Nice! That so actually works? Most carrier blocks will stop the calls from ringing but I still get a voicemail from them.

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Fucking idiots!! What about all the VoIP phone apps? What about number spoofing apps?

It’s illegal and happens anyway right now, so how would this actually stop any of them from happening? You know what would probably REALLY actually help?! Stop these fucking companies from buying and selling consumer data like commodities and there amount of phone calls would likely drop. No access to numbers means no way to know what number is active. It’d be a huge waste of time and deter these bad actors probably better than what’s in place now.

For anyone who wants relief: start by switching to a private messaging so like Signal and get your friends/family to switch. Get a new phone number and ONLY share with those who needed it for emergencies. Get a “burner” app # from Burner, Hushed (or hell, even Google voice with a junk account if you must) etc to use for banks, utilities, job applications, etc. Forward those calls through the app to your main number if preferred for calls it send them straight to voicemail.

You can also look into getting a private SIM service from Calyx https://calyx.org/membership/internet if you really don’t want carriers tracking and selling your data, too.

I have a referral link, too, for a free month. https://members.calyx.org/r/iarby

Annke is Hikvision hardware, but direct to consumer, can be viewed directly over IP address over a multitude of apps (including FOSS) or webpage, can directly record to micro SD card so no online cloud or NVR needed. You can configure remote viewing over dynamic domain too.

THEY OFFER UHD/4K/8MP cameras with color night vision even that’s insanely clear.

The downside is they’re typically meant for 10ft+viewing distance. They do offer a special bird feeder camera with a solar panel+battery, but it’s cheaper plastic model. The birds love it though!

Thank you for the correction!! Yeah, it’s basically really bad lol

Well, Davies has a point, communicating scale is the difficult part.

So, for those familiar with computers, think Scott this:

A typical Word doc or PDF is several hundred KB’s (kilobyte =1000 bytes) to 1MB (Megabyte 1m bytes) a jpg picture your phone takes, is 3-4MB. A full HD movie streamed online will be about 9GB (Gigabyte =1b bytes) of data. Obviously a movie is thousands of “images” stitched together so is file size with be significantly more. The same goes for that energy usage.

Similarly, Homes are measured in kW usage (technically usage per hour or kWh) on a monthly basis. You might use ~800-1,000kWh per month, maybe 10,000-11,000kWh a year. But let’s call it 1000kW are used, so 1mW or 1 megawatt. This data center would need at least 9,000x more energy per month as it’s gW scale, not mW or even kW… Plus, its power plant will be close by, so you’re creating heat and pollution to make the 9+gW energy and then USING up that energy and dumping 8+gW of heat, so his example calculated 16gW of heat being generated… That’s the equivalent of a good 16k homes, or ~60,000 people use.

THE KICKER that’s just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake’s water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F)…

Fuck AI!

I used to be the same way where I utilized LinkedIn and I’ve been on the platform for a long time, but the hoarding of data and now their partnership with Amazon to access that data, I’m just sick of being for sale, especially since we don’t even profit from it ourselves! It’s OUR data from OUR lives, yet we’re not allowed to keep it ours. So, I finally ditched it a couple months ago.

I know it has value, but I’m going to utilize a federated version or stand up my own Domain and link it that way.

What do you do for people with no social media? And I’m not talking its private, or hidden, I’m straight up talking someone does not exist online. I’ve got no SM for 10+ years, within the last year no reddit, Imgur, not even a LinkedIn or indeed anymore. Honestly, when I had LinkedIn, its full of self-righteous assholes, humble bragging, and corporate brown-nosers. It’s toxic work culture IMO.

But say I found a job posting or heard of your company and applied directly on the portal, is that a deal breaker?

You honestly could get a Lenovo tiny PC with 2 bay so-dimm RAM. I’ve got a i5-10500T and 32GB DDR 4 RAM with 2TB NVMe and 2x 2TB SSDs for various stuff. You can loaf A LOT on those since it’s not Windows. Maybe lol into Yunohost for apps, or ZimaOS.

Yeah, let’s build data centers where it’s hot, humid, and affected by severe weather…

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Probably don’t even need that much, my cheap eBay laser pointer from 20 years ago damaged one of my first smart phone cameras in a couple seconds because I aimed it directly in. It was red, too, not green. Both work though.

I didn’t want to some in my rites so I thought the camera lens would be OK. It was indeed not OK.

Aww I love Greys!! They’re so smart and have such a wide vocabulary.

We sort of happened upon them from a couple who needed to surrender, but a Blue Fronted Amazon and more recently, a Goffin’s Cockatoo.

Wouldn’t the letters be backwards then? Or the watch on the other wrist? I feel more like “photoshopped” to be swapped

No way some tattooer wouldn’t have caught this unless they’re somehow just as dyslexic… Seems fake

Ohhh shit! That’s so sad! And there fact he wasn’t convicted because no real way to prove?! How about ballistics, powder residue on the shooter’s hand, or an approximate match of the size/weight of the round (though very well could’ve not been recovered if it went through).

Well, true on the 50ft, but you couldn’t rightfully shoot someone at 200ft+ and claim defense, because you’d have had enough time to leave or get away from the situation. Many self defense scenarios are judged on the defender being in fear for their lives or at risk of great or grave bodily harm to themselves or a loved one.

I think most sane people wouldn’t hunt at national parks because of a respect for others, unless maybe an invasive species went open season to save other species or plants.

Hunters aren’t itching to hunt anywhere and everywhere they can. Unless maybe you’re some wealthy big game hunter for sport and not respect of the animal. Maybe that’s why they’re relaxing regulations, for Trump & Co’s wealthy friends to expand their trophy collections… 🙄

I know this is a joke but you wouldn’t come within 50ft of that person as they’d claim it was self defense to shoot you dead.

Personally, though, many people who hunt probably wouldn’t hunt at a national park IMO because there risk of other non hunters being there. Normally, iirc hunting has policies to signal you’re a person (like wearing orange while hunting deer).

I’m personally not a hunter, but we own firearms; and I believe anyone who’s afraid to use them, or hates on them is in for a rude awakening. This country built in the right to own them to protect ourselves from our government because they understood that people with power lust for more power, and we’ll likely need a reset in the future because of this. Learn to protect yourselves! Your way of life and your life will depend on it someday.

Oo what kind of parrot? And what country do you guys love birds that much? I want to visit 😁 we have 2, ourselves.

Less and less everyday, unsurprisingly. /s

Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a good thing the attic at work is a graveyard of old servers and PCs…I might rehome some