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unknownsavage commented on Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game   stratechery.com/2019/face... · Posted by u/stanleydrew
filereaper · 6 years ago
Tangential, but has Facebook done anything to reduce the power-consumption in Libra?

I'm not enthused about supporting anything that worsens the global climate crisis and its irresponsible of large companies to support cryptocurrencies with its terrible power usage right now.

unknownsavage · 6 years ago
It doesn't use mining, so requires negligible power to run.
unknownsavage commented on Ask HN: AWS refuses to stop billing me for a compromised account    · Posted by u/unknownsavage
dyeje · 6 years ago
Did you report the card stolen? I have never heard of charge forwarding. The number should not work. You need a new bank.
unknownsavage · 6 years ago
I didn't report it as stolen. But they did forward the charges. But yeah, I've just finished closing my credit card completely. It's unreasonable that I've been disputing the same charge from AWS for almost a year, and now they have decided to side with Amazon.
unknownsavage commented on Ask HN: AWS refuses to stop billing me for a compromised account    · Posted by u/unknownsavage
jolmg · 6 years ago
I'm trying to think of how to avoid something like this ever happening to me, and I think the lesson I can learn from this is to use a debit card instead of a credit card? That way, the account can go to 0. That debit card would only be for services with automated billing like this, and would have limited funds.

I mean, I imagine the main problem here is that you can't close your credit card because the bank now says you owe them that money, right? If it were a debit card, that would never be a problem.

EDIT:

> I've even requested a new credit card from the bank, however the bank continues to forward AWS charges to me.

They forwarded from one card to another? AWS charged a closed card and the bank forwarded it? Sounds like you need to close the client account (your whole client relationship with the bank), not the card.

EDIT 3: Or do you mean that you requested a new card without closing the old one? If they're both open, it's not that charges are being forwarded, but rather that the old card is still valid and both are linked to the same credit account. Maybe you can ask them to close it?

EDIT 2:

> Nor will Amazon simply remove the credit card number that I can provide them.

By the way, if you can't authenticate with Amazon as the rightful owner of that account, it sounds unreasonable for them to comply to a stranger asking them to simply remove a credit card number of some account.

unknownsavage · 6 years ago
> They forwarded from one card to another? AWS charged a closed card and the bank forwarded it?

Yup.

> By the way, if you can't authenticate with Amazon as the rightful owner of that account, it sounds unreasonable for them to comply to a stranger asking them to simply remove a credit card number of some account.

I disagree. If I can provide a full credit card number, they should be able to remove it from all accounts. Either the card is compromised, or I'm telling the truth.

unknownsavage commented on Keepass.com spreading malware acting as the official password manager site   twitter.com/berkcgoksel/s... · Posted by u/svacko
magicalhippo · 6 years ago
Back in the days, when Google was still somewhat new, I tended to laugh a bit inside when my parents and other non-techies would search Google for a domain rather than to go in the address bar. They'd search for Ford or Ford.com, rather than just put Ford.com in the address bar.

Though I quickly realized it wasn't such a bad idea at all, for exactly the reasons such as this. Even I mess up domains sometimes, so I usually tend to use Google instead except for the ones I know by heart (or have bookmarked).

unknownsavage · 6 years ago
This only really works if you have an ad-blocker, or at least know to ignore the ads. Otherwise google will frequently end up frequently serving ads for a malicious product (most commonly seen for crypto products)
unknownsavage commented on An Amateur Porno Set Off a Federal Witch Hunt   thedailybeast.com/deep-sl... · Posted by u/eplanit
SlowRobotAhead · 6 years ago
The beginning talks about how likable the guy is.

Greatly discusses the legal trouble his film caused.

The ends with him agreeing how the film sucks and maybe the prosecutor was right! (EDIT: he says this as a joke, apparently this needs to be pointed out?)

...

I get it. That’s a good story and he absolutely does come off as a likable guy.

unknownsavage · 6 years ago
For people who haven't read the article this is extremely misleading:

> The ends with him agreeing how the film sucks and maybe the prosecutor was right!

He says that, only as a joke that it's so bad it should've been illegal. While in reality a great mis-justice was done to the man, and he was railroaded into accepting a plea-deal due to the gravity of the unfair charges.

unknownsavage commented on Bell cuts phone service to family struggling to pay surprise $1,800 bill   cbc.ca/news/business/bell... · Posted by u/nrmitchi
detritus · 7 years ago
Assuming ≤10,000 text messages, that's around $1,350 per MB.

Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the actions of the family in question, that seems somewhat perverse.

unknownsavage · 7 years ago
I think the real damning thing is: > When Bell customers sign up in advance for unlimited Canada-U.S. texting, they pay only $12 a month.

which I think shows charging $2k for a few weeks worth of texts is pretty unconscionable

u/unknownsavage

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