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U.S. regulator proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts to protect consumers and stop election misinformation by phone in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I worked in telecom for a couple of years up until recently. There's actually a growing body of self-regulation going on within the SMS industry. Most notably, any business sending text messages has to apply for a "license" to do so, with some pretty strict consent requirements. Violating those requirements comes with heavy penalties, mostly enforced by downstream carriers. If you're curious, 10DLC/A2P are the terms to Google for.

Winamp is going open source in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (24 children)

If you ask the FSF, open source is a bigger set than free software, mostly to do with restrictions on the uses of the code

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html.en

Qualcomm turns to Wi-Fi to take wireless earbuds and headphones to the next level - The Verge in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's unfortunate. Devices like that are basically impossible to use on certain enterprise networks (e.g. college campuses). There really needs to be an override