Im not exactly sure the mechanics of it, but when a new number is activated (or a number changes carriers, etc) it pings some database that spammers have access to, and know that that number is live. Ive had it happen every time ive hanged carriers or set up a phone for someone. Dies down to normal levels in a couple months.

This feels like it belongs in LiminalSpaces

Its a Doom server

I do that with the windows key…

If you take just the upper right corner of the Czech flag, you get the battle flag of France.

This is Lemmy, we dont get cake, we get beans…

Happy bean day!

As someone who lives in Ohio, I can sadly say that despite several attempts and filing complaints, doordash has refused to deliver me a single cat, and has since suspended my account.

Th ACA screwed me over pretty badly. Granted my situation wasn’t the target of the act (I had non-employer private insurance, and the price more than tripled due to ACA requirements).

I don’t like trump at all, but I agree with scrapping this plan and creating something better.

Same. I got a set of porter cable tools that are still going strong 19 years later (though I am on my third set of batteries).

I think every system I had prior to buildig my own a year ago had at least one drive that was secured only by cables, gravity, and misguided optimism

That’s what the power switch is for

I take the stairs cause the elevator takes like forever to show up if you dont catch it right away

Place phone on scanner and scan each screen

Man, if you think the current executives are bad…

…now imagine removing human emotion entirely. If an AI runs a company, it may reach the conclusion the best way to maximize quarterly profits is to harvest all of their employees organs. Child labor is the cheapest. Russia pays the most for userdata. Etc…

Someone once said that using limewire was like having unprotected sex with the internet and that person was right.

As an economist, I agree.

Bu-but the picture says 1 million light years across the milky way, which one is it?

Oooohhhh shiiit. Took a solid minute to see it but daaamn

Running NewPipe for android to get ad free youtube, have been reasonably satisfied. Is revanced comparable, or good enought to bother switching?

It looks like the tape will hold the arming hammer closed even if the chain manages to pull the pin out. The tape is clearly strong enough to hold a live grenade to a wall…