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by simfree 2y ago
The new fad among wireless carriers here in the US is to route what they think are spam calls to a fake voicemail box. Voicemail that is left in this generic voice mail box never makes it to their customer and the customer is completely una
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by simfree 2y ago
Hyatt and their associates do this for me even on Hyatt's own WiFi. I guess Firefox and Chromium are banned user agents if your an Android or Linux user...
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by simfree 2y ago
Peak requests per second (and whether a SIP invite or CGI script being run) would be very useful to know. SIP hasn't gotten much heavier, nor CGI scripts, and tiny distros like OpenWRT can do a lot with little iron. Heard lots of rough
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by simfree 2y ago
"Google offered me a pittance to take over and then kill my extension" doesn't make for a good headline. They'd rather just nuke the malicious extension when they get notified of its sketchy behaviour.
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by simfree 2y ago
If it's good enough for every cloud but Microsoft Azure, why pay to have your own bespoke virtualization platform with its own errata?
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by simfree 2y ago
Firefox password sync just works. It's one of those things I never think about. Watching friends and family struggle with bespoke, poorly integrated password managers makes me cringe and is one of the big reasons I enjoy the seamless e
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by simfree 2y ago
Google certainly tortured me and everyone else I knew who had a Pixel 6 (or Pro) phone, you would randomly lose cellular and WiFi and they would not recover on their own, necessitating a reboot or toggling airplane mode to get back online.
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by simfree 2y ago
Google's Pixel handsets have worse modem performance than similar flagship Samsungs sold in the US, as even Samsung won't sell their underperforming Exynos chipsets in their flagship phones in the USA. Exynos 5G New Radio chipsets
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by simfree 2y ago
Canada is also a much smaller market that has minimal competition with unique cellular bands preventing reuse of said phones outside of a handful of other countries (without severe breakage of VoLTE, or missing low band coverage).
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by simfree 2y ago
Verizon is really thin on the ground out West, their coverage just keeps shrinking as their LTEiRA partners shut down or get bought out by T-Mobile and AT&T. Between Reno and Las Vegas it's pretty stark, huge holes in Verizon'
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by simfree 2y ago
Teams phone system is a significant additional licensing expense, it's definitely not free. It's also not standards compliant, despite speaking a malformed version of SIP, so you can't just plug it into standard SIP Infrastru
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by simfree 2y ago
Inband signaling for the win! Having the overhead of a separate control channel was more expensive than just doing the signaling in band.
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by simfree 2y ago
Indian communities in the US can often be clanish, and self-segregate to specific areas of a neighborhood or town. You can see this in action on the eastside of Lake Washington, always fun to get glared at for being at the wrong block in Sa
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by simfree 2y ago
Paying money doesn't buy you a magical get out of Black Swan event free card. These exact same politics can happen inside a company or organization that you pay money to. Economic pressures just add on to it as well, and if they go bel
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by simfree 2y ago
Perhaps they are throttling this transfer to 1Gbps so as to not slam their network or disk I/O? It does seem quite slow.
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by simfree 2y ago
Stripe and other payment processors make doing regular PAN data exports hard, so all the credit, debit, ACH and similar stored payment methods are trapped in their system and you are beholden to their whim. Someone should come up with an au
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by simfree 2y ago
Oregon permitted direct enrollment onto Medicaid when you show up to the hospital and qualify for it, and they don't chase down and audit most of those enrolled thankfully. By the way, if your still in the Greater Seattle Area you migh
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by simfree 2y ago
Yeah, kolinko really missed the whole "competitive APU" part of OP's comment. AMD has been pushing "The future is Fusion" and shipping CPU/GPU combined chips that fit in your normal CPU socket (or BGA soldered
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by simfree 2y ago
The government decided building their own cellular network was too expensive, so they paid AT&T to build FirstNet atop the existing network and gave AT&T band 14 spectrum to do that. All users of both AT&T and FirstNet get acces
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by simfree 2y ago
Telus, Bell and Rogers are ingrained in the minds of Canadians as the only options. Almost all attempts to change that over the years have failed or have not been able to get sufficent market penetration to become self funding for rapid gro
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by simfree 2y ago
Most of Google, AWS and ilks traffic is moved over settlement free peering and fixed cost infrastructure: https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/level-3-seals-... Whether 100TB or 1500TB of data are delivered to
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by simfree 2y ago
The cost to serve the video file is much lower than what Google says it costs. Moving a terabyte of data is quite cheap to do, yet GCP, AWS and ilk continue to have eye-wateringly high data usage pricing.
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by simfree 2y ago
Infobip truly is unhinged. Having interns post about why ChatGPT is bad, while also making the peerlessnetwork.io portal slow as a dog, and going off on anyone who makes the effort to API integrate with them. Someday they might find a viabl
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by simfree 2y ago
Backups exist on Signal Android.
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by simfree 2y ago
Upstream speeds are increasing, Comcast is building out mid-split doing 100Mbps and 200Mbps up, and the other cable companies are doing network rebuilds for mid-split or high-split. Fiber penetration is increasing every year, usually with s
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by simfree 2y ago
How does it compare to app.lmnt.com ? lmnt sounds quite good to me, near natural.
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by simfree 2y ago
Walmart, Amazon, and the other big companies are not interchange exempt. They are not able to get a significant discount below interchange, hence why they keep financing lawsuits against Visa, MasterCard and such over the bundling of all Vi
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by simfree 2y ago
Rather than relying on the idea that you're more sophisticated than everyone else who could steal from you, you could just leave your money with a mainstream financial institution that's regulated.
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by simfree 2y ago
Many libraries are still on slow DSL connections that do not meet the current (or even the old 25Mbps/3Mbps) definition of broadband, and they have limited hours as well. T-Mobile's Project 10 Million where they offer capped &
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by simfree 2y ago
There are a ton of sketchy browser plugins that form VPN relay networks. I would be very surprised if they are not using a new, clean residential IP on a US ISP for each and every account.

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