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by joshmn 8mo ago
You shared this with me via email and I had a great laugh. I'm very disappointed to not have made the list—going to federal prison for 18 months didn't help my score.
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by joshmn 8mo ago
Sometimes I daydream about people screaming at their LLM as if it was a TV they were playing video games on.
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by joshmn 9mo ago
I've been on the receiving end of federal enforcement (DOJ, high-profile "cybercrime"). When they want you, they don't need a confidence score. There is no quota—they take time to build a case. The existence of these too
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by joshmn 9mo ago
https://josh.mn mostly about the federal prison system (for which i am an alumnus) and ruby. some essays about autism, too.
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by joshmn 11mo ago
He would complain that it disrupted their business, and that it doesn't catch all keys—it catches the big ones that he certainly found to be very valuable.
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by joshmn 11mo ago
It’s notable that there were ShinyHunters members arrested by the FBI a few years ago. I was in prison with Sebastian Raoult, one of them. We talked quite a bit. The level of persistence these guys went through to phish at scale is astoundi
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Thanks for the advice, I sent him a note on LinkedIn.
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by joshmn 11mo ago
The typical ones were things like MMA/UFC/boxing, and those I'd say no to because their business model revolves around PPV; things like NCAA sports I said no to because I refused to profit off children (NIL didn't exist
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Thanks for asking. No, not yet, I'm working on introducing myself to their legal team with hopes that they might be able to take that as serious enough to believe I am me.
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by joshmn 11mo ago
It wasn't about the money whatsoever.
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by joshmn 11mo ago
That was one of the lessons I took away was that not every customer is a good customer. While I did have really accessible customer service, I didn’t want to be everything to anyone, even if it left money on the table. The quirks and featur
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by joshmn 11mo ago
The bug couldn't have had less to do with streaming, and in the wrong hands would have been worth a significant amount of money—exponentially more than what the Shopify CVE calculator spit out and I replied with at the time. There&#x27
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by joshmn 11mo ago
It's a bit vague, I'll admit. Users in this space are typically plagued by poorly written emails, or emails that are still, "Hello," if any greeting at all; they also often come from noreplys and close you off from the o
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by joshmn 11mo ago
I've thought about this a lot. My takeaway is that it's incredibly hard to scale personality—which I have in spades—and even more difficult to give the freedoms for each customer support individual to operate equally as themselves
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by joshmn 11mo ago
I replied to another comment about further context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845763 In short, I made sure that the subject matter was right—"how can I stream the Lakers when I am in Los Angeles"—and
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by joshmn 11mo ago
It started as a proof of concept and graduated to a free site, and eventually I put a paywall up to see if anyone would be willing to pay. Internally, I hoped nobody would—I wanted to have a social life and not be beholden to old men tellin
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Oh, that's gross. Mine weren't that fun. They were more informal and usually self-deprecating (within good taste). The closest to that was the quarterly newsletter: I'd highlight the awful and frustrating bugs that nobody saw
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by joshmn 11mo ago
This one was really important to me. Even the transactional emails were a bit fun to read. I kept them informal, as if I was talking to a friend of a friend. I certainly swore in them, too (at myself), when I was apologizing for things not
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Thanks for the sentiment. The last quote in particular is rather timely: on Wednesday I "came out" to the entire company that I work for with a cheeky slideshow, which started as an "about me" during an all-hands ("
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by joshmn 11mo ago
I’m sorry you got the idea that my users were spamming Reddit with referral links. It was hardly like that and I personally checked that every user was being tasteful, and sent “don’t spam” only a handful of times. I had alerts setup for ea
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by joshmn 11mo ago
This is relatively new and an interesting business model. There’s also “piracy as a service” https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-and-netflix-signal-piracy...
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by joshmn 11mo ago
My experience in finding one (15 people at the company I’m currently at, and I’m one of 3.5 engineers) (.5 because founder still codes more than we’d like him to) was effectively reaching out to companies that I knew didn’t have job posting
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by joshmn 11mo ago
The big draw here was bypassing geoblocking that you couldn’t otherwise buy your way out of legally.
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Author here. This is funny to wake up to. A version of this microsite was posted previously ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434062 ) though it didn't have much of the content that exists here. If anyone has any
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Hi Chocalot, I also found it underwhelming, though I'd like to think I’m the most scrutinizing of the subject matter. There's some nuance between my take on my behavior and the profiler's, but I'll give them the benefit
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by joshmn 11mo ago
Feel free to reach out with thoughts. :)
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by joshmn 11mo ago
The case study: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10628922/
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by joshmn 11mo ago
As someone who has been the target of an FBI investigation for what was effectively criminal copyright infringement (later arrested and did time in prison), my only takeaway is that this, if anything, should just be a civil suit just like s
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by joshmn 11mo ago
They got me—a copyright infringement lord—too. The FBI profile assigned to me even wrote in a case study that the FBI thought I was making millions, amongst other misses. Their priorities are highly political.
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by joshmn 1y ago
DHH stirred an uproar because of his political opinions. He had a post on his blog around the same time of the Rubygems drama; the community was already had heightened anxiety.

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