still coming up to speed.
The use-case I envision would fix this. Because it's really a travesty that when we're the least familiar with technologies is when we make some of the most important architectural decisions. And these mistakes could be avoided with questions like "What issues will we run into?" "What patterns should we follow?" "What are good resources to get started?"
For instance I recently joined a project that was built by devs coming up to speed on React. And boy did they abuse Flux, they didn't build a store for every drop-down but it's pretty damn close. However I really think a React Guru could have steered them around this mistake with just 30 minutes of his time.
Obviously the biggest problem is ensuring quality without having to hike rates too much.
Isn't this kind of http://clarity.fm offers?
This article went in depth about the author's perspective on the social implications of doing what you love based on the author's definition of DWYL. She didn't examine her definition or delve into what the expression might mean, or how the people that use it might mean it. For all her research, it doesn't seem like she asked even one person - "what does this expression mean to you?"
Doing what you love isn't about what you do, it's about the relationship you have with what you do. Whether you're working a menial job or running a company, the love is in the self awareness. The love is in knowing why you do what you do and how it affects the world around you.
Understanding why you do what you do is not a privilege reserved for the elite. Aspiring to do work that is meaningful to you, that allows you to fully explore and cultivate the things you're interested in, is what makes us human.
Developing for the App Store is about as much fun as filling out tax forms and talking to an IRS agent.