Why were you using a VPN?
Apple Private Relay is on by default for a lot of Apple products these days. This is why my account was banned.
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Here in the UK, we have a problem of disreputable businesses - I'm not sure that they're actually illegal - charging fees for government services
They aren't really providing a service, but they're getting between confused people and public services
Consumer finance journalists complain a lot about their sites appearing before the real thing in search results
We have this in the US. Open a business and you'll get spammed with a lot of providers offering stuff that is either free, un needed, or overpriced.
"You need this sign in your break room else you'll be fined $10,000! Just subscribe for $299/year and we'll mail you labor posters each year." These can be found for like $10 and don't change yearly.
"This form needs to be filed else you'll be fined! Pay us $499 and we'll take care of it!" Free to file online.
Even forming a business in my state is like 2 forms and $125 and can be done all online. But if you were to google how to, you'd find all these people to "Help out" and it'd end up costing you $1000-2000 for their "Help".
faet commented on Microsoft closes several large Bethesda affiliated game studios ign.com/articles/microsof... · Posted by u/KTallguy
How on earth is MS the “least bad” in the wake of this massive anti-competitive practice of just buying up studios?
Gamepass is pretty generous. Gamers see MS buy a studio and add their catalog to gamepass. PC gamers appreciate that Xbox games are also usually on PC.
Nintendo sends a ton of C&D letters to smaller developers, and are pretty anti-emulation. Games never go on sale. Remakes are expensive ($60 for Super Mario RPG for example).
Sony just had the whole "You need a PSN account to play a PC game" thing. But also, you can't create a PSN account in some countries, so sorry you can't play the PC game you bought anymore. They ended up walking it back though. You also need to pay to play online, which is a thing on xbox as well. But I think that's usually drowned out by the "PC Gamers" who don't need to pay for something like that.
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faet commented on To make a fortune, target bored young men who want to make a fortune businessinsider.com/gambl... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Sure.
Is more money in the US spent on gambling, or on prestige goods?
> In 2024, the revenue in the Luxury Goods market in the United States amounts to US$75.6Bn (Watches, Eyewear, Jewlery, fashion, cosmetics/fragrance, leather goods)
> Americans wagered a record $119.84 billion on sports betting in 2023
> Slots and table games across the U.S. generated $43.79 billion
faet commented on 900 Sites, 125M accounts, 1 Vulnerability env.fail/posts/firewreck-... · Posted by u/MrBruh
> make sure to use a unique email for each service you sign up for.
Unfortunatly that's a big hassle that I am not willing to go through.
Apple's approach to pseudo emails was very nice and in my experience, works very well, but as mainly PC user I can't take advantage of this.
Do you know or recommend a service for this thats easy and fast to use?
>Do you know or recommend a service for this thats easy and fast to use?
I use a google account with a catch all domain. {Website/Store} @ short domain that goes to the same mailbox. I reply from name @ different domain, though.
The benefit is when I give it over the phone it's easy to say "StoreName"@ than spelling my name or using another longer email.
> Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said a malfunction caused the camera to take photos. The machine, provided by the vending supplier Canteen, features a touch screen and uses a camera for people to purchase coffee with a card, she said. But Carroll added that Amazon offers the coffee to employees free of charge and has no practical use for the camera.
Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card? Genuine question. Was there an issue of people stealing coffee cards, so they used facial-ID matching? If so that seems like an expensive and authoritarian solution to a minor problem, and it doesn't make sense that the machine would do this if Amazon isn't using the cards. And it doesn't fully explain this:
> An employee at the DMP1 Amazon Delivery Station was getting coffee on February 9 when he saw a button on the coffee vending machine’s touch screen that read “gallery.”....The employee pushed the button and came across around half a dozen random photos of the breakroom, according to Canaday.
If the photos were close-ups of employees making coffee then I would buy the explanation that this was a feature Amazon forgot to disable. But if they are truly "random photos of the breakroom" then this explanation doesn't make sense to me.
> Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card?
Many times people who steal credit cards will try to make small purchases to validate cards. Since there is no human interaction someone who has stolen ~10 cards could try each one by buying a $1-2 coffee and seeing which ones work. The machine takes photos which could then be turned over if/when the card holder reports fraud.
faet commented on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014) adamdrake.com/command-lin... · Posted by u/tosh
Most people who wasted $millions setting up Hadoop didn’t have data sets larger than could fit on a single machine.
I've worked places where it would be 1000x harder getting a spare laptop from the IT closet to run some processing than it would be to spend $50k-100k at Azure.
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