On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:00 PM James Knott via talk
wrote:
> On 1/16/24 07:16, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
> > CO-powered phones are still available
>
> Are they still CO powered?
My home internet is still metered and charged as a DSL line (by Teksavvy),
though I know my neighbourhood has
On 2024-01-16 17:23, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
My new connection at my new house that I moved to (OK I started moving
things) about 10 days ago has rogers fibre service with phone running
on that.
There is definitely no battery in any of the equipment. So the ONT and
the router would
On 2024-01-15 18:15, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
In rural Canada (more accurately in rural Manitoba) - - - that this is
surprising
is actually quite astounding to me. Service is this bad in significant
amounts of
rural Canada. So bad in fact that emergency responders (flooding/forest fires)
have
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:12:42PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> Bell and Rogers are now both offering VOIP based home phone services.
> I assume that they have batteries to keep things running in the event of a
> power outage but It would be interesting to have someone on list confirm
>
It is a good article but not universally true by a long shot, focusing on
email-based activities.
There are a number of scam-baiting channels on YouTube that lay bare the
tactics of many phone scams, and I'm sorry but I'm not going to have much
sympathy for those who aggressively harass people
On 1/16/24 11:27, mwilson--- via talk wrote:
Help-desk people are forbidden to hang up, but if the customer terminated
the call it would count as a problem resolution, and therefore a good
thing.
Several years ago, I was doing some work at a Bell customer, hooking up
an Adtran router to Bell
On 1/16/24 10:21, Steve Petrie via talk wrote:
My last Rogers interaction last week, had a Rogers sales rep ending
his call to me, by shouting that I had just wasted his valuable time
(because I had told him the technical reasons why I would rather pay a
$18 / month Bell Canada premium, over
On 2024-01-16 13:16, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
A great article!
I recommend that everyone read it.
I concur! Pluralistic is a great add to anyone's RSS Feeds.
He really nailed it with this one especially. I love how he kept harping
on the scammer / desperate-scamee relationship:
On 1/16/24 07:16, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
CO-powered phones are still available
Are they still CO powered? Both Rogers and Bell are moving to VoIP over
fibre to the neighbourhood. There's an old Bell box near me, where the
lines for the homes could connect to the cable. It's been
On 1/16/24 02:45, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
They try to hide the fact that their "home phone" service is over
VOIP. For one thing, I think that they have dedicated bandwidth so
saturating your internet service won't break your phone service.
Compared to the bandwidth customers have,
| From: mwilson--- via talk
| Subject: Re: [GTALUG] landline power [was Re: "AI" on getting correct
| technical answers]
| Cory Doctorow posted a relevant article today:
|
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/#four-hour-work-week
|
| Money quote:
| "while we're
From: "Steve Petrie via talk"
> [...]
> This same brain-dead abusive Rogers sales loser, actually ended our call
> by shouting "F**k You !!" at me, before he ended the call. Charming :)
> Seemed to me his vituperative manner could have been a reflection of a
> possibly desperate Rogers.
I've
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SUBJECT:
Re: [GTALUG] "AI" on getting correct technical answers
DATE:
2024-01-16 08:54
FROM:
Ron / BCLUG via talk
TO:
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| From: Alvin Starr via talk
Rogers has or had UPS built into the home phone box. And they have
batteries on their neighbourhood boxes. (During a long power failure,
they even brought a generator for the one near us.)
[Steve Petrie]
Nice to read
Here is what I got from the 13b model:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> A year from now, will everyone have forgotten about AI having moved on to
> some other buzzword?
Ha! Well, I'm not sure if anyone will ever forget about AI
completely, but it's likely that the buzz around it will die down a
Steve Petrie via talk wrote on 2024-01-16 05:41:
A. SSO (single sign on) -- Is it an SSO offer, when my Firefox
browser "helpfully" asks me if I would like it [my browser] to
"remember" my login credentials ??
No, SSO where one signs in to a site they've never visited via their
Google
On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 at 00:56, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> google authenticator has a chrome extension you can use.
> I use a package called authy that has a desktop version.
For RFC 6238 Timed-based One-time Password (TOTP), which most sites
that offer TOTP use, I use the Google Authenticator
[snip]
[Steve Petrie]
Is it EVEN POSSIBLE for a clever hacker to spoof my email inbox and
steal my inbound email messages ??
[Alvin Starr]
In theory yes.
If they can gain control of your DNS entries they could redirect your MX
but that is low risk.
If they get your login they could insert
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
wrote:
> (The old Bell system had large lead-acid batteries in the COs. Old handsets
> were actually powered by the CO. Modern ones have their own power for
> many functions. So we used to expect the phone to work during "hydro"
>
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:38:58 -0500
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> I had no obviously easy to know where your posting from.
> I guess the thing is that your posting to a Greater Toronto Area LUG
> from away.
> There is no reason why you should not do that, its just the
> assumption that your
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