Disengago @admitsWrongIfProven@social.cleverlibre.org
I speak german and english.
Interested in:
- crude jokes
- philosophy
- how people get along
- different viewpoints
- gaming, especially strategy/arpgs
- (java) programming
If i reply but did not favourite your toot: most likely i forgot. I get caught up in talking, i forget.
I generally invite questions. If you look for a clue if it is ok to ask hard questions: this is it. As long as it is in good faith and you want to know wtf i was thinking, go ahead please.
License information on my avatar potato: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potato_cv_dejima.jpg
Joined Nov 2022
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I'm going to need some #cybersecurity help... my son is currently looking for a Technical Writer position and almost got scammed by a guy by the name of Jason Torres, posing as a recruiter for a company called Futurex.
He emailed him under jasont@futurexcareers.org.
The scam was very elaborate and included documents such as this one.
I immediately smelled a rat and told him to call said company who verified of course that it was not only a scam, but I was far from the only target.
@jeffcliff Just saw a toot calling out twitter users for generating revenue by their presence there.
That made me wonder: is that still true if you go there with ad block on? Since there are many possibilities to calculate views/page impressions/... i must say i have no basis to answer that. Do you have any hint?
I mean... i'm assuming you don't go there without protection. 90%+ of the internet is unusable without adblock, right?
@Hyolobrika Hey, i backed off a bit because i thought your foot was surely a more pressing concern, but i am still interested in what made you think covid vaxines are bad.
So, when you have the time and energy, i would be very interested in hearing about that. Was it from one news outlet, many different, word of mouth or mastodon posts? What are the basic points about this?
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The English language is so weird because I read all of the hunger games and the entire time I thought it was a competition about who was more hung than the others.
@freemo Hey, did you hear about this yet? Any spam reported on qoto?
@ErikUden@mastodon.de
To all Fedi Admins currently being hit with a spam wave: Defederate from these instances: social.cutefunny.net (warning: CP) cunnyborea.top m.mxin...
@daswarkeinhuhn Haha, ich dacht mir ich mach da einen spassigen toot mit geklautem meme... dann kriegts die meißten favs seit langem ^^
@freemo Say, Jeff Cliff does not particularly like you, i heard. What do you think of him? Any animosity or just disengaging?
@jeffcliff lol, hyolobrika just now found this, and i guess you are rebelling against people that try to define the fediverse on fear... two sides of the same coin?
cc @Hyolobrika
Somehow found myself arguing with someone who talks about "the fediverse" like it is a) a singular thing and b) a separate thing from bluesky. It h...
@Hyolobrika huh, i should probably follow you. was too checked out to notice, but you do make intelligent comments.
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I came up with this joke when I was asleep, so forgive me if it's not very funny
Sorry for answering your email late, woke up as a beetle again.
Baustellenlärm jetzt auch für zuhause.
(construction noise now available for at home)
@DannyStaley i can see you, so welcome to my imperfect world :-)
When i am perfect, you will not see me anymore.
@TURBORETARD9000 I do understand why you want to escape.
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@wonka ich muss mir doch nicht die ganze TL zuspammen lassen, weil Leute begeistert sind, dass eine Millionärin gegen rechts ist. Sind wir soweit, dass wir jede prominente Person abfeiern, die kein Nazi ist?
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When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was people asking me for tech support help and me having to slowly, patiently explain to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
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"I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress" #TedGioia https://www.honest-broker.com/p/i-ask-seven-heretical-questions-about
(ht Tom A. I think!)
Seen an interesting preposition: only the dead see the end of the war.
What will be next? Reason?
I speak german and english.
Interested in:
- crude jokes
- philosophy
- how people get along
- different viewpoints
- gaming, especially strategy/arpgs
- (java) programming
If i reply but did not favourite your toot: most likely i forgot. I get caught up in talking, i forget.
I generally invite questions. If you look for a clue if it is ok to ask hard questions: this is it. As long as it is in good faith and you want to know wtf i was thinking, go ahead please.
License information on my avatar potato: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Potato_cv_dejima.jpg
Joined Nov 2022
