alt Hacker NewsA while back I got a strange text message from an unknown number that seemed to be inviting me over for a barbecue
I copy pasted the text into Google to see if it was a common known spam text where they reveal themself to be a hot young Asian woman looking for love (and money)
Instead, Google happily accepted my invitation to the barbecue
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pansa2 • today at 2:44 AM
I was trying to find the song “Lobachevsky” by Tom Lehrer, but had forgotten both the title and the artist. So I searched for something like “plagiarism song”.
Google told me it was unwilling to help me violate copyright law
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galori • today at 7:33 PM
Thats like when I searched for a song by it's lyrics ("My pronouns are fuck you and go fuck yourself") and Google responded with "Got it, I wont use pronouns for you going forward"
The invite is probably a bait for people to respond with "sorry, I think you got the wrong number" - this would verify the number is active, and then the scam attempt could begin.