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rdfi commented on Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour    · Posted by u/bannedfromebay
0x_rs · 3 years ago
Welcome to the automated account suspension age of the internet, where companies shoot first and don't care later, as the amount of false positives is not worth putting any meagerly (if there's any already) real, physical support to resolve. This can apply to smaller companies too, for other but equally pricey reasons. The amount of fraudulent activity attempts online may warrant those aggressive measures from their business perspective (that are also not limited to passive data collection, but taking active steps such as scanning targets' ports [0]). Unfortunately, if you live in certain areas or are forced to use mobile networks, with IPs constantly refreshing multiple times a day, major services can be almost unusable, and the user may not even realize the reason why. Some—for reasons I'm not knowledgeable about—do it better than others, but it may simply be about the resources put into it and the amount of risk a miss could amount to.

0. https://blog.nem.ec/2020/05/24/ebay-port-scanning/

rdfi · 3 years ago
I wonder if you can, under GDPR, request that all your data is deleted and then create a new account. Not allowing you to create a new account could be argued as a violation of GDPR as it would mean that they kept personally identifiable data about you.
rdfi commented on ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing   imagemagick.org/script/in... · Posted by u/ijidak
coldpie · 4 years ago
I always found it fascinating the grade-A executable names which imagemagick was able to claim in the global namespace:

    imagemagick /usr/bin/animate
    imagemagick /usr/bin/compare
    imagemagick /usr/bin/composite
    imagemagick /usr/bin/conjure
    imagemagick /usr/bin/convert
    imagemagick /usr/bin/display
    imagemagick /usr/bin/identify
    imagemagick /usr/bin/import
    imagemagick /usr/bin/mogrify
    imagemagick /usr/bin/montage
    imagemagick /usr/bin/stream

rdfi · 4 years ago
Is there an easy way to get that list for a package?
rdfi commented on Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages   lwn.net/SubscriberLink/82... · Posted by u/jonquark
rdfi · 5 years ago
The Ubuntu podcast has a very recent episode about this: https://ubuntupodcast.org/2020/06/25/s13e14-ace-of-spades/

The conversation around snaps starts at 5:20.

It sounded to me that they genuinely tried to put themselves in both side's shoes.

rdfi commented on Autobiographical memory is typically biased toward positive events   psycnet.apa.org/record/20... · Posted by u/laurex
thewhitetulip · 6 years ago
And when you remember it positively, would it not translate to written autobiographical accounts to be biased?

Won't there be a correlation?

Or am I missing something?

rdfi · 6 years ago
Autobiographic memory and an autobiography are two different things

u/rdfi

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