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@ garius NM, found it: https:// instituteprojectmanagement.com /blog/rag-status-in-project-management/ "Red, amber, green".
@ garius If you don't mind, what's a "RAG board"? (From: https:// readwise.io/reader/shared/01gg z99w9kvpp6yq52abes00eq/ .)
HN discussion: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9138965
AT&T CEO Says He Can't Deploy Robocall Blockers Without FCC Approval. He's Wrong (2016) On his personal phone line, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson blocks unwanted, pre-recorded and auto-dialed robocalls. So why is Darth Randy not making this technology available for all of his customers? He claims it’s because he needs the FCC’s permission to do so, but the FCC says that just isn’t so.... https:// web.archive.org/web/2016060203 0339/http://consumerist.com/2016/06/01/att-ceo-says-he-cant-deplo…
RE: https:// toot.cat/@CptSuperlative/11701 8790060866914 AI investment strains showing The video ... somewhat inadequately contextualised below ... makes the valid point that in a down market, bad assets drag down good ones as leverage, margin requirements, and loan collateral prompt heavily-borrowing ("leveraged") investors to sell anything to meet those obligations. As I recall John Kenneth Galbraith made this observation in The Great Crash: 1929 , his history of the Wall Street crash of that…
Global Call Threat Report: Insights into today’s worldwide spam problem (2Q2025) Hard data on phone spam trends worldwide is hard to find. Hiya's report here is one of the few publicly-available reports I could find breaking out patterns by country. The US is not the worst in the world, Brazil wins that award. Patterns vary considerably by country and region. https:// work.hiya.com/hubfs/2025/Globa l%20Call%20Threat%20Report_2025Q2.pdf (PDF) # PhoneSpam # Robocalls # Hiya
For those interested in my telco carrier anti-spam bonding concept, I've detailed some scenarios further on HN: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9129679 The predictable "mailing list" objection appears, in the form of "what if I sign up for a newsletter" then report spam, making the sender pay me. First, this isn't email, so a newsletter's unlikely. There are a few further elements that I think would help address the scenario. In this thread: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 912946…
RE: https:// mastodon.social/@BroadbandBrea kfast/117004934659563860 Discussion ongoing at HN: https:// news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4 9122882 # PhoneSpam # HN # HackerNews
Bluetooth Speakers and Emergency Radios We've seen a succession of cheap no-name (and often entirely unbranded ) Bluetooth speakers. Most double as AM/FM radios. The surviving unit no longer receives BT, but has proved handy as an emergency receiver. So I'd been looking at Bluetooth speakers off and on for a bit. Meanwhile, as weather and fires and other circumstances get ... more interesting ... I've also been considering an emergency radio. You know, something that can pull in a few bands, wea…
So, how old were you when you realised that "NPR" is reverse "RPN"?
Reboosts of parent seeking # PhoneSpam discsussions appreciated. (That's the parent of this toot, NOT this toot itself. Thanks.)
One policy I've considered for telemarketing / robocalls is bonding. Turns out that California has implemented this (though not quite as I'd envisioned it), and it seems to work . "California Telemarketing Bond" All California telephonic sellers must get licensed with the Attorney General's Office. One of the main requirements to get this license is obtaining a $100,0000 California telemarketing surety bond. This license bond is also sometimes called a solicitor bond. https://www. jwsuretybonds.…
I've been researching various carrier's phone spam mitigations. Many are ... poor. Most rely on on-phone apps rather than network-level mitigations. For several reasons, the network seems the more appropriate place to act (see, e.g., email spam and the effectiveness of large email providers such as Gmail against spam). There's a scale of operation, experience, and compute which can be brought to bear. Users of feature phones (anything but iOS/Android, might include AOSP, KaiOS, System30+, and a …
What communities / forums discuss # PhoneSpam ? I'm looking for serious discussion on telemarketing, robocalls, AI calls, and unsolicited voice or text comms generally. Here on the Fediverse or elsewhere. I'm aware that the # FCC has / has had several recent rulemaking requests for comment. I'm afraid I've missed most such windows. I'd like to know what's being tried, successfully or otherwise, throughout the world. The problem seems severe in the US presently, but I suspect it's growing elsewhe…