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I'll take the over, here.


To me; point #3 is the big one and it is in conflict with point #1


How so? Those two together is literally agile; not as I've seen it done, but as it's intended. Learn, iterate, repeat.


Sorry in advance if this comes off as hostile, that's not my intent. I am genuinely wondering: You're in the business of advertising? And you're upset that Google isn't your golden goose anymore?


Anyone able to print this via Android? When I tap 3-dots in chrome → share→print I am getting an error


Probably because Chrome is shit, it prints fine on Android with Firefox 146.


I dig your style, you sound like my inner monologue :D


Stay tuned I have a pretty cool project I plan on launching very soon. It takes the email alias to the next level, using them as meta tags to actually allow users to trace the source of shady data exchanges. I'm working on the guide and I'm hoping to actually start a community effort here to hold companies accountable for responsible use of PII


I'm interested. How does it differ from using:

name+service@gmail.com or service@myowndomain.com

...to figure out where the spam originated?


> service@myowndomain.com

Just be aware that this may be very confusing to customer support agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32475178


FWIW, I have been using the companyname@mydomain.com auto-alias for many years now and I've never had it challenged nor rejected by a human or a machine.


I’ve also been doing it for quite a few years, and I think I had it rejected by a machine once, and I had it questioned by a human once.

I’ve had way more problems from systems that think TLDs are two or three characters (which has never been true).


Everybody knows name+something@ maps to name@ so it’s trivial for bad actors to strip the plus part and just spam you directly, losing the per-correspondent distinction.


Which is covered by GP's second suggestion. I add short random password-like strings to these aliases to thwart spammers who might be trying obvious aliases, turning e.g paypal@example.com into paypal.nsi873g@example.com


I probably didn’t explain myself well.

On Gmail foo+bar@gmail.com is an “alias” for foo@gmail.com. So if you give someone foo+randomstring@gmail.com hoping that will help you map random string to that particular sender, you’re fucked - because anyone who sees foo+randomstring@gmail.com knows it’s an alias for foo@gmail.com, they can just email that directly and bypass your cleverness.

If you’re using a sane alias provider like you described, then it’s likely not an issue.


In the latter specifically it doesn't differ except for the specific methodology and what we do with the results.


Direct Download link if anyone needs it is https://archive.org/download/insidececot/60minutesCECOTsegme...


Site is down for me?


Anyone reading thru these and filtering out the promotion spam should consider taking a look thru. All his Amazon orders, which mostly are uninteresting sure, but scattered in there are books and eBook purchases dealing with some relevant and interesting-in-context topics.

Also, interesting that this one got by him (unopened, unread, filtered from inbox) and the timing of it being near his final arrest (coincidence, but still) https://www.jmail.world/eml/0b80588f551f3d097695f1c9507b6572


https://www.jmail.world/thread/94b742a9202b9782dcfef7d2aaed1... and this https://www.jmail.world/thread/3a2c95682ec730d0062d6d1c5bcf5.... Why did he order these, for who?

He sure bought a lot of books. I found this that is not a book.


>for who

Indeed. Though the high school uniform thing seems to be a fairly mainstream fetish, with hormones raging at that time in people's lives. But granted, if it's not for your partner or (of age) mistress...


Not surprisingly Lolita was one of them:

https://www.jmail.world/search?q=lolita


wow great findings


We're also working to have a RAG system on Jemini so you can talk to the files. many of the files have been embedded into vectors thru turbopuffer.


RAG doesn't have to be vectors. You can also make a regular full text search and it's gonna be RAG.


Will do a shameless plug here of Skald: https://www.useskald.com/

You'll get the whole RAG/context layer going in an hour. Can self-host too if you prefer.

This is really impressive btw!


A little while ago Bloomberg published a list of his books. I created two lists on Goodreads containing these books, using Bloomberg as a source.

2007 -> 2017:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/237057.Epstein_s_Library...

2018 -> 2019:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/237060.Epstein_s_Library...

You can only add 100 books in a Goodreads list so I had to create two. In the lists I linked back to the original Bloomberg article.


Looks like he didn't order any CS books. Maybe someone should recommend some to him /s


Yes, shoutout to our friend Aidan Dunlap for making an entire interface to see those Amazon orders! It's at https://www.jmail.world/jamazon

Jmail is the only place to see those Amazon order emails by the way! Those are from his Yahoo, which Bloomberg announced in September but Drop Site News actually let us release this month. It all came from https://ddosecrets.com/article/epstein-emails (redactions of the full dataset still taking place)


Awesome work guys. I am envious of anyone involved in the research (well besides those who are actually involved in the discovery process, those people's lives are not fun right now). If you're enlisting help please let me know! Keep up the good work.


Most of the Amazon orders look mundane, mostly books, what is weird is the quantity. It looks like it is all impulse purchases, and I guess that most of these will end up in the trash once it arrives, if it isn't picked up by someone else first.

I would have thought an quasi-billionaire like Epstein would have a personal concierge do the purchases for him. I certainly would if I was that rich. I would certainly not buy a shower head, I would show my concierge a picture of the shower I want and have him appoint a plumber so that I can have my shower the way I want it when I come back the next day. What's the point of being rich if that's to buy shower heads on Amazon?


Plenty of wealthy people are bad at delegating. The part that amazed me is him buying the cheap unpronounceable Amazon brands for medical equipment, like "DEDAKJ Oxygen Concentrator 2-9L/min Adjustable Portable Oxygen Machine for Home and Travel Use". I would've thought a billionaire would be surrounded by the best name brands in everything.

He also seemed bad at delegating his interior decorating to a professional, judging by the photos of his island.


The breathing apparatus makes me think Dennis Hopper as Frank in Blue Velvet. Chills.


His assistant may have used his account to place the order.


Same perspective here just 15 miles northwest of scene. Pretty sure they confirmed officially presence of MA NH LEO, NHSP, MASP, FBI, CIA, ATF, and Secret Service.


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