Crazy thing: my friends who run a high traffic coffee shop just found this thing under their bar. It turns out to be a super cheap Chinese Bluetooth LE beacon.
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@buzz
Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr, @bkcc), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Mail: buzz at andersen.buzz
Los Angeles, CA
Born September 27
Joined July 2006
- Theory: we branched to the dark timeline when the Cubs won the World Series.
- Replying to @jackSo being a public company is bad, but becoming the private domain of the richest man in the world, a notorious troll and market manipulator, as part of an acquisition fueled by margin debt he will need income to service and which is secured by equity in another company, is good.
- Instagram is now basically a mall where I occasionally run into friends.
- If you want to understand Trump, you have to understand narcissistic rage. medium.com/@Elamika/hell-…
- Replying to @buzzI was able to connect to it, and the URL that this particular one was broadcasting appears to have been some sort of student loan scam. So, basically this is an instance of physical, location-based spam.
- Looking forward to WordPress eventually buying Twitter for like $10 million.
- Replying to @buzzStar Wars Villain or Tech Investor? - Boba Fett - Gilad Pellaeon - Hunter Walk - Roelof Botha - Hondo Ohnaka - Alexis Ohanian - Greedo
- Movie hacker trope: *Stares at never-before-seen screen of someone else's code for 10 seconds* "My God, this is brilliant!" IRL: "Uhhh."
- I’ve often struggled to precisely describe Hacker News’s particular brand of obnoxiousness, but this pretty much nails it. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
- When even the foreign power manipulating you is shocked at your party's lack of principle. newsweek.com/donald-trump-v…
