Random Rants Q': I protest against subtitles

[Zkribbler]

Which one? I use ublock origin and privacy badger, and they are both GPL'ed and do not ask for money.

AdGuard.

Spoiler Note to me: Try... :

ublock origin and privacy badger

 

[thetrooper]

Tampa Bay Lightning cap circumvention is an embarrassment to the NHL. How the hell do they get away with this every year?

 

[The_J]

I lost a flight voucher, because I was supposed to have re-booked the flight until the end of January 2021 .
I have a second flight, which might have the same problem. I managed to get it cancelled, but I'm not sure if I'll get the money back .
And in the meantime, within a few hours, they increased the price of the flight which I now wanted to book by 30€ .

 

[Kyriakos]

I hate - have I mentioned this before? - marketing my own seminar stuff.
I am not obliged to, but I am europhile and always want more euros.

That said, at least my marketing part is relatively anodyne; just posting stuff on FB. It must be really terrible to work as a telephone-marketer. Although I doubt the people in the office of the firm which hosts my seminars actually ever phone to sell something - they just have to answer questions of prospective buyers who called on their own, convince someone interested but yet undecided, to part with their money.
I could never do that.

Whatever, probably I am the only one who expects some post against a quote by David Hilbert, using Plato's counterexample, to actually lead to a sell. Shows how much I suck at marketing Actual marketeers would just post a photo of a great-looking youth, reading, with the subliminal message that if you buy this seminar this will be you.

 

[Rashiminos]

I perused a closed thread recently and it seems apparent not enough people understand what fedposting is. sigh.

 

[Samson]

What is it with crims using insecure communications platforms? Both the EncroChat and ANOM platforms are clearly closed source solutions that would not be trusted by anyone who knows about IT security, and appear to have been used extensivly by senior people in criminal enterprises. This is years after these problems have been pretty much solved.

 

[Rashiminos]

Criminal stupidity is a thing.

 

[tjs282]

What is it with crims using insecure communications platforms?

*Looks at thread title*
*Is puzzled*

Why should criminals being computer-illiterate, thus inadvertently making their 'net usage easier to track/monitor, be rant-worthy?

I would have thought this would generally be a preferable state of affairs, compared to them being successfully secretive...?

 

[Samson]

*Looks at thread title*
*Is puzzled*

Why should criminals being computer-illiterate, thus inadvertently making their 'net usage easier to track/monitor, be rant-worthy?

I would have thought this would generally be a preferable state of affairs, compared to them being successfully secretive...?

I guess it is a bit of "I am in the wrong buisiness" type rant.

 

[r16]

actually right now the Voice of Russia tells of the 27 million messages the FBl collected from 300 seperate drug gangs , after FBl convinced an Australian citizen of Turkish origins to ape Congregation's Bylock to use FBl developed spyware ... Bylock was a sure thing to get you sent you to jail until it was proven Congregation placed it as a secret thing to dilute numbers and many innocents were caught up ... Or a jail free card thing or something .

edit : Naturally he is in lstanbul after a name change , achieved in an New Turkey court despite lnterpol having issued an arrest warrant , and plastic surgery . Ah yes , evil Turks in drug trade , why am not surprised , ı don't know why ...

 

[The_J]

Travelled yesterday. Haven't left the bed today. The covid antigen test was negative, and it's probably just traveller's diarrhea. Still not exactly how I pictured meeting my GF for the first time after 5 months .

I hope it's not a cold, because I might not be allowed to take my flight back if I show any covid-related symptoms :/.

I probably had a gastritis, and it's back .
I went on Monday to get a lab test. I still had to get a covid one after travelling, and my GP gave me a prescription for another one, because the last time I had bad liver values. The liver values are fine now, but monocytes are 15% elevated over normal. I also feel my stomach. I guess I shouldn't directly have done sports after returning.
I have an abdominal echogram scheduled for next week (directly made after seeing this, since a friend of mine has a stomach ulcer). Was originally meant to see if I have a fatty liver (probably), maybe it can also show something in the stomach. I have an appointment with my GP today, let's see what she says. I hope this will not interferre with my second vaccination next week.


EDIT: GP says that the higher monocytes aren't that high, so it shouldn't be a serious problem. I'm a bit relieved (would be more relieved though if I felt hungry and could eat without issues).

 

[shadowplay]

I finally got offered a covid vaccine at a location I can make it to, but I can't do it because I'm sick with a bout of food poisoning the last few days.

Naturally, since recovering this week, I haven't been offered a single appointment. The city has moved on to giving people their second doses and some of us can't even book a first.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Naturally, since recovering this week, I haven't been offered a single appointment. The city has moved on to giving people their second doses and some of us can't even book a first.

Is there a health line you can call? Or maybe your provincial representative who might be able to give you information? Even asking for information at a walk-in clinic might give you something to go on.

 

[Kyriakos]

This actually isn't a one-eyed cubist cat.

And not just in the same way some other image wouldn't be a pipe :/

More to the point, if you are in an escape room where failing means death, someone asks you to divide half of the red object and still only in one move take half of the white object (which replaced a part of the red), and that someone happens to add a third object and asks the same: if that third object doesn't have a center in the line formed by the centers of the first two, that someone is none other than death.

 

[Samson]

The BBC is kind of owned by the UK public/state/queen or something. Some of their pages are available to americans with no adverts but blocked in the UK:

Viewed from the US:

Good artists copy, great artists steal....​

Viewed from the UK:

Page unavailable
We're sorry but this page is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Global News Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC (and just the BBC). The money made from it goes back to help fund the BBC’s international journalism.​

 

[The_J]

Interesting, isn't it ?
At least Germany's blocking of German TV content outside of Germany makes remotely more sense (yeah, I didn't pay for this if I'm not living in Germany; but how many people outside of Germany want to watch German TV in German to make geoblocking really worth it o_O?)


My own rant:
Still having a bit gastritis. Decided to have white rice for dinner yesterday. I had an abysmal night. Tried to puke, which didn't work, but gave me a sore throat in the morning. Really great.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Something I found out when I first got my Kindle: Amazon assumes the customer is American, even if the customer is Canadian. I went browsing in the Kindle store, saw an interesting book about Pierre Trudeau, and was informed it was "not available for your country."

So I wrote to customer service and asked why I, as a Canadian citizen and Canadian customer, was not allowed to buy a book about a Canadian Prime Minister.

Apparently I had to switch my settings myself, so I'd be allowed to buy Canadian-relevant Kindle books.

I ended up buying a second-hand copy of the book on Amazon Marketplace. Amazon still made money off the purchase, but not as much as they might have if I hadn't been really annoyed.

 

[AmazonQueen]

My mum was making the pastry for tonights pie (I'd already made the pie, all she had to do was make some shortcrust and stick it in the oven) but she was feeling lazy and decided crumble would be easier!
Disaster, much too dry

 

[Zkribbler]

... Still having a bit gastritis. Decided to have white rice for dinner yesterday. I had an abysmal night. Tried to puke, which didn't work, but gave me a sore throat in the morning. Really great.

Get well soon.

 

[Kyriakos]

My mum was making the pastry for tonights pie (I'd already made the pie, all she had to do was make some shortcrust and stick it in the oven) but she was feeling lazy and decided crumble would be easier!
Disaster, much too dry

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Like the Donald (Tusk) said: "there will be no cake; there will only be salt and vinegar"