PRprashnts·Jun 9, 2019
Pretty sure it’s the same person from what I could find out from archive.org snapshots. I followed this trail:
- From the tweet you linked, it’s clear that they owned yoginth.ml
- Archive of the homepage links to a gitlab profile [1] which uses the same profile picture and style of writing as their current gitlab profile.
- The page linked to yoginth.ml, and subsequent snapshots of page show it changed to yoginth.com (the current domain).
Additionally, I noticed that they mentioned that they work at “DocsPen”. Quick google linked to a repository with years of history (evident from the migrations page), but everything committed in 2017. Looked up, and it’s essentially another unattributed copy of BookStackApp with licenses changed and s/BookStack/DocsPen.
Unfortunately, it seems its a case of naive plagiarism and not knowing what counts as
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fraud. I say this because there’s enough information to get their entire identity (I’m not gonna post a link to that) and it’s clearly a school kid who’s misguided enough. If OP reads this, I’d suggest them to reflect upon their actions, (or cover their tracks more carefully). Sooner or later, if authorities get involved it won’t be difficult for them (I just did archive.org search on my phone). I feel a bit more aware of this because I studied at Delhi University and I knew a few people who did/do similar things to get enough attention and build a resume.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180213200624/https://gitlab.co...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190312041322/https://gitlab.co...
[3] https://github.com/DocsPen/DocsPen/tree/master/database/migr...
[4] https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/tree/master/databa...