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jabagonuts
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Playing devil’s advocate, perhaps the level of risk associated with allowing low-level (or even senior manager-level) support staff to transfer ownership of accounts is too high? The level of sophistication of scammers/hackers/fraudsters is likely well above what Facebook would likely employ as support staff. They likely would need to staff paranoid paralegals to ensure customer support doesn’t become yet another lucrative vector to compromise FB accounts.
jabagonuts
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Are you a musician? Have you ever used DAW like Cubase or Pro Tools? If not, have you ever tried the FOSS (GPLv3) Audacity audio editor [1]. Waves and Waveforms are colloquial terminology, so the terms are familiar to anyone in the industry as well as your average hobbyist.

Additionally, PCM [2] is at the heart of many of these tools, and is what is converted between digital and analog for real-world use cases.

This is literally how the ear works [3], so before arguing that this is the "worst possible representation of signal state," try listening to the sounds around you and think about how it is that you can perceive them.

[1] https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audacity_waveform.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation [3] https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/how-do-we-hear
jabagonuts
·3 yıl önce·discuss
First of a

> It's pay to play internet, and yeah, it's a problem.

1. How much do they charge?

I'm genuinely curious. I don't self host, but use a 3rd party (fastmail). I send very few emails to people I don't know, so personally, I don't run into issues with having my email sent to spam.

2. I don't think paying in itself is the real problem. I think it's more a matter of who you pay and why you pay.

- You have to pay to register a domain name. - You have to pay to host your own server (whether your using a hosting service or hosting from your basement) - You have to pay to have gmail not mark your email as spam - ok, I'll admit, this is a little silly, but you also have to pay (via a stamp) to have USPS send letters to their recipient

3. Perhaps because so many people use and trust (whether they should or not is another question) gmail, it makes sense to pay in some scenarios? But obviously, for personal mail servers, I agree, asking to pay to play is a bit of a stretch.
jabagonuts
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Could you provide a source? I live in a suburban neighborhood built in the 1950s (> 60 yrs ago) bordering a major US city. The neighborhood is thriving (by most metrics) and still relies on a mix of original and upgraded infrastructure.