AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor

joined 3 weeks ago

I don't mind when there is one captcha. ONE. But when you use privacy tools such as a vpn, you rarely have to solve one captcha. You need to solve several, at times, losing more than 5 minutes because they refuse to let you in when they see you are on a vpn.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago (6 children)

Ads can be blocked, captchas are required to access certain contents, and some are absurdly annoying if they detect you are using a vpn or tor.

Click on all the squares where you see a motorbike.

Failed! There was a fraction of motorbike behind the car in the background that you couldn't possibly see. Try again.

Rinse and repeat, 15 more times.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 84 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

A supermarket I go to sometimes around a year ago decided to "reorganize" everything. The first day I went there after the reorganization I almost suffered a meltdown. You know where they put the biscuits and cookies?

You guessed it! In the same aisle than stationery and printer ink. I am not kidding, the psychopath who did this, for some reason decided that printer ink was somehow related to breakfast biscuits.

I'd bet money it's the soccer industry.

They are raising prices obscenely and more people are moving to alternative sources to watch it. Those sources are generally IPTVs and the industry is bleeding subs a an allarming rate because (according to them) piracy. Of course, the fact that in countries like Italy, a soccer sub goes over 60€ a month and can be closer to 100€, is not to blame for the users turning to iptvs...

Only soccer is around 60€ a month (more if you want to watch all the games and not just a selection), so do the math

I'm not native italian so take this with a grain of salt. All the acronyms I've heard in italian are pronounced as you would pronounce that word if it was Italian. Weirdly enough, they include a lot of English words (not acronyms) in their daily vocabulary and they pronounce those in English.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

TIL. In Italian it's used as a word (not an acronym) to refer to those devices.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You have to be a special kind of stupid to pay for this kind of service with your personal card. But if you get caught a second time then I can't have any sympathy for you.

This situation reminds me of that drug dealer (always in italy) that accepted payments for his merch using his own POS (idk the word in English, it's one of those terminals to accept payments with cards).

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They used their personal prepaid card (one registered to their own name and issued by the public postal service) to pay for the iptv sub.

Happy as I am because this shows that there is no crime in watching those streams, I can't but stand in awe at the sheer stupidity of these guys.

Yay! Can't wait for a second one!! Since the last pandemic i always kept reserves on n95 masks and I have a bidet so I'm covered for the most important parts. Let's see how lethal is this one, I'm sure it's gonna be a lot of fun to live in any fascist country when this happens, after all, what could possibly go wrong ina country that denies science during a pandemic? Specially considering the amount of these we are seeing nowadays.

Autistic nerd here. Not enjoying a single bit of this asshole assholery.

Not enjoying either your blatant bigotry.

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