The Technology Vent and Rant Thread - Page 195

PeterT · 05-30-2025, 09:56 AM

The challenge was/is I was feeling lazy; had a small shot glass in the room where I was watching Clarkson's Farm on the Chromebook; had the light turned out and the bottle of scotch right before me.

Held the shot glass over the bottom right of the keyboard and poured. (Damn typing; I keep typing shit glass). With my vision problems and low light I didn't cotton on to the fact I'd poured more than expected

All I'm trying to do is I'd seen mention that a daily alcoholic drink is beneficial to raising a low HDL cholesterol level and thought it might be a nice treatment to try for a bit.

Cactus Chef · 05-30-2025, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by PeterT

The challenge was/is I was feeling lazy; had a small shot glass in the room where I was watching Clarkson's Farm on the Chromebook; had the light turned out and the bottle of scotch right before me.

Held the shot glass over the bottom right of the keyboard and poured. (Damn typing; I keep typing shit glass). With my vision problems and low light I didn't cotton on to the fact I'd poured more than expected

All I'm trying to do is I'd seen mention that a daily alcoholic drink is beneficial to raising a low HDL cholesterol level and thought it might be a nice treatment to try for a bit.

Is that how you justified the purchase of a 16-year aged Scotch to the missus? "Oh, darling, it's for my cholesterol!"

PeterT · 05-30-2025, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

Is that how you justified the purchase of a 16-year aged Scotch to the missus? "Oh, darling, it's for my cholesterol!"

Widower and it was a 65th birthday present last year that I've only just opened.

Quoth · 05-31-2025, 02:26 PM

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Widower and it was a 65th birthday present last year that I've only just opened.

Amazing self control! OTOH, the Christmas cognac isn't finished yet.

ownedbycats · 06-03-2025, 07:05 PM

The telemarketers are using AI. God help us all.

Wouldn't have answered at all except I was waiting for a call and didn't know the number.

ratinox · 06-04-2025, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

The telemarketers are using AI. God help us all.

Wouldn't have answered at all except I was waiting for a call and didn't know the number.

Over the weekend I got a robocall with the best caller ID string ever: "PROBABLE FRAUD".

But the degenerative AI thing shouldn't come as any surprise. Why wouldn't an entire "industry" based on scam and swindle not embrace the latest trends in scams and swindles?

DNSB · 06-04-2025, 03:53 PM

I've been getting "Likely Fraud". Especially from calls from number that are not in my contact list and have the same area code and 3 digit prefix as my phone number. The last one I answered was about my "grandson" who landed in jail in Mexico and his "friend" was calling to see if I could send bail money. I spent about 15 minutes playing the more than half senile grandparent who couldn't figure out how to send the money and kept screwing up the instructions. Sadly, after 15 minutes they gave up on me.

Deskisamess · 06-04-2025, 07:30 PM

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I've been getting "Likely Fraud". Especially from calls from number that are not in my contact list and have the same area code and 3 digit prefix as my phone number. The last one I answered was about my "grandson" who landed in jail in Mexico and his "friend" was calling to see if I could send bail money. I spent about 15 minutes playing the more than half senile grandparent who couldn't figure out how to send the money and kept screwing up the instructions. Sadly, after 15 minutes they gave up on me.

My 94 year old mom has a friend who fell for this a few years ago. Fortunately she told the bank teller why she was asking for a money order/bank check. (Not sure what method she was trying to use) The bank manager explained the scam to her, so her money was safe. I think she was in her mid 80's at the time.

My daughter had a friend, whose mom sent thousands of dollars to a sweepstake scam. The police even went to her and told her it was all a scam. She kept sending money for a couple of years. She has since passed away, convinced to the end she was going to come into a fortune.

PeterT · 06-04-2025, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by DNSB

I've been getting "Likely Fraud". Especially from calls from number that are not in my contact list and have the same area code and 3 digit prefix as my phone number. The last one I answered was about my "grandson" who landed in jail in Mexico and his "friend" was calling to see if I could send bail money. I spent about 15 minutes playing the more than half senile grandparent who couldn't figure out how to send the money and kept screwing up the instructions. Sadly, after 15 minutes they gave up on me.

I think the "Local Fraud" caller ID is being added by Rogers

Renate · 06-04-2025, 11:53 PM

Maybe the caller is being forthright and setting the caller ID themselves?

"See, we told you it was fraud."

DNSB · 06-04-2025, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Renate

Maybe the caller is being forthright and setting the caller ID themselves?

"See, we told you it was fraud."

Great... Now cleaning coffee out of my nose and off the keyboard...

Graham44 · 06-05-2025, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ratinox

But the degenerative AI thing shouldn't come as any surprise. Why wouldn't an entire "industry" based on scam and swindle not embrace the latest trends in scams and swindles?

Just another reason to hate AI, the list is getting rather long (the AI positive list not so much!)

ratinox · 06-05-2025, 05:54 PM

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Just another reason to hate AI, the list is getting rather long (the AI positive list not so much!)

I don't see the list as actually growing because it's all variations of running neural networks in reverse after training them on -- let's just say dubiously acquired corpuses of data. The font used to print that list keeps getting bigger, though.

Renate · 06-08-2025, 02:40 PM

I don't know if this counts as a technology rant, but...

I've been seeing in social media people posting electronic ideas with obvious errors.
I think that they're are just click-trawling for people to comment, "Ah! I see an error."
Most of them seem pretty stupid.

ownedbycats · 06-08-2025, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Renate

I think that they're are just click-trawling for people to comment, "Ah! I see an error."
Most of them seem pretty stupid.

Cunningham's Law.

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05-30-2025, 09:56 AM	#2911
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,379 Karma: 78877538 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	The challenge was/is I was feeling lazy; had a small shot glass in the room where I was watching Clarkson's Farm on the Chromebook; had the light turned out and the bottle of scotch right before me. Held the shot glass over the bottom right of the keyboard and poured. (Damn typing; I keep typing shit glass). With my vision problems and low light I didn't cotton on to the fact I'd poured more than expected All I'm trying to do is I'd seen mention that a daily alcoholic drink is beneficial to raising a low HDL cholesterol level and thought it might be a nice treatment to try for a bit.

06-03-2025, 07:05 PM	#2915
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,801 Karma: 74203799 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	The telemarketers are using AI. God help us all. Wouldn't have answered at all except I was waiting for a call and didn't know the number.

06-04-2025, 03:53 PM	#2917
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 45,379 Karma: 168808725 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I've been getting "Likely Fraud". Especially from calls from number that are not in my contact list and have the same area code and 3 digit prefix as my phone number. The last one I answered was about my "grandson" who landed in jail in Mexico and his "friend" was calling to see if I could send bail money. I spent about 15 minutes playing the more than half senile grandparent who couldn't figure out how to send the money and kept screwing up the instructions. Sadly, after 15 minutes they gave up on me.

06-04-2025, 11:53 PM	#2920
Renate Onyx-maniac Posts: 3,830 Karma: 16716233 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Nook NST, Glow2, 3, 4, '21, Kobo Aura2, Poke3, Poke5, Go6	Maybe the caller is being forthright and setting the caller ID themselves? "See, we told you it was fraud."

06-08-2025, 02:40 PM	#2924
Renate Onyx-maniac Posts: 3,830 Karma: 16716233 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Nook NST, Glow2, 3, 4, '21, Kobo Aura2, Poke3, Poke5, Go6	I don't know if this counts as a technology rant, but... I've been seeing in social media people posting electronic ideas with obvious errors. I think that they're are just click-trawling for people to comment, "Ah! I see an error." Most of them seem pretty stupid.