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Google doesn't have app passwords anymore so plus one for fastmail.

It still does, but the page is hidden and nothing in the UI links to it.

If you still need it, you can find the url by looking at blog guides to setting up calendar integrations.


My BASIC programming discord server gets weekly and sometimes daily "full stack developers" looking to sell their services to us.

It's just spam.


I have seen the same thing in a local slack I frequent. Not weekly, but once a month or so.

It doesn't last long, but it sure is annoying. Sometimes they even join and then spam DM rather than post in a public channel.

It must pay off often enough to make it it worth it, but I can't imagine hiring someone I found through a spam message.


There's no way this pays off. It's probably some enterprising scammer that's selling his bots to individuals (aka suckers) to spam with.

If digital purchases are not ownership then piracy isn't stealing.

Far better than who?


That would be awesome.


There's rampant fraud on the "prediction markets".


How does it hurt anyone?

Whatever happened to "personal responsibility"?

It'e entertainment. Don't participate if you don't want to.


it's personal responsibility to get taken by a business? I don't think so.


They do ban fraudulant learning centers...


Kickstarter should allow ACH transfer and checks for such projects. @#$% the man.


no need to go up in a plane, just learn to fly in a flight simulator. It's not quite the same but they are very realistic.


The analogy works if you think of RMS as a nailgun.


A nailgun hitting nails? This is going nowhere..


Much as a hammer tacker hits tacks internally, so a nailgun strikes the nails within itself.


well it drives nails, we've lost the plot!


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