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A reminder: please check the computers belonging to your elderly-but-computer-using #relatives. Ensure there aren't digital nasties on there. And when I say "check", I mean look yourself, don't just ask the #relative about it.
With age, people tend to lose some of their mental #sharpness, but it's not just poor memory or fuzzy thinking. They seem to lose some critical #thinking skills, and become more #trusting than they should, or more naive. I think this is what makes older folk the favourite targets of #scammers.
Yesterday, a relative called me in a panic about their laptop. This is someone who was a very high-ranking federal police officer, in charge of investigations for a large swath of the country - not someone to be easily taken in by smooth-talkers, at least not in the past.
I went over today and asked him what happened. "Some kind of warning came up" -- i.e. the "oh noes, this is #Microsoft, your #Windows is #corrupted, please call us so we can fix it" one. I asked "Did you do anything they asked you to? Download any programs, or run any commands, or anything like that?"
"No, no, I just phoned them and after they started asking for my address I got suspicious, I didn't do anything they said."
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A reminder: please check the computers belonging to your elderly-but-computer-using #relatives. Ensure there aren't digital nasties on there. And when I say "check", I mean look yourself, don't just ask the #relative about it.
With age, people tend to lose some of their mental #sharpness, but it's not just poor memory or fuzzy thinking. They seem to lose some critical #thinking skills, and become more #trusting than they should, or more naive. I think this is what makes older folk the favourite targets of #scammers.
Yesterday, a relative called me in a panic about their laptop. This is someone who was a very high-ranking federal police officer, in charge of investigations for a large swath of the country - not someone to be easily taken in by smooth-talkers, at least not in the past.
I went over today and asked him what happened. "Some kind of warning came up" -- i.e. the "oh noes, this is #Microsoft, your #Windows is #corrupted, please call us so we can fix it" one. I asked "Did you do anything they asked you to? Download any programs, or run any commands, or anything like that?"
"No, no, I just phoned them and after they started asking for my address I got suspicious, I didn't do anything they said."
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There was so much sharpness... j tryed to change.
#sharp #sharpness #illustration #digitalillustration #bnw #lines
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There was so much sharpness... j tryed to change.
#sharp #sharpness #illustration #digitalillustration #bnw #lines
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Words cutt more than swords.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound
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How to Get Pin-Sharp Photos: Fixing Common Causes of Blurry Images https://petapixel.com/2026/04/04/how-to-get-pin-sharp-photos-fixing-common-causes-of-blurry-images/ #Educational #techniques #education #sharpness #Guides #guides #howto
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How to Get Pin-Sharp Photos: Fixing Common Causes of Blurry Images https://petapixel.com/2026/04/04/how-to-get-pin-sharp-photos-fixing-common-causes-of-blurry-images/ #Educational #techniques #education #sharpness #Guides #guides #howto
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TIL - if you shoot RAW only, and try to judge sharpness by zooming in on the shot _in camera_ you are going to be lead astray. Shoot RAW+large JPEG to ensure that you have a high rez image available to zoom in on to check the focus.
from Featured Comments here
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Sharpness 'pier'.
This leads into a canal lock - to the Sharpness & Gloucester Canal. Doesn't look as though it would resist much of a dunt.
#photography #Sharpness ##canal #Severn #pier -
Sharpness 'pier'.
This leads into a canal lock - to the Sharpness & Gloucester Canal. Doesn't look as though it would resist much of a dunt.
#photography #Sharpness ##canal #Severn #pier -
📍: Bridge 1 Low Level Bridge
ℹ️: track bridge
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.7230304136642&mlon=-2.47418921788077#map=17/51.7230304136642/-2.47418921788077
📸: Photo by velodenz on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/8067411@N07/8439611894#canal #narrowboat #england #uk #flickr #nikon #d7000 #digital #pic #picture #phot #photo #photograph #canoe #hendrika #margaretha #boat #shipphotography #waterway #harbour #dock #waterfront #sharpness #docks #south #imo9057238 #mmsi244246000
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Vicious rabbits, Sharpness, Gloucestershire
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Vicious rabbits, Sharpness, Gloucestershire
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Sharpness 'pier'.
Extending out into the Severn, this mooring allows boats to wait for the locks/tide to equalise, so they can enter Sharpness Harbour.
#photography #Sharpness #mooring #Severn -
Sharpness. 8th largest port in SW England.
It's at the Severn end of the Gloucester & Sharpness canal.
View from South/View from North
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SV Tenacious, moored at Sharpness Dock, Gloucestershire.
This ship was launched in 2000, as a training vessel (a challenge for youths). Unfortunately, its owners (Jubilee Sailing Trust) has gone into liquidation, so its future is uncertain.
#photography #Tenacious #Sharpness #SailingShip #Gloucestershire #jst -
SV Tenacious, moored at Sharpness Dock, Gloucestershire.
This ship was launched in 2000, as a training vessel (a challenge for youths). Unfortunately, its owners (Jubilee Sailing Trust) has gone into liquidation, so its future is uncertain.
#photography #Tenacious #Sharpness #SailingShip #Gloucestershire #jst -
One for the engineering nerds
Does Obsidian Really Form the Sharpest Edge?
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Hackaday Links: July 23, 2023 - It may be midwinter in Perth, but people still go to the beach there, which led to... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/hackaday-links-july-23-2023/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #thermonuclear #oppenheimer #australia #meteoroid #sharpness #spacejunk #obsidian #ibmpcjr #knapped #slider #fusion #meteor #uptime #flint #edge #v20
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Hackaday Links: July 23, 2023 - It may be midwinter in Perth, but people still go to the beach there, which led to... - https://hackaday.com/2023/07/23/hackaday-links-july-23-2023/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #thermonuclear #oppenheimer #australia #meteoroid #sharpness #spacejunk #obsidian #ibmpcjr #knapped #slider #fusion #meteor #uptime #flint #edge #v20
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RT from TUXEDO Computers (@TUXEDOComputers)
Enjoy complete #sharpness: 16:10 #Omnia #3K #display for more vertical space, with 2880 x 1800 pixels as well as 400 cd/m2 #brightness! Discover the new InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen6 right now! https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/10-14-inch/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen6.tuxedo#