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trying things that were beyond my ability to implement technically but within the bounds of my conceptual understanding

This is a really neat way of describing the phenomenon I've been experiencing and trying to articulate, cheers!

Right there with you :)

Jeff Yass, see: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/us/politics/trump-tik-tok...

Here's an excellent lecture that drives this point home:

"Physics in the Interest of Society Lecture 2019: John Parmentola"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-55BhuFks

I read somewhere years ago that each subsequent recall of a memory is remembering the last time you recalled it—in a sense, an entropy-like phenomenon called memory reconsolidation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/memory-rec...

Yep: this is by intention. Here's the logic:

- I wanted to ship fast to see if anyone liked the idea and would actually use it

- There are a couple of safeguards in place:

1. Since you can only sign in via Twitter, you get a good sense for the other person (buyer or seller), as well as the likelihood that they own the domain they are claiming to

i.e.

7 followers, 3 day old account... probably doesn't own 'google.com'

17k followers, 10+ year account, active indie hacker... I can believe they own 'dwarf.domains'

2. Any sales are escrow'd by me as a middle party, so there's not much room to scam someone anyhow

So this isn't a perfect nor permanent solution, but good enough to test whether or not it's worth taking the platform further

I wonder what the internet would be like if there was some sort of "if you don't use it, you lose it" rule

I think about this a lot, too! I think the current system was a bit of a mistake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In any case, a reasonable second-hand market should only help right?

That's the goal! A friendly, reasonably priced marketplace with the idea of letting others use the domains you're accidentally hoarding

Also, the site looks good!

Thank you very much :)

Thank you!

Yeah, apologies—I should have implemented other auth early on but figured I could start with X given I was only going to tweet about it to my immediate circle...

One of these weekends I'll refactor in magic password and Google et al

This guide, just like your others, gave me the gift of several ‘ah-ha’ moments that not only helped hash maps click, but also several other linked concepts.

Thank you so much for making the time and effort to create such quality content.

Please keep producing more!

All credit goes to my wonderful friend Sam Who: https://twitter.com/samwhoo

He recently published a similar guide on load balancing that is equally intuitive and insightful: https://samwho.dev/load-balancing/

I can't wait to see what he puts out next!

Oh boy, I can deeply relate :’)

Arguably, in part, optimism could be considered a derivative of poor risk assessment.

Well, I think Diego’s point was that he knew how to create and utilise a powerful “reality distortion field” such that, without claiming direct creation over any of the vast classics that Apple created, he gained the status and fame of someone who seemed to have done so.

I'd never come across this, but it looks promising. I broke my jaw in the past, so I imagine I'm even more at risk of having jaw related breathing issues. Thanks for sharing!

Good luck with the surgery! I'm looking at doing it next year myself. Anecdotally, everyone who I ran into locally who'd had his said the same thing: they wish they'd done it sooner—ergo, it sounds like a winner. Again, thanks for sharing your wisdom in your original post. All the best!

Thanks for writing this all out—I too have a deviated septum and can relate to a lot of what you wrote. Have you considered surgery for your nose?

That seems disingenuous at best—the man helped create Ruby on Rails & founded a mutli-billion dollar tech startup that has been wildly successful. Is there really any ground to question his intelligence, or rather, whether or not he's smart?

Honestly, it's a bit of both. It keeps me committed & accountable, as well as gives me a small community of supporters who help me learn and support me as my friends—I've formed some really meaningful relationships this way, and I don't think I'd have experienced a fraction of the success I have over the last 5 years without the impact of said folks.

edit: thanks for sharing the M2M post, I hadn't come across that but it's absolutely incredible; 'twas a wonderful rabbit hole to go down :)

My advice would be to either find projects/things you really enjoy & are excited to work on, or try streaming your adventures and side projects on Twitch in the Software & Game Dev category. Ideally, both!

This has helped me to stay active working on things and learning stuff outside of my work hours.

I'll risk looking like I'm shamelessly self promoting myself, but here's my stream for an example of how you might go about it:

https://www.twitch.tv/aroreretini

I've been doing this for 5 years now and have met a small but wonderful bunch of folks, learnt a large amount across several different disciplines and generally enjoyed it all thoroughly.

Note, for me and others like me, the goal isn't to 'blow up' or get big on Twitch or elsewhere, but rather just to plod along learning & building in public as a means to stay active and focused.

If you'd like to explore this kind of thing, feel free to fire me a DM or email.

Good luck!

Can I ask what your source for this is? Perhaps you're an ex-employee?

I never worked under Tobi directly (or even close), but I was almost always thoroughly impressed with his communication and direction. I think I have a totally different take than the one you stated. The only axis I could see Elon & Tobi both sitting on is being members of the tres comas club.

Claiming 1Password has declined is unfair at best. They release a steady stream of updates, and when I discovered a UX issue earlier this year their team were on it like a rash.

I wrote my original comment at the midnight hour as I was falling asleep; I should have clarified that I meant more ancient than that, i.e. pre-agriculture, post-cave dwelling.

More along the lines of:

Jim has a bad habit of being a bit of a dick—harassing & bullying tribespeople, taking an unfair amount from the tribe—Jim gets removed from the gene pool next hunting trip. The quality of the tribe, present and future, improves.

I understand how this kind of thing doesn't track very well as a strategy overall in more complex & modern environments.

Right on — I should add that my shower thought wasn't suggesting we should go back, just an observation of the evolution of all things, in this case, justice and social order etc.

While some is gained and some is lost, I'm in the camp that the world is a better place now than it was then.

Agreed—it really comes down to what you’re building, and how.

I reflect on this often. There’s something to be said for the lost ways of retribution of old, and the evolution that came with it.

If modern bankers and sycophantic politicians et al tried their modus operandi back in the era of tribes, I’m quite sure they were removed from the gene pool fairly quickly.

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I faced a somewhat similar predicament earlier this year.

I still have no idea how, but my 2FA enabled Facebook account (with a unique and secure password) was compromised while I was sleeping. Shortly after, the attacker started using my Business Manager account to run ads for fake products on their scam stores.

Here's the catch: my personal Facebook account was permanently banned right away, but my Business Manager account wasn't.

How? According to other folks who had the same done to them around that time, the attackers would upload CSAM content on your timeline so that you get immediately banned/locked out.

Well, that means I could no longer retrieve/change my business manager account, which gave the attacker free reign to run ads for about a month. To some degree this means that Facebooks CSAM system gives the attackers a way to compromise Business Manager accounts more efficiently.

I submitted a ban appeal, but didn't hear back. I read online that if you have an Oculus, reaching out via their support is the only real option, so I did just that.

I wrote down a detailed account of the timeline of events, along with screenshots etc., and sent it to an Oculus support agent. In fact, they thanked me during the interaction or providing 'the most detailed' report they'd seen.

The evidence was pretty clear: at 5am or so, someone had logged in to my account via a foreign IP, change my email to a Chinese address and added a hardware 2FA key. The ads they were running to scam stores were often in Chinese, too. Not exactly a difficult case to crack.

They assured me I'd hear back within 7 days, but a month or so later I received an automated email from Facebook stating that the time for my appeal had expired, so the account would stay permanently banned.

That was mildly infuriating, given I never heard back from anyone.

What did losing my Facebook account mean to me?

As much as I'd been considering moving off social media, it briefly ruined my life.

* I'd had my account since I was 13 years old in 2008. I had a few thousand connections on there, many fleeting and superficial, but at least a few hundred with folks around the world that I care about and have no way of reaching now.

* 90% of communication here in NZ transpires via Facebook Messenger, so I was immediately cut off from my community and friends. What's worse, many have since told me that they were worried I'd blocked them.

* My income from the time came from selling trading cards in FB groups while I was closing an investment round. I lost the ability to do so, and had to move out of my apartment to live outside of the city with my in-laws.

* My father passed away a few years ago, and I had countless photos of him on my account, as well as our message history. This honestly hurt more than anything else.

All in all, this experience has left me a deep scar. I guess I needed to learn a lesson around not relying on one platform so heavily, and to some extent not backing things up such as the photos, but I really wish Facebook could have just done the reasonable thing and let me back in.

Finally, I have no idea if I was reported to the police/LE in any capacity regarding whatever was posted on my account to have me banned. Am I on some kind of list now?

A boring, technocratic dystopia.

edit: on the off chance anyone from Meta reads this and thinks they can help, I would be over the moon to get even a chance of having my account restored. I was told to speak to an Australian law firm who charge $3,500 to hound Facebook to get accounts restored in situations like mine, but unfortunately that's just not within my means.

Here's a good primer on why prediction markets are actually a massive opportunity to improve society and democracy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLS2TX1KxzI

I know that sounds hyperbolic, but once you go down the rabbit hole it will start to make sense

No, I don't believe so. Such a feature would need to come from a fully decentralized platform, or one that doesn't operate (legally) in the US (or most of the world, for that matter).

Take a look at Azuro for an example of a decentralized betting protocol: https://azuro.org/

Right on—this is my take, too.