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• SixPoundLine (@PeaGravelNed) reported now

  So I got screwed by a seller on eBay, and for the first time in my experience eBay would not act to resolve the issue (item not received, no seller replies, etc). PayPal did though. In about five minutes of time. There are multiple lessons there.

• Wayne Nice Meet YOU . (@kratzy76au) reported a minute ago from Charters Towers, State of Queensland

  @zachbussey Looks like widespread attack, changed passwords on my Twitch, payment, got into thank goodness, passwords on email, discord, on 3rd party apps, even with 2FA some how got around it, associated apps 3rd party and extensions etc like Ubisoft Krafton, paypal, discord etc use most link to data and etc after removed, l change all passwords. Be aware , coming to light some major went down.

• asmacarthur (@asmacarthur) reported 3 minutes ago

  @joshuarolson You had no problem with him taking all of his share of the proceeds from the sale of PayPal to Ebay & placing a bet on engineering in the form of two new companies: Tesla & SpaceX, & his doing it again in 2008. It is only his success that you feel entitled to, not his risks.

• innovationonward (@innovateonward) reported 3 minutes ago

  @kinggablim @ArjunPatel_AI @grok Okay, cool. Well here’s a little bit to start you off: API calls: This is how one IT system talks to another. That’s it. So if you wanted to build a platform like EBay, for instance, where people go online and bid on stuff, you could build it front to back but still have no way to make payments. Building that technology and going thru the regulatory hurdles alone could take years. So you license a company like PayPal to process your payments for you. Sounds great, but there’s often this problem: PayPal didn’t think about your use case for online auctions when they built a secure payment platform, they thought about Bank Software and Federal compliance, so they used entirely different tooling (code/CRM, etc) than you did. So your tool (EBay) and their tool (PayPal) don’t natively work together or possibly even communicate with each other. That’s where your API comes in. It’s an Application Programming Interface that allows you to create bridges between different IT systems or programs so you can communicate data between one another. So for instance you want your eBay user to place an order on your website using PayPal, you got to setup an interface that communicates what the person bid on and what the cost was to PayPal. Then you’ve got to communicate who the money goes to, and how much money you as a platform need put in your own account. When they receive that info from you via API connection, that’s the Input connection. Once they verify/process it, they’ll have to send you back a receipt, confirmation on your transaction, and status on when payment is received, etc. That’s the Output connection. Much of that stuff doesn’t exist naturally in systems weren’t built together / didn’t come from the same companies, so some companies will try to make API’s that are pre-made to fit other programs so you can just plug and play wherever you need to. That’s what it’s referring to there. You need to establish an API connection between your LLM and the program you’re using so the LLM can communicate with it as it needs to. That’s it. Luckily, programs like xAI and Claude, GPT, etc, have put a lot of emphasis on making API available and easy to use between their programs and a lot of others (really the AI community in general has done a great job at it) so you don’t have to build as much custom API as you would have had to in the past. Just go to whatever LLM your going to use (again, xAI could be great for just tinkering at low cost with stuff like word processing) to get your feet wet, find where it says “sign-up for Grok API” or “Claude API” or whatever (they may call it developer tools, idk) and follow the instructions there. It will pretty much ask you to put in a little info (prob bank card, general contact info, limits on how much you want to allow the program to spend [if you just load up like $50 to play w on something like Grok you’d be amazed at how far it’ll get you - if it just like word processing that thing can go a long, long time…]) and then tell you you’re done and can generate an API key. Then get whatever plugin you need for the software your using (a lot of it’s free) and follow-the instructions to input your API key / any other cross device info they need and permission for them to communicate on your behalf. If they don’t have plug-and-play API options or plugins you can also look into using Python or some other scripts and get Claude or Grok to write them for you (again, simple stuff to do - not as complex as it may seem), and honestly - just ask the LLM to guide you thru what your doing as your doing it and you’ll be all fine. That’s your first step to ‘vibe-coding’ anyways - just kinda going w the flow and learning / building w the help of the LLM that’s writing the code w you as you go. Those things are beast at code too if you can get in the right zone w it!

• asmacarthur (@asmacarthur) reported 6 minutes ago

  @joshuarolson You had no problem with him taking all of his share of the proceeds from the sale of PayPal to Ebay & placing a bet on engineering in the form of two new companies: Tesla & SpaceX, & his doing it again in 2008. It is only his success that you feel entitled to, not his risks.

• 𝙆𝙔𝙇𝙀 𝙈𝘼𝙉𝙎𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘿𝙂𝙀 (@KyleMansbridge) reported 6 minutes ago

  Something has gone wrong on @eBay… it has failed to process over £200 of orders yesterday into available funds. @eBay_UK I will need this processed by the end of today. All of them state to be cleared on the 3rd. We are now the 4th. Unacceptable to hold my money without any hold in place. I want this pushed through immediately and an IT ticket opened as I’m confident it will be a nation wide if not global issue. Problem with using tinpot processing companies like Adyen when eBay had a great partnership with PayPal and we had instant access to funds. cc. @AskeBay.

• Woolrich (@freya_woolrich) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CoreanoRin22590 @AskPayPal I can’t login to PayPal as even though I topped up @EE phone number on Monday , it appears to be disconnected. So I cannot receive any texts

• Wayne Nice Meet YOU . (@kratzy76au) reported 12 minutes ago from Charters Towers, State of Queensland

  @koobyisoffline Looks like widespread attack, changed passwords my Twitch, payment, got into thank goodness, passwords on email, discord, on 3rd party apps, even with 2FA some how got around it, associated apps 3rd party and extensions etc like Ubisoft Krafton, paypal, discord etc use most link to data and etc after removed, l change all passwords. Be aware , coming to light some major went down.

• Rob H. (@TheAtomicMoat) reported 14 minutes ago

  To understand the business model, you have to mix DNA. Imagine if Amazon had a baby with PayPal... And then gave that baby its own FedEx fleet... And dropped it into a region where the banks are broken and the logistics are chaos. That is $MELI.

• Inc42 (@Inc42) reported 17 minutes ago

  Several Indian broking platforms, including Zerodha, Angel One, Groww and Upstox, went offline during the trading hours today, as internet services company Cloudflare suffered yet another outage. Acknowledging the issue, Zerodha advised users to use its trading app Kite’s WhatsApp backup to manage trades. “Due to a cross-platform downtime on Cloudflare, Kite is currently unavailable. Please use the Kite WhatsApp backup to manage your trades while we investigate,” the company said in a post on X. This comes weeks after Cloudflare suffered an outage last month which took down several global platforms, including X, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Spotify and PayPal. To ead the full article here, click on biio #inc

• asmacarthur (@asmacarthur) reported 21 minutes ago

  @joshuarolson You had no problem with him taking all of his share of the proceeds from the sale of PayPal to Ebay & placing a bet on engineering in the form of two new companies: Tesla & SpaceX, & his doing it again in 2008. It is only his success that you feel entitled to, not his risks.

• Rorg (@Rorg453089) reported 21 minutes ago

  @thejaypee31 @weary_centurion PayPal is widely used, while Ebay is rock bottom. Everything that is said about Paypal is valid for...Ebay. Not Paypal. The cabal against it is a non sense. Gpay and Apple Pay, without speaking of all the dwarf fintech apps will never put down PayPal soon.

• Rich Harrison (@harrisonre) reported 26 minutes ago

  Karl with @eBay customer service just told me to conduct an OFF EBAY TRANSACTION via PayPal to resolve a customer issue. SERIOUSLY!?!?!?! DO YOU THINK IM STUPID ENOUGH TO DO THAT AND LOSE MY ACCOUNT?!?!?

• Livvyyapperz (@LivvyPersonals) reported 27 minutes ago

  @PayPal @eBay @AskeBay Ebay: We can't, paypal is the highest form of reasonability on this issue cuz it's their dispute, they need to approve it. Paypal: Well we can't do anything unless ebay approves it on their end.

• Masta-debater (@Masta_debater) reported 30 minutes ago

  @AbbottRachel @AmazonUK @AmazonUK seems to be a regular problem! Got told Wednesday that refund has been accepted 5-7 days. Today spoke to 3 different people, each lied, manager agreed that they lied. DONT PUT YOUR FAITH IN AMAZON- GO EBAY FOR ITEMS! Paypal protected, easy returns, and actually cheaper

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