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   Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 20:53:14 JST Matthew Garrett

   Remembering the time Amazon somehow added an internal address to my account that only showed up through the "Buy now" flow, so I ordered the cheapest thing I could find with free shipping (a $0.69 dog treat) and added a gift note containing a bug report and eventually it went away although I have no idea whether these events are linked

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     Matthew Garrett (mjg59@nondeterministic.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 20:53:26 JST Matthew Garrett

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     Many years earlier I'd been trying to download the code referenced in a scientific paper but the URL provided resolved to an HP printer and after a month I just started sending print jobs with big text saying "TAKE THIS TO YOUR IT DEPARTMENT" and small text telling them to fix whichever of their DNS or DHCP was broken

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