@haligonia Federal government pays for Rural Fiber, Province pays for Rural cellular , taxpayers pay the highest rates, and pay for the installation to a monopoly company that makes billion dollar profits?
For years now, I’ve rarely gotten SMS spam. But about two weeks ago I started getting 5-10 spam SMS texts per day, every day. They’re all crap like this, most of from those 5-digit short code numbers. Did I just stumble onto some sort of list, or is this happening to others suddenly too?
@gruber
Not here in WI. It could be you have been harvested. Or, a wave of spam hitting various area codes/exchanges. I saw a bunch of spam a few months ago that then disappeared through inaction.
If your exchange is "profitable," then the spam will continue. Not much you can do about it individually, until feds and #telecoms get serious about stopping the spam.
The European Union wants to help invest in "cable projects of European interest" that would reduce its reliance on too few undersea internet connections and make it less vulnerable to sabotage.
The EU push is expected to come in early 2024 as part of a new strategy to boost its telecom sector and internet infrastructure. It will lay the ground word for a new "digital networks act," announced by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton.
Voir de haut Grenoble à l'envers de la piste de saut à ski des JO de 1968, à l'endroit où la végétation envahit la structure en béton qui se dégrade peu à peu.
Moucherottes, mai 2019.
Radôme de la cité des télécoms : il abrite l'antenne qui, en 1962 et de manière invisible, a permis de recevoir les informations du satellite Testar dans le ciel breton pour la première transmission télevisée en mondovision entre les États-Unis et l'Europe.
Pleumeur-Bodou, septembre 2020.
Number::Phone 4.0000 is out! https://metacpan.org/release/DCANTRELL/Number-Phone-4.0000/view/lib/Number/Phone.pm The big change is that perls with 32-bit ints are no longer supported. That's because I've switched what library I used (the new one is 64-bit only) for an internal database. The new one creates much more compact data files. It is therefore more friendly towards running in small ephemeral containers in the cloud where a few megabytes of disk space cost actual money instead of being basically free on real servers. #perl#telecoms#cpan@Perl
When it comes to the modern world of #enshittified, terrible businesses, no addition to your vocabulary is more essential than "#bezzle," #JKGalbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"
One company that has done an admirable job of balancing on a knife edge between Stein and Keynes is #Verizon, a monopoly #telecoms firm that has proven that a business can remain large, its products relied upon by millions, its stock actively traded and its market cap buoyant, despite manifest, repeated incompetence and waste on an unimaginable scale.
@robb thinking out loud with my #telecoms hat on for a moment: now that a lot of people are using softphones (#Teams, #Zoom, etc.) for making and receiving calls in the workplace, what we really need now are call control keys on our keyboards. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they're A Thing ™ before long 🤔