Nope, as of the past couple weeks if you make a call that terminates in the United States, your CID number has to match at least one of your DID numbers at your provider. If it does not then you won't be able to complete your call. I am super bummed about this because I had an Asterisk system that would keep out spammers AND forward calls made to my landline to my cell phone AND it'd show who was calling so nobody ever knew if I wasn't home and I always knew who was calling but now I gotta find another solution and there doesn't seem to be much of an option after this.

As soon as I read the headline I thought that I ought to suggest they check out our local college, the University of Kentucky, because they did that to such a degree that I'm almost certain that someone there got a LOT of kickback from the deal, but it seems they are damn near the center of the controversy. They even put Tempurpedic brand(not generic) beds in their dorms and we all know that shit ain't cheap. I've got far more than one reason to dislike UK but this is really at the top of the list.

commenting to cancel my mistaken moderation....(why don't they offer a fucking undo button for moderation!?!?!?)

No, they're not. I routinely have to replace breakers of all sizes, brands, and types in my line of work and it is quite easy to get confused as to whether a breaker is on or off. There's a reason that electricians carry either a detector or a multimeter to determine if the power is really on or off.

My "comparison" was brief and not meant to be all-encompassing to address such issues. Why you took so few sentences to assess that would be my full comparison is beyond me but you do you.

I liked Ruby for small projects, like a mailing list management system I wrote with it, but Rails was unusable for me. It would take 60 seconds to get Rails loaded and once it was it NEVER worked the way the docs said it would. They'd say "oh the system will do for you so you don't have to". Nope, I had to do it regardless. I gave up on Ruby and Rails in 2008 or so when someone suggested Python as a replacement. It's not perfect but it at least doesn't make claims it can't backup.

A friend of mine was saying he was just going to run ChatGPT's output to Grammarly. That probably would do the trick since services like that aim for removing repeated words, etc. I personally am good enough at proofreading to fix any issues it might have but if you do the right prompting, it seems to do pretty decently. So far the worst I've caught it doing is mixing up singular vs plural in ONE response.

I don't know what evidence you have to the contrary but electrostim is a valid way to get certain muscles into shape. I've used one for 20 years to keep my back muscles toned. I have something akin to scoliosis called hyperlordosis and one of the things that apparently happens in my case is that my back gets weaker if I stand too long. By the end of the day my back will literally try to pull itself out of place. When I tone with my electrostim machine, I don't have that problem as it maintains a minimum that is impossible to achieve with exercises. And as someone above mentioned, Bruce Lee did it with AMAZING results, and he's the reason I started. You're just thinking of the people who tried it and then didn't get ripped in a couple days so they shelved the products. Big difference.

My question is: does it use that god forsaken systemd? If so, screw it, no gains in security will be had so long as that abomination is allowed to continue.

I am using one that I got in 2003 from a friend who used it in a Vietnamese restaurant that I also worked at(it's how we became friends) back in 1990, so it's over 30 years old and going strong. We bought a backup from Goodwill a couple years ago when I saw it and recognized it as the same model. I doubt I'll ever need it. For the record, if you eat rice very often you need to check to see if yours might contain arsenic. It's a real problem and if you use brown rice then it's a REAL problem for you. There are soaking methods that help a lot and people ought to look into them if they eat rice more than a couple times a week.

I'm pretty sure this is what that Pooh horror movie is all about. Disney fought to keep the copyright so badly that now that the original Pooh is in public domain, the way to hurt them for their nonsense is to poison the well when searching for the name by making a horror movie pop up in the search results.

I would think it could be the Russians doing this considering they think they could be attacked by a drone BUT the funny thing is there are already methods of getting a drone to a specific location by visual or other cues ala SLAM or Robust Navigation System. This tech has been out for at least 5 years that I know of so I expect the drone attacks will continue as normal.

Am I the only person who would be thrilled to see this actually happen? I'd love for ALL the "news" to be removed since a good portion of it is fake news at this point and I'd rather people have to go hunt it out rather than having it force fed to them. Of course someone would share something from an "independent website" but those could be added to the ban list as necessary.

Well played, sir.

The thing that always creeped me out was that they could tell you something was going to be delivered in under 30 days but it literally wouldn't show up until the very last day of their delivery "guarantee", and what I started to notice was that if you didn't complain about the slow delivery, you wouldn't get it at all. I ordered several locksmithing tools from them and their delivery system didn't show it had been shipped 10 days before the time was up. I complained and within 3 days it was at the door. That makes me think they keep a small warehouse of stuff in the States that they only ship out in cases where people complain.