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OK, so I got a phishing email so blatant that it must have been done by ChatGPT.
I only get one or two of these a week (my email goes through a mail washer), so I decided to see what it was. Using a "throw away" VM, I went to the site with: Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Vivaldi browsers.
Only Firefox blocked the site with a big red screen, and a Details button. Site was known to install software, etc.
I need to rethink my default browser.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Firefox is the only browser I truly trust, I sometimes use Brave only because its ad-block is finer - usually it does not get detected by anti Ad-block countermeasures.
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I get to ignore even more emails: "That was you? I thought it was (AI) spam ..."
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theoldfool wrote: I need to rethink my default browser.
The sad truth is, Mozilla will never have the money of Google as long as they don't also partake in the sneaky practices of Google. And less money means less adverts, company deals, etc.
To make it worse, Google is on top of adding new features to mix in with their spyware. So, the desire for Chrome is hard to ignore since most people will never take the time to learn anything about the software they're using.
But, FF is the better browser in terms of trust. They have no financial incentives to do anything other than just work on the browser. And, I say this as a dude who doesn't use FF. So, it's not bias talking.
Jeremy Falcon
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theoldfool wrote: Only Firefox blocked the site with a big red screen, and a Details button. Site was known to install software, etc.
So, using other browsers, did anything manage to actually get installed without your approval?
It's one thing for the browser to warn about known bad sites; it's something else altogether if a browser fails to block something nefarious. Personally, I wouldn't change browsers because another one has training wheels.
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Only went to the base site, not the full URL in the email.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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This is not snark, but genuine curiosity: can you try it on Safari?
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No, the last time I went to try Safari on Linux it wanted to run the Windows version using (choke) Wine.
I have an ancient MacBook Pro (2014) and I doubt that is runs the latest Safari. Haven't booted it up in months, only use when I travel and then to run my VM's on it.
Sorry.
>64
User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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All good; thanks for the reply.
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Firefox has saved my bacon a few times!
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bacon yum
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I’ve been using FireFox for a few years now. I use Chrome when I want to access Calendar or Sheets from the desktop.
Firefox is running uBlock Origin; also have a Pi Hole DNS service running. And Outlook is configured to show emails as plain text so none of the background code/images loads automatically.
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Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Haven't used FF that much. Side "benefit", the VM was minimal. I opened some youtube streams in FF and it consumed all the memory, then all the swap space. It got so fat and lazy, it froze the VM. BRS time for the VM. 
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User: Technical term used by developers. See idiot.
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A bolt in my desk chair just snapped in half yesterday. This chair isn't worth re-tapping the hole.
I'm not even heavy. I am a scrawny thing.
I can't tell you how many times I've had that happen. Head bolts on the little 2-stroke I strapped to a mountain bike had to be replaced. Did that before they snapped. Same with the rest of the major bolts on that drivetrain.
I didn't replace the bolts in this chair, and that was my mistake. I replace the casters on the chairs I buy with US manufactured polymer coated rollies that work on my wood floors anyway.
I should have dismantled this thing and gone to Ace and replaced all the bolts as my first order of business.
I'll be doing that on my next chair.
But between the Chinese industrialists schlepping their low grade raw materials off on us, and my own country's schlepping their excess corn and sometimes industrial byproducts off onto us sometimes I feel like we're just used as garbage bins by people with too much money. 
But zooming back in, it has gotten to the point where it really makes little sense to me now that I have to replace critical load bearing parts in new products as soon as I order them.
What is even the point? Just send me the parts disassembled.
May as well order everything from Ikea and save myself half the work.
There's smoke in my iris
But I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids
So I'm ready now (What you ready for?)
I'm ready for life in this city
And my wings have grown almost enough to lift me
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I routinely replace screws, nuts, and bolts with A2 stainless equivalents purely to reduce corrosion, and to get hex / torx heads instead of soft Phillips.
That started back in the days when I started riding (and fixing) Japanese motorcycles: they were fitted as standard with titanium cored, cream-cheese headed bolts ... or that's what it felt like when you tried to undo them and then had to drill the sods out.
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I had never heard of an impact screwdriver until I bought a Japanese motorbike, they were a must have to get the screws undone. Like many others I replaced all of the horrible philips headed screws with allen bolts and helicoiled ( and copper greased ) all the threads I could.
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Yeah, I remember too well ...
And those ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing Honda oil filter bolts, right at the front of the engine where they catch all the road crap. And made of Titacheese alloy. 
(They were nearly always already damaged when you bought the bike.)
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I know you've been there
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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OriginalGriff wrote: riding (and fixing) Japanese motorcycles
Ah! You've just brought back a lot of fond memories.
My family moved to the country when I was around 12. My Dad started buying cheap non-running dirtbikes, all the same kind...early to mid 70's Yamaha CT/DT 175s. One of the first tools I was introduced to was an impact driver! 
As I punk teenager, I never understood why my Dad wouldn't just spend the money on motorcycles that we didn't have to work on all the time. When I got older and realized that most people had no mechanical abilities it all made since...especially that time I had to do a complete engine swap in a friend's carport. I thanked him many times for that education.
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I think it's also very close to development: debugging code and fixing engines uses the same processes, or at least it does with me.
This is particularly true when you have only a Haynes Book Of Lies as your guide to the bike!
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With missing or smudged pages
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Reassembly is the reverse of disassembly."
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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honey the codewitch wrote: But between the Chinese industrialists schlepping their low grade raw materials off on us
The raw materials are okay, the technology and the production process suck. One bolt made of Chinesium, takes the same resources and anergy to be made as a real one. It's a waste!
Thats why whenever is possible I buy only US made stuff. From my dishwasher to my bike and car all are US made. Unfortunately, with some goods like your chair you don't have a choice these days. You can buy a really expensive one, but there is no guarantee it will be better. My very expensive chair gave up after a year and the cheap one is still around.
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Torque wrench. Bolt extractors. Canadian Tire when they're 60% off.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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