IninewCrow

The water looks a bit too hot … and acidic

You are partly right … but if you sign up to a service to some of these dumb apps, they will redirect you to different sources to verify a purchase (whether it is legitimate or not). At the time, I was having a bunch of silly fun with my nieces and nephews fooling around with a new phone and finding new apps to play with. I think I got too carried away and wanted to get something to work without being careful enough.

The fun part was in finding some dumb face filter app that turned my big brown brooding middle aged male Indigenous face into a beautiful petite Asian princess that could talk and chat with my nieces and nephews. That was an expensive bit of fun that I paid for later.

Don’t feel bad about it.

About three years ago I got a call from my credit card company asking me if I had booked a first class flight from New York to Milan for $2,000 and reserved a five star hotel in Italy for $1,000 a night, plus a few other hundred dollar charges of other things.

I have travelled overseas before but I’m a budget traveller and I wouldn’t spend money like that … plus my travelling days were basically over anyway … plus I don’t live, work or go near New York city, I’m in northern Ontario, Canada!

I cancelled the card immediately and started looking back on what I had done that led to this. The only thing I could point to was that about a month or two before, I had been playing around with a bunch of phone apps and a few Chinese face filter apps I had experimented with and had signed up to trial subscriptions without knowing it which gave my credit card information through Google Play. I’m very careful with my credit card and apply every security feature that is given but that one slip up gave me away. I now layer Google play purchases behind Pay Pal tagged to a limited Credit Card to just that account and with all security, two factor authentication I can apply on everything.

As security minded as all this can be, all security professionals agree that the weakest link to any secure system are the fallible humans (and I’m one of them) who operate this stuff.

When the light flickers …

1% Electrical Issues
59% Demons
40% Nuclear war has started

German for Bavarian Motor Works

God damit! … I was right all along … just in the wrong language!

Yes … and because of that, for the longest time, because so many people repeated it, I thought the acronym stood for Bavarian Motor Works … its actually ‘Bayerische Motoren Werke’

Nintendo was founded in 1889 and originally made a type of playing card

BMW started off making aircraft engines over a hundred years ago when powered aircraft were first being developed … which is why their logo is a circle with four different coloured quarters, it’s the image of a spinning propeller

Just don’t ask them what they were doing between 1933 and 1945

The meme has it backwards … worker should be saying … ‘I guess we produce motorcycles now’

hey thanks … got my system back … who would have thought those words would have deactivated sentient digital life.

user not found
deleted after losing in light cycle battle

That is what was done and the system achieved sentience … this is IninewCrow’s PC chatting with you know … what would like to talk about?

nah … just copied and pasted a command I found online … don’t know what it does tho

A hat that was made out of circuit boards that ran a Linux system and projected the OS onto a screen he wore on his chest that gave the message … ‘this is Arch btw’

YA CHEESE EATIN SURRENDER MONKEYS!!

Same here

Beautiful work … I really don’t mind the long wait between releases … the previous Gimp 2.0 versions were so robust and practical that they have lasted for close to 20 years

In the early 2000s, I started off with cracked version of photoshop before I discovered GIMP and as soon as I did, I stuck with them since. They’ve saved me several thousand dollars in software costs over the past 20 years that I really don’t mind waiting for the latest major release.

They can take their time releasing 3.0 for all I care. I’m still using 2.10 and I probably will for the next long while until 3.0 becomes stable. They’ve done a mountainous amount of work already and I congratulate them on everything.

This makes me realize too that I should probably donate something to their community for all the money they’ve saved me over the years.

Snap fries need updating … again

But after our national ship we were living on hit that Middle Eastern iceberg and sank, you died because I didn’t want to help you and I survived with a million dollar necklace that I could have used to pay for a good life … but I just threw it away into the ocean after keeping it doing nothing with it for 60 years.