{"id":166,"date":"2006-10-06T09:20:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T08:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/wordpress\/index.php\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-11-20T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:27:06","slug":"finally-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2006\/10\/06\/finally-the-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally &#8211; the solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, like a lot of people nowadays, I&#8217;m online all day using the various messenger protocols. Now the ICQ and Yahoo! networks seem to not care about peoples privacy and I get contacted by strangers who refuse to tell me their intent every time. I used to try to teach them about how the virtual world isn&#8217;t a whole lot different from the real one: you introduce yourself and state your business&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that never really seemed to work, so I have started a different strategy which does the trick and works quite well and best of all it is now fun for me. I just act like a complete lunatic. A welcome distraction as opposed to my old: dang, leave me alone attitude. Lesson learned: when life gives you lemons you should just make lemonade.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my approach and yes, I&#8217;m the one on the right:<a title=\"icq_idiots_1.png\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2006\/10\/icq_idiots_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"icq_idiots_1.png\" id=\"image165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2006\/10\/icq_idiots_1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image174\" alt=\"Chat idiots 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2006\/10\/chat_idiots_2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and another one, very nice one!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"519\" height=\"455\" alt=\"Chat idiots 3\" id=\"image190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-content\/files\/2006\/11\/chat_idiots_3.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, like a lot of people nowadays, I&#8217;m online all day using the various messenger protocols. Now the ICQ and Yahoo! networks seem to not care about peoples privacy and I get contacted by strangers who refuse to tell me their intent every time. I used to try to teach them about how the virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}