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As general rule you should look at where a URL goes as well as what the link text.
A big ass link that is pointed towards tinyurl should have set off alarm bells for everyone who clicked the link.
That was slick @owl
It teaches about cybersecurity.
In a way, you just took my virginity. It's the first time it's genuinely happened to me, I didn't see this coming. This is a great feeling but I also feel a bit ashamed.
It's alright. It's part of being online. It's a unique and strange feeling for sure.
What a lad.
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You son of a bitch! overnmentjobs 🤣
Thank you, I fixed it.
Ah fuck
Perfect in every way, good job.
YOU SON OF BITCH!!!!! 😂
I'm in
governmentjobs* But yeah, nice one!
Thank you, I fixed it.
I want my mommy
Yeah... I want your mommy, too.
She is a nice lady!
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Bravo
What would be funnier is if instead of an address, it was a hyperlink embedded text that says : Click Here.
Out of frame, above the other text: "Job requirements: experience with OCR-tools."
How was OCR in 2013? This mightve basically been the test for the job
It was bad.
You know what? I forgive url shorteners, sometimes they truly are necessary
Why has nobody invented a URL longener?
You can always add unnecessary query parameters. Just throw on a ?fart=butts&pen=is&herp=derp etc.
If I wanted to add unnecessary characters, I'd just use dots.
Like this: (Lemmy unfortunately breaks the URL) google.com...............................................
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If I remember this site correctly from back then, it was one of those run by idiots that made you upload a PDF of your résumé, and then enter all of the same info in web forms. This tracks.
Plot twist: the job is specifically for a transcriber/translator and requires high level of accuracy.
I could totally see this as being a thing back in the day before everyone was walking around with a supercomputer in their pocket capable of OCR.
Sadly they've already deleted that page because the URL has "trans" in it. >.>
I wish someone would type that out into the comments, so I could click the dead link and feel a small sense of satisfaction; simply by knowing it was dead before I even clicked it, confirming my suspicion
But it's the internet... so 50/50 whether some hero does it for no reason, or someone throws some kinda rick-roll response. Either way, I ain't typing it out and I can live with the disappointment... sorry y'all, I'll try and be better next time
Mispelled colorado
and fstring
Hence why I said:
the accuracy is a whole other thing.
I knew some part of the URL would be screwed up.
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I'm pretty sure 90% of that is just a tracking link, you could probably ignore everything after and including the question mark
It would need the job Id parameter, but the rest looks like unnecessary filters
No, its search parameters. Likely everything after the job ID is not needed though.
Do they still charge by the word? Character? Whatever? Because that's funny lol. If papers still mattered that would have cost them a fortune.
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Data entry operator?
I wore out my percent key typing in the url.
Somebody correct me, but I remember a url (or any long piece of text) can contain a small image. I think it was hexadecimal code. I was looking for the words "base16=" or "base32=".
You are correct those are called "data urls", they're intended to embed files in text.
This is not a data url tho, it's an ugly link
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