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Weekly Ramblecast 171: The Dad Who Got Mad

🕑 Added 2024-09-17 12:00:09 +0000 UTC

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csl316

A few years ago, my laptop died and I went 6+ months without a computer. No issues with life at all, and it was kind of a nice break. Eventually got a new one for music production, but it has to be a laptop. Can't imagine being tethered to one spot.

swiftdraw

The nice thing about being military is I just fly Space A on a C-130 or C-17. I only go on commercial flights if I am ordered to or someone is dying. Commercial flights are so miserable nowadays. I use to love flying in the 90’s.

Michael

Grey Fox is “hurt me more” guy. The Pain is the bee guy who talked about pain. Not that I need to add fuel to the fire with this, but scams are really sophisticated and messed up. People can easily spoof calls, alter voices, mimic sites, and register an endless amount of domains that look like the site. Also many scams are run by organized crime and have used slave labor (like imprisoning people, taking their passports, and bribing cops to look the other way stuff), so the realities of how these operations run are really fucked up. So even with those “lol I hacked the scammers” videos you may see on YouTube could involve people who are forced to carry out those scams. Biggest way to protect yourself is never click on links, give info over the phone, reply back to texts with info, or talk to random people you don’t know. You’re never going to be asked to immediately pay something or else, or do things like confirm your email / password or else you’ll lose your account. If an investment is too good to be true, it probably is. As Brad mentioned, a lot of organizations just don’t call or email you. You’ll get a letter and it will be a drawn out process to have a meeting in person with somebody. Always go to the official website and look up the customer support number. Don’t use the point of contact in a random email or text, since that can be a fake number.

Russell Robinson

Grey Fox. Hurt me Snake.

Michael Jacobson

Pretty sure that's who Brad was thinking of.

Michael Jacobson

I'll say that I was slow to trusting tickets with barcodes being scannable off my phone (usually for conventions), but have embraced them in the past 5 years. That being said, there is a fundraiser 1.5 mile walk event around the Tucson Reid Park Zoo this weekend and their system is saying "you can try to scan off your phone but sometimes that doesn't work for some screens so we suggest printing this ticket instead"