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andrewducker) wrote2019-10-09 12:34 pm
andrewducker) wrote2019-10-09 12:34 pm
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2019
- Following the game plan: Merkel call latest pantomime act in No.10's Brexit's strategy
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- A physics lecturer in why humanities courses are better at teaching critical thinking
- (tags:science humanities thinking academia )
- I had no idea France was so deeply intertwined with the economies of its ex colonies in Africa
- (tags:France Africa currency economics )
- People Prefer Their Jobs To Be Taken By Robots, Not Other Workers
- (tags:psychology jobs robots )
- Reading this account of a woman stabbing her daughter, and am baffled there's no mention of mental health.
- (tags:parenting mentalhealth wtf )
- It's almost funny watching Johnson and Cummings flail about trying to find a way to defeat parliament. If it wasn't also so serious...
- (tags:politics law UK )
- Dominic Cummings memo reveals that he doesn't understand the EU
- (tags:UK Europe Doom )
- Artifact: What Went Wrong With Valve's Card Game?
- (tags:design games fail )
- Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started
- (tags:Russia fraud socialnetworking disinformation )
- 'A masterpiece': Norwich council houses win Stirling architecture prize for being environmentally and socially aware
- (tags:architecture housing design environment )
- Unicef now accepting donations through bitcoin
- (tags:bitcoin UnitedNations children charity )
- The most credible banking phishing attempt I've seen.
- (tags:banking fraud )
- Brexit: Parliament to sit on a Saturday for first time in 37 years in last-ditch Boris Johnson bid to stop delay
- (tags:uk europe politics )
- China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
- (tags:wikipedia china taiwan )
- Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on reflections in her eyes
- (tags:eyes stalking OhForFucksSake japan )
- Dog owners are over 30% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes
- (tags:heart death dogs )
- Euromyths - 1992-2017
- (tags:europe myths eu )
- The Nobile Officium Cases - the way forward
- (tags:law UK europe )
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(We really, really need legislation that penalizes spam, phishing, and robocalls. And yeah, robocalls are already illegal, but nobody's enforcing those laws.)
Recently found out that iOS 13 has a setting to silence calls from anyone in not in your contacts, a feature people have been asking for for years. It's not available for my phone, which is older.
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I would love to do this, including on my landline. I get between two and a dozen spam calls a day. Except there are people I really need to hear from that I don't have in my contacts, including - this week:
I didn't get any calls from my clients this week, but they are spread over multiple locations in Europe (so I certainly don't have all the numbers they might call from) so a foreign number needs a polite and speedy first response.
The spammers are getting smarter, too: many of them present spoofed numbers now, including local ones and national ones belonging to legit outfits.
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I've considered setting the standard ringtone to silence, but I'm not sure I want to not hear any of them. (Might be okay now; I have a new job starting soon. Didn't want to miss calls while I was job-hunting, even though most of them were spam.)
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I would really, really like a way of not having to deal with the spammy ones.
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