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So amazon has stopped putting the actual product in email notices. This is dumb and dangerous. Makes them look exactly like a phish mail and will will put tons of people at risk, and its ( i assume ) to get you to login so you can be blasted with more ads. *****ers.
And related.. ( tho could fall in to hot rodding too, but its about amazon )
had my 'emergency kit' out of the jeep today, charging up the battery on the jumper and inflator. I do it every so often. Pulled otu a couple of the older 'univeral' tools in there. No, they are not as good as the real thing, but if htey get the job done 95% of the time and you carry one wrench instead of 20, its a win.
"i wonder if tech has advance any the last few years" so started poking around. One was a link to Walmart, another some 3rd party, another to Amazon. I clicked on the Amazon link as one advantage to them is no questions asked returns if you get garbage. "wtf, this looks like its on AliExpress" Not that i care, this stuff comes from china ( or similar ) anyway. but was shocked to see the drastic difference in normality.
At the top "Amazon Haul" wtf is this ?? I read.. looks like they are playing "web middle man" for overseas sellers and taking almost zero responsibility. "Shipping may take 2 weeks or more, and you become the legal importer and are responsible bla bla".. What in the world.
We have clear signs as you enter town "permit required. ordnance enforced" and part of that permit is to accept a 50 dollar fine if you ignore signs on homes. ( at least used to be 50, may be more now )
"ordnance enforced"? Was that a typo, or do they really hit salesmen with heavy artillery? If so, I want to live there!
lol
Fri Jul 31 2026 08:58:22 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
We have clear signs as you enter town "permit required. ordnance enforced" and part of that permit is to accept a 50 dollar fine if you ignore signs on homes. ( at least used to be 50, may be more now )
"ordnance enforced"? Was that a typo, or do they really hit salesmen with heavy artillery? If so, I want to live there!
Do you think American or European IT development has any more integrity? I absolutely distrust all technology at this point. I stopped doing h4x0rz thingz a long time ago, because I saw the writing on the wall.
As soon as I got well enough off to have something to lose, I just paid for whatever it was I wanted. It wasn't worth the risk of a Plex server, anymore.
Wed Jul 08 2026 09:01:02 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarIt baffles me that any industry trusts China at all. They openly lie cheat and steal, and the world just keeps doing business with them.
And by the way - my technical proficiency fell off a cliff at the same time. Figuring out how to break systems was what got me a lucrative career with technology bellwethers - and I think growing up in the bay area - they *knew* it. When I got hired on at Intel, my leadership approached me and asked, "Hey, you know other people, you know - like YOU - that are good at... bypassing restrictions and finding innovative solutions, right?" And then they paid me $2500 bonus for every one of those guys I brought on. The rest of my team had CIS degrees from Chico and UCLA and MCSEs and A+ and CCSEs and were "by the books" dudes - and they HATED me and my friends and our "unorthodox" IT methodologies of "Well, how can I BREAK this..." We had none of the paper tiger degrees - and whatever they threw up in front of us, we broke and bypassed - often so quickly I felt bad for those degree dudes.
.Or even non-tech. Food. Housing, Any of it. Its all a scam and everyone is in on it, regardless of the 'country of origin'. All they care about is if they get rich off it today, screw the future, and the serfs.
Sun Aug 02 2026 02:36:41 EDT from ParanoidDelusionsI absolutely distrust all technology at this point.
Not sure the extent, and if its also effecting open models, but looks like there are a couple of companies how embedding ads into LLMs. So when you ask it something, it tries to sell you a product.
Do you think American or European IT development has any more
integrity? I absolutely distrust all technology at this point. I
Ummm ... yes? China openly steals western IP and is proud to sell counterfeit crap directly back to us.
Everyone steals tech from everyone else. Its not just China. And none of them can be trusted.
Doesn't make it right of course.
Sun Aug 09 2026 07:23:39 EDT from IGnatius T FoobarDo you think American or European IT development has any more
integrity? I absolutely distrust all technology at this point. I
Ummm ... yes? China openly steals western IP and is proud to sell counterfeit crap directly back to us.
Looks like several states are ganging up on Meta. If they win, it may cost Meta upwards of $1.4t ( yes, a T not B ) in fines and radical changes to their operations.
Now, i hate them as much as the next guy, and they have done some bad things, but the side effects of this, will be bad for everyone online, and any online service. ( Such as advancement of mandatory age verification, AND AI to search out liars that are really under 13 and wipe their accounts.. .. for one easy example )
And of course anyone they actually legit hurt, wont see a dime. it all goes to the politicians and members of the club...