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Gary White, the #Buffalo custom hatter who made hats for Indiana Jones, The Untouchables, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and other films (and two for me), has died:
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Hats Off to Gary White, who Outfitted the stars with Custom Hats for Upwards of 50 Years - Buffalo Rising
Buffalo’s legendary custom hatter, Gary White, has passed away. White, who made hats for upwards of 50 years, was widely known for creating spec hats for the film industry, including notable films such as Dick Tracy, The Untouchables, Tombstone, and Indiana Jones. In a world where the art of making custom hats is becoming more and more obscure, Buffalo was certainly lucky to have Gary and his business – The Custom Hatter – around for so long. For decades, Gary

from my link log —
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call.
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/
saved 2025-05-17

Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $512.3M, vs. $501.21M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue of $543.5M to $544.5M, vs. $538.6M est. (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/31/cloudflare-beats-second-quart…

Cloudflare beats earnings estimates with strong revenue and customer growth - SiliconANGLE
Cloudflare beats earnings estimates with strong revenue and customer growth - SiliconANGLE

My favorite actor from DS9, Armin Shimerman, aka "Quark". So much better than waiting in line at the cons. 😜
✅ Armin Shimerman - Star Trek - Custom Signed Art Prints | FanFair
https://fanfairsignatures.com/products/armin-shimerman-custom-art-prints

Armin Shimerman

»Blogs werden immer mehr zu einer wichtigen Wegstation auf der Customer Journey« titelte der eco im August 2015 ein Interview mit Tim Cole, dem womöglich ersten Blogger des Internets. Anlass war, dass sein Blog cole.de damals 20 Jahre alt wurde.
https://www.eco.d…

One way to ensure I don't buy an item is to market it "as seen on Shark Tank" -- but that's probably just me. Another way to ensure I don't buy an item is to market it as having AI features (??), and apparently that's widespread.
https://futurism.com/customers-see-ai-…

Something Hilarious Happens When Potential Customers See That a Product Has AI Features
New research explores how customers react to products that are marketed as having AI — with striking results.

Een pleidooi waarin ik mij zeer kan vinden: open die software!
https://tweakers.net/reviews/13604/makers-van-custom-roms-luiden-noodklok-europese-commissie-moet-ingrijpen.html

Makers van custom roms luiden noodklok: 'Europese Commissie moet ingrijpen'
Makers van custom roms hebben in de afgelopen maanden twee gevoelige tikken gekregen. Zij roepen daarom op tot Europees ingrijpen.

A Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Vietnamese Large Language Models in Customer Support
Long S. T. Nguyen, Truong P. Hua, Thanh M. Nguyen, Toan Q. Pham, Nam K. Ngo, An X. Nguyen, Nghi D. M. Pham, Nghia H. Nguyen, Tho T. Quan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22542

A Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Vietnamese Large Language Models in Customer Support
With the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential for Question Answering (QA) systems, improving efficiency and reducing human workload in customer service. The emergence of Vietnamese LLMs (ViLLMs) highlights lightweight open-source models as a practical choice for their accuracy, efficiency, and privacy benefits. However, domain-specific evaluations remain limited, and the absence of benchmark datasets reflecting real customer interactions ma…

Imagine if a candidate for US President had a workable program to ban sludge, that bureaucratic hell companies and the government put us through on support lines, in endless phone menus, and online to make us give up. They'd win 50 states!
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

That Dropped Call With Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.
Endless wait times and excessive procedural fuss—it’s all part of a tactic called “sludge.”

»How to build a copy-to-clipboard HTML«
– by @…
With JavaScript set HTML to easy use web GUI's.
📃 https://gomakethings.com/how-…

How to build a copy-to-clipboard HTML Web Component
Yesterday, we looked at how to copy items to a user’s clipboard with JavaScriprt. Today, we’re going to turn that into an HTML Web Component. Let’s dig in! The Custom Element For this Web Component, let’s use a element. With the HTML Web Component approach, we start with HTML and enhance it rather than rendering all the things with JavaScript. Let’s add a with our desired text inside the custom element.