FauxPseudo
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 2 days ago:
Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What happens when Dems take back power? The people okay with with this are going to instantly flip the moment the government comes after them the same way. But those people never think about how something can be used against them. They only care if it is a tool that can help them now.
- Comment on Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...) 4 days ago:
From my post elsewhere on this topic:
Yet another in my ongoing series of headlines about how messed up Microsoft and tech in general is by using just Notepad as an example.
Why Notepad? Because it was supposed to be the most basic built in text editor for the Windows environment. They thing that would always work. The thing that would do exactly what it was supposed to no matter what.
They have messed it up so bad that it’s now an attack vector.
It’s the prime example of how they keep taking things that work and make them worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I’m not arguing for trickle down. I’m using their own arguments against them.
- Comment on 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died 5 days ago:
I used to debug POP3 issues by going through sessions one line at a time via telnet. Occasionally HTTP sessions too.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Guess I won’t be upgrading my phone this year. And neither will you. Or anyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
A company with $130 billion in cash reserves is floating 100 year bonds.
So much for billionaires reinvesting profits to trickle down in the economy. Now they hold onto profits, calling in suckers to bet for them and not promising results until all of them are dead.
- Comment on State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office 1 week ago:
They try to memory hole something in the LOC and every librarian in the country will show them how dangerous the deep state can be. Those “no weapons” signs at libraries will start disappearing into the periodical file.
- Comment on State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office 1 week ago:
Everything prior to 2018 is archived in the Library of Congress. It’s where all of my beer reviews are.
Linus uploads to FTP and lets the world mirror. I just let the LOC archive my stuff.
- Comment on State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office 1 week ago:
Memory hole: A system for altering or erasing inconvenient historical documents, photographs, and articles.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
All that cellphone stuff and the defense contractor were all service/tech/helpdesk.
Much less script based. Maybe you get a script for day one of some launch but otherwise you are on your own in most competent operations once you are out of training and shadowing.
But in sales the script is god until you break free and hit those KPI.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
“You go to war with the autism you have, not the autism you want.” – Not Donald Rumsfeld
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Funny thing about that. One of my jobs was with the absolutely most rigid follow the script places to have ever existed. The radio ratings. Not only could you never not follow the script verbatim but between calls you could read nothing but the handbook. Countless people must have read this thing cover to cover over the years. But, apparently, not one person had ever understood what they were reading or proof read it. I found 21 errors. And in one of those errors was a little bit of text that explicitly stated to never read the script verbatim.
In most centers the follow the script thing is for newbies. Then you don’t meet the KPI numbers and they threaten you. Then people get desperate and stop following the script. If they get results then no one cares about the script anymore. The top performers never follow the script.
And as a general rule the absolute top performer not only doesn’t follow the script but is a compulsive liar. But they get results and the returns are justified by the sales.
Except at the radio ratings place. Follow the script or die. Even if the handbook has one tiny section that says don’t follow the script.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
I left the building each day and left it behind me. One time my roommate worked at the same call center. I was so good about leaving work behind that I forgot to tell her about a bomb threat we had had 2 months before that wasn’t on her shift.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Autistic. But close enough. I sold monthly shareware subscriptions on CDs, Highlander TV show video sets and trenchcoats, animal videos, long distance, gay men’s clothing, bedding sets, golf clubs, did tech support from the days of the Nokia through birth of the BlackBerry, iPhone, Android etc, saw the death of the Windows phones and even spent time at a defense contractor. I’m one of the most overqualified Helpdesk/CS/TS call center people ever.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
As a two decade veteran of call centers I have had this happen to me.
- Comment on OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse 3 weeks ago:
“…long enough to become the villain.”
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
I miss it. SLRN and proper score file made it the best information tool on the internet back in the day.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
That’s what Usenet was.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This would be better if it showed that some non-google search engines are ready just modified google search.
I use DDG so I’m doing my part to reduce Google search traffic. Even though that increasing Bing traffic.
- Comment on Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. It also has more sense of adventure than other entros.
- Comment on Star Trek TNG Intro but with Enterprise Lyrics 1 month ago:
I rewatched Enterprise a year or so ago I managed to do it without hearing the song once. I was diligent enough about it during my first watch through that eventually I was able to wipe the song from my brain by quickly changing to another earworm.
I can’t, for mental health reasons, watch your video. But congratulations on making a worthwhile abomination that will traumatize people for years to come.
- Comment on What If Heavy Files Actually Felt Heavy? — Shiveesh Fotedar 1 month ago:
I like this for moving files to SD cards. You could select a bunch of files and get an idea if they will fit without actually looking at the numbers. You would just get a feel for what, 16, 32, 64 gb feels like.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Test failed. I’m unable to see this post.
- Comment on Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform? 1 month ago:
Why aren’t you using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform?
- Comment on Disengage, Disconnect, Block, Filter 2 months ago:
I think they are saying “Bluesky has great blocking features but most of the fediverse doesn’t. This is a place for you to post about people to ban no matter where you find them so that others can take action as well. Maybe one day the fediverse will have tools to make this unnecessary.”
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 months ago:
That face. I’m wondering how closely he and I are related because that is the face of someone that could be an immediate relative of mine.
- Comment on What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones? 2 months ago:
Do you have any reason to keep your partner?
- Comment on Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled 2 months ago:
Ah that explains why my subscription page has all the videos I haven’t watched at the top and all the videos regardless of watched status right below so the same video is listed twice on the same screen on a slow day.
Now if they could just make sure when I open the app/channel that I land on the subscription screen instead of recommended that would be a real QOL improvement.
- Comment on New format just dropped. OC 2 months ago:
Because I normally stop shaving in October and don’t shave again until near the last frost.
/JK but frfr
