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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • Churning. The art of spending money in a circle using accounts that offer rewards.

    I knew a guy who had like 50 credit cards and 25 bank accounts. He could move money in circles all month, and get like $100k/year in cash back rewards on top of his $100k/year job. His credit report said he spent $8M a year on credit cards. His credit score was 845.

    He also pretty much flew for free, and he flew all the time. There were a few mileage programs in his little scheme.

    As far as I can tell, 100% legal. The banks just make frequent changes to their offerings to make it hard to do.





  • We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.

    That’s a poor conclusion. A similar image could be created using masks and AI inpainting. You could take a photo on a rainy day and add in the disaster components using GenAI.

    That’s definitely not the case in this scenario, but we shouldn’t rely on things like verifying real-world locations to assume that GenAI wasn’t involved in making a photo.














  • From what I understand he created a streaming site with over 200TB of content, and made several million dollars selling access to it.

    While 48 years is a ridiculously draconian sentence, he wasn’t exactly an amateur pirate seeding his torrents too much or giving too many friends access to his Plex. He broke the one rule we all know will get your shit turned upside down: he directly profited off of piracy.

    And he did it all using domestic web services inside the USA where he has zero legal protection…

    I’m not so keen on fighting for this guy, because what he did isn’t comparable to even the most impressive Jellyfin admins on this sub, and he had awful opsec. If anything just learn a lesson from this guy and just maintain your own little personal archive for entertainment purposes.