@AlexGallagher I'll reconsider listening to this shit once he gives birth to his first baby.

@yschaeff We have Xtool's laser at work. I tried to find a picture but couldn't of when we took a piece of toast and burned the company logo on it.

@CStamp Yeah, Canada is a rather large country area-wise too, even the southmost points of Finland are close to being above the country-wide horizonal border of provinces.

@EdwinG I was curious if Canada's definition of 'cold' was like we have and sure enough, it's definitely the 'screw this weather' case in our standards too. Been brisk -20 to -30C here lately.

@amenonsen The funny part is that when they first moved onto that model, I pointed out how quickly it'll be something else than their ads. People were fighting with eachother to tell me that I was just being paranoid and how all the checks and balances would prevent them selling the address to actual spam lists, I'd be surely just receiving maybe an ad or two from the carrier and related companies.

Last I checked, there was a lot of phishing mails, extortion scams and whatever. Something I really don't need for my current, active mail address. I will absolutely not trust any of my providers with my actual address these days, but thanks to per-company e-mail aliases, I know which of the bastards sold mine.

@amenonsen Shows how easily people could be scammed.

Very long ago a Finnish cellphone carrier Saunalahti tried to force us a deal where the promised plan prices included receiving ads. If I recall correctly, they wanted 1€ more to opt out of it. The sales pitch was that it would not be spam, but selected exciting offers and information from them and their partners. Now to me this stinks like a soft dog shit during summer, but I was a broke helpdesk slave at the time and refused to pay them that 1 euro ransom. Local authorities put an end to that after a while.

I had used an alias e-mail address when I first signed up with them, so it was something in the lines of pias-saunalahti@somedomain.tld. Something that wouldn't obviously get guessed address spam.

I've long since moved to another carrier, but since it was an old web mail account I no longer use, I just left it behind. I logged in just out of curiosity and oh boy does it get spam. Anything from scams, dating scams to just generic spam.

'Only our partner's selected exciting offers'. Check. #spam