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I am a glorified office administrator who understands server hardware why am I the only person in this company who gets what social engineering is?

“Social engineering” is a way too fancy word for what it is. I know a guy (not personally) who broke several people out of prison by essentially writing “Greetings, please release this person, signed, whoever the judge is” on a piece of paper and faxing it there. Because no one would have a fax machine in their own house I guess.

not to derail, but holy shit that praxis

I’ve had clerks just give out a whole ass SSN when I asked.

An inspection in 2014 found the password for the Louvre’s surveillance camera system was “louvre.”

Honestly fuck AI for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I’m some kind of protestant

He needs mouse bites to live

Getting into a KarAkciddent and splashing 3 cups of FükkenScälden all over myself

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

AND nobody is offering me drugs, smdh

a quirk of sexting while british is switching from arse to ass. i would never fuck someone in the arse. its impolite.

Moral ocd is so funny because like, deep down I think that I would be capable of solving the climate crisis single-handed if I was just a *better* person and worked a little harder. But then another part of me thinks that is the most fucked up narcissistic thing anyone’s ever thought and I should be ashamed. Both of these thoughts exist simultaneously and for some reason it means I’m not allowed to eat yogurt.

Unrestrained summer fun

You just can’t get this kinda shit on any other platform.

just learned americans have different standard paper sizes than everyone else. what do you MEAN you don’t have A4 as the standard. what do you mean your standard paper size isn’t even the same size as an A4. apparently it’s like. ’letter’ and ’legal’ and whatever else. help!!!

That has to be false. That's misinformation hold on

because the largest standard paper size is A0 which is exactly one square metre of paper with an aspect ratio of the square root of two. this gives us a nice simple measurement of area for the paper as well as allows us to do the halving/doubling magic. A1 is 0.5m², A2 is 0.25m² etc.

The halving/doubling magic that psychaun refers to is the fact that you can get each paper in the series by cutting the previous one in half. I fold some A4 paper in half, I have an A5 booklet. I tape two A4 pieces together along their long side, I have an A3 piece. Each piece of paper is half the area of the previous and half the width of the previous' length with a length the same as the previous' width. The aspect ratio is exactly the same for every size. This makes it very easy to resize things, fold things inside each other, and calculate the size of paper you've never used before based on its name. "I can resize this to fit any other paper size because the aspect ratio is identical," "I can fold a standard size in half to get the next standard size down" and "the area I'm working with can be multiplied up to fit into a metre squared without any messy fractions of leftover paper" are all far more practical considerations for a paper size than "the millimetre length of this paper size isn't a round number".

At my work a separate organisation uses software to send us board papers and other documents, and they changed to a new program. It took us a week to work out why all the papers looked fucked up if you printed them on A4- it was American and defaulted to the dumb paper sizes, and it hadn't occurred to anyone to check that because WHY THE FUCK.

Gen AI is nothing special I can also draw / write badly, help you with math inconsistently, answer you dubiously, and consume amounts of water you would think are physically impossible