But how do you stop buying ice cream?

Eat your dinner before going to the shop.

Also, doing high-effort endurance exercise for long enough suppresses grelin production (the hunger hormone). I've seen 30+ minutes of running or 60+ minutes of cycling as the most common rules of thumb.

So in order to stack all these effects to maximum effect: plan exercise before meal, plan mean before doing groceries.

Fill your freezer with frozen food other than ice cream.

You buy your groceries while that piece of your brain has no excuse to make loud demands ;-)

I had similar issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451567 (including my personal domain, Dropbox; my Apple account is still MIA...)

We've all been reduced to a passphrase.

When I've lobbed this scenario to the security managers/employees at these companies, they all give me a really great answer:

Q: What happens if a sitting senator gets mugged and they have their printed 2fa codes sitting in their wallet?

A: They have a special number they can call.

After they go get a second phone

I recently got a reminder that my vbulletin license had expired.

An aside: Fantastico was such a wonderful piece of software for me to learn and toy and tinker with web stuff. I was so impressed by the simplicity of it. (I phased out of the shared scene a almost two decades ago; I guess everyone moved to Softaculous, https://softaculous.com/fantastico/)

What’s the prompt you used for this?

Edit: oh wow, diffui looks nice!

Oh, this. Author here.

I'm waiting for legislation around this, but I'm not sure we'll ever get it. I was on the phone with a senior Apple support specialist person and I even proffered this idea of "what if a sitting senator just got mugged." And they said there was a special lane for them.

I had a streaming piracy site that I went to federal prison for. I can chime in on these people.

It's worth separating the two populations:

My users had money and had considered legal subscriptions. They paid me because the legal product was worse—in my case, sports blackouts, a bunch of different apps, etc. They knew what they were buying into and they had weighed the risk. I can tell you right now some of my former users have bought into this market.

Then there's the unwitting: a person buying one of these devices at a too-good-to-be-true price is treating it as a hardware purchase from Amazon, where the actual monetization isn't inferable from the listing. Calling it too good to be true assumes the buyer can see what shit they're standing in. They can't. There's no visible market here. It's just a product page with reviews.

To add to this: the proxy exit is exactly why these cost so little. Demand for residential IPs is booming (check some of the proxy subreddits to see what I mean).

The ironic part is that there's a chance the person who bought one of these boxes to watch pirated sports was the exit node I was using to acquire the feeds in the first place.

"Login to order"

That's a new one.

Sometimes I'll search LinkedIn for posts on internet piracy. It's usually companies or those affiliated with companies promoting their anti-piracy product—typically streaming. I'd wager about 90% of them are straight-up, uninspired LLM-generated slop.

And so I'll comment asking them why it's okay to use a tool that was built on the backs of content it wasn't properly licensed to use to generate a post promoting an anti-piracy product. I'm yet to get a good response, if any. (Sorry for the word salad.)

I've started collecting some of these: https://josh.mn/anti-piracy

(Note: I went to federal prison for internet piracy)

I'm hardly a sysadmin and I think Unraid is great. My usecase is some Docker containers and media backups. The UI gets the job done well, whereas Synology tries to dumb things down and make things pretty.

Android is to Unraid as iPhone is to Synology.