this can be done, and it’s suspect when someone’s done it to build a following and it’s not clear if they own the tweets.
I tail the firehose sometimes , filtering for post dates that don’t contain 2025. Bottom line this has been happening since day one and backdated/imported posts were about 1/16th or so of the overall post volume in any random sampling I’ve taken. It’s a lot.
But the few I spot checked , all checked out. The people importing their posts were all mentioning their new bluesky on LinkedIn or Twitter . I haven’t caught a spammer yet. It’s something I look at when I am extremely bored.
Brazil recorded its first COVID death April 15, 2019. Initially taken as a data entry error by some, data for 2019 is still published nearly six years after the fact.
November Brazil could happen because December is when rumours already circulated in China and October is when it was out in Wuhan already per your link.
April Brazil I don't know what to tell you, no sources support the wild claim that it was NOT a data error.
> 2 months before it came out of wuhan
Source? I bet it came out earlier.
It was circulating in Wuhan before the pandemic according to WHO. Just people in China who are more likely to get infected are less likely to travel abroad (social class/sanitary conditions/etc) but maybe one person brought it out.
I can answer this one because it was one of my dirtier SEO tricks.
Expired domains and Domains on the marketplace, with hundreds or thousands of “backlinks” to them, are valuable. In the listing you may see something like “20000 back links.” And those links are usually worthless , spam, and will vanish as soon as you buy. But you can find domains that have real backlinks. TEN backlinks from reputable websites are more valuable than a thousand spam BLs.
You used to be able to buy and run software , “backlinks explorer” to investigate everyone who links to a domain you’re thinking about buying. And you can also research a “20000 backlinks” claim to see if this is just someone spamming that domain all over blogger and forums.
A good domain to buy will have legit backlinks from real websites that the website linked on purpose. If it’s been spammed thousands of times for a “5000 backlinks claim” , expect google to punish it!
Because if you 301 them to your site, google et al assume you’re the legitimate successor to that website and people mean to link to you.
So you come up higher in search.
I’ve used this to be the first or second result on google. And certainly on the first page of results.
It overcomes downranking for being a new domain nobody links to.
Google has its own criteria for evaluating whether your page is spam or a scam, and whether you’re abusing this to promote spam or a scam.
I have a trio of ancient highly ranked domains that I forward to a new page for about a year.
They’ll hit page one on google within a week or two or three.
After I remove the 301s or recycle those domains, the pages usually still come up within the first page of results afterwards.
Before you get too horrified here, I did this to bury a “competitor” who had registered a similar domain name, stolen my entire repo and website from a disgruntled employee, copied all my software and copied my webpage word for word trying to drum up business on my IP. The whole time they mocked me in email about stealing my customers and putting me out of business.
It worked. (Sort of. If you hire them they don’t actually have any idea how to do what I do.)
I did not do this to scam or phish or what have you. I just did this to bump them from #1 on google. Which they got by incorporating with a similar business name and registering with a similar URL.
They did ultimately manage to shut that business down and disrupt it after years of this and I moved on because I have other talents and this venture wasn’t profitable enough to deal with this entity kneecapping me for years and years.
But on my way out, I forwarded all of those domains to a reasonable and legitimate website that’s in the same line of work, resulting in them now dominating the other site in search. So I walked away and used this trick one last time to at least ensure someone searching for this subject would end up in some safe and reasonable hands.
What’s my point in sharing this?
It’s that the other website has no idea I did this, and has no control over it. You might see this and assume the worst about the other website.
someone could be doing this to manipulate SEO or search results over sites they don’t even own. For reasons that might (?) make sense or be well intended.
and for reasons that don’t, or might even be malicious.
On iCloud public relay, go to settings and select “use country and time zone” instead of “use general location.”
Now you’re no longer “within 250 miles,” hell my phone geo IPs everywhere from Louisiana to New Jersey , which are not even “in my time zone,” but there you go.
This setting was pissing meta/Facebook off big time because they also couldn’t narrow me down to a precise geographical area, resulting in much nagging and whining about “was this you signing in from [shreveport]?” and frequent account lockouts , password resets, and endless requests to approve my logins from a device that’s already logged in before I finally said to hell with it and deleted FB a few days ago.
I figure if a privacy setting makes meta mad , then it’s .. probably … a good setting. Must really irk them trying to sell location relevant ads when my state changes every other time I unlock my screen.
It’s a combined behavior of using private browsing and refusing to install their app, thereby giving them a permanent supercookie no matter what my IP is, so if you don’t like the sound of this it [might not] affect you if you use their apps. “X” does it too, just look up “inferred identity+ twitter” on google.
I’m editing out a tall claim in the last paragraph of this for some other time when I’m less tired and have sources next time we’re on the subject.
the pull tab on the right has a divot in it where it makes contact with the can, and it concentrates more pressure at the point of contact to pop the seal.
That’s an attempt to mitigate cans where you’d pull the tab and the tab would just break off without opening the can. So the person who answered it’s usually because of the seal is right.
other half’s dad [retired from] Campbell in Ohio and isn’t an internet let alone a Reddit person, you’d never guess how much trivia there is about their #2 can. I’d have commented but a brand new account will probably be buried as spam … and the second answer is correct anyway.
Pull tabs do not break the seal by pressing in to the can. They break the seal by pulling the lid up away from the can, where the "swivel" point is. The tab acts as a class two lever, where the "tip" of the tab is the fulcrum.
Eavesdrop, but not initiate a transaction. I definitely wouldn't want to be in the same room as an active ISO 14443 antenna capable of powering up even low-powered tags/cards from 10 meters. That would be a lot of power!
That said, Apple devices use an active amplifier even in card emulation mode (which is why Apple Pay works considerably more reliably at awkward angles than Google Pay does on most Android phones).
Yes, but let's be clear: You have Apple to thank for it.
Android has supported HCE-based card emulation and provided access to any app developer out there for a decade now. No special entitlement, certification, or licensing fee required.
> Android has supported HCE-based card emulation and provided access to any app developer out there for a decade now. No special entitlement, certification, or licensing fee required.
but Apple doesn't do it for "privacy and security" reasons (read: they want iron grip on their closed ecosystem).
I tail the firehose sometimes , filtering for post dates that don’t contain 2025. Bottom line this has been happening since day one and backdated/imported posts were about 1/16th or so of the overall post volume in any random sampling I’ve taken. It’s a lot.
But the few I spot checked , all checked out. The people importing their posts were all mentioning their new bluesky on LinkedIn or Twitter . I haven’t caught a spammer yet. It’s something I look at when I am extremely bored.