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[#] Sun Aug 18 2024 13:08:43 UTC from Nurb432

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Seems that here in Indiana, they have dogs in many of the warehouse hubs for stuff like FedEx. "Eh, ok.."  until you find out that the dogs are not sniffing for drugs, but instead cash.. and if they find some, your cash is seized and you have to file suit to prove its legit.  Millions every year.

And i guess if you travel thru here with any amount of cash, you are liable to lose it in the same manner.

 

wtf.



[#] Sat Aug 24 2024 15:56:59 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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I've heard about that. There is an assumption that if you have a large amount of cash on hand you are obviously buying or selling drugs. There's no way that is constitutional but I guess no one has challenged it in any meaningful way.

[#] Sat Aug 24 2024 21:50:17 UTC from Nurb432

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Most of the time when i buy a car, its in cash...   "hi, here is 6 grand in the envelope, hand me the title and im out of your hair"

One time i did that, "wow, i expected a check or something"  Umm like i would trust some random stranger to write me a check like that.

Sat Aug 24 2024 11:56:59 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
I've heard about that. There is an assumption that if you have a large amount of cash on hand you are obviously buying or selling drugs. There's no way that is constitutional but I guess no one has challenged it in any meaningful way.

 



[#] Fri Aug 30 2024 16:46:06 UTC from Nurb432

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"researchgate"  A repository for research papers, requires an account. Rather appropriate name to have added 'gate' .

 

 



[#] Sun Sep 01 2024 23:30:19 UTC from Nurb432

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Spam seems down this weekend, almost zero. I wonder if they are taking a holiday too.



[#] Tue Sep 10 2024 18:14:43 UTC from Nurb432

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"Agile = making the easy complex.    Making it so hard for customers they will never ask for anything ever again."


( and ya, i know i posted in bottom feeders.. as the people who had that idea are scumbags )



[#] Wed Sep 11 2024 10:15:56 UTC from darknetuser

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2024-09-01 19:30 from Nurb432
Spam seems down this weekend, almost zero. I wonder if they are
taking a holiday too.


Meanwhile, email servers at two of my jobs are receiving lots of email attempts from some "funteensex" domain. I kind of felt bad blocking the related domains and IPs because the teens seemed to be having a lot of fun and the emails weren't reaching any inbox anyway LOL

[#] Fri Sep 13 2024 18:13:27 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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I remember having fun with a teen. Then she turned 20 and we continued having fun.

[#] Sat Sep 21 2024 16:43:34 UTC from Nurb432

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Porteus Linux. "Our clients are free unless you want our support, or run our server"  ...   "oh wait now that people use it, reported bugs and help development, we changed our mind and now we are not free and its subscription based. Oh, and we hard wired in a way to disable all the old versions but didn't mention it... hahahahah pay up, suckers"



[#] Wed Sep 25 2024 21:57:39 UTC from darknetuser

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2024-09-21 12:43 from Nurb432
Porteus Linux. "Our clients are free unless you want our
support, or run our server"  ...   "oh wait now that people
use it, reported bugs and help development, we changed our mind
and now we are not free and its subscription based. Oh, and we
hard wired in a way to disable all the old versions but didn't
mention it... hahahahah pay up, suckers"


For one moment, I thought you were talking about these guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porteus_(operating_system)

Porteus is not that bad, but the guys have an anti-tor instance, which is one of the reasons why I am not eager to contribute to their stuffs.

[#] Wed Sep 25 2024 22:04:39 UTC from Nurb432

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Nope, not them.

Not a fan of Slackware myself, but they seem like a legit project. Not like these other F-ers.  Bet they stole the name too. 

Wed Sep 25 2024 17:57:39 EDT from darknetuser
For one moment, I thought you were talking about these guys:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porteus_(operating_system)

Porteus is not that bad, but the guys have an anti-tor instance, which is one of the reasons why I am not eager to contribute to their stuffs.

 



[#] Wed Sep 25 2024 23:02:55 UTC from darknetuser

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2024-09-25 18:04 from Nurb432
Nope, not them.

Not a fan of Slackware myself, but they seem like a legit
project. Not like these other F-ers.  Bet they stole the name
too. 

Porteus does not feel very Slackware-like while in use. They use Slackware as a base but then they run a lot of custom-made management stuff on it. They have support for Slackware-compatible packages and stuff like Slackbuilds, and that is it.

Nowadays, I prefer Tiny Core Linux for the stuff I used to use Porteus for. It is more compact and overall a better pick for laser-focused tasks.

What is the Porteus you were actually talking about?

[#] Wed Sep 25 2024 23:10:54 UTC from Nurb432

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Reading the wiki page, it looks like the company that i ran into took the same Porteus project, and basically made a proprietary branch of the build scrips, in effect. Started out sucking people in by being 'free', then flipped the switch.

Wed Sep 25 2024 19:02:55 EDT from darknetuser
What is the Porteus you were actually talking about?

 



[#] Fri Sep 27 2024 15:07:15 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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I think I may have cracked the code. Specifically, how to create accounts on X.COM and keep them.

For those not up to speed: my cell number and email address are both banned because the social justice warriors who ran the place back when it was called Twitter got all butthurt over some things I said. So for a long time I wasn't able to create new accounts under any email address because eventually it would ask for my phone number.

The trick seems to be:

1. Click the "log in with Google" button
2. Establish the account, follow a few people, like a few things, etc.
3. Remove your photo and change your name.
4. Change your password. Since you don't have a password, do a password reset with the gmail account.
5. Now change your email address and disconnect the Google account.

Obviously this doesn't anonymize you if you're trying to hide your real identity from Google or from the government. I don't care about either of those things on X, I'm just trying to avoid being thrown under the bus by people who already know (and dislike) me.

So now I have two accounts:

1. One with my well known "nom de plume" which I will probably just use in read-only mode forever

2. Another one with an unknown name which I will use to spew the kind of bitter sarcasm that is 100% true but gets me in trouble

Let the flames begin!

[#] Fri Sep 27 2024 15:16:22 UTC from Nurb432

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But why do we want an X account?  :)

 

For what its worth, some time ago i created a dummy google account.  Was for an experiment with building TV streamer thing out of x86 android. I wanted the YT interface to be separate from mine. If i remember right it only asked for an email, and i used a disposable one.  The experiment failed due to another app not working, so didn't keep using it, but it did setup an account.  This might have been about a year ago.

I suppose if they changed the rules, disposable phone numbers might work, so you could still remain anonymous but have a G account.



[#] Sat Sep 28 2024 14:39:55 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Interesting. A few minutes after I posted the above message, I got the dreaded "There was suspicious activity on your account and you need to verify it" screen. But instead of the old version where you need to verify it with a text message, now it is content to simply do an email verification followed by solving a puzzle.

❤️ Elon.



[#] Sat Sep 28 2024 16:53:13 UTC from Nurb432

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so when i first saw this post it said (heart) now its got an emoticon. I thought it was yesterday before i lost power. but it says 28?  Bug, or edit, or insanity on my part?

Sat Sep 28 2024 10:39:55 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Interesting. A few minutes after I posted the above message, I got the dreaded "There was suspicious activity on your account and you need to verify it" screen. But instead of the old version where you need to verify it with a text message, now it is content to simply do an email verification followed by solving a puzzle.

❤️ Elon.



[#] Sat Sep 28 2024 17:41:04 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Just an edit. You're not going insane. Or maybe you are but not because of that.

[#] Sat Sep 28 2024 17:42:11 UTC from Nurb432

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lol

Sat Sep 28 2024 13:41:04 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Just an edit. You're not going insane. Or maybe you are but not because of that.

 



[#] Mon Nov 04 2024 19:21:27 UTC from Nurb432

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L.A. Sues Coke and Pepsi.. for what you ask?  "Plastic hurting the environment". freaking greeines.

 

I care about nature as much or more than the next guy, but i refuse to buy in to this sort of lunacy. 



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