More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And then he tried to do it again, a week later!
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In 1998, two Stanford kids published a paper in Computer Networks: "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," in which they wrote, "Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers."
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Everyone is vulnerable to different things at different times, the wrongdoers are the ones at fault. We should aspire to a society where being trusting is a good thing that is rewarded.
It’s actually insane that we let people get up on stages and tell blatant lies beamed right into the ears of millions of people. Doubly so when we reward them with unfathomable riches.
Being #austrian means hating on the #germans because they seem so arrogant and at the same time admiring the #swiss because they are even more arrogant.
The word was first mentioned in 1651 & described as an #illness in 1688.
In 1710, it was claimed that music of Swiss #Alpine herdsmen & the Guggisberglied (a #folk song), led Swiss soldiers to desert. The singing of the same resulted (allegedly) in capital #punishment.
One doctor thought that the low air pressure made the Swiss sick with longing & would lead, if not returned home, to their eventual #death.
In 2024, the #Swiss company Global Clearance Solutions (#GCS) will increase the number of remote-controlled mechanical demining platforms supplied to Ukraine to 70 units.
The company reportedly plans to increase the number to 25 vehicles in the last quarter of 2023, 40 in the spring of 2024, and 70 by mid-2024.
If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences.
That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. #Swiss German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.
Views from the top of #Guscha mountain in the #Swiss#Alps. Tree less landscape with grassy meadows and here and there sharp rocky ridges. Blue sky with quite a few clouds. Beautiful #panorama.
Vielleicht müssten unsere Parlamentarierinnen und Parlamentarier wieder einmal in die #Nachhilfe. Tickets gehören abgeschafft!
Wählbar als Bundesrat/Bundesrätin ist jede und jeder Stimmberechtigte in der #Schweiz.
Der vereinigten Bundesversammlung vorzuschreiben, wer gewählt werden darf, ist verfassungswidrig und müsste eigentlich abgemahnt werden - sowohl auf linker wie auf rechter Seite.
The Swiss government is also apparently conducting mass surveillance of its citizens, but @protonmail and @Tutanota , which uses end-to-end encryption and is open source and transparent, should have no problem.
Final, privacy is not determined by the country where they are based, but by encryption and transparency.
Good talk about the implications of the Swiss Cheese model of security.
The model's attributable to James Reason who also did foundational work categorizing human error. The really central part of his Slips, Trips, and Lapses is that everyone has bad days and different parts of your system fail you; it's very rarely carelessness. Error's scale and traceability vary, too.
If what we depend on is someone never making a mistake, I have bad news for you 😬.
Bruno Weber (1931-2011) war ein Schweizer Künstler, der in Dietikon und Spreitenbach den grössten Skulpturenpark der Schweiz mit phantastischen Skulpturen, begehbaren Gebäuden und einem einzigartigen Turmhaus erschuf.
People who fall for these random tech gizmo startups deserve to be scammed (hexbear.net)
I’m not some tech genius who could spot a fake product a hundred miles away. I’m just not a gullible dumbass