Hacking My Self
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Some days in technology land, I’m baffled. Just baffled.
I opened my substack and saw the temporary disabled message at the top of my screen. It confused me because my email list consisted of one subscriber and myself.
As I investigated it, it seems that somehow, many emails appeared in my account, and Substack believes I put them there.
I truly wish I was clever enough to engineer a hack like this. After days of reading and looking at the app, I’ve just started to understand the problem. I wrote several messages to the Trust and Safety team to say that I didn’t understand how they got there and I didn’t have a problem with the emails being deleted.
They asked me where I got the emails.
I said I don’t know where the emails came from.
Below, you see my one-subscriber graph and the ghosted-all subscriber list.
If I had 100s or 1000s of new subscribers on my account, wouldn’t my graph be > 1?
This was after a week of battling a new installation of NextCloud that shut down after I uploaded about 500+ files to it. The domains I had on the Name Cheap Server also shut down even though I had 50 gigs of memory and the files weren’t 50 gig that I uploaded.
After I uninstalled NextCloud, the other domains on the Name Cheap Server I had again worked.
The files I uploaded from my OneDrive had been deleted from my drive, so last week was a weak time digging and finding the old files.
I created this blog to learn new ways of using tech in education.
This schoolie is getting schooled.