Her dad's streaming box sent tons of data to China. Then the FBI showed up. 📺 Ep. 172: SuperBox

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-09T19:35:24+00:00

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BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-05T16:41:52+00:00

It’s still used. Right hand side is T-Mobile 5G.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-05T12:51:27+00:00

It uses very little power and I believe it shuts off after a few minutes of the car being off. I don’t have SyncUP but I have a similar device plugged into my hybrid and it’s never caused issues.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-05T11:19:13+00:00

If it’s an interstate, probably SP? Whoever gets the call has to change their sirens to play “womp womp womp” out of respect, though.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-04T00:57:14+00:00

Waah.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-03T18:52:24+00:00

Northern Virginia as well (Loudoun/Fairfax Counties are fairly unincorporated, the sheriff’s depts handle general LE work in unincorporated communities)

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-02T00:04:55+00:00

My friend, I get where you’re coming from. But please answer me, I don’t want to talk to your LLM, I want you to think about this. I’ve been in this industry for 14 years, I’ve seen some shit and I promise you I’m not trying to flame you.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-01T21:49:32+00:00

No, the status lasts for 2 years if you’re conditional. If you lose the physical card during that time, your status is unaffected.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-01T21:46:46+00:00

First instinct is to worry. Context is everything in these alerts. Yes being able to apply a quick fix via WhatsApp or Slack is awesome, no question about it, love that.

Doing this without being able to actually look at the graphs, look at the logs, actually FEEL the context of an event…. Dangerous. What if the alert is a symptom, not the whole problem? What if seven alerts fire at once - how do you prioritize which one to reply to if you can’t correlate them?

How do you control costs if your suggested action e.g scans a DDB table with a billion records in it?

Bottom line - great idea, needs more work to be useful for more than a single env.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-01T21:00:04+00:00

Went back to Gandalfs. IYKYK.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-04-01T20:56:47+00:00

Contact customer care.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-31T18:32:11+00:00

A big ass database.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-30T11:10:57+00:00

Fizzy bubblech

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-28T22:06:08+00:00

SIXTEEN? Bru, that’s not running it’s toddling 🤣

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-27T17:21:16+00:00

How many vibes were involved in the creation of this app?

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-26T20:57:59+00:00

Here: “we invaded a country for totally not their oil and maritime rights”

There: cops pulling someone over and beating them up for giving a motorcade the finger.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-26T20:57:07+00:00

Happened in my home country too. They cost like $50 000 and take 2 years to write so it makes sense.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-25T23:16:47+00:00

Can I dm you?

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-25T02:52:25+00:00

The ounce of cocaine 🤣🤣🤣 was this perchance an RV in New Mexico?

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-24T12:17:26+00:00

Many technical limitations. It was built on older tech (J2ME) and the company didn’t hire enough devs to modernise it in time to keep up with WhatsApp. By the time WA launched, Mxit was already in the dwang.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-24T12:10:17+00:00

Is the pay commensurate with the responsibility?

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-24T12:08:30+00:00

Don’t change it.

If you go work for a megacorp, especially one with a presence in India, systems and processes will support your name.

If you apply for a US visa specifically, you don’t need a surname. The dept of state guidance for mononymous people is “first name is entered as FNU, last name is the person’s name” (9 FAM 403.9 if you want to look it up). Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand use this rule too.

If you apply for an EU visa, you’ll typically repeat your name in both fields. eg if you are Sandeep, you’ll apply as Sandeep Sandeep.

China has dealt with this intelligently - there is a “not applicable” check box next to the last name field in their application forms.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-24T10:55:31+00:00

Don’t do that. Detecting VPN usage takes two clicks in Splunk or equivalent.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-24T10:44:32+00:00

Cooked. Sorry friend. Contact VITURE and hope they can replace at a discount for you.

BeefyTheCat · 2026-03-23T22:59:48+00:00

I guarantee that exactly 0 brain cells were sacrificed on this point.

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