T Mobile is legally pursuing the Wanaque planning board for illegally stopping the cell tower operation by rejecting the building application
I highly suggest clicking the link to the cross post and reading it as those comments are super good.
Fair enough, there's some really golden information in this thread.
What about those military things that they use to disperse crowds? Where it makes you feel like your skin is cooking, but it's actually not. I feel like that uses high power and high frequency radio waves to accomplish that.
The higher the frequency, the worse that is. So standing very close to an HF antenna that only broadcasts up to like say 30 megahertz is different than standing next to a 700 megahertz cell phone antenna, which is different from standing next to a 2.5 gigahertz cell phone antenna. The reasoning for that is due to power levels and wavelength of the radio signal itself.
You know, that's a good point. I didn't even think of that. But you're right.
Mind crossposting this to [email protected]?
Also, they will lose. The FCC has said that the companies can build towers where they are needed for coverage. They might have to make it look like a tree or something, but they cannot be rejected from building it.
I loved that right up. I would totally want something like this. However, I don't do anything that would require insurance for the scenario that was laid out in this onion link, but I would like a cypherpunk car insurance or house insurance or something.
Actually, the original Band 13 700 megahertz agreement was that all Verizon phones would be unlocked from day zero. And they recently got a waiver from the FCC to increase it to 60 days. So, for Verizon, this would change nothing at all. For AT&T and T Mobile, though, this would be a major difference.
Absolutely none whatsoever. Governmyth criminals have no right to tell me to go die for them. Go fuck yourselves.
I actually prefer to buy mid range phones that are brand new instead of buying phones that are a few generations old just because I know that with a new device the battery is new and I treat my batteries very well like only charging to 80% and so on. So I'm a lot more likely to buy like the Pixel A series or like the Motorola G series and such than I am to buy the latest Pixel flagship or whatever.
Yes, my mom and I own a home together, because she is divorced, and I am legally blind, which makes it a bitch to find work. I'm actually doing better than her though because I did not fall into the stupid debt trap with high interest credit cards or student loans and since I'm blind I can't drive a car so don't have insurance and a car payment to worry about. So while I am not rich by any means, I actually have more money every single month than she does. Easily. Except for tax time, that is. That time she does have more money than I do, but only for a short time until it gets eaten by the credit cards.
Inflation won't go away unless you switch to a currency that doesn't inflate. And yes, inflation is a tax. It's just a tax you don't know you're paying because it's hidden from you. Instead of having less dollars in your balance, your dollar just buys less, which is the same thing.
Without 52%+ taxes people would have enough to live on and save. (15% from your pay, 15% from your salary that your employer takes automatically, 10% sales tax, 12% inflation). I didnt count all the other taxes such as property ad velorem, gas, etc.)
Sprint would have failed without the merger and we would have had three carriers anyway so it doesn't matter whether they merged or not and in fact it's probably better that they did because it caused T-Mobile's service to improve dramatically since then. I knew friends who had T-Mobile back in 2012 and it was a joke. I had T-Mobile in 2016 and it was only okay.
The FCC has proposed a new rule that would require all carriers to unlock all phones within 60 days of activation.
Update June 26, 2024 (8:25 PM ET): T-Mobile has responded to our request for comment and shared that the change in its bill credits policy is not happening until Monday, July 1st. It will be applied to new device promotion enrollments that take place from that date. The original article is below. Th...
FOSS replacement for Firefox Focus?
Title. I use Firefox Focus because it's easy to clear history by just hitting the Delete button and it saves very little to no information on app exit. I know the Duck Duck Go privacy browser does this as well, but it's more of a full-fledged browser with bookmarks and everything else. Where I'm just looking for something super lightweight and quick.
Change tor circuit on mobile.
I just got an update from the Guardian project here recently for the Tor Browser version 13.5 on Android. Before, there always used to be a notification in the notification tray that would say the download and upload speed and have a new identity button to switch circuits if one was lagging. But I do not see that anymore. So how do I change circuits now without completely closing the browser and reopening it which would be a total pain in the ass?
USA: The financial meltdown is beginning.
A court dispute has ensnared potentially millions of Americans, leaving them without access to their money for nearly two weeks.
They are keeping this quiet, but this affects 2.9% of US bank customers.
A threat actor is claiming to have hacked T-Mobile and is offering the stolen data for sale. In response to this, the Un-carrier said that its systems “have not been compromised.” The wireless carrier sent a statement to Bleeping Computer and shared that they are “actively investigating a claim of a...
Back in April, T-Mobile planned to rollout its Home Internet address verification in May. But at the last minute, they postponed it to a later date. Unfortunately, the Un-carrier has finally decided on a date when to rollout address verification for Home Internet service. Now that the Away plan has...
T-Mobile’s latest move is sure to gain negative attention from its avid subscribers. And for many, this just might be the final nail in the coffin to entice them to switch to another carrier. As spotted in an internal document obtained by The Mobile Report, the Un-carrier is preparing to change its...
T-Mobile raised 5G home internet services in January.
The company also revealed that it's running Bitcoin and Lightning network nodes.
How much is privacy actually worth?
I can't seem to find an actual currency estimate of how much privacy is actually worth. I see a ton of articles talking about why privacy should be worth more to people or what people would pay for privacy services or how much people would sell their privacy for, but I don't see anything that gives a value for the privacy industrial complex, so to speak. Like if you take every company and non-profit and everything else and throw it all together, how much is the privacy industry actually worth?
Edit: It's worth at least $2.8 billion US dollars because that is the market cap on average of the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero.
Edit 2: If you put Monero, Zcash, and Dash together, you come up with $3.4 billion US dollars.
Edit 3: All the above plus Signal, Proton and EFF bring it up to 3.5 billion.
The company also revealed that it's running Bitcoin and Lightning network nodes.
Monero mentioned in the news
"That’s why, while almost no one pays for coffee with bitcoin, many use the privacy coin monero (XMR) to buy this or that"
https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/06/14/mass-adoption-would-ruin-crypto-keep-it-a-niche/
T-Mobile Selected by U.S. Navy for $2.67 Billion 10-year Contract
T-Mobile announced that it was chosen as a wireless solutions provider by the U.S. Department of the Navy as part of the $2.67 billion Spiral 4 contract.
At least one customer unhappy with T-Mobile's recent price hikes has taken his frustration to the FCC, and despite the carrier's "respectful request", said customer seems to have no intention to "close" their complaint.
Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster?
cross-posted from: https://social.hai.haus/objects/ed94b6d5-d8c9-4788-8909-6688c5fdc4ac
> @[email protected] Did startup Flow Computing just make CPUs 100x faster? > > https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176304/flow-computing-startup-parallel-processing-accelerator
T-Mobile will be hosting its second quarter 2024 financial and operational results next month. The event will take place on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 8:00 am EDT. If you are interested in joining the event, you can tune into the webcast around that time. During the virtual event, there will be a l...
My thoughts on Tortured Poets Department.
So it seems to me that things like tortured poets department and midnight have been more mellow than her previous albums such as 1989 and reputation. Personally, I don't like them as well. They are still good. There's no question about that, but I prefer the more upbeat style she used in reputation, especially.
Edit: Pretty sure my favorite song from Tortured Poets Department is probably "Down Bad".
We shouldn't have to work 40 hours a week to afford a basic life. We do because our currency is constantly losing value. This is by design.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16569040
> There's a lot of talk about inflation and its causes. Is it corporate greed? Supply chain issues? One clear base cause of inflation less talked about is having an inflationary currency supply. Any other inflation caused by supply chain issues, corporate greed, lack of market competition, etc is just added on top of that. Fiat inflationary currency is a rather new invention in terms of the human timeline. In the US, Nixon is the start of it. Central banks aim for 2-3% inflation in "good years". The money supply expands, the portion of that supply a single dollar represents, and therefore its value, decreases. This isn't a conspiracy, it's government policy, and both parties gleefully support it because it benefits their rich donors. > > Think of it: in the last 50 years, everything has gotten cheaper to produce thanks to increasing mechanization, outsourcing to cheap labor/low regulation countries, and extremely efficient supply chains. Yet so many things "cost more" than they did 50 years ago. Even basics like bread. What used to be 5c in the US in the 50s now costs $5.00. How is that the case? Shouldn't it cost less? Where is that "extra efficiency" going if not to lower prices? The answer: bread is the same value it's always been, the money has gotten less valuable. This is how they keep working class people running on a treadmill, never able to achieve economic mobility. > > Inflationary currency devalues the currency you worked hard to earn by increasing the supply. It hits the middle class the worst because they have more of their net wealth in cash, often in the form of emergency funds, savings, and putting together enough money for a down payment on a home. Rich people have their money in assets which aren't harmed by currency inflation. Actually, even worse, it inflates the value of those assets! If the dollar loses value (all other things being equal), it takes more dollar to buy a share in Amazon, just like it takes more dollars to buy a loaf of bread. Poor people live hand to mouth, so their net wealth is not impacted much, but inflationary currency prevents them from saving and "moving up". If you want to identify the causes of increasing wealth disparity, the inability of people to save money and theft of value from the middle class via money supply expansion is a major one. >