thesmokingman

That’s the problem with this distinction. Screen recording tools can create a file that is functionally identical to a downloaded file so it’s just a judge that doesn’t understand what’s going on. That’s scary.

In the US at least prisoners do not really have a choice of reading material. Men in prison get jacked and read what they can get their hands on which is not necessarily what they might want to read. This is a good DB. Prisoners might also have to pay to read if it’s digital. I would personally contend that it’s harder to read in jail than prison but I don’t have a good study for that. More people go through jail than prison so the ability to read is much lower overall.

The rest of the world might treat prisoners a little more like human beings so I don’t know if this works outside of the US.

For those that don’t know, he ultimately backed EME which was dumb.

Messages are not what your original post or my comment were referring to. If you take the time to reread my original comment, you’ll see

There is a valid question about whether or not the app as a whole was intentionally hamstrung in the US on Jan 25 tho.

I don’t know why you’re acting like I didn’t say that or was talking about messages.

Not trying to move the goalposts on you here. Both the original image that you posted and my comment referred to the very well documented total outage on Jan 25. What you have responded with is sometimes private messages containing specific phrases occasionally don’t go through. While that may be the case, that is not what either your original post or my response were about.

The app was genuinely down on Jan 25. Bunch of coverage. No need to spin conspiracy theories about this particular user or set of tags.

There is a valid question about whether or not the app as a whole was intentionally hamstrung in the US on Jan 25 tho.

I don’t think you understand what the tool is

Yes but we’re talking about zsh. I know zsh wasn’t on TiVo.

Shit I didn’t know this was a problem. What devices are these? I’m assuming we’ve got a few in every home?

If you use the Inspect tool (click the Inspect button then a specific clue) it will give you all the necessary definitions for the clue. Would this have given you what you needed?

If not don’t be afraid to tag me on future posts; I’m happy to help you as well.

Going into the weekend where the puzzles get harder you’ll definitely need to use tags to figure things out. I wanted to make sure you’d seen that because I remember your frustration yesterday too.

Neither of those things are CAN-SPAM enforcement. I’m not trying to move the goalposts on you; that’s what this thread is about.

As for what you linked, the number of robocalls has not gone down and there’s still no real penalty for being one unless you’re terribly egregious (combine both our sources). Neither fiber nor cable have the same protections as phone lines so it doesn’t really matter. All the FCC has done is deregulated the transition, which is a reduction in consumer protection. Remember how we’ve already been charged for the fiber upgrade? Carr just made it easier for us to pay for it yet again.

Right now the FCC is under regulatory capture and wants to deregulate as much as possible. It’s very excited to approve big mergers and attack journalism. Despite robocalls being a huge issue, they continue to do fuck to really combat them. I don’t know that the FCC did anything with CAN-SPAM in 2025 and given the pervasive capitulation to broadband providers (aside from the squashed and panned attempt at net neutrality) , especially under this administration and its previous iteration, it is not reasonable to assume the FCC gives a shit about cable companies spamming you.