I think you actually nailed the point perfectly. Part of the social contract is that an employer will provide enough money to meet the basic needs of the employees. When the employer fails to do that, employees can feel like “wage slaves”, or prisoners, who are being mistreated.

“We’ve had to limit our food anyway,” said Valdivia. “So basically you are kind of starving us, Kaiser.”

Ooohhh! You know what, I learned something new today! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it in a way that made sense to me.

What I’m saying is those medical device companies just need to upgrade hardware. Not the user.

That is a valid perspective, but it doesn’t take into account the burden on end users. Would you still feel that same way if you were the user, and the “update” required literal surgery on your body - not because the device failed, or expired, but simply because network standards have changed?

Because it’s the cellphone equivalent of creating a pirate radio station, to put it in terms better understood.

Why not use the analogy of a Wi-Fi repeater or extender that can handle multiple Wi-Fi standards simultaneously?

For that matter, it should be rather simple to limit it to only “listen” for connections from known medical devices (though it’s not like there are a bunch of 2G phones running around these days).

I’m listening, but so far, I haven’t seen anything that explains why this would actually be a bad idea, or how it could cause any harm.

…you don’t see the advantage in avoiding open heart surgery to replace an embedded medical device?

While I agree with you in principle, that’s a hard sell to somebody with an embedded 2G medical device.

You don’t want random companies making cell signal transceivers.

Setting “companies” aside, I don’t see why it couldn’t be some sort of DIY project. Like, a small computer with a both a 2G and 5G modem, a set of antennas for each, and some middleware…

In fact, there are some phones that support both networks… So why couldn’t a spare phone be used? They technically already have all the hardware to make it work.

It sounds like there’s a really big market opportunity for somebody to make a portable transceiver that converts 2G and 3G signals into 5G…

Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is “Gravy Analytics”, hence the name “Gravy Scanner” for this app. It’s a large data broker, and they don’t bother with pesky little details like “informed consent”.

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

Most likely, that means you’re clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps… Clicking on one of them takes me to that app’s settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that it doesn’t show a message to indicate that nothing was found.

It’s imperative I get it in their original unedited sound file form and in MP3 as .wav is too big and .ogg could crash certain programs like Vegas Pro.

I always hate it when somebody asks for help on a site like StackOverflow, and some smartass pipes up with “Why are you even trying that, why don’t you try ___ instead?”

I don’t want to be that guy. But I am very, very curious about why it is so imperative that you obtain the actual original audio files. Why would similar sounds not suffice?

For context, I am an audio editor / producer / sound designer / Foley artist, and I’ve run into that same problem, of old sound libraries not existing anymore, and have had to find, or create, my own alternatives. So I do know the struggle, but I don’t know your particular situation.

Law enforcement seized 32 phones, 48 laptops and hard discs, and 33 SIM cards and froze several bank accounts amid the raid of the 76 locations, according to CBI.

So… After raiding 76 locations, they only got 32 phones? Like… they only found one phone in every two places that they raided? And they only got 48 laptops? Those are the kind of numbers that I would expect for one single location.

It kind of sounds like 75 of the locations were tipped off by corrupt local officials in advance.