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Yeah the more I learned about these guys the more I told them to go fuck off and unsubscribed and removed their app and forgot about their drops.

They sell crap. If you've bought any of their crap you would know they sell crap.

I actually remember having to locate SumatraPDF for an attorney's Palm so he could open and view .pdf files from his email.

I don't know if anyone remembers this but Exchange ActiveSync debuted around 2003

Blackberry had their own standalone solution that was a whole slew of Windows services and service accounts integrated with your Exchange server.

Also an astalavista.box.sk user (typo)

What I find hilarious about this is if you were an Exchange server admin around the time Exchange made the “web” swap from 2007->2010->fully EAS web managed by 2013 the guys like me were following Microsoft MVP articles on re-Hosting exchange for separate orgs on the same active directory infrastructure with UPNs basically the email as the major identifier

It’s funny because Azure seems like it’s just a hacky scaled up version of what MSPs we’re doing with hosted exchange 15 years ago.

I've had to file an informal complaint against my local cable ISP because they told me over the telephone multiple times they couldn't find my home on the FCC's broadband map. 2 weeks after filing that complaint I had 360 feet of shiny new coaxial internet service.

So yeah, I can see all sorts of sketchiness going on with the FCC and their map and how they gave out money to sketchy LLC's for rural internet service.

They air-dropped XLM Stellar Lumens

A fork of Ripple XRP after Ripple was sold

Same dude that did both ^ also created and sold MtGox (likely insolvent) to Mark Karpeles

Need articbull to do all the citations on Jed/ripple/stellar and how keybase ended up having a stellar wallet

Unpopular opinion: I hate Safari, it's slow, and I refuse to use for anything.

Agreement with you about games I was speaking mostly of the linux desktop environment - I find it useful for work.

Yup always sneaking my kids and docking it. So far it works with an HP Elite and a Dell WD15 dock - just saying. 4k TV resolution pretty snappy too.

You get it, which makes me feel slightly less crazy.

It’s fun to watch USDT arb trades in pretty much any exchange order book.

Bravo, this is all well known stuff but great job citing sources, the internet has such a short memory. Brock did a stint as the Bitcoin foundation president IIRC in year two of that defunct org

It is insane to me to see what are supposed to be legitimate, reliable, regulated businesses doing the same ponzi crypto interest shit that we learned on IRC this stuff doesn’t work a long time ago.

The yield curves just don’t math Greg sir

It amazes me that smart people are still trying to earn interest on crypto deposits and failing due to greed.

The network or the protocol can reliably pay interest.

A company investing all the money and just betting on time value of money x time and calling it a business plan in crypto land is not a plan. You will lose every time.

There’s no business plan to generate the interest payments reliably over time on most of these crypto lending programs - if the yield curve doesn’t flatten over time welcome to someone’s Ponzi scheme.

Simplex SIP is so frustrating coming from my debut in the tech stack as a helpdesk grunt installing, punching down, toning out - analog

Voip is best effort and it sucks to talk over each other

Analog is an actual circuit that completes, not this width washy best effort internet crap AND the kicker is I can talk over people and they shut up fast.

I’m not a big fan of what has happened to telephones.

Preferred the legacy on premises SIP PBX I was sold 72 or 80 months ago. The cloud hosted bullshit powered by session border controllers needs to stop.

Finally made the swap to cloud PBX and it absolutely sucks ass looking at you Spectrum Enterprise

Hey look, someone is actually finally using blockchain for the stuff we were talking about in IRC chatrooms ten years ago - car titles, deeds, voting...

Any ledger-ized industry where you'd like to reduce the total amount of fraud taking place.

And then I read the comments saying "centralized db rulez"

FWIW A site that listed exactly which Airlines Owned which airplanes and the model and tail number of the airplane would be super useful to me personally

I had an xecuter mod on the first Xbox and a 2TB hard drive, you could do so many many things with Xbox Media Center on the very first Xbox - FTP your games over.

TBH the Xbox 360 console was like a refresh of XBMC. One of the greatest things about the 360 out of the box was it played popular video codecs directly from USB storage - unmodded!

Unheard of at the time.

I had an early model PSX console in high school and bought the plug and play mod chip online in 2000 or so. Rented a lot of games and bought a lot of verbatim blue bottoms

Later a USB plus 1 wire mod chip for the PS2 that let me play backups and homebrew

On the one hand in a cynical and sarcastic way, I wholeheartedly agree with you.

OTOH sha256 proof of work mining is a billion dollar industry and the Bitcoin mining hashrate just hit an all time high after a long protracted bear market.

Miners are in the black, price will follow

Edit: a word

Sounds like Monero/zcash being appropriated by Ethereum

If appropriated is to harsh, how about integrated instead?

Normally the SEC civil complaint and judgement comes first, followed by the DOJ criminal action, if it exists, which it ab-so-fucking-lute-ly should come next.

Not a customer. The fortune cookies and super bowl ads by the noob crypto exchange were huge red flags

Thanks. I used to work at a MSP an we had a white label comodo reseller account and this looks useful for a few purposes.

I read it like you read it. But I'm just a stupid American who gambles.

I mean, it sounds like something a US based crypto exchange is going to AML/KYC the shit out of you for, imho but I'm American.

I have extracted more value from Coinbase than most though. I had (and had to wait through) my withdrawal limits being raised during the 2017 bull run.

Hammering your bank daily for 30+ days because of withdrawal limits ain't cool.

It’s pretty damn difficult to setup a new Windows machine without the online account. Several “ domain join instead” dark patterns

Simple adblock package from openwrt repo works wonders and is way simpler than dealing with a raspi or some other separate server.

Some of y’all seem to enjoy bringing work home and tinkering and maintaining hardware at home - but some of us don’t

I’ll keep my ad blocking on my router thank you very much

Trendon Shavers operated the first Bitcoin based Ponzi scheme out of Texas and it folded in 2014. When he defaulted he tried to claim Bitcoin wasn’t money, he wiped or lost all his records and access to the AWS hosting the scam, he perjured himself and claimed to have fully repaid “jcpham” under deposition.

Liars gonna lie. My deposit and withdrawal addresses and the blockchain kinda shows no, I wasn’t made whole

It takes awhile to come to grips with this and actually see yourself as victimized- I mean, a really long time. The overall personal lesson is don’t give strangers money, especially if it’s too good to be true.

Feeling depressed thoughts and guilt over the greed of seeking interest takes awhile to move beyond.

I do the same. I have iterations written down in a safe but my family will have a hard time accessing my digital identity when I’m gone

Except or unless your google account gets locked. Any number of reasons and posts HN horror stories exist about other users getting locked out of their lives because of a user account or lack of access thereof

I think equivalent collateral to 250 million was posted yes.

Anyone catch the AMC -> APE reverse

Let’s name the FTX tokenized stocks