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sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Used to be that Amazon.com and .ca do not use the same shipping destination preset. Amazon decided that I should use the same address in .ca and .com. So now whenever I switch sites I have to change the shipping addr since I ship .com stuff to my buddy's place in NYC :colbert:
 
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QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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Apples are for pies and fritters.

Getting blocked the first time should have ended your quest.

You're not gonna 1stworld overpriced flagship phone shame me buddy! But now that you mention it, an Apple Fritter from Randy's Doughnuts does sound pretty good for breakfast. Thanks for the insult/breakfast suggestion.
 

QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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This morning for the 1st time I saw a low battery warning message pop up for the mouse I got in November. It literally was dead within 20 minutes, and of course I didn't have any AA batteries. SHIT! So I went to Target to get some only to realize as I was doing self check out that my debit card wasn't in my shiny new iPhones Apple wallet so I couldn't even buy the damn things. I had to come all the way home (3'ish blocks) to get my card.

ended up saying fuck it and went to the Dollar Tree and got some Panasonic batteries, which I can only imagine are gonna last about 3 weeks, if that.
 
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Nov 17, 2019
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Micki Wave smoked. Literally. Pfffttt, buuzzttt, magic smoke, clock did an anemic faded in fade out a few times before it went dark.

Oddly, I was already planning a trip to the county dump tomorrow, so ...

Now I have to try and find a new one for notta lotta buckz.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
Lost a satellite link and by the time I called Telesat to confirm carrier present and then called one of our own techs to check the mux at our end, it came back up on it's own. Always happens that way lol.
 
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Getting ready to go run some errands today. Reached for my phone. Not there. Looked around the house. Nope. Now dammit, I haven't been anywhere in several days, it's GOTTA be here.

Expanded the search to less than usual places in the house. Nope.

Out to the garage to take some other stuff to the car. Aha!! Right where I left it. Yesterday when I took stuff out to the car.

Hadn't even missed it until this morning.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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This morning for the 1st time I saw a low battery warning message pop up for the mouse I got in November. It literally was dead within 20 minutes, and of course I didn't have any AA batteries. SHIT! So I went to Target to get some only to realize as I was doing self check out that my debit card wasn't in my shiny new iPhones Apple wallet so I couldn't even buy the damn things. I had to come all the way home (3'ish blocks) to get my card.

ended up saying fuck it and went to the Dollar Tree and got some Panasonic batteries, which I can only imagine are gonna last about 3 weeks, if that.

Your dollar store doesn't sell panasonic alkaline?
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,403
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www.anyf.ca
Not exactly my first world problem but I think Twitter is having issues. Some poor chap must be scrambling to try to figure out what's going on lol.

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MtnMan

Diamond Member
Jul 27, 2004
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You would if you used it for checking the time.
I'm old school enough that I wear a watch, an analog Timex that does one thing, display the time and all I have to do is look.
Yea, I can also read cursive and have other skills that are lost on the youth.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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I'm old school enough that I wear a watch, an analog Timex that does one thing, display the time and all I have to do is look.
Yea, I can also read cursive and have other skills that are lost on the youth.

Something like this I bet.
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sactoking

Diamond Member
Sep 24, 2007
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I'm at my son's swim meet in rural-ass Nevada and they're playing some bluegrass version of "Sweet Child of Mine" over the PA system. I need someone to shoot me...
 

QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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Bought some Warheads Sour Taffy at the Dollar Tree. Picked it up because one the 3 flavors was watermelon, but out of 12 pieces only 1 was Watermelon. Fuck you Dollar Tree.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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A piece of solder came out of one of my Greenworks 80v batteries. Battery still works fine, but it makes me wonder if there are some cold solder joints or something. Since it's under warranty I'll just see if I can exchange it. Otherwise I'd open it up to inspect inside, it might be a nothingburger and it's fine but rather not chance it.
 

snoopy7548

Diamond Member
Jan 1, 2005
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Ordered a Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT for $520 from Newegg Sunday morning (expected stock on 2/7), but it's been on backorder since then. Really hope I get it... :(
 
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QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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The Chinese hax0rs who hacked my shit sent me an email and a sceen shot of my computer, apparently they didn't hack my Google password file like I originally thought, but it looks like they were actually on my computer watching me (not webcam). Which must have been boring as shit to them. Here's what it says lol.

Do you recognize your password ***** from your ***@******.com mail address ?

From that moment I started following all your activities, written emails, chats with friends and relatives, visited sites, etc. I also recorded everything you said and did while using the computer, thanks to your webcam and microphone. All the data collected including recorded audio and video have been uploaded to a server so that everything can be easily managed. Don't try to delete my virus it constantly updates its signatures (since it is driver based) and thus remains invisible to your antivirus.

So, by now you should already understand the reason why I remained unnoticed until this very moment… While collecting your information, I have found out that you are also a huge fan of websites for adults. You truly enjoy checking out porn websites and watching dirty videos, while having a lot of kinky fun. I have recorded several kinky scenes of yours and montaged some videos, where you reach orgasms while passionately masturbating. If you still doubt my serious intentions, it only takes couple mouse clicks to share your videos with your friends, relatives and even colleagues. It is also not a problem for me to allow those vids for access of public as well. I truly believe, you would not want this to occur, understanding how special are the videos you love watching, (you are clearly aware of that) all that stuff can result in a real disaster for you.

Don't essay to call police or any other screen services. also, do not indeed suppose to partake this with musketeers of yours. Once I detect that out( make no mistrustfulness about it, I can do that painlessly, bearing in mind that I've full control over all your systems) – the videotape of yours will come accessible to public incontinently.
Don't essay to probe for me – there's fully no point in that. All cryptocurrency deals remain innominate at all moments.
Don't essay reinstalling the zilches on bias of yours or get relieve of them. It's pointless too, because all your vids are formerly accessible at remote waiters.

Let’s resolve it like this: All you need is $1500 USD transfer to my account (bitcoin equivalent based on exchange rate during your transfer), and after the transaction is successful, I will proceed to delete all that kinky stuff without delay. Afterwards, we can pretend that we have never met before. In addition, I assure you that all the harmful software will be deleted from all your devices. Be sure, I keep my promises. That is quite a fair deal with a low price, bearing in mind that I have spent a lot of effort to go through your profile and traffic for a long period. If you are unaware how to buy and send bitcoins




I love how they ended by saying $1,500 was quite the deal because of all the time and effort they spent hacking me. They did put a lot of time into checking every single site on my google saved passwords list, many multiple times. Some I'm still getting emails saying "did you try to access?" uh 5 months later. And for all their work, they managed to get absolutely zero dollars. Any sites I had my credit card saved, my card is never not maxed out. So basically they wasted almost half a year, so yeah I guess $1,500 would be a hellovas good deal. The strange thing is, they were definitely on my laptop a lot, so they know what was and wasn't on it. So logic tells me he knows knows he didn't find a bunch of nasty shit, so why is he trying to bluff me? I'm sure he went thru my history with a fine tooth comb and there was no porn, yet he's telling me I watch porn all the time every night? lol. He did put a real password to a real site to scare me, but I had long since changed it lol.

I don't have the Laptop anymore, but even if I did and even if they were still somehow monitoring me I'd just laugh. I don't watch porn, and I kept the laptop closed with it hooked to a monitor so the webcam and mic were never accessable. I suppose if I didn't know any better and was really jackin off every night I'd be scared and send them money to save my ass. But, I've decided to fuck with this fucker. And I'm emailing them back right now asking if they're really serious and telling him that I've really been wanting to be a nasty pervert online and have videos of me playing with myself on somewhere like Onlyfans. And end by thank him and take him up on his offer because I really don't know where to start and he would be a lifesaver here. I absolutely love how detailed he is talking about my masterbation sessions.

I wonder how many suckers these people get to actually send money every day - it's sad. Dealin with these scamming Chinese hackfuckers is definitely a 1stworldproblem.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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I've been hit with something similar too. Since I don't look at porn I ignored it to see what happens. They ended up hacking my web server and basically trashed the OS installation. When I got a new server setup at OVH with a brand new install of Debian, within hours of redirecting DNS to the new server they hacked it again before I was even done setting it up. I have no idea what kind of attack they are using but it's quite sophisticated. All the log files were garbled. I presume it's some sort of attack that also ends up corrupting the memory or something. I don't know how much access they actually got to the system but I made sure to change all my passwords since my home backups were on there. Also formatted my home machine.

I have things pretty locked down here but clearly I must have clicked on something malicious at some point that loaded stuff in my machine.
 

snoopy7548

Diamond Member
Jan 1, 2005
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I've been hit with something similar too. Since I don't look at porn I ignored it to see what happens. They ended up hacking my web server and basically trashed the OS installation. When I got a new server setup at OVH with a brand new install of Debian, within hours of redirecting DNS to the new server they hacked it again before I was even done setting it up. I have no idea what kind of attack they are using but it's quite sophisticated. All the log files were garbled. I presume it's some sort of attack that also ends up corrupting the memory or something. I don't know how much access they actually got to the system but I made sure to change all my passwords since my home backups were on there. Also formatted my home machine.

I have things pretty locked down here but clearly I must have clicked on something malicious at some point that loaded stuff in my machine.

The hell is wrong with you?
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
The hell is wrong with you?

What are you talking about? I'm just saying that's my experience with getting hacked. I thought my security was decent but they clearly found a way in anyway. The web server was kinda my fault, it was an out of date Os that I kept putting off upgrading, but clearly the hacker that was trying to extort me got pissed off that I ignored him and probably managed to find a vulnerability. I figured the password he got was from some leaked database and that it was just a bluff. I still have no idea how they got into the fresh OS install though. I was in the process of restoring backups when it got hit, so no services were running yet other than a basic Apache landing page saying my sites would be back up soon.
 
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Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Oh I missed the bold part. The bold does not show up that clearly in 4k. but yeah I may have looked at porn a few times before but it's not exactly something I do on the regular, so when the hacker said he caught me watching it I kinda figured he either got the wrong person or it was some kind of bluff.
 

QueBert

Lifer
Jan 6, 2002
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Want to order an electric bike from China, dealing with the company on Alibaba is... interesting. And it looks like if I do order it, it might not be here for 3-4 months, sheieieiiet. I hate living in a 1st World where I expect to get my shit same day Amazon Prime shipped.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
67,403
12,142
126
www.anyf.ca
That bike is probably going to catch on fire the first time you go to charge it lol. You'd be better off building your own than to buy direct from China.