It's so incredibly awesome that so much of the Web depends on this cloud and flare that, when it breaks, my customers think it's their Internet connection or PC breaking and so call my help desk for a fix.
It's so awesome that the world's most important and frequently used websites all depend on a single service that wants us to think of a flare in a cloud when we mention its name.
There's no way that such a vitally important thread holding the entire modern spider's Web together could possibly break, causing catastrophic failure, no matter how intermittent, right? Right??
the best interaction that ever happened on birdsite was
"social engineering challenge. the first person to trick me into including '[some arbitrary string i can't remember]' into any of the projects on my github wins $50"
"should you mention this contest on your website?"
"good idea, done"
"[link to the github repo for the website]"
The scammer asked me what operating system I use, and of course I answered Unix.
He asked me to spell it, which I did using the format "<letter> as in <NATO phonetic alphabet word>," and he took offense to the word for I ("India"), telling me several times to use "Indigo" instead without letting me say anything.
The scammer wouldn't even let me correct myself for him before trying to end the call.
The unsolicited tech support scam call.
That apparently they wouldn't let him hang up himself.
I just got a call from a Windows tech support scammer. I barely had the energy to mess with them, and I told them I wasn't interested or using Windows, but rather than cut their losses and hang up, they insisted on wasting 6 minutes of their time on me anyway.
That time they wasted on me was time they weren't scamming anyone gullible enough to let them into their PC.
uncomfortable thing capitalism doesn't want me to think about
(2:00 - 2:26): is this vore?
five animated intermission-time snack clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40cT6I21JV4 (YT, 3:19)
they told me as a kid that living in a capitalist democracy would ensure I had lots of exciting choices to make, but, funnily enough, it turns out that was a lie. like even if you aren't disabled in the brainplace: wanna not get paid enough at McDonalds or at Claire's? wanna stay in the shitty apartment with your abusive partner or become unhoused? love these choices we get to make
what if I had A Job, Any Job that, for 20 hours a week, ensured I could choose to be an artist in my free time
✨ Kind 'Net Help Desk fairy by day. ✨
✨ Weird & furry Unix fairy by night. ✨
✨ Sometimes a retrocomputer fairy. ✨
✨ Pays the ComputerFairi.es bills. ✨
✨ Sparkly✨shellscript✨princess. ✨
✨ Age: Mere days younger than ✨
✨ the Intel 4004 & Unix 1st Edition. ✨
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