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I was scammed by a celebrity influencer

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114 pointsby jrnichols8 jaar geleden51 comments

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25 dagen geledendiscuss

This is the first I've heard of this and search results have been fruitless. Where can I find more info on this?

28 dagen geledendiscuss

From folks I've talked to in real life, it really does seem that way. They're getting their information from Facebook but it's mixed in with the "5G towers are killing all the bees" and the usual anti-vaccine rhetoric. Seeing that erin brockovich has jumped on the anti-data center bandwagon makes it even more suspicious to me.

29 dagen geledendiscuss

Something here about water usage, a small data center, and a swimming pool. Combining the three may either be awesome or tragic!

I like this idea. A small cage in an apartment complex would be a huge selling point.

Or even a La La Land on the corner, urban DC in the back. Winning across the board.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

The funny thing about Tupperware is that some of us have their products from many many years ago and they still work great.

I think we've had the same iced tea pitcher since I was 5 years old, for example. Solid.

Will we be able to say the same thing about Claude?

2 maanden geledendiscuss

Linux will be exempt for now. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them try to slip it through later. Legislators in California have learned over the years, and have carved out exemptions in bills such as gun control bills to get it passed, and later classified their exemption as a "loophole" to be closed.

2 maanden geledendiscuss

It's been disappointing to see that Toyota, a brand I once trusted, has slipped into spyware/nagware like this. All for the purpose of later selling advertisements. Do we get a discount at the dealer for this "feature?" Of course not. In fact, we get a dealer markup that's often difficult to get rid of.

No wonder car companies are starting to dislike CarPlay. It's less data they can collect from their own customers.

3 maanden geledendiscuss

I used to joke that we had "Security through Stupidity" - everything was so half-baked that no intruder would think we were being serious.

4 maanden geledendiscuss

yet somehow after all these years... Fark is still the same. It has managed to avoid the onslaught of bots. At least to some extent.

I'm amazed it's still around. Metafilter too, although it seems to have a LOT fewer comments nowadays.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

This was a lot of fun to see, especially part 3 where it boots up. Us older guys (me, anyway) still find joy in seeing these old machines we learned our skills on being restored like this.

Thanks for posting this one. good find.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

I'm over 50 now and feel like this as well. Haven't used Claude yet but used Codex a bunch, and it's been SO MUCH fun going over all the old perl & shell scripting stuff that I used to do years ago before I got into healthcare time and morphed to a hobby sysadmin.

Staying up and re-learning what I used to love long ago has given me a new found passion as well. Even if I do vibe code some scripts, at least I have the background now to go through them and make sure they make sense. They're things I'm using in my own homelab and not something that I'm trying to spin up a Github repo for. I'm not shipping anything. I'm refreshing my old skills and trying to bring some of them up to date. An unfortunate reality is that my healthcare career is going to be limited due to multiple injuries along the way, and I need to try to be as current as I can in case something happens. My safety net is limited.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

As another paramedic that has worked in Texas, they are absolutely correct.

What we lack in EMS is the same qualified immunity that law enforcement continues to have.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

We have probably 30 of these within 10 miles and it's great. Perfect excuse to go for a walk, get a book, read it, and then return it to one of the others.

5 maanden geledendiscuss

They know this, and they know the technology just isn't there. But that's their goal - to make gun ownership as difficult and expensive as possible.

I think they've learned from the anti-gun lobbyists and are now pushing to end anonymity on the internet the same way.

6 maanden geledendiscuss

Same, and I was starting to feel kind of strange doing anything in html/php in 2026 but then I looked at everything else and realized I'd have to start from scratch again. Plain ol' HTML has worked great.

8 maanden geledendiscuss

Same here. While Liquid Glass might be a bit distracting, I don't remember the last time I had an app crash. It's been quite a while.

26.1 fixed a lot of the buggy/laggy feeling too.

vorig jaardiscuss

Not only do I use it for my non-primary email accounts, but I use it for NNTP too. :)

vorig jaardiscuss

I am the same, self-hosting for many years and while I have the occasional question about it, it's easily corrected. I now have a short .com domain I use because my .fyi one was even more confusing to people, and simply didn't work with some systems I needed to use.

A bigger problem in my opinion is just how heavily people have associated "Google" with "the internet" and "Gmail" with all email in existence. They don't even think about outlook.com or even hotmail anymore. All email is Gmail to many people.

vorig jaardiscuss

We have HomeConnect on our new Thermador appliances. I actually went ahead and installed the iOS app and brought everything into Homebridge. (thinking about switching to Home Assistant, though...)

One of the big reasons that I did it is so I'd know when consumables needed to be replaced. The big hope was it would give me a warning when the fridge water filter was full and make buying the exact part easier.

It has failed to do this one thing. But I can get recipes from within the app. I still have no idea what water filter I need and have to try to find the model number.

If you're going to build a cloud setup for appliances, at least make it useful for the end user, eh?

edit: we actually considered a GE washer/dryer for the smart features until I sat down and realized that I was trying to over complicate laundry. We went with a Speed Queen model instead. My dryer now has two knobs and a button to start it.

vorig jaardiscuss

I see a fair amount of that here in Sacramento. People having block parties, chairs out in the driveways, etc. One of the newer neighborhoods in the area seems like it was designed with this in mine as well. '

It's been a lot of fun. We know our neighbors, people are frequently out walking, talking to each other, and so on.

vorig jaardiscuss

This is awesome. Thanks! Sensible, easy to use, easy to understand the results.

I've been trying the google one, for example, and it doesn't even work. "request timed out." Fishy, because yours works great.

much appreciated!