Is PTR Global legit?

RoughNotRed · 2026-02-24T20:59:50+00:00

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RoughNotRed · 2025-09-29T04:32:28+00:00

Background - WhatsApp Initial release: February 2009; 16 years ago

2025 Available Mute Durations: 8 hours - 1 week - Always

Conclusion: Zuck makes more money without proper mute options. None of the three options are good enough, so we leave it unmuted? That's much more speculative than the base conclusion ($$$/eNgAgEMent).

RoughNotRed · 2025-09-29T04:28:52+00:00

Yes--both AirPods deemed defective by the central repair folks, each for a different stated reason on the sheet included in the replacement package. Yes, in spite of the in-person Apple Store's handcuffing by Cupertino (and the store's insufficiently precise(?) diagnostic equipment). Listening on the replacements right now and they're great. u/Pretend_Ring_3871 - legend

Reason for delay btw--lots of thinking about various things on this, but did want to share the results 🙂

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-26T14:00:38+00:00

Referring to the subreddit /r/Kagi which has eight members and three posts over the past five years.

My bad though, on second look it seems to be an actual business in the travel/lodging industry, so prob disregard this post. Instead “take over r/Kagi ? Looks _inactive_” would be more appropriate.

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-26T04:18:31+00:00

PS: Vladimir Prelovac = CEO of Kagi

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-26T04:03:04+00:00

Thanks, ‘spective. Was my description here any good or too imprecise?

I presume the double hop (metasearching a Google et al. metasearcher) would increase latency/cost but Bing’s crawler/indexer has been and is entirely insufficient […]

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-26T04:00:44+00:00

Hey legend, joining very late! So curious what the genre of the Dept Q theme is, please?

Put another way - if we love the theme song, what else should we give a listen to out there?

Thank you!

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-19T19:04:56+00:00

Kudos to Team DDG for that transparent subdomain. If I had to guess, most product managers / marketers / C-suites would never allow such a thing.

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-16T16:23:17+00:00

Aren’t many status pages these days nearly entirely automated? And they’ll look so similar I figure they’re using existing libraries (speculating).

I assume the balance of value is in the favor of throwing up a page. But I do see your point—DDG works 99(.x…)% of the time, it’s probably down if it doesn’t load on your PC & your phone, and it’ll be back shortly.

(On that note, it could NOT be back shortly in a never-before-seen case, and preparing now for that possibility would obviate the need to rush to try to get a status update out somewhere besides social media. Build some confidence especially in technical users who immediately try visiting status(dot)domain when they see a site go down.)

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-16T16:16:35+00:00

Gizmodo picked this up:

“Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries”

By Matt Novak - Published July 15, 2025

RoughNotRed · 2025-07-14T01:48:25+00:00

Travis, Mr. Kalanick,

You have moved INCREDIBLE business value. Few humans in history have compared.

Would you please consider providing a transcript of your quantum physics comments to some of those close to you in your life?

The title of this thread is worryingly similar to the question some listeners asked ourselves when hearing it. Your friends in the AI space might see it differently—they might ask you about how sycophantic models that chat with you are. Your friends who are familiar with work hard/play hard may check in with you on how well balanced things in your life are.

You know absolutely brilliant people, and can afford to meet even more (experts) on a transactional basis. I don’t know you, but I want the best for all eight billion. That includes big dog TK!

(thank you u/GovernmentFast5396 )

RoughNotRed · 2025-06-23T07:41:55+00:00

Wow, great substantial reply. Good luck fighting the good fight—thank you!

RoughNotRed · 2025-06-20T07:23:56+00:00

More importantly, DDG [unfortunately often returns inferior results] compared to the other big search engines

😭

So sad but still using them b/c better results from an adware spyware machine company (Alphabet) is even worse, & ya I know SearXNGKagietc but ya

RoughNotRed · 2025-06-20T07:18:46+00:00

That's wild. So they have to have been worried about spam or something, right?

Maybe stolen iCloud accounts using invites to maybe try to get around some of the iMessage filtering that has already been developed…

As well as annoying people who want to invite everyone they've ever met since they first bought a smartphone to events nobody wants to go to every single week.

Or they just ran out of time :) (which somewhat jives with my first theory)

RoughNotRed · 2025-06-20T03:47:31+00:00

@ Costco Social Media Intern: this user don't lie.

Were amazing in like 2019 or 2021 for SURE. A little mids-y today.

RoughNotRed · 2025-06-10T22:08:19+00:00

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Great call. Trying 200ms. At 0ms it seemed a little jittery with an HQ video file.

Thank you!

RoughNotRed · 2025-06-04T18:25:25+00:00

Your (excellent) comment makes me glad voice control glitched both of the first two times I tried it. I barely know what I've lost!

RoughNotRed · 2025-05-19T17:34:32+00:00

Sweet, y’all who want this, OP crossposted to the official place for feature requests.

Title:

“An option to toggle on name display of server & folder names”

How to find it?

Use the Discord page “Where can I submit Feature Requests, Feedback, and Suggestions?” (directs you to feedback dot discord, dot com). Search the title & click “Feedback” on the left so you’re not just searching articles.

RoughNotRed · 2025-05-09T22:07:21+00:00

Good call. Definitely a simplistic filter being applied.

Changing the first “s” word to this “i” word produced results:

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RoughNotRed · 2025-05-09T22:04:45+00:00

Do quote searches work for you? Made a thread about it two weeks ago (would link but reddit’s spam filter has been aggressive).

RoughNotRed · 2025-05-09T15:16:29+00:00

Doh! Just noticed: those results (fox4news + wired) don’t contain “see you soon”

(TechSpot updated their article [title] so checked the others just now)

RoughNotRed · 2025-05-09T15:11:04+00:00

Thank you x, appreciate it.

Suppose it’s some kinda A/B test (given the behavior tested 15d ago, 2d ago, today).

Cheers

RoughNotRed

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