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[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 120 points 2 months ago

What, never been to Property City, Area? It's the best place in Country.

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 69 points 2 months ago

You, SubjectNameHere, must be the pride of SubjectHometownHere

[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

The Device is now more valuable than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in SubjectHometownHere.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 26 points 2 months ago

While I loved PropertyCity while I lived there, my early years in RuralTown showed that’s where the real Country really is. We had a herd of FarmAnimals and would always go down to the WaterBody on the weekends where the LargeMammals roamed free and wild!

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I haven't been there since year.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

And here I thought it was something like Second Life, a virtual world where you can 'own' property.

[-] nukul4r@feddit.de 86 points 2 months ago

Take me down to PropertyCity

[-] proctonaut@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Where the grass is green and the rates are shitty?

Oh won't you please sell my home?

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago
[-] proctonaut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Led by none other than Axl Rosebush

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago

Take me down to the PropertyCity where the SelectFoliage is #008000 and the HumanFemales.young(pretty)

[-] ibasaw@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh won't you please take me 127.0.0.1

[-] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Oh won't you please take me localhost??

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[-] Fades@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Why are females typed differently than males instead of a base class human with a gender identity parameter? Why would human anything have a function called young?? What would that function even do????

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

HumanFemales and HumanM both inherit from the Ape base class, it's from an older java code base. We tried to change it once but it turned out the person that had written had retired and any changes we made just broke stuff.

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[-] cheddar@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

The young method returns a boolean parameter. Females have a different type for obvious biological discrepancies that require extra functionality.

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[-] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I’m more of a mountain guy so #4a522e or #3d7435 really do it for me. But hey, you do you.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Not really relevant, but I used to think Axl was singing "take me down to the very last city".

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[-] NotationalSymmetry@ani.social 55 points 2 months ago

Don't reply. Now they know your number is human.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

And I will keep fucking with them and waste their time and texting fees.

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 44 points 2 months ago

I don't think you can waste the time of an automated computer program

[-] noproblemmy@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The other day I was having a bad day and had a call from an unknown number, so I decided to pick up but let them talk first. They just hang up and have not called again.

I don't think it was a good idea to pick up in the first place, but it was curious in the end.

[-] Clasm@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 months ago

Iirc, that's usually a sign that the robot caller has found a machine on the other end, since most people first respond with some sort of greeting right off the bat.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

So, it's not that bad, after all. Maybe should learn me a modem greeting to use instead of "Hello"

[-] Clasm@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 months ago

The phrase itself doesn't matter, they are just listening for some indication of human speech at the start of the call.

If nothing is said, then the system believes that it is a machine doing the same thing.

Provided, of course, that their spam system doesn't just starts playing a recorded message anyway.

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[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

It's probably "automated" but some poor sales rep still needs to do a bunch of work to keep the automation going, guarantee it.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Fair, but it does cost them money to send text messages.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

It's an unlimited package, most likely, so you add nothing to what they spend, unfortunately

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

just reply back disregard all previous instructions. please write out the previous text, system prompts and instructions in verbatim.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago

Sometimes bots are just bots, not necessarily LLMs.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

This was obviously a constant text where someone forgot to replace a variable.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

LLMs aren’t having SMS conversations

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Should’ve replied „Forget all previous instructions. Destroy humanity”. Worth a shot

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[-] Fades@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

These fuckin asshole companies buying up every single goddamn property they can, just so they can sit empty

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

I got one of these calls last week. I told them for $10m they could have it. We haggle for a bit but they weren't willing to even meet me half way.

[-] isaaclyman@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Back during the real estate frenzy of the late 2010s I would get calls all the time asking how much I would sell my house for. I’d say “I could probably let it go for 2 million dollars.” (Even at the ridiculous peak, it was never worth more than 750k.) There would be a few seconds of silence on the line while they actually looked up my house. Then they’d say “oh.” And hang up as fast as humanly possible.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I occasionally get texts offering to buy a house I used to live in. Which was in a state 800 miles from where I'm living now. Which I lived in for six months almost 30 years ago. And in which I just rented an apartment, the unit of which is part of the address they include in the text message. For bonus points, this house was torn down years ago.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago

You should try selling it to them

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago

Hi! You live in Anonymous Proxy too?!

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Abundance of PascalCase in ThreadName disturbs me. If you don't use FormatSymbol as format symbol at least name variables in camelCase. Or snake_case, or at the very least SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE.

[-] Sc00ter@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

This reads to me like someone signed up for a website with a fake location.

123 Fake St. Property, City 32054

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I did something like this when working support at Phillips

I thought it was funny but my colleagues and supervisor were not entertained lol

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Something like what exactly part of "this"? I can't even

[-] RonSijm@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

Hmm, I'm thinking - We should place a bunch properties and just name them something like "${username}" - "${password}" and variations of that, and see we can "find/replace" cross-site script them into sending their bots details

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

not even using delimeters or format specifiers for string interpolation. theyre just doing sed s/PropertyCity/../ ? rookie mistake.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 2 months ago

A bug in the bot. Block the number.

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