Won’t help now but only deal with contractors that have a contractor license. That license number means they paid insurance into a fund so if they take the money and run, you can recover your money from the state insurance fund even if they personally don’t have any money.

It took like 3 years for the process to work through but I got back all my money from a contractor that took a payment and disappeared.

I have close to 100. They’re like books on a shelf. If I read a good book I put it on the shelf even though I’m not likely to ever read it again.

Why does the browser need to open?

Serious answer:

I believe many office environments have customer service reps using only web apps. They don’t run an .exe, they go to a webpage that has the corporate web apps.

Personally I had to spend a lot time getting my raspberry PI to autoload Firefox at boot because I have a custom html home automation panel. A distro that had the option of “boot to web page” at start up would have saved me an hour of googling.

Probably insider corruption. Like the corporate sales agent or podcast employee is somehow related through friendship or blood to someone at openai.

Wife saw it on a flight. She wanted to watch the rest when she came home.

Sonic was good. I heard Minecraft was ok.

That was what someone claimed but it isn’t true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.

They not only look at your files but will decrypt any encrypted zip files to see what you have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086814

Yeah. Everyone was moving to CD-R.

The security is monitoring your public records. Could you link to any of their services that aren’t about public records like titles, credit cards, credit ratings? Because that’s all I saw on their website.

There’s another company named aura that appears to be completely unrelated that provides security services in Malaysia- like physical guards for your business.

I get the idea of mocking security companies that get hacked. But this is a bad example. All their data was already public.

It would be like being mad at Lemmy because your username jjlinux and all your posts got “hacked” and posted to the Internet.

I was soo excited about ls120. Zip drive capacity in a 1.44 MB disc format with backwards compatibility. How could it not become the next big thing?

I self host everything except email but how do you keep your credit report private? How do you keep your email completely private given it’s use is to send to other people?

I didn’t know what Aura was until writing this. They are a company that notifies you if credit card was stolen or other identity theft has happened. That’s already public. Your email is already public.

It seems unnecessary duplication of effort to repeat everything on different platforms. I’d rather get people to use Lemmy by not having Lemmy seem dead.

I don’t understand how people have time for multiple social media. How do you read/reply to everything on Lemmy and do something else?

I use fake toner in my brother.

It’s not inkjet but you can get passible color on laser. You need to go into settings and tell it it’s a photo and you want max quality. I have a Brother color laser.

They invented a really neat diode. It creates electricity when it emits ir. But of course that isn’t enough to get research funding which is why they make ridiculous hype.

Sorta bullshit from the same lab that hyped their night time solar that works but is thermodynamically impossible to be practical.

Flash an ir diode with encrypted data and because encrypted data looks like noise, you can’t tell that the data isn’t just heat noise.

That’s it.

They invented a bunch of hype words to get press because unfortunately that’s how labs get money these days.

SEO is one reason that’s less common.

No it isn’t. SEO is about gaming the search engines to place their data ahead of everything whether relevant or not.

Yahoo was fantastic in it’s time because it was human curated. No SEO could bullshit a person reading the page and categorizing it.

Google was fantastic at the start because SEO couldn’t game the system. Google was famous in the early days for maintaining quality by keeping their algorithms secret and constantly changing so that SEO couldn’t break their search.

I’m speaking as someone who was first on the Internet in the 80’s.

If prices are high only the poor are affected. If you are rich and waste gas you aren’t affected. But if you are rich and save gas, it keeps prices lower for those that can’t afford it.