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by philprx 6y ago
Yes, QSD was hosted on a Minitel serving node/system but was mainly used for international chats. So we can say that QSD “abused” the x25 interconnection of a Minitel server in order to provide chats mainly to hackers. Common people th
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by philprx 6y ago
Sorry, I find that statement quite imprecise: you could connect to a single server at a time, just like a browser tab connects you to only one service at a time (even if it uses many libraries from many other http servers), so if you mean p
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by philprx 6y ago
Yes, check if the modem does “V23”, it’s the 1200/75 Minitel modem connection protocol.
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by philprx 6y ago
There was a similar system for minitel: these were called RTC servers. Nothing to do with WebRTC. It was short for Réseau téléphonique commuté. Basically a simple user would run the equivalent of bbs software on his computer, but with speci
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by philprx 6y ago
Absolutely all true, these notions actually share the same model: centrally controlled, no control at terminal / no open access for new entrants, consumption devices are locked to consume only, hard to “become center” or provider, etc.
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by philprx 6y ago
What you need to build the adapter: http://pila.fr/wordpress/?p=361 Use online translator and ping me if needed.
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by philprx 6y ago
It’s true that most applications were stream oriented, and Minitel was, as the users’ sessions were only bytes (in videotex encoding) rendered by the Minitel as a serial terminal integrating a modem (1200 bauds reception, 75 bauds emission!
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by philprx 6y ago
Well what made Minitel popular was that France Telecom (now Orange) gave the basic Minitel 1 for free to anyone requesting it. That was huge at the time.
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by philprx 6y ago
Well the popular and expensive services were advertised according to their access code: 3615. But the less known nerd services were found on much less expensive 3614 access code such as RTEL, Privilege, QBBS, ... Even some hackish servers w
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by philprx 6y ago
And you can use some of them as a serial console using a simple TTL to serial voltage adapter. The following are compatible with 80 columns: Minitel 1B Minitel 2 And type the following after power on to switch to 80 cols: Function T+E
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by philprx 6y ago
The failure of Minitel lies mainly in the underlying networking model, and resulting capability to become a service provider. Minitel was based on x25. Contrary to IP, x25 was a network where the terminals are dumb and the network needs to
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by philprx 6y ago
Assuming plenty of time, not much luxury taste, wanting to ramp up tech skills, limited (but existing) funds Buy one, establish a hacker space, hold regular events, show the awesome projects you do, try to have community-positive impacts. D
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by philprx 6y ago
If you liked this you will like these: sheetengine - Isometric HTML5 JavaScript Display Engine - CodePlex Archive https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=sheetengine Isomer – an isometric graphics library for HTML5 canvas https:&#
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by philprx 6y ago
Watch out, Wifi and Bluetooth and any radio source can be located (with direction finding, Time Difference on Arrival, ...). It's sometime a bit more difficult: with spread spectrum technologies for example, widely used wireless techno
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by philprx 6y ago
Ok, sorry sir ;-) Copyright infringement. What's the difference really here? IANAL means this precisely (and on a side note, I'm here for open exchange and debate, not for claiming to be right ;-) Interestingly, depending on juris
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by philprx 6y ago
Yes, that's OK if it's symmetrical: why can't we easily automate Google search results? It's asymetry here that is the problem, not Information Freedom. And i'm pretty sure this is the line/dark pattern Google
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by philprx 6y ago
IANAL: 1. Google doesn't show in-line'd data box with Net worth 2. Google asks site (CNW) for access, is denied. 3. Google then shows site's data in data box (with CNW site proof of theft with canary tokens being the fake cel
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by philprx 6y ago
When you consider the impact/cost of an anti-trust case vs. the ease for Google to change rankings so that the evidence site (CNW) is back in the top 3 results... Of course you would do that if you were Google... And here there's
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by philprx 6y ago
It's the business model of many online blogs and sites, and get payment through ads. Of course it's not a really strong model now that ads revenue are going down. It was a strong one not so long ago. Now it's clearly IPR thef
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by philprx 6y ago
"Don't be evil" ;-) Is it still Google's motto?
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by philprx 6y ago
Git repo or it doesn't exist ;-) Seriously, if this is not available, what are the alternatives? I've seen in the past some NLP + Storage project but I don't recall them. (even remotely connected, there was something to conve
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by philprx 6y ago
My bet: depression rate is going to increase around the bridge where the sound can be heard. I wonder if you can hear it from top of Mount Tamalpais?
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by philprx 7y ago
Wait a second... Half joke: Isn't being founder and running a company about making mistakes all the time, learning from them and hoping you avoided the really bad mistakes? no joke: I wouldn't criticize someone who 1. Founded a c
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by philprx 7y ago
Report your kid if he/she has a brain and is not getting brainwashed on Facebook or YouTube. This kind of thinking is really a bigger problem imho
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by philprx 7y ago
Oh, very surprising, this news comes at the exact right timing for Boeing during the 737 max debacle ;-)
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by philprx 7y ago
Hackers do cover their track, actively. But guess what, they're human and they fail, sometimes, not always. Attribution becomes a playable game once you're a nation state, thanks to many "unfair advantages". ... In the e
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by philprx 7y ago
Maybe silly question, Are there some other commercially available chips with phased arrays? I believe RTL SDR did extend the RTL products end of life much further. COuld this occur with this (or similar) phased array chips?
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by philprx 7y ago
I tend to differ: Netgear security is paid to manage security. They failed by not responding to these legitimate communications requests. The researcher are not paid. They did what could be done to really fix the problem. Of course you ca
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by philprx 7y ago
If I was Google, and I would be doing this, it would be not based on security requirement but rather: CYA: so that users can't sue Google in case of wrongful usage of data by a bad app Uniformization / homogenization of permission
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by philprx 7y ago
The concept is important, as it structures the call flows in a new way, regardless of content (SMS, data, voice). The bearer (2G/3G, 4G, 5G) is much less important. Once new architecture exists and is proven to converge at scale, then

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