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Matt T Heffron wrote: if they were told that you think that you have lost your card, or that it may have been stolen
...they will issue you a new card then...
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As and AI myself, reformed, I can assure you there is nothing to worry about. I'd be more worried about alien invasions and run-amok nanobots... but that could just be me.
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I seriously need to work on my sarcastic writing skills, but all of you make good points. Banks do not like you to close accounts.
The other day I was trying to cancel my OOMA VOIP account. It was actually functional but two things happened - the family really started using their cell phones for everything and the ooma device broke. Now when I purchased this, I set it up all online, created an account on line, registered a credit card online, etc. Contacted them online - "support" is available 24x7. But if you want to cancel, you have to call them for "account security." I'm tired of people making it hard to cancel, so I created a virtual CC number that expires next month and has a $5 spending limit. Good luck ooma 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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The chat bots seem to be universally dreadful in my experience.
One of my providers has both a chat bot and a real chat. But they make it hard to actually get to the real chat. However, they did eventually give me a direct url to the real chat for future reference.
I suggested they make it easier for actual paying customers, as opposed to inquirers, to get to a real chat. Even if they first direct you to an FAQ to cut down on trivial interactions. They probably haven't done that though.
Kevin
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I'm shocked by the VueJS component ChatGPT 3.5 (bing.com/new) generated for me, worked out of the box (one tiny bug, most likely caused by my inaccurate instructions). Dunno whether there's anything to worry about but check out what Musk says.
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Yup, can't trust 100% but major help as a code aid 👍
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Related story:
A couple of weeks ago, I ordered an item from a major online merchant. When the delivery day came, two identical packages were left at my door. I checked just to make sure I hadn't accidentally doubled my order... nope, only one.
The support link took me to the cheerful AI chatbot which got the numbers correct but interpreted my issue as having ordered two items and only receiving one. It was getting ready to send me yet another. 
Thankfully, there was eventually an option to speak with a genuinely intelligent being who understood the issue and assured me that I would not be charged for the second item.
We have nothing to worry about - just don't put an AI in charge of anything!
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Daily Octordle #454
4️⃣8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
🕐7️⃣
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Score: 71 The last word was a difficult one, but obvious once I got it.
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Had to play it once to figure out a strategy, and replayed it in another browser using that strategy (which involved my Wordle Solver), so this is a total cheat. But future ones should be more quickly solved without any replays:
Daily Octordle #454
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🔟
5️⃣🕚
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Score: 70
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Here's tomorrow's, using only the Wordle Solver cheat:
Daily Octordle #455
🕛9️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
🕐7️⃣
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Score: 75
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Took me a while.
Daily Octordle #455
6️⃣🕛
5️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣🕐
🕚3️⃣
Score: 65 Got it in the end.
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It will be hard to beat this one. You would have to get lucky on the first or second guess, which will be difficult.
Daily Octordle #461
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
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Score: 52
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Any UKers here get the alarm test ? I disabled my notifications but I got the test message when I re-enabled them
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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Worked for me.
Treading on the toes of giants . . .
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I disabled mine, but left hers on ... still waiting for the siren.
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Whats happening? Alien invasion drill?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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The UK govt has decided in it's infinite wisdom (in a time of horrendous inflation and a cost of living crisis, strikes by emergency services, teachers, medic, and so on) that the best thing to spend money on is an alert system that sends a priority notification along with a siren noise to every cell phone in the country. Just in case 50 nukes are headed this way, they can tell us all to kiss our *** goodbye.
Today was the first test of the system. Herself didn't even notice - she assumed the siren noise was on the TV, not her phone ...
"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
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It wasn't revealed as a hoax. The original broadcast was on Halloween and was done as a series of "news flashes", with each news flash preceded with "this is a fictional story" or something along those lines. People still panicked.
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OriginalGriff wrote: The UK govt has decided in it's infinite wisdom
Not only UK... we have had it too... twice. And my phone didn't get any of them (work phone got the second one though)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Isn't the whole point of testing to find out how it works live, and to reveal where improvements should be made?
There's always someone whining about something. If there was a life threatening danger near you and you weren't warned, my guess is that you'd be whining about that too.
I used to live in a flood area. We got alert messages over the landline, and I can tell you that the flood warnings were very useful in giving us time to prepare. However cellphone warnings would have been even more useful, for obvious reasons.
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haughtonomous wrote: We got alert messages over the landline, and I can tell you that the flood warnings were very useful
But of course the land line can't move around.
I stopped the weather alerts when I started getting hail warnings for areas that were 100 miles from where I was. Then the traffic alerts service that provided alerts from other side of the city where I have never been.
Then the very handy app to live track where the commuter rail car was until I realized that it was not in fact live at all but just programmed to follow where the car should be (as in the train didn't show at all but the app showed it arriving and leaving.)
Presumably they will get better, one can hope.
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