I pirate things to see if I like them, and if I like them, I buy the CD and a t-shirt or something from the musician’s website.

I like having more time on the weekends personally, but any day is okay as long as I know to expect it. I’ll try to get into one of the next ones!

Yeah, me too.

I pay money to a person or company in order to receive a good or service which is defined and negotiated ahead of time.

Someone I don’t know making a website I didn’t ask for isn’t doing anything for me, and doesn’t have my agreement or consent.

That’s fine as long as they aren’t expecting me to pay them for it. Expecting money for actions taken on someone else’s behalf without their consent is a scam.

Appalachian region.

Oh, I guess I was thinking of a different site with a similar name. I know there is a website that lets you use magic wormhole to transfer files. I thought it was called Wormhole, too.

Very sad.

I think I read something recently about birds’ brains being much more neuron-dense than ours, so the small size is deceptive. Which makes sense.

I’ve been blocked by fraud protection when trying to buy pet food at a pet store next to my house, trying to buy fast food while visiting a friend in another city, trying to buy two cell phones in one day because the first one was out of stock and was refunded, trying to buy software from any company headquartered in another country, trying to buy crypto, trying to buy health supplements from a friend’s company.

Supposedly, when they suspect fraud, you get an automated call where you can indicate a charge is legitimate and they’ll let it go through, but I rarely got a call, and when I did, purchases that I marked as legitimate still wouldn’t go through.

I talked to a real person with the fraud department, and she had no idea why the charges were being blocked, since, according to her, they should’t have been. But also, there was nothing they could do about it.

Imagine if they ran like an ostrich.

I hope it’s successful at changing things.

Interesting.

Biggest downside to me is the battery price.

Their legs are sooo long!

This is why those weird MuWire accounts have so many guerilla warfare manuals.

SimpleX public rooms work smoothly, IMO, but a lot of rooms have problems with casual Nazism and general rudeness. Some are more moderated than others. I gave up on groups eventually and just use it to talk to people I know.

That happened to both my home server and the OpenSUSE rooms at different times. My home server took it seriously, and quickly made changes to prevent it from happening again, but I still had 20+ invitations with pedo images to delete one by one.

I suggested to the dev of the nheko client that they add some way to deal with spam invites, and they didn’t see any necessity for that. Just told me to delete them one by one.

Disappointing.

I did not know that!

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