Origin of the “if I had a nickel… Odd it happened twice” meme.

Also, while walking through a desert: “Why is it only a skull of a cow? Did the rest of the cow die somewhere else?”

Two em-dashes and emojis. I’m just sayin.

You shouldn’t’ve.

I wish that they’d had a startup screen that said “it’s now dangerous to turn off your computer”.

It’s a watering can’t.

A timely posting on another community.

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/post/37859429

Which came first, the chicken or the soup?

+R.

If you’d asked me, I’d have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.

I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.

All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.

I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!

A few years ago we were discussing how some companies were trying 4-day weeks and someone said that they’d like to try four 10-hour days instead of five 8-hour.

They could not imagine that it meant working fewer hours.

I’ve used bookshop.org which sells ebooks and has a reader, but you can nominate a local bookstore to get part of the profit.

No, I think that those are those ring things with a hole in them.

That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.

The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.

It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

It’s cool to have ID’d one of them, regardless.

My point was really how there was little to no verification on SMTP servers back then and that you could send mail with a simple terminal program, or, more practically, a script.

Not hacking, but using knowledge of the insecurity of SMTP servers of the time, to allow spoofing easy spoofing.

Not so easy to find SMTP servers to do that with now.

Not really hacking, but in the 90s you could usually just connect to a mail server and it would believe what you told it.

If you were careful you could just type an email directly: MAIL FROM, RCPT TO, etc.

I would write scripts at work to send spoof emails sometimes, you could put anything as the FROM address, like “info @ catfacts” or whatever.

Another “not really hacking” example is that when some companies first got an Internet connection, they would just allocate public IP addresses to everyone, no gateway or firewall. So you could browse any non-passworded smb shares just knowing the IP.

Oh yes, 3 does look like that! But 4 looks like the moomin.

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Baal-zebub: Baal is “lord” or “master”, zebub means “fly”.