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@PamelaBarroway @mastodonmigration Hopefully into the sun.
I should work at SpaceX...my math could be just a *tiny* bit wrong
@galacticstone@mastodon.social The problem is for many people, there's no alternative - Amazon is most of eCommerce and the smaller you are, the more it is. And unless you have a web team, Shopify and Woocommerce and stuff is just too difficult for most people to learn, let alone keep up to date.
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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social If there's any justice, she'll spent a few years as a ward of the state
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Is it form spam, or email spam? And yes its gotten worse, AI is made is real easy to spam people with their name, location, job title, interests and more.
Just finished #TheBoys
Todd Blanche has committed treason
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl
@galacticstone@mastodon.social Where I'm guilty - I pay for Prime because I get so much back from their card it's literally a 1.6% raise for me. It pays for itself more than 13x. And that's not all using it on Amazon. I have other cards but none that get that consistent level of points.
I do make sure I never buy a sponsored product.
What I hate is that I can no longer use Amazon as a search engine, and then go to a separate site for a better deal - they'll ban companies for that. I used to do that a lot
@galacticstone@mastodon.social That doesn't change anything.
Amazon demands most-favored-nation status from its sellers.
Take Anker, I love their stuff. It used to be, you could buy it on their site $10-15 cheaper.
Now, its always the same price (But on Amazon, I get 5%+ back, on their site, I get 1%, maybe 2%)
Amazon told them at some point, the pricing must be the same, or we kick you off Amazon.
So, they raised their prices in their shop, making an extra 15%+.
@galacticstone@mastodon.social I hate how hard it is to leave big tech. Some of its a lack of comparable platforms, some of its price, some of it is the just tiny little UI things or stupid choices that alternatives do that make it so hard to leave.
I've been using Google Workspace for free with my domain for 17 year, its real tough to leave. But I'm moving list by list to SimpleLogin.
Deleting IG was easy. Threads too. Never was on FB, Tiktok. Left Twitter in a hurry the moment Elongated Muskrat took over.
@galacticstone@mastodon.social Who's your ecom platform? Can you use other payment gateways?
I'm in the same boat - I try to each week use big tech less and less and move another account, another list list etc. It's just so much work for a 20 year old digital footprint.
100% of the time, my response to a paywall is to leave.
It's like NATO without the Asshole (US)
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social is it landing in your email inbox and coming from many random domains, often non US TLDs.
Happy to help if I can. I do a lot of bot blocking.
Form spam can be blocked by blocking IP ranges of hosting providers or some cloudflare bot protection rules, as well as captchas and some other techniques.
Email spam you generally need Google Workspace or Office365 to do a lot, you can block IP ranges of certain hosts, but mostly its keyword blocking - like anyone who says "SEO"
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@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social He'll die in the bunker under his ballroom just like the last bunker bitch
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@danirabbit We need to break Gottheimer's voicemail, clog his phones, max out his inbox and donate to his independent
The guy's a loser. He was my rep until redistricting and then I moved. He was better than the Republican he ousted, but he's a chucklehead. I've met him - he has no backbone at all.
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@apps@toot.fedilab.app Only if there's a way to also get to the original link. Sometimes UTMs etc are used for coupon codes, but it also gives credit to the Fediverse when sites choose where to publish.
Now, if there were any individual tracking parameters like an advertising ID that would be a different story.
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@mvario@mastodon.social And just today they published this: https://proton.me/blog/trump-controls-nsa-fbi
One comment by one person != the company.
I think he misreads the situation a bit, but he's also not completely wrong. Some dems like Schumer are blatantly corrupt and block anything that would improve everything. They both use all this data for campaigns too.
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@emptywheel@mastodon.social and that decade is just what we have records for and what's in or may still be in the statue of limitations. It's unlikely it started suddenly and I doubt he's the one who thought of it - probably his dad's idea.
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@major@fosstodon.org Perhaps Floss.social too but I'd consider their rules to be extreme.
I could fucking shoot the Bambu engineers who programmed the AMS. The second anything is wrong, it turns into crusted over dogshit
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I would like to automatically nominate anyone who dies with AI help for a Darwin Award.
Especially this dumb fuck.
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Indeed started sending me emails for the first time in years. Fuck that. Especially the AI companies it was from.
I ain't no class traitor.
Can't log in, because they want my phone number and won't accept a Google voice number.
So I just told them to delete my account and all data.
Fuck you, Indeed.
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@RepDonBeyer@mas.to they're not blueprints. It's a 3D model, typically downloaded as an STL file and converted to gcode for the specific printer.
With all the location based laws, it's absolutely crazy that the internet doesn't have native location headers, you have to use a free limited service, or paid commercial service, to get a user's location.
If governments want to enforce these, then they need to either mandate ISPs add headers with country and state, or provide a free service where users can go to download information that is assumed to be correct for legal reasons.
New from #jersey boy Brian Fallon - Not Bad for New Jersey (Official Visualizer)
The end of an Era starts now. Colbert's last show - and the last reason to ever turn on CBS again - starts now.
RE: @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
This looks like the next evolution of a ring of scammers and spammers I've been tracking for 2+ years who abuse two things: Microsoft's non-existent vetting and the ability to upload massive lists and send emails from new accounts, and using existing systems like Paypal and others to send an individual email to a single user, from a known and verified domain, using its own infrastructure, but sending it to a group email that then spams millions of users.
#NJ also capped rental application fees at $50 recently
https://www.njoag.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026-0413_Formatted-Guidance-for-Housing-Providers-on-Rental-Application-Fees.pdf which is now in effect.
Kash Patel is either trying to hide the truth, or severely misspoke.
He said he took half as many days as his two prior predecessors *combined*.
If Comey took 10 days off. And Wray Took 10 days off. And Patel took 10 days off.
Then he would have taken the same as them, but half as many as them, combined.
Dear Samsung,
Fuck yourselves to death with a rusty post holer
Youtube algo is nuts. I watched one short (which I almost never do) with Josh Johnson from the Daily Show and now 2 of the first 8 videos show him, 3 of the first 10, and he's in almost every row.
This is where Google doesn't understand humans at all. Youtube, ads, emails, nothing!
One instance - one search, one video, one email, etc does not equal interest.
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And FYI y'all, these creeps will tell your current employer when you're looking for a new job, if your employer pays them enough.
Reddit is full of stories of people who have been fired because they dared to look for another job, while still working at a job.
This isn't that dissimilar to what the Nazis did with their Work Books (Arbeitsbuch) where the employers kept them, much like many countries hold passports today, and the employee couldn't switch jobs without it.