I dunno. Better do an experiment. Scritches and snacks.
(Oh they deserve all the scritches!)
I dunno. Better do an experiment. Scritches and snacks.
(Oh they deserve all the scritches!)
So, my parents had this dachshund. Dachshunds are dumb, and will literally pick a fight with anything (and then run and hide behind you.)
One time I was dog sitting- Tootsie was just a puppy, it was wonderful weather for late spring so I went camping, taking her with.
Gonna go fly fishing and catch breakfast, was waiting for the sun to come up with my coffee and this bear comes up the opposite side of the creek.
Tootsie being the dumbass, starts yapping.
The bear looks at her. Its expression is “you know you’re not even a snack, right?”,
It looks at me. “You know she’s not even a snack?”
My expression is “I know, I know. Shut up tootsie. Yer a snack!”
The bear gives this sort of shrug I took as, “Okay. Just do you know.” And moved off down the stream.
Pretty sure it was actually food scraps that got ‘em. Scritches came later.
Gravy… and catnip sauce??!
You like hitting the sauce, huh? :)
I’m a DM and I’ll allow it. This time.
Do I need to click? (Nope), Congrats OP!
I feel like Archie needs an orange ascott. Just saying.
A very dapper fellow.
Okay. This pupper is priceless.
Grew up in red hat- you know? Back when red hat wasn’t the enemy.
Endeavor is my flavor of the month. (Why pick one?)
now i want to fork something into a new distro called “Schroedinger Linux”…
“maybe it works. maybe it doesn’t. maybe it’s best just to leave it right there and not look at it.”
Malware is any unwanted thing on your computer that either you or your system has to deal with, whether in the form of software, emails, or pop-ups.
Malware is Malicious Software it’s a very specific thing, Cisco defines it as :
Malware, short for malicious software, refers to any intrusive software developed by cybercriminals (often called hackers) to steal data and damage or destroy computers and computer systems. Examples of common malware include viruses, worms, Trojan viruses, spyware, adware, and ransomware. Recent malware attacks have exfiltrated data in mass amounts.
Spam email is unsolicited and unwanted junk email sent out in bulk to an indiscriminate recipient list. Typically, spam is sent for commercial purposes. It can be sent in massive volume by botnets, networks of infected computers.
Sally from Accounting hitting reply all? spam. Kyle sending out embarrassing photos of Steve to everyone? Spam. your fifth cousin’s baby photos? well, I assume that’s spam. maybe you like baby photos.
those chain letters? spam. but not malware. They might contain malware, but the email itself is not malware. For example, a malicious image, won’t load- it has to go fetch the image first. Until you load the remote content, it’s not malware. It’s just a way of pointing you at the malware.
That said, it’s important to note that Raw Story is a legitimate company that wants your business. They’re not going to intentionally send you malware. mostly they’re going to be using the remote content to load pretty images and set up some basic telemetry (essentially read receipts. Maybe a cookie if you’re using a web client for your email, or perhaps clicked a link.) This is true of most legitimate companies. They want your business, so they’re not going to so brazenly piss you off with ransomware or a trojan.
As long as you’re not loading remote content and clicking links, there’s basically nothing that email can do to you. you can train your email client to recognize it as spam and send it straight to the bin; reducing potential accidental openings.
spam is just unwanted emails, it’s not software, in of its self.
Also, the tracking beacons only load if you let it. I assume you have your email client set to not load remote content. (If you don’t, you really should.) not sure what you use for email, but thunderbird (mozilla) does it automatically.
I’m not sure raw story is going to be sending malware.
Spam? In 37 different flavors,
“Treat your friends like family- exploit them.”
-Rules of acquisition as relayed by Quark
You’re the project manager?
Not to mention, how frequently the “I can fix it on my own” guy ends up making things worse.
Like my coworker who insisted he knew how to install a monitor and then couldn’t figure out why the display port wouldn’t work with a usb-a adapter. It had a normal DisplayPort plug and didn’t have a thunderbolt adapter (it’s a desktop.)
Rather than update the ticket that got him the monitor, he created a new ticket.
I can’t complain too much. IT guy likes me so he took the extra monitor and gave me a third one.
And how does the phone know if you just take left turns faster? How does it know if you’re in the left or right lane? It has no way of knowing what the forces are, or if that variation is caused by something else.
Your phone has no idea which side of the car it’s on, and insurance companies and their apps really don’t care.
Motion sensors don’t provide localization. Gps on cellphones are only really accurate to a few dozen meters.
You can couple gps and motion (and changes in gps location) to fudge it. Which is why when you diverge off the route navigation provides… it takes it a moment to figure it out. In the display, they “know” you’re on the road so it doesn’t have to be that accurate, they just guess what lane you’re in based on direction and such.
They’re certainly not going to know what seat you’re in.
A face like that, you tried to rock a bowtie and failed, and pooch is just being a good wingdoggo and letting you know.
Not everyone can rock a bow tie… I can’t and it makes me sad.