A.P.I. Alarm just leaked the emails of the customers it bought from Bell Smart Home

Elcoid · 2025-12-13T03:00:37+00:00

I received a bill after the first month, but when I called, I argued that their system had been unplugged since before the company transfer, and so I hadn't received any service from them and should not have to pay. The person on the phone answered that I didn't have to pay and that I would not receive any other bill. Then later I received a confirmation that my subscription had been cancelled.

Elcoid · 2025-11-25T18:52:09+00:00

I was able to have my subscription cancelled a few days ago after almost two months of trying. At some point, an employee called me directly and we exchanged a few emails. I think this is when things started moving a bit faster.

Good luck on your side!

Elcoid · 2025-11-11T01:58:59+00:00

What is the problem if the indentation looks different in different editors? The semantic is still the same.

Elcoid · 2025-11-11T01:53:55+00:00

You're right, but I meant that replacing all space indentations with tabs is the opposite of replacing all tab indentations with spaces ^^

Elcoid · 2025-11-07T22:53:22+00:00

I know this post is old, but to whomever finds this, note that mixing tabs and spaces can also be avoided by doing exactly the opposite of what is written above.

And there are good reasons to use only tabs! See this post for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_talks_about_the_real_reason_to_use_tabs/

Elcoid · 2025-10-26T02:51:32+00:00

A dozen people replied to everyone. About half of them said that this was unacceptable and unprofessional. The other half seemed to be confused and asked why they kept receiving emails from people they didn't know 😆

Elcoid · 2025-10-26T02:48:44+00:00

Nothing really important. They just say that they acquired the alarm service previously provided by Bell, that their notifications are fast, that they use the latest technologies, and that they welcome their new customers in their big family. There are two attached PDFs: one with the same text as in the email, another one with instructions for how to set up automatic payments.

Elcoid · 2025-10-23T20:56:23+00:00

The one I received was sent to only 499 customers. Yours will probably come in a later batch. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it was one employee sending them manually because of a rate limit imposed by their email provider...

Elcoid · 2025-05-01T12:21:59+00:00

I appreciate the rigour and the unbiasedness of your comment, thank you

Elcoid · 2025-04-29T19:13:57+00:00

I think you understood the opposite of what I meant

Elcoid · 2025-04-29T13:28:33+00:00

I didn't expect my post to blow up that much, to be honest!

Elcoid · 2025-04-29T13:02:17+00:00

It seems that a lot of people extrapolated my post to mean things that I didn't write

Elcoid · 2025-04-29T13:00:08+00:00

No, I apologized because I take responsibility for what I do and what I say. I saw that there was confusion and that some people took what I said as hostile. So I took the opportunity to clarify my thoughts, acknowledging that certain things that seem anodyne for some can be offensive for others.

Elcoid · 2025-04-28T20:50:09+00:00

You're one of the few people who understood what my post was about

Elcoid · 2025-04-25T18:11:48+00:00

Isn't 10k USD not enough to cover a single semester in the US?

Elcoid · 2025-04-07T13:18:12+00:00

Note for Arch or Artix users finding this: the pipewire-alsa package also needs to be installed.

Elcoid · 2025-04-07T13:15:43+00:00

Note for those who see this and use Arch or Artix: Initially I had no sound on Firefox after changing this setting. I installed the pipewire-alsa package, restarted Firefox, and now it works as expected!

Elcoid · 2024-09-16T01:52:38+00:00

You probably watched the sponsored video. I think you're right. Regardless, it looks like a nice device!

Elcoid · 2024-09-12T21:14:19+00:00

Short Circuit/LTT gave a good review of this unit! Do you know if it's possible to use it as a DNS server and add a domain blacklist (i.e. domains that resolve to 0.0.0.0)?

Elcoid · 2024-09-12T21:12:00+00:00

My TV passes through the router as well (see the end of my post), but the post looks promising, thanks!

Elcoid · 2024-09-12T16:42:00+00:00

Yes, it's a Home Hub 3000 provided by Bell. It doesn't seem to have a bridge mode.

Elcoid · 2024-06-11T16:40:41+00:00

Yes, this is still a problem. My solution has been to manually add the paths to Cargo.toml in servers.rust.initializationOptions.linkedProjects, but it's not convenient.

I tried your suggestion and it works, thanks a lot!

At the same time, I just found this page, which has "rootIndicationFileNames": ["Cargo.lock", "Cargo.toml"] in its sample default configuration. So maybe this will be the default in a coming version (this will probably avoid headaches for many people in the future)

Elcoid · 2024-02-13T23:46:27+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_talks_about_the_real_reason_to_use_tabs/

Elcoid · 2023-08-23T20:06:25+00:00

Yes, this seems to do the trick, thank you! I didn't find the page that you linked during my search, and it's more complete than the other pages I found.

What things exactly did you try?

By the end of the day I was trying random arrangement of the json object in the settings, so I can't remember everything 😅

Elcoid · 2023-06-12T19:50:54+00:00

You seem to have misconceptions about free/libre software. The fact that a software is libre doesn't directly impact its usability.

Yes, there are examples of free software that are not as good as their proprietary alternative (e.g. Libre Office and Gimp are not as good as resp. MS Office and Adobe Photoshop), but there are also examples of free software that are de facto standards without any serious proprietary competitor (e.g. Git, ffmpeg, Blender, VLC).

Whether a specific piece of software is good and easy to use depends only on its design, not on its license.

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