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Google Fi is bringing back network switching through an unnamed "secondary" 5G carrier. "Most users will be on the 'Primary network,' but Google Fi will automatically switch users to the 'Secondary network' if it meaningfully improves performance with so-called 'smart thresholds' for doing so," reports 9to5Google. "At launch, there is no manual switching." When Project Fi first launched the service included support with both Sprint and T-Mobile. That went away when T-Mobile acquired Sprint in 2020. 9to5Google reports: Google is not naming the second network today, but did share that Ultra Wideband is supported. Officially, you are switching between "two of America's fastest 5G networks."

Fi Wireless does note that users have top priority, so data is never deprioritized on the Primary network. Meanwhile, there's "highest QCI priority" on the backup network that means subscribers are among the last to be slowed down when there's congestion. This is also available internationally when local partner networks are available with the Flexible and Unlimited Premium plans.

Network switching will first be supported on Pixel 9 and newer devices that have a Google Fi eSIM (and no other SIM active). It makes use of Android's Multiple Enabled Profiles (MEP) eSIM technology that allows for two carrier profiles on a single chip. [...] These Google Fi updates start rolling out today, with network switching seeing gradual availability.

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Dear Lazyweb, if I have to self-host IMAP for my non-nerd staff, how do I deal with filtering?

Currently, my staff emails arrive at their @dnalounge.com address and Postfix forwards to their Gmail addresses with all of the usual DMARC/DKIM/ARC/SPF flavoring. It mostly works. Mostly.

If I am interpreting this page correctly, it says that starting in January, Gmail is going to remove the feature where you can send from a non-Gmail address.

In typical Google fashion, it is confusing, but I believe the link on that pages that says "Learn how to send emails from a different email address or alias" should not be interpreted as "this is how you can continue doing it" but should be interpreted as "this is the feature that we are killing, you can't do this any more".

So this is going to force me to take Google out of the loop entirely. I already have IMAP and SpamAssassin working, and it would be easy enough to configure it so that each of my staff have two incoming folders, "Inbox" and "Spam", but that's insufficient: they're going to need, at least:

• The ability to whitelist a sender;
• The ability to blacklist a sender or subject;
• And ideally the ability to filter into arbitrary folders based on their own criteria.

Sieve is a thing that exists, but obviously I can't expect normal people to write Sieve rules by hand. There seem to be a few different web UIs for editing Sieve, but they all look like hot garbage from the 90s.

What is the done thing here, for mobile users who do not think that "just ssh in and edit this file in emacs" is a reasonable solution?

If my question prompts questions of your own, they are probably answered in the highly relevant Previously:

Previously.

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Nankeen Night-Heron - (hiding, high in one of the numerous Gums along the Alice River at the Lloyd Jones Weir)
Scientific Name: Nycticorax caledonicus
Description: The Nankeen Night Heron is a stocky heron with rich cinnamon upperparts, white-buff underparts, a black crown, and yellow legs and feet. The head is large, the neck short (giving a stooped appearance), and the legs relatively short. During breeding the back of the head bears three white nuptial plumes. The bill is dark olive-green, and the eyes are yellow. Young birds are heavily spotted and streaked white, brown and orange-brown. As they mature, the black cap of the adult develops first, with the body plumage remaining streaked for some time. The Nankeen Night Heron is also called the Rufous Night Heron. The common name of the Nankeen Night Heron arose in early colonial times from the colour of nankeen, a cotton cloth from China.
Similar species: The Australasian Bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus, is somewhat similar in form but is larger, with streaked underparts and patterned brown, buff and black upperparts, and does not have a black crown. The Striated Heron, B. striatus, may resemble juveniles in having a black crown, and variable plumage, some forms of which include cinnamon, but this is found only on the underparts, not the upperparts, which are grey in all colour forms. The Striated Heron also has a line of black and white marks down the centre of the foreneck.
Distribution: The Nankeen Night Heron is found throughout Australia, wherever there is permanent water. It is uncommon in Tasmania.
Habitat: The Nankeen Night Heron frequents well-vegetated wetlands, and is found along shallow river margins, mangroves, floodplains, swamps, and parks and gardens.
Seasonal movements: The Nankeen Night Heron is nomadic in response to rainfall.
Feeding: Nankeen Night Herons feed primarily at night in shallow water on a wide variety of insects, crustaceans, fish and amphibians but can occasionally be observed feeding during the day.
Breeding: The Nankeen Night Heron breeds throughout the year, depending on food availability. Breeding takes place in colonies, often together with egrets and cormorants. The nest is a loose stick platform over water. Both sexes incubate the eggs.
Calls: A loud croak, often at night
Minimum Size: 56cm
Maximum Size: 64cm
Average size: 60cm
Breeding season: Throughout year; mainly September to February in south; March to April in north.
Clutch Size: Up to five, usually two or three.
Incubation: 23 days
Nestling Period: 45 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over edit

Federal judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC can proceed, denying in part the British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss the case. The president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit stems from the BBC’s splicing together of disparate comments he made before the 6 January US Capitol insurrection, as rendered in a Panorama documentary called Trump: A Second Chance.

“Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true, the Court finds Trump plausibly pled damages where Trump alleges a defamatory documentary released toward the election caused reputational harm,” the Trump-appointed Florida district court judge wrote. “It would be difficult for the Court to accept a different framing without completely negating the significance and fragility of political elections.”

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250ft arch risks ‘permanently diminishing’ memorials to ex-president and relatives at Arlington cemetery, lawsuit says

Nine members of the Kennedy family political dynasty have sued the Trump administration, asking a federal judge to block the president’s plan to build a towering, gilded arch they say would cast a shadow over their relatives’ graves in Arlington national cemetery.

The family’s complaint states that the 25oft triumphal arch, topped with a Lady Liberty-like winged figure, would “obstruct the clear sightline of the Kennedy Gravesites” and “fundamentally alter the experience of visiting” their family’s memorial at Arlington national cemetery. The project, they argued in a statement, risks “permanently diminishing these memorials”.

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