FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

probably the best marginally abstract thing I’ve done, that probably doesn’t even count

Boy obtained

People Are Getting Scammed into Buying Seeds of Non-Existent Cat-Face Flowers Generated by AI.

Scammers are always finding new ways of taking advantage of gullible people, and apparently selling seeds of fake flowers generated by artificial intelligence is one of their latest techniques.

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/people-are-getting-scammed-into-buying-seeds-of-non-existent-cat-face-flowers-generated-by-ai.html #AI #flowers #scams

octaves are a lie invented by Big Keyboard to sell more keyboards. you only need 12 keys just use inversions

So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

shoutouts to potatoes. don't know where I'd be without them

Reminded of the "XY problem" again, which must be the most uselessly nondescript name anyone could have picked.

Programmers: We don’t need sanitization and bounds checking

Hackers:

Its cats all the way down…

‪5¾. wasn't sure if free ATMs actually existed in germany but i decided to seek out an ATM run by a like actual bank and Berliner Sparkasse had my back it seems, no charge. thank you Berliner Sparkasse‬

5. oh nooo, touristy parts of this city are littered with those fucking scam ATMs by e*ronet. i'm lucky i once watched a youtube video by some czech guys who wanted to warn tourists, and yet i still almost got scammed; i tapped through too quick (but i got my PIN wrong lmao)

3. queer people exist? has anyone heard of this. couldn't be me

random berlin observations thread