When they say "we have no control over this because this was shipped by a third-party seller" what they're saying is, "even though we promised the arrival date and we charged your card, we don't want to take any responsibility for fulfillment whatsoever, so kindly sit and spin".

Amazon is easily one of the worst things that ever happened to both retail and the internet. No accountability and people will just keep shoveling their money, so there never will be any. What are we even paying for now? Late packages and passing the responsibility to "sellers".

Oh, and in regards to the "anti-fraud use": If I'm asking you to delete my shit and someone comes along later claiming to be me, well, I guess you'll just have to. oh, I don't know. KYC? Or some other reasonable way of verifying THEIR identity without exposing mine.

You guys ever notice how paper money doesn't require any wires or power?.Written langauge: ~5,000 years.Physical Money: >5,000 years.Electricity (commonly): ~100 years.Crypto: 15 years.Yeah, I can see how really smart people might bet on crypto replacing cash. Drugs.

If anyone is still here and following me, I just want to drop this for the folks in LA going thru it.California Fire Foundation: LA Fire Department Foundation: And of course, there's always the Red Cross:

I have podcast. That is all.

Oh look, more twitter is happened to me. Ok, if anyone real and not a spokesperson for stupidity is still in the house, I'll--uh--see you in a few weeks. you know, if the site's still up. Wow, it really is like the 90's again.

X isn't even Ankh-Morpork's town square.

Words, words, words. Watch my channel.

I just bought a new (used) Dell PowerEdge. As soon as it arrives, I plan to put it in my rack, but I have to buy special brackets to mount it at an angle because I always tip my servers. Okay, I'm done.

Someone wanted to send me a whole bunch of thermostats, photodiodes, and moisture probes, but they wanted to send it by boat. This is obviously a problem for me, so I told them I simply couldn't let there be any sensor ship.

If you don't have a box of full bridge rectifiers in your office, then where *do* you store your full bridge rectifiers?

I said I was going to video, and now I have done so. Let it not be said that I am a breaker of promises or basher of grammar.

I did a video. It's not public yet, but I did it. I'll probably release it after a couple "test viewers" give me feedback (my wife and my editor--not video editor, the other kind). What I can tell you, beyond any reasonable doubt, is that it is, in fact, a video.

How would you feel about running 24 VAC at 500mA through cat5 wires?.

This is fun, check it out, share it, get this guy some subs.

It's about to get real.

. sending a 6-digit code to my phone or email is NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SECURITY MEASURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell your CISO to get bent!.

. almost criminal degree! 8-16 character password. You're so f*cking stupid it makes my head hurt. Update your computers and your IT staff or roll over and die, because it's a brave new world out there for hackers. Also, get real 2FA, ever heard of sim-swapping, you idiots?. .