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@hacks4pancakes It used to be that the only person who would call me on my landline was my grandmother. Similarly, now the only person who will email me is my mother.

@hacks4pancakes so fecking true, and this is why I refuse to register any new accounts!

@hacks4pancakes Very true. Emails = dread and repulsion for me now. Probably for a number of reasons, but this is one of them

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I've always just treated people as who they tell me they are.

But then I've been online since acoustic couplers & have built various personas online.

I firmly believe I could turn up on your doorstep with a takeout bag of ihop pancakes and get you to agree to help me hack the Gibson. (We'll just ignore the whole I have no idea where you live, where the nearest ihop is, there is no Gibson, & there is doubt that I am actually completely harmless)

@hacks4pancakes #iamEdToo

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... So you're Ed...? 🤔😶‍🌫️

@hacks4pancakes you mean people actually use it on purpose!?

I guess it might be the sort of thing that is maybe tempting to use in an enterprise environment if you haven't understood how it works and the resulting risks.

Fortunately I learned with "service provider mindset" as we acquired a SP network with some Cisco in it ~20 years ago and when I took the cisco press books on holiday to learn how to run my new network, the immediate determination on VTP was: "no, never that"

@hacks4pancakes oh yeah entirely this.

@hacks4pancakes VTP does not solve any problem any non cisco network has, but it sure does cause problems for cisco networks!

@hacks4pancakes so true, it’s setting the bar so high and saying “you shouldn’t even try”.

I subscribe to the mantra of “it’s about you, not the tool”, and the “best camera is the one that’s with you” and “you can make anything good even if it’s with humble ingredients”.

@hacks4pancakes Thank you. This. Absolutely this. All day. The investment hurdle has chased more good people out of music, and kept a lot of well-heeled dabblers entrenched in gatekeeping roles. Watched it for decades and it's disheartening.

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I'm at the stage where I walk away fast if someone tries to get me into their hobby.🤣

I've gotten gift certificates to classes in woodworking, and yoga.

And left the gifters deeply hurt when I said I wouldn't be pursuing them.

I refrain from recruiting people into playing tennis too.

@hacks4pancakes Video Proof…

@hacks4pancakes where can I find you conducting this test cause I'll come be a scientific observer to document the successes and failures... 😂

@hacks4pancakes thanks i will take that drink :)

@hacks4pancakes it may have not sparked joy on them (see what I did there?), but I giggled hard :fingerguns:

@hacks4pancakes I’m shocked ! the disrespect for a Dad joke is appalling.

@hacks4pancakes No that's a great one, they're probably just not very bright 😉

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I don't use ad blockers because I don't like advertising companies, I do it because I don't have any reason to trust them.

Suppose that you had a friend who claimed that they were a completely self-taught driver, had no driver's license and had still managed to be behind the wheel for several spectacular accidents within the last month. And suppose that they asked to borrow your car.

@hacks4pancakes its quite concerning how little online advertisers care about what content they are pushing

there are so many ads that are fake, malicious or otherwise not legal and apparently its not the companies job to police them before publishing?

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To be fair, unblocked ads do tend to secure a web browser, by soaking up so much bandwidth that nothing else, malicious or otherwise, can get through.

Let me add some screenshots to show you how to do these things. First, let me show you the notification and list options on my fabulous best pal's page: