Re: Jobs you're applying to might not be real

This is the appropriate place to share the following anecdote, which happened to a friend of mine (disclaimer - in the context of this comment and how I wrote it I assume you will immediately notice the red flags, but I assure you these are only obvious in hindsight)

My friend applied for, and got hired as, an external tester. The idea is: you get a web page and a task (e.g. order item xyz), you perform the task and you fill out a usability report, for example explaining which things you found obvious or where you ran into issues. The gig went fine for a week or two with dozens of assignments per day for all kinds of things. Then one of the tasks included opening a bank account at Bank X. This went fine without an issue, and my friend had to use personal data to open that account. She didn’t think any of it - at this point the trust level was high and after all she was supposed to test from an end users perspective, so it kind of made sense to her.

Way later she was asked to apply for a loan, and she did. Of course she did not provide any personal details, but the data the company provided to her - but given how much time had passed she didn’t realize that these data were from the bank account she had opened in her own name. The money arrived, the attackers took it and vanished.

As far as I can tell the scam was set up in a very sophisticated way, faking not only the job but the whole company, with the clear idea that only luring in one innocent person would be enough. And they succeeded.

The worst thing besides the financial damage is the shame that comes with it, the „I can’t believe this happened to me“ moment - which is why I share this here: scams can happen to anybody, including your friends who „should know better“, including you.

pflenker, 12 hours ago

Battery savers у некоторых вендоров Андроида это гемор, но у Самсунга это особый жанр пиздеца

Обратите внимание на вариацию как это говно работает между версиями (2 это значит что есть 2 разные независимые опции, которые влияют на эту хуйню)

БОЛЬШЕ ОПТИМИЗАЦИЙ БОГУ ОПТИМИЗАЦИЙ

Младший брат кинул видео (в вайбере ессно) как рассказывает щедрівку и посевает кидая прямо в камеру)
И монобанку))
Ебаный киберпанк)

Тем временем changelog MIUI 14
// боюсь представить что эта хуйня значит на самом деле

Ммм, компартия теперь палит твой экран

(в том числе калькулятор)

Кричу, линка снизу не рабочая)))

In January 2006, Harvard economics researcher Benjamin Edelman published a study showing that sites with TRUSTe certification were 50 percent more likely to violate privacy policies than uncertified sites.[21]

Пиздец, чтобы вылогинится из аккаунта Xiaomi на девайсе, обязательно должен быть интернет))) Иначе кнопка логаут не работает.

Подруга из Канады недавно обнаружила, что стиралки в публичных прачечных принимают желтые железные гривны как доллары)

GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much (🔥 Score: 154+ in 2 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5YzGc
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5YzGc

Re: Reading QR codes without a computer

Slightly off topic: One day in the late 90s or early 2000s, I wanted to transfer the contents of my Atari 8-bit disks to my PC. I did know about SIO2PC, a cable that converts between Atari's SIO port and the PC's serial port and a piece of software to go with it. But I didn't have the electronics skills to build one (even though it is actually very easy).

So I ended up writing a Basic program on the Atari to read data from the disk sector by sector and paint it on the screen (with the large 4-color pixels of graphics mode 3). The Atari was connected to the TV card of my PC and a Delphi program I wrote was running on the PC that kept taking screen shots and trying to decode the data from there. I quickly learned that empty sectors threw off my pixel position calibration so I added a mask pattern and a checksum. The sector address was also included. With that, I was able to transfer all my disk contents to my PC. To this day I consider it my greatest engineering achievement :)

Some ten years later, I went on to build an SIO2PC program called AspeQt. A more up-to-date community fork called RespeQt is still the most popular tool in that category used by the community. It even has its own subforum on AtariAge[1].

[1] https://forums.atariage.com/forum/184-respeqt-sio2pc-software/

cyco130, 5 hours ago

Слушаю тут себе музыку, мне что-то попалось из кантри, ну вроде прикольный трек (собсно типичное кантри), но на фоне вслушиваюсь в текст, и он какой-то ебанутый немного. Смотрю на исполнителя, а это пародийный саундтрек из Far Cry 5 (с довольно зловещим в контексте игры текстом ессно), и его Youtube Music походу выдает как legit рекомендации по жанру кантри))

Ну чисто веселые песенки под названием The World Is Gonna End Tonight, Set those sinners free или Oh the Bliss))