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by techsupporter 3mo ago
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/16768664
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by techsupporter 6mo ago
> ... 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 physically can in the same sense th
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by techsupporter 6mo ago
> 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 green energy and pretty plentiful water. Most of
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by techsupporter 10mo ago
> 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" hosts?
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by techsupporter 11mo ago
> 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 since the founding of the Republic. > ...an ICE
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by techsupporter 11mo ago
> 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 Interesting Ways. I've watched it happen twice since C
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by techsupporter 1y ago
> 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 you don’t run your own Headscale server: https:
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 work that groups are doing to try to change copyright laws in
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 content and follows with scroll? Oh and I hope you've
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 to live in an area with a sizable deaf community. They took
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> 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 signs for common, “basic” words (ASL has a lot of 1:1 map
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> 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 precise laws. Arguably (and since I'm making it, I&#x2
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> 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 401k plans would replace pensions; I
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 government has built (login.gov) is deemed &quot
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 other credit unions to do most banking needs. The caveat is
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 service hours. Remember that Metro has been suffering from a ba
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 to use that clout to force Sound Transit to not use
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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've done have sounded like someone whispering "they
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> 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 the ramifications of what they're d
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 well as Foreca. I've found both of them to be very ac
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> ...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 coworkers and I tried out a bunch of the delivery services
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 agree on this, right? While "arguing&q
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> 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 through to Mike Pence. There are some thi
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by techsupporter 2y ago
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 then issue RPKI ROAs.
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> 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 sophisticated did. When T-Mobile first
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> nobody donates physical books anymore It's partially number one but definitely this for me, insofar as thrift stores go. The two thrift stores around me that take books are Goodwill and the Salvation Army and I won't donate a
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> The US is an odd case where there is no central government ID or identification base layer. As others have mentioned, the US Federal government issues passports and passport cards, yet it's entirely up to the agency that wants ID
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by techsupporter 2y ago
> In the USA, non-citizens (legal permanent residents aka "green card" holders) can't get passports. Is there a reason they can't get a passport from their country of citizenship? Plus, passports are fully standardize
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by techsupporter 2y ago
The picture shows model number M110w, which has an optional "instant ink" (toner) add-on service. According to HP, only model numbers ending in "e" are Printing As A Service and have ink/toner subscriptions require
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by techsupporter 3y ago
Another reason in an increasingly long list of reasons that being a T-Mobile postpaid customer is frustrating: Customers haven't been able to manage our own physical or electronic SIMs for almost two years. T-Mobile shut down the onli

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