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16·4 months agoIt happens with anyone. Bots track expirations and snatch them so that they can ransom them back to you for thousands - exactly as in OPs example.
AUTO RENEW. Auto-renew. Auto-renew is the way. The solution to this problem is Auto-renew.
Cool, thanks for the link!
Most registrars offer whois privacy protection which is a randomized forwarder, so if someone emails the contact it can get to you but none of your information is shown. Usually about $2 a year, don’t forget to auto-renew it.
Namecheap usually adds it for free for the initial registration period.
4·9 months agoIM JUST TRYING TO GET TO THE FACEPALS. JIMMY PUPT UP PICTURES OF THE KIDS AND I WNATED TO SEE THEM BUT THE DAM COMPUTER KEEPS PEEPING AT ME
Calibre does all the management and conversion/reading/other but you have to do the initial work of cataloging them.
Afaik it won’t download covers. Maybe it does now, idk.
3 billion monthly active users? Bull. Bots maybe.
The analysis I read was similar but reached a different conclusion: google had been caught charging for ads that were never seen. Something in the realm of a billion dollars in ad money that was collected supposedly for viewed ads but which actually ran on 0 view videos, etc.
Obviously that would be very bad, so they started crediting advertisers and began the ad-block enshittification.
See https://www.tumblr.com/beesmygod/734866804959281152/google-vehemently-denies-the-reports-findings-and for more
You could also just hit someone’s phone/tablet/PC with a rock.
Never got over social-media-a**hole-gate.
Out of curiosity is there an equivalent SBC to this new 5 model out there?
Yeah, but also would be interested in how you put it together.