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Probably a dodgy number. Aside from those maybe-Verizon-maybe-not texts I get every couple months, I don’t get any weird texts. I’ve also had this phone number since just after Oregon added a new area code so I’m probably the only person to ever have it.
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Gut feeling is real and has nothing to do with psychic powers. (It’s your subconscious checking in to say yes, this is a scam.)
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sounds legit, you should give him your bank account info
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Apr 2, 2022 15:23
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Zamujasa posted:merely opening a link isn't liable to get you pwned, but there are plenty of reasons to remind people to not click random poo poo The other one to keep in mind is JavaScript sending info in text boxes before you hit submit. (This uses the same mechanism as search engine suggestions.) Nightmare scenario here is clicking a bad link, filling out a few of the boxes, then coming to your senses and closing the tab; bad guys have your info and you probably don’t realize they do, so you don’t cancel that credit card or whatever.
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Apr 5, 2022 19:32
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You should turn it into a group chat with your new friends. Really get to know each other, your hopes, your dreams, your mothers’ maiden names, the name of the street you grew up on. Just normal new friend things.
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Apr 14, 2022 04:53
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Volmarias posted:You joke, but we actually were. Tricking people into opening goatse used to be a viable thing to do to friends, because every link was a mystery waiting to be discovered. Your family interaction with your extremely racist uncle was limited to Thanksgiving. YouTube was just weird fun stuff instead of HEY DONG LOVERS YOUR BOY DONGLORD HERE WITH ANO-, etc. hey click this link some weird alt right poo poo that is way more offensive than goatse
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May 11, 2022 07:47
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yep almost daily I have physical mail from people trying to buy my house. I like how some put a photo of it on the letter to prove they mean SERIOUS BUSINESS. That’s borderline “nice house you got there, shame if you didn’t sell it.”
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Blue Moonlight posted:At the same time, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if, whether or not a customer realizes it, something is wrong with their Comcast service. It’s just that likely. The wireless gateway you rent from Comcast is a broken piece of poo poo. It came that way in the box.
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This is legit interesting to me. 1999: I had to deal with the fallout from someone copying the EarthLink website pixel for pixel and spamming out “lol reset your password” emails. 2009: Your computer has been locked because you looked at the Bad Porn(tm). *it wasn’t usually locked except this pop up on login* 2019: All your data is encrypted now, send me a sliver of a bitcoin…please? My dumb rear end walked into a brand new job that got shitslammed by HR lady clicking on a thing and I spent a week fixing permissions and asking for office lady to not have computer access to all of our production files. I was denied. HR missus click a lot is the boss’ wife.
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CommonShore posted:just accidentally change it and nobody will know I debated this but every account on the network is effectively admin. Also I kept getting MalwareBytes hits on production libraries. “Oh, that’s the DLL that pretends to be a copy protect dongle.” Also our source control is a bunch of unlabeled flash drives. Also also we need loving 3.5” floppies to put programs on our 4 of our ancient rear end CNC lathes and I’m down to one working disk. FFUUCCKK Thanks for coming to my TED talk on how not to run the IT side of a machine shop. E: I legit thought this was the bad workplace thread, I will let my stupidity stand but I’m gonna repost over there too. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Jul 9, 2022 |
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Jul 9, 2022 17:24
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Fair, that was a bitch fest that was meant for the lovely job thread. The true scam was agreeing to hire me.
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A referral to a good mechanic is worth…more than its weight in gold because it doesn’t weigh anything.
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Computer fixin checklist: -Obvious malware -Obvious adware -Grey zone shitware, don’t uninstall on sight but doesn’t need to start with the OS -8+ GB RAM -SSD Add cooling to the above when necessary (hard lockups under load usually). E: 8+ GB RAM and/or SSD for minimally good performance. I’ve been using my wife’s old laptop with 4GB and spinning rust and HOLY poo poo is swapping painful. 8GB RAM would fix most of it, but an SSD would make the swapping suck a lot less. And to bring it back to the last thing, I’m using my wife’s laptop because my desktop is down for heat reasons. CPU-Z reports 100C across all 4 CPU cores until I press on the heat sink; immediate drop to 80C and falling over time. Yeah I’m too lazy to fix the heat goop. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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Aug 7, 2022 20:20
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AAAA locksmith is better than AAA, they’re listed higher. E: No seriously use the locksmith that the actual AAA/your insurance chooses. Them fucks are good, inflatable bag plus reach in, inside of 90 sec. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Doesn’t matter, used to run dispatch for tow/unlocks, vehicles have GPS. It was hilarious unfucking multiple tow companies one night where there was a pile up and dickheads were fighting for the state tow off (more money). E: We had the phone dispatch contract for more than one company in the area and LET ME TELL YOU they were not interested in anything beyond hooking and pulling. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Sometimes SIM cards just poo poo the bed. Never happened to me on an iPhone yet but I had to get a new SIM for a Nexus 4 once. E: Also uh, he has restarted it right? E2: How is SMS inbound/outbound? Can he receive calls but not place them? When he tries to place a call, does he get an error to the effect of “network error/no carrier” or does it forward him to customer service (lol pay your bill)? For that matter, what does it say in the upper right where ATT/Cricket/Verizon/etc is supposed to be? If you gather the answers to these questions in advance, you can skip like 10-15 minutes of initial troubleshooting with the carrier! Citation: Me, spending way too loving long answering these calls. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Nov 2, 2022 |
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bird with big dick posted:I’ve started playing Fran Turismo 7 I’m seeing the first problem.
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My old job contracted with some provider to do anti phishing training. Their SSL certificate was expired and Firefox (correctly) yelled about it. I made a joke that I passed the training by closing the tab, luckily my boss was cool and thought that was hilarious.
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Midjack posted:To be fair this is how I end up signing off on about half the phone calls I have to make. Software mute* is the best thing ever for call center types. Yes random lady I do care about the injustice you just suffered at Starbucks. I understand why your husband installed the porn app. *Hardware mute has a definite click to it. Trick was to time it so the caller was talking during the click over.
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Apr 21, 2023 20:40
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poo poo I’m a huge nerd who is running Ubiquiti’s only home router* and I haven’t done any blocking at router level. *Yes I know the AirRouter tops at 100mbit wired and less wireless. Counterpoint: the last time I had to think about my router was the time my kitten decided he liked cords.
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Jul 20, 2023 21:27
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Are you sedating enough?
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Jul 23, 2023 08:38
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No verdict on LifeLock but under no circumstances should she install the copy of Norton AV that might come with it. Norton is a great way to turn a fast computer slow.
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Aug 3, 2023 21:16
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way before lowtax: i got shoulder tapped by an attractive 40-something lady with a matching husband, my better half is also hot so im thinking hell yeah we go up to their hotel room and there are cardboard advertisements everywhere motherfuckers tried to get us into a mangosteen MLM
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bird with big dick posted:I assume you didn’t sign up for the MLM but was the sex good we did not do a “hey you wanna gently caress anyway?” and i regret this E: i was 20 and other half was 19, im proud of me for walking us out the room on the MLM thing, an older and more cynical me would have tried the above goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Aug 4, 2023 |
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Professor Shark posted:I’m at a union conference and there is a table for our insurance company offering a pretty good chance of getting a $100 giftcard… except you have to agree to give a blood sample. Why is this happening at a union conference? E: Is this a translation thing? I’m thinking of labor unions right now. goatsestretchgoals fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Aug 17, 2023 |
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Aug 17, 2023 14:58
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What the hell union was this?
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Aug 17, 2023 18:30
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As much as I hate Google, their GMail staff seems to be on point. More than once I have woken up to see an obvious scam email on my notifications that was not still there 4-6 hours later. So uh, don’t click the thing friend. 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I know better than to click literally a single thing in an email from someone I don't know. My dumbass used to fire up a new VM (clone) and poke around. I am not qualified to do cybersecurity even when sober, much less when I closed one eye and rolled the dice.
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Yeah no poo poo. To be clear for those reading along, there is malware that is specifically constructed to (among other things) jump from your VM into your host machine.
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Yeah exactly, you’re assuming that you did everything correct when you set up the VM (you didn’t set up two way paste or gently caress up the host->client disk bindings right?) You’re also assuming that the people who wrote the malware weren’t planning on taking advantage of a zero day on your VM hyper visor or your host OS or some combo of the two. E: There are at least eleventy billion other ways that I haven’t thought of yet, but malware author has been thinking about for years. E2: Not trying to pile on, lone badger, just make it very clear that what should be and what is are two very separate things.
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Checklist for parents (and apparently more than one poster ITT): Is it an unknown number? If yes just hit the “gently caress you talk to my voicemail” button. Do they ask you to identify yourself at the start of the call? Congrats, you owe someone money. Ask them to put it in writing and mail it to the address on file. Do not help them by providing an updated address. (I was this dumb once.) Is your (least) favorite grandson in Mexican prison? Good news! Mexico is an American ally that relies on trade and goodwill. If your grandson is actually in Mexican prison (they aren’t) then they did something really hosed up. Prison != jail
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