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lemcoe9on HTTP Cats

The only goal of the website is to deliver kitten GIFs and IPv4 addresses. It does not send an SSL certificate, pursuant to that goal.

lemcoe9on HTTP Cats

Yes, thank you.

EDIT: We are back.

lemcoe9on HTTP Cats

I am able to be neither a beggar nor a chooser with the API that I am leveraging to geo-code the IP addresses, because I am not paying for it! Either way, thank you for letting me know about non-US use-cases.

lemcoe9on HTTP Cats

Please refresh and see what happens.

lemcoe9on HTTP Cats

I feel this is an appropriate place for a shameless plug about my website, http://ipkitten.com. It offers valuable IPv4 information while also offering a kitten GIF. No ads, no tracking; just cats and IP addresses. Zero lines of Javascript.

lemcoe9on Uber is a tinder box

While I certainly wish for better conditions for these drivers (and in a grander sense, the entire gig economy), I also worry about the price sensitivity of riders when they go to use these apps: There are tons of users that will make their Uber vs. Lyft decision based on <$1.00 in fare difference. If these drivers get everything they want, I cannot imagine a scenario where fares do not go through the roof, which will likely lead to a decrease in demand, which will have a negative effect on take-home pay for drivers.

The drivers certainly deserve better, however, I think the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to what consumers expect and are willing to pay.

lemcoe9on Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

"should be fa[i]rly easy to find"

Nope. It's just not that easy. Why do you think the biggest companies on the planet struggle so mightily to reliably and un-controversially figure out what content to block.

lemcoe9on The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe

Because the vast majority of the customers that walk through these buy-here pay-here places' doors already have loans on their vehicle and are looking to upgrade. "Kelly Blue Book" is not a phrase used very often by their salespeople; the customer base seems to be much more interested in the appearance of the cars than the financial utility of them.

lemcoe9on The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe

Where are you buying rental houses for $42k?

lemcoe9on The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe

Why is "do a coding bootcamp" the common refrain from tech workers trying to help non-tech people?

lemcoe9on The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe

I can absolutely confirm this. I have done work (not on this particular type of system, however) for many small-to-medium car dealerships, and they will spend roughly $400 to equip many of the vehicles in their inventory with ignition interlocks that can be disabled remotely.

Here is their business cycle:

1. Purchase a used car from a customer for 80% of "fair market value."

2. Sell the car on a $0-down, 7-year note for 110% of "fair market value."

3. Undoubtedly the loan goes into arrears, and the dealer will disable the ignition system after a certain amount of time. The "owner" will be billed for the tow as well as multiple "recovery fees."

4. Sell the car again for 110% of "fair market value."

5. Repeat.

Multiple times I have been told "we don't want them to pay off the car; we make less money that way."

I remember one particular dealer bragging to me about the fact that he had sold a 2009 Honda Civic 11 times in 4 years. That is, 11 sales and 10 repossessions over the course of 4 years. The saddest part was hearing that over 70% of their car notes would go into arrears within 4 months.

lemcoe9on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee

CreditCards.com does a great job comparing different cards, and if I was in a credit-challenged situation I would go for the Discover It Secured card, which offers 2% back on all purchases.

lemcoe9on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee

There are already dozens of secured credit cards for the credit-challenged: https://www.creditcards.com/secured/

The 5% back on Amazon.com purchases would give a slight edge to this new secured card.

lemcoe9on Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee

You get the 5% cashback on Amazon.com purchases. That would appear to be the real value-add here, because you would also get that cashback reward using the non-secured and well-established Amazon.com credit card.

lemcoe9on Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings

Third paragraph:

> For drivers, they face a risk of deactivation if they fall below 4.6

lemcoe9on What caused Seattle crane to collapse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLcxROazqy8

This is Liebherr LG 1750 which is a "mobile crawler crane" that is completely self-propelled and self-assembling.

lemcoe9on Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching

Give me a call at [2607:f8b0:4004:802::200e] and I'll tell you.

lemcoe9on Uber's Losses Reach Double Digits in IPO Debut

I am sure I am not alone when I say "thank you" for your list of legal accusations and subsequent evidence/anecdotes/articles/anything to back them up.

lemcoe9on Calling a real estate robocaller back

> maybe that will push a critical mass of people to VOIP and leave this sorry industry

You realize that the vast majority of "robo-calls" are originated from Class 2 Interconnectwd VoIP providers, aka SIP companies like Twilio, Flowroute, SIPSTATION, SIP.US, voip.ms, and the like.

VoIP is the problem, because you can put an extraordinary amount of of volume down a very narrow pipe, with almost zero verification or validation on the technical if you are an active customer with a SIP provider. Becoming an active customer is not very difficult, either.

lemcoe9on Calling a real estate robocaller back

And how would you expect to collect on any of that?

lemcoe9on MySigMail v1.9.0 Is Out (UI Email Signature Generator)

Just what we need, more bloated HTML signatures with images...

lemcoe9on Librem Laptop RAM and Storage Bump, 32GB Max RAM

I must be losing my mind, because Puri.sm is charging $1,599 for the following laptop:

- Dual-core Intel Core i7 7500U

- 250GB SATA (yikes)

- 802.11n (not ac) wireless

- 8GB of RAM

- Intel HD Graphics 620

- USB 2.0 ports

And for the "best" offering which is $3,997:

- Dual-core Intel Core i7 7500U

- 2TB nVME (not dual-SSD)

- 802.11n (not ac) wireless

- 32GB of RAM

- Intel HD Graphics 620

- USB 2.0 ports

This is a joke, right? 802.11n is completely unacceptable in 2019, as is charging $4k for a computer with Intel HD 620 on-board. What a joke.

lemcoe9on Understanding STIR/SHAKEN – New Anti-Robocalling Protocol

SIP over TLS (which uses SRTP) is great, but as soon as it hits a vendor downstream that doesn't support it, it immediately gets trans-coded into plain-ole-SIP and is just as insecure as any other VoIP call. This is not a solution by any means, because it assumes that the entire call path is TLS-enabled, which, in my experience, is impossible on the public telephony network.

lemcoe9on How to live without Google (2017)

You can find a SIP provider (Flowroute, SIP.US, SIPSTATION.com, Twilio, OnSIP, and many more) that will allow you to either use a desk phone or a software-based phone with a telephone number of your choosing. It's never free, and you can expect to pay $0.009 - $0.02 per-minute for all calls.

Disclaimer: I work for one of the companies that I listed in parentheses.

lemcoe9on Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015

Like a CD or DVD?

lemcoe9on Gab Launches Dissenter: Comment on Any Internet Page

Someone right-clicked a link from a Google search results page.

lemcoe9on Apple’s Latest Macs Have a Serious Audio Glitching Bug

Turn you caps locks key into the Escape key. Using a TouchBar keyboard or otherwise, it is a better way to get around.

lemcoe9on Visa, Mastercard mull increasing fees for processing transactions: WSJ

Yep, I am sure that this will be the turning point for "blockchain" and "cryptocurrency" and "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" and "self-driving cars." /s

lemcoe9on The BNC Connector and How It Got That Way

Just about any connector can be converted into a locking and secure connector, such as the following CAT6 locking connector that is used significantly in live broadcast applications:

http://img.directindustry.com/images_di/photo-g/15214-238173...

As for HDMI, it has incredibly few uses into terms of professional production (outside of connecting monitors) setups, but still can be made secure, as seen here: http://www.hallresearch.com/img/products/C-HDMI-L_connected....

lemcoe9on Basic features that will hopefully return to the MacBook Pro

Just a point worth mentioning: if the MacBook Pro is actually "marketed to professionals," then the removal of the SD card slot makes a lot of sense. No "professional" is using an SD card; they are using Compact Flash, CFast, XQD, 2.5" SSD, or a proprietary interface.