I think it’s too late for this to be useful. Number spoofing is ultra-common these days and most of the unwanted calls I receive are from spoofed numbers that appear to come from local areas.
If we start blocking the spoofed numbers then eventually we’ll just be blocking every possible combination of digits that can exist.
What we really need first is better detection and blocking of calls using spoofed numbers.
Are you just talking about dynamic DNS services for one or a few home servers?
There’s always DynDNS, but that’s a paid service. I actually discovered that dynamic IP address service was provided free by Google when using Google Domains as the registrar, so I moved a few of my private domains over to Google several years ago to save myself $55 a year.
Unfortunately, Google Domains is shutting down and all registrar services and existing customer domains are getting moved to squarespace and I’ve not yet been able to determine if squarespace is going to be offering the free dynamic DNS service or not.
The only way this wouldn’t meet the definition of ‘execution’ is if it were an accidental shooting, which I find hard to believe when it involved 2 dead. Are you confusing the word ‘execution’ with ‘assassination’, which would imply there was both planning and pre-selection of the targets? No one is saying this was an assassination.
The first two sentences of the article:
Two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening, police have said.
The gunman fled the scene and is still at large. Prosecutors say they are treating the shooting as terrorism.
Does a gunman shooting and killing 2 people not meet your definition of ‘executed’?
To keep the analogy going, they would have to have raped and beheaded the occupants of the death star before actually blowing them up…and the Death Star would have to have been an Imperial tourist destination with not just Imperial citizens, but also visiting citizens from all across the galaxy…but if that’s what George Lucas had filmed, I think there would have been a lot less sympathy for the rebels.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67044182
Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas spokesman, meanwhile told the BBC that the group had direct backing for the attack from Iran.
What are you getting at here? The people who executed the attack said Iran helped plan it.
If you think the only topics of conversation we need are Politics, World News, & Technology, then we don’t need more people here.
Personally, I don’t like having to keep going back to Reddit for everything else. For other communities to be successful on Lemmy, we need about 2 orders of magnitude more users.
Are you content to have meaningful activity in just a small handful of generic topics? I’m not.
So, yes, we really do need more people here. A LOT more.
I can understand part of the motivation for doing this, but does this not immediately make it significantly harder for users to evaluate an instance and make decisions about whether or not to join an instance based on what other instances it allows/blocks?
If I’m understanding this change correctly, it would hinder user’s ability to find an instance that’s well-aligned to them because no one (including potential new users) will be able to see one of the most important metrics governing how an instance chooses to operate (what it federates and defederates with).
That wasn’t an apology. He believes people are slaves, the only thing he regrets is getting caught on video saying it out loud.
I think you are missing a big piece of the bigger picture.
Much of the ‘utility’ of the lemmy alternatives is the significantly larger user base, which is what’s necessary for more niche communities to get off the ground and actually be viable. Without that userbase, lemmy is just another alternate place to discuss the basest common topics, that can be discussed anywhere. I mean, technology and news are nice to have, but it’s the variety of the niche community that are what keep people still hooked on reddit.
So in the end, making a place popular for the sake of popularity actually does serve an important purpose.
From the article:
Over 400,000 Russians arrived in Phuket between January and July this year
Wow! Almost half a million. The native population of Phuket is only 140,000.
Are they political activists, pacifists, or just cowards? Probably some from each category, but I’d wager most of them aren’t actual political activists protesting the actions of their government.
I had a pair of Galaxy Buds 2 Pro but my dog got ahold of the case and buds…it was a total loss.
I now have a pair of Wyze Buds Pro. They sniped some senior Bose engineers to help design their buds. The ANC on the Wyze buds is superior to the Galaxy buds, but the Galaxy buds are superior for audio fidelity. The wyze buds are not a flat frequency response and tend to be a little heavy on the bass for my taste.
So, if you want superior ANC, go with the Wyze…if you want superior audio, get the Samsung.
The other big benefit of the Wyze buds…they retail for around $90.
And friends of mine have said, you are the most honest person in the world.
LMFAO. Does the world have recorded audio or recorded video of any other human being in the history of humanity making more provably false statements than trump? No. If there was a Guinness world record for lying, trump would be the record holder.
While there is merit to your post, I will point out the obvious: your post is hosted on an instance named “lemmy world” and you are citing US enforcement codes and sections, but lemmy.world (the servers) do not reside inside the United States. Lemmy.world (the server) would be subject to the laws of the country in which it is hosted, the admin team would be subjected to the laws in the countries in which they reside, the community moderators would be subject to the laws in the countries they reside, and the lemmy.world users would be subject to the laws frrom where ever they reside.
So, you can’t simply link to a writeup about some US regulations and assume it’s going to be exactly the same everywhere and for everyone.
I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…
For the past 15 years I’ve had a data cap on home internet, but never had a data cap prior to that.
That’s led me to believe the exact opposite of your observation; unlimited data is a thing of the past and data caps are a thing of the present and future.
Gennady Lopyrev, 69, had been due for parole but was reportedly diagnosed with leukaemia on August 14 and died two days later.
Polonium-210 poisoning manifests as rapid onset leukemia…what a coincidence!
Pixel tablets are not priced as if Google is “desperate to sell Pixel Tablets”.
I think the author is confusing “marketing team motivation” for “desperation” just because they got a push notification.
I’d never heard of STIR/SHAKEN…but after looking into it, supposedly T-Mobile was one of the first mobile carriers to implement it…and I’m on T-Mobile…but for the past several years, I keep getting unwanted spam calls to my cell phone that appears to be originating from very regional local numbers (area codes and number prefixes that are local to my area)…because of that I just assumed that they had to be spoofed since the calls are always an unwanted telemarketing robo call and never involve an actual business that is local to me.
So I don’t know how they are still doing it, but somehow telemarketers are causing calls to route through exchanges that are completely local to me.