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https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/backblaze_sham_accounting_claims/

Backblaze strongly denies all the allegations, and claims instead that Morpheus is attempting to manipulate its stock price for financial gain. The firm admits to holding short positions in Backblaze shares.

Not saying that the Morpheus report isn't true, but that's a pretty damning conflict of interest.

Can you link something about the Backblaze CEO? I'm not finding anything.

Security can mean security against hackers, but it can also mean security against revealing classified information. Classified information about weapons systems (e.g. performance characteristics) is inherently embedded into the code running on those systems, and therefore shouldn't be open sourced.

Source: used to write classified code

My tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory is that ISPs switch peoples' Internet off intermittently to see if anyone notices and save on bandwidth. And they only switch it back on when you call in to tech support.

The number of times I've had Internet issues, restarted my modem and router and have it not fix the problem, but when I restart them when I'm on the phone with tech support and it magically fixes the problem just makes me so damn suspicious...

I think it's generally because glass bottles can let light hit the beer, and hops are photosensitive (light-struck beer will have a skunky aroma and taste). Brown bottles are the best at blocking light. Clear and green bottles are pretty bad. Cans obviously block all light.

I think most of the time, brown bottles are just fine, but the judges probably have a bit of bias here on their preferences.

I've been using a moonlander for a couple years now. I love it, but I've been toying with the idea of building my own with a trackball in the thumb cluster

I moved to porkbun after Google domains shut down, very happy with the service so far.

It's a fake screenshot.

Isn't that just not true?

https://www.capitalone.com/learn-grow/money-management/credit-myths/

Myth No. 5:  You have to carry a credit card balance to build credit

If you don’t pay your credit card balance in full, it’s carried over to the next billing cycle and considered a revolving balance. And that unpaid balance might accrue interest. 

You don’t need to carry a balance to build credit. According to the CFPB, “Paying off your credit cards in full every month is the best way to improve a credit score or maintain a good one.”

Fact No. 5: You don’t have to carry a credit card balance to build credit

While carrying a balance isn’t necessary to build credit, a healthy credit utilization ratio—which measures how much available credit a person is using—is an important part of credit. 

In addition to paying off credit card balances in full every month, the CFPB recommends keeping a credit utilization rate of less than 30% of your available credit. That can be a way to show you’re responsible with credit.

I pay my credit cards in full every month and accrue zero interest and have excellent credit...

I'm confused - you pay off almost all of your credit card and you're "spending even more money in the long run". Why not just pay off all of it? Surely if you were able to afford your bills with cash, you'd be able to pay off your credit card in full every month since the bills would be the same?

Automotive software is a regulated industry. No government is going to let John Doe off the street flash custom firmware onto a car and allow it on the road.

It's free if you stay within the data limit. For anyone interested in self-hosting, immich is getting pretty mature these days.

https://immich.app/