Shaun Bender

Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing.

The best worst rear projection ever. AIRPLANE! (1980)

Fairly certain the postal employees felt the same from the transition from the Jeep DJ to the Grumman LLV.

“We’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran, we gave them the bottom half.” — Pete Hegseth.

While taking @congressdj to his hotel in Houston this afternoon, we discussed one of things we keep hearing over and over again in the comments to my video post from yesterday, that the Cybertruck had FSD disengaged for four seconds prior to impact. So after leaving DJ's hotel and heading back home, I went back to the Eastex Park & Ride exit ramp, and did the same thing as yesterday (let FSD take me up the ramp), but this time I disengaged FSD at the exact same location where the Fox News video starts, which was four seconds prior to the impact. I think the video speaks for itself.

While everyone's once again on the whole "USAA is garbage" warpath (they are), it's time once again for me to share a little story from 2013: As some of you know, I do computer security stuff. Not just professionally, but for fun. One day in December 2013, I got some spam email. It was a phish. Purporting to be from USAA. Since I was taking 2 years off from working (voluntarily; I'd just gotten married and wanted to focus on me for a while), I had ample time on my hands. So, I started digging. Long story short: I located the threat actor -- full name, address, photo, front door, and all his infrastructure. I infiltrated that, and obtained full details of every USAA customer he's successfully tricked into handing over everything: PII, credentials, account details, credit/debit card info, the works. Along with his other campaigns running, pretending to be other banks. I packaged this all up professionally and approached the appropriate people in USAA about it. Explained who I was, that I'd done this professionally for decades, that I'd been a long-standing customer of USAA, etc. I was told, in no uncertain terms -- in fact, in these exact words -- "It's our policy not to pursue fraud". I was a bit taken aback. I had to have them repeat, and then explain that. I couldn't've possibly heard that right. Here I was, a security professional, handing them a fairly large threat actor on a silver platter, along with a decent-sized list of USAA customers that either had been victims of fraud, or were about to be. And they not only said they weren't interested, but that they intended to do quite literally nothing. Absolutely nothing. Earlier that year they'd stopped underwriting motorcycle policies, so I had already pulled my auto and bike insurance from them. So, I spent Christmas Eve night that year (because I wasn't about to wait) sitting in the office of a local bank opening new accounts, transferring everything out of USAA. The following week we took it to the State Police. They were interested, but had no idea what to do with the information, even after I politely suggested various avenues to pursue. And I was talking with the officer who was in charge of "all the computer stuff". The report remains on file. The threat actor remains at large. His victims remain screwed. USAA doesn't give two shits about you, and hasn't for quite some time.

@RobProvince @Bacon_Is_King @JBlunt1018 Wtf. Seriously???

@JBlunt1018 Just cancelled all my USAA polices and credit card because they fired all their US employees and replaced them with foreign labor.

HUGE NEWS and honestly, this is long overdue. For the first time in a while, it feels like the left is actually stepping up to push back against the H-1B misinformation and the growing anti-Indian rhetoric online and in real life. Hasan Minhaj just dropped an excellent breakdown on the whole H-1B / “Indian narrative” and it hits on a lot of the misinformation that’s been floating around unchecked. I’m attaching a clip below + the full YouTube link. This matters. For too long, protectionist narratives have dominated the conversation often driven by fear, bad data, or outright misinformation. And it’s had real consequences. It’s time to: — push back on the rhetoric — correct the misunderstandings — stop letting one side control the entire narrative Good to finally see someone with a platform call it out.

@miles_commodore Yes. Crazy how good it tastes.

Have you ever eaten fish that was in the ocean a few hours before it was on your plate? There’s nothing like it.

The Hoover Dam was built in the amount of time it has taken California to construct a small bridge for cats and butterflies. The Empire State Building was built in about a quarter of the time.

Forever obsessed with these bushes in the original Star Wars film from 1977 that magically disappear in-between shots

I’ve submitted bugs via the forums before for other Google products. Still showing bugs/issues from five years ago. I’m not going down that worthless hole again. A way to submitted true support tickets with feedback needs to exist so issues can be resolved. But thanks for the reply.

@welles @welles Hi Shaun. Could you try uninstalling and then reinstalling the Drive app itself? If this doesn't help, please visit our Community Forum for any additional assistance: goo.gle/3XIOpsV. Thanks.

Also @googledrive if I manually navigate to a folder in the iOS app and then upload photos. The upload progress is shown. However, if I search for the folder name, then go into that folder, the upload progress is not shown.

I wonder who on the iOS Gmail team can actually fix this bug …. All new mail… make the red badge notification actually appear. Banners appear, just not the red badge.

Didn't have Trump coming back and winning the Vietnam War 51 years later on my Bingo Card for 2026.

He co-founded Costco in 1983. He set the hot dog price at $1.50. 41 years later, it's still $1.50. His secret? He simply refused to let anyone change it. Jim Sinegal co-founded Costco in 1983 and built it into one of the largest retailers in the world. But the thing most people remember about him has nothing to do with revenue or market share. It's the hot dog. Since 1985, the Costco hot dog and soda combo has cost $1.50. It has never been raised. Not once in over 40 years. When current CEO Craig Jelinek once suggested it might be time to raise the price, Sinegal reportedly told him: "If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you." Costco sells over 200 million hot dogs per year at a loss. They don't care. The hot dog isn't a product. It's a promise. While everything else in the world got more expensive, one man decided his hot dog wouldn't. And it still hasn't.

I just learned that books in an E-reader are as expensive as physical books. then what is the freaking point?

What do you mean "Working"

Marco Rubio doing what he has to do to save The Bachelorette

Hey @googledrive what notification needs to be turned on???

YES!!