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That moment when you are on terminal, you highlight text and press Ctrl+C, only to realize you have terminated a running job that was 90% complete.18
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Admin: "Wait, I noticed unusual traffic."
Me: "What is it?"
Admin: "Looks like we have a bot here."
Me: "A bot? Didn't know we are so popular."
Admin: "It makes constantly login requests through our API, it already surpassed 600.000! I will ban it right away."
Me: "wait, that just sounds like my bot.."
Admin: "DUDE, WTF? ARE YOU SERIOUS?"
When there is bug, you don't know of, it can end up quite embarrassing.9 -
When you sign up for anything online, put the websites name as your middle name. That way when you receive spam/advert emails, you will know who sold your info.6
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Goddamned, how I hate these fucking buzzfeed style blogs and websites!
"11.5 reasons why this blog won't contain a single sentence that isn't utter nonsense"
"7 ways to suck your dog off without waking it up"
"63726 ways to take a relaxing shit"
Seriously, how bored and mentally challenged do you have to be in order to actually consume and enjoy this fucking bullshit? And who writes these useless, annoying, search result clobbering brain dumps? Why would you even click links with such idiotic titles, unless you are having a severe stroke while on crack or something, and don't know what the fuck you're doing?
Dumb three-word sentences that are just as stupid as they are stupifying, loosely combined to form a so-called 'article' that's again subdivided into more single pages than the arbitrary number in its title says it had parts. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo!
I already see you answering: „well, don't read it, then!“ – and of course, what a great idea, indeed I wouldn't even point my rosy arse at it – if it were only possible. Whenever I do a simple Google search for anything that is of a remotely general interest, I'm being thrown „17 reasons why greasing your shlong with pork fat is totally healthy“ at me.
Yeah, yeah, feed the idiot reader with spammy ads, except, I am not an idiot reader, or at least I'm not THAT stupid. Google knows my middle-stream morning piss nuances better than I know what I had for breakfast today, but it still throws these at me? I never ever even clicked or opened these on purpose. WHAT THE FUCK!
Whoever thinks of this idiotic fuckign shit, line them all up, and shoot'em in the fucking head. Since their heads are fucking empty already, a single bullet should suffice.23 -
Fuck off with your shit ass semicolon jokes. You searched for semicolon for 4days? Fucking retard with a sack of balls instead of eyes can understand that he's missing a semicolon in matter of seconds. It's going to be 2018 soon. Get a fucking IDE that says that you are missing a fucking semicolon. The error literally fucking says "; expected at the end of expression". Ugh...? I wonder what that means... Maybe something is wrong with my operating system or my PC. Fuck off with that shit. Try debugging some systems that have 2files with 15k lines in each of them with 200fields and all of them strings both with empty default constructors. Semicolons... My ass..21
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This just happened:
Boss: "Hey I can't send this mail, can you take a look?"
Le Me: *looking at the logs*
Le Me: "Your mail gets a spamscore of 2007.69 of max 2000. There is a virus in your mail."
Boss: "oh."
And it was a mail which he received from somebody and wanted to forward....7 -
You motherfucking turd nibblers! If you have to fucking spam me after I explicitly checked that I DON'T FUCKING WANT YOUR BORING ASS, ANNOYING SHIT NEWSLETTER, at least put a goddam functioning, well-visible ubsubscribe link in your spam mail, so I can unsubscribe, mark your shit as spam and try to hack you cunts properly!
FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU, FUCK YOU AND I HOPE YOU DIE IN A HOTEL FIRE WHILE OF AUTO-EROTICALLY ASPHYXIATING YOURSELF, YOU FUCKUNG WORTHLESS SUBHUMAN SPAM WHORES!
Email, ads and spam are the fucking arsehole cancer of the web.13 -
So, if Steam, a massive company, uses the <br> tag 797 times repressively it must be the best way of adding spaces.... Right?
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When it's been 4seconds since you posted a question on Stack Overflow and no one has answered it yet.
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I. Am. So. Fucking. Sick. Of. Spam.
And I'm not even talking about the kind of spam, where some alleged prince has to colect money for his nephews circumcision or whatever, but the corporate spam you get 'for free' all the time, even though you explicitly chose you DON'T want to be 'informed' about 'blah, blah, blah, buy our shit!'.
You cannot register ANYWHERE ANY MORE without receiving assloads of useless ads labelled as 'info mails' by the end of the same godammn week.
When I register an account at your online service, homepage, etc. and I explicitly uncheck 'Please send me bullshit offers thrice a day until I die, and when I die harass my relatives with email spam until they die. Repeat.' (that's what the checkbox text should say, and it shouldn't be uncheckable, because you're going to do it anyway) I DON'T want your fucking info mails about unimportant shit I don't give a flying rat's ass in sauce béarnaise about, mail ads, and other bullshit. I just don't, you fucking frauds and liars.
Sending mail under the pretence of having been written by 'Corey' or 'Scott' doesn't make it any better. I'm not going to look forward to mails from 'Corey' because of many reasons:
1. Even if he is real, I don't know that fucking idiot and I don't want to get to know him.
2. 'Corey' himself and whatever he represents can get hit by a bus and die in agony for all I care, even if he does exist and was nice (or stupid) enough to take the blame for you disregarding my choices.
The only sensible and right thing for you to do is only sending new users security related email per default and nicely point them to where they can change the settings to receive your info-labelled bullshit. Nobody wants your fucking spam, nobody even reads it, and if you're sending it to them anyway, why THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVEN ASK IN THE FIRST PLACE? It just makes you look even more line the buxh of liars you are!
It's annoying and frustrating, because the only thing I can do is report every mail I didn't allow or ask for as spam and TRY to unsubscribe, unsubscribe, unsubscribe, because the unsubscribe links in your FUCKING spam mails are dead; or your shitty options pages have settings for mails strewn all over the place, so you get away with spamming them as long as possible. Particularly you, Google, FUCK YOU!
Whenever I have to 'unsubscribe' because you disregard my choice NOT to receive your shitty spam, I will cease using your service altogether, delete my account, if possible, tell everybody that your service sucks ass and tweet about you being fucking criminal spammers, because you are. And that doesn't even feel good, it doesn't feel like revenge, because it doesn't hurt you enough.
To everybody who makes these decisions or implements them for these frauds: I fucking hate you! Fuck you and die in a fire!13 -
-Registers on a site to use the product
-Opens email
"Our weekly news digest"
"Our daily news digest"
"You haven't used our products for 15 minutes. We miss you"
"Would you recommend our products to a friend"
"If you like this, you'll LOVE this"
"Here's a promo code for something you don't need"
"You've unsubscribed. Was it really you?"
"You've unsubscribed. Was it really you?"
"You've unsubscribed. Was it really you?"
"You've unsubscribed. Was it really you?"
FUCK OFF YOU ANNOYING CUNTS15 -
I got a spam email from Adobe. I tried to unsubscribe from all their lists. When I clicked submit it went to a 404. Good job, Adobe4
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Even though I'm a web developer I work in a very small IT department, which includes just me and my colleague.
Yesterday we got a pretty usual request. Someone forgot the password to an excel file. We already started a brute force attack, but we had some fun going through the worst passwords we ever stubbled over in our carrier.
He was like:"Maybe it's just his name?"
Me: "Oooh or maybe it's just the brand and 123?"
We laughed a lot. Not really considering we could crack this "important" file.
But it really worked out. The password was the brand of the business unit and "2017".
I've sent everthing back to the user, telling him exactly how we cracked it... His answer was:"Oh yeah! I knew it was something easy, so me and x could remember it easily!"
...
Why do you forgive easy passwords anyway? If I can crack it within 5 minutes... Everyone can! ...
And if you do it to "remember it easily"? Why the fuck don't you remember it?4 -
When the school network blocks social media and I over hear some young scrubs...
Scrub1 - "Yeah I use 3 VPN's"
Scrub2 - "Really I only use one"
Scrub1 - "Get some more dude"
I walk over and ask what VPN stands for and one slowly says "Virus Protection umm ahh...... Network"7 -
Fuck the media. The average persons view of programming...
010100010100
010100001101
010111110101
101010101111
"So what does the code mean?"
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Unsubscribed from Udemy newsletter after receiving too many emails -----> received an email to inform me that I unsubscribed.
WTF UDEMY
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Not checked my mail box since Thanks Giving, just opened my mail box to find 1600+ of these black friday promotion mother fuckers.
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I hate it when I click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email (which is in fact hidden by making the text color slightly darker/lighter than the background of the email ) and it takes me to some freaking website where I have to like summon a demon and sacrifice a virgin to unsubscribe from their emailing list and they send me another email saying I have successfully unsubscribe and if I want to resubscribe again and with you guest it another unsubscribe button at the end of that email .....7
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"Ref: Clark from InVision"
"Clark" can suck my throbbing, veiny cock while I hit the three-wheel motion on him.
Why the fuck can't you stinking, filthy, lying cunts just put a subject line up that is actually related to what this email is really about? I tell you why, because it's nothing else than a crappy ad in mail form.
Put "spam and eggs", "eggs and spam", "eggs with ham and spam" there I don't give a fuck, but spare me the fucking pseudo-intimacy by putting names of fucking people there I neither know or care about nor ever would, because they're most likely not even real. And if that actually works for other people, they are a bunch of fucking idiots altogether.
InVision is a buggy, ugly, expensive, annoying, confusing, mess, and should be renamed to ImpairedVision, anyway, so stick your thick heads back up your haemorrhoid-laden asses, where they belong, stop spamming me and then fucking piss off!7 -
When you wait for a specific email and exactly on THAT ONE day you get one mail after each other but not the one you're waiting for. Wtf. 😐7
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*Deletes system32*
Omg why it's not working anymore? Holy shit windows suck. I didn't even do anything and it stopped working. Fucking useless OS.
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
Oh it's understandable it's not working anymore, I fucked it up myself.14 -
Meanwhile at HTC:
Dev: Just gonna tweak this function to make our keyboard faster!
Dev: ha! Done, users will love this update
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Whoever keeps sending me emails begging me to send them '100 rupees to flee from the island' is an utter berk. And a thoroughly annoying one at that.
Even if this wasn't complete and obvious bullshit – flee? From where? And what currency is that supposed to be exactly? Indonesian rupees? Indian rupees? Pakistani rupees? …
The only things I'd send them would be a leaky rubber boat or a mail bomb.
At least make a fucking effort, and until then: get fucked.14 -
Get a gift via your Amazon wishlist - Enjoy 3 product information mails from Amazon everyday, often about the exact same products.8
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I once had to literally hack a Joomla 1.5.x site for a client, because they did not find the passwords (hosting, cms, ftp, mysql). After 5 minutes and a SQL injection I was in like flynn.
The site was already full of hidden links to viagra sellers and stuff... 😂1 -
When your school assignment is to analyze a chosen website and you decide do go above and beyond, testing the sites security but after one SQL injection you get IP Banned.
GG.11 -
When your client thinks they will get a quicker response by emailing you the same email to multiple addresses, they don't know I have a filter that sends them straight to the shithead folder skipping the inbox! Bye bye problem.
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'help us to improve our service by making this idiotic survey which will be analyzed by our brainless monkeys'
What about fuck a toaster?6 -
I'm freelancing and there was a guy who needed help with JavaFX. He gave me code only to his view class so I don't steal the rest... It was around 5k lines and it was full of compilation errors because of missing classes. While checking the code I realised something is really wrong with his model classes. So I asked maybe he could send me this one model class that was suspicious. So he did and it was around 10k lines long and had around 200 fields... ALL OF THEM FUCKING STRINGS except 3. You know what the rest of 3 were? 2 Lists of strings and a boolean... It was his "main" model class, he was using it for everything. It had setters for all fields and empty default constructor, so he would just instantiate the object and would set the fields that he wanted to use. Need new functionality? Just add 5more String fields and set them!2
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A message to all recruiters who think it's ok to pester my inbox with 'amazing job opportunities':
Could you care to read my profile before sending me an unsolicited, incorrect and absolutely unwanted email?
No, I surely do not think i could develop a single page application. Why would I? Obviously it's a job for someone with a degree in molecular-rocket-straight-up-to-valhalla-science. And how the fuck did you get the idea that i work for a company of which i hadn't even heard of? I'm seriously impressed. The amount of typos in said email is also quite impressive - couldn't wait to work with someone who does a half-assed job in recruiting.
Sincerely,
fuck off.3 -
o2 is the shittiest, most useless mobile provider in Germany. Ever since I had to change over from BASE I never had more than three bars ANYWHERE O went to in Germany. How the FUCK can one big ass company swallow a smaller one that fucking works perfectly and still provide a shittier experience afterwards?
You fucking worthless, overpriced, lazy assholes – make your goddamn network coverage be worth the money I have to blow into your lazy asses every month! Stop sending me your fucking lying bullshit spam and eat a fat, stinking, sticky, old, wrinkly cock!18 -
Some motherfucker leaked my e-mail address and now I am receiving some interesting spams.
Have a laugh.
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So ... Facebook somehow found out I used a 'fake' rear name and forced me to switch it back ...
So now they can again sell my data, and I am again haunted by stupid ads I don't want ...
Fucking Zuckerberg!!!!56 -
Smashing magazine is full of shit too, lately. I didn't know about the super secret debugger every fucking developer knows, eh?
Go fuck yourselves with a cactus wrapped in poison ivy, you click-bait scribbling, sensationalist cocksuckers.
https://smashingmagazine.com/2018/...4 -
Anyone ever wondered what would happen if you tried to put more than 26 (numbers in alphabet) drives into windows?9
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Protip - when a user unsubscribes from your mailing list that they never signed up to, DON'T SEND THEM ANOTHER FUCKING EMAIL CONFIRMING THE ACTION - DO IT ON THE UNSUBSCRIBE PAGE.
This is the FOURTH (4th) time I've unsubscribed from this bastard list, made a bunch of formal complaints about it and yet I keep getting their emails.
Probably shouldn't have bothered hiding the names, Flooding their inboxes would have taught them a nice lesson about unsolicited emails.
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Why are Job interview tests so reliant on knowledge of the language's functions!
I dabble in a few languages and I don't bother learning all the basic functions of by heart...
Eg: len(str), str.length, str.Length, strlen(str)
why... because they are literally a 5 second Google. Unfortunately for us, this quick search isn't possible and I think it should be.
Another example of bad interviews is a coder with 37 years experience but was unable to get a job at Google (link: http://gwan.com/blog/20160405.html)
He was asked strict questions by someone who didn't know much about computers let alone programming. Unfortunately, since the interviewer wanted exact answers, the coder was unable to complete the interview. He answered all the questions validly and with depth but this was not written down on the interviewers sheet.
Do employers want people that have a good and broad knowledge of their field or people that know what they want them to know. It's getting ridiculous.9 -
I got my job because I've been myself. As soon as I laughed with the interviewers I knew I got it.
They choose you for a interview out of all the other CVs because they hope you know your stuff. Proof it! And most important - show your character. Don't be a blank paper! Make fun with them. Or at least leave some kind of positiv impression.
The funny part:
I applied for jobs in Austria while doing my Bachelor degree in the UK. Over Skype they had no idea I was wearing sweatpants.1 -
Just got this spam email, does anyone know what kind of "personal reason" she actually got in github?
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Want a free shirt? 👕
Make 4 Pull Requests on Github this month after signing up and you will get yet another shirt for your closet!
Find out more: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/...
(Heard about via a friend)25 -
When a random recruiter texts you an irrelevant job posting instead of spamming your voicemail or email like they usually do...6
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Microsoft: When you are a huge company with nearly limitless resources, a whole AI and ML army, yet you cannot filter uservoice feedbacks.
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"Never touch a running system". I can't believe how many times I've seen this advice here. How the fuck are you supposes to upgrade, improve stuff? This is why stuff like WannaCry happens.8
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Boss: "Sooo.... How long will it take?"
Me: "Maybe we should agree on some processes and specify your wishes for the new feature first?"
Boss: "Yeah you're right.... But what do you think? Will you get it done til $deadline?"
...
Why am I even trying? Who needs project management anyway?4 -
Wow, I just realized the marketing teams of most of the companies I have been dealing with are some cold sociopaths.
Every other letter that pops in the mailbox is filled with dark patterns trying to guilt me into opting in to their continued spam:
Subject: Most awesome husky puppy!
Look at this beautiful husky puppy. Isn't it beautiful.... It would be sad if something happened to it... But I am afraid... Something will happen to it...
If you don't opt in to our email message... I am afraid we have no choice... We have to kill this puppy. End it's life... We have no choice. I wish we did! Nothing would please us more than keeping this beautiful-beautiful puppy living and playing....
But if you don't opt in... We have to cut it's throat. Leave it lying on the ground, bleeding out as the life slowly fades away from it's pretty blue eyes...
And Remember: it's not us who killed it... IT WAS YOU! YOUR ACTIONS LEAD TO THE DEATH OF THIS PUPPY! YOU.... YOU FILTHY MURDERER!
Pls opt-in ok, then we are all good. Puppy lives! Just opt in. Ok? Yeah, you know what you have to do.4 -
Fuck!
I was on this online site yesterday and I saw they had rules such as no swearing, posting links, etc. I decided to post links and it worked to my surprise. I see the admin tells me off but I ask why they don't just add a system to stop it.
He/She says "Systems controlled by humans are more accurate than machine" 😕5 -
Today, a friend decided to spam my phone with "haha" messages. To do this (bad) joke, he used an app he developped to send me automatically 10 times the same message... but his app has a bug, I already received 50 "haha" and it's not finished... my phone is dying and I hate my friend!4
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I hate those apps that want you to create an account. What for? Oh right, those 0 features that wouldn't work without it.
But the real reason is that you want my email to spam my inbox. Like, WTF is wrong with you? Tell your marketing 'experts' they can keep their crappy mails. The only reason people open welcome mails is to fucking unsubscribe.
You know this thing called notifications? Asshole.8 -
Recently I got an E-Mail from PayPal.de with the headline "Your account gets limited". Fun Fact: I don't have a PayPal account.
This Mail got me curious though, as it couldn't be a phishing mail, since I don't have a PayPal account in the first place, so I opened the e-mail just to get greeted by pure emptiness. It was completely empty. I thought to myself "oh no, is this some sort of new trick? Did I get infected by some sort of a weird hacky backdoor trojan already?!"
Name: PayPal.de
Original E-mail Address: NULL (never seen this before)
I then realized, that Thunderbird blocked the only content from this mail: a clickable image.
This is getting even more confusing the longer I examine this unique mail. The image is showing me a domain from a site completely unrelated from PayPal, so it was obviously no phishing, but I didn't trust this clickable image, so I looked up its hidden link to find an even more confusing redirection to not a picture upload site like the image suggests, but to a game key reselling site instead, like wtf? What was the whole point of this whole e-mail? Was this a weird try to make advertisements for more than one website? It wasn't even a ref-link or something like that. It was just weird, iunno.
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Does anyone else type slow for a dev and it makes them fell SOO guilty inside, you've tried to learn touch typing but stopped after a few days and get very depressed about how it may effect your future job. You attempt to count the relentless hours you've sat at your computer but still, you type like a snail. Suicide is becoming an option and you think to yourself is it the keyboard? You purchase a brand new keyboard but your still sluggish. Well, step into my shoes. 😢27
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I've just about had enough with my fucking mobile provider, now.
A few months ago my internet provider changed, better say, I was transferred to a different one, because the new one had apparently acquired the old one. I am now stuck with o2 (Germany) for at least another six months.
And, boy, do they suck donkey scrotum!
Their network coverage is absolute and utter shit – I am living and working in Berlin, so there is no excuse for the bad coverage, tgey are a major mobile provider.
After I was transferred, they spammed me via SMS every day for a whole week with a shitty offer, something about a higher mobile data limit, that I couldn't have used, anyway, because I hardly had any connection to use it properly in the first place, so thanks for nothing, o2, you fucking conglomerate of the dumbest blockheads thousandfold incest could come up with in a hundred years.
But not only that, they still spam me at least five times a week, via SMS and email. I've "unsubscribed" from their fucking newsletter (read: SPAM) at least six times withing the last two months and I am still spammed into oblivion by these fucking criminal asshats.
The most annoying thing about that is not that "unsubscribing" doesn't even work, it's that they tell you it allegedly takes a week until it takes effect. Even if I had a nice breakfast of industrial glue sniffing ou of a bag every morning to go with a nice pipe of crack, I wouldn't believe that it could take these worthless fucks a whole goddamn week to delete me from a mailing queue I NEVER EVEN ASKED TO BE ADDED TO IN THE FIRST PLACE! GODAMN MOTHERFUCK!!!
At least they act quickly whenever I unsubscribe in sending me a mail which essentially asks me to resubscribe to the fucking newsletter I never subscribed to and just unsubscribed to.
o2, I hope you fucking go bankrupt, better today than tomorrow. I hate every motherfucking bit of you. DIE!
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SELECT * FROM people WHERE job = 'programmer' AND relationship = 'true' AND age < 30;
Error: 0 results found6 -
Really thought Facebook changed the messenger icon. This smells of spam and paid reviews. I thought Google was working on trying to combat obvious name conflicts and spam.
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I think when downvoting, "offensive/spam" should be split into two different options
Spam isn't always offensive, and offensive posts aren't always spam3 -
We are not friends, Alexa and Clark. I don't even want to be your friend, I just used your services a long time ago. I don't fucking care who's the name of the one sending me spam, because, as I don't remember asking you to send me e-mails, your are just sending me spam.
Seriously, who's the genius who thought, one day, "Hey, let's have some avatar to make our customers think they are friends with it ! That'll surely send some good ol' dopamine far up their tiny brains."
If you send me an e-mail and you are a company, wether it's solicited or not, send it in your name, don't try to blame your poor fake employee.
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TL;DR
This works: email+rant@domain.com
Spam filtering protip:
Did you know that the email spec allows you to use youremail+something@domain.com and the emails still come to you. This is especially useful when registering to a lot of places where you are not sure whether they will spam you or not. Filtering will be easy because you have a unique email address for each service. Also you can find out which service leaked your email address to spammers.
Additionally if you want to register to a service with two accounts but still want to use the same email, you can do this easily by adding +whatever in your email address.6 -
Please stop doing this! Here I thought I wrote something people liked, and you're just here spamming and shizz
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Machine translations + ads = ❤️... The dialog says: "You have to update your Android rocket launcher or your phone will be locked in one day."
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Fucking shit fuck.
I got off work, ranted with the wk rant... and forgot about it.
Typed out a -1000 character ish rant about the fuck of a dependency manglement situation I got myself into in node today. Pure artwork I swear.
>you can’t be posting rants within 2h of the last one.
>okay, that’s fine, I’ll park it and wait.
Switch app out to messenger to chat to my booty.
Switch back, check it’s still there... fucking empty new rant screen 😞
I know iOS have updated their app backgrounding... maybe that was the problem.
Or it’s just user error. FUCK!
I ain’t typing it again. That masterpiece of a rant is gone to the ether.11 -
ok ok I'll move it to inbox Google, you lazy ass company can't you make your won mail service to it by it self -.-
Must admit, those spam emails are getting funnier by the day
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I am just fed up with spam messages on my Whatsapp/Facebook Wall/even Normal Messages. So from now on, I will be sending this to everyone who tries to spam me, even to those who are about to fucking press that send button to share "Send this to 4 people and image will change colour" shit. Save this image, might help you as well, let's fucking spam those spammers with this!
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When the company spamming is also the service provider but fails to gracefully handle requests on their service 😒
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Right so I have to subscribe for this website's spam to remove the already spammed inbox.
Fuck logic
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Interesting thing. Ya know how when turning on your phones hotspot it has to verify that you are in fact allowed to use a hotspot. Well if you have Unlimited Data like myself, hotspotting is not allowed. HOWEVER, if you spam the hotspot button, it after several tries, gives up and lets you hotspot. THIS IS MY LITTLE TRICK. NO BUG BOUNTY. BESIDES, youd need my carrier.12
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So sick of this shit.
It should be illegal.
I just want to get my stickers and never check the mailbox again.
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When you try fix someone elses computer problem for over an hour then they say "gimme a go", rebooting the system and the problem goes away like houdini...
bruh 😒2 -
Upgrading. We like to upgrade our stuff, whether it's software, operating systems or hardware. When it works its great but when it dosen't...
All my BAD experiences have been with upgrading.
One day I was using Jumla (a CMS) that controlled a big online clothing store. Noticing that Jumla was 0.01 versions behind I decided to 'upgrade'. This caused the entire site to break, maxed out the space on the server and eventually lost my job and that day the company supposably lost $10,000.
Today's f#ck up made me write this rant. Me and a friend own a local development company and we have a small Digital Ocean server for client website previews (before they get there own hosting). We have a few projects going at the moment and yesterday we sent a few links to clients so they could see there new website. This morning I woke up, read a few emails and ssh'd onto the server to read logs and what not. I got a bit side tracked, reading about the benefits of Ubuntu 17. You can already see where this is going... I innocently Google: "How to upgrade to Ubuntu 17". Surprisingly after running the commands and downloading the updates it was worked well. Everything was working. Then I restarted. I waited about 15 seconds and tried logging in again. Timeout after timeout. Something was wrong. I checked the console via the online Dashboard and see a page full of Kernal errors. I contacted the hosting people and they were able to help by referring to some guides but after 5 hours of cranking through errors and not winning I give up.
*Email from client*
Hello again,
The website you sent via link isn't working, can you fix this as I would like to show our CEO,
Thanks, Mike.
I destroy the droplet (server), making a new one. I have to setup and secure the server. Generating new SSH keys, new user accounts as well as installing AND configure Apache, PHP and MYSQL. I then had to upload 5gb of backups via SSH (not fast), go through each clients backup, including web files and databases and distributing where it needs to go.
Discovering that one of the DB's name changed last week and therefore our backup script failed to save it, we were forced to rewrite 10 pages of website content.
From 10 yesterday morning to 2 this morning, a total of 14 hours (I think) sitting in front of my computer trying to fix a problem that would have never occured if I didn't "upgrade"8 -
Universitys need to change how they handle experienced developers trying to get a degree.
To be honest, I'm 16 in Highschool and would class myself as a junior dev. I have been talking to the "Careers Councilor" and she claims I will have to pay the full amount for a cs degree although I probably won't attend 99% of the lectures in the first year.
I understand it would be incredibly hard to work out how a experienced person should pay in comparison to a newbie. Could it be based on the lectures you attend but then again it would make a degree less valuable.
In my country (New Zealand) the first year of University is free but will this be waisted?
I know I want to branch off into networking and maybe hardware so could I do that while the class learns Scratch, HTML, CSS and actually how to code?
I would love your opinions and if anyone knows some other options that would be great, thanks!13 -
Quite an aggressive remarketing strategy.. Caught my attention yes, but this crap all around the interwebs would eventually become irritating as hell..
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How to make those marketing staff of x service stop sending you an email when they don't have unsubscribe link:
1. Reply back asking about the free tier/plan
2. Profit!
2 days and no word from them after spamming me daily about the service3 -
By:Miss. Lucia Wright
Punchline : VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE MY DEAR
Dearest Friend,
My greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am sister Lucia Wright I am married to Archdeacon. Collins Wright whom until his death served as an archdeacon in the St. Micheal's archdeacon in Ivory Coast for nine years before he died in the year 2005. We were married for eleven years without a child. My Husband died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.
Before his death we were both born again Christian. After the death of my Husband I decided not to re-marry or get a child outside my matrimonial home which the Bible is against. When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of $22. Million in a security and finance company in London for safe keeping.
Presently, my Doctor confirmed to me that I have serious sickness which is cancer problem. The one that disturbs me most is my stroke sickness. Haven known my condition I decided to donate this fund to a church or individual that will utilize this money the way I am going to instruct herein. I want a church that will use this fund for orphanages,helping the widows, propagating the word of God and to endeavor that the house of God is maintained. The Bible made us to understand that? Blessed is the hand that giveth'. I took this decision because I don't have any child that will inherit this money and my husband relatives are not Christians and I don't want my husband's efforts to be used by unbelievers. I don't want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly way,
this is why I am taking this decision.
I am not afraid of death hence I know where I am going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the Lord. Exodus 14 VS 14 says That? the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace'. I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my health hence the presence of my husband's relatives around me always. I don't want them to know about this development. With God all things are possible.
As soon as I receive your reply I will give you the contact of the security and finance were the amount sum is deposited for you to contact them, I want you and the church to always pray for me because the lord is my shepherd. My happiness is that I lived a life of a worthy Christian. Whoever that Wants to serve the Lord must serve him in spirit and Truth. Please always be prayerful all through your life.
Any delay in your reply will give me room in sourcing another church or individual for this same purpose. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I Stated herein. Hoping to receive your reply. Due to present condition of my health,I was warned by my doctor to avoid receiving or making any call. For that,I have submitted the information of the deposit to my lawyer, As soon as I hear from you I will forward to you the lawyer's contact.
Remain blessed in the Lord,
Miss. Lucia Wright.
Well ok... If you want me to, I can surely help you out 😈😈😈😈😈
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The unsubscribe link on the emails from whois.com redirects you to a fucking PDF with written instructions on how to unsubscribe...
Are you fucking kidding me?
I have to go on your website, login, go through 4 fucking sections in the settings to finally select "NO" in a radio button???
It should be illegal.
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Here's an advice to you guys:
Ever look at your mailbox and think it's so full of junk?
Archive all your current emails.
Then next time you get any spam emails take the time to unsubscribe or block the sender.
Trust me, life is so much better after you've got rid of those craps. And it's not that hard like it seems. In a week you'll probably get rid if 90% of those.3 -
I told my client that I'm attending a conference and I'm out for few days.
He wished me well.
He then proceeded to write me messages and emails each day to "make sure" if I didn't work on his shitty website.
I can't do it anymore I'd love to finish this and ditch him asap...2 -
!dev
I hate being a dick as much as the next guy, but damnit I hate spam even more!
And I can't think of a worse kind of spam than religious propaganda sent by your own family members when they already know you ain't religious, heck they even tried to kick me out of the house when I lived with them.
"...send this to 8 more people you wish a day full of blessings"
"YouTube - 10 ways to meditate with Jesus"
"How Stephen Hawkins proves God"
I've had enough, WhatsApp isn't for people to evangelize or send 3000+ characters of copy pasted, mass produced, soul-less "good wishes"; that's why from now on I'm bringing the fight to them, for every spammy text/video/image I get I'll double down and send 10 opposing spam videos or messages.
I just replied a "The most beautiful thoughts, talking to God" video with the monologue of George Carlin on religion and God.
Am I being a dick? kinda
Could I just ask them to stop? I find this more amusing and spares me the "you don't want me to 'talk' to you" shit8 -
My job. Working in a small IT department. Web programming most of the day and being able to help people with their phones, software, internet connection, and so on...
The only thing I sometimes wished for were some other devs in my company that would understand me and my problems and with whom I could discuss new technologies.
But now I got devrant. I'll be fine from now on.1 -
Why on earth do sign up forms give you the option to opt OUT of email newsletters if they're going to send the bloody emails anyway?2
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Now this has take my faith away from any email I receive... Fuck that shit, Suggest me ideas to reverse spam them.
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Boss at the start of a new project: "We could hire an intern to gatter some data in an excel list... You can easily implement that in the application later - right? So can you get us a excel list to fill out? "
No... Just no...
You tell me what you wanna see and how you wanna interact with the application!
In the process we will figure out which data is necessary, I will build some tables in the database for that data and then, !!! not a second sooner !!! , I'll be able to give you an suitable excel list, which includes a complete list of columns for the necessary data in a form I can work with it.
It's not my job to know what data a application needs to make YOUR JOB easier! I'm not a magician! I just love programming stuff!3 -
I've never been in the work place environment of a development company. What happens when there is a bug no one can solve, do you all huddle together and cry?6
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I've became so accustomed to deleting spam from my spam folder that I am disappointed when I check it and see no emails ;(1
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I don't get much spam, but when I do, I rant about how badly those mails are crafted.
I mean, yeah, for non-devs or typical old people, those badly made Google fake mails (that use the old Google logo, the logo in Times New Roman or something) or ISP / phone company mails with malicious attachments may look good enough.
But, seriously, if I were a dev paid to create spam mails, they would look like the real deal, if I may say so myself, as I would actually put some effort in them.
What do you think? Wouldn't spam made by real developers like us be "better"?
Maybe send some examples from inside your junk box 🤔3 -
WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT DO YOU WANT FROM ME??! I LITERALLY GET SPAM MAILS EVERY 5 MINUTES (i know I know, some of you get more than that) ABOUT BITCOIN. I NEVER DID ANYTHING FUCKING RELATED TO CRYPTO CURRENCY! HOW DO YOU KNOW MY EMAIL?? LIKE WTF. I'm sitting here doing my stuff and every few minutes my phone starts ringing and I'm like "hey maybe person x answered or something else important happened" but when I actually look at it to see whats up it's just a fucking email about bitcoin being outdated and it tells me to maybe invest into other crypto currencies. After actually reading one of the spam mails because I was interested in what they actually want from me I had to find out that they do not even mention any other currency or website. WTF INTERNET?? WHAT DO YOU WANT?6
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Uber is sending me a verification code every 5 minutes. I don't even have their app anymore.
Please someone tell them to stop, I feel attacked.3 -
No, I'm not interested in your credit card offer 😬
I need a spam filter for my mailbox like my email 👻 -
So CyberCoders automatically added me to a mailing list and kept emailing me spam about resumes of developers. Not being in a recruitment position, I decided to "opt out".
I had to fucking prove I'm human... to opt out of an email some machine added me to.
Allow me to add a poorly done image to express my feelings on this matter.
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So I work at a digital agency and the second my manager heard Twitter had upped its character limit he started planning out all the new hashtags and emojis he’s going to include to max out the limit.
Please Twitter, stop.1 -
If(DateRightNow == 16/07/2018)
{
Age++;
LifeTime--;
}
Else
{
NoRealizationThatEverydayLifeTimeDecreses;
}18 -
My mates and I all like computers and the teachers know this. My friends mainly game and have little knowledge of programing but like to pretend they do (green text terminals, etc).
The teachers always ask what we are hacking jokingly and we usually just laugh. Today I'd had enough with the dry jokes and when one of the teachers asked "what are you hacking today" I told her the truth...
'Last night I was able to bruteforce your school login, simple password which is cute, as expected, you reused that password despite the warnings and I used that to login to your Facebook and check your private messages, I suggest getting a better password Miss'.11 -
Those fcking newsletter unregister links which requires you to log in!
Gaaaaaaah! Following the path of least resistance, it’s easier to just keep deleting the emails 😂2 -
I'm so pissed off at twitter REST API. On their site is a example: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/... but it doesn't work, Volley always returned 404, and guess what I tried. I changed the order of screen name and count to this: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/... and it works. I don't even. I sat there pulling my hair out for 2 hours just for this, fuck.
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Fucking spam
Useless pieces of shit
Targeting my dad, fools, he has me 🤡
I'm gonna flood you with fake emails and passwords
So much that you will stop spamming and then I'll continue a little bit, just to be safe
Fucking bastards1 -
When your trying to flash a rom to your phone but its 11:04 and you have an important exam tomorrow 😲3
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When I say Unsubscribe, I mean Unsubscribe you stupid annoying spammer, I don't care anymore about your shit
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FUCK SPAM !
If you are like me and register to many services online and get spammed with spam (duh) and want to know which services is selling your data , you can register with an email like this :
let's say your email is johndoe@gmail.com
and want to register to Service you can put johndoe+service@gmail.com and mails will still reach johndoe@gmail.com but appear as To : johndoe+service@gmail.com so then you can rant about how Service is selling your data.
credits to reddit.3 -
When you get the big enter button & can't stop slamming your fist on it.
So I'm a junior candidate & keep getting senior , way senior job reqs. There's no way you can put job preferences on Dice so I had to put "Jr/Entry Level only" at the end my name lol & still keep getting these.
I think they don't even look at your resume. Just blast out emails hoping they get something.
Its like shooting a rifle in the sky all over & hoping you've hit the target.
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Anybody here know that shitty service called Birthday Reminder? Yeah? Fuck them.
Never signed up for the bullshit, but because some kiddo's I was in class with 10+ years ago (I think it started when i was ~12 yrs old) did, I keep on getting their spam. They have an unsubscribe button in their emails, directing me to a page that says I can only unsubscribe if I log in.
FUCK YOU.
I NEVER SIGNED UP FOR YOUR SHITTY SERVICE AND I REALLY DONT WANT TO DO NOW EITHER.
Ofc I emailed them politely to remove both my email addresses from their databases.
And they are politely ignoring me.
Fuck you.
PS yes I know I can mark them as spam, but I prefer just not receiving their shit at all. I have a very clean spam folder.6 -
"Ok, let's see what ffplay offers us ... "
* enters 'ffplay -h' into console *
holy...
freaking....
cow.......
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Please post a picture of your Dev/Gaming setups, really intested to know what setups most devs have, e.g laptop or desktop?
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Whatsapp REALLY needs a feature to silence the notifications for messages that are image only!
I'm now stuck having to communicate with a group for work so I had to un-silence it's notifications but I get sent 100+ memes and videos a day by EVERYONE else.
As much as I love them if I have to stop coding to check my phone only to find a fucking meme one more time I think I'm gonna snap...3 -
I'm currently trying out Apache Cordova. Feels like playing minesweeper for the first time.
But as always a debugger rushes to rescue me:
Ripple :: Environment Warming Up (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.)
Yes, I'm gonna make me a cup of tea now.1 -
Twitter spamming information making you think what you're learning is useless, I'm just trying to learn and get a job 😩
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Just made some backup software with python to backup folders to Google Drive. I found all other backup solutions were paid or had to be uploaded to their servers, not to any free cloud storage like OneDrive. I also wanted it to be automated and run on a set schedule. I just need to make a GUI and add support for OneDrive and Dropbox!11
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The moment when your a AV program hates you!
I send them angry emails a few days ago and now I saw this. Maybe the emails are the reason why? 😂
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What's up with giving away +1's for anything and everything? I thought this was a place for cranky developers. I expected developers over here to be mean and bullies.7
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Opening a million tabs on Chrome, inwardly saying, 'I'll get back to you later' after briefly reading the first few paragraphs
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I've built up such a reflex to closing ads that when something actually important or useful pops up I immediately close it and am left wondering what I missed...
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Bit of advice people, ALWAYS pay for the privacy option when registering a domain, I bought this yesterday, I have already emptied my spam box, and yet still they somehow get through
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Dear online services, shops etc.
I already use your service. You have no need to advertise it to me, and I know I opted out of that. Any reminder that I'm missing out and should opt in to marketing, even if it's described as a service/operational message, will itself get reported as spam. Because it explicitly is, by its own confession. -
Gmail > create new rule > Subject contains "Privacy Policy" > move to [Privacy Policy BS]
Hooray! I was going fucking mental from the daily Privacy Policy e-mails. Computaas help us. -
God Damn Privacy Regulations
Changes to our privacy policy
We've updated it privacy policy
New terms of service for your account
GDPR
Sigh...if i we're EU citizen it would be for the best, except for those businesses that can't bother to update but I'm not even EU.
Email filter activated!2 -
When your phones max charge becomes 69 percent after two years and you then find this code...
public void onPhoneDrop(Event e){
battery.percent --;
}2 -
Few hours ago I unsubscribed to an unwanted newsletter & just few minutes back I received another one from them saying Good Bye from us. 😑2
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My colleague is actually on vacation... But nevertheless he is kind of working from home...
He is forwarding me emails that I think he wants me to answer / take care about just to realize he already did everything...
People constantly come to me with problems they just discussed with him and think that I know about it.
No I don't!
Am I the only person not calling or emailing my colleague? He is on vacation! God damnit...
I hate humans...1 -
I really do love my job but after 2 liters of green tea and one aspirin I'm still tired and my headache is coming back
...
This can't be a healthy relationship...9 -
I met @miau in England at University, through the only course we shared, Games for the Internet. I really wanted to be her friend because I thought she was pretty cool.
@miau looks incredibly confident. She has humor, imagination and is a really talented programmer.
She, on the other hand, did not want to have anything to do with other German-speaking students to improve her English skills and learn as much about England as possible.
Fortunately, I can be very stubborn. I helped her with her programming tasks whenever she let me and told her what our professor values. A few tests and beers later we were friends.3 -
Client:' I think that one email account is sending some spam emails. Can you make some checks?'
Server:'Queued emails:730511...please kill me'3 -
Ok... I thought I've seen every kind of shitty way to unsubscribe from a newsletter, but this one beats them all... I have to write a fucking email with a request not to receive emails...
There is a fucking useless law for cookies, why there isn't a law that force companies to put a one-click link to unsubscribe on emails?
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I need help!
I have recently scraped ALOT of news article data and formated for training data. This adds up to 5.6gb. Where can I upload this for people to access as I think it's quite useful. I have tried GitHub LFS ( Large File Storage ) but topped out account at 1gb. Also I don't really want to pay for hosting.2 -
All results for GDPR on my "spam mail adress" (NO results for DSGVO!) ... seems like GDPR doesnt apply for spam :D but this email is also registered to sooo many services and websites... i think the search is broken :|
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Again got an email(pseudospam) from a service I subscribed to (yes I did). It says the email is from CEO and it's supposed to be X-mas wish + invitation to their youtube channel. It was, kind of...
But the words they (or he, but I hope not) used in the email! It was so obviously blank, such uninteresting-president-speech. It was even targeted as a spam by gmail. In a foreign lang.
I mean... if you want to reach to your customers, sit on your ass and imagine _yourself_ reading an email that's long, its point was lost somewhere in the fourth sentence and magically appeared at the end + even default mail filter targets it as a spam.
That's what you get from a service. Motivational crap and blank words. Many thanks, I haven't heard a lot of those lately, eh?! -
Is it just me or did Outlook decide my antispam is no longer needed. All of the sudden it looks like I turned off my ad-blocker on BuzzFeed. I'm now getting a lot of spam from the stupidest things.
I kid you not.
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Was the devRant algorithm updated recently? I keep getting the same rants over and over. I don't think I've been on devRant that much lately to see all rants.5
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Has anyone ever bought a domain and left your info public?
It amazes me that these spammers can't even make their emails read well or professional ah oll
Like "Google top page)"
Did you really not see that parentheses there?3 -
What are the thoughts of privacy conscious people about quantum computers? As far as I understand current TLS version encryption method is vulnerable to quantum computers, thus if your ISP or other agencies store all your traffic data right now, they'll be able to decrypt it after gaining access to quantum computers.
One way to secure your privacy would be to use your own VPN that uses encryption method that is quantum-resistant, but again the VPN would be using TLS to connect to the Internet.7 -
Co worker asks, why he can't send e-mails to a particular address. others cant't either
Turns out that the other company has blocked us.
*We are no spam senders, it was an issue they had with our company before* -
Hey ... Is it possible to figure out the clients path (f.e. C:\Users\...) to a file he uploaded to a website on the server side?
My boss thinks it could be done and wants me to programm it. But I think we'd need a zero day vulnerability in a specific (and probably very old) browser to do something like that... That would be a huge security issue...
Wouldn't it?
What do you think?14 -
Any disposable e-mail address service:
"FIGHT THE SPAM"
"THANK YOU FIGHTING THE SPAM"
"YOU DID GOOD BY FIGHTING SPAM"
The users of disposable e-mail address:
*creates another spam account*
*creates another multiaccount in order to exploit a system*
Companies actually fighting spam:
Now there is even more spam to fight against. (which is not good)
About 2/3 of the accounts created daily on our website are spam accounts. We have to waste our time with this shit instead of actually improving our services. Since we do not track IP-Addresses and there are countless amounts of disposable e-mail domains AND there is still the option to create countless spam e-mail addresses within legit e-mail providers, there is no easy way of stopping this madness.
"Fight the Spam", you could start by deleting your shitty service or at least give us a list of all the domains you're using, srsly. -
I'm halfway through season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire and I believe Cameron is my most hated movie character ever. That fcking manipulative useless piece of shit. Just fuck urself. Fcking garbage disposal wouldn't be able to dispose of ur bitch ass. I'm not sure if I can finish the season but it feels like she can't get any worse, wouldn't be surprised tho.
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Mesosphere sold every e-mail who registered with them to Tech Global Leads. Either that or Tech Global Leads stole a list of leaked e-mail addresses. In either case I unregistered/unsubscribed from Mesosphere and still got e-mails to those two specific accounts from Tech Global Leads with Mesosphere consulting soliciting. (So they keep e-mail information, even for accounts that unsubscribe).
TGL doesn't even have a website up. They're either amateurs or scammers. Either way, fuck you and your spam, both TGL and Mesosphere. Go die in a fire.1 -
https://support.live.com/ returns "Service Unavailable - DNS failure" but hotmail continues to list my servers as spammer...
how the fuck do I delist my server like this!!! FUCK!5 -
I am truly baffled. How in the world am I receiving 2-10 spam wordpress account registrations EVERY DAY for a website which I've never let be crawled by search engines yet? These mail.ru accounts keep coming and seemingly for no reason. Who the fuck wants to register so many accounts, and how the fuck did they find my site to begin with? 😲
These registration emails are seriously annoying now and the site now has hundreds of fake accounts on it...8 -
My fiancee looks at an insurance add on her account yesterday. This is my call log now. Yes that is 18 calls from the same company in 1 day.
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A lot of you here rant about devs being arogant or expecting you to think for a little bit with own head and then write a proper string that will help dev answer straightforward without guessing what the author smoked or so for which there's even a tutorial made (wasn't there always). But I don't see any rants about the other side of the coin.
Let's say you are a random dude, not even that arogant type. You see a question, no answers, everyone piss on that question because it's just a mess. Yet you find yourself in a good mood, so let's help the poor soul with th trouble. Answer like from a book for kids, fully explained example and...
No points, no accepted answer, but not even any feedback! Was my answer wrong? Did I miss something? How can I improve it? Was the example too complicated?
This is exactly the type of idiot that deserves a kick in the ass. It's no site, for hanging spam! Why the hell does that kind of idiot think there's even an option for own answer? People will come back to the question eventually and what will they found? An answer, which probably isn't even correct!
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Dear owner of websitex.com,
How do you expect your website to perform and increase sales with so many 404s, no meta titles and descriptions etc... (blah, blah, blah for a page)
Me: very glad to hear that, I took it down, deleted the files and let the domain name lapse 2 years ago... XXX -
When you've been waiting for your domain name to transfer over to AWS for a couple days, and you're wondering why it's taking so long so you check on Route 53 and it says "We sent an email to me@you.com and we're waiting for you to approve the transfer."
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I keep getting phone calls from what I assume are people in foreign countries using a VoIP service and my public info to get me to apply for jobs that probably don't exist.
I just wanna design/develop cool stuff for the rest of my life but this is aggravating 😑5 -
I keep getting texts from KappAhl and it's impossible to unsubscribe, hence their ads can only be classified as spam. There should be an AdBlocker for SMS.3
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Just got an "no-reply" email that wants me to click a link for customer satisfaction survey. No company name, no whatever, just plain text and the sender is "no-reply@nestor.com" Is there a way to find out where did they get my email?!5
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I think there is a seperate place for GDPR mails in spam!
Come on, even websites like Topcoder Hackerrank etc.. are sending it..1 -
When you have to block a email address from a website providing you a great way to have a payment form for your client because they didnt implement the unsubscribe and you get spammed at every test
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