Random Rants 92 - Not Enough Snerk

[Kyriakos]

Some post on Twitter:

Text reads:

Cockroaches can survive a nuclear war. But if you strike them with a newspaper, you can kill them.

Now you realize just how dangerous mass media are.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Some post on Twitter:

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Text reads:

Cockroaches can survive a nuclear war. But if you strike them with a newspaper, you can kill them.

Now you realize just how dangerous mass media are.

There is one species of animal that has not only survived but thrived from human attempts at eradication.

 

[Synobun]

Woohoo, a mass killing happened here. Importing America's finest export.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Woohoo, a mass killing happened here. Importing America's finest export.

Extra rounds are free with every AR15 purchase!

 

[Samson]

What is it with proper organisations embedding microsoft tracking in their websites?

I have seen it a bit recently, but this is the worst. A Human Rights Watch page about the criminalisation of LGBT in Ghana, and the link labelled "proposed law" is trying to go to this grundiad article, but it is wrapped in a micro$oft tracking link with a massive payload:

URI broken up with the relevenat bits highlighted:

• https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/
  • This is the micro$oft domain, it gets the rest, tracks who is looking at it and then sends them where they want to go
• ?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fglobal-development%2F2021%2Fjul%2F23%2Fghana-anti-gay-bill-proposing-10-year-prison-sentences-sparks-outrage
  • This is the actual page people may want to visit, with the URI escaped
• &data=04%7C01%7Creidg%40hrw.org%7Ca2c976dd3b2e45bcdfcb08d957f74a09%7C2eb79de4d8044273a6e64b3188855f66%7C0%7C0%7C637637541892044852%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjMADEUPCHARATERSTOSTOPTHEMMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=Zi3ZWbQBubhaituhgqphdfbNDYRC%2FaTabsgthwqO7euTLc%3D&reserved=0
  • This is a data payload to tell entities, including but probably not limited to, micro$oft where the link came from and stuff that you cannot know

This has to be really dangerous. The whole article is about how it is criminalised to be gay, to know someone gay and not report them, and loads of other related things. Then they intentionally set up tracking of people who read the page and investigate the issue? Why are they doing this????

 

[Hygro]

Fair enough but I would be surprised if Ghana is organized at that level, let alone who or whatever else is setting that up, to exploit this opportunity.

 

[The_J]

I just wrote 20 post cards, and my hand hurts .

 

[Kyriakos]

I just wrote 20 post cards, and my hand hurts .

Do you know of Photoshop & printer?

Anyway, I suppose they were expensive cards, so couldn't be replicated with scanning.
May the future be bright

 

[Hygro]

I just wrote 20 post cards, and my hand hurts .

That's awesome, what for?

 

[The_J]

Just holidays .

Do you know of Photoshop & printer?

Anyway, I suppose they were expensive cards, so couldn't be replicated with scanning.
May the future be bright

Hand written is more appreciated .

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Just holidays .



Hand written is more appreciated .

Yep. I still have postcards around that various members of my family sent each other from decades ago.

It annoyed my grandmother that most of the pictures I took on holidays had scenery, but no people. She said, "Why don't you just buy postcards, if you're not going to have people in them?"

She didn't get that I didn't want total strangers in my photos. I had no objection to taking pictures of family.

One postcard I found was one my dad sent my grandmother, from when my parents were on their honeymoon. They went to Yellowstone, and my dad mentioned that my mom was "a good cook."

(my grandmother and mom never got along well, and my mother was all of 17 years old at the time)

There was a time when my dad and I had some idea of taking a trip in the U.S. - he wanted to show me Yellowstone, and I wanted to see the Grand Canyon (he was always willing to indulge my love of geology - even bought me a rock hammer, tumbler, and a book on minerals one year, and we went "treasure hunting" in BC that summer).

But we weren't able to go on this trip, for various reasons.

 

[r16]

this is test ...

https://forums.civfanatics.com/data/attachments/466/466356-6619d5db2f681c44d940313a2dfcae55.jpg

opened the attached on a different tab or whatever .

edit: Trying something else

https://forums.civfanatics.com/data/attachments/466/466356-6619d5db2f681c44d940313a2dfcae55.jpg this involves an attempt to insert it as an url .

so , when we losers will get the ability to have pictures ? Like we are expected to be rich and have some external image account ? Oh , ı DO very badly want to be rich !

 

[The_J]

There is the "insert image" option next to the smileys, or if you upload the picture, you should get the option to embedded it when you click on it.
TBH, most of this is similar to how it has been for the last 6 years.

 

[r16]

thanks for inducing me to look for smileys which came through the three dots in a column . Will try it again , but the old system clearly asked for a thumbnail or full size , the latter whereever one desired . Will see if it still can go that way .

 

[Kyriakos]

thanks for inducing me to look for smileys which came through the three dots in a column . Will try it again , but the old system clearly asked for a thumbnail or full size , the latter whereever one desired . Will see if it still can go that way .

The fastest way to insert an image is to use some screen capture software and copy, then paste it into the post.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The fastest way to insert an image is to use some screen capture software and copy, then paste it into the post.

Some sites really don't like hotlinking.

 

[Kyriakos]

Some sites really don't like hotlinking.

Screencapture isn't hotlinking, it directly uploads an image to CFC It is basically the same (but faster) as uploading the image manually; the pic on CFC isn't hosted anywhere else.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Okay, here's a rant that will help explain my affinity for cool temperatures. Cool temperatures means I can close the window because it won't be too hot to breathe.

And since my window screen has holes in it, I won't have to kill any more <censored> INSECTS.

I must have killed a couple of dozen tonight... 3 different species of disgusting 6-legged lifeforms.

 

[r16]

yeah , like the tablet does not put up some heroic resistance everytime ı try to screen capture anything , or the screen capture would not contain information about the source or everybody can not google search an image these days . Everytime Democrats in the US look like in trouble this forum gets an Xenforo update , too .

 

[Kyriakos]

yeah , like the tablet does not put up some heroic resistance everytime ı try to screen capture anything , or the screen capture would not contain information about the source or everybody can not google search an image these days . Everytime Democrats in the US look like in trouble this forum gets an Xenforo update , too .

Maybe you can just draw a likeness of the image, on microsoft paint