Didn't see any one talk about it but French health agency recommended all pharmacists and doctors to stop issuing Pseudoephedrine for colds as there is supposedly increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. It was only for people with high BP but seems like it's now for general population too.
I run an e-commerce shop in France and get many support tickets of customers wondering why they have to pay an additional fee to receive their parcels.
One day, one of the customers forwarded me a super obvious scam SMS asking to pay the additional fee but unfortunately, it wasn't obvious for her (most of my customers are over 40-50 years old).
Seems like they are running these scams all over the world and probably found vulnerabilities in all the major post offices.
Not sure if they’re still a thing in France, but there was an epidemic of humans randomly calling French phone numbers claiming to be DHL or UPS or whoever about “a package being held”. Not even automated calls, actual people (probably in a lower-cost francophone country) doing the calls.
My experience with Modafinil is that it is helpful for dealing with tasks that have been sitting in my Todo List for months (my most procrastinated tasks).
Not necessarily the most complex tasks, as I usually like doing those, but kind of tasks like cleaning my 3000 mails mailbox or writing a SOP for my business.
The 1-day modafinil will clear up so much of my todolist that I'll be free the next weeks/months to tackle the most complex problems.
And for solving complex problems, I find microdosing better as it gives different perspectives/POVS
He shouldn't take this personally. Unfortunately all the behemoths such as Google, Meta or even Fintech "neo-banks" adopted this approach of banning-first with no appeal. They have to deal with so many users that they don't care anymore.
One of the solutions is to be aware of this and develop your own ways to circumvent their processes. Harder to do for banks (and I wouldn't do it) but necessary for other situations.
I live in different foreign countries that they decided to consider as high-risk clusters (Vietnam, Thailand etc.) and learned this the hard way (got banned from Meta Ads my first week arriving in Vietnam) so now everything is isolated. I only login to banks on a specific VPS in a "safe" cluster. And all my Google Ads accounts are also on separate isolated VPSes.
Yes, but that makes it worse, not better.
There's no reason behind it, it's just suffering for no reason.
It's "Brazil" and not "1984", and I don't think that's better.
I know for a fact that some people manage to bypass Facebook Ads review process by bribing some local employees in developing countries (India, Indonesia etc..). I wouldn't be surprised if this was used with Apple as well as they usually tend to outsource these jobs in Developing countries.
Not obtuse at all! It’s actually not so easy to describe what this is and it took us a while to come up with correct language, and understanding of how to express it even after we knew what it was and had built it: it took us some time to figure out how to communicate that.
To answer you: I believe these instrumentation/automation protocols/methods like Selenium/W3C WebDriver Protocol/Remote Debugger Protocol, do not themselves provide user interfaces for controlling their functions, but rather expose APIs.
BrowserBox itself uses such a protocol under the hood, but also provides a user interface (that funnily enough looks like a regular browser~~because I wasn’t creative enough to invent a better set of UX interactions/affordances than those already expressed in regular web browser, heh :)).
In effect, BrowserBox turns the browser experience into a client server application. And BrowserBox is to those instrumentation/automation APIs, as a front end Client is to a Web application API.
That’s a slight simplification because BrowserBox contains a significant server component, however, it’s a useful way to think about it.
Great! I just started using it to access some sensitive accounts (Google/Facebook Ads Platform) on Azure instances. I travel a lot so always need to isolate my accounts in Cloud instances to not get banned (for having a high-risk profile due to the high number of IP adresses). I used to access my accounts through RDP but super slow, this is making it so much smoother
> high-risk profile due to the high number of IP adresses
Another solution might be to proxy your web traffic through a part of your controlled infrastructure. Also useful if the destination blocks requests unless the source is whitelisted. I use ssh port forwarding for this.
Since you've mentioned Facebook Ads Platform, I'm guessing you're using BrowserBox commercially. Did you have any thoughts on the pricing? A $50,000 license seems quite steep for a "faster RDP".
