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David Celis

Amateur pizzaiolo and engineer.

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ahhh, another day, another round of zendesk spam! and i can’t reasonably filter these ones because i have a couple actual support tickets i’m waiting on. neat!

i bought a whole new keyboard, a Nuphy Halo-IO V2, with their own firmware instead of QMK, and it still dies when my mac goes to sleep for more than an hour. i guess at least this one has a bluetooth mode? what the fuck does Apple expect people to do, only use Apple keyboards? god

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after over 750 emails from Zendesk in the span of an hour, i ended up just resubscribing to Fastmail. Apple Mail is just so fucking bad. the fact that you’re limited to like three server-side filtering rules that can only be EXTREMELY simplistic is just egregious

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just got like twenty signup/activation emails from random company zendesk instances and i just want to know what i could have possibly done to deserve this

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living in the modern age is so great because wdym some third party i’ve never heard of had a data breach containing my address and SSN and you’re only just sending me snail mail about it now, OVER A YEAR LATER

Dear David Celis: On behalf of our clients, Conduent Business Services, LLC ("Conduent") provides third-party printing/mailroom services, document processing services, payment integrity services, and other back-office support services. We are writing to inform you about a recent incident experienced by Conduent that may have involved some of your personal information, which came into our possession due to the services that we provide to your current or former health plan. While we are unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of any information involved in this incident, we are providing you with information about the incident and steps you can take to protect yourself, should you feel it necessary. What Happened? On January 13, 2025, we discovered that we were the victim of a cyber incident that impacted a limited portion of our network. We immediately secured our networks and initiated an investigation with the assistance of third-party forensic experts. Our investigation determined that an unauthorized third party had access to our environment from October 21, 2024, to January 13, 2025, and obtained some files associated with your current or former health plan. Given the nature and complexity of the data involved, Conduent has been working diligently with a dedicated review team, including internal and external experts, to conduct a detailed analysis of the affected files to identify the personal information contained therein. We are providing you with this notice upon the recent conclusion of this time-intensive data analysis as your personal information was contained in the affected files. What Information Was Involved. The affected files contained your name and the following: Address and Social Security number. Presently, we have no evidence or indication of actual or attempted misuse of your personal information. What We Are Doing. Upon discovery of the incident, we safely restored our systems and operations and notified law enforcement. We are also notifying you in case you decide to take further steps to protect your information should you feel it appropriate to do so. In addition, we are providing you with access to 12 months of credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Epiq at no charge to you. You must enroll by April 30, 2026. What You Can Do. Please review the enclosed "Steps You Can Take to Help Protect Your Information" which describes the services we are offering, how to activate them, and provides further details on how to protect yourself. We encourage you to remain vigilant against the potential for identity theft and fraud and to monitor your credit reports for any suspicious activity. For More Information. We sincerely regret any issue this incident may have caused you. If you have additional questions, you may call our dedicated assistance line at 877-332-1658 (toll-free, Monday-Friday, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, or write to us at Attn: Data Incident, 100 Campus Drive, Suite 200, Florham Park, New Jersey 07932. Sincerely, Conduent Business Services, LLC
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well i guess it’s a good thing i bought that nuphy keyboard, because my current one is still dying even after uninstalling Karabiner… but differently lol. instead of going completely dark, its lighting effects remain active (and responsive—i use tap effects) but no key presses get registered!

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i follow mostly food people on TikTok but this recipe from Chuck Cruz is one of the only ones where i saw it and immediately was like “i need to make this ASAP”

fried skin-on pork chop with hoshigaki buffalo sauce and bleu cheese polenta. so fricken good

A thick rib-cut pork chop sliced up, belly with crispy skin chopped on the outside to show the crackling, lightly smothered with a thick, dark sauce and topped with chopped chives. On the side is a pool of polenta topped decoratively with slices of fresh celery.
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after an embarrassingly agonizing time spent realizing that Karabiner Elements has been why my keyboard dies during sleep all along, i flashed my keyboard’s QMK firmware to get VIA enabled and managed to get all the mac function keys working as expected. but not before buying a new keyboard lol

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i know it’s almost certainly more complicated than this… but i do think it’s weird that immediately after TikTok finally changed hands i started getting military propaganda on my fyp for the first time

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i miss when restaurants had websites instead of just having an instagram profile with no hours, no menu, no link at all except an article about them that was written 2-3 years ago

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most of you may never need to know this, but if you have a mechanical keyboard that occasionally dies when your mac wakes from sleep and you keep having to unplug it and plug it back in: go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Wired Accessories and do this

A screenshot of macOS' System Settings app in the "Privacy & Security" pane after selecting the "Wired Accessories" item. There is a single setting, "Allow accessories to connect", with its value being changed to "Automatically allow when unlocked"
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