This shit ("Sign up with Twitter")
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I'm sure you've all seen this: you visit some random website, try to do something, and are redirected to a login screen like this:
Oh well, I'll just use my throwaway Twitter account that I created for cases like this.
One oauth authorization later:
WTF? Now I have to share my Twitter account and my email! That's a terrible user experience.
I understand that they do this because oauth2 and/or Twitter does not provide an email address, which they need to send me pointless spam (and purchase confirmations), but as a user it just feels deceitful and annoying. Is this really the best we can do?
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...so make a throwaway Facebook? Or a throwaway Gmail account?
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Use the same throwaway email account you used for your throwaway twitter account for your throwaway identity.
BTW & AFAIR you can get the email from the Twitter login thing if the user allows it.
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What's the website, so we all know to avoid it?
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http://gyft.com/. They sell gift cards, including gift cards for themselves so you can gift a gift card for gift cards (yo dawg...).
...so make a throwaway Facebook? Or a throwaway Gmail account?
Those are much more intrusive. Google makes you verify your phone number, and Facebook wants your real name and is likely to delete your account if they find out it's just a throwaway (it's against their ToS).The only answer is a throwaway email address, but usually I just use http://mailcatch.com/ for that.
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What a stupid idea, another one to add to
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/this-is-the-crap-were-developing-in-2015/8261
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Google makes you verify your phone number
Really? I just tell them "not now", and then they leave me alone for another month.
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hmm... I just gave Google +12077754321 as my phone number for my throwaway accounts. That stopped google for asking for it, even if i couldn't give google the number it called that number to say.
That's the time and temperature line for the time and temp building in Portland Maine BTW, in case you feel inclined to call it it'll just tell you the local time and temperature.
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ey need to send me pointless spam
Does something like http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html help here?
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Really? I just tell them "not now", and then they leave me alone for another month.
I've had one occasion where having my cellphone attached to my eBay (possibly PayPal) account came in useful when I needed to change the password and the reset emails where failing to arrive at my email account (or possibly the email address was ancient and broken and needed to be fixed). This anecdote is a lot vaguer than I'd thought it was going to be. I remember that this happened at night...
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Discourse does this too. Twitter's the one not giving out email addresses.
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I've had one occasion where having my cellphone attached to my eBay (possibly PayPal) account came in useful when I needed to change the password and
But those are more real things with real money so providing a phone number isn't too bad.
Of course Google is trying more legitimacy. But is isn't in the same ballpark since gmail can be online only.
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hmm... I just gave Google +12077754321 as my phone number for my throwaway accounts... That's the time and temperature line for the time and temp building in Portland Maine BTW, in case you feel inclined to call it it'll just tell you the local time and temperature.
I knew that number looked familiar. Leave the Big Ass Time and Temp sign alone!
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Ayuh. I saw the 207, and wondered why someone would use Maine as a throwaway number. Then I thought, wait, 775 is Portland. Darn, what's 4321 again.. oh yeah!
Obviously not quite as useful these days with the Internet and all, but I remember calling that number pretty often as a kid.
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yeah. it's my go to number for testing if the phone is working correctly these days. which i have to do not infrequently thanks to these new fanged VOIP phones that go over your household internet and the crap quality of the internet offerings aroound these parts.
I used to use it to set the clocks right after a power outage, but everything now either has battery backup or sets itself via NTP.
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775 is Portland. Darn, what's 4321 again.. oh yeah!
Where I lived when I was younger, the number was POP-CORN (767-2676), except that 767-/\d{4}/ worked. With old pulse-dial phones, it was significantly faster to dial 767-1111.
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I searched for "Time and Temp" to find a photo of that building, and DuckDuckGo replied with the time in Portland too...
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The only answer is a throwaway email address, but usually I just use http://mailcatch.com/ for that.
Does it support Tor? I noticed the classic Mailinator rejects Tor users...
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This post is deleted!
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Seriously, why is DDG giving me the time in far away places?
(This was with "Region" active)
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Region off:
Nope.
Region on:
Wrong again.
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Geolocation.
It's Discoursistent.
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I searched for "Time and Temp" to find a photo of that building,
http://i.imgur.com/vJqpzVe.gif
(one of the buildings in that shot is my office)
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What is MP[8B]N?
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MPBN: Maine Public Boradcasting Network http://www.mpbn.net/
it's the local NPR affiliate.
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Looks nicer than where I work: an industrial estate near St Helens...
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it's pretty, but i wish the snow would go away. i'm done with winter.
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@boomzilla said:
Soviet Russia is done
Now it's Putins Russia.From what I read, there seems to be little difference.
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From what I read, there seems to be little difference.
Putins Russia has satellite states dropping away instead of joining.
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Soviet Russia would have, too, if military force (or threat thereof) hadn't kept them in line.
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it's pretty, but i wish the snow would go away. i'm done with winter.
At least Portland knows how to deal with the snow. Unlike some other major cities in New England.
What's the over/under on when the snow mountain at Baxter Boulevard will melt this year? I remember some years when it was something like June 1.
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At least Portland knows how to deal with the snow. Unlike
some other major cities in Newthe entirety of England.
FTFM.We suck at dealing with snow.
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Not sure what the bookies are thinking. but i wouldn't be surprised if it was in June.
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Yeah, that Heathrow disaster a few years ago come to mind.
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that Heathrow disaster a few years ago
The airport? Oh, it's still there, unfortunately...
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Twitter do not provide email, there is talk of an upcoming "announcement" though
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I meant this:
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https://twittercommunity.com/t/twitter-oauth-after-connect-get-primary-email-address/1563/14
Because the only way of phishing an e-mail address is via Twitter, obviously
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FTFM.
We suck at dealing with snow.
A few local authorities can cope a bit, by virtue of actually having the right equipment. Most don't and can't. (It also depends on when the snowfall happens and whether it was correctly predicted. An unpredicted heavy snow during the morning rush hour is bad news…)
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The main problem is we don't get enough snow, long term, to make it worth investing in the infrastructure. The last 2-3 winters before the current rather mild one were outliers, and people would have complained if hundreds of gritters and stuff had been bought and then not used for years
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Top Gear had the right idea with the Snowbine:
Think about it: combine harvesters sit idle in winter, and gritters/snowploughs sit idle in summer. So why not turn combines into gritters and snowploughs for a few months?
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The main problem is we don't get enough snow, long term, to make it worth investing in the infrastructure.
That's why hardly anyone has the right equipment. My authority does have some of it, but then it's got a fiercer climate than most of the country (being in the high Pennines does that…)
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So why not turn combines into gritters and snowploughs for a few months?
Because they're fucking huge. Among other reasons.
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Because they're fucking huge.
And snowploughs aren't?OK, three middle-aged men cocking about in Scandinavia isn't exactly an iron-clad test, but they did show it was feasible.
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And snowploughs aren't?
Not that big, no.
but they did show it was feasible.
What they didn't show was using the combine as a combine harvester afterwards, because I bet it wouldn't work as one again.