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TikTok and its Chinese owner sue US Government over "foreign adversary" law(arstechnica.com)
4 points by doctorshady 2y ago|1 comments
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Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility(theatlantic.com)
3 points by doctorshady 2y ago|0 comments
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MCI/Verizon Network Notes(vofr.net)
5 points by doctorshady 3y ago|1 comments
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Setting Up A Massive Telecom Computer(youtube.com)
2 points by doctorshady 3y ago|0 comments
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by doctorshady 3y ago
This only works in the loosest of senses for an analog to HTTP - certainly the way they're used, but some BBSes have modem connectivity. https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/
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Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the enshittification of the internet(theguardian.com)
4 points by doctorshady 4y ago|1 comments
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by doctorshady 4y ago
This is a video of a huge class 5 phone switch being set up in someone's garage - something not captured in the title. The video does show exactly how big this thing actually is, though. The components in the later generations of this
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DMS-100 Startup and First Phone Calls(youtube.com)
2 points by doctorshady 4y ago|1 comments
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by doctorshady 4y ago
I wish more people would realize that lithium battery production is still pretty nasty, especially in countries like China with minimal environmental regulations. Not to mention the electrical grid will take some significant investment (hop
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by doctorshady 4y ago
https://archive.ph/w9Qpd
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by doctorshady 4y ago
Circuit switched landline service is still very much alive. It isn't and hasn't been electromechanical for a very long time, but it's non-packetized in a very large part of the US, provided you actually get a service that leg
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by doctorshady 4y ago
I couldn't find an article, but a cursory search did pull up this: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/10/24/solus-dan-greenhaus-we...
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Internet connectivity worldwide impacted by severed EU subsea cables(bleepingcomputer.com)
20 points by doctorshady 4y ago|6 comments
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by doctorshady 4y ago
With the way wiretapping laws work and the bus operator not being a party in any of the conversations they surveil, I wonder if it's legal to be recording peoples' voices here.
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Founder of China's Huawei urges focus on cash flow, survival in downturn(reuters.com)
2 points by doctorshady 4y ago|0 comments
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A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware(arstechnica.com)
21 points by doctorshady 4y ago|1 comments
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Seattle woman convicted in 2019 Capital One breach that impacted millions(king5.com)
2 points by doctorshady 4y ago|0 comments
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Review of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future(jacobin.com)
211 points by doctorshady 4y ago|229 comments
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Lobbyists Are About to Scuttle the Nomination of a Popular Reformer to the FCC(techdirt.com)
18 points by doctorshady 4y ago|0 comments
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by doctorshady 4y ago
https://archive.ph/pdwlX
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by doctorshady 5y ago
I'd love to know what, in his view, creates the inevitability that Democracies die (or become autocratic) during times of war. Is it because the state becomes more aggressive/potentially overreaching in order to combat an enemy, n
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Researchers used a decommissioned satellite to broadcast hacker TV(wired.com)
1 points by doctorshady 5y ago|0 comments
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by doctorshady 5y ago
Agreed. VoLTE is VoIP anyway, so there's not a lot of drawbacks relative to changing out a circuit switched landline. I believe at least in the US as well, STIR/Shaken is being implemented on circuit switched networks.
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by doctorshady 5y ago
Considering things between the US and Russia are somewhat tense already, isn't blowing this sort of smoke just asking for trouble?
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Why Russia’s “disconnection” from the Internet isn’t amounting to much(arstechnica.com)
3 points by doctorshady 5y ago|0 comments
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by doctorshady 5y ago
Whatever method you're using to send touchtones is likely not working then. You might want to try using something else to send it.
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by doctorshady 5y ago
Some of them are high profile phone people like Evan Doorbell. Others, I'm not sure.
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by doctorshady 5y ago
There's a few: 800-437-7950 800-223-1104 (passcode 910777)
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by doctorshady 5y ago
818-205-1622/1642/1662 are feeds of whatever is coming off the satellite channels from Premiere Radio Networks.
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by doctorshady 5y ago
Someone set up a strange number with something like this a while ago, with a bunch of randomized recordings. Some of these appear to be inside jokes or otherwise have hidden meanings about unorthodox behavior from phone systems - +1-248-200

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