@SuperDicq sure, but you also can't check your balance. Send money to friends. Receive an alert when your card is used fraudulently. Or any of a 100 useful things. Telling people to give up extremely convenient features isn't the answer here.
The scammer is on the phone to you. Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you. Your bank send you the notification. You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.
Turning to Mastodon for tech support in an effort to save my sanity.
Gmail is rejecting mail forwarded to it. But only *some* of the time.
I own a domain - example.com It has SPK, DKIM, etc. It has a catch-all email address. Any email sent to it is forwarded to a Gmail address. This works 99% of the time. But some of the emails aren't delivered - with the reason:
> SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550 5.7.1 [ESA] Sender blocked.
I've found a plugin which hasn't been updated for over a year. It needs a few fixes, which I've written and tested - not security related. The maintainer stopped answering support questions about 2 years ago. I've tried emailing them, but had no response. The code isn't on GitHub.
I know GPLv2 says I *can* fork and republish the code - but do you think a year is too soon to be stepping on the maintainer's toes?
This has to be the most infuriating bug report I've ever submitted. I went to type in my 2FA code on a website - but no numbers appeared on screen. Obviously, I was an idiot and had forgotten to press the NumLock button. D'oh! I toggled it on and typed again. No numbers appeared. I […]
The problem is, people who I probably agree with politically, are hugely susceptible to believing any old nonsense as long as it is delivered as a screenshot which stokes rage against "the baddies".
When I point out that it can be debunked in 5 seconds, that apparently makes *me* complicit in [insert thing they're angry about].
One of the most frustrating things in modern technology is the effort spent trying to artificially restrict abundance. Take, for example, this tale from museum-worker Aaron Cope: I was out with a friend who worked for Twitter and I asked them whether it would be possible for the museum to “create 200,000 Twitter accounts, one […]
That’s not my name! Practical problems in real name policies.
Once in a while, big companies suggest that the answer to abuse is to ban anonymity and institute a Real Names policy. This time, it is Google's turn. They think that critical software should only be authored by people with "real names".
@ryanc Interesting. My WiFi unit is in the middle of our 3 floor house. So I have half the antennae pointing up and the other half perpendicular to them. In the vague hope the vertical ones will cover the middle floor and the horizontal ones will send the signal upstairs & downstairs. It *seems* to work - but I've not done any serious testing.
Longer hair than you.Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.Open Standards / Source / Data geek.Known as @Edent on most social platforms.Did an MSc in using the Metaverse for analytics.Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.