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Appears to be a Kindle unlimited related scam.

Not the poster on the Xfinity forum, but thought the analysis would be interesting for HN (Assume many here fall into the bucket of using their own modems.) Came across this after my own internet connection started dropping 20+ times per day past few weeks. Comcast Tech said everything looks good on my connection and my best bet is just to buy a new modem and see if it fixed it.

So that’s what I used to think (Price hiding to avoid sticker shock) But now I am convinced it’s a little bit the price point but more when there is variability in the pricing, and the pricing is done by a sales team that has flexibility on what they charge you (these companies always will ask for a budget and tailor the quote to what they can squeeze)

I take it as a sign that when they do give you a quote, it’s up for negotiation and you should never agree to the first number presented.

This looks great - some more in-depth documentation vs. just a feature list would be helpful.

What's the configuration / deployment story? How do you move a configured Motor Admin configuration from development to staging and then production?

I switched to the Android Headspace app recently and the juxtaposition of what they're trying to achieve (meditation / mindfulness and being in the moment) with the onslaught of unasked-for notifications, sometimes when I was already asleep, was jarring. They should be a poster boy for Calm Technology, but Tech just can't seem to help itself.

Come on dude, you make it sound like these things we're catching on fire all over the place - "... the number of incidents remains small, and Tesla’s review to date points to the building receptacle or wiring as the primary cause of failed NEMA 14-50 adapters, the company has determined that a voluntary recall is appropriate as a precautionary measure.”

You do know that there are no communities that have zoning ordinances allowing 160ft water towers, right?

So there's always a variance of some sort involved if fracking is done near any residential community, but I don't think that's stopped the guy or Dick before. I still think the hypocrite card can quite validly be played here.

Isn't this solved by just requiring the CSRF token on any JS get requests? (In fact, isn't this just a cross-site request forgery with a different verb than we're used to?)

I know it's only generally checked on posts, but turning it on for any xhr calls seems like it would solve any potential data leakage.

I love the submitter's article, but I have to agree - while the thesis is similar, it's told from such a different viewpoint that I wouldn't have even made a connection between the two.

I got one of these, it was brutal.

Switching cards was something like a 30 second process, which meant that instead of taking a card out, you had to open up the app, wait for it to load, wait an extra 10 seconds for it to connect to the Geode, then use the painfully-slow app. All to not carry a card in your wallet.

And on top of it - the two times I tried it at restaurants the card itself didn't work.