colournoun

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[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Very similar to if you were to send a traditional paper letter in an envelope with a stamp, and put an incorrect return address on it. You could even make it look exactly like something the real company would have sent. There is no validation of the return address. If the recipient were to respond to the return address, it would expose the ruse. The scam is that the contents of the letter have further instructions that lead to the scam.

Another complication is that the From address in internet email contains an address part and a description part. The address part is what is actually used to route the email, and the description part can be anything, including something that looks like an email address that doesn’t match the one in the address part. Most email clients only show the description part and hide the address part.

For example:

From: “Bob Smith” <bob@example.com>

From: “robert@somewhere.com” <bob@example.com>

From: "Do not reply" <noreply@example.com>

From: “quickbooks@notification.intuit.com” <scam@attacker.com>

Edit: formatting

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

(Every Day Is) Halloween - Ministry https://youtu.be/mXtKicX5eDo

Halloween - Mastodon https://youtu.be/eCVn0mjvD3g

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[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

https://simplelogin.io/ (owned by Proton) is great for this. They have a feature to generate an email address by random word or even by uuid.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The pieces of refrigerators that have failed me in the last 15 years have been the plastic parts. A small improvement in plastic quality or engineering seems like it could double the life of the refrigerator. And of course a small plastic replacement part costs $50 or more.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

iOS has Lockdown Mode which it sounds like you could benefit from.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Do you find a beer gut sexy? How about Dad Bod?

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://hamstudy.org/ for US licenses.

Edit - they have a few other countries also.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

Also on iOS: Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I succeeded in doing this once long ago. Then while in the Linux vm I wiped the VM’s partition table, which wiped the physical disk partition table, including windows. Do not recommend.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

I like Grey Skies. It’s nice at 75% speed, too.

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Professional CMake: A Practical Guide by Craig Scott is an excellent guide to modern cmake usage. Well worth the $30 if you need to build, maintain, or modify a CMake project.

https://crascit.com/professional-cmake/

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Post the video!

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