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by brightsize 5y ago
It's odd that the article doesn't seem to touch at all on the automated scambaiting systems that exist, such as the legendary Lenny: https://www.youtube.com/c/ToaoDotNet/videos .
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by brightsize 5y ago
The IBM CS 9000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_9000 When I interned @IBM in the mid-80s we had a (computer) lab full of these things. Each had a 68K CPU with (I think) 128K of RAM, a little mono green monit
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by brightsize 5y ago
Yeah hugely annoying. Thank $deity for uBlock Origin -> Element Zapper Mode FTW.
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by brightsize 6y ago
Another option for an email relay service is the venerable Spamgourmet[0]. I'm a long time-user (a decade at least) and according to the site "Your message stats: 11,298 forwarded, 27,539 eaten. You have 172 spamgourmet address(es
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by brightsize 6y ago
galaxy.com - a late-90s+ curated internet directory. Example capture from 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061436/http://www.galaxy... It still exists, sort of, as https://www.einet.n
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by brightsize 7y ago
"Herd immunity" or something along those lines, apparently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22577132
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by brightsize 7y ago
All this hoarding is starting to affect these providers too: https://www.khq.com/news/spokane-nonprofit-collecting-toilet...
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Burned Out and Happy? (Mailpile blog)(mailpile.is)
2 points by brightsize 7y ago|0 comments
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Vintage Photographs of People with Their Commodore 64(vintag.es)
3 points by brightsize 8y ago|0 comments
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1940s Florida in Kodachrome(flashbak.com)
9 points by brightsize 8y ago|2 comments
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by brightsize 8y ago
Google Voice has a similar screening service. From the GV help forum ... "when call screening is enabled: If the caller's name and phone number are in your Google Contacts, or the caller is a business known to Google (e.g. it sho
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by brightsize 8y ago
GV will also ring >1 phone if you choose. So, for example, an inbound call to your GV number could ring both your cell and landline phones and you pick up the one that's more convenient for you.
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by brightsize 8y ago
>Those guys know what they are doing and that's an incredibly hard job to get Indeed, the dedication required to acquire The Knowledge [1] is incredible, at least to me considering how the job of taxi driver is considered a fairly
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by brightsize 8y ago
A talk by his son, given at the Brattleboro library a few years back. "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Writing the Red Wheel in Vermont" https://youtu.be/coSJeHcdmgs
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by brightsize 8y ago
Some vintage Jell-O ads: http://gogd.tjs-labs.com/table-view.php?product=JELL*O
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We used to charge money but nobody wanted to give it to us(startupers.com)
2 points by brightsize 8y ago|0 comments
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by brightsize 8y ago
Or Email Connection! http://web.archive.org/web/19980212160741/http://www.email-c... edit: fix link
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by brightsize 8y ago
A counter-example from fiction comes to mind: Alex, the protagonist and uber-hoodlum in A Clockwork Orange , can't get enough of classical music, especially old "Ludwig Van". https://youtu.be/cQCQRLA05AA If
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by brightsize 8y ago
In Vermont and New Hampshire ("Live Free or Die"!) you can pump your own gas. New Jersey is the other full-service-only state I believe.
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by brightsize 8y ago
"Tollefson has some big plans for her Central Spokane property. The 23-year-old gets the keys to her first home Thursday. ... If you think Megan is unusually young to buy a house - you're half right. Megan is young, but more and
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Spokane millennials buying houses(kxly.com)
2 points by brightsize 8y ago|2 comments
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by brightsize 8y ago
Yes: https://spa.mnesty.com/ Sadly the service is not working at this time due to this issue related to Mailgun: https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/97 .
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by brightsize 8y ago
A bit of fun: https://youtu.be/qwYQwgtXSvc "Take my seat aboard a plane and what is this I see? Leonard Bernstein comes aboard and sits right next to me. First class New York to LA some things just work out right. I’l
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by brightsize 8y ago
Geospatial technologies. Cartography, visualization, remote sensing, geospatial databases. If you're good with Python you'll go to the head of the class. My impression is that most students and practitioners in GIS don't ha
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by brightsize 8y ago
I first came across Art in the mid 90s too. I commuted home in the black of midnight on back roads from Redmond (WA) out into the mountains. A good 40min at least but Art and C2C were there every night, filling my head with tales of wonder
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by brightsize 8y ago
Washington State: "Unless a judge grants permission, Attorneys and paralegals are excluded from appearing or participating with the plaintiff or defendant in a small claims suit." http://www.atg.wa.gov/small-claims
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The suddenly hot job market for workers over 50(cnbc.com)
47 points by brightsize 9y ago|22 comments
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by brightsize 9y ago
The minister at our local UU church IS an atheist. http://uuspokane.org/WP2/staff/rev-dr-todd-eklof/
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by brightsize 9y ago
In the north-central part of town (Garland 'hood) I'm getting 40Mb service from CenturyLink and it's generally pretty reliable though throughput really drops during the mid- and late afternoon. I didn't know that Comcast
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by brightsize 9y ago
Fanboy here. I've used Coconut extensively and it's a joy. I wouldn't start a (personal) Python-targeted project without it. Pattern-matching, a non-horrid lambda syntax, lazy evaluation, TCO, a built-in partial function synt

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