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    I think it was a Harry Bliss about a month ago that used this theme, with a caption along the lines of “Alexa, tell the neighbors’ Alexa that I will come over and dump her in the trash if she doesn’t turn down their gawdawful music!”

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    Before they start messing with the launch codes, they might want to read “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”. It doesn’t end so well. :-)

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    @VoodooChicken: The book is short, but you can probably get by with watching the movie.

    There was an XKCD a while back where Black Hat walks into somebody’s house and promptly tells Alexa to order two tons of creamed corn and then confirms the purchase as a way of testing their security.

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    @ Mitch4 – Just repeating the URL is not enough, you would need to embed it in an “<img…>” tag. I tried this once (a very long time ago), and I believe that it was successful, but later attempts did not. I think WordPress improved their HTML filter to prohibit use by non-admins.

    P.S. It’s worth another try:

    (if this works, it should show Bill’s CIDU gravatar.)

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    Kilby, and CIDU Bill, there was a reason I was trying just inserting an image URL, without even the IMG SRC business. It’s not that I’m unaware it isn’t supposed to work — but things may be different under WP own sites … and more to the point, right here on New CIDU, just yesterday I saw a post — by Arthur, in “Shotgun” — containing an image displayed in the comment, followed by his remarking that it was surprising to see it, as he had just inserted the image URL.

    This was at https://godaddyandthesquirrelmustbothdie.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/c/#comment-409

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    I posted a couple images in comments in the “The snake killed him …” thread. The trick may be that the URL went straightforwardly to a *.GIF and not some protective indirect encoding.

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    Okay, maybe the fact that it’s a gif? I know Facebook treats gif’s differently from other images, and another site of mine (years back) wouldn’t even allow gif’s.

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    In case those were successful because of “cheating” — to get clean URL I reposted to a blog, but it was under WordPress so may have been allowed where others aren’t — let’s try one direct to the creators’ site but not with an obscured URL:

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    Okay, so what WordPress is doing is “massaging” postings and comments when it sees a URL it can use. If it’s like a page link, it makes a clickable link without your having to wrtie out the whole A tag. And now when it sees a URL that points all the way to an image, it does the IMG SRC and inserts the image. (Note if you hover on these it shows the original location. It did not download and store on this blog’s space.)

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    Bill/Mitch – I went to do the renewals for our reenactment group and wanted to check that the National group’s dues and form had not changed and went to their website. I clicked on the form and instead of it being the individual form, it was the “form a new unit” form. I emailed. They told me that it was the correct form. I printed it out and then emailed it to them.

    Well apparently if one used a phone or tablet one was finding the correct form. If one was “old fashioned” like me and used a computer – one got the wrong form.

    So apparently the device once uses to see a page can make a big difference.

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    Earlier in this thread (I think it was as a URL, not an inserted image) I mentioned a Bizarro with a person making a bizarre command to Alexa. It seems he isn’t done with that theme, as the following appeared today:

    I like the idea that the parrot actually does want a cracker (albeit in a fancy version)

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    ‘ I think it was a Harry Bliss about a month ago that used this theme, with a caption along the lines of “Alexa, tell the neighbors’ Alexa that I will come over and dump her in the trash if she doesn’t turn down their gawdawful music!” ‘

    Turns out it was a Bizarro, from 12-14-17

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