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by troydavis 3y ago
> example: +63 936 631 6676 It’s unlikely to work for phone numbers outside the US. Sorry :( For typical 10-digit US numbers, the carrier search sites work well, as does Twilio’s carrier lookup API.
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by troydavis 3y ago
Great question. I think the biggest challenge would be maintaining high-quality reports/complaints. Basically, preventing people from reporting things that they opted in to but are frustrated with (just because it's really easy to
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by troydavis 3y ago
Thank you! I put what little I knew in https://reportphonespam.org/#not-in-the-us-or-canada , but that's not much :-) I'd welcome any other ideas or additions. My email address is in my HN profile. One of the carr
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by troydavis 3y ago
Just to clarify for anyone reading, this meets the FCC's requirements (ie, it's legal and the FCC won't do anything about it), but it generally is not allowed by the terms of use of the underlying wholesale carrier. So, you
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by troydavis 3y ago
This is good to know. If you're comfortable sharing, could you email me your VoIP provider or a phone number they're sending from? Address is in my profile. I'd like to learn more. For anyone else reading, this service is cal
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by troydavis 3y ago
> The first order problem with spam calls/sms is you probably opted in to something. Most spam, like it or not, you asked for, and they can almost certainly prove it. At least in my case, this isn't true. When reporting SMS sp
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by troydavis 3y ago
From firsthand experience, yes, it works for unsolicited political party donation messages. Not 100% of the time, but way more than 0%. These wholesale carriers know that recipients will flag unsolicited political messages as spam (to the r
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Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers(reportphonespam.org)
407 points by troydavis 3y ago|327 comments
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by troydavis 3y ago
The replies are in private messages, so they don't show up in the post.
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Find Your CQS(old.reddit.com)
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by troydavis 3y ago
Background: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/16is6dh/contributo... According to Reddit staff, Reddit now assigns every account "a Contributor Quality Score based on a host of signals includ
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by troydavis 3y ago
Since Reddit won’t tell users their score (let alone the reasons for it), here’s how to find yours. Make a top-level comment on https://old.reddit.com/r/stonk/comments/16kb225/leave_a_top_... . Automod w
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by troydavis 3y ago
Passive voiceprinting for call centers, including trying to detect frauds and deepfakes. From the page: > Call centers use Pindrop Voiceprinting™ technology to analyze the characteristics of their customers’ voices. With the Deep Voice™
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Deep Voice Biometric Engine(pindrop.com)
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Did Gillette change the scent of regular Foamy too? (2022)(badgerandblade.com)
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by troydavis 3y ago
Another discussion points out some apparent issues: https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/138330i/risk_asses... > The vaccinated group were older (52.6) and generally unhealthier. They had an aver
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by troydavis 3y ago
Point your RSS reader at https://hnrss.org/ , namely https://hnrss.org/replies?id=redonkulus
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by troydavis 3y ago
Yep, Batfish: https://www.batfish.org/ Two examples: https://batfish.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/linked/in... , https://batfish.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by troydavis 3y ago
I’ve only found two things that made a difference, and both can be distilled into “Spend more minutes per day above 150 BPM.” One was buying an elliptical and performing HIIT workouts[1]. After 3-4 weeks, that correlated with a roughly 4 ms
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by troydavis 3y ago
Yep: https://hnrss.org/ . That specific feed is https://hnrss.org/best
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Why Seattle’s ban on students using ChatGPT is doomed – and what comes next(seattletimes.com)
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by troydavis 3y ago
As https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says, “Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.” Email and ask. The thread mat well be restored.
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by troydavis 3y ago
Stephen Wolfram wrote a very detailed explainer: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-... Wolfram also has an intro playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKfn5q-Gbg8&
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by troydavis 3y ago
Per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , email hn@ycombinator.com. Link to the specific comments that you think were flagged in bad faith.
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by troydavis 3y ago
For Discord, I think the perceived risk outweighs the benefit. Unlike a government contractor or large telecom conglomerate[1], Discord doesn’t have a business unit that serves governments enough to directly benefit. I think a more likely o
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by troydavis 3y ago
Somewhere in the intelligence community, a new project just received unlimited funding: join as many Discord servers (and Slack instances, and…) as possible, idle, and log everything. Whether that requires 1,000 quietly idling accounts or 1
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by troydavis 4y ago
Here’s their return policy: https://www.rei.com/help/returns
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by troydavis 4y ago
REI, because when a member discovers that their purchase is not actually durable, REI has a solid return promise. For members, returns are allowed for 1 year for any reason and lifetime for product defects. I’ve had items wear out after 6 m
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by troydavis 4y ago
Turn off YouTube recommendations. On https://www.youtube.com/feed/history , click "Pause watch history," clear the existing watch history, click "Pause search history," and clear the existing search
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by troydavis 4y ago
I don't know of anyone trying to do this, and I looked. I can think of 3 ways to tackle it: 1. "MDM for seniors." Basically, make sure all the stuff we've talked about is installed, running, and current. $x/device&#

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