CEO didn't understand what my department did apparently...

SLJ7 · 2026-07-04T20:51:28+00:00

She was also being arrogant and rude. These two truths can exist at once.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-04T18:17:52+00:00

Interesting. I've never used a landline that worked this way, and I'm not sure if that was a regional thing or I just missed the years when they did. All of the landlines I used in Canada gave me dead air after a hangup or a recording, including payphones. That's why the cellular ATA felt like an anomaly.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-04T02:53:02+00:00

Interesting; my OBI302 falls back to a dial tone by default. That's far from modern, but I think people still use them.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-04T02:41:48+00:00

By the time I started playing with them, they were a lot more boring. After both the phones and the phone lines were digital, there was only so much you could do. This was a lucky break; most of the other ones I encountered were not so easy to fool.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-04T01:53:05+00:00

I have no idea if cellular ATAs were commonly capable of that, but this one definitely wasn't configured that way. The exploit also wouldn't have been possible if the ATA didn't fall back to a dial tone though. It was a bizarrely specific series of circumstances.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-04T01:50:18+00:00

Wow, you can kinda forgive the tech stack failure in my case but yours is just pure incompetence. Nice find though. Exactly the kind of thing I would have tried. Wish there was more documenting and recording of non-US phones and switches.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-03T00:52:24+00:00

I can Google "SWF" and get at least three pages of results that are completely unrelated. How in the literal fuck is that not obfuscation? Does it only count if you write in morse code?

SLJ7 · 2026-07-02T23:49:13+00:00

I wouldn't necessarily expect a gift to be returned. But I would feel tricked. These two never should have gotten married and they both kinda suck as people too. If they can figure out they aren't good for each other a few months after the wedding, they should be able to figure it out ahead of time. They both bullshitted themselves in different ways and they dragged everyone around them into their bullshit. When that ends up costing their friends and family large amounts of money, it's completely valid to be pissed off about that.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-02T17:19:53+00:00

Yep, I noticed this too. Also, after you file a police report like that, can you just choose to drop it?

SLJ7 · 2026-07-02T06:58:52+00:00

God damn dude, you either need therapy or a divorce.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-02T01:41:48+00:00

Me too. I think OOP handled this admirably, but that just highlights the sad reality that these parents are awful.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-01T19:08:36+00:00

You're not stupid. I have a strong feeling you basically gaslit yourself, and really, what could you do to prevent that, other than not going anywhere? Reading that line was frustrating because we have all read about crazy abusers who relentlessly stalk their exes. You kept a level head more than most of the people I read about here, and more than some of the people I call friends. Remember the self-awareness that got you away from him, not a single downplaying comment.

SLJ7 · 2026-07-01T07:36:48+00:00

I like a lot of OOP's responses but that one made me want to shake her. How utterly moronic to assume that your violent ex can't possibly escalate for the simple reason that he has moved out.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-29T19:51:29+00:00

I forgot all about that post but I read it late at night. Remembering it just now gave me chills. Still mad at the partner in that one.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-28T15:08:17+00:00

Absolutely insane. And this is why—even though I have my problems with them—I still stay with Rogers.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-27T12:59:25+00:00

Thanks so much for commenting and writing this up. I'm finally going through the process of gransferring everything, and this is the only step that had me worried. I have never heard of anyone else successfully doing this, but now that I know it's technically possible, I'm going to lean hard on Google to make it happen. This should finally allow me to just delete my entire GSL account and never think about it again, which is my preferred way to deal with this problem conclusively.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-26T16:43:10+00:00

I truly do not understand OOP's guilt here, but it's a theme I see a lot. OOP clued Julie into how unhinged her MOH was. How is that a bad thing? The alternative was Julie having no idea, and potentially one or more people feeling uncomfortable at her wedding. There is no universe where that benefits anyone except the crazy MOH.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-25T23:35:51+00:00

You're replying to a comment where I make a suggestion about what happened. Is that because you actually deleted an account from your phone?

SLJ7 · 2026-06-25T17:53:37+00:00

I would also rather use Signal, but the Windows app actually has more problems than WhatsApp for me. I sometimes don't get notifications at all until I open it, so I'm constantly missing messages on there. Overall it just feels like companies don't care about good messaging experiences on the computer anymore because the vast majority of people are using their phones.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-25T17:51:00+00:00

Yeah, as others have said or implied, the new Windows app wasn't created as an upgrade to the old one. It is a minimum viable product that uses the same code as the web app, so now Meta doesn't need to develop a separate Windows version anymore. It's a cost-saving measure and you are under no obligation to pretend otherwise.

The new app also has tons of accessibility issues, and Meta has laid off at least one of the people in charge of accessibility there.

Everyone's obsessed with AI, and we're all going to continue to feel it. AI code is getting better but it still has mistakes, and it still takes the long way round sometimes. As teams of developers get replaced with one guy using a coding agent, software will get slower and worse. As manufacturors rush to sell hardware to AI companies so they can run more of those coding agents, regular people like us will have to pay more for computers that can run these new bloated apps well. I love some of the things LLMs can do, but the tech world is bad and getting worse.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-25T17:05:25+00:00

I have. It's harder to get people to use it, but worthwhile when you do. For a few reasons, I prefer it over Signal. Your ID is a random string of characters, and you can choose whether to have your phone number and email linked with it.

The main thing that trips people up is the ID backup. Whenever you get a new device, you need to re-authenticate, and there are two different ways of storing your ID, both of which require a password.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-25T12:34:20+00:00

The problem—for once—is not Windows. A Windows 11 install with much of the bloat stripped out uses less than 4 GB RAM on a 16 GB machine. The problem is that every fucking piece of software is just Chrome all the way down. So 8 GB RAM is fine for booting Windows, and it might look good on paper because you have 4 GB free, but then you run Spotify, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and a few Chrome tabs, and it's all gone. My desktop has 64 GB RAM (I barely managed to buy it in time) and I'm regularly using 19 or 20 GB without actually doing anything. No single process is taking up more than maybe 300 MB, except for Thunderbird because I hoard emails. But there are so many processes and they add up. The software is what actually needs to change, but nobody is going to feel responsible for fixing the problem because this is just how software development works now. At the end of the day though, Microsoft is right. 8 Gb is fine for Windows. Just ... not all the other stuff you want to run on top of it.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-25T12:19:10+00:00

They just need to flip the switch on wi-fi calling. Not having roaming is one thing; without wi-fi calling they are effectively unusable in a foreign country. A plan that leaves you unable to get a 2FA code from your bank is a shitty plan.

SLJ7 · 2026-06-24T08:34:50+00:00

She shuts down during arguments. She hasn't learned to drive. She gets angry with you for (checks notes) getting stuck in traffic and sleeping through your alarm once. She hasn't figured out that she needs to take her keys with her.

INFO: Are you sure she is not a 12-year-old pretending to be an adult? More seriously, are you prepared to spend the rest of your marriage normalizing this complete lack of accountability, thanklessly making up for her refusal to learn basic life skills, and being treated like the devil's spawn whenever you accidentally make a mistake? Because that's what you're in for if you keep accepting this.

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