Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Reasons why I no longer use eBay, that and the HMRC loves to know what you are doing

 

"4Mbps internet connection"
Reminds me of days gone by, hoping to reach 5Mbps so I can download something 20 minutes quicker

 

For giggles I started up the Disney app and the TV took a good couple of minutes before it got to a sign in page. Lol.

In other news, I'm very sensitive to buzzing electrical things. I've always known this but besides it doing my head in it just adds to my OH's argument of me being spectrumy.

I mean, that's no shocker.

 

...Wife says the same

 

Lol

It's when they talk about hardwiring into the mains you have to worry

 

Thought for the Day: Read the effing manual!

Got with the times and bought 32GB Cosair Vengeance DDR4 3200MT/s ram, RGB free too!

The meh came when I tried to install it. Removed the front fan from the CPU cooler, opened the top clips on both RAM slots, so far so good. Could not get the lower clips to open, even removed the graphics card to make it easier. Kept trying, cut a finger and tried pliers. Gave up, went online om my iPad. Found the motherboard manual, the lower clips DON’T open. A few minutes later, job done and, it works as it should.

At least I didn’t break anything before looking at the manual.

 

I remember being very happy to upgrade to dual ISDN. I think it was about 2.5 times faster than our basic dial-up it replaced.

 

Never had ISDN, friend had dual ISDN to play Half-life DM in 1998 competitvely
Theoretical 128 kbps in shotgun ISDN, used to get around 80% of that, the main point he got it was the latency, so much lower

28 years of internetting has shown me one thing, speed increases will never change much over the next 10 odd years+
28.8kbit/s in 1996
33.6 kbit/s in late 1997
56 kbit/s in late 1998 (modem cost me over £200 at the time)
512 kbit/s cable in 2000, then upto 2 mb/s in late 2001 (used to mess around with the config file to get higher speeds, loved the emails from NTL saying "we know what you are doing")
8 mb/s aDSL in 2005
80 mb/s vDSL in 2011
1 Gb/s fibre in 2023

The young have no idea how much fun it was with dialup

 

You’ve reminded me about the speeds. ISDN was 2.5 times faster per connection and, meant you could stay online while the phone was in use.

 

I ran a BBS back in 90s... Am old, crumbling, full of weird bugs and knowledge such as setting the IRQ/DMA/IO address using jumpers before PnP became a thing... Also Netware I HATE thee! Them young ones these days don't have any idea about that

Community Fibre does three gigs in my area. Am I going to upgrade router and switch for faster steam downloads? Nah, one gig is fine, 100+ megabytes per second is fiiiiiiine

 

I use Carwow just once to check the value of my car...

And now every single Youtube advert is a f**king Carwow advert.

I don't think this is what the creators of the Internet had in mind.

 

Finding out that my employers lied to me. So they have this monthly phishing email training thing. You are allowed 2 fails per rolling year without consequence. I had a 3-fail meeting back in March. I was told that if I failed 4 times in the rolling year I would be required to attend a meeting with the general manager of the service desk. Now I was told during this meeting that all phishing email tests would be from an external sender, OK, cool, that definitely helped. This most recent one? From a company email address that I have received emails from previously with details about my payslip. This most recent one notified me of a change to my payslip. Because I'm struggling with my money at the moment I got really concerned really quick. It took me to a link to sign in and I did and got the error flag that it was a phishing test. This means that I failed and that means I will have to have a 30 minute meeting with the most senior manager of the service desk and get chewed out.

I am livid as my branch's service desk manager stated they would *only ever* be from an external sender. I'm frustrated because I will have to deal with some asshat in London and get chewed out and have to be properly remorseful or whatever the bollocks.

I'm not a happy bunny

 

This is all started back in the late 90's early 2000's, companies realising the money they could make, Google made it a billion times worse
Adguard and Brave browser to the rescue

 

Yeah... We have a similar system. Normally pretty easy to spot once you know the tricks that they like to use. However, the last one apparently got almost everyone as it was a similar trick, internal email address, foreign, but still followed the correct format for that country - name.surname@[country abbreviation].[company name].com. It was from a first name that I have been dealing with on projects, and the subject was extremely plausible, even the link was supposedly from a file sharing system that we can use.

I have not heard from anyone regarding actions or training, whether I need to do it or anyone else has been caught.

I don't mind the emails generally, and I can fully appreciate the reasoning, especially after a big security scare that we had a while ago, but getting to that level of sneaky (my example, and yours) is just plain annoying, especially if they tell you one thing and do another.

 

Seems like the best thing to do is not reply to any emails. Ever.

I'm always here to help.

 

Our company does it as well and it's very frustrating. I can even remember some process that we were meant to be doing and no-one did as the email looked like a phishing scam test.

 

Luckily, all our "cybersecurity" phishing emails come from an external company hired by our US corporate overlords, so they all come from the same sus-looking domain.
It's also very easy to spot a phish about my 401k or Labor Day bargains.

 

Battling the scourge of read.ai bots on Teams which installs insinuates itself without being asked, and attends meetings without being asked. It's basically malware masquerading as professional software.

If you host a meeting with someone else's bot attending, you'll get emailed a meeting summary by raid.ai. You'll need to create an account to read the whole transcript, and as soon as you sign up, BAM!, it's installed itself on your system.

Microsoft have been made aware that this happens, their response involves much handwashing and shrugging of shoulders.

 

Pretty sure Teams already has native transcript built in that work surprisingly well. If only the rest of Teams worked, like, at all.

 

Just when I think I’ve made a decision to sell the bike in favour of a second car, I get on it and fall in love with it all over again.