So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.
For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):
https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php
When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).
Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.
Any ideas about how they're doing this?
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I just got an email today from my doctor that there will be a charge of $25 for prescription renewals when requested by the pharmacy effective... at the beginning of this month (retroactively?).
Katy and I just renewed five prescriptions this way yesterday.
It's been a morning of interesting and stressful phone calls.
too many people try to avoid calling the doc by letting the pharmacy do it and some docs are inundated by the e requests.
It's easier on everyone if you can try to get all prescriptions updated during your doc visit.
@e bored Sure, but up until this point that was the way he specifically told us to do it.
The thing that's changed is that he can no longer bill OHIP* for these renewals.
* Ontario Health Insurance Plan
It has come to my attention that my favourite jacket is falling apart. I would like to repair it for two reasons:
- I love this jacket.
- I can't afford a new one right now.
I have no opposition to #VisibleMending.
Suggestions?
#AskFedi #ClothingRepair
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@Jonathan Lamothe I wonder how the jacket would look with two bands of contrasting colour bias tape sewn (by hand, if I had to do it) around the cuff seam.
but I'm not sure it would last long, if the rip is because it's a high friction area, maybe you'd need something stronger than bias tape
Thought I had berry juice on my hand from the food I was eating so I licked it.
It was ink.
I love my #FountainPen but sometimes...
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Not that knowledgable about that ink/line. I have noted that stuff like walnut ink, tea ink, sumi ink, very much can have a distinct flavour. A fair amount of ball point ink I've noticed certainly has a flavour. But some of the potential fountain pen inks, I can see basically not having anything you'd note.
I'll have to look up that ink.
Huh. I appealed the speed camera ticket online. They sent an email saying that it was being reviewed but nothing else since. Suddenly this morning when I try to check the status of the ticket, it doesn't seem to exist any more.
I don't want to just assume they've waived it, but I don't know what else to make of this. It'd be nice to have some sort of confirmaion.
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I was always bothered by the scene in #StarTrek II when they used Reliant's prefix code. The input device they used made absolutely no sense from an electronics (or user interface) standpoint.
It just recently occurred to me though that it makes absolute sense from a quick and dirty movie prop standpoint.
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Had the car towed to the mechanic's and walked to my brother-in-law's to wait for the mechanic to call us with the damage.
That was a longer walk than I expected. We also took a "shortcut" along a walking trail that I found on OpenStreetMap.
I was sure we were going to spawn a true crime documentary: couple disappear into woods never to be seen again.
Had to power cycle my router and my sshfs mounts... persisted somehow?
I'm not complaining, but I am confused.
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We were driving home and suddenly heard a clunk and the battery light on the dash suddenly came on.
Fantastic. We've been driving Instacart to make ends meet. We can't afford a huge repair bill right now. Hopefully it's just the alternator belt that snapped.
This car is 20 years old. It's not like it owes us any favours, but it's still a problem. The one positive thing I can say about this car is that of the two major issues it's had, it's always had the courtesy to break down a couple blocks from home so that we can limp back there and figure out what to do next.
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There are ways to determine what sort of browser is actually being used, even if the User-Agent string is set to pretend to be a different browser.
For a while, Disney+ was using this to make sure you weren't trying to watch it on a Linux computer.
I don't know what genius thought that was a good idea, but after some months they must have realized they were punching themselves in the nuts for no reason and stopped blocking Linux usage.
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