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[–] malloc@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

Smells like corporate meddling.

Reminds me of the 60 Minutes and CBS controversy. In the mid-90s, producers worked on a segment to expose big tobacco knew about the dangers of nicotine yet sold products anyways.

Big tobacco laid down the pressure on 60 Minutes and CBS network. 60 Minutes was huge back then and had high levels of journalistic integrity. Ultimately, CBS executives killed/delayed/manipulated/watered down the big tobacco story. CBS was at the time was apparently in merger with Westinghouse and executives were pissing their pants the big tobacco lawsuit could kill that M&A.

ABC is owned by Walt Disney now. I think they have a few acquisitions lined up that they need green lit by Orange man administration. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case here.

Fire Moran to appease Orange man.

Honestly need to break up the big corporations.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Google, Apple, and rest of big tech are pregnable despite their access to vast amounts of capital, and labor resources.

I used to be a big supporter of using their "social sign on" (or more generally speaking, single sign on) as a federated authentication mechanism. They have access to brilliant engineers thus naively thought - "well these companies are well funded, and security focused. What could go wrong having them handle a critical entry point for services?”

Well as this position continues to age poorly, many fucking aspects can go wrong!

  1. These authentication services owned by big tech are much more attractive to attack. Finding that one vulnerability in their massive attack vector is difficult but not impossible.
  2. If you use big tech to authenticate to services, you are now subject to the vague terms of service of big tech. Oh you forgot to pay Google store bill because card on file expired? Now your Google account is locked out and now lose access to hundreds of services that have no direct relation to Google/Apple
  3. Using third party auth mechanisms like Google often complicate the relationship between service provider and consumer. Support costs increase because when a 80 yr old forgot password or 2FA method to Google account. They will go to the service provider instead of Google to fix it. Then you spend inordinate amounts of time/resources trying to fix issue. These costs eventually passed on to customer in some form or another

Which is why my new position is for federated authentication protocols. Similar to how Lemmy and the fediverse work but for authentication and authorization.

Having your own IdP won’t fix the 3rd issue, but at least it will alleviate 1st and 2nd concerns

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Zuckerberg always looks so uncomfortable. Is this what it looks like when you sell out the human race so you can continue to hoard wealth?

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"how will I feel like men with big pee pee tho"

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Could be worse. Could have been an incel camino

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago (50 children)

It’s just a little piss, bro. Stop being a bitch

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

What’s to stop Cali national guard from ignoring Orange man? Or maybe I have been watching/reading too much fiction.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

Before settling in Foster City, California, in 1977, the Thiel family lived in South Africa and South West Africa (modern-day Namibia). Peter changed elementary schools seven times. He attended a German-language school in Swakopmund that required students to wear uniforms and utilized corporal punishment, such as striking students' hands with a ruler. He said this experience instilled a distaste for uniformity and regimentation later reflected in his support for individualism and libertarianism.[20][21] The German community in Swakopmund that Thiel grew up in was known at the time for its continued glorification of Nazism.[22][23]

Thiel and Muskrat cut from the same cloth of trustfund babies and apartheid benefactors, m8

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Peter Thiel is one of the many money men that want to privatize everything, dismantle federal government, hand keys to "network states" (company towns but somehow worse).

Goal is none or self regulation. Maximize profits. They want to shape the world into this hyper capitalistic society and surveillance state. Palantir is just one of those companies in a massive portfolio to fulfill this stupid dream shared by many industrialists.

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Depends if teleportation uses TCP or UDP

[–] malloc@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Probably fake story but it’s more likely to domesticate an opossum over a raccoon. Maybe story over the decades changed the animal because human story telling results in many fabrications and hallucination of details.

Adult raccoons are vicious and territorial cunts. Well at least the one I encountered anyways

 

The AI generated junk on YT front page, no login, no ad blockers, and a fresh computer is wild.

Is this what elderly folks see on a daily basis?

We are cooked, boys

 

YSK

If you have an Apple Card, you can schedule payments from your bank's Bill Pay feature rather than rely on Goldman Sachs to automatically debit your bank account.

tl;dr you can setup payments to originate from your bank. Follow the steps outlined under "Methodology" heading

Reasoning

You may be asking: "why" would I rely on Bill Pay? Personally, I like to have control on what is debited from my account rather than relying on external parties to "get it right". Many horror stories of creditors, services either "fat fingering" or having "internal system issues" causing auto withdrawal methods to well exceed the amount due [8]. It's honestly up to you. I bring it up here because Apple/Goldman Sachs do not advertise it and find it scummy/misleading. I hope some people find it useful.

Research

Publicly, Apple only publishes these 3 methods of paying your account balance with Goldman Sachs/Apple Card:

  1. Set up automatic payments in Wallet app [1]
  2. Schedule one time payments in Wallet app [2]
  3. Schedule payment using "card.apple.com"

Several discussions on Apple's own discussion forum around this topic all point back to the aforementioned methods of payment [3,4,5]. One of these discussions hinted at the ability to use an external means of payment [3], but ultimately failed to provide any instructions for this.

There was a more recent discussion on this topic [6] and decided to deep dive into this address that was shared:

Goldman Sachs Bank, Lockbox 6112, P.O. Box 7247, Philadelphia, PA 19170-6112

I cross referenced the address with my most recent statement with Apple Card (April 2025) and it does appear to be valid and owned by Goldman Sachs entity. I found it buried in the "Legal" section of my credit card statement:

... Billing Rights Summary

What To Do If You Think You Find A Mistake On Your Statement:

If you think there is an error on your statement, write to us at:

Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch

Lockbox 6112

P.O. Box 7247

Philadelphia, PA 19170-6112 ...

I wasn't familiar with what a "Lockbox" is in mailing address, so I looked it up [7].

What Is Lockbox Banking? Lockbox banking is a service provided by banks to companies for the receipt of payment from customers.

Bingo. So I will use this address to setup Bill Pay.

So, for those unfamiliar with "Bill Pay" offered by most (if not all) US banks. I understand it as an electronic means of remitting payments to creditors (ie, Goldman Sachs) or service providers (ie, your landlord, cellular device provider). However, if payee does not support an electronic means of payment. Then the Bill Pay service will fallback on issuing a check to the address associated with the payee.

So armed with this information, I should in theory be able to remit payment from my bank's bill pay feature.

Initially, I wasn't comfortable with relying on this feature for paying my card on time since it's not even advertised as a method in the billing statement. So decided to do a small test payment well in advance of the due date at end of the month.

Methodology

  1. Get "Card Number" from Wallet app

Wallet app > Tap 💳 icon in top right > authenticate with Face ID or pass code > save the "Card Number" value under "Virtual Card Number" heading

  1. Create new bill payee with following information:

Account Number: replace_with_card_number_from_previous_step

Name: Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch

Address Line 1: LOCKBOX 6112

Address Line 2: PO BOX 7247

Zip: 19170-6112

City: PHILADELPHIA

State: PA

  1. Submit form to create new payee

NOTE: here I was given a quote of 1-2 days for electronic delivery. Gave me confidence this might work

  1. Remit $10 payment to newly created payee

I did the aforementioned steps on 2025-05-09 and observed the following:

  1. Payment scheduled via Bill Pay to be sent on 2025-05-12 and delivered to payee (Goldman Sachs) on 2025-05-14
  2. Debit on account for $10 on 2025-05-12
  3. 2025-05-14 received e-mail and Wallet transaction notification of an "Offline Payment" that was processed

Pros / Cons

Pros

  • take away potential of GS debiting my account beyond what is due
  • increase control of payments to creditor

Cons

  • (at least for my bank) debit on your account happens on the send on date
  • have to manually schedule every month as opposed to letting GS take what they supposedly are owed

References

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102534#autopay

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102534#make

[3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252947711?sortBy=rank

[4] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252716535?sortBy=rank

[5] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254433851?sortBy=rank

[6] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255616490?sortBy=rank

[7] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lockboxbanking.asp

[8] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/went-broke-because-autopay-wish-190015131.html

 

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edit: update title to reflect this is for PayPal USA users

 

This is abhorrent. Fuck this Christian hellhole.

 

When Lemmy was making waves last year when Reddit pulled an “enshittification” of the platform. One of the first things I noticed was how terrible the experience was when trying to navigate to other Lemmy instances.

Hopefully this will help bridge the gap when it becomes generally available.

 

What’s the over/under on time to ban for BidenHQ (https://truthsocial.com/@BidenHQ)

Also, that fucking site is asking for a phone number to register. Fuck that.

 

Source: the false “front page of the internet”

Found this interesting. Looks like it’s in 🇺🇸. Surprised it has not been towed.

Heard of stories of abandoned vehicles in the Middle East (Dubai?), but with super cars.

 

Just Alabama things, I guess. Fuck that state.

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