Mildly Infuriating

The best part is that fully half of these are addressed to my mom…

Example, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith

I hate this for the obvious reasons but it's especially annoying to me because my wife didn't take my surname!

There is enough confusion between horizontal resolutions (2K, 4K etc.) and vertical ones (1080p, 2160p etc.). This is not helping; why even print a promotional sticker with a number of pixels smaller than what it should be?

Parents.of teenagers, the BeReal app is advertising cigarettes to your children. My 17 year old son, at breakfast this morning, showed me an ad for Newport cigarettes for $11.05 per pack. Please monitor your children's online activities!

I got a voicemail from the Kroger pharmacist who told me to call her back. It was definitely the Kroger pharmacy number because I've had to call it before, so that was not part of the scam.

However, some scammer who knew who my health insurance company was (I get it through my wife, which ads to the creepiness here) tried to get my personal health data from the Kroger pharmacy. They asked for personal info and the pharmacist said she wouldn’t give it to them but would have me call them back.

She told me all of this when I called her to find out what was up. She gave me the number and the first thing I did was look it up to see if it was legitimate because that just sounded off to me.

Sure enough, the first link that came up was a Facebook post (Why Facebook as the first link in the search? No idea.) warning about that number specifically scamming people by pretending to be my insurance company, followed by other links on other websites talking about it being a scammer source, and not just just for health insurance scamming.

They've also somehow fucked with the SEO because in between those were legitimate links to my health insurance company, but that phone number is not on the pages.

I feel really bad for anyone who falls for this, because it was clearly just legitimate enough for the pharmacist to not suggest to me that I should be careful about being scammed. I know exactly who I talked to and she's a cool lady, so I'm pretty sure she would have if she was sure enough.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21109313

> I went to vote today in Georgia USA. People showed up wearing bed sheets over them. What is this supposed to communicate exactly??

Edit: Oh for fuck's sake.

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Why, God?

Edit/Update: It turns out that my last name has a capitol letter in the middle and they put a space in it. Thank god. I can actually vote this year.

wtf mullenweg, you're a and the founder of #wordpress for chrissakes

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

I changed out both elements in my electrc water back in late August. Had to change the bottom one out again today.

Dr Becky, PBS Space Time and Angela Collier all release on the same days. Giving me one big day filled with quality astro physics. But leaving all other days devoid of good content. It would be nicer if they staggered a little.

Posting here for a lack of !verymildlyinconvenient.

Was trying to read a news story and... What fresh shitfuckery is this? Why do I now have to pay money to a company just for the privilege of not being spied upon and not getting your cookies that I don't want or need? How is this even legal?

RE: "Why are you even reading that shitrag?" -- I clicked on a link someone posted in another sublemmit, didn't realise it was the Sun till after. I do not read the Sun on the regular, chill. My point stands regardless that this is extremely shitty and should probably not be allowed.

... and they use YouTube to host their informational videos.

"Please allow us to interrupt your research with intrusive targeted ads, so you can have a superior browsing experience." 🤡

The app is Clime Pro on iOS, they lock full access to Hurricane Milton data behind a $10 USD per week paywall.

If you’re in the area impacted by Milton, you can find publicly available resources at the National Hurricane Center’s website: National Hurricane Center

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Just a sampling from last week. Every single one of these is the same scam. I had another seven yesterday.

I never answer and they always leave the same prerecorded voicemail message (although that message seems to change every few days) about me owing taxes, which I absolutely don't.

I also get most of them within an hour, which makes it even more annoying.

And yes, I'm on the do not call list.

Someone please make it stop!

Looks innocuous enough at first glance right? Let's zoom in on the problem:

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These don't go together. If the semicircle on the left is correct, then this is showing moon phases, and the symbol on the right should be of a gibbous moon:

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If the cookie-with-a-bite-taken-out in the right is correct, then this is showing an eclipse, and the symbol on the left should be of a 50% partial eclipse:

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It drives me crazy every time I look at it.

At this point its getting ridiculous.

Their point 2 even states that even if you do pay them, they will still use cookies to track you and show personalised content

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(I did not pee myself)

The HELLDIVERS™^©®³ 2 EULA is a god damn URL

Just know I saw this, because I would never ever visit freaking groupon. “Sponsored shortcuts” can be disabled in the settings . Bleh :(

Just started getting this now. Hopefully it's some A/B testing that they'll stop doing, but I'm not holding my breath

Granted, I was going to slap it onto one of my parent’s shiny kitchen appliances and make jokes about it being a mistake to let them have WiFi…. But still…..

For some reason I was back in Chrome today, and I searched Google, without meaning to, for:

get channel id for a youtube channel

Here's what I got:

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> ✨ AI Overview > Learn more > … > To find a YouTube channel's ID, you can: > Use the YouTube account settings > Sign in to YouTube, select your profile picture, then Settings, and then Advanced settings. You must be signed in as the channel's primary owner to see this information.

That's great, but I am not the channel's primary owner, and surely the majority of the time the person seeking an answer to this question will not be, also.

> Use the channel's URL > Click on the channel's name under any of its videos, and then look at the URL of that page. The handle will appear at the end of the link, preceded by the @ sign.

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That is not the channel ID.

> Use the page source code > View the page source code of any video from the channel, and look for the "channelid" keyword.

I felt a little stingy at this point, because this sounds like a real solution.

I opened the source for the channel page, and searched the source code for channelid, and found nothing.

Then, while typing this complaint, I noticed that I was supposed to do that from a random video's page, so I opened one of the videos, did that, and found nothing.

> A YouTube channel can have multiple URLs that direct viewers to the channel homepage. These URLs can look different, but they all point to the same channel.

Irrelevant information. How do I find the channel ID?

> Generative AI is experimental. 👍 👎

Thanks Google! I know.

> Sign in to YouTube. Settings . From the left menu, select Advanced settings. You'll see your channel's user and channel IDs. > > Find your YouTube user & channel IDs - Google Help

Yes! I know. However, this isn't my channel. I want to find someone else's channel's ID.

> ❓About featured snippets • 💬 Feedback

I have some doubts whether you would accept my feedback, if I decided to give it. Why is this here?

> Learn what words mean as you search > Select words to get definitions & translations without leaving the page > (Got it)

Thanks! That's really useful to know. Do you know how I can get a channel ID though?

> People also ask > * How do I get a YouTube Content ID? > * Does YouTube have the ID channel? > * How do I get my YouTube channel name? > * How to find YouTube channel gmail id?

Fascinating!

> Stack Overflow > https://stackoverflow.com › questions › how-can-i-get-a... > An easy answer is, your YouTube Channel ID is UC + {YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID}. To be sure of your YouTube Channel ID or your YouTube account ID, access the advanced ... > 23 answers > Top answer: > To obtain the channel id you can view the source code of the channel page and find ... > How can I get YouTube channel ID using channel name URL? > Feb 7, 2023 > Is there any way to get youtube channel ID ... - Stack Overflow > Sep 14, 2023 > How to get a youtube channelid from the channels link ... > Jan 11, 2023 > I can't get channel id using YouTube Data API v3 > Mar 25, 2023 > More results from stackoverflow.com

I clicked on Stack Overflow, closed several popups. The top answer wasn't useful. I did find a couple of answers down:

> "To obtain the channel id you can view the source code of the channel page and find either data-channel-external-id="UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg" or "externalId":"UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg". > > UCjXfkj5iapKHJrhYfAF9ZGg will be the channel ID you are looking for.

I tried that, and it didn't work.

Back to Google:

> Comment Picker > https://commentpicker.com › Tools › YouTube > YouTube Channel ID Finder is a free tool to help you find a YouTube channel ID, along with other related channel information and statistics.

And it worked! I get 2 free channel ID queries per day. Fortunately I only needed the one. But it worked! It only took several minutes of scrolling past multiple screens of things that didn't work.

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Now let's compare that to DDG.

> Videos for get channel id for a youtube channel > 1:28 > How to Find YouTube Channel ID - 2024 > 263K views > YouTube1yr

I skipped this as I didn't want a video.

> https://www.streamweasels.com › tools › youtube-channel-id-and-user-id-convertor > YouTube Channel ID Finder - YouTube Username to ID Convertor > Simply enter any YouTube username or handle below and click Convert Username to ID. This tools makes use of the YouTube API to make the conversion. You can check out our other API tools here. Select YouTube handle, username or legacy: YouTube handles are now considered the default for Y

And there we go! It works.

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When did it get this bad?

Source: https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5131-libreoffice-productivity-suite.html

It started about a week ago. I noticed a sticky feeling on my hands so I washed them (as I do regularly). Unfortunately it wasn't long before the feeling came back. I've started noticing it on everything I frequently touch - mouse/keyboard, Xbox controller, phone, on and on. I tried household cleaner, rubbing alcohol, water/soap on these surfaces and it seems to help for a short while, but it comes back within hours. Just now I gave my phone a good wipe with soapy water and as soon as it dried it feels sticky again.

I'm not sure what else to try or how to get rid of it.

Possible culprits I can guess at: -pollen? the cars around here have been covered in greenish yellow powder which I have seen before, but never experienced this stickyness. I don't use my car / touch the door handles very often.

-some sort of plastic or rubber is degrading, maybe my phone case? It's an Otterbox that's over 6 years old.

-a little weed container I bought around the same time this started, maybe the store had vape juice spilled on it? But I don't touch it often enough to warrant the spread of this profound stickyness.

Any ideas are welcome. It's driving me nuts.

We pay to go to a live show. The crowd is excited to see the artist. You can feel it in the air. They appear on stage, plug in, start with a quiet but heartfelt acoustic number.

And 600 people keep their conversations going.

What. The. Hell. People?

Between songs, the artist makes polite but vague statements about how even with the PA, he can't compete with all that noise.

They keep talking.

Grrrrrrr...

Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.

I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!

Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?

They're also comparing the ratings of a single episode of Penguin to the entire first season of The Acolyte

both popups found on the same page (annies website, any product page)

Found on Imgur

it also kept redirecting to itself like twice a second to not let me go back.