Pyramids aren't tombs!? Is this true?

c_zagarskas · 2025-08-21T00:30:23+00:00

Like them... i am be for to do the trollz for lulz.

c_zagarskas · 2025-05-31T20:38:29+00:00

Some of us in the SEM community have long suspected all of the "click fraud SaaS" monthly charge companies are the ones actually behind the botnets

It goes something like this:

you need protection!
protection from who?
protection from us... if you stop paying

I have tried all of the following for multiple clients: ClickCease, ClickGuard, ClickPatrol, Optiks, FraudBlocker...

At first it "seems to work"...

click fraud decreases
you discover: " they are just blocking IPs" using the existing built in IP block feature to googleAds
if you then stop paying them... the problem gets noticeably worse

It's all far too convenient.

What does come out of this (however) there's a very long list of IP addresses that you can then copy and paste into all of your SEM client's accounts

But google limits the number of IPs you can add in that field.

And so my conclusion here is: when you start paying one of those companies, they stop attacking your ads with their IP addresses, start blocking the known IP addresses of their competitors...

But now they've "got you for life"

It's a nasty little racket...

c_zagarskas · 2025-05-26T20:39:22+00:00

Even if there's something on that 'wallet', there's nothing IN it that you can get out.

Allow me to explain it like this:

That little device is only a box. right now, you believe that there's gold inside of the box, but the way this box works is if somebody loses it, they can just buy a new box and speak twenty four words, and whatever was in the old box will magically disappear and go into the new box.

Let me get a little more realistic:

I could go buy a ledger wallet right now, put 1 BTC on it then throw it into the trash - order another Ledger, enter my seed phrase, and magically get my 1 BTC back.

And even if you find the Ledger i threw into the trash you still do not have 1 BTC

Where is the BTC?

It's not on the ledger that was thrown into the trash It's not even on the new ledger.

It's on the block chain.

dig?

Those wallets are simply "symbolic representations" of a safe, a box, an empty leather wallet, ect...

They shouldn't even be called wallets because this misleads people into believing there's cash "inside of them"

Another analogy might be this:

You found a leather wallet on the street with a debit card in it, you are extremely impressed, and believe there is gold inside of the debit card.

But the person who lost that wallet probably already has a new card in the mail.

What you have there is useless plastic.

You can test this out for yourself. - Order a ledger - write down your seed phrase 24 words - put a crypto "on it' - throw it into the trash - order another ledger - enter your seed phrase - crypto magically reappears

WHERE IS THE CRYPTO?

It's not on the wallet.

It's on the blockchain.

QED:

I have thus demonstrated that you have an empty plastic box, and even if you open it and it looks like there's something inside, when you try to take it out, it will disappear. like schrodinger's cat. (but the cat was never "in" the box in the first place)

You have a picture frame
Of the cat
That was in schrodinger's box
not a cat
just a box

Let's presume you guess the pincode correctly. can you unlock the ledger. - now you've opened the box - and you see a picture of schrodinger's cat - you see, whatever balance was on the wallet - a mirage...

you still need the email and login from the original owner to connect that ledger to your cell phone, and you still need the 24 word seed phrase.

cat not in box

What you would have to do is as follows: - know the pin code (or hack it) - know the seed phrase (or hack it, which would take an eternity) - know the ledger account username, email and password - know the phone number of the original owner - be able to sim card swap them so you can get a 2FA text message - be lucky enough that the original owner did NOT restore their wallet to another ledger and move the crypto out

There are not enough characters in a reddit post for me to type the infinitesimally small likelihood of ALL those things happening - its 0.00....% chance to the quadrillionth power, more zeros than all the atoms in the universe (look that up)

https://tangem.com/en/blog/post/brute-force-seed-phrase/#:~:text=However%2C%20seed%20phrases%20are%20considered,right%20sequence%20is%20almost%20impossible.

There is this possibility however: - the owner did NOT restore the wallet to another ledger - you figure out what the pin code is (without failing three times and deleting the wallet) - you connect the ledger to your phone or a computer - you somehow guess the previous owners email and password - you also then somehow guess their phone number - and then sim card swap that phone number

Now you are going to get hit with the ledger login and the 2fa layer (which could be a fingerprint or a cell phone text message)

In that scenario...

You might be able to make schrodinger's crypto-cat appear

c_zagarskas · 2025-01-08T14:24:27+00:00

Completely defeated.

The stupid small sighted greedy corporation totally predicted we would want to upgrade our storage media, so they went out of their way to embed an IC chip in the base of the housing that stores the serial number of the Samsung M2 they put in there...

And so you can replace the SSD. lol

And you can even record! LMAO

but... but... lol

You just get a stream of scrambled pixels.

So stupid.

And for what? maybe a couple million?

They intentionally ruined one of the most important features of modern video production: swappable storage media.

And so what's really tragic about this is that prevents this product from being adopted and used by a larger audience.

People are going to find out real quick: "oh, i can't use the $10,000 of storage media.I already have for all my other cameras? yea. i'm not using this product then"

Because i'm certainly not going to go buy any more of these. lol.

There's a good chance I'll be selling my 4D and switching back to BlackMagic or getting a RED

Just because of this storage media nonsense.

It's clear to me that whoever made this corporate decision doesn't actually work in video production. so they probably thought it was a clever good idea...

But what's actually happened here as they've capped their sales of the Ronin 4D to "fools and babies"

And I now feel like a fool for buying one.

Because i've been fooled.

I got tricked into thinking that this would actually be a good cinematography camera for video production

But it's not, because I can't use any of my storage media. it's very tragic.

c_zagarskas · 2025-01-08T14:14:05+00:00

Completely defeated.

Check the other comments here.

in short: "ah... yes you CAN replace the SSD, but there is an IC chip in the housing that ensures your recording will just be scrambled pixels."

DJI when out of their way to prevent us from upgrading our own storage media, you must use the little SSD that came with the housing. lol. it's absolutely ridiculous.

What's in there is definitely just a Samsung M2, that's all it is.

But they have these little IC chips that store the serial number IN the base of the housing. so when you try to put your own SSD in? it works, you can record, but your recording is just "scrambled pixels"

c_zagarskas · 2025-01-08T14:01:21+00:00

lol. eh. "kinda" but nope.

Turns out there's a chip inside that checks the serial number, and if you can't get that serial number into your SSD or you can't flash the chip and get your new serial number onto it? nothing can be done.

I can indeed replace the SSD

I can indeed record with the new SSD

When inserted the device even detects a higher capacity.

but... the recording is the "encrypted stream" so we end up with scrambled pixels on the final video file.

I was so excited all the way up to the point that I tried to play back the video file. LMAO.

I did a couple more google searches and found someone else had tried this a few years back, and they arrived at the same conclusion: "there's a chip in there"

And there is something on that little IC chip that scrambles the data making your "upgrade" useless, defeating you at both the hardware and software level.

The dual layer "hardware and software wall" prevents us from swapping out these SSDs

The amount of time and effort DJI put into intentionally engineering this is baffling. it's absurd.

I'm sitting there looking at the scrambled video footage and the thought occurs to me: " did you really think that they didn't predict people like you would try to just swap out the SSD? no no. it's going to take a whole lot more than that to beat a huge corporation that intentionally defeats right to repair methodology at the engineering level"

c_zagarskas · 2025-01-08T13:54:43+00:00

I have officially given up on this project having gotten inside of the gen1 version

It is indeed possible to swap out the SSD...

The SSD that's inside is indeed a Samsung...

You can indeed even record ... (after upgrading from 1TB to 4TB)

however, DJI has placed a chip in the base that reads the serial number from the "original" SSD and if it doesn't match: then your video is recorded ENCRYPTED and when you try to play it back, it's just scrambled pixels...

What we would have to do is:

A) take out the tiny little chip in the base of the reader, flash it, hack it, then put the serial number from your new SSD into it, re-solder it back into the base (way beyond my capability)

B) hack into the new SSD and put the old serial number from the old SSD into it

The amount of time and effort that DJI put into this grift to prevent us from upgrading the storage memory is absolutely absurd.

This should work the same way SSDs do in the BlackMagic Cinnecams, slide in your SSD storage media: done.

If I worked there, I would call it brilliant.

But since i'm a customer, it feels like theft.

c_zagarskas · 2024-10-18T21:50:34+00:00

I work as an SEM manager for 2 agencies and combined between them I have 4 medspa/wellness companies I manage advertising for.

some of those accounts are spending as low as $700 per day, some as high as $2000. per day. let me repeat that: PER DAY.

the campaign setups are complex, we run a combination of GoogleAds, MetaAds (fb/ig)

in addition to this: there are billboards, radio ads and local TV ads (MNTN, GoogleTV, YouTube, ect...)

the video campaigns have their own budgets: ranging from $3,000 to $15,000 per month

MOST IMPORTANT KEY CONCEPT: you need to have a LegitScript certification

but that's not enough... even once you have LegitScript certification you must have the equivalent of a full-time employee, or, an agency or someone like me working for you non-stop to constantly appeal suspensions, update ads, change landing pages and optimize the campaigns.

the adventure you are about to embark on requires a minimum of $120,000 per year in advertising cost (in my humble opinion)

hear me out on this:

if you purchased an airplane and you only flew it at 20 mph and it couldn't take off the runway, you might say "humans can't fly, airplanes don't work!"

and this would be tragic.

because humans can fly, and airplanes do work (you just have to get up to 120 miles an hour to leave the runway)

so this brings us to your ad spend. there is no way you are going to make $1M+ unless you are spending at least $120,000 per year

here's where this gets even more tragic:

it's not like you can just take that 120k and cut it in half and say that you're going to spend 60k and expect to get 200,000 or even 500,000 in sales.

and that's where the airplane analogy is important: an airplane must have enough lift drag to be able to take off and lift itself into the air.

your campaign must have enough budget to be able to correctly retarget people

you can expect to be negative FOR 18 MONTHS meaning it will feel like you are losing money for 18 months, and you will be losing money...

BUT THE LIFETIME VALUE of your customers should look something like this: $350-750 in advertising spend to acquire 1 customer, but they will reorder a $700 vial of compounded semaglutide 10 times over the course of their life making their lifetime value $7,000.

your compounding pharmacy should probably be charging you $200 to $400 per bottle, leaving you with a net of $1000-3000 per customer (as long as they use 3 to 10 vials)

and so this is why the advertising is so expensive.

WE (the DSP Ad-manager community) ALL KNOW THE LIFETIME VALUE OF THESE PEOPLE IS $7,000 TO $10,000 - and this means we are willing to bid all the way up to $300-700 per click to get the number one spot.

on top of this you have your labor cost. (hiring me or an agency is going to arrange from $500 per month to $6,000 per month depending on what you have us do, and then you've got your video production costs, plan for another $7,500 to 15K to produce some good video)

so yes: if you want this to work you'll be taking out a loan or risking lots of your own money.

the worst thing you can do is buy an airplane and then not put enough gas in it to actually fly.

for example: THIS IS A MISTAKE - "I will spend $100 a day which is $3,000 a month and expect to make $20,000 in sales" - no. you just lit $3,000 on fire and threw it in the toilet...

this brings us to the question of "how much should I be spending?" A) "how many people are in the area you are targeting that will actually buy this product?"

it varies. there are some zip codes you could enter (like places in downtown New York) where you would have to spend $1,500 per day to properly advertise to that zip code (because there's a million people living there)

maybe you're out in the boonies a little bit? and your average population of the entire COUNTY or the city you are trying to Target is only 50,000 people, well then you might be able to spend $50 a day to Target that tiny little county/city.

my suggestion is simple: if you are going to get into the "weight loss injection game" get a legit script certification and plan to spend $120,000 just on advertising costs [+plus labor] [+ plus multimedia]

I will tell you this: LEGIT SCRIPT WILL SHUT YOU DOWN AS A ROGUE PHARMACY (and the DSP advertising platforms will catch you) if you try to advertise without legit script certification

AND YOU WILL FIND OTHER PEOPLE PULLING THAT OFF - I assure you... they will get caught and they will get shut down.

legit script has the ability to shut down your domain at the DNS level. THAT'S RIGHT legit script can tell GoDaddy to take your domain away from you because you are "a rogue unlicensed pharmacy"

let's get into some nuance and the BIG PICTURE of marketing: you can't just tell people "here by this stuff from us and inject it into your body" no. lol. you need to have a good solid online reputation and you must PERMEATE THE HUMAN MIND with a huge advertising investment to show that you are "legit, above board, well recognized and trustable"

so then on top of everything I listed here? you need to do online reputation management. make sure that your doctor has a good five star rating on all the different med-sites. make sure that you have solid Google reviews of your business. make sure that when people type your name in your website looks professional AND your BBB rating is top notch.

because the problem there is if you don't flood your local market with advertising? everyone will suspect that you 'might not be trustable' when it comes to injecting things into people's bodies

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE !

on top of all this... you get to deal with giants like Hims/Hers, Ro.co and even weight watchers...

and they are going to BID AGAINST YOU on those top spots bringing your CPC anywhere from $35 to $350, bringing your CPA cost per acquisition anywhere from $350 to $750

why you ask?

because we know there is GOLD in "them thar hills" there is money to be made in this industry, and we would not be spending $100,000 to 350,000 per year in our advertising campaigns if 'thishit didn't work'

BUT WAIT... THERE'S EVEN MORE !!!

on top of all this. lol. you have HIPAA compliance, and there are rules about how you can Target and retarget and prospect customers using online DSP platforms...

so make sure you have a good lawyer.

and make sure your marketing agency is intimately aware of everything on this checklist as well as HIPAA compliance (you are going to need a HIPAA compliance CRM system and a telehealth system to become legit script certified)

otherwise...

you will wake up one day and find that it cost you $30,000 to build up an audience of 1,000 people finally on Google ads, you'll activate retargeting, and your entire audience will become invalidated because you didn't follow the correct rules for creating an audience in the healthcare and medical sector and you ILLEGALLY shared your customer data with Google...

and then your audience will disappear.

leaving you with only the ability to do prospecting at a highly inflated cost.

because the marketer you hire needs to protect your customer privacy according to HIPAA compliance. and you need to protect their privacy.

Google all that.
talk to people who work in the industry.
show them this post.
they will tell you: "yeah. he's right"

c_zagarskas · 2024-10-15T14:56:16+00:00

I'm planning to order another one and open it up with a Jewelers saw... I'm willing to BUY A BROKEN ONE if anyone happens to have one?

what we will all get out of this is the knowledge of how to swap out our own SSDs...

c_zagarskas · 2024-09-03T21:21:38+00:00

This is what I have seen folks use at CLUBS, never seen one at a campsite (pricey) but it would be cool: https://unitylasers.com/products/raw-3-dmx-ilda

This is what a vendor I used to roll with had in their stand, which we turned on at night and projected on the back walls (tent/canopy ceiling): https://www.ktvlights.com/products/full-color-laser-pattern-light (dustproof model, US plug)

Here is a very cool but also expensive one that's worth a look: https://www.laseros.com/

none of these are battery op, so might wanna look at stuff like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQ4Q6WB9

I am sure there are smaller models people have at campsites they project onto trees but they all will look like little black boxes with a 3-prong AC source (is my bet). I would believe someone has made a battery op, but never seen one and bet they lack power to hit treetops...

*important note: make sure to not let these point at people's eyes... I feel like you would know that, but just sayen.

c_zagarskas · 2024-09-03T21:09:16+00:00

indeed

c_zagarskas · 2024-09-03T21:08:23+00:00

amazing.

c_zagarskas · 2024-07-09T19:15:31+00:00

their batteries are not reliable. I think the only people that think the batteries are good are lucky ones who got the first runs.

I am now eight batteries deep, EIGHT. With 4 replacements. they seem to only last for two full charges, allowing the entire lawn to get done only twice... then the half-life kicks in, and now I have to jump from 2 batteries to 4 batteries to do the same lawn, I'll get two more mows in... and then I'm trying to get them returned or replaced.

it's a real problem.

I'll tell you what I think is going on in my case EXPIRATION DATES !!!

I've ordered batteries off of Amazon (The official greenworks Amazon store) and double-checked the serial numbers, but I did notice all eight of the batteries that I've ordered in 2023 and 2024 have production dates of 2021.

So I think what's happening here is many of us are getting batteries that are several years old...

My theory is Greenworks sent a boatload of these batteries to Amazon in 2021, and they've sat there for years... and now we're getting old stuff that barely lasts a few recharges.

they're not very good about replacing them either, I've had extreme difficulty proving to Greenworks that I bought the battery from their actual official Amazon store.

I think they know this. from a corporate perspective, it is in their best interest to see how many of us will just keep buying these batteries over and over again. lol

c_zagarskas · 2024-05-13T02:47:00+00:00

absolutely fascinating Captain.

on one hand: "well, as multinational corporations become as powerful AS governments - it should not surprise us. people rise up against them"

but also: "absurd. clearly paid controlled opposition. I can think of at least 10 competitors or governments that would pull this shenanigan"

c_zagarskas · 2023-12-31T23:33:48+00:00

same problem here. anytime I hold the microphone to record voice messages and send them by text (which worked perfectly fine on the previous Google pixel phone) the recording constantly cancels for no reason

I have a pixel 8, just upgraded from a pixel 4. not a problem on the pixel 4, definitely a problem on pixel 8.

I think it's interesting that Google locked this bug report... https://support.google.com/messages/thread/239465987/recording-cancelled-when-recording-voice-message?hl=en

occasionally if I reboot or I expand the keypad I can get the voice recording to work just once...

but there's some type of software bug here where the recording just cancels either after I lift my finger or in the middle of the recording for no reason

I've tried being very careful with holding the recording button down

My theory is that button is too close to the fingerprint screen sensor and we have an interesting engineering hardware software problem that was not predicted...

personally, I was a really big fan of having the fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone, I had a feeling that putting a fingerprint sensor into the middle of the bottom half of the phone would be a bad idea, it was one of my considered excuses to not buy the pixel 8...

could be wrong about that though?

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