oldbastardbob

oldbastardbob t1_jcklbky wrote

I get about five or six phishing texts from these long winded strange email addresses with stupid link url's every week.

I've tried ATT's spam reporting and it does NOTHING but ask for more info that I can't get. Who the fuck knows what the "numerical address the text was from" is?

Calls to customer service tell me in broken English to follow the same procedure that doesn't work or use the "block all messages that aren't in my contact list." Which is stupid in light of two factor authentication for most secure sites that rely on my receiving a code via text.

So, it's about time, but I don't think it's enough. Service providers should be responsible, or at least accountable, for harm done by people using their system as a tool for their dirty deeds. For them to be able to simply turn a blind eye and say "gee, not our problem" as rake in the profits is unconscionable.

I assume the only reason anything is happening is some politician or bureaucrat finally got fucked by a phishing attack so NOW it's important.

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oldbastardbob t1_j50kujq wrote

This is quite impressive, but would be a whole lot more fun if the robot landed on that box on the dismount and went right through the plywood side.

To be honest, I was expecting that, but I see it landed on the edge of the box as if whoever programmed this had already experienced the fun of the robot breaking through the box side and made sure it didn't aim for the middle.

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oldbastardbob t1_iuhqgm9 wrote

The other day there was a LPT recommending that people reminisce about the past whenever feeling down.

Seems it didn't go so well when myself and several others pointed out that ruminating on past crap is the opposite of helpful and is something therapists work at getting patients to learn from, let go of, move on, and hopefully forget about.

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