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many people have binary gender
some people have non-binary gender
and then there's application/octet-stream
we don't really know what's up with them
That is genius!
Update:
LOL, someone reported me to, err, me... The first report I have ever had!
Seems I have to clarify.
All junk calls I get, are either not legal under PECR, or actually fraudulent. I am assuming this is the nature of this call. If not, then not so funny.
I have zero sympathy for someone that works for criminals. Arguing that the only job you can get is working for criminals does not justify it. Sorry. But that is my free speech opinion.
So I won't be suspending myself.
Signs you have carpenter ants
1. keep finding tiny tools
2. city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
3. try to move a book and are told βkeep this entrance clear, maβamβ because of the βcement delivery coming laterβ
4. Your dish rack is dismantled βbecause itβll be cheaper to rebuild from scratchβ
5. no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
6. husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower
(my new drawing for this PSA)
Stop giving links on websites the text "here".
You can find something here.
is making it really hard for anyone with a screen reader to go back and "click" the link afterwards.
Your link should have a text like:
You can also have a look at the accessibility guidelines for websites if you want more information.
Bam, suddenly everyone knows exactly what that link is, and if someone with a screenreader gets the link names read out they also know exactly what this link will be without having to let it read the entire sentence again.
100% of toxic "forever chemicals" break down overnight in new method from Japanese scientists.
Scientists in Japan have developed a new way of breaking down toxic βforever chemicalsβ quickly at room temperature. The technique broke down 100% of certain types of these pollutants overnight, recovering some useful components for reuse. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
https://www.popsci.com/science/pfas-led-light/
A promising new technique separated 100-percent of fluorine from one PFAS overnight.Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
The DecentUSB Host aims at being a low-cost extension for Atari 8-bit computers that brings USB, Bluetooh and Wifi capabilities to the platform.It's open sou...YouTube
Giving some belly rubs and snugs for #TummyTuesday
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πΉ @KivuliTiger
#furry #fursuit #belly #BellyRubs #FursuitVideo #LupeSuits
"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, itβs just the way it should be and itβs not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf
EDIT to add: You can donate at https://www.videolan.org/ in the upper-right hand corner.
https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/kempf-interview-vlc-videolan
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g6cqr/iama_vlc_media_player_developer_ama/
https://usesthis.com/interviews/jean-baptiste.kempf/
#OpenSource #NonExtractiveSystems
Jean-Baptiste Kempf discusses how he initially got involved in VLC and shares his tips for developers who want to improve and get hired.Welcome to the Jungle
"Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.β
Public Work is a visual search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sourcespublic.work
Purple and Yellow makes me think of Adam Warrock's song. Maybe Boompow Smash? (Sounds better backwards: Smash Boompow.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPuayhQFCU
Free download: http://www.adamwarrock.com/?p=4537Beat used: "Rivers of Blood" The RZAMore free music at:http://adamwarrock.comhttp://adamwarrock.tumblr.comh...YouTube
i hate how home consoles now are just "pc with fucked up freebsd/windows".
they should make another console that has 7 cores of an architecture you've never heard of
games should run at kernel level and have to include their own scheduler. don't worry, you can have 3 cores of 3 different architectures to manage filesystem access and such.
As a Brit I donβt find βweirdβ that bigger insult, it feels a little tame given I tend to like a lot of people who self confess to being weird.
Donβt see so many folks describing themselves as βcreepyβ thoughβ¦
Apart from a Thom Yorke from Radiohead who said both:
βBut I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong hereβ
Which if #Trump had Yorkeβs self awareness would mean he would acknowledge he didnβt belong in the White Houseβ¦yeah, right?
@markp This one Bewinner 3D Hologram Advertising Display Fan Projector, 224 LED Light Beads, 800x480P Trade Show LED Display Fan, 3D Holographic Fan for Store, Shop, Bar, Holiday (224 LED) https://amzn.eu/d/0bgMsERK
It comes with a micro sd card that contains a file converting application and WiFi remote software. Haven't tried the remote yet, but to upload pictures you just upload a file, run a converter, it then produces a file you drop in the root of the SD card, and it displays.
Just four companies in the U.S. control:
85% of beef processing
80% of corn seed distribution
77% of fertilizer production
69% of grocery sales
Wondering why food prices are so high?
Minimal competition means maximized price-gouging.
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π @AilurusThePanda
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits
it would be cool if there were a public wiki for how to lobotomize modern cars.
like:
software to enter dealer mode to reset or disable location history,
the CAN message to disable a biometric / tracking system,
how to physically unplug the 5g radio / antenna,
remove all phone contact info
Would be nice if NHTSA spoke about road safety as clearly as Jalopnik.
https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-unbreakable-rules-of-driving-1851608168/slides/8
The dos and don'ts for when you're out on the road.Collin Woodard (Jalopnik)
#Trump is not only saying he only needs Christians to vote this once, because then heβll βfix itβ, heβs also saying people donβt need to vote at all for him to win.
Heβs saying the election will be determined by something other than votesβ¦the crooked officials heβs already got on board to certify the results.
Heβs not even bothering to hide his fascism.
Rachel Maddow rounds up instances in which Donald Trump not only assures his supporters that if he is elected they won't have to vote in the future, but also that even for this 2024 election he does not need votes.MSNBC.com (MSNBC)
Just waiting to see what happens if Republican voting officials refuse to certify Democrat wins doesnβt seem like a great idea given Trumpβs previous. How else can the integrity of the election be protected? Can it be done from within the US given the Supreme Court is also compromised?
Two types of fedi admin
There will be some downtime FOUR MONTHS from now please be ready uwu
vs
omw to reboot the server in 15 minutes cope
@revk and many of those places will conveniently include bonus as something to be considered in the overall package.
Either it's a bonus or it's pay. Problem when it is pay is that reducing it makes people really mad.
I wonder if pc power supplies are able to taste different flavours of power being fed to them.
Maybe like Spain has a specific high frequency ripple voltage that makes it spicy or sweden has a very low .02hz +/-1v fluctuation that has a calming effect on capacitors.
(I am hoping nothing goes wrong plugging in my PC to Sweden's grid XD)
A "qualia" I do not like is when you search Google for something and your first result is a forum or Reddit thread on the exact subject asking your exact question and the top response is very abrasively going uhhhhh, why didn't you just Google for it??"
No, john
You are the Google
Happy #InternationalTigerDay from Mythimorph Labs π―
I've decided to let the latest experiment out of its cage... the upgraded Tiger has finally earned its STRIPES!
Helping celebrate is @QuietFire proudly modeling a custom shirt designed to be as unique as he is π³οΈβπ
wait, there are callcenters who don't (re)configure their phone systems with network settings?
phone was acting weird -> factory reset and the network did the rest.
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@Ittihadyya oh wow. So you just dodge the criticism about the message you shared, just like that?
Underpaid workers like telemarketers needs respect too. Retaliating against one of them is not something you should brag about.
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I'm not sure you understand how much stress this person has put on a delocalized worker, who's already alienated in normal conditions, having to follow a route made by white collar workers. He may have a family to feed and he isn't the problem himself. He may have been fired, or at best he's lost an hour of paid labor while fearing losing his job, in great distress.
This is only funny for ignorant people, and there's arguably racism in that. Do better.
Maybe I can't read, but the topic here is not skin colour, nationality or race - not even close...
So, I don't see the racism issue
Sorry, @oceane
Fediverse is worlwide with people/users from around the globe and we can't be too "woke" all the time.
I don't mind "woke" people but this got nothing to do with this post by @revk
There are call centres in India who make fradulent calls to English-speaking elderly people about their computer.
They are brought down by hackers because Indian authorities won't do anything and are often bribed by local politicians.
The bosses make hundreds of money by selling inefficient computer protections. The cold-callers barely hide their joy when they see a well-fed bank account and when they are caught about lying about their identity, they resort to insults.
Are you seriously suggesting that nothing should be done against that because that would be considered as racism!?
Sorry to hear that - I am puzzled it has now got in to race, which was not in the original post at all. Indeed, I rarely get calls that don't sound like they are in the UK, but that was not my consideration at all in the post.
Junk/fraud calls are a plague on us all, and this post was an amusing rebalancing of the nuisance caused by them.
What of all the people on low wages trying to make a living who are interrupted by junk callers.
Absolutely not! But are you sending this message in the context of national Indian calls, with (1) based on what you say, lacking legal resources due to political corruption, and (2) from my point a view, a negligible number of elderly white people?
I'm saying here that sharing this kind of messages on social media is embedded in racism, and that racism isn't a solution, it's part of everyone's problems with crime, scamming, and so on, because it reinforces a social system based on forcing people to contribute to it to meet their own needs (Adam Smith), and that's been coopted by a class of oppressors, that defend a system waging wars for their own benefits (e.g. natural resources appropriation, such as oil, or even as weapons manufacturers). If this is in the context of national Indian calls, then racism from white people feels irrelevant, isn't it?
I won't improvize myself an Indian activist, but I'm sure that you can find a trust-based network of local orgs in about 15 minutes by querying about any reputable search engine. Racism isn't part of the solution, but lending these orgs a hand on your spare time, sharing their press releases on your account, blogging about them would be. From the top of my head, these would be the solutions I would suggest in this context.
Sure, but then I would encourage you to join local data protection activists. It's all fun and games until you ask which data broker has sold them your contact info.
No need to hurt anyone.
I'm impressed. The fraud ones don't have anyone to sue - you don't get any identity of who they are. The junk calls are crap at identifying themselves, I have tried hard on occasion to just get a company name that is not made up. *if* I played along enough to get as far as paying something, maybe I could identify who I paid somehow. But until then, who do you sue.
Well done making progress. But it is a battle, which is the point of the original post.
In my case they were contacting me on behalf of SFR, a crappy French ISP, so I could just have sued them.
Oh and I was recording the call.
I record all calls anyway, but I have had the odd case like that and the company they name obviously deny any wrong doing.
They may, for example, have some sort of referral or commission system, but have in no way authorised or requested junk calls, so why would they care?
I appreciate laws vary on this.
But if you win the nice way, people still lose jobs!
And to be clear, some of them, especially those working for fraudsters, know exactly what they are doing and have chosen to do, so I see no reason they are "not the enemy" too.
There are those working in a call centre that does sell something vaguely legit even if it fails to follow the rules on junk calls. Those people may not appreciate what they are doing until someone explains it (which I do).
I'm sorry but I've only done it once, with the intent of suing the data broker, not the call center. It was a mistake and I won't do this again.
However, there's a difference between this and breaking a sweatshop worker's tools for about an hour, which feels cruel and gratuitous to me. The person has actually lost some of their free time to laugh at a dark-skinned Indian. As I replied to some people denying the racism I was feeling in the cultural context surrounding this post, white people were, indeed, thinking about delocalized PoC.
Other solutions include mandatory phone number prefixes and then apps like AnyCallBlocker IIRC, or training elderly people not to give their bank/insurance credentials over a phone call. The EU has made MFA mandatory for online payments, and so forth.
Part of these solutions include being part of the safety net we're probably voting for, and then getting an actually leftist government training elderly people over deconcentrated, local, convenient, free workshops, in small groups.
There are solutions. None of them imply getting a sweatshop worker worried. I was just saying that this one, as ad hoc as it was, was more efficient. This was a personal, slightly bootlegged personal experience. That was the point.
So you got some low paid worked anxious and worried about his job because they have had to hand over details that could get the company sued (and recorded their side as well I am sure)... So "abusing a worker", the very thing you don't want to do.
And if you succeed in suing then they lose the job.
There is no nice way to sort this out, and breaking their phone for a bit is no worse.
OK but *any* measure that works, and gets the place shut down causes those workers to all be out of a job, probably without being paid.
Doing the right thing and getting the bad guys sorted out causes people to lose their jobs.
The trick is not to work for criminals and scammers in the first place.
Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and sc...
web.archive.orgThat's not "genius", that's being a jackass to someone who's working a miserable and low-paying job to get by and then crowing about it to feel superior.
I suppose I shouldn't even be surprised.
the commercial phone setups I have worked with did pull their config on _each_ boot. So factory reset would be only a ~10 minute downtime of that phone.
CC: @luebbermann
idk saying that working for a criminal is universally bad is kind of iffy to me? illegal doesn't mean unethical (though i'd say this specific thing is unethical)
Getting people to buy something they don't want or need is bad, yes, but by the same logic working at IKEA would be unethical
I feel that reporting you (to you π) unwarranted.
If "legitimate" telemarketers are a thing, still the individual calling me is the front line representative of a corporation that wants nothing but my money and employs legions of people to ensnare/trap/fool me into getting it.
What were those codes again?
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@pluralistic
I love this because it's flipped social engineering on its head in the very best way possible. More and more of this, please.
This is what an opposition looks like.
I don't feel the least bit bad about it and you shouldn't either. Telemarketers being what they are have opened flood gates for scams and bad actors. They know exactly that they did too, they just don't give a shit. They're often the same companies getting paid to do it.
I'm not gonna feel bad for the low paid scammer any more than I am for the low paid telemarketer. They're the same. Same thing. Same business, same building. NO ONE calls you randomly to help YOU. No one randomly knocks on your door to sell you a product that will help YOU. They do it because you are their target for profit. That profit will come FROM YOU. That's a scam, legal or not, and fuck those people.
Interesting how many virtue signalers feel for the poor telemarketers. Me I waste their time, Microsoft calling to inform me my computer has a virus? After 15 or so minutes when they finally figured out what I was doing and hung up with some unintelligible language I chuckled.
Local Sheriff calling to let me know they have a warrant out for my arrest because I skipped jury duty? I am proud to say I tied that sucker up for over 1 hour and 45 minutes with him thinking I was driving to the bank then over to a gas station that had a bitcoin atm. First I had supposedly gone to the bitcoin atm but it would not accept my card. So I needed to go to the bank but could supposedly only get $500 from the bank atm so I needed to go inside. And they instructed me on what to say to the teller.
Finally got tired of it and asked him if he thought I deserved an award for fooling him. Again I suspect I was cussed in a foreign language as they hung up.
that's even better than what a friend did
When he got one of those "hello this is MSFT to debug your computer" scams, he kept them on the phone for 45 minutes: enabling remote access, watching them delete some system32 folder files, and then demand the ransom
...until it mysteriously repaired itself, because he was in a VM the whole time and restored from a snapshot
He got them so mad they couldn't scam him, they hung up on him! π
While clever, Blasko there is a mean-spirited person who makes much more money than does that telemarketer.
That person is just trying to do their job.
They're trying to make a living and likely hate the job as it is.
I'm certain the daily hostility and passive-aggressive (as that is) and aggressive BS they experience is no help.
So, thumbs down for me.