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unfortunately, iCloud's "hide my mail" available for as low as $1.19/mo is the best email aliases service. Why? Because those addresses have no discernible pattern, and, most importantly, end with @icloud-dot-com.
a lot of services nowadays think aliases are for scammers, so they reject well-known alias domains like those proton has. but no one rejects icloud ones.
they can't wrap their head around that people like me use aliases, one alias per service, to have control over the spam you send us. unsubscribe buttons in emails often don't work, or unsubscribe you from some super-niche "segment" that one email belonged to, but because you bitches have a lot of those segments, you just carry on spamming.
major dicks that aren't concerned with email deliverability rating, like microsoft — because their emails get delivered no matter what, they're microsoft after all — think they can just not allow people to unsubscribe from their spam. when I needed to create a ms account, thank god I used an alias. I got bombarded with their spam, and lo and behold, not a single email had an unsubscribe button. Instead, the bottom of each email said "this email is a part of mandatory onboarding" or some shit like that, despite just being advertisement. no option to unsubscribe from that bs in their "dashboard" either.
so I just disabled that alias. despite what all of you stupid fucks want, it's my computer, and on it, the computing happens on my terms. when I need a confirmation email, I enable the alias, get the email and then disable it.
I have no mics and no cameras. I pay cash. I don't borrow money from banks. I don't have a credit card. when I receive crypto, I exchange it for cash directly in a physical crypto exchange that doesn't require my passport. I have headphones with built-in mic that I use exclusively for calls, but when I plug them out, no mic for ya. my next phone won't have a sim (and no eSIM either), I will disassemble it and take the front-facing cam, as well as mics, out of the phone, and then cover the back camera with velcro that I'll undo every time I need to take a pic. it will also run graphene os and be held inside a faraday cage when not in use. I have a separate dumb phone for calls that has its removable battery disconnected at all times when I don't use it. no matter if you're corpo or government, no matter all zero-days and backdoors, if there is physically no mic and no cam to be found, trying to access them is futile.
no use trying to profile me or get any kind of info from me unless I want you to — I'll just strangle you and your systems. my info sphere is a fortress surrounded by a bottomless tarpit. you'll drown in it should you try to violate me. if you so much as touch it, it will suck you in. I'll stream your drowning on youtube.
even irl, I try to dress, walk and move as weirdly as possible. during my morning walk, I be straight up walk as if I was rabid. when our eyes meet, I'll smile creepily, just to communicate that don't fucking touch me you fucking degenerate. don't even think about talking to me. just walk away you bitch before I pin you to the ground and bite your ear off. if you're bigger than me, you'll just get tased.
only those I trust deserve open, kind, validating, beautiful, well dressed and good smelling kiki.7 -
you know what? I'm gonna say the n-word whenever I feel like it. Of 88 English-speaking territories, exactly one did import people from Africa to enslave them. My home country wasn't doing that. I don't work in the US of A, I don't live there, so fuck off with your US defaultism. US of A's "culture" is not the default/main culture of the world.
You cry freedom of speech, then ban some words based on someone's skin color. If that's not racism and hypocrisy, I don't know what is.
I won't say it on devRant because I'm not anonymous, and I don't want some job to not hire me because of this stupid shit. I'm not afraid to admit it. Also, devRant is an american platform, so yeah.
If I came to the US of A, I wouldn't have been saying the n-word there, because when you're a guest, you gotta respect the rules of the house that hosts you. My problem with a certain one house is that this house thinks its borders end nowhere, so everyone must obey their rules wherever they live. Miss me with that shit.12 -
Week: 98 (Year 2 )
Last weekend of the month. How is it going to be for you?
Question: What's a line from a movie or TV show that you’ll never forget?
last Weekend : https://devrant.com/rants/189006024 -
Autocad is freaking expensive. Freecad is difficult to use and had weird quirks [eg how the hell do I close wall gaps created by removed windows?? How to position windows at fixed distance from a corner??]. Librecad seems to be the weakest of the three.
Soo.. Pencil, ruler and paper it is then, I guess2 -
Every time OpenAI updates ChatGPT they just mess things up. Like now, suddenly you can't hold the Ctrl-key without some overlay popping up - showing the shortcuts - that can't be configured! And there's no way to report bugs.2
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My boss is making me work on a "senior full-stack" contract he took (i am a junior frontend developer). Of course, they aren't supposed to know he isn't the one working, and I can't really talk in meetings, so I have to listen while texting him responses. What's more, he wants me to preempt what someone might say so I can give responses faster for his conversation to flow. Bruh.
I'm supposed to do this without exposing that I'm not a senior developer.
It's been 4 months, and I've been able to do the work so far, but I am severely burnt out.
I wake up every day hoping they at least find out he's not currently in the same continent as the company as he's required to be.
Never would have thought my 2nd year in tech would be like this.
Exp points, I guess.
FML4 -
imagine dying of a makeshift drone's strike, and, as you lay down in shock with your arms and legs blown off while rapidly losing blood, the drone's speaker says “Your killing was powered by DJI”.
turns out DJI handed drone purchasing discounts in exchange for “augmented” drone firmware that did this.1 -
Our HR person is "currently on leave", but it's not any kind of official time off according to our work calendar. I hope she's getting fired.19
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900 idle tabs on phone. Sync to laptop browser. Enormous file trees and indexing. 47 GB RAM used. I'm really pushing it. lmfao7