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by ilamont 6mo ago
What year was this?
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by ilamont 6mo ago
> Free to do what? Sit on a beach, apparently. The author apparently never read Tim Ferriss’ The 4 hour work week which not only whiteboarded some of the described schemes 20 years ago, but also had an illustration of a hammock suspend
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by ilamont 6mo ago
No, I did not identify myself as a lawyer. I just wrote the letter as a victim of a scammer using Google services to impersonate me. But I was careful to use certified mail return receipt as google’s legal office knows that this can be used
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by ilamont 6mo ago
> Usually when a gmail account is being used for real spamming, it's an established one that's been taken over My incident is unlikely to be a real account being taken over. The name format was "firstnamelastnameofficial@g
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Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX(reuters.com)
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by ilamont 6mo ago
> Even confirming that an investigation existed could be penalized. I didn't know that. But that is another point that could be highlighted on the IC3 homepage or confirmation, along with aggregated data about enforcement actions re
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by ilamont 6mo ago
Yes, they could easily spin up another gmail address. The other part of the scam involved sending money to a bank account in Oregon with someone else's name attached to it. I notified the bank in a similar manner and hope they shut it
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by ilamont 6mo ago
Honestly, the "acted upon" part needs to be highlighted in tangible ways, otherwise people will be suspicious that nothing ever happens to our reports, leading to fewer reports being submitted. During the IC3 reporting process I w
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by ilamont 6mo ago
Wasn't expecting this comment to go far. This took place about a month ago. For those who are interested, here is the address I sent the police report and cover letter to: Google LLC Attn: Legal Department – Custodian of Records 1600
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by ilamont 6mo ago
I got a human being at Google to look into my problem and take action after sending a police report to Google‘s legal department certified mail return receipt along with a letter describing how someone was impersonating me and my business u
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Amazon sellers boycott ads in policy change revolt(cnbc.com)
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V&A Museum deletes maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing from publications(theguardian.com)
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For the first time ever, Amazon is cutting old Kindles off from the Kindle Store(arstechnica.com)
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by ilamont 6mo ago
> Commit to something? Yes, with an actual payment (processed credit card transaction), a signed contract with clear payment terms, or a convincing promise to pay such as a written instruction to send an invoice. A lot of startups have m
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by ilamont 6mo ago
> I also think there's a lot to learn from the book about DIY for any startup or community organizer. The parallels with being in a band and a startup are real. Azerrad says many times in the book that what these bands were doing wa
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by ilamont 6mo ago
My blog is related to my genealogy business, not music. But the story about archiving old audio and video is relevant to the struggle of many genealogists to preserve old media, a frequent topic on the blog: https://easygenie.org
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by ilamont 6mo ago
Not only that, you can listen to many of them for free from the Fugazi online concert archive: https://dischord.com/fugazi_live_series (See my comment upthread about Fugazi and the unexpected encounter with Ian MacKaye afte
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by ilamont 6mo ago
On the afternoon of October 6 1989 I attended a Fugazi concert in Cambridge Mass, probably one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Last year I casually searched YouTube for some shows I had attended in my youth and this one popped u
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by ilamont 6mo ago
Just telling you how my father remembered it. Not sure how big the cask or barrel was, but if time and temperature are controlled, how will that affect the rate of ice formation inside the cask? What happens to the remaining unfrozen liquid
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The Iran war took a toll on the Air Force's Reaper fleet(taskandpurpose.com)
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> I was able to distill a few bottles of home made apple wine that I had screwed up some additional flavorings on. It took a couple of hours for 3 or 4 bottles. My grandfather used to make something called Apple Jack using a method known
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Practical Advice to Avoid Getting Pwned by a State Actor Using AI(choosingvictory.com)
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by ilamont 6mo ago
The New Yorker also comes with Apple News+ subscriptions (part of an Apple One plan that many people get for extra iCloud storage) which further includes a number of top-tier and local news orgs such as the Wall Street Journal, LA Times, SF
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Report: Apple has shifted 40% of planned MacBook production capacity to Vietnam(twitter.com)
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by ilamont 6mo ago
> simplified claims procedure I believe this is what we call small claims court in the United States. The threshold varies by state, but it is a very effective way to deal with recalcitrant companies both large and small.
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Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? (2023)(news.mit.edu)
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by ilamont 7mo ago
Amazon still charges ebook publishers the same “delivery fee” for each sold digital copy (US$0.15/megabyte) as it did in the mid 2000s when Kindles came with 3g chips. https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic&#
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Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem(platformer.news)
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Senator proposes to widen US ban on Chinese autos(reuters.com)
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