Just finished dealing with a eBay scam myself. Bought a used laptop, it got marked as shipped but the tracking number was fake and not real.
Due to it being marked as shipped I had to wait 28 days for eBay purchase protection to do something about it as the seller was ignoring messages & making excuses. eBay protection refunded the purchase in less than an hour after opening the request. Did some searching online and learned there are quite a few scams running on eBay.
I too have ended up with a pen tablet. XP-Pen mini 7"
Broke my wrist snowboarding which ended up with my wrist getting pinned back together.
After it surgically "fixed" and healed and I started using that hand again, I got super inflamed tendons in my wrist to the point it would wake me up a night and barely able to use a normal mouse at work. I ended up trying 3 different types of ergo mice, none of which helped. In desperation I ended up ordering the pen tablet, it felt good in my hand right away and after struggling with brain/hand/cursor location for 2 weeks it's become my preferred method.
I mapped the shortcut keys on the tablet to copy/paste/middle click/ double click which is awesome.
For me the tablet lives right in-front of the keyboard, just like a laptop trackpad. I tried off to the side, but couldn't get used to it.
I have many fond memories playing Marble Blast on a G5 iMac as a teen, I think it came to our Internet-less house bundled with the iMac along with Glider Pro which I think came via CD.
I managed to get Marble Blast ultra running on my Steam deck, but the controls weren't amazing.
Marble It Up runs like a top, and scratches that itch I have for the original.
I have a number with VOIP.ms, which I use with Softphone app Zoiper5.
I'm going to attempt to transfer my Skype number over. VOIP.ms has a "availability" tool and it indicates its possible to port it.
I dislike this as well, as this is conditioning people to not second guess why a third party website is sending you to your bank to login. As well as scam websites I've come across that mirror the authentication process down to every step you would have when using it for legitimate purposes.
Scam website>Scam Interact login parter>Scam web banking login> stolen bank credentials.
I was under the impression that the 1Password database is synced and stored locally. If that is the case why would the servers having issues prevent logins to local databases, and not just the syncing of them?
Edit: It would appear the browser extensions can directly access the web interface without needing the stand alone 1Password application installed. As I run the standalone 1Password + browser extension, it can fall back on the locally stored database if the servers go offline.
It's not that they were preventing the local database unlock, they were preventing acquiring a credential to the server in order to sync any changes to/from the central store. As mentioned in a sibling comment, it's was also specifically the login endpoints that were labeled as bogus, so my suspicion is that any credential acquired before the incident may have continued to work
My 1Password for Linux was emitting `Some(Status=500)` on the console, so I'd presume they botched a rollout and then just rolled it back. Unknown why it took an hour, but maybe it's the old adage about 59 minutes to find the bolt, one minute to replace it
I don't know if 1Password/AgileBits publishes postmortems nor if they'd be of sufficient detail even if they did
Like this story that makes the rounds once in awhile. Who knows how true it is but..
"Due to complexities in their manufacturing line, a popular toothpaste company would occasionally, accidentally, ship empty boxes to their customers.
Not only did the boxes cost money to ship, but when customers received the boxes they would often complain. Ultimately the toothpaste company began to lose customers who would seek out inventory for their stores from other, more reliable suppliers.
One day the factory gathered their top managers and creative minds and told them they would need to focus their efforts on solving the empty box problem.
After nearly six months and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on research and ideation, the factory came up with what they thought was a fairly smart smart solution to their problem. They would add highly sensitive scales to the factory line.
Any time an empty box would reach the scale it would be weighed, the line would stop and a loud buzzer would sound, at which point a factory worker would need to walk over and remove the empty box. Problem solved, right?
Yet the company quickly ran into another issue: just a few months after rolling out the new scale system there were no empty boxes being reported. The scales weren't encountering any empty boxes at all.
Confused by the results, the factory manager traveled down to the factory from his city office to see what was going on. He noticed that by one of the supply lines, just a few feet before one of the new scales, someone had placed an inexpensive desk fan. The manager noticed that as boxes rolled down the line, empty ones would merely be blown off the belt by the desk fan.
When asked about the fan, an employee on the factory line standing nearby explained: "Oh that? We put it there when we got tired of hearing the buzzer ring."
Not sure who's delivering them to in this instance but here in the Yukon Territory, Amazon has contracted a private company to deliver their parcels. I have them on video just throwing a delivery over the chain link fence at our business at 8PM.
Previously our Canada Post office handled them, which would have allowed someone to refuse the parcel.
Packages with taxes on duties on them must have those paid before delivery happens. If it's a "normal" delivery then sure, you might end up with a pile of boxes, but that doesn't seem to be quite the case here.
I live in the Yukon Territory, Canada... Not 100% sure this explosion is what woke me this morning but:
I woke up at 7:15 AM MST to what I though was a freight truck loading boxes at the business next door. Rumbling, thudding noises. Very faint. Promptly ignored it and tried to go back to sleep, a few moments later my sister 100 KM outside of my location on a off-grind property texted me asking if I could hear thunder/fireworks like noises outside. Noise probably lasted 10-15 minutes.
I did some napkin math for speed of sound and it gets close.
For downloads yes, if you account is banned that’s it. Still not perfect. But the games don’t necessarily have DRM on the the downloaded files. I own quite a few games I can just copy/backup their files to a different computer and they launch fine without steam installed. But I tend to only buy indie games so…
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/how-carders-can-use-ebay...