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Google Voice now requires identity verification for new numbers or porting a number into an account that does not have a number assigned: https://support.google.com/voice/answer/16…

> ... I'm old ... you can live life without holding a cellphone all the time. It's not as hard as you think. I'm in my 50s and I don't know where this stance comes from. Sure, you …

> I can say that we're not exactly a state worrying about water shortages. Except we are. > We're probably one of the more reasonable places to build data centers due to cheap gree…

> low quality network participants are joining (Genuinely curious because I truly don't know in this context) What is a low quality network participant? One of the "bulletproof" ho…

> A birth certificate is just a piece of paper so that's a bit of a red herring. No, it isn't. Birth certificates are how we have proven citizenship in the United States almost sin…

> Everyone follows the same rules at the airport. All travelers do but all border inspection people do not. Or if they do, they apply their discretion very unevenly in some Very In…

> The reason I can't use Tailscale at work is because it routes traffic through servers we can't control. You can run your own DERP servers and exclude the Tailscale ones even if y…

I’m not sure what your criticism is? Ars is reporting on a legal case and also on people who say they will be harmed by that case. The reporter then goes on to detail the policy wo…

Does it have an in-frame modal that pops up immediately after page load to beg me for my email address? What about an embedded video window that covers the bottom 2/3rds of the con…

My niece was born deaf and her parents went the opposite direction: they chose not to have her get an implant because of the risk of surgery at such a young age and being fortunate…

> And communicating specialized stuff like technical programming is not possible, gestures only cover basic words. I want to gently push back on this. While sign languages do have …

> If the law is vague, it is the duty of the judiciary to call that out and of the legislature to rewrite the law to be more precise. Why? Nothing in our Constitution requires prec…

> People's expectations were that pensions would be replaced by 401ks, and retirement could start at 65. And that's kind of the rub: I don't think people's expectations were that 4…

It's also not a government web site. It's a private company who, for some reason, my own government outsources identity verification to. Meanwhile, the authorization system the US …

Most credit unions participate in the credit union shared branching network, so I recommend joining your local credit union of choice. You can then go into the branches of several …

I completely agree that the 542 needs more frequency. Sound Transit likely saw the dip from Microsoft wholeheartedly embracing work-from-home and figured they could reuse the servi…

It's for a few reasons, let's see if I remember them all from the run-up to the Sound Transit 2 vote in 2008: Mercer Island exists and has political clout (even though they tried t…

I suppose because a bunch of the automated solvers use the audio as a workaround, the audio ones have become borderline (or even over the line) unlistenable. The most recent few I'…

> The Internet is full of these micro-tyrants and I never see anyone complaining about them. I'll complain about them. They're, at best, poorly-informed people who don't understand…

One of the many reasons I pay for Carrot is to get the other, more expensive, data sources. If you do stump up, you get access to the Apple Weather API--what once was Dark Sky--as …

> ...a 30 minute back and forth for partial credit for missing food when they used to just issue you a full refund in 30 seconds. Back when I regularly had to go to an office, my c…

One of those life experience moments: I "knew" this and a had a really good friend who did not. Both of us grew up in the same area, and we met in school, so you'd expect we should…

> What is 'fake news' for one person is truth to another. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." - Everyone from Daniel Patrick Moynihan all the way thro…

Your sponsoring LIR for IPv6 space and ASNs can also be your sponsoring LIR for legacy IPv4 assignments: https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/legacy-resources/ri... You can the…

> And while we are at it stop tunneling my data back "home" when I travel. I don't want increased latency. You might not, but a whole lot of customers who aren't as technically sop…