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In yet another display of how incompetent all of the #creditReporting agencies are at providing consumer-facing services, #TransUnion migrates thousands of users to a new service and tells them to bookmark links which are actually click-tracking links, not the links they should be bookmarking. Idiots.
(For example, the word "link" below links to "https ://links.em-tuci.transunion.com/u/click?_t=[long random string]&_m=[long random string]&_e=[even longer random string]")
Email screenshot reads as follows: Header: TransUnion Credit Monitoring Subhead: Your TrueIdentity account was successfully transitioned to TransUnion Credit Monitoring. Text: Going forward, please login to TransUnion Credit Monitoring instead of TrueIdentity. We recommend you bookmark this new link. [The words "login to TransUnion Credit Monitoring" and "link" are links.]
#CreditReporting #transunion
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47
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Also, the aforementioned "Your receipt from TransUnion" looked like this.
Developers formatting currency wrong is embarrassing. Developers formatting currency wrong and then not doing enough QA to catch and fix that obvious error before release is INCREDIBLY embarrassing.
Incompetence on parade.
Screenshot of a receive email which says "Subtotal: $0.0", "Sales Tax: $0.0", and "Total: $0.0". The column containing the three "$0.0" values is circled in red to indicate that all of these should have been formatted as "$0.00".
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Rpsu (326 ppm)
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Incompetence maybe, but more likely limited amount of time test, of fix what has been found.

I wouldn't blame the developers unless I know someone actually neglected the instructions given to them. There are so many other people involved in the process.

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Interesting new US study

Mitochondrial Gene Signatures Illuminate Mitochondrial Function as an Important Contributor to Post-COVID Recovery and Long COVID Progression

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Hashtags:
@longcovid
#LongCovid #PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain
@covid19 #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 @novid@chirp.social #novid @novid@a.gup.pe #CovidIsNotOver #auscovid19 @auscovid19

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#covid19 #covid #Covid_19 #LongCovid #sarscov2 #postcovid #COVIDー19 #CovidIsNotOver #PostCOVIDSyndrome #pwlc #lc #NOVID #pasc #covidbrain #auscovid19 @longcovid group @NoVID @covid19 group @AusCOVID19 group @novid group
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Tom Kindlon
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"these findings suggest that successful COVID recovery is mediated in part by efficient mitochondrial repair and reduced oxidative stress, while mitochondrial dysfunction and continued dysregulation of mitochondrial gene expression contributes to chronic inflammation & #longCOVID onset."

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@longcovid
#PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain
@covid19 #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 #novid #CovidIsNotOver #auscovid19

#covid19 #covid #Covid_19 #LongCovid #sarscov2 #postcovid #COVIDー19 #CovidIsNotOver #PostCOVIDSyndrome #pwlc #lc #NOVID #pasc #covidbrain #auscovid19 @longcovid group @covid19 group

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#cat #cats #CatsOfMastodon
#cat #cats #catsofmastodon
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Olson
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Pffff! Lightweight didn’t even finish his drink.

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Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line byteseu.com/420799/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics
Trump Has Crossed a Truly Unacceptable Line
#politics #UnitedStates #USA #US #america #USPolitics #unitedstatesofamerica #usapolitics

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Reflections … #Hamburg
Eine HΓ€userzeile spiegelt sich im Hamburger Isebekkanal.
#hamburg

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Anyone familiar with German can tell me if I'm writing the ß alright compared to my handwriting (maybe there are mistakes I don't know I'll check out later)
#languagelearning #language #languages #germanlearning #LearningGerman #german #handwritingimprovement #Deutsch
Handwritten ß
Handwritten ß
#language #deutsch #languages #languagelearning #german #germanlearning #learninggerman #handwritingimprovement
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Tombe la pluie - Theespookje
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@Muscaria Hum from the context the last one would be more appropriate, even if the show being set as late as the 1800s also makes it possible, I don't remember the scene, will write both).
Also thank you I couldn't find the right translation using deepl, which is strange. That's the result I had with the ss, but it was not veru coherent between french and english for both (french sucked apparently), so both times I took the one that made sense with both. I'll note that. And note both once again
@Muscaria
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Tombe la pluie - Theespookje
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@Muscaria I want to thank you sincerely because these are getting into my wordbook
@Muscaria

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Liberal candidate in Montreal byelection says campaign is about her β€” not Trudeau byteseu.com/420794/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics
Liberal candidate in Montreal byelection says campaign is about her β€” not Trudeau
#politics #canada #canadapolitics

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It's bizarro Schibsted. The Scandinavian company just executed a similar split to leave the news in the hands of a foundation. This split leaves Springer's news in the hands of the miniMurdoch, DΓΆpfner.
I also wonder whether this sets up DΓΆpfner, who already owns Politico, to buy the MurdochJournal if that family feud ends up in a split.

Axel Springer and KKR near deal on €13.5bn break-up

ft.com/content/4e49eff2-eeb1-4…

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Park Hill Community Bookstore offers titles on wordsmithing, horror of war
coloradosun.com/2024/09/15/par…

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"Strong-arm." "Tougher governing style." "Forceful rhetoric." The #MurdochJournal finds many white-gloved and admiring euphemisms for fascism.
Trump Adopts Strong-Arm Approach to a Second Term As he campaigns for a second term, Donald Trump is signaling a tougher governing style while using forceful rhetoric, delighting some supporters but alarming detractors.
#murdochjournal
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Rabid Trump licker Kristen Welker just said on national TV that Harris was wrong to keep Trump from talking about his "policies" at the debate

and how Harris avoided answering questions re her policies

and never acknowledged that Harris won

and literally said because of Harris not answering questions and interfering with Trump's responses, voters cannot tell how a Harris presidency would be different than a Trump presidency

You can't make this sh$t up

It's MSM malpractice

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Unusual Whales is raising its prices.

This is to pay for new feeds.

You can subscribe to get lower prices now, and all users will be grandfathered in.

Join now to get reduced prices; all users will be grandfathered in.

See more: t.co/Bt7O2yRsyE

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

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1920s Flapper Slang

Fire alarm - a divorced woman
Fire bell - a married woman
Fire extinguisher - a chaperone
Forty-niner - a man looking for a rich wife
Handcuff - an engagement ring
Hush money - a young woman’s allowance
Munitions - a woman’s make-up

#Words #1920s #SocialHistory #History #Flappers #Art

Flapper with a cigarette holder and a long line of smoke
#art #history #words #1920s #socialhistory #flappers
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Hannah Howe
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@CppGuy Maybe as a warning not to go near her.
@C++ Wage Slave

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True story πŸ˜‚

#linux #windows

#Windows #Linux
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Brandon
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I revived an old laptop with Linux! An HP DV6000-series, which had become really slow. Saved files, format hard drive, install Linux, and it ran like new again.

My first laptop, I did dual boot out of box. Under Linux, same types of software installed, there was more drive space available, more memory available, better performance, and the battery lasted longer.

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#SilentSunday
An ominously contemplative sculpture of a life-size standing human figure, naked and A sunset scene looking out over the water in Copenhagen, with sun-silhouetted steeples and other buildings in the distance and, closer up, the water reflecting the sinking sun in a radiant glare.
#silentsunday

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On Linux, file types determine how the kernel interprets and handles files at the filesystem level, impacting operations like reading, writing, and execution

Here are a list of available file types used on #Linux πŸ˜ŽπŸ‘‡
#sysadmin #infosec #devops

#Linux #infosec #DevOps #sysadmin

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Went to the Royal Academy last week to see β€˜In the Eye of the Storm’: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s. A jewel like show…

β€œOleksandr Bohomazov’s Sharpening the Saws, from 1927, hangs in pole position in the final gallery: a wild vision of labourers tending to their perfectly geometric tools, long planes of violet, green and crimson, lying among tree trunks and walls like the musical instruments in some celestial Quattrocento vision of paradise.”

#Ukraine #art #colourful #Piccadilly #london

The paintings in the Royal Academy’s startling new show are political refugees. They were loaded on to lorries to be driven out of Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. A Tuesday was chosen, as the Russians generally bombed the city on Mondays, but no sooner had they reached the Polish border than a rogue missile exploded on the other side. It took prolonged Ukrainian diplomacy to persuade the border guards to flag them through. To stand in front of these wildly dynamic paintings, so filled with the spirit of freedom, is to sense both past and present danger. Some of these paintings were confiscated or hidden from Soviet censors; some of these artists fled Ukraine to escape Stalin’s purges, while others did not make it.
#art #London #ukraine #colourful #Piccadilly

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Read the inspiring story of how EyΓΌpsultan, Turkey switched to free software, gained independence from proprietary software, and saved money ($$$) in the process! If they did it in their city, your city can do it too! | Read more at: u.fsf.org/3m9

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If Connecticut passes its no-excuse absentee voting measure this November, it would join the majority of U.S. states that already have some form of mail-in voting available for all citizens. #DemocracyDay boltsmag.org/connecticut-ballo…
#DemocracyDay

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Good morning!
#SilentSunday
Small tortoiseshell butterfly resting on a pale yellow collarbone style dahlia flower. Dpible dahlias look amazing but provide no sustaiance for wildlife. Grow the single or semi double types instead.
#silentsunday

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Clematis seed clusters, courtesy of Dr. Seuss
Three clematis seed clusters, shaped like brown puffballs.
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