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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • 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.




  • I tried a similar scenario: The phone has a nfc reader built in, so I put the tag on the charger and tried letting the phone read it, but quickly discovered that android can’t/wont read nfc tags unless the phone is unlocked, which defeated the elegance of the solution. I hadn’t considered buying a standalone reader and attaching the tag to the phones, that sounds a lot more complicated.




  • 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.









  • No vendor is selling their guns advertising how fun they are to make up.

    This is a huge part of the build community, vendors know it, and vendors specifically cater to it. In fact, there in an entire industry built up around supporting and selling to this community. I have no idea how you can make this claim from the position of complete ignorance on the topic.

    You are saying that the purpose of a gun is to go in a box. Not a purpose. A shoes purpose is not to go in a box.

    Yes, and that’s true for the vast majority of them. Most are just display pieces that are never even fired.

    Yea let’s get that eneegy out woo! How fun. What are the bullets doing to the targets?

    It’s not for you to shit on what another person finds fun. That’s pretty lame of you and is a textbook ad hominem fallacy. Blanks don’t do anything to targets. Neither does laser gear, which is very popular these days for indoor practice. Bullets that hit a target, obvious go into or through the target…which, for the vast majority of bullets fired, is either a paper target or a piece of wood.

    People gotta eat. What does the gun do to the animal?

    Ideally…kills it swiftly. You’re point? Are you forgetting that the only part of the article that I challenged was that the “sole purpose is to kill people as fast as possible”? You love trying to move goalposts and get onto tangents don’t you? You do understand that killing-animals is not killing-people right?

    Need to stay safe. What happens to the dangerous animal?

    Answered this already. The linked article is saying “sole purpose is to kill people as fast as possible”…so why are you continuing to imply that animals are people?

    I’m not trying to say it isn’t fun to do that, but it isn’t a gun’s purpose. No vendor is selling their guns advertising how fun they are to make up.

    Yes it is, and yes they are. There’s an entire community built up around this along with vendors who directly support those communities.

    The only thing i am saying is guns are meant to destroy.

    Some are. Lots aren’t. And even among the some that are, it’s not necessarily humans and not always “as fast as possible”. I’m not disagreeing that we need to change the way we think about guns and make changes. But that’s not the topic of this debate. The topic of this debate is whether the sole purpose of them is to kill people as fast as possible. And that’s clearly not the sole purpose. They have a lot of other purposes. I’ve demonstrated that. Just go look at the statistics. As of 2020, there were about 20 MILLION AR15 style firearms in the US. If the sole purpose for them was to kill people as fast as possible, we’d already be extinct a thousand times over. We’re not…because that’s not their sole purpose.


  • 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.



  • I’m not trying to fight.

    Oh really? You taunt me earlier with your “Will you honor the question? What are 6 different uses for guns?”

    And then when I reply in good faith with 9 things, you a) completely ignore everything I wrote and b) try to change the focus of conversation from whether guns have only a ‘sole purpose of killing people as fast as possible’ and into a broader philosophical argument about guns in general being used for destruction.

    The wooshing sound of the goalposts you just moved is deafening. You do not discuss in good faith, and now are just guilty of textbook sealioning.