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I think political calls are basically exempt from it, anyways.

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/political-campaign-robocalls-and-robotexts-rules

“Prior consent” is basically moot if you ever donate to a y campaign, ever, because you have to provide a real phone number. Or if you sign a petition your party is running, or somehow end up having that party get your number some other legitimate way. They have no way to prove (or you to disprove) your consent.

I just treat them all as spam, and report/block accordingly.

iOS 26 gave people the built-in call screening, which has been amazing for weeding out garbage calls, at least. Text messages are a different evil, but there are apps you can use to trash text messages that contain specific words, etc.

So does Claude. Just because the user-facing features forget it, doesn’t mean the company does.

forcing

Yeah, those poor capitalists forced to jack up prices to take advantage of shortages.

Heh, mail-in voting in my state uses that same “envelopes with barcodes” stuff. So more smoke and mirrors from this admin, for sure, since they want to get rid of mail-in ballots but still require all the steps those require, minus the mail part…

I was arguing with the point of “repeatedly” being a determining factor for having to have this device. It’s not reality, once is enough.

They lost their license for 2 years. The equipment was required to get it back.

Nice straw man. Murder != drunk driving.

I know someone that did it once and having to have one of these as a result. Suggest you reset your opinions a bit.

Disagree. The fact that these devices are both capable of, and would actively, emphatically, attempt to do any level of data harvesting, is a problem. Can they be defeated? Yes. They should not have to be. We deserve better.

Yes, analog phones could be daisy chained inside the home, either by hard wiring, or via ports. ports.

I’ve been using Waterfox for a year or so, after I got tired of the broken update process for Librewolf on MacOS. No regrets.

I also use uBlock Origin, but yes, absolutely worth it.

On the topic of load time, it didn’t even mention the compulsory “prove you are human” Cloudflare gate on practically every website these days. Add 10 seconds to every visit.

They are equal. I used pihole before, but wanted something with less management overhead and something easier to manage for devices family members use.

NextDNS. $20/year for basically no ads on any device.

Yeah, guess they didn’t destroy Iran’s “whole navy”. It’s going to turn out to be that these were fishing boats, and probably not Iranian ones, to boot.

So when Facebook wins their case that basically says “it’s only copyright theft when ordinary people do it”, Anna’s Archive gets a pass, right? I’m assuming Facebook stole some of their training data from there, so fruit of the poisoned tree and all that jazz.

It’s only illegal if you are held accountable. In this case, sent to The Hague. I’m not holding my breath on that one happening.

More like

• Send 157 CV’s
• Somehow pass the AI gauntlet to get an HR screener
• Interview with someone else in HR that knows about development, lightly
• Interview with the hiring manager
• Interview again with the hiring manager, and their manager
• Interview again with an actual developer on the team / technical interview
• Get automated rejection email 2 months later

Wow, this feels like a honeypot/data harvesting site than a call to action. Just contact your reps directly…