• be_excellent_to_each_other
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    16510 months ago

    I swear to god I’ve heard that the telemarketer/robocaller problem is finally solved like ten times over the course of my life.

    • @[email protected]
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      3810 months ago

      You build a 10 foot high wall, they will build an 11 foot ladder. Stir/shaken was good for like 6 months before spam callers were able to bypass that security measure.

      • [email protected]
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        10 months ago

        If only the phone system in the US, like the rest of the modern world, had robust authentication. It’s all a bit hacked together, much like the solution.

        • 🖖USS-Ethernet
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          29 months ago

          I’ve been saying for years now that providers should try converting to cert based auth. You get issued a cert with a private key from the provider. You are the only one who can use that number and authenticate to the network with that number.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        STIR/SHAKEN had yet to be fully implemented, so while most carriers are now signing calls, almost none are taking action against unsigned calls.

        I have hope that it will become a useful tool in the future for blocking spam and even bad carriers who are signing anything and everything.

    • LazaroFilm
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      2910 months ago

      It will be solved when scientists finally release a new revolutionary kind of battery.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        This one uses semi-litho oscillating iron cores, but essentially amounts to a fancy capacitor with some extra bells and whistles.

        Now this one is the most promising to take on lithium ion. It’s just a giant water wheel. You find a nearby source of swiftly flowing water and it has more battery life than even a nuclear power plant!

        This is just a rock, but our scientists are hopeful it can produce a discharge rate faster than an atomic bomb.

        None are even close to viable, but they will suck up millions in investor money. Invest today! /s

        • LazaroFilm
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          310 months ago

          And let’s not talk about clickbait articles from BuzzFeed and other places.

      • Maeve
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        110 months ago

        Nah, you also have to wait until there are equitable food distribution instead of payments to destroy “surplus.”

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      The one good thing that W did was the do not call registry, that worked for a while at least.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      Yeah, same. I’ll fuckin’ believe it when I see it. Can’t tell you how many times I have people tell me about the national do-not-call list as if I haven’t been on it already for a decade and scammers and spammers don’t respect it anyway and are unpunished for ignoring it.

    • Maeve
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      210 months ago

      Need to figure out a way to go after posters soliciting this kind of coders in the USA on rentacoder sites, but then there’s the poor coders from other countries who will do it for a few cents on the dollar.