Notices by Daniel Taylor (randomdamage@mastodon.technology), page 12

@SuperFloppies @adz not everything is, but I am still sometimes surprised at how much I can fix just by getting his software out of the way.

Good luck fixing this one, it sounds very annoying.

@SuperFloppies PulseAudio is my main case against systemd. It's probably the source of the desync.

@AskChip @SuperFloppies classic

@SuperFloppies worst I've had was XO, about a decade ago, and they didn't try to pull that sort of nonsense, but they did try to make switching to another carrier as painful as possible, auto-renewing our account after we gave them written notice 60 days before the end of our contract.

@SuperFloppies maybe it's just the providers I've dealt with.

Or maybe I've always had Toll-Free service on those lines?

@SuperFloppies I'm pretty sure you are correct. ANI is filtered out before passing the call to POTS or single line SIP.

PRI, T!, and SIP Trunk customers get ANI whether they have Toll-Free service or not.

@SuperFloppies I would totally believe it. Screening out the obviously bogus DIDs before passing the CID through the DB filter saves them a lot of money.

@SuperFloppies since they started it I stopped seeing 999-999-9999 and 000-000-0000 calls at all, so they aren't *just* using the spam DB.

@SuperFloppies no bueno.

@SuperFloppies T-Mobile only recently started blocking/identifying inbound calls with what they think are forged or dodgy DID info.

@SuperFloppies ouch. Eggs?

@cjd @LoganDice just not being afraid to learn things than nobody around you knows seems to be sufficient here.

@SuperFloppies doooo eeeet!

Seriously, I get too much "news" without having an app for it.

@SuperFloppies they are. This one only worked when the code was compiled with Sun's compiler (because C++) and they provided a Java library shim that was compiled with GCC, so it didn't work at all.

@SuperFloppies @AskChip yeah. The last C I wrote was about a decade ago and it had to be in C because it had to access a vendor library for a T1 card.

The library was in C++ and leaky as all get out such that it took me most of a year to get my little 6K line management program to behave itself properly (it wasn't the only thing I was doing, of course).

@SuperFloppies @AskChip and the amount of personal and professional discipline to accomplish this feat is on the scale of what's needed for Aerospace Engineering. It really is rocket science.