MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @lemmy.world

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No one seems to be discussing that when a spammer learns that your number is in active use, they add it to a list and sell it to other spammers, so you get a lot more spam (particularly robo-dialing).

This is a worse problem in countries with weak anti-spam enforcement for phones (cough - USA - cough).

I'm not aware whether spammers and scammers are using these message receipts to scan across random numbers ro build their robo-dial lists, but I would be surprised if they are not doing so.

If they are not already doing it, I guarantee they're working on getting it to work for them in an affordable and convenient-to-them way.

For that reason, I keep message receipts off on my devices.

Edit: If it's really only for your incoming messages, none of the above applies. I'm not going to go look that up for a rude Internet stranger. That said, I would be wary, I've only seen this as an "opt-in" setting where if you're getting receipts, you're also sending them.

Joking aside, for Bob to give off the kind of warmth and comfort that he did, I'm sure he had to work toward it, and I imagine he had personal reasons.

A quick DuckDuckGo later...

Interesting. His chill vibe doesn't sound to be rooted in anything as traumatic as I worried, but it does seem to be intentionally cultivated:

"Having held military positions that required him to act tough and mean, "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work", Ross decided he would not raise his voice when he left the military." - Bob Ross - Wikipedia

None of it is going to be smooth.

I'm all for paying for a discovery algorithm, and Spotify has a good one. But as Google found out, staying the top player in a discovery space is hard.

A serious risk that Spotify faces is that new federated social networks are popping up, with great support for finding new artists.

Without the Discovery portion of Spotify, and with the constant pressure by record labels to enshittify the service, I don't see a long runway ahead for Spotify.

The new default is going to be piracy, again. (The old default was piracy, before streaming got good.) The paid option will be patronage. Then we will see massive amounts of bundling in the patronage services, as they re-discover that people are willing to pay for a discovery service.

If the record labels even still exist at that point, they will pressure the bundled patronage services to enshittify, and the dance will start over at piracy.

For anyone on the selling side who wants to skip a step or win for awhile, here's the lesson: You can't sell digital files. You never could - not from day one. You can only sell easy access and discovery.

Digital files are the ulitmate perfectly elastic good, and the consumer community will swing back and forth into piracy or paying, based on how well they are treated as customers.

Glass raised to your buddy. Fuck cancer.

It's all about who gets to read along with you as you browse the web, plan your trips, share poignant memories and photos...

Some people want that creepily unknown corporate employee to be a Microsoft employee. Some prefer a Google employee, plus whoever Google is selling that information, over and over, to.

Some weirdos even prefer a browser without trackers. /s

Yeah. I too have had some great times with Microsoft browsers over the years...

Downloading Firefox, downloading Opera, downloading Chromium, downloading Firefox again.

Yeah, I've made some great memories with Microsoft browsers.

This thread has lots of company names without references or explanations.

While " controversy" is probably a solid search term, we could do better by including "why" right in the comments.

Yarrr. I've not taken part myself, but I hear there be extremely affordable ways to obtain digital files in this age.

Spotify is a last gross gasp of the dying music industrial complex, before direct payments for early access, directly to artists, becomes the primary form of music sales.

That tracks then. The SG1 line in similarly built from actual plot points, but I'm pretty sure it's not a direct quote too.

I'm pretty sure the Reno quote is real. (Edit: It's not.) The O'Neill one I don't remember, even though there's both time travel and evil nanites in late SG1 seasons.

It's actually cut off at "bell" the first time before it passes out. It manages "belt" later.

Everyone has to start somewhere.

I hope you got a coupon discount or something, though.

All joking aside, the pissed off whale is a great character, and its story beats land as solidly as its angry attacks.

The studio execs are reading along and thinking, "at 2 billion each, you bet I will!"

Cobol as a shield would also fit with it inexplicably still be in popular use long after anyone expected!

My head-canon for this is that site-to-site transport is only safe in ideal conditions.

Except Garek, obviously. He's merely a simple tailor.

This is going absolutely nowhere, I guarantee it.

My cash settlement from last time a state sued Meta says otherwise.

Pro tip folks: if your state is one of the ones brining this suit, sign up for the class action settlement. Cash is nice. You can spend it on things. I liked my cash from a previous Meta settlement.

Meta can apparently break the law all day long, but they do pay cash in settlement when they get caught red handed.

It's not the manufacturers fault that your and my hand sizes haven't kept up with demand. /s

I don't want smaller phones, I'm just having a hard time growing my hands and pockets to keep up.