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Got today my first scammer on my company phone. They spoofed a local phone number (probably a SIP gate) and called probably from India, as the caller had an Indian accent and spoke English. They said they were from Microsoft and my computer had a "problem". I didn't hesitate very long and hung up. It'd be funny to waste their time but it's also my time too that would have been wasted.
Friday, 01-Apr-22 12:14:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've tried messing with a few scammers/spammers in the past, but I seem to be no good at it. They never reply to my responses, I must be too obvious.
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@scribus I’ve been known to subtly waste a phone scammer’s time at my place of work, to the point that some of them, if I pick up and they recognize my voice, they’ll immediately hang up.
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Friday, 01-Apr-22 03:30:48 UTC from web
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@vernandex everyone else can do whatever the hell they want, I’m not the one advocating for controlling people here. That’s you. So take that individual liberties BS and jam it up your rear end, we’re all grown ups here, we can skip the “muh freedom” dog and pony show, we all know you don’t actually care about that.
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@vernandex Are you aiming for incomprehensible, or is that just an unfortunate side effect of going full rant? Because I get that, myself, too... But regardless, I'm failing to wrap my head around "I'm regarding your post as a troll post, because of the software the site runs on" bit... He's not even the admin, he's unrelated to site software.
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Just like Lindsay Graham is TOTALLY straight and TOTALLY doesn’t take cock like a champ.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 22:01:50 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I wouldn't imagine he'd have "champ" status.... he just doesn't look lively enough, in general
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Microchips in the vaccines Morty
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 15:58:59 UTC from web -
@vernandex I always wonder why the party who asks "Why do you care?" cares, y'know? This door swings both ways, as the Hermits say.
Thursday, 31-Mar-22 16:40:52 UTC from web-
Saying Covid is over is not the same as Covid being actually over. Ignoring facts doesn't help. It makes things worse. I'm disgusted.
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@vernandex I am fed up by people doing the thing that perpetuates the current situation. Instead of getting it under control it is getting worse. I want it to be over but doing the opposite is madness.
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Wednesday, 30-Mar-22 22:29:21 UTC from web
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if I was Chris Rock I literally would have died tonight cos I’d have kept making jokes about Will’s wife after that punch
Monday, 28-Mar-22 03:38:41 UTC from web -
Are there bars in airports? I’m flying to England in a couple of weeks and I just realized my return trip has a four hour layover in Lisbon. The Potato Knishes am I gonna do in Portugal for four hours?
Sunday, 27-Mar-22 15:06:44 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I think there's always been a bar in the American airports I've been at, I spent a couple of hours sampling flights in a wine bar in Florida before coming home
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The stylistic influence that Edd Gould’s animation had on my work is obvious. Although I’ve tried, in recent years, to downplay it, I think it’s impossible to really deny just how influential Eddsworld was to me. I wonder a lot if what I’m doing meets the standard that his work sets. Am I using that influence to carry on his legacy? Or am I doing him a disservice, like robbing his grave and stripping him of what made him so highly regarded in an attempt to further my own career? Am I a representative of the generation he inspired, a piece of the future, or am I merely a phony, a copycat who clings to the past? These thoughts go through my head a lot. I still wish he’d been around to see it. His death inspired me to take animation seriously as an art form, but the truth is that I’d trade that all away, because I don’t think my presence in this game comes anywhere close to making up for what was lost ten years ago.
Friday, 25-Mar-22 22:01:39 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean, like, EVERY puppet* is a Henson-style hand-and-rod all-but Muppet these days, you know? Influence is just one of those things. Some algorithm online keeps telling me I write almost exactly like Stephen King, and I barely read any of his work! I uh... don't know if I got a POINT to that tangent, but. . . .
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OK wow. When I was 16 I slipped on a brick wall, fell, and tore a hole in my left shin. I have a distinct scar for as long as I have my leg beneath the knee. Today, my Dad slipped while cleaning the pool. Tearing up his left shin. Back in the 90s, he patched me up and rushed me to urgent care. Today, I was able to repay him in an oddly specific repeat O___O
Saturday, 19-Mar-22 22:34:43 UTC from web-
@scribus Well, not so similar in the end... Turns out he didn't need any stitches. It was just a really, really gnarly scrape! No exposed bone!! :D
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i made this car in 2016, when I was 19. This is the first time the badging - a very mature nazi joke, poking fun at Mercedes-Benz' origins as a manufacturer - appears on screen. Going back and forth on whether or not I want to retexture it to remove that. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876094
Friday, 18-Mar-22 02:06:51 UTC from web-
@adiwan It’s to be expected, honestly. The US outlawed slavery long before most modern American companies got their start, and the ones that do go back that long are from New England which was less reliant on slave labor than other places, I’m sure if like Coca Cola existed in 1830 I’d be able to point at them and go “hey this company owned slaves”
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@zeldatra Considering the way scrip was manipulated, one could make an argument about company towns
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Germany has a toilet-paper-shortage-like event. People buy cooking oil and flour like crazy. Firstly it's because of fear that there will be a shortage as Russia was a big supplier of those and secondly some of these are used for donations for Ukraine. I'm just glad I already had sufficient cooking oil before that.
Wednesday, 16-Mar-22 06:14:36 UTC from web -
That relatable moment when you have to spend 40 minutes on the phone with Western Union because one of your customers is a Russian national on an international sanctions list sending money to saboteurs in Ukraine
Tuesday, 08-Mar-22 19:05:39 UTC from web-
@zeldatra It's surprising that people actually use Western Union. And if they do it is probably not legitimate. I always associate it as a service to send money to scammers or other fraudsters.
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@adiwan I live in a town with a super substantial population of middle-aged immigrants so most of them have no idea what Venmo is, they’ve been doing Western Union since the 90s so there’s no going back now
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are alt-right furries aware they’ll be the first ones in the gulag
Tuesday, 08-Mar-22 00:57:16 UTC from web -
like, right ther other day some pople on FB were saying they were suprised at my age because they thought i was 17. what is even wrong about those people
Thursday, 03-Mar-22 21:52:57 UTC from web -
Putin or more like Poo-Teen
Wednesday, 02-Mar-22 05:58:01 UTC from web-
@scribus My bad. I don't want to put poutine's name in vain. I just looked up how it is pronounced https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=de&text=%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD&op=translate It appears to sound more like "poot yen"
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gonna use Australia instead, what the Potato Knishes are they gonna do about it
Saturday, 26-Feb-22 07:46:19 UTC from web-
@scribus the big disincentive to using Australia now, besides the emu uprising, is that it ruins a joke in Swole Foods. One script has a borderline senile old man recounting a battle he fought in Australia; with his senility being the joke. But then a script that’s placed later in the timeline has a character who works for the government mention the same event, making it more credible; a third script then finally reveals that in this universe, NATO fought an atomic war against Australia. I might just generically say “a country in the East” or something like that instead.
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my tinder got considerably more traffic after I put “blocked by Virginia GOP on twitter” in my bio
Thursday, 24-Feb-22 03:25:48 UTC from web -
That last curbside pickup customer was *not* smoking a cigarette. Is this what it’s been like in California the last five years?
Wednesday, 23-Feb-22 20:00:41 UTC from web -
ok so, the weirdest thing happened these days. a girl i had never seen before added me on FB, then i accepted because whatever
then some hours later she posted a stories saying that she'd show her mangoy to any long haired guy who wanted to see
then i haha'd her storied, she came in my DMs and said she'd send me her pics if i sent her mine, then i said "lol, no, i'm not sending you those pics", but she sent hers anyway
then later she started asking me to let her use my paypal account to recieve payments from the gringos she sold packs to, i said i wouldnt and taught her how to open her paypay account
she got angry, called me rude and unfriended me.
where do those people even come fromTuesday, 22-Feb-22 10:18:19 UTC from web-
@mushi It appears to be some kind of overcomplicated and poorly thought out catfishing phishing.
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Flight to England's booked! Layover in Portugal. Kinda cool that by the end of the trip I'll have been to three countries, even though one of them's only for like an hour
Monday, 21-Feb-22 02:34:39 UTC from web -
Escort service in Goa? The only "escort service" I need is to "escort" you off the premises! And the only "Goa" I need is for you to "goa-way"!!
Sunday, 20-Feb-22 11:10:14 UTC from web- Scribus likes this.
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@thelastgherkin Well done
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found a squatter in one of the unused locker rooms upstairs… well, now we know why the motion alarm’s been going off at night
Saturday, 19-Feb-22 01:01:54 UTC from web-
@zeldatra WTF. It always appeared to me that the Malcolm In The Middle episode where Malcolm lived secretly in a store (and an adult man was also living there) was more unreal than real.
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It kind of feels wrong to be doing a show set in Virginia that touches heavily on internet culture and not having a single Chris Chan reference (she’s from Henrico County) so I dropped a Sonichu license plate on one of the CGI vehicles. That’s about as far as I’m willing to go though considering recent circumstances
Friday, 18-Feb-22 08:26:41 UTC from web -
Moonfall was a great movie. It is not great for the reason they wanted it to be though. It's batcaveing hilarious.
Thursday, 17-Feb-22 00:36:45 UTC from web -
I think I can remove the idea out of my head to get a proper keyboard smartphone ever again. I guess the next upgrade will be a soulless slab. I guess also it'll be a Google Pixel or similar with a reasonably good outlook for software updates.
Tuesday, 15-Feb-22 17:06:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've been eyeballing a Pinephone https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_(Pro)_Keyboard because I seem to thrive in self-induced misery lol
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@scribus I believe that I'll be quite unhappy with a phone from a niche manufacturer. TCL's Blackberry phones are the minimum quality I expect and that one does not fill me with confidence. Also I don't want a fold-out keyboard. At max I can live with a slider style or whatever the HTC Desire Z was.
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@adiwan Yeah, failing a better solution I've side-eyed a KeyTWO, new-old-stock. Sliding horizontal keyboard is probably still my favorite, I had an old LG (Ally?) that did that.
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NOOOO https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/blackberrys-5g-smartphone-resurrection-is-reportedly-dead/
Tuesday, 15-Feb-22 16:42:53 UTC from web-
@adiwan I was afraid of this, when OnwardMobility (finally) announced "We'll totally have a Keyboard Smartphone in 2022" and half the comments were "What brand lol"
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on one hand using AI to replicate actors’ and musicians’ voices is like really weird and shady and isn’t going to end well, but on the other hand, as an internet creator, it seems like a golden opportunity to parody movies that get popular artists to perform marginally related songs for the soundtracks by performing some stupid, tongue-in-cheek blockbuster-style song about Undertale and then using AI to replace my voice with Eminem or something like that.
Friday, 11-Feb-22 08:33:13 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You don't have to go that far. A friend of mine uses Text To Speech (AI assisted or not) for his game jam games. It is often a blessing not to hear the programmer doing the voices. I played too many game jam games where a non-native and heavily accented English speaker tries to speak into a crappy gaming-microphone in the most monotone and least engaging way. I genuinely think that the TTS from google at http://translate.google.com delivers better an emotion than these crappy attempts.
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@zeldatra I'm seriously curious if four years of narrating a podcast has made my voice public enough to theoretically steal
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I got a monitor and docking station from work. Now I can live the multi-monitor life at home!
Wednesday, 09-Feb-22 18:15:35 UTC from web-
@adiwan I've got a 7" monitor I've tried dual-ing with. It's a lot nicer than the 3" built-in screen on my camera, but really insufficient for modern desktop use lol
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@scribus Haha. Are you using an external display for a video camera? It is surely a great help keeping oneself in the shot when no cameraman is available.
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@adiwan Yeah, I had bought it for "selfie-ing" I guess, lol. But I've had some success using it for stationary photography (like birds on the bird feeder) where it lets me see much better to begin with and lets me be sure of the shot before I hit the remote switch.
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Saturday, 05-Feb-22 19:58:26 UTC from web
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@thismightbeauser . . . . why was that good? HOW was that good?!?
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