Mr. Bitterness

@wdormann@infosec.exchange
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I play with vulnerabilities and exploits, but am forbidden to discuss such things publicly.
I used to be https://twitter.com/wdormann but Twitter has become unbearable, so here I am.
Mr. Bitterness16h ago

On a Verizon thing I ended up figuring out on my own, I got an automated callback:

Please press 1 if you would like to speak to a support representative
With no other option.

Since I didn't want to speak to anyone, I hung up. At which point I immediately got a call back with the same lone option. I hung up again.

And then immediately got a call back. So yeah, I had to indicate to an automated system that I wanted to speak with a support representative to convey to that person that I didn't want to speak to a support representative.

I feel like this automated system could use some tweaking to cut down on unnecessary human interaction. 🤦‍♂️

Mr. Bitterness4d ago
pejacoby4d ago

M3 MacBook Air and a freaking single web page is eating 80% of CPU due to all the ad embeds and crap.

And that’s WITH AdBlock Plus active. I fear turning it off.

The ”modern” web was a bad ideas.

#web20 #advertising #webcrap

Mr. Bitterness4d ago
Every Pittsburgh Verizon Fios customer who tried to tune in to the NBC Nightly News episode that was filmed in Pittsburgh.
Mr. Bitterness6d ago
Humor For Resistance6d ago
Mr. Bitterness6d ago
Life hack:
Replace your electric razor's blades/foil.
Show threadMr. BitternessDec 15
Eh, I guess I'll take back my comment of "Firefox behaves just fine"
Mr. BitternessDec 15
Test 2-frame animated GIF
Mr. BitternessDec 15

Windows has had the ability to extract various archive types via libarchive for over two years.

The part that Microsoft skipped?
An Extract all button in Explorer.
You know, to extract files from an archive.

A job done, folks.

Show threadMr. BitternessDec 14

Seriously, though. Gmail has been pretty good in the past with blocking spam, but lately it seems like they've given up?

Oh, an email from Steak_RewardsTeam at a random cyberpickle.nl email domain? Yes, I definitely want to see that.

Also, thanks Google AI. That's definitely what I wanted. Searching Google for spam "cyberpickle.nl" definitely means that I personally want the Google search engine to spam that domain for me.

You're all doing a bang-up job there with using AI to make things better for all of us.

Mr. BitternessDec 11

I don't like that if I have a lengthy conversation with ChatGPT using Chrome (Don't judge. I often have quite complex scenarios where I need troubleshooting assistance), Chrome is heavily taxed and frequently the tab goes unresponsive.

Firefox behaves just fine.

I get that this AI stuff is all resource intensive and is fast tracking the destruction of the earth. But for my Chrome CLIENT to go sideways when I use ChatGPT, I'll file that as "unexpected". 🤷‍♂️