{"id":41859,"date":"2024-02-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=41859"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:41:23","slug":"future-of-space-disk-prices-oldavista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/future-of-space-disk-prices-oldavista\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Space\/Disk Prices\/Oldavista"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recomendo.com\/\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to get Recomendo a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Future of Space<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been researching the state of space technology, and the current ambitions of various countries and companies for space exploration and settlement. By far the best source for official plans, programs in progress, and technological breakthroughs has been a stellar YouTube channel called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheSpaceRaceYT\">The Space Race<\/a>. It\u2019s fun, visual, clear, insightful, succinct, and highly informative. Its back list of hundreds of videos have answered all my \u201cfuture of space\u201d questions. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Hard Drive Shopper<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/diskprices.com\/\">Disk Prices<\/a>&nbsp;is a bare-bones, text-only website lists the prices of hard drives, solid-state drives, and USB drives available on Amazon. It\u2019s a superior way to search for storage compared to searching directly on Amazon. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Old Internet Search<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldavista.com\/\">Oldavista<\/a>&nbsp;is a search engine that retrieves results from the \u201cinternet of yesterday,\u201d sourcing from archived personal web pages such as GeoCities, AOL Hometown, Angelfire, and others. It\u2019s modeled after the now-defunct AltaVista and scraped from the Internet Archive. I love the nostalgia exploration! \u2014 CD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Diversion Safes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Diversion safes look like everyday items, ranging from clocks to hairbrushes. They come with hidden compartments that are perfect for stashing money, USB drives, and other small valuables. The variety available on Amazon means there&#8217;s a style to blend into any room seamlessly. Here\u2019s one built into a<a href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/diversion-soap\">&nbsp;soap dispenser<\/a>. \u2014 MF<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Industry secrets\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone on Reddit asked, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/1amhqvu\/what_industry_secret_do_you_know_that_most_people\/\">What industry \u2018secret\u2019 do you know that most people don\u2019t?<\/a>\u201d and I wish I had time to read through all the thousands of comments. Many of the revealed secrets are what you might expect, like disinformation, uncleanliness, and high markups, but some are truly frightening! Below is a sample of the top-voted secrets:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>\u201cAre we still connected?\u201d most times will get an immediate response from online chat agents.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m an academic researcher and I can speak for a huge number in my field when I say: If you want access to our studies and they&#8217;re behind a paywall, you can email us and we will send you the study.<\/li><li>Trained artist here. Most oil paints are made with very toxic substances, as are most paint thinners and mediums. Every single one of my teachers was either very sick (Cancer, M\u00e9ni\u00e8re&#8217;s disease) or a bit crazy (eating chalk, licking pallettes). All incredible artists I was privileged to learn from.&nbsp;One lesson I learned very well: I wear gloves and sometimes a mask when I paint.<\/li><li>Worked in online community management and social media for years &#8211; Admins CAN read all of your PMs. Private only means private from the masses, not from administration, we had to be able to read them to check reports of abuse, grooming, illegal activity etc.&nbsp;<\/li><li>I make wildlife films for big streamers and broadcasters. The sound is all either library or foley.<em>The last one has ruined nature documentaries for me.<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 CD<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Fraud Alert<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If someone is calling you to alert you to fraud, nine out of ten times they are themselves the fraudster. These days fraud-alert fraudsters are sophisticated, and they may know information about you like your SSN, address, etc., and are playing a long game not asking for money at first. Warning signs: they prohibit you from talking to anyone else, and you can\u2019t hang up, or call back. This very long account,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html\">How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000<\/a><\/em>, by a very savvy financial advice columnist who got scammed by so-called fraud investigators has all the elements of the common tricks. It matches exactly with close friends who have been scammed. Yes, it can happen to you. Learn from others\u2019 mistakes. \u2014 KK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recomendo &#8211; issue #398<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2323],"tags":[2324],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41860,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41859\/revisions\/41860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}