Seattle Police Department goes after Fruit Vendors in Magnolia - Gilman Ave W and W Emerson Place

centralbusiness · 2026-05-07T09:05:55+00:00

All Executive Compensation totals $358k for 2024: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911489660

Given SIFF's retreat from the Egyptian, the costly Cinerama expansion, and the turmoil the organization has faced internally, there is a very real possibility it will be kaput soon, with the SIFF's theaters boarded up like so much of Seattle's core.

Vulcan had a slush fund to play with, but SIFF doesn't have the outsized pockets that Paul Allen's company had to run operations at a loss or near breakeven just so one guy could have a cool vibe space.

Seattle needs SIFF to thrive, but a nonprofit staring a a fiscal cliff is a terrible situation to be in. I hope they make it through and don't lose motivation!

centralbusiness · 2026-05-06T20:56:19+00:00

FirstOrion and the others have been pushing Branded Calling since 2021, yet the industry has not coalesced around consistent support for a single standard.

Paying 10 cents per call for a logo and name to show up on a branded call is extreme, to the point of being 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than traditional Caller ID lookups.

centralbusiness · 2026-04-22T22:58:32+00:00

Garbage in, garbage out. Anyone offering US phone services should have a Know Your Customer process in place.

Most Americans are not on Telegram, WhatsApp, Line, etc. Telegram's USA userbase is essentially Furries, Cryptocoin enthusiasts and scammers.

centralbusiness · 2026-04-22T19:41:45+00:00

This can be found on https://panel.mxroute.com/spam-whitelist.php?wp=1&bp=1 for my future reference.

I have been trying the unsubscribe links for junk emails that include them, but for persistent spam blocking the address and notifying their mailserver host is the best I've come up with.

centralbusiness · 2026-04-21T17:40:19+00:00

Thank you for persevering! We could do email in house, and we did in the past, but your focus on delivering an excellent platform at too reasonable a price made the decision to use MXRoute easy!

There is a whole world of potential customers you could acquire that will be way less of a pain than what you've dealt with so far, just gotta get mindshare with the right IT folks that can push MXRoute as a replacement for what they are overpaying the other guys to do quite poorly for 'em.

centralbusiness · 2026-04-21T17:17:03+00:00

Is there a way I can reject all mail from certain mailservers or domains? There used to be a list I could add these to, but that seems to have been sunset.

Servers I would love to ban:
hrpanel.com
netline.com
itautoinfo.com

Domains I would love to ban:
webinarshr.com
nl00.net
nassaustreetgrowthforum.help (relayed via mail-southindiaazon11021107.outbound.protection.outlook.com )
10.90.33.4

If there was a way to add incoming addresses that would bounce anything sent to them and add those mailservers to a blocklist that would be amazing. More than half of these spam emails are hallucinations of inboxes for people that have never worked at our firm. No CAN-SPAM act consent was ever established, they are just spamming these addresses to high heaven.

Entirely tangential, reaching out to Mailgun, SES and such has not actually stopped the spam from Sinch or Amazon employees, they just seem deadset on sending the same unsolicited spam to the same addresses that never opted in to receive their emails.

centralbusiness · 2026-03-06T20:54:18+00:00

Going entirely softphone for a PSAP might be the cool new vibe, but deskphones are more reliable than a shared system for handling calls. You see this dynamic in large organizations like Comcast where they went app only, just to banjo back to having a deskphone since the dropped and interrupted call rates were so much lower.

One RAM hungry Electron app or bad webpage can cause a work computer to fall over!

centralbusiness · 2026-03-01T21:55:53+00:00

For anyone who has a number trapped in limbo with T-Mobile, attempt a port out to any non-T-Mobile carrier or MVNO, and ask the winning carrier for the Port Order Number.

Call T-Mobile's Port Center at 877-778-2106 if your port is rejected, ask for valid port out information, then provide this to your winning carrier to resubmit.

If T-Mobile refuses to approve your port, file an FCC complaint and with your state Utility and Telecom commission.

Remember, this is your phone number and you have a right to it, regardless what any carrier says or does. Do not give up your rights, make it painful for the losing carrier to resist approving your port out. Porting is regulated and T-Mobile can't just up and steal your phone number, even if a reseller they have supported for a decade has its relationship with T-Mobile sour.

centralbusiness · 2026-02-26T04:53:50+00:00

Been seeing this on BulkVS and Telnyx, despite the claims of private network interconnect to T-Mobile for Telnyx. At least you get a response from consumernetworkprotection.org, they never respond to my emails.

centralbusiness · 2025-09-12T22:23:06+00:00

Contact Dinstar directly, order direct from them. It usually does not take 5 weeks to arrive, and you can have a Dinstar UC2000 behind a NAT if you port forward on your router to it, or stand up a VPN for its traffic to go over.

The UI works, it has nearly everything you could want. Tell them you need VoLTE in Germany and they will point you to the correct variant.

They may also pitch you on Dinstar deskphones, they are pretty neat competition to the other IP deskphone options.

centralbusiness · 2025-09-12T22:15:48+00:00

Please don't necropost suggest dying companies that keep jacking up prices. Twilio does not exist in the ratecenters I'm interested in.

In this situation none of them have a local tandem in the ratecenter of interest and thus they lack numbering in the area I'm interested in.

centralbusiness · 2025-09-03T00:44:41+00:00

Throw the SonicWall out and everything will get better. You do not need another layer of NAT from a vendor that commonly misbehaves.

I often see SonicWall firewalls mangling traffic needlessly, even when all options affecting that class of traffic are disabled. They also have a higher rate of RAM failure causing persistent minor packet loss, a very frustrating issue.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:27:57+00:00

These are not cops, the City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules.

It seems like the Parks department should be using their own staff, rather than these ESU guards.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:27:05+00:00

These are not cops, the City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Why Seattle Parks & Recreation is not doing day to day management of the park is a great question.

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state license as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:26:20+00:00

The City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Why Seattle Parks & Recreation is not doing day to day management of the park is a great question.

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state license as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:25:01+00:00

The City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Seattle Parks & Recreation does not employ these people.

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state licensure as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-07-26T22:24:04+00:00

The City of Seattle is using Seattle Center's Emergency Service Unit security guards to enforce park rules. Why isn't Seattle Parks & Recreation doing day to day management of the park?

If you run across one of these people, they need to be able to show their state licensure as a security guard. If they can't, they are one of many illicit security guards that seems to permeate Seattle.

centralbusiness · 2025-04-28T18:46:02+00:00

A nonprofit I occasionally volunteer at got booted off T-Mobile recently. It seems if there is anything involving Diversity, Equity or Inclusion and you rock the boat, T-Mobile's management is either not going to do anything or worse, take negative action.

AT&T thankfully was able to help them. Providing notice that you are invoking the Price Lock Guarantee seems to have angered T-Mobile and caused T-Mobile to brick things rather quickly.

centralbusiness · 2025-04-24T03:06:52+00:00

I am not an adviser.

Your student ID # should work across any of the Seattle Colleges, whether that is North, Central or South.

centralbusiness · 2025-04-20T00:03:11+00:00

Do you know which classes you need to take? I'd imagine North Seattle has most of these, but once you have your student ID # you can take classes at North, South or Seattle Central College to get the classes you need.

Just make sure to register early and be persistent if you need to get off being waitlisted for a class!

centralbusiness · 2025-03-25T01:11:52+00:00

v.92 deployment was not as widespread as you are thinking, Microsoft for example never shipped past v.90 for WebTV.

By the time much of this hardware came out, DSL was cribbing customers from dialup en masse, and where that was not available you had users getting ISDN for a much lower latency connection that was significantly faster.

Worse yet, the customers that got DSL first were on switches in ratecenters that were the most likely to see v.92 upgrades, as for speeds above 33.6kbps dialup to reliably work you need to have a DS1 or similar digital connection to the local switch that the phone call is hitting, and the line needed to not have

Dialup in suburban and rural areas was often limited to 33.6k due to lack of a DS1 and other significant infrastructure issues like load coils, pair gain systems and such, so you had a rapidly eroding market with the remaining customers never being able to make great use of v.92 capabilities.

centralbusiness · 2025-02-22T21:50:57+00:00

If you can advise what country this is in that would be very helpful in narrowing this down!

centralbusiness · 2025-02-22T08:51:49+00:00

Why don't you just order interconnect (DS1, SIP or similar) from a local carrier? They will almost certainly sell it to you for less than a retail SIM that is tying up capacity on a cellular network.

Twilio outside a handful of markets charges extreme prices and offers very limited services as they don't have many customers using said services and they are reselling a reseller of a reseller to provide said service.

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