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Ask HN: A scammer claimed ownership of my Facebook page. How do I get it back?
About a month ago, a malicious actor filed and succeeded in making an ownership claim on my Facebook page. I had given some background to this previously on HN, a few weeks back [0].

As a follow-up to [0], after several unsuccessful attempts to restore my rights and ownership to the page, the scammer recently reasserted their claim to my page: see screenshot [1]. Meanwhile, it's been over a month, and facebook has not responded to my numerous messages, and I doubt any human will ever see those messages anyway.

I don't know how the scammers did it, but I assume either my personal credentials were hacked (I have since updated all relevant passwords), or, more likely, it was something along the lines of [2]: i.e. they created a dummy entity and then claimed that my page was a duplicate of their business. Which means that, even though it would be instantly obvious to any human moderator checking the page's history and contents (e.g.from [3]), that the scammer's ownership claim is unfounded, since my page is not, and was never backed by a commercial business entity, whatever useless 'proof' they offered as a business will likely still pass Facebook's automated processes for ownership claims.

It seems the scammers have now moved to phase two of their scam. An account misleadingly named 'Facebook Verifications' recently sent me this message on facebook, along with a list of other facebook pages that were presumably also scammed (in which I recognise other famous names in the heavy metal scene, e.g. Richard Henshall from Haken) [4][5][6].

Also, a random etsy shop's facebook page supposedly selling earings has linked to their 'metalised' earrings, nonsensically linking to my page (presumably because of its large readership), though this may be an unrelated stunt [7].

I'm reaching out to the HN community. If anyone has any ideas how I could fight the scammers and get my page back, please help a metalhead out!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29706571

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/yuWvu.jpg

[2] https://www.techprevue.com/how-to-claim-a-facebook-page/

[3] https://i.stack.imgur.com/5ux4s.png

[4] https://i.stack.imgur.com/spwK2.jpg

[5] https://i.stack.imgur.com/LPw59.jpg

[6] https://i.stack.imgur.com/X8xpg.jpg

[7] https://www.facebook.com/mumzele.lilly/photos/pcb.3075592826045948/3076311139307450
Building a Decentralized ID Verification System on Solana
you come off a little as a high maintenance employee.

They are obviously excited to have you and are onboarding you quickly. For every story like this, there’s another where someone doesn’t even get a laptop the first week, or they don’t even have time to invite the person to meetings (sometimes they don’t have a desk, a keycard, etc).

The vendor calls might need to happen sooner to meet budget deadlines, who knows? You could easily say you are on vacation but would be happy to listen in via phone, which seems like a fine compromise for both sides.
Stabilizing the Temperature of an NTP Server with Repurposed Bitcoin Miners
https://www.scinexx.de/news/medizin/deutschland-bis-zu-20-00...

https://www.zdf.de/verbraucher/volle-kanne/studie-zu-kranken...

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/sepsis-deutschland-kr...

> Never heard that this is a problem in Germany. Maybe because Poland is so much worse in regards to healthcare.

Then you are not well informed.
This exact point has been my hesitation with NFTs in general. I think the immutable nature of NFTs is actually very incompatible with human nature; we make mistakes and a completely unforgiving system is only going to make life harder.
The factors I came up with, 1200x and 3500x, leave plenty of margin for including more actors if that's the comparison you want to make, while still ending up with more or less the same result.
Thousands of years to probably never. I say that because we will likely switch to newer technologies that no longer use these limited resources before they run out.
This climate crisis of ours is a horrible truth. I wish I could be free from it, but unfortunately illusions don't appear to be able to hold me for long. The alternative truths out there are way too rudimentary to believe. It's like reading a cheap fantasy novel with billion plot holes and inconsistencies. Reality is painful, but it's complexities gives it a qualitatively different, if often bitter taste.
Eh, I think we have enough variation in local responses that we'll be able to tease a lot of the data out with a reasonable degree of confidence.

We're living in a world full of counterfactuals, with some places mandating -- and enforcing -- mandates on various public health measures rigorously, and other places not.

The pandemic also has a time dimension. To the extent that excess deaths are from deferred treatment and missed testing, we expect them to get worse over time -- people missing a cancer screening in March 2020 shouldn't have resulted in excess deaths in April 2020, in the extreme. "Real" COVID deaths meanwhile we'd expect to follow the peaks and valleys of the infections.

It will be a lot of work, but that's what grad students are for.
Absolutely. I have a few Amiibos which I've gotten as gifts, I keep them as little figurines on my desk and every now and then I'll realize they are more than that and when I get a new game I like to check whether it has Amiibo support. I like them and they bring a little bit of joy when I look at them and I like the unexpected fun of having some Breath of the Wild equipment in Skyrim or a Link styled Yoshi.
In my city there is a team that goes around the bike racks marking tyres with chalk. If they find chalk still on the tyre next time they tie a note to the bike saying you need to move it. If they find the note still there next time they remove the bike.

Simple solution for a simple problem.
source for what? you're welcome to use google btw. might save us some time.
If left unchecked, it'll keep increasing until the people are forced to starve or "eat the rich".
Looking for a marketing co-founder for a regenerative gardening platform
My point is that the results from a study are not a promise, and any attempt to paint them as such is disingenuous at best.
If more people cycle, then thoes with special needs that need a car will have less traffic and more parking space available, thus improving their experience.
People using public transit like busses will also have less problems since busses won't be stuck in traffic as much.
Rails and Django are both very pleasant and have enormous ecosystems where every imaginable problem has been encountered and "solved". It's been a while since i was writing Rails but from what I gather Rails 7 is a homerun release and has a lot of buzz around it.
If you think "an absolute stellar track record" is "misgivings", I'm curious what you think a positive opinion would look like.
Worst NYC fire in 30 years was caused by faulty space heater
If people are mining it, then the processing power required has just gone up by multiple orders of magnitude and is now vulnerable to third parties controlling the mining.
This is an absolutely terrible idea that combines the drawbacks of existing non-blockchain based systems with the downsides of blockchain.

The problems of centralized control:

The game dev can decide that your skin should not be in the game for any reason - now you have a broken link

The game dev can suddenly make 1000 more of your limited series skin - now the value has deflated

The game dev can shut down the game permanently - what is your NFT worth now?

This is combined with typical blockchain issues, like if you get scammed, or somebody hacks your account and transfers out your items, there are no backsies - no support person can help you.
To also be fair, most of VISA is overhead and marketing.

Only a tiny fraction of the costs have anything to do with the actual network.

Also, the most important thing, is power and incumbency.

VISA made sense 50 years ago - it was a financial innovation.

But now, they refuse to adapt their pricing, and the cost is just not worth it.

The Banks are raking it in in processing charges that are not commensurate to the value created.

This is actually the 'true hope' of Crypto, that we can get around ugly costs.

Do you know when smartphones first started, Verizon and AT&T were charging 5 cents each to visit those stupid little WAP pages with a bit of text and a few combo boxes?

Imagine if the internet was ruled by Verizon and AT&T and their 5-cents-per-visit crap pages.

I loathe BTC and most of the Crypto world because it's all MLM, but, as a currency there's definitely material opportunity there.
Why does the idea that capitalism has co-existed with civilization perturb you? Not criticizing, just honestly curious.
Knowing who is related too closely to you can be a problem on a small island, the comment was possibly referencing the Icelandic dating-app that tracks if you share a grandparent with someone you meet in a bar[1]; a feature the app itself calls a "Sifjaspellsspillir", or "Incest Spoiler".

Interestingly the article mentions that this is a problem precicely because of the Icelandic naming scheme:

> Neither patronymic or matronymic, instead each person's father's first name becomes the child's last name. Each new generation has a completely different name to the name of the generation that preceded it. Cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews -- all could have very different names.

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iceland-incest-app
The metals in the batteries can be recycled into better batteries for increasingly efficient cars. I see it becoming like steel where the vast majority is recycled. Unlike plastic, it's just metals, so they can be remade endlessly
oh really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s157CbfS5xg&list=PLuiYhcgFTm...

> Unsafe Doctor waiting rooms

what source? it's trivial to verify. visit a couple of doctors in the city of a large German town and count number of people sitting in a room with special notice to those who are coughing and sneezing ...

> dubious testing kits

I'm not aware of systematic audits of test kits. In Germany a device is considered alright if it has a CE printed on it and maybe some other numbers. That's a usual source of many problems with food, toys etc. nothing new here. Also it's currently in the media that not all test kits respond equally to Omicron - so, it's not like they are standardized. They are now starting device specific audit to check for sensitivity.
I find it sad that not many people seem to laugh genuinely. So many people do the fake laughter, wiping away imaginary tears, at things which just aren't funny but which they seem to think they should appear to find really funny in a group.
Having both set to yes means you are able to use either. Earlier I mentioned there was the possibility to disable both of them at which point nobody would be able to log in because only keys and passwords are used on that system. That is why I jokingly said you may as well shut down the daemon to save ram. There are methods other than keys and passwords but I have not implemented any of them.

A null password is using none [1] which is a reserved term and has specific implications. In this case of passwords, none will succeed since I enabled null passwords and that account has no password set. So none is matching in the PasswordAuthentication option.

/etc/passwd serveradmin:x:22218:5000::/data/sftphome/serveradmin:/bin/false
/etc/shadow serveradmin::18955:0:99999:7:::

There is no password hash after the first colon in the shadow entry. This was accomplished with

usermod -p '' serveradmin

Using -i pass a key file but since I have not added any of your keys to the system then any key you specify will not match and the client will proceed on to the next authentication method you have enabled and have not explicitly disabled in the client. To accept any random key would require a change to the source code of OpenSSH. One can even hard code a public key into OpenSSH in the source code which I have done when configuring OpenSSH as a recovery daemon that does not read or write to the disk.

I hope that helps this make sense. It is understandable that this is confusing because what I am doing is the opposite of what people are instructed to do. Null passwords are considered a security risk unless you do it intentionally for some unorthodox implementation reason which I have done. I have a cron job that adds accounts within some character restrictions that bots try to brute force. I then monitor the bots behavior to see what current bots are attempting over SSH. I do the same for http/https. Both are what is referred to as a low-interaction honeypot.

Here is a bot with IP and port redacted that just tried to use my server as a DNS proxy:

Connection from 8.37.x.x port x on 50.116.13.30 port 22
Accepted password for admin from 8.37.x.x port x ssh2
Changed root directory to "/data/sftphome/admin" [postauth]
refused local port forward: originator 127.0.0.1 port x, target 1.1.1.1 port 53 [postauth]
Received disconnect from 8.37.x.x port x:11: Disconnected on user's request. [postauth]

[1] - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4252#page-7
Regulation implies regulators, and regulators can become a bottleneck for power. They can demand bribes and favors in exchange for being allowed to operate and they can use their power to selectively eliminate political opponents sources of power.

Read "The Path to Power", LBJ biography. They describe this process plainly and how he continuously used his across his entire career in this way. Its very enlightening.
This is something that I've always wondered from a purely academic pov. All the effort people put in being anonymous online only to have physical stuff shipped to them.

I've read about drop sites: give the address of an empty house or other unpopulated area and then be ready to collect. Maybe rent a po box with fake personal info .
Yes indeed (and, even more so, the culture of non-corruption which reformers tried to put in place at the same time). But, like in the chemical plant, it is possible to run a government with minimal levels of corruption and many (better-governed) countries do it.

It's not just a public admin problem, either - corruption and self-dealing are potentially endemic in the private sector, too. The concern has traditionally been higher for the public sector, both because of the potential for abuse of state power and because it is/was seen to be corrosive to public trust and self-government. A private company is more likely to trade off the cost of controls versus the dollar value of the future loss (or the controller is the one running the firm strictly for their own benefit, in which case they're likely to get away with it without intervention by the legal system). And the largest companies have had actual public power greater than the smallest countries for centuries by this point, so the two concerns are not completely disjoint.
I would have stopped with far fewer arguments.

When did you last call a function with more than 10 arguments, let alone 30?

Now I'm tempted to go through my code to find the max number of arguments I've used.
> it currently costs the Bitcoin network $176.39 to process a transaction

Depends. With the Bitcoin lightning network live now it's only a tiny fraction of that price.
I use FLUX for my crypto transactions: 0,00002951 USD per transaction, and that is PoW! LTC (Litecoin) is another great coin with super cheap transactions. There are so many :)

I often see on HN the mostly negative comments and attitude against this new technology, why? Do you really think the current system is better? With all the Quantative Easing (read money printing at the tax payers cost -> inflation), corruption, name it..

Soon your government will present you a new digital wallet based on the same tech. Only with one difference compared to the original crypto currencies: they will have full control over your wallet. And your wallet will have smart contracts, so they can decide where you are allowed to spend you money on and on what conditions. Let that sink in for a while before you start criticizing the real decentralized crypto currencies.

Crypto currencies are a dream come true and everyone should embrace it.
Europe isn't a country and doesn't have uniform policies in this way. It also doesn't have things as an entity (except for a selection of laws that it's members implement differently in most cases).

Because of those facts, I have trouble even formulating a response to your question - it doesn't make sense to me.
I was very fortunate to raise kids in low density exurbs. My son completely wore out a bike going to school and visiting friends, often miles away. Dozens to hundreds of serious cyclists visit town on weekends to ride here. We also have people on roller skis and longboards on our roads. It seems really shortsighted to exclude these people in favor of cars.
Lobbying is not actually that harmful when it's relatively transparent: i.e everybody can look up who funded who, which this kinda applies to US.

Many US citizens think lobbying is the source of the problem.At a first thought you may think that, but without lobbying you de facto have "unseen" lobbying: which is corruption, more or less.That's why in 'democratic' countries where lobbying is illegal, there's way more corruption.This is not to say that lobbying reduces corruption, no, but it's a way to somewhat keep transparency while influencing and pressuring politicians, which happens, happened, and will always happen.
I think the best approach is a balance of powers between multiple branches of government, as we have in many liberal democracies. Executive, legislative and judicial. It's a long way from perfect, but it's actually worked pretty well for hundreds of years. Combined with a robust system of individual freedoms of speech, association, ownership and labour rights. What that all adds up to is capitalism plus regulation by a representative government.

The main alternatives that have been tried concentrate power in the hands of a single group, or ultimately a single person. In fact arguably giving power to a single group implicitly gives it to the leader of that group. This has always been a disaster, and always will be a disaster as long as we are recognisably human, with all the associated flaws.

Corruption and abuses are the result of human failings. We're always going to have to continuously strive against them.
My eye still twitches when I think about all the times it blew up my bundle installs.
Abandoned bikes are a problem here in Denmark as well, but not an insurmountable one. City workers regularly put tags on the wheels of bikes parked at , fx. the train station. If the tags are not disturbed in a month or so, the bikes are removed.
> Can I use it as an in-game item?

its just a URL. an expensive one.

Recently cryptobros are obsessed with backporting scarcity into the "creative economy", but NFTs don't provide any primitive to do that. Its immensley amusing to see the same people who were railing against DRM in the Zune era, are now saying how brilliant NFTs are. All the while advocating for DRM but with cool glasses.
> resulting in the very first chicken ever. Which of course started out as an egg.

No it didn't.

It started out as a fertilized egg cell, or ovum, but that is different from an "egg," which is the vessel containing the zygote. See [1]

This egg vessel -- yolk, albumen and shell -- was created entirely by the mother (i.e. unlike the fertilized ovum, it is not a result of fertilization by two parents, and contains no mutations which could make it a new species).

So a chicken was once in an egg. The question is whether this egg, created entirely by the non-chicken mother, counts as a "chicken egg" or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg
What ironclad guarantees does the NFT provide?
Just because an approach doesn't always work doesn't mean that it is often tried and often successful.

Even feudalism had numerous examples of once-powerful barons being deposed, but that didn't mean inherited privilege and killing off weaker competitors weren't characteristics of the system.
I am not a Python or a Ruby dev.

The Ruby devs I know are overall great devs

The Python people are second-rate.

Ruby produced tons of good software as a framework base besides Rails.

Python? Eh.
538 (elected) people. Seems far more (rather than too few) than is necessary. If it were 10 elected people for example it becomes harder to hide in the crowd. Look how much scrutiny is applied to the supreme court.
No. They also have guns. Only a very small minority of people must abide by that social contract to enforce it, and those people are likely all part of the enforcement.
I'm curious to know how this is different from Microsoft's CustomVision and other such tools. In fact, they've been around for much longer with the exact same product.

Thanks.
I can see how it's impossible. If the top and right faces are planar, the front face can't be.

It becomes possible again if you cut the front face into two triangles, that being the "hidden edge" the author mentions.

The pyramidal explanation sounds like it's using a theorem that I didn't know before, but without proving it. You could say the explanation deserves its own explanation. It's an interesting fact, that the lines have to intersect, nonetheless.
>the over-concentration of capital that develops naturally in unregulated capitalism...

In such an unregulated capitalism system the producer would only obtain wealth by freely trading. It is the state intervention which creates the conditions for the centralization of wealth.

We're living in a time where interest rates (set by appointed technocrats) don't keep pace with the rate of inflation. Inflation as it is originally defined means literally to inflate the money supply. Again, the money supply is determined by unelected appointees. These same experts form a "plunge protection team" determined to protect financial markets, at the expense of all other participants in the economy. So yeah, we're seeing a large amount of wealth inequality currently.

We could turn to the historical cases as well. Railroad monopolies and government bailouts of these essential industries owned and controlled by blue blood families.

What I have a hard time turning to and finding empirical evidence for, would be this mythical unregulated capitialist economy which produced so much of the the inequality critics of laissez-faire capitalism ceaselessly cite.
I love how I was kind of relatable to this one. It's just that quick gig made me realize how far I have become since I started this journey.
ah, me too

public work in Italy very seldom respect deadlines;

"scheduled to be ready" .... you can imagine
This ignores the effort each studio would need to do, in perpetuity, to render hat tokens in their game's engine and art style. Eventually there would be so many years of hat tokens that game studios would either have to draw a thousand hats just to launch, or abandon older hats. Which would devalue them and scare off future hat token prospectors.
BiglyBT was the first Torrent client with v2 support

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/biglybt-is-the-first-torrent-client...

[2] https://www.biglybt.com/
And it wasn't completely original, as Burst (now Signum) was a cryptocurrency using storage space for mining back in 2014.
HN is next. The amount of time wasted on this site should be used to save the planet instead!
Right. Personally, I don't think any opinion is more correct than any other in regards to code formatting, so, consistently and collectively choosing one and going forward with it is the way.
Of course humor is objective. Do you think honestly it isn’t? Pretty sure there is no “universal humor truth” out there.

Also not sure what’s brave about posting about laughing about something possibly controversial when you don’t care about the consequences. I don’t care if I am down or up voted on anything I post. My self worth is not tied to any social scoring system.