I have this happen all the time because I have a separate account for my card. It’s so I stay aware of how often I’m transferring into it to pay for things. If I’m transferring another $100, it’s because I’ve gone through the last $100 whether I realised it or not.

Works great until it works too well and the card gets declined because I don’t realise how much I’ve spent earlier that day.

It’s honestly more embarassing when the cashier is a highschool kid and they’re probably thinking, “God, I hope I’m not this bum in ten years…”

Dunno. Was just a big open text dataset. All with hire dates. It’s possible it was archival which explains the telnetting being so easy, but every col was filled with plenty of young DOBs.

In my friends defence, this was performed by receiving the instructions from their US friend in their IRC “hacker clan” who discovered the hack. My friend doubted it but then got in and very quickly left. Despite being performed at their university’s lab on their network, the friend still got a visit from federal officers from their country who said, quote, “You’re not in trouble, but the path you’re on leads to a bad life.”

Friend now works in cyberfraud. Whatever whitehatting for a living is called these days… The same simple slip ups, routes, and tricks leading to breaching have not changed, just the protocols in which they’re done with.

Haha. As I read this…

The dude has more publicly documented lies than days he has

What?! In office?!

been on the earth.

Oh. Yes. Yes, that’s true.

A “friend” of mine got 200,000 NASA employees data including SSNs, pay accounts, etc. from an entirely unguarded Telnet door in 2002.

You’d be surprised how many doors there are the larger a building gets that never bothers to upgrade security until an incident happens.

Pretty sure it was very much a “We forgot we even had that door still” situation.

It’s convincing to the creator. Any recipient that finds it convincing would be like, “What?! But I’m already voting for him.”

Oof. That’s gonna be $34 Christ bucks.

It’s this and many other things that have led me to believe an alternate canon where Superman is just a real dummy.

Krypton didn’t blow up, his parents just did a Joe Dirt on him. Dumbass probably moved one of their moons as well so they just left him on the church doorstep called Earth.

Oh, shit. They’re in your house!

Seems to be the standard.

Public statement: “AI is coming!”

3 days later

Redaction statement: “We heard you!”

Clearly, they were trying it on for size; see if the shit will stick. It’s that or they don’t use the internet or read news about it

The main reason would be that an LLM is free and in your pocket. It’s just some people don’t understand how loud those two alarm bells are when it comes to mental health.

If you’re like me, death is a win. The ultimate fail would be immortality, where you can fail at everything else and then can’t even fulfill the one thing nature expected of you.

Behold! The olive spork…

Oh, great, they’ve made multiple accounts now so it’s going to be whack-a-mole blocking this user.

They’re pretty shit at hauling loads. Awful beds and low tonnage compared to other options. American pickups are what you get if you don’t know what you’re doing. They’re definitely showbag vehicles.

I’d just used WD-40

So, basically there’s the internet, then there’s the US internet. People will start moving to China for more freedoms.

Ya I’ve been to a few too. My fav was when there was sound issues and Josh stopped playing, the band went back stage, and he just sat there drinking a bottle of vodka. He’d update us on whatever info he was getting, slowly the bottle disappearing. 20 mins later he said a line I’ll never forget, aimed at the sound engineers, “Isn’t it funny how the people that say they’ll be there for you always hurt you the most?” Then just kept sipping vodka, sitting on a sound monitor.

Finally, with almost an entire bottle gone, the issue was fixed. They started playing again. Josh was stumbling around but didn’t miss a single note on the guitar or on vocals. It was like being awesome at his craft was just subconscious to him but the solos went longer, he did more insane shit. All perfect.

The only other band I’ve seen so tight like they may as well have recorded a one-take album right then and there was The Strokes.

So it’s pointless then.

Literally they exist for one situation…

person walks onto street

“I’m gonna hit that idiot. Oh, dang! They’re on a crosswalk so I’m not allowed to.”

That’s the logic.

That’s what I thought. Rarely I’ll see one on a two-lane, usually they are set up with lights. This six-lane avenue? That’s likely getting an overpass, lights as minimum.

This is road engineering so stupid, I wouldn’t have believed it were a real thing, but here’s a video.

It’s been years and I don’t think I’ll ever learn what a “liberal” is in US language. Afaict it’s got nothing to do with being a liberal, it’s just a slur used if someone is left or right of your position.