Burren
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Whats rustling your jimmies?
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Burren
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BTW, I get it and don’t fault you for it. We all have our preferences. I just have some bad history with deserts and the idea of living in one is upsetting.
But, god damn do I hate the bajillion pine needles in the gutters, in the pool, and on the cars ever day.
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Aamry
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My car still has pine sap on it's roof from when I used to live near pine trees.
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When we bought this place it sat empty for 2 years and all the vegetation was dead , except for a few rose bushes and 2 pine trees (both of which were in the weep field of the septic tank). When I had it all ripped out they asked me if I was sure about the pine trees. I grew up in eastern NC where the fucking pine trees grow thick as weeds. Hell yes I was sure about it.
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Siliconemelons
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At least the ones in florida can be useful
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TBT-TheBigToe
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Nutcases around here and other places in the southeast gather up longleaf pinestraw and weave/make stuff out of it. Looks incredibly tedious. I do see some bales of the stuff for sale from time to time. No idea how they gather the shit and make use of it. As the name implies the needles from it are very long, as opposed to shortleaf pine. It burns well.
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big thing when I was in SC was people on the side of the road selling baskets & such out of that and leaves of palmetto. They thought they were Prada for the prices they charged.Nutcases around here and other places in the southeast gather up longleaf pinestraw and weave/make stuff out of it. Looks incredibly tedious. I do see some bales of the stuff for sale from time to time. No idea how they gather the shit and make use of it. As the name implies the needles from it are very long, as opposed to shortleaf pine. It burns well.
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Hoss
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When I was younger, it always irked me a little that the flight attendants never actually inflated the vests during the safety briefing. I thought we needed to have some idea of what it was going to be like, but young me knew that they would be running through those demo vests like crazy if they did that so I understood. Then they started showing videos of the briefing and it irked me even more why they didn't go ahead and inflate that ONE vest for everyone to see. Not even just with the pull cord, but even when they demonstrate doing it manually they always put their mouth close and fake blow into it. Why won't they show us the real thing? I have since pulled the handle on a life vest and now I know what to expect. The first time I did it I cut myself because the string is longer than you'd expect, I wrapped it around my hand to give it a second pull, then when it inflated it pulled back and sliced me open. I was like, see this is exactly the kind of shit people need to be aware of. I still don't understand why when you're filming someone doing the briefing they can't inflate the vest, deflate it with the tube then reinflate it so we can all see what it really takes.
Now they're doing that shit with animation and the fucking animated characters are still fake pulling the handles and fake blowing into the tubes. Maybe this is an effort to cull the stupid.
Now they're doing that shit with animation and the fucking animated characters are still fake pulling the handles and fake blowing into the tubes. Maybe this is an effort to cull the stupid.
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People holding their phones in front of them and speaking so loud I can hear it from two blocks away. And on speaker, so I can hear the other person too. Like wtf hold it against your ear motherfucker.
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Hoss
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Next time try something like
SIR THE GIRL SAID YOU GRABBED HER YOU STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR THE ENTIRE DANCE.
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Siliconemelons
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Hoss
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My company has the most retarded email security I can imagine.
- First off, they added the big red text THIS EMAIL CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION to the top if it's external. Cool, that seems reasonable and can actually be helpful potentially if anyone tries to spoof my bosses address or something. But for some reason they can't seem to figure out how to make payroll and HSE notices be internal. So that red text is on 90% of unexpected messages and therefore easily gets ignored.
- They've got something called URL defense. Any link in any email is obfuscated with URL defense. I hover over it and I can't tell if it goes where the link claims it goes. It just gives me Proofpoint - ZenWeb™ ... then 5 lines of gibberish. What the fuck good is that doing for anyone? The original URL is supposed to be in there somewhere but apparently it starts on the 6th line.
- They send out simulated phishing attacks. There is a rock solid unbeatable way to detect all of the simulated attacks. Hover over the link and if it doesn't say "https://urldefence.com... GIBBERISH" it's a test. plain and simple. They turned off the url defense thing for simulated phishing attacks.
- When I get a phishing email I report it and I get one of 2 responses every time. "Congratulations, that was a simulated phishing attack" or (a few minutes later) "The email you reported has been deemed to be low risk". Bitch what? Sure some of the shit I report is just random spam, but some of it is legitimately 'please sar open this most urgent invoice pertaining to your recent activity'. And they try to tell me it's fine? This is the same software behind urldefense so obviously I have very high confidence that these unknown links are perfectly safe to click.
My boss wonders why I don't work from the company "cloud". BECAUSE I'M SURPRISED WE HAVEN'T BEEN HACKED YET, THATS WHY! Oh that's another thing, but not directly related to email security. They are doing away with the server that we maintain in favor of a cloud. Fuck the cloud. While I'm here, I also cannot run an on demand virus scan. The software we use runs entirely in the background and doesn't tell me shit. Our IT people are generally good, but I don't know who's making these decisions.
- First off, they added the big red text THIS EMAIL CAME FROM OUTSIDE THE ORGANIZATION to the top if it's external. Cool, that seems reasonable and can actually be helpful potentially if anyone tries to spoof my bosses address or something. But for some reason they can't seem to figure out how to make payroll and HSE notices be internal. So that red text is on 90% of unexpected messages and therefore easily gets ignored.
- They've got something called URL defense. Any link in any email is obfuscated with URL defense. I hover over it and I can't tell if it goes where the link claims it goes. It just gives me Proofpoint - ZenWeb™ ... then 5 lines of gibberish. What the fuck good is that doing for anyone? The original URL is supposed to be in there somewhere but apparently it starts on the 6th line.
- They send out simulated phishing attacks. There is a rock solid unbeatable way to detect all of the simulated attacks. Hover over the link and if it doesn't say "https://urldefence.com... GIBBERISH" it's a test. plain and simple. They turned off the url defense thing for simulated phishing attacks.
- When I get a phishing email I report it and I get one of 2 responses every time. "Congratulations, that was a simulated phishing attack" or (a few minutes later) "The email you reported has been deemed to be low risk". Bitch what? Sure some of the shit I report is just random spam, but some of it is legitimately 'please sar open this most urgent invoice pertaining to your recent activity'. And they try to tell me it's fine? This is the same software behind urldefense so obviously I have very high confidence that these unknown links are perfectly safe to click.
My boss wonders why I don't work from the company "cloud". BECAUSE I'M SURPRISED WE HAVEN'T BEEN HACKED YET, THATS WHY! Oh that's another thing, but not directly related to email security. They are doing away with the server that we maintain in favor of a cloud. Fuck the cloud. While I'm here, I also cannot run an on demand virus scan. The software we use runs entirely in the background and doesn't tell me shit. Our IT people are generally good, but I don't know who's making these decisions.
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Aldarion
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"Surfing the internet".
I read someone use this phrase unironically today and it reminded me how much I've hated the phrase ever since it came out in like the fucking early 2000s or whatever.
You're sitting on your ass, moving your thumb while you stare at a shining rectangle.
"Surfing the internet". Fuck you.
I read someone use this phrase unironically today and it reminded me how much I've hated the phrase ever since it came out in like the fucking early 2000s or whatever.
You're sitting on your ass, moving your thumb while you stare at a shining rectangle.
"Surfing the internet". Fuck you.
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fred sanford
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We have the exact same thing at our company. Recently, they turned off the “congratulations you passed the test” window. They found out that as soon as one person got it, they would go and warn everybody on their team lol
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Control
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Thanks for the fucking bonus rustle this morning. This drives me fucking crazy on principle. They'll try to explain to people how to spot phishing links, which is tricky enough for anyone who would have clicked them in the first place. And then they're like "ok, all that stuff we said about bad links? now apply it to this giant link that we made way worse." It can't be that fucking hard to rewrite the link on the back end and display the actual link.
Ok, so now people don't click links because you get sentenced to hours of training if you click a simulation link, so nobody clicks anything just to be safe. Ok fine, probably better that way... BUT half of our internal shit is actually using spammy looking external sites because people can't be assed to get IT to do it properly. AND THEN they get pissy when nobody clicks their spammy-looking link, so they send out follow up emails that literally say "hey, this link that we just sent is actually legit, please click it!" No one else seems to see the problem with that.
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Hoss
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Thanks for the fucking bonus rustle this morning. This drives me fucking crazy on principle. They'll try to explain to people how to spot phishing links, which is tricky enough for anyone who would have clicked them in the first place. And then they're like "ok, all that stuff we said about bad links? now apply it to this giant link that we made way worse." It can't be that fucking hard to rewrite the link on the back end and display the actual link.
Ok, so now people don't click links because you get sentenced to hours of training if you click a simulation link, so nobody clicks anything just to be safe. Ok fine, probably better that way... BUT half of our internal shit is actually using spammy looking external sites because people can't be assed to get IT to do it properly. AND THEN they get pissy when nobody clicks their spammy-looking link, so they send out follow up emails that literally say "hey, this link that we just sent is actually legit, please click it!" No one else seems to see the problem with that.
You reminded me of something. The number of legitimate phishy looking emails I get from people inside my own company is ridiculous.
From: Some new person you never met in HR
Subject Urgent
Hey you need to click here and fill out this information today otherwise your plans for next week are fucked.
This has happened 4-5 times in the past couple years and they turned out to be legitimate. It just happened to be new payroll or HSE girls I'd never heard of. I sent an email to our company executives and suggested we do some training on how to NOT write emails that look phishy. I figured the training on how to spot them would be good enough, but apparently I thought wrong. We need specific training on how to not look like a scammer. If you actually have something urgent and we don't know each other, call or at least teams message me first because otherwise your urgent shit is going in the trash.
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