There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. But here is the important bit:

In the past, caller ID spoofing required an advanced knowledge of telephony equipment that could be quite expensive. However, with open source software (such as Asterisk or FreeSWITCH, and almost any VoIP company), one can spoof calls with minimal costs and effort.

Some VoIP providers allow the user to configure their displayed number as part of the configuration page on the provider’s web interface. No additional software is required.

So it’s pretty trivial these days because the phone number coming from the phone network doesn’t help when the phone network lets you set whatever you like.

Unfortunately the calling party can show whatever they want for the caller number, there’s no validation that it’s true.

If you’re looking for answers, then any post in a community with a good spread of subscribers will get noticed. It doesn’t need to be currently active.

Heaps of people browse All. And Lemmy is small enough that most of the time posts will get seen, the content doesn’t get buried particularly fast.

I’m not sure what others see as the context of the meme, but in my experience it’s normally when you are fiddling with it, but you never expect it to be the problem because it seems so simple.

There are many reasons you might need to fiddle with is. The most obvious is when you move your server to a new computer, it might get a new IP address. But your browser might cache the old address. Your computer might cache it. Your DNS server might cache it (like the rest of the internet, there is not one big DNS server but many smaller ones - most non-technical people would be using one provided by their internet provider). It might not be working and you presume it’s a problem with the new server but actually it’s the DNS.

But also DNS as a system is also used for things that are not directly related to looking up a domain name. For example, when sending an email, there are many checks on the receiving side to ensure that the email is actually coming from somewhere that is allowed to send an email from that domain name. I can send an email to you from [email protected], but it would go straight to spam because it would fail those checks. DNS records are used to authorise servers that can send email on behalf of that domain. And just generally DNS is used for proving domain ownership (for example, it’s one method to get a certificate from Let’s Encrypt to allow secure connections to your website).

When you access something on the internet, you are accessing something on someone else’s computer.

Computers have (effectively) postal addresses. When you want to access content on another computer, you type in its address.

But computer addresses don’t look like “fedia.io” they look like “123.122.1.111”.

When you type “fedia.io” your computer needs to go and ask what the computer’s address is.

That’s DNS. The Domain Name System. The system for finding the computer address from a domain name.

The above is very simplified and doesn’t cover all scenarios, but I hope it’s enough to get the idea.

Ah I guess it’s that it shows what they want then they have to install the app to buy it?

Maybe this article is intended for advertisers to convince them of the value.

Isn’t the idea that if you advertise you will get more people looking at/downloading your app and therefore rank higher?

It doesn’t make it not paid product placement, but I don’t think it implies that people are buying spots on the ranking.

It does imply the rank is almost useless because most high rankers are just spending a lot on ads.

How do we know this isn’t market manipulation? When stock values are all over the place that’s a good opportunity for people with money to make more money.

Check out the Function->Voluntary Control section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

Next time you yawn, listen for a low rumbling sound. Some people can do that voluntarily. Apparently 55% of the general population, but many people think you could train almost anyone to do it with some practice.

Not everyone!

Check out the Function->Voluntary Control section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle

I tried to find stats on what proportion of people could do it, with claims of “a small number” through to “over half the population”.

This study says 55% in the general population. It’s also interesting as it’s exploring the ability to use this voluntary rumble as a control method for assistive technology.

Is it the same muscle as when you do the rumbly ear thing?

Yeah, they do ship to Oz. But you can’t pay with an NZ card so you’ve gotta do a whole thing where you send money internationally to a friend then they pay and order and receive it then ship it to you. It seems like a big ask for contacting a distant relative out of the blue and asking them to do that.

Same here! I have one but can’t get components any more because they locked down freight forwarding 🙁

Where on the scale is that? Is it higher or lower than supernatural?

A banana for scale would be helpful.

Are you implying they are supernatural?

What’s this “nature’s way” crap, when the bananas are hanging upside down?

For sure. One of my kids cites broccoli as a favourite food.

Apple’s are meh with my kids but slice them and spread them with peanut butter with some raisins and they love them (a variation of bugs on a log).

Is it true or just a stereotype? My kids love fruit. We go through probably 6kg of fruit a week, half of that is bananas and the rest is a mix of all sorts.

They obviously love candy too but they don’t complain about fruit.

Vegetables on the other hand… Fiber without (much) sugar is offensive.

Not even going to try to hide it?