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First CA passes AB 1043, which requires age attestation. Now, they take the next step. "California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about dri…

$ ping protonvpn.com ping: protonvpn.com: Temporary failure in name resolution In Southern California

I had my identity stolen via the Equfax Data breach in 2017. Pursuant to https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/equifax-data-breach-settlement I got my Settlement Fund check today…

Excellent question. I will try that tomorrow morning and report back.

>>I’d argue that a reasonable network limitation with a minimal blast ratio is responsible. I'm the OP and I agree. Across 3 Twilio phone numbers and I maybe make 4 voice calls and…

I'm not running my own service. I'm using www.iptel.org, they offer a free sip account. Under the hood they use the Kamailio sip server. It is pretty darn reliable for a free servi…

My guess is Spectrum has been rate limiting port 5060 for a while, and finally just turned it off. Nice.

>> Guess they want you to pay for their bundled phone plan instead. I think you are right. But I am waaaay to cheap for that. I'm using Twilio on some Raspberry Pi's with some soft…

My call quality also seems better since I've switched on the VPN. I do not have numerical proof of this, but it sure seems like my voice calls are crystal clear now.

For several years, I've run 3 VOIP phones from my house. About a week ago they stopped working. SIP REGISTER started failing. Turns out Spectrum now blocks TCP/UDP port 5060. My wo…

I wanted an alternate second factor authentication (2FA) phone number on a Raspberry Pi. So I built it for myself. I've been using it for several years. And I want to know if other…

>> There is literally no other option to watch YouTube on a TV nowadays I use https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext Smart Tube Next on a Firestick. I side loaded both the beta …

Thanks, I fixed the url.

Project N95 is the National Critical Equipment Clearinghouse for personal protective equipment (PPE), COVID-19 diagnostic tests and critical equipment. Edit: stupid typo on url, so…

>> All traffic passing through Twilio is categorized as application-to-person traffic. Thanks, I didn't know that. >> If you haven't registered your brand, been assigned a trust sc…

This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against Verizon carrier guidelines."

This gets rejected: "(Error: 30007) Verizon Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines."

This does not get rejected: "(Error: 30007) Carrier violation. Your message content was flagged as going against carrier guidelines. Verizon"

>> Why are there rules about the content of text messages at all? I have no idea. What is disturbing to me is the arbitrary stuff Verizon is filtering. Seriously, what is so contro…

So I was sending an SMS to my friend using Twilio. And it got rejected as violating carrier guidelines. It was about masks, not even controversial. I tried to send my friend a copy…

>> I think it might be time to define a new metric that more closely reflects the actual cost of living. We had different inflation stats back in the day. The US government has bee…

>> how exactly do you propose the CPI is manipulated One way is OER, aka Owners Equivalent Rent. Great article https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/11/house-price-inflation-in-c... (look…