0xmattf

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by 0xmattf 10d ago
This is true. I think Brian Krebs reported on a scam involving this. Some of those data deletion companies actually own the data companies...
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by 0xmattf 10d ago
> What I would love to know is who is selling my info. Car dealerships. Heck, even the DMV. Sign up for Credit Karma? Enjoy credit card offers arriving to your house. It seems everyone is "in" on selling/sharing our data.
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by 0xmattf 11d ago
Is there any way to check if your ID was compromised without going on some onion site? I don't know if it even matters. I always assumed every bit of my information was available somewhere. Just curious. I think IDScan should set somet
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The Enchiridion of Epictetus(stoacentral.com)
3 points by 0xmattf 25d ago|0 comments
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by 0xmattf 1mo ago
> I went through the stupid process of providing my government ID I did this once in my life for my first ever Facebook account. I still could not proceed either, which made me even more annoyed. Now they have my ID stored somewhere. Wil
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by 0xmattf 1mo ago
I agree with you. I think most people never read into it too much, they just learn about it from some (misguided) social media reels and run with it from there. There was a completely different Stoic community around 2012-2015. But, hey, I
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Seneca: On Anger, Book I(stoacentral.com)
19 points by 0xmattf 1mo ago|3 comments
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by 0xmattf 1mo ago
> Then take any shopping mall in Bangkok, that's an absolutely next level experience, clean, smells good, relaxing music. Mmm... When I traveled to Thailand, I first stopped in Abu Dhabi. The bathrooms in the airport were amazing. I
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
Why do we have trigger warnings for things of little importance, but not for this? You know, I wasn't focusing on my tinnitus until seeing this on page one. Thanks, OP.
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Tell HN: HackerOne Announces Mandatory identity verification
18 points by 0xmattf 2mo ago|1 comments
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
I gave up. Like you, I've built many projects in the hopes they'd generate enough income for me to never have to work a job again. I had blogs, e-commerce shopify dropshipping stores, multiple SaaS projects, e-books published, mon
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
Same. I was so fascinated by lower-level stuff (chips, assembly, etc.), but when I finally started to dig into it, AI came around and did what would take me forever to do myself in seconds. I thought pivoting from software dev to pentesting
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Show HN: New tab, but it's a random chess puzzle(chromewebstore.google.com)
3 points by 0xmattf 2mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
My first experience with the police was just as bad. A friend and I were waiting on the porch of another friend (all like 14 years old). We were waiting for him to come home. He knew we were there waiting for him. His neighbors yelled somet
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
Had this happened to any solo person, they'd surely be thrown in jail immediately with a heavy bond. Rules are for poor people.
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
> but my hair did thin out but only after I was lazier on my work outs. How old are you? Also, working out helps reduce stress. Does it seem more plausible that getting lazier on your workouts, rather than the creatine, increased stress
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
> Because the moment you stop taking, wouldn’t you notice a big drop? No. They're not steroids.
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
>I'm sorry, but if you're making over half a million in TC a year, you can have an emergency fund set aside Seriously. It boggles my mind how people can earn this much money, yet face difficulties when they lose their job. I gu
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by 0xmattf 2mo ago
I've had a brilliant product built for a specific niche. I personally know a few business owners in the niche, so I reached out to them and offered it to them for free. "That's awesome! I'll try it out." Not a singl
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by 0xmattf 3mo ago
If I wanted to grow my company's LinkedIn following count, I would just post a few fake jobs. When people apply for jobs on LinkedIn, there's a "Follow <company>" checkbox near the submit button that's checked
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by 0xmattf 3mo ago
I remember when folks had to have skills to enter the "profession" of software developer. Nowadays all you need to be a "programmer" is a degree.
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by 0xmattf 3mo ago
Ah, good point. I didn't look too deep. You're right, though. It looks pretty successful. Although looks can be deceiving.
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by 0xmattf 3mo ago
I recently heard some advice from someone during a tech meetup. He said, in a Ukrainian accent - always have two careers. In the Ukraine, he was a police officer and an appsec developer. Now, in the US, he's an appsec developer, and a
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by 0xmattf 3mo ago
Where on OP's profile did you see ProFullStack.com?
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by 0xmattf 3mo ago
This reminds me of a mermaid "documentary"* I watched as a gullible 15 (?) year old. It aired on Animal Planet, if I'm not mistaken. I thought it was absolutely real. _Mermaids are real_. I used to tell everyone to watch it..
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Ask HN: Best place to sell digital assets? (software, domains, etc.)
2 points by 0xmattf 4mo ago|0 comments
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by 0xmattf 4mo ago
Sure is! It's a bit cringe to think about myself from back then. We got pretty heavily downvoted here, lol. Really, I don't understand why.
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by 0xmattf 4mo ago
I had an atheist phase when I was like 15. Probably lasted until my early 20s. I blame that on Carl Sagen, Richard Dawkins, et al. I obsessively read science books, and all of these smart people were telling me there isn't a God. They
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by 0xmattf 4mo ago
Now do Anthropic, OpenAI, et al.
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by 0xmattf 5mo ago
I built leetchess, a browser extension (works in Chrome/Brave) that makes your new tab pages full of chess tactics. As a chess fan, I love it. It's something I wanted to exist. Although I haven't gotten any good feedback yet

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