Recently I have had to live in a building with severe noise issues, and running appropriately EQed white noise on my speaker helped mask it and maintain at least some sanity and sleep. The mynoise app might not be the fanciest but it does exactly what it says without fail or frills, and works across devices. I don’t think I knew who made it when I bought it, but this story put a face on the app.
When someone attacks you, it is additionally traumatic in that it undermines your trust in people. In this way, it can breed trauma if it makes you become more defensive/distrustful and/or offensive/trust-violating to others. This is not an excuse to the attacker, but if I were asked how we can end this vicious circle I would probably say it’s about long-term mental health (across generations).
BLKNSLVR · 7h ago
Lovely, but naive.
But naive in a way that most people (?) would like the world to be.
But ultimately, unfortunately, unrealistic.
Building has always been the kind of difficult that, had you known at the beginning then maybe you wouldn't have started. And still quickly and easily destroyed.
Keep creating and building, otherwise there's nothing else to do. Love the obstacles for challenge of defeating them, don't hate them for their existence. To build X you often have to build A, B, and C (and sometimes all the rest of the alphabet) just to have the right setup to maximise the success of X. It can grind, but focus on the benefits of X.
Which sounds like the position they've taken, thankfully.
(Where X represents "anything" and is specifically not the <whatever it's classified as> platform formally known as Twitter).
The melancholy will return, just ride it out each time. It gets easier, gradually.
drdiamo · 5h ago
> Lovely, but naive.
it’s unbelievable to me that anyone would do this to him.
are you familiar with what he’s done? the amount of work he’s put into helping people?
you should dig a little bit more into the story before badmouthing someone.
giantg2 · 4h ago
Many malicious people don't care if their target does good deeds. In some cases it makes them a bigger target, like hospitals are to ransomware.
BLKNSLVR · 4h ago
No intent to badmouth from my side. I'm not trying to come from whatever angle it might look like to you that I'm coming from.
honkycat · 1h ago
A bored teenager doesn't care.
There are people in the world who are profoundly nihilistic [0]. They will do mean shit for no reasons, and move on without caring.
This has always been true throughout human history.
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"
0: often without actually knowing what that word means
patchule · 42m ago
Many are fatherless.
neuralkoi · 5h ago
I really like this perspective, it's right along there with what the Stoics would do:
"The wise act with a reverse clause--meaning that they not only consider what might go wrong, but they are prepared for that to be exactly what they want to happen--it is an opportunity for excellence and virtue.
wizardforhire · 4h ago
Regardless of the moral and ethical implications brought up in response to the individual in TFA, you’re spot on. One of my favorite reasons for creating is that it’s me against myself vs reality. Theres not an endeavor I find myself in that this is not true… of course I have the privilege of having accomplished all of my life goals from childhood at an early age, which only led to depression. So I set loftier goals only to complete them. It was only the third time around and confronting failure did it finally click that it wasn’t about accomplishing things and it was all about the journey. I was a latch key kid, so basic stuff like this and everything else that people from well adjusted families that are not poor af I’ve had to learn the hardest way possible. Which I guess in a way is a super power because now whatever I want to do I know what the learning curve looks and feels like and I know that failing a lot is the only way to crawl out of the trough of disillusionment.
Procrastes · 6h ago
I'm a lifetime member and have enjoyed mynoise.net for many years. It's the best thing I've found for focus and distraction blocking. I have brain.fm, and YouTube music, but I keep coming back to his site because it's just better, more intentional, and more effective for me.
orourke · 7h ago
Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.
ChrisMarshallNY · 6h ago
I have found that there are people who just want to watch the world burn. There are many reasons, but, at its most basic, hurt people hurt people.
That's something I like to keep in mind, when I'm reacting to someone being ... less than friendly ... By reacting badly, I then make it all right for them to justify doing it again, to someone else. I've found that I can defend myself, without becoming a foaming-at-the-mouth maniac. We can enforce our boundaries with water pistols, most of the time. We don't need nukes.
Everything is connected. This chap may be naive, but he's actually trying to set good connections in motion. I applaud that.
walls · 6h ago
I feel like a lot of people desperately want to make some kind of impact on the world. Something that causes some number of people to acknowledge their existence (or the effects of it).
It takes real effort to do that in a positive way with a society built around surfacing negativity.
heavyset_go · 5h ago
I think we need to recognize that there are people who genuinely get off on hurting others, and it really isn't any more interesting than that.
ChrisMarshallNY · 6h ago
Most folks find that it’s a lot easier to tear down, than build up.
I’ve always really enjoyed building up, but it’s definitely not the easiest path.
I have managed to make a couple of mid-sized splashes, but many folks have no idea that I was behind them, which is fine with me.
vachina · 4h ago
It’s not targeted. Having maintained a site, my experience is the internet is a wasteland of AI crawlers, script kiddies trying to turn every form into an amplification vector, or vulnerability probers.
muppetman · 24m ago
Right? I got his email too and man, I love what he does, I'm glad he's recovering from his illness etc. I've donated many times. But it's insane for him to think this was targeted. This was some bot/AI gone rogue. Or similar.
If someone wants to take you DOWN they will. And not by downloading a bunch of a files a heap.
emmelaich · 6h ago
It's just possible that someone at some big AI company just pressed a button to add this to their collection of training material. And lazily or otherwise just hit the checkboxes for 'repeat' and 'forever'.
Aurornis · 5h ago
The article explains that it started as a hacking attempt with requests to inject code. It’s not a simple AI company scraper.
dewey · 3h ago
Without knowing more about it, this coulda also just be one of the uncountable amounts of automated scanners that are iterating the whole internet constantly trying to find wp-admin etc. type vulnerabilities.
stavros · 6h ago
Oh I downloaded and use the app but I didn't realise they had a whole site! This is great.
smoll · 3h ago
sorry to hear that and i can absolutely relate to this feeling of losing something, of perhaps even being dragged into a game you never wanted to even play, where no one wins and everyone loses something.
the one silver lining is that it seems to have strengthened your resolve, to keep planting and keep building instead of just letting chaos and destruction stop you in your tracks. so in that way maybe you haven’t lost after all and maybe this isn’t even a bad thing, it helped clarify the things you find important in life and even inspire others (me included). thank you!
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mnky9800n · 9h ago
This website is amazing. In love ambient sounds. It is a shame something like this happened. Glad he continues.
adi_kurian · 2h ago
I am so sorry to hear this story, and I am so glad to have found this website!
wintermutestwin · 6h ago
The MyNoise app has tangibly improved my life. I use a white noise machine at home, but when I travel, MyNoise is my sleep companion and I particularly appreciate that I can set the EQ to block the particular noises that are likely to wake me.
Sorry to hear about the annoying hack…
StanislavPetrov · 3h ago
Agree completely and have been doing the same for years.
And what I find especially nice, when I'm on a spotty connection, is that once you load up your preferred noise it runs locally in your browser, so when your connection craps out it keeps playing seamlessly.
sneak · 46m ago
…people downloading a bunch of stuff from your website, even maliciously, is not a tenth of the tragedy this webpage seems to make it out to be.
FreeTrade · 4h ago
It's traumatic to be victim of malevolence. There's the injury, but it is the lack of a motivation which is disturbing - it's a loss of innocence.
acomjean · 3h ago
It does suck. Because it’s a reminder that they’re are jerks out there and hard to avoid. Especially on the web. It also must sting because he’s trying to be a good citizen.
We see this in abusive behavior towards open source maintainers. It saps their will. And 100 thanks < 1 savage attack.
About a year ago the site I worked on had a hacking attempt. I’m not sure why, it was a site that provided online genetic tools for researchers. We had no financials, or even logins. I felt bad in a similar way as when someone broke into my car years ago, or when I had a package go missing.
Move forward/ move on is how I handled it.
StanislavPetrov · 7h ago
This site is fantastic. Sending a donation. Keep up the good work!
drdiamo · 5h ago
this is incredibly upsetting.
mynoise is one of the best things on the net.
orionblastar · 8h ago
I heard of this on other websites. AI chatbots are web scraping data off websites, and you have to use fail2ban to block them. People are learning how to teach AI Chatbots to hack websites as well. My website http://blastar.in/ was affected, and I don't host it; a friend runs it for me, but he doesn't respond to email.
When someone attacks you, it is additionally traumatic in that it undermines your trust in people. In this way, it can breed trauma if it makes you become more defensive/distrustful and/or offensive/trust-violating to others. This is not an excuse to the attacker, but if I were asked how we can end this vicious circle I would probably say it’s about long-term mental health (across generations).
But naive in a way that most people (?) would like the world to be.
But ultimately, unfortunately, unrealistic.
Building has always been the kind of difficult that, had you known at the beginning then maybe you wouldn't have started. And still quickly and easily destroyed.
Keep creating and building, otherwise there's nothing else to do. Love the obstacles for challenge of defeating them, don't hate them for their existence. To build X you often have to build A, B, and C (and sometimes all the rest of the alphabet) just to have the right setup to maximise the success of X. It can grind, but focus on the benefits of X.
Which sounds like the position they've taken, thankfully.
(Where X represents "anything" and is specifically not the <whatever it's classified as> platform formally known as Twitter).
The melancholy will return, just ride it out each time. It gets easier, gradually.
it’s unbelievable to me that anyone would do this to him.
are you familiar with what he’s done? the amount of work he’s put into helping people?
you should dig a little bit more into the story before badmouthing someone.
There are people in the world who are profoundly nihilistic [0]. They will do mean shit for no reasons, and move on without caring.
This has always been true throughout human history.
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"
0: often without actually knowing what that word means
"The wise act with a reverse clause--meaning that they not only consider what might go wrong, but they are prepared for that to be exactly what they want to happen--it is an opportunity for excellence and virtue.
That's something I like to keep in mind, when I'm reacting to someone being ... less than friendly ... By reacting badly, I then make it all right for them to justify doing it again, to someone else. I've found that I can defend myself, without becoming a foaming-at-the-mouth maniac. We can enforce our boundaries with water pistols, most of the time. We don't need nukes.
Everything is connected. This chap may be naive, but he's actually trying to set good connections in motion. I applaud that.
It takes real effort to do that in a positive way with a society built around surfacing negativity.
I’ve always really enjoyed building up, but it’s definitely not the easiest path.
I have managed to make a couple of mid-sized splashes, but many folks have no idea that I was behind them, which is fine with me.
If someone wants to take you DOWN they will. And not by downloading a bunch of a files a heap.
the one silver lining is that it seems to have strengthened your resolve, to keep planting and keep building instead of just letting chaos and destruction stop you in your tracks. so in that way maybe you haven’t lost after all and maybe this isn’t even a bad thing, it helped clarify the things you find important in life and even inspire others (me included). thank you!
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Sorry to hear about the annoying hack…
And what I find especially nice, when I'm on a spotty connection, is that once you load up your preferred noise it runs locally in your browser, so when your connection craps out it keeps playing seamlessly.
We see this in abusive behavior towards open source maintainers. It saps their will. And 100 thanks < 1 savage attack.
About a year ago the site I worked on had a hacking attempt. I’m not sure why, it was a site that provided online genetic tools for researchers. We had no financials, or even logins. I felt bad in a similar way as when someone broke into my car years ago, or when I had a package go missing.
Move forward/ move on is how I handled it.
mynoise is one of the best things on the net.