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circa commented on Ball: A ball that lives in your dock   github.com/nate-parrott/b... · Posted by u/Bluestein
al_borland · 2 years ago
Bonzibuddy, but with AI.
circa · 2 years ago
BonzAI Buddy
circa commented on What is a pig butchering scam? (2023)   wired.com/story/what-is-p... · Posted by u/baud147258
not2b · 2 years ago
John Oliver did an excellent explainer about how pig butchering works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

(apologies if the YouTube link has geographic restrictions, don't know if it does)

circa · 2 years ago
Came to post this too. It was a great piece on it. I'm glad more people are becoming aware of them. They're starting to get out of control.
circa commented on Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150    · Posted by u/M0r13n
circa · 3 years ago
I can't/can believe this and they make it seem like its a normal practice from your story. Pretty awful.

I left GD years ago after this - https://science.time.com/2011/04/04/godaddy-ceo-on-shooting-...

Not only did I hate their interface like you mentioned. Their customer service always sucked too. I moved a lot of TLDs off of there at my old job. Happy to say all the other companies I have used have been above and beyond better than GoDaddy.

Do some research and you'll find some great deals out there. Cloudflare, Hover, NameCheap offer great services IMO. Never had any issues with them.

circa commented on GM makes $1,500 subscription mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models   thedrive.com/news/gm-make... · Posted by u/seitzej
circa · 3 years ago
lol so dumb but I get it. I'm not surprised at all. This is the future model of a lot of things to come.
circa commented on My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement   technicallychallenged.sub... · Posted by u/koinedad
circa · 3 years ago
Long live 3D Touch. I miss my XS Max only because of that.
circa commented on Old jokes   dynomight.net/old-jokes/... · Posted by u/Gadiguibou
circa · 3 years ago
I didn’t see a mention of Chris Farley. He says it in 2 of his movies from the 90s I believe.
circa commented on Average new car transaction price hits a record $48,043   autoblog.com/article/new-... · Posted by u/ra7
avgDev · 3 years ago
The current car market is unsustainable. 96 month loans are becoming common place. It is just a matter of time until people who purchased their cars during chip shortage are massively underwater on their cars. If they have long loans and the cars start having major problems they won't be able to roll negative equity into their next car loan.

People are extremely irresponsible with money and cars with high, long time loans are a great wealth destroying 'vehicle'.

I think the social media helped fuel the 'I want NOW!' culture. This gave life to scalpers and $10k mark up on cars. I'm interested how all this is going to unfold.

circa · 3 years ago
It is a very similar feeling to the housing market crash in 2008. History repeats itself.
circa commented on A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s   twitter.com/mcfunley/stat... · Posted by u/youcould
circa · 3 years ago
This reminds me of an old blog called "Regretsy." I can't seem to find it at the moment but it was pretty funny at the time.
circa commented on YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips   boingboing.net/2022/07/01... · Posted by u/PretzelFisch
pornel · 3 years ago
There is a massive YouTube and Instagram industry of outright faking craft and cooking tips. They're not just bad or a stretch, they're intentionally fabricated, made at scale by TheSoul Publishing with 550 employees. That's because making cool things looking surprisingly easy goes viral way better than actual reality-grounded instructions, and for the adtech giants nothing matters except the number of clicks.

Before people realize that they can't really make a 3-layer cake in a toaster, the fakers already cash in on the views. Usually the risk of these faked craft hacks is just cut fingers and kitchen fires, but the "just grab 2000V, it's so easy!" videos take it to another level of lethality.

circa · 3 years ago
TrikTok is not too far behind with those videos either

u/circa

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