IphtashuFitz @ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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Don’t condone walking down the sidewalk. You could kill an ant.

In other words, it’s effectively Morse Code via light instead of radio or telegraph.

It’s also not that huge a breakthrough, to be honest. I recently finished reading the book “Dark Wire: The Incredibke True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever”. It highlights Operation Trojan Shield, in which law enforcement from multiple countries actually ran an encrypted messaging app used by criminals worldwide called ANOM. For over 3 years law enforcement was able to read virtually every message criminals sent over that service. It ultimately led to over 1100 arrests across multiple countries, seizure of 40+ tons of drugs, millions of dollars in various currencies, etc.

Camp in Texas on the Mexico border. Open a passage into Mexico. Problem solved!

So how would you use it to solve this problem? There still needs to be some sort of foolproof way of saying “person X is only 14 years old”.

It may not happen next year but I think it’s a safe bet it will happen in the next few years.

I’m one of those who bought a Tesla before seeing how cuckoo he is. Frankly that’s just one of a number of reasons why I won’t buy another. I’m a big proponent of EV’s, so when the time comes in a few more years then I’ll be replacing my Tesla with an EV from another manufacturer.

I worked in IT at a company years ago that standardized on song lyrics in a similar fashion:

4 Those about 2 rock we salute you!

I want 2 rock & roll all night

Etc.

It makes for a good movie plot, but there are likely backups, etc. that could be recovered fairly easily.

Hell, who is going to want to come study in the US on a visa if we have mass deportations going on? It’s a pretty safe bet that many of those visa holders will get stopped and challenged multiple times by roaming gangs of thugs looking for illegal immigrants to haul away. And it’s also a pretty safe bet that some of them will simply claim the visas are fake or otherwise invalid and make those students lives miserable as they try to sort things out.

Not to worry. All the farms in the US will pick up the slack thanks to all that plentiful cheap migrant labor. Oh, wait…

Captain Chaos and General Disarray, in actual positions of power.

president or secretary of a recognised organisation

What constitutes a “recognized organization”? That sounds rather open to interpretation…

There are actually tools that can unmask spoofed calls and show the true number that a call originates from. I’ve never used them personally, but I worked in computer telephony years ago so I have an understanding of how these tools work.

Caller ID was created so that a company like a bank that might have 100 or more telephone lines could program them so they always show up as “1-555-ACME-BANK” if they wanted to. So it’s trivial to set Caller ID to whatever you want.

But there’s another identification baked into calls that goes way back to the days when long distance calls were expensive and charged by the minute. The telephone companies needed to ensure the calling number was passed along from one phone carrier to another for billing purposes, and since it involved collecting money you can be sure it was accurate and unchangeable. This is called Automatic Number Identification (ANI).

Typically ANI is only passed between phone companies, or over high capacity phone circuits like T-1 lines, so it’s not sent to the person receiving the call. But there’s a feature available to most mobile phone plans that, combined with ANI, can provide for a way to do just that.

Depending on your mobile provider there’s likely a way to forward calls you explicitly ignore to another number. This only happens when you click to ignore/disconnect the call, and not let it time out and go to voicemail. When you sign up with one of these unmasking services then you set up your phone to forward these calls to their service. Then, if you get a spoofed call or even one where the caller id says unknown or unavailable, you click to ignore it. The call gets rerouted to the unmasking service, which has access to the ANI data. It reads the ANI number, replaces the Caller ID data with the ANI, then immediately routes the call back to you again. This time it will show you the number the call originated from and would be billed to.

Tesla Model Y owner here (never again, either). I hate the touchscreen, and also hate the way they’ve shoehorned functionality into the button/scroller controls on the steering wheel to try to address complaints.

When I first got the MY, the only way to control things like the wipers was through menus in the touchscreen. A software update introduced the ability to control them from the steering wheel controls, but even that “solution” sucks. You have to press & hold the control down while simultaneously scrolling it with your thumb. And most times you can’t scroll it from all the way off to all the way on in a single motion, so you press, scroll as much as you can, release & press again then scroll the rest of the way. A real PITA.

Any idea where I can get som extra strength Hibernol?

Wouldn’t surprise me at all, but even that would be a limited & unreliable resource. It would also require getting inmates to the farms, warehouses, etc. and keeping tabs on them while they work. That would be a logistical nightmare…

If slaughter houses, chicken/egg farming, fruit picking, packaging, etc. comes screeching to a halt due to these raids then those employers stand to lose a ton of money as the food goes bad while they scramble to try to convince Joe MAGA to come work for them for a fraction of minimum wage.

We’ll know when future claims are true when Russia acts on highly classified US intelligence, like that time Trump gave them the names of US spies.

Well he’ll probably try to kill both Medicare & Social Security so he’ll see it as a net positive…

Thrown into private prisons then forced to work in those farm fields as a way for the private prison industry to make more profits.