wooooo. Today we had
- plumber to put in pressure reducer and new lever ceramic swishy tapware
- Cerycat to vet for checkup
- shitload of servers to complete and ship to nz
last now done, hubs at vet with cat, tapware completed, I'm having a bloody cuppa
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I accidentally left my teaspoon in the office kitchen when I washed my dishes the other night. I didn't realise until I went to eat my lunch just now. Went to the kitchen, and it was still there! Three days later!
I don't know what the odds of a teaspoon vanishing in an office kitchen are on any single day, but they must be over 50% across three days. I was lucky!
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You're lucky, at my work teaspoons and spoons are a commodity here.
They get replaced on a regular basis and within weeks they all go missing.
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I've seen things be in office kitchen sinks for months. I consider work sink cleanliness a measure of how much I want to work at a place. Or maybe it reminds me of gross share housing and gets on my nerves.
So I found an iCloud account I setup half a decade ago with a phone number I no longer have. But I had SMS 2FA setup 😬
I still have access to the email bound to it, and know the password, and through old emails I was able to figure out which phone number was associated with it. I also still have the MacBook I registered the account with, although I think I just setup a new account rather than going through all the motions, and it has been reset a few times, so it's not recorded as a trusted device anymore.
Bet time: what do we reckon the likelihood of apple removing the 2FA is? My guess is probably a 35% chance they do, assuming nobody has my old number yet (if they do and they called apple and were like "yo what do? I didn't make no iCloud request dawg" then that probably goes down to like a 15% chance, unless the apple people asked for more info and confirmed that at the very least they aren't me, and can use that in their investigations, in which case it probably goes up to 75%)
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Tbh I don't really care that much, I only used it so that they'd stop hassling me about linking an iCloud account, so there's nothing on there I care about. But it is registered with my main email address, and I'd rather use that than trying to remember what other email I used for the new one
If someone claiming to be Apple called me and started asking me to confirm any of my personal details, I'd tell them politely to go away.
Presumably it'd be more of a "if you didn't request this, contact apple at apple.com/contact" or something like that, but yeah.
If someone new has the phone number now and they have registered an iCloud to that number, Apple should be able to see there are two accounts on the number.
If you are able to tell them that one of them is no longer you, that helps them know who they need to call.
If someone from Apple called me up and said "Hi, it's Apple here, are you Nath from somestreet in Perth?" I'd be a lot more cooperative. I wouldn't volunteer anything, but if they knew that I was the account holder and knew I registered it after you no longer used it, and then asked me whether I had another iCloud account, I'd freely volunteer that I did not.
decent if you can prove ownership over devices that have been associated with it.
I initiated the request from my MacBook so hopefully. But if they ask for actual proof of ownership I'd be screwed. I don't generally keep receipts for 6 years, but I wasn't the one who bought it anyways
I think I'm going to do it. I'm going to betray my barber and find another one.
I can't do these places that only accept walk-ins. I want to book a time and get it over and done with.
I don't want to sit in a barber's for an hour watching a Ministry of Sound playlist waiting to get my hair cut
I can’t do these places that only accept walk-ins. I want to book a time and get it over and done with.
RIGHT?! 5-10 years ago this was amazing! These days having to wait friggin sucks!
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spent a whole hour trying to remember this song, started with the riff and the melody , words slowly came back, then the band, then all of a sudden I just knew it . This is my totes fave Foo Fighters song
Generator - foo fighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhERrxABD5o
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jayyysus stuck my nose in a google search for the first time in a long time and the fucking thing is unusable now
yup, I use duck and that uses google , so 🤷♀️ Is Bing usable ? How can bing be worse is the question.
raw googs is worse than duck duck
More and more species of human made services are falling victim to this mysterious illness many call enshittification. There's no known cure, but is spreading rapidly among impacted populations.
I'm pretty sure AI speeds up the enshittification process. I used to think all the sci-fi AI taking over the world stories were unrealistic dystopias, but it seems like the people in charge thought they were something to aim for. Things like robo-debt should have made us take a step back and think a bit about how we want to use AI but we still seem to be going full steam ahead with a plan of deliberately putting AI algorithms in charge of everything.
It's especially ironic because what we currently have isn't truly AI, it's basically a glorified algorithm capable of paraphrasing
Pretty much, but the scary thing is that it is learning what people want to hear and in the process often amplifies human bias. It picks up on things like racism and uses that in its decisions. Then those decisions go into the records that AI systems are being trained on, entrenching the biases more and more over time. Because the processes are pretty much invisible it is hard to do anything to stop that from happening. Then we have this weird idea that computers are somehow impartial and should be trusted over human decision makers, and we are using AI to make decisions on things like who to shortlist for employment, who to flag for closer scrutiny in immigration, what level of aged care someone receives - all major life changing things!
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