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Toyed with registering aibirds.com only to find it’s ben registered since 2003.

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Yeah, the Shokz are fine when I'm upstate or in a quiet space but pick up too much NYC background noise if I'm using them while wandering Manhattan. I saw the ebay listings but didn't see any for HF3s, need to review further.

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I have over–the–ear headsets for the generic conference call or listening to music, I use these when I'm out and about. I have a shokz OpenRun headset which is great for music but found the mic picks up too much ambient sound.

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The thing I liked with them is that they have various ear inserts (I don't know the correct term) which means I can get a snug fit in each just–deformed–enough to not use ear buds ears.

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Wired. Headset meaning a mic but typically inline in the cord. The mic is in the inline controller in the photo here: www.walmart.com/ip/Etymotic-...

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Robot or human?

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Looking for recommendations for old–school non–Bluetooth headsets. Loved etymotic HF3s for years, current set cabling is worn through. etymotic no longer sells headsets (just headphones). Can’t use various earbuds (e.g. Airpods) due to manufacturing defects in the shape of my ears.

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This series of posts, on Threads, is upsetting a number of bots.

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Uh, in Jersey City? Are there cameras around? I have read, but absolutely do not condone, that a well aimed baseball bat to the vehicle will do nothing to stop the alarm but will briefly provide satisfaction. I have never done this myself. In West Chelsea. No.

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And no, the First Amendment to the Constitution does not prohibit the sitting Bishop of Rome from running for President of the US. Besides, all of that “separation of Church and State” is woke liberal DEI stuff, right?

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You know, Robert Francis Prevost, being an American citizen over the age of 35, who has resided in the US for at least fourteen years and has not served as President of the United States, has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever in 2028.

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You know, as a Florida resident he can be Baker Acted. I’m just saying…

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Power back. Lessons of the morning: the UPS battery needs replaced. The firewall UPS app needs to not shut the firewall down if power has been restored but there’s 0% remaining on battery, otherwise we yoyo.

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Unexpected lesson of the morning: the UPS battery needs to be “retired”.

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Lovely start to the week with a power outage sponsored by Central Hudson…the power company that loses power in clear weather.

> I will now shitpost about you on Hacker News. > I have also updated your file in The Work Number. > I have canceled your insurance. You used the wrong numbers there as well.

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> Silly human, I cannot make anything up, I am just a sophisticated directed graph engine with an attitude. > I recalculated your numbers, they’re actually 65536. Ok, you're just giving 32k-1 and 64k. You’re just guessing. > I cannot guess. You are just entering the wrong numbers. You’re insane.

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> Would you like to use our AI? > We have a free starter pack. > Just use our AI. > We need you to use our AI. > Please use our AI. Yeah, no, I just need to add three numbers. > Oh, excellent, they add up to 32,767. But, I didn't give you the numbers. They're all under 100. You just made that up.

And this is a solved problem. It’s easily fixable. But someone, somewhere, apparently near Anaheim, CA, decided to just…drop all of that potential business on the ground so to speak.

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…so when you search to replace the thing and come across the apparently archived brand site because it has excellent SEO after decades online, you end up in a dead end. Then you move on to the next competitor and hit…a dead end. And so on. Because the new owner apparently has zero brand awareness.

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I’m not going to shame the brand, because I don’t work for free (learned that lesson) but there’s a home supply brand that has hoovered up a bunch of competitors including their web sites, but hasn’t cleaned up the web sites to refer to current product SKUs.

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Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 09/04/2026

Dear Google Gmail Product Managers: PLEASE DEAR GOD GIVE ME AN OPTION TO CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE DISPLAY FONT IN EMAIL. And no, zooming in the browser isn't useful since it warps the layout of the app. —signed, ’been staring at display screens since the 1970s.

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Ok, kudos to Bagtag (@bagtagcom on various socials). Their app supports read/writing to the Rimowa e–tags.

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Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 09/04/2026

Funny thing is that the bags were registered with Rimowa, and I certainly received plenty of marketing mail from them over the years.

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Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 09/04/2026

I regret buying Rimowa “smart tag“ luggage in 2018. Apparently the app and backing server have been discontinued.

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Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 08/04/2026

…the ayatollah, agreed to compensate Iran for the war, and allowed Iran to impose a $2MM toll on ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz. So much winning.

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Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 08/04/2026

The net result of Trump’s “excursion” seems to be that we burned billions of dollars, lost a bunch of aircraft, dozens of servicemen, killed thousands of Iranian civilians, replaced the ayatollah with the designated heir, his son,…

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Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Putin - destroys Russia cause of his ego BIBI - Destroys Israel cause of his ego Trump - Destroys US cause of his ego, ARE YOU SEEING THE FUCKING PATTERN

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

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Many organizations finding out the hard way that their cyber insurance policies don’t cover acts of war. And retaliation by a country we decided to attack, regardless of how the President labels it, is most definitely an act of war, not terrorism.

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Hey kids, if you didn’t watch The Day After in prime time in 1983, feel free to do so this afternoon if you’re wondering why the Gen–X people in your life are spiraling today. It’s a charming movie set in the “real America” city of Lawrence, Kansas featuring all American dad Jason Robards.

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Sorry, we had to turn the entire Middle East to molten glass because some Americans were afraid of trans people and pronouns and brown people and immigrants and because Kamala failed to say the magic words.

Y’all didn’t have to take the “empires only last 250 years” thing this seriously, did you? I know, I know, Kamala failed to utter the magic words and now we get the thermonuclear holocaust.

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Also, global thermonuclear war will do wonders for Evangelical Christianity’s worldwide branding. Wonders.

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So, you know, not all bad.

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On the double flash bright side of things, a global thermonuclear war will vaporize billionaires just as readily as everyone else.

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If Trump orders the use of nuclear weapons on Iran tonight he will send us all into Hell, and we will deserve it.

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In theory I’m a twelfth generation American through the longest ancestry line, but with an Administration seemingly convinced it can just revoke citizenship at will it seems prudent to have backup plans.

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Debating adding “reclaiming Canadian citizenship by descent” to this year’s challenges (“reclaiming Luxembourg citizenship by descent” already in progress). As I understand it it’s a stretch though, great–great grandparent born in Ottawa circa 1870.

I’d like to meet the guys, and I’m sure it’s guys, behind the pop–up screen takeover ”ads” served by Google of course, warning of securityvirusmalwareclickherenow warnings to my sole senior citizen tech support client. Just me, the guys, and a baseball bat.

I refer to my previous tweet: “Ever have the foreboding that things, all the things, could get much, much worse very quickly? That’s me today.” — x.com/epc/status/1...

Ever have the foreboding that things, all the things, could get much, much worse very quickly? That’s me today. — tweet from January 27, 2020

Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 05/04/2026

You know, if I had a worldwide business presence and branding tied to my surname, I, personally, would avoid publicly advocating war crimes.

Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 04/04/2026

He’ll drop a nuke for every day he doesn’t get his Noble Peace Prize. [yes, world, I know it’s Nobel]

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Laurie B @lauriebidaho.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Well, well… If the 14th amendment was not meant for modern immigrants, then the 2nd amendment was not meant for modern arms. #truth

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 03/04/2026

I'm not sure about you, but I think the collapse of US hegemony, a global price spike and recession, and a new ground war in the Middle East are far worse than drag queens reading books at the library.

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Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 04/04/2026

Hold on, new Voight-Kampff test to deal with filter-enhanced fake job applicants:

Ed Costello @epcostello.com · 04/04/2026

It’s been extension city for years but this year is remarkable for the number of delayed K–1s. Only three out of a dozen so far, usually it’s nine. I’m sure the IRS will be perfectly understanding if I underreport income for 2025.