Make Me Smile

30+ years she/they Crafty when the mood hits Feminist Need more reasons to smile

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[drpepperwhoree]

remember that pride is still a protest

[imhereformysciencefriends]

Thank you Project Gutenberg for being a free online source of out of copyright works that I can easily pop onto to read or reread childhood stories I can't quite remember the plot beats of and famous literature I don't end up finishing but nevertheless am grateful to have ready access to. Everyone stop what you're doing and say Thank You Project Gutenberg right now.

[snuffysbox]

felt like posting this panel from my stardew comic as a standalone too, cus I liked how it turned out ✌️

[edwinhuang]

Here’s my love letter to one of my favorite bands, Babymetal. I drew the Yuimetal era because I went to a handful of their concerts around that time.

[beemovieerotica]

ok time to pirate ubisoft games even harder

[the-sera]

This is why everyone must support Stop Killing Games. Look it up, sign the petitions everyone.

[geek-ramblings]

https://glaad.org/fcc/

[effemimaniac]

have you noticed that they don't even want you right clicking anymore

[jofiah]

Yeah! you can do it to a youtube video and take a snapshot of that frame if it's paused, or open the thumbnail in a new tab if it hasn't started playing yet

[endearmint]

[ID: Screenshot of the reblog tags by @/thebowlingalley on this post which read, "btw / shift+right click on firefox bypasses a website's shitty custom right click menu / WHATTTTTTT / PREV WAHT????????" End ID.]

[elfwreck]

There are sites that block shift-right-click. Fortunately, there are fixes for that.

Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy for Firefox. Force Enable Right Click & Copy

Chrome version:

Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy - Chrome Web Store

Force Enable Right Click & Copy

[dduane]

Nasty and sophisticated scam: BEWARE of this!

That "Pending PayPal Charge" Email Is a Scam — Even Though It Really Came From PayPal

If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call 855

Don’t get caught off guard by this. It’s quite a slick one.

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What to actually do If you get one of these, the answer is boring and it works every time: Don't call the number. Don't reply. Don't click links in the email — not even the unsubscribe link. Open a fresh browser tab, type paypal.com yourself, and log into your account. Check your activity. You'll see either nothing, or a tiny incoming payment from a stranger that you can ignore. Then forward the original email as an attachment to [email protected] and delete it. If you want to go a step further, report the phone number to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov — every report makes it slightly harder for these operations to keep running. And if you've already called? Don't beat yourself up — these scams are designed by professionals to fool smart people. Hang up, run a malware scan if you installed anything they asked you to install, change your PayPal and bank passwords from a different device, and call your bank's real fraud line (the number on the back of your card) to flag your accounts. Move fast, but you don't need to panic.

from the above linked article. For the UK the email to forward phishing scams to is [email protected], texts can be forwarded on to 7726 (for free!) and as a victim of fraud you can report it here (or here for Scotland)

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

— If an email recently landed in your inbox with a subject line like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 for account activation. Questions? Call [phone]" — don't call that number. Don't click anything. And whatever you do, don't panic-dial to "stop the charge."

You're being targeted by one of the cleverest scams going right now, and the reason it works is uncomfortable: the email genuinely came from PayPal.

The trick is in the subject line, not the email

When most people think "phishing email," they picture sketchy senders, broken English, and links to weird domains. This scam is the opposite. The email passes every authenticity check — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, all green. It comes from PayPal's actual mail servers. The fonts are right. The footer is right. The unsubscribe link works. If you forwarded it to a security expert and asked "is this really from PayPal?" they'd have to say yes.

So how is it a scam?

Scammers have figured out that PayPal lets anyone send small amounts of money to anyone else, and that PayPal will dutifully email the recipient a notification. The scammer sends you a payout of, say, one Hungarian forint — about a quarter of a cent. PayPal's system then automatically generates and sends you a real, legitimate, fully-authenticated email confirming the transaction.

Here's the catch: the email's subject line is whatever the scammer typed when they set up the payout. PayPal doesn't sanitize it. So they write something terrifying like "Pending charge of USD 987.90 — call this number with questions" and PayPal's servers cheerfully deliver that subject line straight to your inbox, wrapped in a perfectly legitimate-looking notification.

The actual transaction in the email body is for 1 forint. There is no $987.90 charge. There never was. But by the time most people read carefully enough to notice that, they've already dialed the number. —

[platesandoatcakes]

Im making the full pokedex using only Powerpoint ive made 141 so far :)

[longzone222]

Visit Original Link

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[thetetra]

I managed to listen to exactly 3 seconds of this before I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe.

[itshype]

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

[trashpandaartblog]

You'll have a sandwich

By Rémich

[myfavoritedemons]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GO LOOK AT MORE OF THE ARTIST'S WORK ON HER INSTAGRAM, IT'S AMAZING

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[ghiblin]

WHISPER OF THE HEART 耳をすませば 1995, dir. Yoshifumi Kondo

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[mynorthernattitude]

locked in? no. i'm tucked in. goodnight