We have been seeing in ProtonDB data that Ubuntu has been progressively losing steam (and market share) amongst gamers, what do you think of this observed trend? Rings true or not?
Whenever I buy a generic product on Amazon or #eBay, I check both sites to make sure I'm not buying from a drop shipper who's merely listing someone else's item at a marked up price and ordering it for you.
I'd do anything I can to avoid supporting a drop shipper, but I finally ran into one situation where it worked out well for both of us. I wanted a specific power adapter. It was listed for $2 more on eBay than it was on Amazon, but I didn't want to pay for shipping so I bought it from eBay from an eBay store that was relatively near me. I was hoping to get it within a few days.
Well, I got it the next day and it came via an Amazon delivery.
I just paid someone $2 for the privilege of using their #Amazon Prime membership to get an item I wanted delivered sooner.
UPDATE: It turns out I paid a $5 premium. My item was listed at different prices. I didn't see the cheaper one.
There is a certain kind of product that is rife with this kind of scheme. There are some giveway signs. If you start shopping for that power adapter that I bought, you'll start finding lots that look almost like it's the exact same thing, but made by different manufacturers.
Did everyone just find a good design and copy it? Possible, but more likely all those different brands are just rebranded wholesale purchases of whitelabel generics.
If you shop for this, you'll find that they don't even bother to change the product photos. They write different descriptions, but really they're almost certainly selling the same source item at different price points.
The confusion around these rebranded white labels is very conducive to #drop-shipping schemes because it's hard to tell. Sometimes someone really is selling it themselves.
Oha, dieses #fediverse ist doch einfach nur kaputt 😢
Der dritte Account der uns einfach gesperrt wurde, ohne Vorankündigung. So macht das hier alles keinen Sinn mehr. Instanzen blocken sich und User werden einfach gekickt, ohne dass man darüber spricht was das Problem ist.
pfcloud[.]io attempting to connect on various high numbered ports in a window of ~3 minutes +/- 2. "Everything that is permissable under the law is allowed."
Well, in that case, 84.54.51.0/24 is explicitly denied on all of my machines going forward. 🖕
Why is the .US domain -- the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States -- consistently among the most prevalent in phishing domains?
And why is this okay, when other ccTLDs that also restrict registration to residents/citizens don't seem to have this problem? And when a fair number of .US domains are used to attack US government agencies? Today's story explores these questions:
Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S. citizens and to those who can demonstrate that they have a physical presence in the United States.
Everyone who defends or apoligizes #KiwiFarms deserves to get blocked on sight.
If you think it's a "hill worth dying on" then get your facts straight:
KiwiFarms is literally the acid-filled openpit mine of hate and solely being used by people who get banned from 4chan, 8kun, MumsNet and other shitsites.
Just like blocking all traffic from GeoIP'd ASNs originating from Russia, China and North Korea is usually considered an act of self- and mutual IT defense.
#HE could've chosen to instead force the other providers connecting #AS397702 to DROP them under threat of terminating them as customers, but that would've had actual collateral damages.
It's an act of self-defense against an ASN that is a "#RogueISP"...
If you think that's the first time or the only reason #ISPs haven't #DROP'd them or any other network, then you ignore the existance of #Spamhaus for decades.
The problem with the EFF's reasoning here is that these very same ISPs and other sorts of people have ALWAYS been attacking and taking down and banning marginalized people's content for spurious reasons - time and time again. The real world is ALREADY shit for marginalized people - there's no slippery slope to fall down, we're ALREADY down the slippery slope.
I've had this beef with the fucking neoliberals in the EFF and ACLU for decades - they seem to think riding to the defense of right wing hate groups protects marginalized people ... but then crickets when sex workers are banned from the financial system. Or when trans people are harassed, swatted, and doxxed off the internet by organized gangs of bigoted thugs.
There's NEVER a right time to ride to the defense of Nazis. EVER!
#Netlify's new #Drop tool allows you to create a new website using #AI and have it automatically deployed to #theCloud.
"Simply describe the website you want to build not only will #chatGPT author the markup scripts and style sheets but it will deploy it to Netlify I for you too!"
It was one of the first big purchases I made when I first got a job back in 2019 😭
I gave it new #keycaps and hand lubed each switch, even replaced the stabilizers. All-in-all I'm pretty proud of what I did with it, even if it's not the thockiest.