Readit NewsThere's only hoops to jump through if you want higher send rates from a number. The CTIA figured out a new cash grab was registering businesses as legit senders on TFA's but it doesn't promise delivery, just gets you a nice logo/name on SMS apps.
Having been on the purchasing end for wholesale marketing SMS I can tell you most of sales people will suggest the 'correct' way and happily sell things that let you do it the 'wrong' way.
Pretty sure that’s no longer the case. You need to register your “campaign” to send any SMS messages. I put campaign in quotes because the process seems to ignore the fact that people might have use cases that are unrelated to marketing.
Twilio is sort of a dream for spammers, they'll just make new accounts on it and spam campaigns on those new accounts. Political organizations do it all the time, if you get on a list you're never getting off. Lookup the numbers sending to you (Twilio's own lookup tool works great for this) and it almost always comes back Twilio/Zipwhip.
I only recommend responding STOP to short codes since there's more investment and vetting on getting a short code. Carriers will intercept the request for TFN/local numbers sometimes but I don't really trust it. These numbers are all going to be spammers buying pools of numbers to churn and burn. They'll just import their list into a new account if it unsubs.
Oh and btw, it's actually easier now as a spammer to tell when numbers get burned. A few years back when the CTIA handover on regs happened (and sending costs went up) the carriers finally started to respond with the delivery status of the sent messages. Before this they didn't respond and you only knew your provider delivered the messages to the carrier, not whether the carrier delivered them to the handset.
I think Twilio requires its customers to go through the process of registering with the CTIA before allowing use of the SMS API. I abandoned a project because the process was too burdensome. Political campaigns are exempt though.
danielhughes commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver
I live on the flight path of a busy airport (Toronto) and have always wondered what type of aircrafts they are as they fly above me.
So, I made a "Plane Above Me" app that listens to airplane sound. Once detected, it polls data from flight APIs and read out the flight info and aircraft data.
In other words, it's my little "Flight Announcer".
British Airways had a famous advertising campaign that did something similar. If I remember correctly they used a digital billboard somewhere in London that showed a little boy pointing to the sky. The text refreshed throughout the day to display the details of the flight passing overhead.
danielhughes commented on Americans are retiring to Vietnam latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/diaphanous
Isn't this article about retirement-age Americans, who are covered by Medicare?
Correct so a lot of the comments are not relevant to the article. But to clarify, Medicare does not cover Americans who choose to live abroad.
danielhughes commented on Americans are retiring to Vietnam latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/diaphanous
At 65 you're eligible for single-payer, government-supported Medicare.
I'm not old enough to be keeping an eye on the numbers, but it looks like ~$450 / month for hospital (free) + doctor (subsidized) + prescription (pay).
That’s correct but Medicare is not a viable option for Americans living abroad because it does not cover overseas healthcare.
danielhughes commented on Can ads on a page read my password? security.stackexchange.co... · Posted by u/linux2647
If you go to the Chase login page, it loads js from demdex.net.
DemDex "captures behavioral data on behalf of Websites and advertisers and stores it in a 'behavioral data bank.'"
uMatrix blocks it for me, but this shit could harvest banking credentials??
Demdex is a DMP from Adobe that is used by companies to manage their first-party data so this particular example with Chase is very likely not an example of third-party ad serving abuse. Chase would have presumably put Adobe through a security review during an RFP process and would have no reason to harvest their own customers' login credentials. Their use case is probably something benign like wanting to segment customers for targeting based on their site usage patterns. Chase has different login pages but the one I'm looking at doesn't appear to have any third-party JS loading from advertisers.
My guess is that comma-separated lists tend to be a feature of text that is attempting to be either comprehensively expository—listing all the possibilities, all the relevant factors, etc.—or persuasive—listing a compelling set of examples or other supporting arguments so that at least one of them is likely to convince the reader.
I find myself constantly editing my natural writing style to sound less like an AI so this discussion of em dash use is a sore spot. Personally I think many people overrate their ability to recognize AI-generated copy without a good feedback loop of their own false positives (or false negatives for that matter).