First CA passes AB 1043, which requires age attestation.
Now, they take the next step.
"California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders"
"The state plans to provide the information to the American Assn. of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nonprofit organization whose governing board is made up of DMV officials from across the country."
"In the future, an ID database like the one the association maintains could be used to support mobile licenses that people can use on their iPhones or online age verification for access to mature content or chatbots."
I'm not running my own service. I'm using www.iptel.org, they offer a free sip account. Under the hood they use the Kamailio sip server. It is pretty darn reliable for a free service.
Every few months iptel.org goes down for a few hours and I get 408 request timeouts. When Spectrum blocked 5060 UDP, I got 408 request timeouts for a week. It finally dawned on me to try my iptel account on my VPS and my SIP register succeeded. That's when I knew Spectrum had shut 5060 UDP. I tried 5060 TCP and that didn't work either.
>> Guess they want you to pay for their bundled phone plan instead.
I think you are right. But I am waaaay to cheap for that. I'm using Twilio on some Raspberry Pi's with some software I wrote myself. For 3 phone numbers, I'm spending like $10 a month total.
My call quality also seems better since I've switched on the VPN. I do not have numerical proof of this, but it sure seems like my voice calls are crystal clear now.
>> There is literally no other option to watch YouTube on a TV nowadays
I use https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext Smart Tube Next on a Firestick. I side loaded both the beta and release versions with adb. I have not seen a commercial since. If Release doesn't work, try Beta. One of them always seems to work.
>> And it's impossible to buy a dumb TV in 2022
Next best thing: I bought a Samsung TV last year and never accepted the Terms and Conditions. No ads.
Project N95 is the National Critical Equipment Clearinghouse for personal protective equipment (PPE), COVID-19 diagnostic tests and critical equipment.
Edit: stupid typo on url, sorry
https://www.projectn95.org/
US based non profit, not tied to amazon. I've bought their stuff. They are legit.
>> All traffic passing through Twilio is categorized as application-to-person traffic.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
>> If you haven't registered your brand, been assigned a trust score, and registered your specific number with a specific a2p campaign, you'll be subjected to heavy filtering.
I've done none of the above. I've been using Twilio for 3 years and this is the first time I've ever had an SMS rejected. I don't get it.
>> I think voip.ms only allows person-to-person traffic. Try registering a number there and sending the same message that got blocked.
>> Why are there rules about the content of text messages at all?
I have no idea. What is disturbing to me is the arbitrary stuff Verizon is filtering. Seriously, what is so controversial about a Twilio error message?
"California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders"
"The state plans to provide the information to the American Assn. of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nonprofit organization whose governing board is made up of DMV officials from across the country."
"In the future, an ID database like the one the association maintains could be used to support mobile licenses that people can use on their iPhones or online age verification for access to mature content or chatbots."