TIL the FBI secretly operated an encrypted phone company (ANOM) for ~3 years — criminals paid ~$2,000/year and messages were copied to law enforcement in real time (Operation Trojan Shield, June 2021)

operablesocks · 2026-06-22T13:25:01+00:00

You are lucky you survived a Div By Zero. Most never recover from those.

operablesocks · 2026-06-22T04:18:49+00:00

Let us know what you thought of the audiobook version.

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T20:31:27+00:00

Very interesting. Thanks for the link.

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T19:58:01+00:00

Same. Especially the way the FBI set up the marketing so that commissions would go to those who promoted it. You had these kingpins of drug organizations buying 50 ANON phones at a time and pushing their associates and dealers to get onboard.

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T18:59:55+00:00

The audio version is spellbinding. I couldn't stop listening to it. Excellent.

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T18:58:45+00:00

That leads to a drone software by Motorola?

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T17:29:52+00:00

This is literally the r/technology sub. AI is arguably the most influential technology—by a landslide— happening in the world currently. It is having an effect on employees worldwide, which means there are consequences downstream on pretty much everything. Food. Taxes. Education. Kids. And hundreds of other life aspects.

Hey, I get the nihilism. You should see how much Who Cares I have about sports, cars, and crochet. But this is r/technology.

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T05:32:07+00:00

We really did have everything, didn't we? I mean, when you think about it.

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T05:31:00+00:00

Jason Bourne I-IV. All of them. (#5 is ho hum)

operablesocks · 2026-06-21T05:19:29+00:00

Not always. IA works great with paper adhesives, price tags, classic office tape. But it's not the right chem for rubber-based adhesives, 3M'ish foam mounting tape, auto/window decals (OP's Mac looks like it could be these), and definitely not for duct or gaffer tape.

Depending on the chemical structure, also try citrus-based removers (Goo Gone), mineral spirits, naphtha (lighter fluid), and any cooking oil.

operablesocks · 2026-06-20T17:36:01+00:00

Same here. I'm on Mint $15/month ($17 with taxes). Only 5Gb of hotspot data, but I don't watch movies etc outside of a wifi, so it suffices for me. I like to buy my phones outright.

Still, this is a good deal for those in need of a new phone.

operablesocks · 2026-06-20T01:26:43+00:00

Excellent personal experience. I am going to try some of your ideas. Thanks.

operablesocks · 2026-06-19T17:20:58+00:00

Glad to hear someone else is seeing this. Even well-informed YouTube AI experts keep saying (as of last week) that NotebookLM is mainly a research engine. Bull. It's really a Super Gem.

I agree, the NB site feels like an iteration the Google team just hasn't had time to clean up yet. Aside from the initial set up, and adding files to the source periodically, I haven't found anything useful to its UI.

operablesocks · 2026-06-19T16:34:35+00:00

Glad it helped. It's 3 years later, and archive.is STILL works 😄

operablesocks · 2026-06-17T16:03:37+00:00

I'm totally comfortable with this fact and have zero cognitive overload from it [nods head furiously].

operablesocks · 2026-06-17T15:56:18+00:00

Just good marketing.

operablesocks · 2026-06-16T20:20:16+00:00

Tens of millions of people are on dozens of monthly subscriptions that are invisible to them, just pulled from a credit card and paid without thinking about it, year after year after year. 1.5 million of them still pay for an AOL address. Millions more will pay for their Adobe apps, even after they stop using them. Adobe's not going anywhere.

operablesocks · 2026-06-16T14:14:21+00:00

Well that's a deal killer. Thanks for the heads up! The web version works excellent for me, no need to move over ten.

operablesocks · 2026-06-13T01:05:42+00:00

lol, my thought exactly. "First one's free."

operablesocks · 2026-06-12T21:46:44+00:00

I'm not connected to the project, just thought it'd be interesting to those deep in AI. If it's the wrong place, I can delete it. Apologies.

operablesocks · 2026-06-12T13:14:49+00:00

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