Carl Cravens @CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz

Reporting an Amazon seller for harassing me every week for _months_ offering me money to delete my 3-star review of their product. (Which violates Amazon's policies, and is unethical to boot.)

Why do I feel bad for doing this?

One way to spot the pretty legit looking phishing email... a company based in Texas doesn't write dates in DD/MM/YYYY format.

@gamehawk Beam me up, Scotty.

This is the survey I want:
Amazon just delivered your package. How was it?
[ ] It was great!
[ ] Not so great.
[x] It was just a package delivery! Package deliveries aren't "great," they just are! Geesh.

@mwlucas I feel like we called this something else when I was a kid... different numbers. 🤔

There's this weird pattern where your company buys a new service, folks think, "Only execs and VPs should have administrative access," so they all get super-user roles. But they don't want to actually do the admin work, so they appoint lower-level people as super-user. And now you've got 12 super-user accounts, only 3 actively do that work, and the others are just dangerous security vectors. :/

@art Depth of field is so important, and phone cameras have made it so uncommon that it almost looks strange.

@craigmaloney I owned an Amiga and I don't remember having trouble with it. But I was still a command-line guy... I learned Workbench was just another program and only controlled the dealer icons and the like. You could disable automatic start of it, and window management was separate. So I mostly worked without Workbench up. I learned K&R C on that machine.

@gamehawk I'm really confused about you running into broken software in Debian at all because they take great pains to be stable. Do you mean "doesn't have the latest features" when you say "broken"?

Sometimes remote calls reveal too much about what your coworkers are like at home.

@silverseams With that fabric, I like the dark one.

@mwlucas Sometimes I gotta check to see if I still really live in the United States. How does this kind of thing happen?

YouTube: This concert stream will premier at 2pm on July 8. Would you like to set a reminder?
Me: Sure!
...
YouTube @ 2:08: Stream is starting!
Me: It's been going for 8 minutes already... I missed the intro. I knew I should have set my own reminder.

You just can't rely on technology... not even from the biggest technology giants of today. They will let you down.

@craigmaloney That cover image, dang. Skimming the first few pages of ads, it's clear that Macs are about a upwardly-mobile lifestyle.