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Re:The Rise of the Deserving Rich on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:43AM (#49046117)
One of the things that surprised me in Silicon Valley is that my colleagues who were making $500K-$1M a year levered up their lives and saved surprisingly little. Multiple houses, $200K cars, nannies, very expensive vacations, you name it.
Wow, this is awesome.

I'm running a pirated version of Word 2010 and Excel 2010 because I think everything newer is just too bloated. But you can't buy these anymore and there's no way to legally buy a license.

My problem is now solved.

Re:The Future of Email on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:50AM (#48504937)
In 1993, a friend of mine was working at Apple. I wanted to send him a funny message with a spoofed sender. I just typed "telnet apple.com 25" and then typed in the required commands. Apple.com accepted it and delivered it to my friend with a fake sender.

Those were the days, lol!

One of the problems I can see here is the problem that running a Tor exit node has: badly behaved users are going to be using it to hide their location.

Imaging having the police show up at your door because they've figured out that you're trafficking child porn, when the actual culprit is someone that is using your TV as a proxy to trade child porn.

I'm in the UAE right now.

The site www.alqst.org is blocked here. I had to turn on a VPN to read the article.

Here, it's not even allowed to read about what's not allowed!

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