Here’s an article clarifying the latter half of this comment’s claims: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/

Relevant bits from the article:

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after responding to a legal request to hand over to Swiss police a user’s IP address and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox – resulting in the netizen’s arrest.

Back in January this year, the company’s homepage stated: “No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.”

Today that boast has been replaced with a mealy-mouthed version: “ProtonMail is email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first. Your data belongs to you, and our encryption ensures that. We also provide an anonymous email gateway.”

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Looks like the domain registration expired, according to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

Fortinet marked the website as “malicious”, but it doesn’t seem to give an explanation as to why it’s been given that classification (looked up here: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter)

Kasperky wanted an account (and possibly a subscription) to look up the website and I’m not going to give them any of my information so I’m not sure if they gave an explanation as to why the website is flagged.

Visiting https://thisismyip.com/ as of now just redirects to a Namecheap landing page so I doubt there’s any actual malware on the website. I think Fortinet and Kaspersky preemptively marked it for when a malicious actor picks up the name and starts hosting actual viruses.

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The post is from this Threads account: https://www.threads.com/@finance.arman

I couldn’t find the post because I don’t have a Threads account myself and it limits how far back on someone’s timeline you can go, but the UI and username matches. The original post wasn’t in English, so it must have been translated using OCR, resulting in the weird artifacts. You’ve got a good eye to catch that difference.

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I had a coworker pulling this bit on me today so it’s a little bit extra frightening coming across this post.

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I’m not a lawyer, and maybe this is just a US-centric understanding, but someone “pressing charges” doesn’t force the police to arrest the accused person, let alone actually charge them with a criminal offense. Pressing charges, at least to my understanding, is notifying police of a crime, pointing out the offender, and tacitly agreeing to cooperate if the police need more information.

Source: https://xcancel.com/yamai_gm/status/1461015534787514386

The artist says there’s no full version available.

Reminds me of blood gnats from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

For anyone struggling to get it:

I assume you’re referring to this post which was definitely fake. The numbers in the ad are prank numbers.

Maybe I’m missing something, but 3rd degree would be the person is connected with a person you’re 2nd degree connection with, right? That’s why Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a thing.

Posters like you keep the fediverse & Lemmy alive. I’m not sure why those other 2 are bothered by people being active, they should be encouraging it. Please keep doing what you’re doing, a ton of us appreciate you keeping us entertained.

This is a list of notes I put together when shopping for couches. Some of it requires getting hands-on with the couch so it won’t work well for online purchases, but you should be at least sitting on a couch before buying it. My notes were cobbled together from information I found online, so big grain of salt.

Old couches are almost always going to be better than new ones because so many companies have dropped in quality over the years.

Take a black light to look for pee spots or stains. Look for bugs (fleas, bedbugs).

Things to look for:

• Touch back of sofa & area under arm rest and see if it’s just fabric. Something solid usually means attention to detail / quality
• Seat cushions that are solid foam wrapped in breathable layer (cotton, down, etc) are the worst quality cushions (degrade quickly over time)
• Seat cushions that have layered foam or glued foam is a good sign and may mean springs in the foam (springs are generally a good thing)
• Take off the seat cushions and see how far apart the springs underneath the cushions are / how many there are. More & tighter packed the better
• Take off seat cushions and look for horizontal connection wires. There should be 2 minimum. Should be able to feel and see through fabric
• Lift up the sofa. If it’s light weight, that’s bad. If it flexes, that’s bad. Good sofas are heavy and don’t flex when lifted
• Don’t buy leather, buy polyester. This is personal preference, but leather is a lot more work to take care of & keep it looking nice
• “Eight way hand tied” isn’t necessarily a sign of quality, but it’s better than s-springs. There can be fake “eight way hand tied”, which is why it isn’t always better

Good brands:

• Room & Board
• What A Room
• Arhaus
• Maiden Home
• Stickley
• Thos. Moser
• Ethan Allen
• Stuart David (Amish)
• Hancock and Moore
• Bradington and Young
• Classic Leather
• American Leather

Ok brands:

• Bernhardt
• Palliser
• Lovesac
• La-Z-Boy
• Flexsteel

Bad brands:

• Crate & Barrel
• Ashley
• Article & Joybird
• Wayfair
• Natuzzi
• Restoration Hardware

When I bought my couches a few years ago, I got them used off Facebook Marketplace. It took a couple weeks for some decent Ethan Allen couches to pop up, but I got them for ~$400 each.

Derek from NapLab is also a great source. I did my own research before finding his website, but his recommendations matched what I had chosen. It also makes me chuckle to tell friends that a man named Derek will personally email you to tell you what mattress to buy.

The article that this article is based on (found here) has pictures showing that the DDR2 sticks had fake heat sinks put on. The weight is behind the fake heat sink to make it feel more authentic. I had the same initial thought as you, but heat sinks add a decent amount of weight.

Looks like it’s from Meatball Machine (2005)

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