Earlier this week the official consumer price index inflation figure rose to 4.2% year over year… the highest annualized rate seen since the post covid price surge of 2022.

This by itself was not a great result, even though these official numbers really just confirmed what most people already knew, (things are getting more expensive). But what they didn’t capture is what is likely to still be coming down the pipe.

Earlier this week the official consumer price index inflation figure rose to 4.2% year over year… the highest annualized rate seen since the post covid price surge of 2022.

This by itself was not a great result, even though these official numbers really just confirmed what most people already knew, (things are getting more expensive). But what they didn’t capture is what is likely to still be coming down the pipe.

Up until last Friday, the Oregon Health Authority was adamant that public pools with lifeguards should turn away children under 14 if they did not have an adult with them. But after public outcry and media inquiries, including from The Oregonian/OregonLive editorial board, agency officials appear to recognize how wrong a call they’d made.

tl;dr this is because the state has been failing to comply for over twenty years to give defendants judged incompetent to stand trial speedy access to mental health treatment to restore competency, instead of letting them rot in pre-trial detention with no treatment - which in some cases is a likely cause of irreversible disease progression.

Hey, just wondering what the possibility is for future support of secure connections for SIP phones, as this is a bit of a roadblock for me as I have a hardware SIP phone and find it a lot less painful to use than any softphone I've ever tried on desktop or Android.

My current provider offers SIP over TLS + SRTP for the actual voice traffic. While I understand that the call is eventually handed off to the insecure PSTN, encryption of the traffic traveling over the public internet is still a pretty strong preference for me.

I'm basically just looking to understand if this is a 0% probability, possibly maybe in the next 5 years probability, or something which could conceivably happen soon.

One additional bit of context is that I'm mostly looking to maybe jump ship from my current provider due to poor SMS/MMS support. I'm much more satisfied with their voice service, and while being able to do voice over XMPP and potentially not have to use warty SIP softphones is a big plus, I'm already happy doing 90% of my voice calling on a dedicated hardware SIP phone.

A person has added MMS support to the 3rd party Android app which many VOIP.ms users use for SMS and they are requesting user testing before submitting a pull request; see above link