tehitype

FreeSWITCH and SignalWire looks great. I'll give it a shot during the weekend.

I guess I'd have to decide wether the bastion should forward or channel/tunnel the call. My knowledge in telco and VOIP is very limited, do you know if there's any way to identify a number one has been forwarded to? If so, complete isolation and using some other channel to transmit the caller id would be preferable.

That is really kind of you to offer, thanks a bunch!

I had a very long chat with one of the telemarketers once, trying my best to be very empathic and appealing to her humananity. I eventually hung up feeling defeated since she did an amazing job always defaulting to her agenda, and not giving in to my hippy svada in a very polite manner.

I'd be curious to hear how your approach works out. Ultimate best scenario would be to get completely removed from their lists - but I've almost given up hope on talking sense, and my provider, leaving Fire versus Fire.

Simple and likely very effective, even with non-robo callers whom I have never experienced calling twice.

I am using https://gitlab.com/xynngh/YetAnotherCallBlocker right now, but my country wildcards doesn't protect me against spoofed domestic calls - Forking and extending with this approach might work! TY

I've recieved a lot of forex related telemarketing calls the past two years (not robo, but imagine it will also hit EU eventually) because I was silly enough to input my actual number at some platform 5+ years back. I've tried several approaches reasoning with those individuals, mostly using the logic that I will NEVER buy anything from them because im simply not interested in the topic, but also a few using foul language. Always same result: more bullshit politely accompanied by "sir".

More recently I've recieved a lot of calls from regular people "calling me back". I reached out to my provider a few times, especially about the spoofing, but they claim theres nothing they can do, which I highly doubt.

I was a bit inspired by Cory Doctorow's "Red team blues" wherein the protagonist carries a burner, but has her main number behind an Asterisk server forwarding allowlisted numbers to the active burner.

Anyone know of anything like this? Ideally very DIY and FLOSS?

I imagine you could do some cool stuff with Whisper and LLMs, either wasting their time (like lennytroll mentioned elsewhere), but even better some autonomous bastion asking the caller to explain their reason for calling and letting the owner validate the answer through speech-to-text in an app, then decide wether to let it through or to "let me tell you in great detail about my grandchilds vacation to Mauritius"-land.

It's a weird opposite world we live in where companies hide behind endless teleprompts, but citizens have no such shield