I’ve been doing this for about a year now and have run into no issues with the numbers I transfer from carriers. more and more the pure VOIP numbers are not working.
I won’t go into recommending any, for reasons I describe in another comment in this thread. I will however not recommend VoIP.ms, they wanted me to do a facial scan and when I refused completely blocked access to my account with no appeal.
for me the primary motivator is to stay off of cell to avoid cell tower triangulation. the service I use right now actually doesn’t even need a ‘host’ cell number. also, newer phones have multiple eSIM slots that you can rotate easily with the method I describe above, allowing you to further containerize your personas.
its different depending on what you’re trying to accomplish. if you’re trying to hide from the government, good luck. if you’re trying to make it so Walmart and Amazon have no shared information on you, that’s very achievable
I don’t recommend any, to be honest. the ones I’ve tried all have quirks that make them annoying to use, so unfortunately I haven’t settled on one I can recommend. that said, $5 USD per number per month is very much the high end you should expect, you can get decent results for much cheaper.
so far I’ve been able to get around that with the method Michael Bazzell describes in his book:
buy a prepaid card, this comes with a carrier phone number (cash, in store if possible)
transfer the prepaid number to a VOIP service
the number, having been created for carrier service, does not fall into the VOIP generated set, meaning (so far, anyway) MFA and other services requiring a ‘real’ number do not turn this away, even if it is currently a VOIP number.
repeat/rotate as necessary
“Officer Findley acknowledged that officers had no reason whatsoever to believe Mr. Tunick possessed child pornography”
I’m pretty sure if I made up a lie at work I’d get fired. seems to be a requirement for law enforcement
netbird (and pangolin I believe) offer alternatives to getting a static IP address with their wireguard implementation.
so do many others, but I believe those two are the only fully open source solutions
404media runs off of ghost, when I took a look it seemed pretty cool: https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost
hey friend, the link you posted works (and I’ve wish listed) but for some reason typing in the name of the game did not return any results for me until after I clicked your link and wishlisted there. it could be a problem on my end somehow but it might also be worth looking into.
good luck with the release!
when I tried to make a wise account they wanted a face scan and ID uploads. instant blacklist for me.
I want to expand on your first thought and just say that in my experience the internet as a whole is not a great place for nuanced takes, and I’ve noticed that becoming mirrored in reality over the last decade. Perhaps its been happening for longer.
There’s so much going on, and so many actors trying to influence the masses. I don’t blame anyone for having different conclusions to my own, there’s an almost untrackable amount of sources to draw information (and disinformation) from. I just hope we can get to a point together where we can (again?) discuss nuance without ceding to emotion.
banger as always, Lay
its competent people raising issues and being overruled, ignored, laughed at by people who want to move fast and break things. same as always.
you know what’s funny, is that my noise cancelling headphones started to have serious problems when I ‘upgraded’ to windows 11. it would pick up the noise cancelling mics and decide they were the primary, not my standalone dedicated microphone.
in the process, it would also downgrade the sound quality for some fucking reason. no matter how many ways I disabled them, it would either re-enable them or I’d find a new way to try.
with Linux? just works.
The central navigation widget on mobile is very slick. Love that!
Not a single AI CEO understands cybersecurity. They’ve got soundbytes to make it sound like they know what they’re talking about, but time and again they’re complete nonces.
Though reading that back we might be able to expand the scope to most CEOs.
this feels like a noob trap. if someone needs to send all their traffic through Tor for some reason, just use Tails. don’t mix your regular activity with your Tor activity.
congrats! the arch wiki is awesome, isn’t it?
also… this marks the second time this week I’ve heard of FireWire. though you might’ve had a better excuse for bringing it up. the other instance was my mother, mistakenly referring to the optical cable im running at home lol
unfortunately by the nature of editing and publishing, books are going to be behind the times by a good amount. with how quickly our rights are being eroded, you can look to them for foundational knowledge, but nothing cutting-edge or legally up to date.
as Nate said in their reply to you, inteltechniques. com will provide smaller updates. privacyguides.org can also be a decent place for tech/software recommendations.
however, if you’re going into the extremes that bazzell does in his book, getting at least one good lawyer is inescapable. that’s how you stay up to date with how things actually work at a state and federal level, not some random people like myself on Lemmy.
quick, pull out your RAM and send it to me for diagnostics