WTF Bites
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@topspin
A. The DNC list legislation has plenty of loopholes. Surveys, political calls, and anything with an "ongoing business relationship" sail right on through. And "survey" is extremely loosely defined.B. With the proliferation of cheap fly-by-night VOIP services and all of the messed-up trust relationships in the telephone service infrastructure, anyone who wants to break what rules exist (basically except for transactional calls they all need a live human on the line as of when the number is dialed) can ridiculously easily do so, and there's no infrastructure in place for getting actual, meaningful calling party information (you get whatever number they're spoofing and the city that spoofed number belongs to).
C. There's no meaningful enforcement. The FTC is supposed to police this, and they do have a website for reporting violations, but it takes millions of violations for any enforcement action to really happen. Between that, the spoofing (which means no bad actor can actually be identified), and the typical evasive practices companies can do (corporate veils, convoluted ownership and contract structures, etc) if they are miraculously found, they can't really do anything. Official government guidance is for callees to just pretend the call didn't happen, because any response just reinforces that the callers have someone who reacts.
Way back in the way back, you could dial *57 and that'd instruct the company to do a proper trace that law enforcement could refer to later, for like if you had a stalker or something. Now? Pffffft, Totally-Not-A-Scam Telecom is totally not a scam; why would we trace into them?
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Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Doesn't do any good when the bad guys simply ignore the list. And supply fake caller id so complaining does no good.
So all telemarketing is basically fraud because legitimate telemarketing has almost nobody left to call? Or do people just not bother to get put on the list?
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Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Doesn't do any good when the bad guys simply ignore the list. And supply fake caller id so complaining does no good.
It also doesn't help when there is confusion about how the list works. From https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0133-cell-phones-and-do-not-call-registry
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers without prior consent. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers are barred from calling consumers' cell phones without their consent.
That implies, at least I infer, that calling cell phones is prohibited, even without explicitly adding them to the list. And this is what I always thought to be true.
However,
The government is not releasing cell phone numbers to telemarketers.
suggests that telemarketers may not be able to distinguish between cell and landline phones.
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@error I don’t remember that. Is that Secret of Mana?
Final Fantasy III
I know it's , but 3 is the retconned version.
2, 3, and 5 were JP only, so they changed 4 to 2 and 6 to 3 to keep US releases consecutive. Also, they dumbed down some things for us simple-minded 'Muricans.
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Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Doesn't do any good when the bad guys simply ignore the list. And supply fake caller id so complaining does no good.
Yeah, my number has recently started getting spoofed. Rather annoying...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Doesn't do any good when the bad guys simply ignore the list. And supply fake caller id so complaining does no good.
Yeah, my number has recently started getting spoofed. Rather annoying...
Especially when that callee assumes caller id is correct...
: Just returning your call...
: No, I didn't call - that was a fake caller id.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
They could always work in porn industry. There is a considerably higher demand (and usually better pay check) for that than for being that someone calling people every day and offering junk they didn't ask for.
If only there was a LinkedIn for sluts...
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@r10pez10 What? It's meant to give the impression that somebody's home when actually there isn't in an attempt to deter burglars.
On second thought, that TV size is oddly specific...
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On second thought, that TV size is oddly specific...
It's even high def!
I'm going to guess that larger TVs give off more lumens. Maybe HDTVs are different that way too? Nah, that's probably just marketing...
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@error this is getting way off topic (on this forum? Never!) but I like the original Ted Woolsey translation better than any of the retranslated ones, even if some things in the newer ones are more faithful to the original
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
"\" into my bank password and broke it completely and had to go to their office to get a new password?
E_UNEXPECTED_EOL
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@error this is getting way off topic (on this forum? Never!) but I like the original Ted Woolsey translation better than any of the retranslated ones, even if some things in the newer ones are more faithful to the original
I agree, though it's hard to tell when my judgment is clouded by nostalgia. I've noticed that, with retro games, I'm much more forgiving of games I remember.
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I had a random thought
Well, ok, but usually WolframAlpha gives more detail, like for example their birth dates
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@r10pez10 [TV Light Simulator]
I've seen one of these in a shop once. I would have taken a photo to post here, but I didn't have my phone at the time.
It was far more colorful than that one, which seems to put out only white light I think?
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It was far more colorful than that one, which seems to put out only white light I think?
Could be RGB lights?
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INB4 bad ideas thread is
:arrows:
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INB4 bad ideas thread is
:arrows:
huh...... on one hand why........ on the other hand.... why not? and of course on the gripping hand.... it's a neat talking and selling point....
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Where's @Polygeekery when you need him...
Burning someone's houseVisiting some friend
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email_report.asp?report=openstuff&sql=SELECT+%2A+FROM+TABLE%5FNAME+...
What could go wrong.
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@topspin If you have a second monitor and you can, try setting it vertically. For websites, you can see twice the stuff at once!
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INB4 bad ideas thread is
:arrows:
<5 minutes after release>
Hey, check out this video!
<TV rotates>
Cool!
<3 seconds later, rotate back>
<2 seconds later, rotate>
<TV explodes when video changes orientation every frame>
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Don’t you have a Do Not Call list?
Doesn't do any good when the bad guys simply ignore the list. And supply fake caller id so complaining does no good.
Yeah, my number has recently started getting spoofed. Rather annoying...
I once received a call from myself. So of course I answered it. I think it was some student loan garbage.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I once received a call from myself.
It was from you or one of your alt
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<TV explodes when video changes orientation every frame>
I don't know of any video codec/container/format that can do that..... because why would you need one of those?
still now that we have rotating TVs....... if you know of a video codec/container/format that can do that... let me know for shenanigan reasons
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I once received a call from myself. So of course I answered it. I think it was some student loan garbage.
I keep trying (they don't come in often). I always get the click-dead-air scenario. I keep wanting to answer:
: Hi me! What do I want?
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I once received a call from myself. So of course I answered it. I think it was some student loan garbage.
I keep trying (they don't come in often). I always get the click-dead-air scenario. I keep wanting to answer:
: Hi me! What do I want?Depending on my mood I'll answer and play with them if there's a human on the other line. Sometimes I act like I called them and ask for someone or something. Sometimes I'm beating my wife or kids. Or whatever strikes my fancy.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
I had a random thought...
The only rational explanation is that Trump's consumption of pee taken from 14 year old Russian virgins made him biologically younger than Arnold.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Should've used this one:
Please spoiler that awfully interpolated thing, my eyes hurt.
Eh, do it better without finding the original svg.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Should've used this one:
Please spoiler that awfully interpolated thing, my eyes hurt.
Eh, do it better without finding the original svg.
I found a larger PNG than we have here
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Using Waifu2x:
Using Waifu2x again:
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@levicki Yeah, that's nearest neighbor, so even worse.
Using Waifu2x:
Waifu2x is what I used on the small one, too.
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(reverse image search + Waifu2X)
Filed under: Zoom and enhance, CSI:TDWTF
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@Vixen MP4 lets you specify several video tracks as sequential to each other, and have a different transformation matrix for each one. You could in theory have a single frame per track, thread them all together, and in the track headers have different rotations for each.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I once received a call from myself. So of course I answered it. I think it was some student loan garbage.
I keep trying (they don't come in often). I always get the click-dead-air scenario. I keep wanting to answer:
: Hi me! What do I want?Be careful if it's your past or future self, it can quickly get very disconcerting:
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@error this is getting way off topic (on this forum? Never!) but I like the original Ted Woolsey translation better than any of the retranslated ones, even if some things in the newer ones are more faithful to the original
YOU SPOONY BARD!
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In October 13, 2011, Valve added an item called the Decal Tool to Team Fortress 2, that allowed you to apply any image of your choice to any item that supports it. Just 4 days later, they changed it so that the images go through a filter that limits them to only 4 colors. Why? They never said that, either to avoid problems with people using porn/hentai, or to "preserve the art style"... although they still had sprays which are much more "invasive" and were not limited until recently.
Someone quickly figured out a trick where you can apply a special transparent .png file and then your desired file and it will preserve the full color instead. Literally everyone started using it, because your images look horrible otherwise. People hurried to use it because they thought that "exploit" would be fixed any day now. Or maybe Valve would capitulate and remove the restriction and not force people to use ugly hacks to bypass it.
That was all 8 years ago. Nothing has changed. Good job Valve.
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@anonymous234 Have you seen the video of the guy who would spray pinups, then go invisible and hide, wait for players from the opposing team to come by and gawk, then backstab them?
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@Mason_Wheeler have a link?
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discourse still haunts me
According to chrome it's all cached data, but will it show me which data? no.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Mason_Wheeler have a link?
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@r10pez10 What? It's meant to give the impression that somebody's home when actually there isn't in an attempt to deter burglars.
On second thought, that TV size is oddly specific...
Probably the size that sounds most like "not worth even looking around the flat". You want neither those 70cm tube looks that mean "granny with wads of cash in the mattress" nor the simulated living room wall size 8k that smells like "heaps of expensive media shit here".
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On my home computer, I'm using KDE with Dolphin (no, that's not yet the ).
The other day, I opened Gwenview to view some pictures. Not sure why I picked that specific app, it's just one that I used at some point in the past and it kind of did what I wanted, so I recognised the name in the list. Still no yet.
However immediately after, all actions that are supposed to open a file explorer were now opening Gwenview (which can also be used a file explorer)! Without it every asking me anything, the first time I opened it, it just installed itself as the default application for browsing files????
But wait, there is more! I found out where to change file associations and went to set Dolphin again, only to see that I don't have Dolphin installed on my computer. Not "no program with the name
dolphin
because KDE-wankery means it's calledkde-random-command-explorer
". No, whichever way I look for it and try to start it, the standard KDE file explorer is just... gone. I was using it 10 min before, now it's like it never ever was on my computer.I reinstalled (installed?) it and all is fine, but happened that could remove an application that worked perfectly before, and/or set another application as the default one?
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@remi
/var/log/apt/history.log
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