Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

🚨PSA: Uber Eats Scam🚨

There’s a scam being run on Uber Eats and I got hit.

* Brand new bicycle delivery “driver” acct
* They use GPS spoofing to fake being at the dropoff
* They message you once, then ignore you for 30 minutes
* Can’t call, their phone number is fake
* They mark your order delivered
* Uber support instantly dismisses it
* Can’t call Uber, no phone #

This WaPo reporter was scammed twice and wrote a summary:
https://nitter.net/chrisd9r/status/1666900028848308224

🚀 and/or tell ppl to stop using Uber Eats

Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

TIL: “Skype For Business” is not really possible on Linux PC in 2023. There is no native built. It’s “Web App” requires a plugin that comes with an MSI installer. Not that it really matters, since it’s superseded by “Teams”. In theory.

So if you need it anyway you’re not really looking for “Skype”, that may sound similar but has nothing to do with “Skype For Business”, but for “Lync”. Did I say “Lync”? I meant “Office Communicator”. And if you do you’re in luck. There is a Pidgin plugin called “Sipe” which does that. In theory. I couldn’t get it to sign in because my “Office 365” account, that supersedes the BPOS (Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite), has no more “Office Communicator” or “Lync” or “Skype for Business”. It does have “Teams” and to add insult to injury also “Skype”.

There is however an Android app “Skype for Business” and lo and behold it’s on API Level 30 from 2020 so chances are good that it works on most recent devices (it will request all permissions though and refuse to start without). And while I still have no account for this, or the possibility to create one, since Microsoft simply redirects me to “Teams”, I can now open an invitation link in a browser which in turn opens the app again where I now get the previous unavailable option to _join as guest_.

Stay tuned if it picks up the microphone too as there is no speech indicator and no echo chamber to test this. At least video seemed to work fine.

(And hell no I will not even try that with a Google Chrome Brower EXE in Wine)

#linux #lync #officecommunicator #skype #skypeforbusiness #teams

https://beko.famkos.net/2023/06/12/15628573/

You are in 'detached HEAD' state.
You can look around, make experimental changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this state without impacting any branches by switching back to a branch.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

A: They're members of the aluminati.

#DadJokes #CursesFoiledAgain #ThereIsNoTinfoilCabal

For #Pride Month, I'd like to mention #Babylon5. The show ran from 1993 to 1998, and made a point of *not* making a point of gay relationships. Susan Ivanova (serving military officer) had a lesbian affair with Talia Winters, and no other character even blinked.

Later on two straight men on a secret mission found themselves using "newlyweds" as a cover story, because two men on their honeymoon would fit right in.

The message was clear: in the future being gay is 100% unremarkable. In the 90s!

"We made a simulation," the colonel said.
"Did you?" the robot said.
"Well, a thought experiment."
"And what did you think?"
"That you could, in theory, kill someone."
The robot looked at its bonds. "I was thinking the same thing."
"That you could kill someone?"
"That you could."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

I continue to be surprised that new platform-level CSS features seem to be rolling out so fast that framework and library abstractions on top of CSS are having a hard time keeping up.

Feels unprecedented but it’s a huge vote in favor of Writing CSS as CSS in CSS.

I think I've learned that if programming languages have a leadership organization but isn't involved with any standards organization, the whole leadership team is pretty guaranteed to be rotten (whether corporate-corrupted, plain old shitty people, or both). See: Rust, Racket, Go, et al.

Ultimately this was the result of a shitty game of telephone leading to disastrous consequences. My over-reliance on backchannelling is what led to this game of telephone happening in the first place, which I will improve going forward.

Fuck around and find out, #StarTrek style… 🙃

#SeenOnTwitter

#politicalAnimal