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.

If answering the email requires writing a book to anticipate all the possible questions or options or complications that might come up, then no it’s not disrespectful to call someone instead.

Is there some law of physics saying you can’t target and destroy a plane from above?

You made the general comment that hypersonics don’t make sense “against airborn targets”, so that’s whst I was asking about…not bombers specifically. Fighters are airborn targets also, and those are what I was immediately thinking about when you said hypersonics make no sense against airborn targets.

Using an Automation APP like Tasker to turn off a Home Assistant-controlled smart plug when the battery exceeds a reprogramming threshold, might be a more reliable method & works for any device.

This is the method I have been using for years and it works great. I use Home Assistant to manage the automation, the Home Assistant client app for Android (you could use tasker for this) to collect the device telemetry to send to Home Assistant (how it knows when the battery hits 85% or drops below 70%).

I do want to point out there is one small downside to this method: your device charger (and I’m using an Anker wireless phone charging stand as my charger) only works for one device. Example, say my personal phone is charged up to 85%, so I take it off the charger, but my work-issued phone needs to be charged, but when I put my work phone on the charger nothing happens and it doesn’t charge because the charger is connected to a smart plug that’s turned off because my personal phone is charged up.

Hypersonics don’t make any sense against an airborne target.

Why not? Aren’t all modern active counter measures dependent on reaction time? And isn’t there simply a lot less reaction time against a hypersonic inbound?

And job applications!

As much as I would LOVE to see them waste their money on this, we know they are all talk and no action and won’t actually contribute anything.

Just because the boss can’t spy on their employees

Even this is no longer a valid justification. Activity monitoring software installed on companay provided computing devices used by remote employees has been around for a while and is gaining in popularity. They don’t even need physical presence to spy on employees.

So, its even more confusing why corporations are so against the idea of remote work.

They don’t need to “enter the war” because they are already successfully planning, funding, and supporting it from behind the scenes.

I don’t know anything about how truthsocial works.

Is “retruthed” the same thing as “retweeting” (or whatever that’s called now on xitter), or is it closer to “liking” something?

Regardless, trump now thinks he’s found a loophole in the gag oder by letting other people post it and then boosting it somehow?

The article was super confusing to me.

I have always thought of it as how graffiti taggers work. They are always tagging over each other’s work. The last one to paint gets the most exposure but you can still see remnants of more recent taggers the lay under the topmost. Eventually the oldest stuff just gets covered completely. They don’t necessarily pick their canvas because there is other work they try to cover up, they pick their canvas for the location and exposure.

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.

That’s what used to be called a “Freudian Slip”. These days, it it’s just standard GOP tactics to testing the waters to measure the amount of support for fascism.

Definitely Agree. I will often pause the television to better hear or track down the source of a barely audible sound…and feel like I can’t resume normal activities until I identify it. It really annoys my wife who either doesn’t hear it or just isn’t as audibly observant…and then I’m annoyed at my wife for having no concern about the bizarre out of ordinary unidentified sound that she is content to ignore.

Draft dodging piece of shit tries telling me, a left leaning veteran of the US Marine Corps, that I am vermin…on veteran’s day. Yeah, get fucked, asshole.

Please define your new take in the interpretation of the word “sole”.

The actual sole purpose of what most people refer to as an “assault rifle” is just to be a modern, reliable, modular platform that can be customized to fit the needs and use cases of the owner. It’s good at that, and so it’s good at being customized for a lot of different uses.

The hunting argument you make is dumb. You would need to turn around and argue that any advancement of any produce anywhere that allows it to perform even marginally better than absolutely necessary needs to be undone. The fastest posted speed limit in the united states is 85mph, and yet every modern vehicle can exceed that by a lot…some of them by double. It doesn’t mean the sole purpose of the car is to break speed limits.

If you break it down by time used for any one specific purpose, then the primary use case of an assault weapon is to be stored in a box or a case, unused (that is what the vast majority are doing the vast majority of time). I would argue the primary purpose is synonymous to the use case of an insurance policy (something you have in case you need it but don’t actually ever use it). The next most common use (by time spent performing in the role) is to exist solely as a show-of-force without even being fired -and that seems to work pretty well because just imagining the appearance of one tends to get people upset and agitated. For the rifles that actually get used regularly, practice is another common use (using it to maintain proficiency with marksmanship skills) and also shooting for fun (which isn’t always/necessarily practice) is a common use case. In the past, I have used mine for both hunting and for protection against potentially dangerous wile animals while hiking through the vast wilderness of the pacific northwest - I personally don’t like the idea of having to mess around with a clumsy bolt action in the event I might need to fire multiple shots.

From the gun manufacturer’s perspective, the ‘sole purpose’ of “assault rifles” isn’t to “kill people as fast as possible”, it’s to: sell weapons and make profit. The “sole purpose” of a thing is defined by the user…and at least in the united states that means a lot of things other than killing people.

Hey, you’re right. I also use my butter knife for a lot of things other than butter, such as: brie, jelly, jam, nutella, spreading mayo, cutting my over-easy eggs, etc. Yeah, it turns out it’s useful for a lot more than just butter. It’s almost as if it’s a multipurpose tool that has many different and acceptable uses. I think you’re on to something.

The sub-headline of the article claims there is no purpose for “assault weapons” other than killing people.

each designed with a single purpose — to kill lots of people as fast as possible

Is this article trying to tell me I’m using mine wrong? Because I use mine only for things that don’t involve killing people.

Yeah, this was predicted by everyone, long in advance. The surprising thing here is how long they’ve managed to cling to life. I expected them to be deceased by now. I didn’t think they’d last another three years, let alone five.