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@7eleven @fintel_io He left a second message: "You have 30 minutes to return my money, you faggot. I never authorized your little gay website to be taking credits on my account. Unless you want your whole fucking operation shut down, I suggest you get on it."

@7eleven @fintel_io linkedin.com/in/antonlnd/

Hey @7eleven - one of your employees left me this voice mail today. He purchased a gold subscription from @fintel_io and had second thoughts I guess.

I'm trying to get my site fintel.fi ready to serve ads with @GoogleAds (adsense). I've submitted it three times but it keeps getting rejected for the same policy violation: "Adult: Sexual Content." This is a financial site translated into Finnish. #adsense

Huzzah! I am happy to report that @googleanalytics is working again for me. Back to normal.

Boy I sure wish I could use @googleanalytics - this is day 9? 10? of me not being able to use it due to some errors in the javascript. #GoogleAnalytics #GA4

This is day 8 of me not being able to use @googleanalytics

This is day 5 of Google Analytics still not working for me @googleanalytics

@googleanalytics I get the same results on multiple browsers.

@googleanalytics I am unable to create any explorations using a specified segment (ie, like "Organic").

@googleanalytics I've done some investigating - it seems like this error happens when I add a segment to a chart. Most of my charts have "Organic Traffic." When I load them, I get the error message above. If I remove the segment, the charts renders properly. If I add a segment back, it fails.

This is Day 4 of me not being able to use #GA4 - can somebody please help. #googleanalytics Javascript console shows a 500 error.

@cherokeeowl I met John Draper - nicknamed "Captain Crunch" many years ago in SF. He's the guy who originally figured it out.

Before “hacking” had a name, it had a cereal prize. General Mills slipped a tiny plastic whistle into Cap’n Crunch boxes in the late ’60s. Turns out, that toy chirped at 2600 Hz — the exact tone AT&T used to signal “this trunk line is open.” Kids (and a few very curious adults) discovered you could blow the whistle into a payphone and… the system would politely hand you a free long-distance line. It was the golden age of phone phreaking — equal parts mischief, curiosity, and accidental engineering lesson. One of the young people fascinated by this loophole? Steve Jobs. He later said that if it weren’t for blue boxes and cereal whistles, Apple might never have happened. A toy in a cereal box became a backdoor into the most advanced network in the world. Have you heard this story — or were you lucky enough to own a Cap’n Crunch whistle?

@samstein The Australian??? @australian

Congrats to our new, in house Pentagon press corps The Federalist, the Epoch Times, OAN, Turkish newspaper Akşam, three individuals from the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, two Turkish freelancers, a reporter for the Australian, an Afghan freelancer; and three lesser-known operations, AWPS News, the India Globe and a blog called USA Journal Korea. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

The traffic from bots is so intense that we have had to rank them by "value to Fintel" and then just block all that don't provide real, direct, measurable value to us.

Just to add: the crawl rate was so damn high that it was killing our servers - the user experience for paying users was bad, and it was preventing Google and other high-value search engines from indexing our site quickly.

We've made the decision to finally block GPTBot (the training bot) from accessing Fintel - the problem is that the rate at which it scrapes our sites is phenomenal - it is costing us in bandwidth and server capacity each month - and the return is essentially nil #chatgpt