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Cake day: January 10th, 2024

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  • Billionaire Robert Kraft was caught at a low-end “massage parlor” in Florida. It seemed like a slam-dunk case but his lawyers were able to argue that the warrant allowing detectives to place hidden cameras in the rooms didn’t explicitly include recording the videos so the recordings couldn’t be used in court as evidence. Without the recordings of him asking for and receiving sexual services from a potentially trafficked person the prosecutors weren’t able to make a case and he remains a free man, not guilty in the eyes of the law even though what he did became widely known. Still blows my mind that he had the financial resources for any variety of overtly-transactional or less-overtly-transactional-and-perfectly-legal-in-most-jurisdictions relationships with willing participants, yet he chose the really cheap and illegal route with someone who was likely coerced into the action by a third party. Was that part of the appeal?



  • I would think of a Point of Sale being more like a cash register or the terminal where a waiter sends an order to the kitchen in a restaurant. Credit card transactions are usually handled by a separate device that connects to the PoS, except for a few devices created by credit card processing companies. It seems like it’s easier ever since the introduction of security chips to hand that off to specialist vendors.



  • Do you have skills you can freelance with? I’ve occasionally gotten work on Upwork and there are other platforms that might be viable, but it really matters to find jobs looking for skills you have, and having skills that are in demand. You have a client, not a boss, and whether or not you need to be in meetings depends on the kinds of jobs you go after.