Notes

30 count of a generic medication at Walgreens was $23.06, with my (crappy) insurance "saving" me $89.23

90 count of the same at @costplusdrugs.com with no insurance was $12.27

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Does anyone out there know how to contact Apple's internal network ops team?

ok medium\.com has to be doing this on their stupid signup popup on purpose right?

Version 1.3 of my BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory is available today

This version brings internationalization support and some bug fixes

https://jcs.org/bluescsi

I committed to not buying anything from Amazon this year, so I've been using local stores and eBay

The cheapest I could find a certain part on eBay was $25 but Amazon had it for $18

It cost more and I'd wait longer, but I bought it on eBay

...

The seller just drop-shipped it to me from Amazon

microSD
to SD
to CompactFlash
to ExpressCard
to Thunderbolt 2
to Thunderbolt 3

advertise your account with one Simpsons image

To this day I can't hear a smoke detector go off without thinking of @bradfitz.com's Nest video

Touchscreen pokins

System 6 on the @pimoroni.com Presto? 🤔

RP2350, 8MB PSRAM, 480x480 touchscreen, microSD, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth in a nice aluminum stand

the car's on fire
and there's [a] driver at the wheel

prepping kids for the future

Hey Wallops got a mention

Post from Retrocomputing Roundtable:

RCR Episode #279: A spree de Calc. In 1979, VisiCalc’s rampage began, and models 400, 800 (Atari), II (TRS-80), and 4 (TI 99) arrived. Also, Unicode news, more found lost Warhol art, Model 100 games, and the loneliness of Intellivision. rcrpodcast.com/2024/12/27/r...

I've seen WarGames like a hundred times and I never realized until today that this guy was Mr. Blonde

Here's the raw e-mail if anyone wants to see how it travels:

https://envs.sh/7_2.txt

Also, 24 kilobytes of header text is pretty ridiculous.

They can change the forwarding address at Gmail/Outlook fast enough that for every e-mail that comes in, they just forward the last hop to a new victim.

Seems easy to stop, just rate-limit forwarding address changes at Gmail/Outlook. Or require validation from the address being forwarded to?

Apparently they are going to a random address at a domain hosted by Gmail and there is a forward setup at Gmail to redirect it to an Outlook\.com address, which then forwards to my actual address. This way DKIM/SPF validate and they can probably bypass rate limits on PayPal->Gmail->Outlook. \

I keep getting these "You've got a money request" e-mails from PayPal and I just assumed they were fake since my address is never in the 'To' field, but after looking at the headers they are actually from PayPal and are validating DKIM/SPF checks. \

huh that is interesting

wait, 249?

wait, this year?