Hacker News: lsmod

New comment by lsmod in "Lost considerable amount in Freelancer.com"

lsmod — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 00:45:27 +0000

Oh, man. Sorry to hear that. Same thing happened to me a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15625028

Fortunately, I had direct contact with the client and he paid me through an online payment platform. My client had used a bank account from a different country than the country listed on his freelancer account. They banned his account without even notifying him. I couldn't even reach him through their platform.

Read through the comments on the parent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624677 Specially this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15626790

And stay away from freelancer.com. You can always find new clients there, but contact them directly after that becasue, obviously they don't have any kind of protection for us so, why should we pay some additional fees if we are going to get screwed anyway ?

Good Luck!

New comment by lsmod in "BitGrail lost $170M because only client-side validation was used"

lsmod — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 01:03:05 +0000

php has nothing to do with it. Can't say the same for the second part though.

New comment by lsmod in "Three months of content moderation for Facebook in Berlin"

lsmod — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:02:06 +0000

If you use Firefox then you can just enter the "Reader View".

New comment by lsmod in "Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages"

lsmod — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:12:15 +0000

"Must Only Be Used for Critical Service Notifications." [0]

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108#section-3.1

New comment by lsmod in "Firefox Quantum"

lsmod — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:39:56 +0000

Use DuckDuckGo as the default search engine, then you can use the "Bang"[0] notation to search using other services.

[0]https://duckduckgo.com/bang

New comment by lsmod in "Firefox Quantum"

lsmod — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 13:00:49 +0000

Visit "about:preferences#search" and then uncheck every search engine under "One-Click Search Engines" list.

New comment by lsmod in "Freelancer.com has ruined my life"

lsmod — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 02:19:32 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I might give this a try.

New comment by lsmod in "Freelancer.com has ruined my life"

lsmod — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 09:10:54 +0000

This is a legitimate claim. You might wanna take a look at this[0]. I've blocked out the project title and the buyer's name, becasue i don't want my real name associate with my HN handle.

Dark Red: Buyer's Name

Turquoise: Project Title

[0]https://i.imgur.com/LpTYbse.jpg

P.S.

Not sure how you got the "unpaid advertisement" idea from my original comment. That is a complete opposite of an advertisement. However, it advertises the fact that you can get work done for free. Maybe that's what you are trying to say :)

New comment by lsmod in "Freelancer.com has ruined my life"

lsmod — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 15:39:53 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

They have a registered office located in Australia.

It was a relatively easy job (took me about an hour and a half) and I only charge $75. So, not sure if it'll be worth the hassle.

New comment by lsmod in "Freelancer.com has ruined my life"

lsmod — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 14:59:12 +0000

Same with Freelancer.com, buyer had this[0] green icon next to his profile. Evidently, it doesn't work as you might expect.

[0]https://pasteboard.co/GS6oamJ.png

New comment by lsmod in "Freelancer.com has ruined my life"

lsmod — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 13:59:28 +0000

Stay away from Freelancer.com

They reversed two milestone payments i had received, becasue they had to suspend the buyer's account due to some issues with the buyer's payment method. Note that this is after completing the project fully and leaving feedback for each other.

I left the money on my Freelancer account, becasue they are/were having issues with Skrill withdrawals. It was there for about a month and they suddenly reversed both payments at the end of the last month.

They should validate/verify payments before accepting/processing them, not after a month after completing a project.

Basically, i just did a job for free. no one's going to pay for my time. they have 0 seller protection.

BTW, buyer had this[0] green icon next to his profile. Evidently, it doesn't work as you might expect.

[0]https://pasteboard.co/GS6oamJ.png

New comment by lsmod in "AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say"

lsmod — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 11:11:36 +0000

Actually, you can make money by solving captchas. https://2captcha.com/make-money-online

New comment by lsmod in "The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key"

lsmod — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 02:04:37 +0000

It looks like they have fixed it (at least some part of it)

"Access Denied. File must be attached to a posted filing to be available."

New comment by lsmod in "Fossjobs: A website for free and open-source software jobs"

lsmod — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:21:50 +0000

Removed.

New comment by lsmod in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

lsmod — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 05:26:42 +0000

Thanks for the reply. it has been a while and i don't even remember the username of that account.it wasn't that important to me (plus, a relatively new account) so i didn't bother contacting HN.

New comment by lsmod in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

lsmod — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 04:32:21 +0000

Be careful posting random domains.HN might flag/throttle your account for spamming.happened to one of my accounts.

New comment by lsmod in "Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems"

lsmod — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 03:24:43 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation. faster than "space sniffer" as well.

New comment by lsmod in "Amazon soars to more than 341K employees, adding 110K people in a single year"

lsmod — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 03:19:07 +0000

They gonna have to build more parking spaces.

New comment by lsmod in "Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine"

lsmod — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 08:27:24 +0000

It's not the same.you'll be missing some of the trackers.

New comment by lsmod in "Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'"

lsmod — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 03:23:32 +0000

"An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead."