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 Lathe Biosas wrote:
This is why I tell terrible jokes. So when I all of a sudden start telling funny jokes you'll know I've been replaced.

My test will be seeing if you finally accept the cookies.

Ignore

 BorderCountess wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
This is why I tell terrible jokes. So when I all of a sudden start telling funny jokes you'll know I've been replaced.

My test will be seeing if you finally accept the cookies.

I'm starting to doubt the cookies are real...

Anyone else in the UK unable to access Reddit?

It's working for me

Weird. Might be my provider.


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Seems my broadband has turned on a parental filter. Can I find how to manage that?

No. No I cannot.

Not to brag and lord over you folks, but I just a received an offer for a "Top Fan" badge for a FB page that I interact with once a year, at most.

I declined the offer to make sure I stay humble.

 nels1031 wrote:
Not to brag and lord over you folks, but I just a received an offer for a "Top Fan" badge for a FB page that I interact with once a year, at most.

I declined the offer to make sure I stay humble.

That reminds me of my Mom and GW vouchers. I spend 300 bucks through their webstore and nada. My mom orders me one... ONE paint pot and they send her a 15 voucher!

Which she let expire. Again.

Because they have you. They need offer you nothing to get you to spend more.

But don’t worry; they’ll find your mom’s price.

I actually let my GW voucher since it rarely every account for enough to make it worth not just buying from hobby shop anyway. Unless I buy like one character from GW store, postage probably evens it out anyway.

Well @#$% Facebook has locked me out of my Ken Kyoto account and wants a photo id that matches his name.

Damn.

Well that's the end of that I guess.

Did they give a reason why?

"Suspicious activity" OK, sometimes I log in from India, cause that's where I am, sometimes from the US when I have to use a VPN, but I've not done anything more suspicious than usual.

I could get in with Google Authenticator, had I set it up before hand...

Which I did not.

But now I have for my IRL account.


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Oh I am still logged in on one device, but who knows how long that will last...

Use the one logged in device to setup authentication?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
"Suspicious activity" OK, sometimes I log in from India, cause that's where I am, sometimes from the US when I have to use a VPN, but I've not done anything more suspicious than usual.

Sometimes its not you. Every so often I get a trio of emails from instagram for the password re-set. Someone just hammering emails at the system trying to break in.
So could be someone trying to do strange things to break into your account which causes their account protection systems to move up a notch to try and protect your account.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
"Suspicious activity" OK, sometimes I log in from India, cause that's where I am

You can't trick us we know India isn't a real place, like Freedonia or Portugal!

After a few tries I was able to set up 2 factor ID through my tablet so I'm back in.

I'd say if you use FB and especially if it's part of your business make sure you set that up.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
"Suspicious activity" OK, sometimes I log in from India, cause that's where I am

You can't trick us we know India isn't a real place, like Freedonia or Portugal!

Portugal is real, what isnt real are people who are from the Isle of Man. I've met people who work there, but no one whose been born there.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
"Suspicious activity" OK, sometimes I log in from India, cause that's where I am

You can't trick us we know India isn't a real place, like Freedonia or Portugal!

Portugal is real, what isnt real are people who are from the Isle of Man. I've met people who work there, but no one whose been born there.

Oh Isle of Man is obviously a fake, I mean it's clearly a placeholder name that got through.

Ugh.

Found three AI channels on YouTube, all sharing the same videos. Like….exactly the same. Same voice. Same topics. Same images.

Now, these were on WW2 vehicles. A topic I currently have a passing interest in. And to their dubious credit? It took a while for me to twig.

What made it twig? That the voice read out everything in the script, which is also shared on screen for some reason. Including non sequitur words. Like the King in Blackadder the 3rd ending every sentence with Penguin.

Now I need to forget everything those videos claimed, because it’s not just AI? It’s AI with no editorial control,

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Ugh.

Found three AI channels on YouTube, all sharing the same videos. Like….exactly the same. Same voice. Same topics. Same images.

Now, these were on WW2 vehicles. A topic I currently have a passing interest in. And to their dubious credit? It took a while for me to twig.

What made it twig? That the voice read out everything in the script, which is also shared on screen for some reason. Including non sequitur words. Like the King in Blackadder the 3rd ending every sentence with Penguin.

Now I need to forget everything those videos claimed, because it’s not just AI? It’s AI with no editorial control,

One big clue I've found in hunting down the AI channels posting up war schlop, is if the channel is dark. . . Ie, Dark Waters, Dark War, Dark Vehicles, Dark Tanks, etc. And most of them lift content off of Drachinifel, Rex's Hangar and Not A Pound for Air to Ground (they're probably the main three real people who's world war content I watch). Many of them even try to lift from "our friend" Mike Brady at Oceanliner Design

I still use facebook but almost out of habit now, i just scroll.
I try not to, but man my friend from high school dont post, or they post about their lives and it just makes me bummed comparing.
Worse is the friends from college who are now like head managers at google or something when we got the same degree.
I know comparision is the thief of joy, but man i feel like Facebook tries to push this on me.
worse are the AI girlfriend ones, some that are.....a little worrying.