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The Christmas time, aka the time that Pawel took a longer off period and has time to go down various memory lanes, will probably lead to development of new, personal traditions such as digging up tons of vintage tech resources. This year I present GSM Online, a news site from Poland which originated as a regular source of the latest telcom and cellular phone related news from Poland, Europe, sometimes Japan, US and other places where the technology was booming. Today it's one of many tech portals but in 2000 when it started, it reported on every little thing happening in the cell phone world, including deals, new services, experimental tech that never saw the light of day outside of small pilot test environments etc. The excited eight-year-old wanted his dad to copy every new article onto Kajetek, a Polish notetaker with Braille input and voice output, so that those could be read any time without sighted assistance. Turns out their news archives date back to the early 2000 and are still available. Everything's in Polish but worth an automatic translation if you'd like to experience what kinds of tiny details the industry would focus on back then and which solutions were thought of but never fully implemented. gsmonline.pl/newsy?page=2008 #Mobile #Phone #Retro #Tech

Wiadomości - dla zainteresowanych nowymi technologiami

Promocje, testy, informacje
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Paweł Masarczyk

Oh yeah, the reason I looked this up in the first place was me being reminded of Cell Broadcast, solution used today for the emergency alerts but having more entertainment-related purposes in the early 00's. Phones back then had a section of the regular messages feature where channels could be subscribed to, kind of like the CB radio. You would enter the channel numbers and your device would listen for messages delivered to the nearest cell tower matching that channel. Those messages could be delivered instantly as they targeted specific cells, not recipients, and didn't have to wait in the regular SMS queue. Example services run by my carrier included jokes, horoscope, a newsflash, something called Graffity where anybody could post anything and some dating channels because what could possibly go wrong. I think the 050 channel was a standardized one for broadcasting the name of the nearest tower which was the equivallent of accessing your current location. Many Nokia phones had a dedicated setting for that one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Bro… #CellPhone

method of sending messages to multiple mobile telephone users in a defined area at the same time

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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Dessert after Christmas dinner with a typical AI critic

👨🏻 this pie is incredible, where did you get it?

👩🏼 I baked it myself! I've been practicing my baking all year

👨🏻 how long did it take you to develop this recipe?

👩🏼 devel-- ?? no, this is just a recipe I got online

👨🏻 *stops chewing* you what ?

👩🏼 I found it online, but it turned out really well didn't it?

👨🏻 so you don't know the original author of the recipe?

👩🏼 I suppose not, but it tastes great doesn't it?

👨🏻 *spits out pie* I can't believe you'd serve me a pie that is possibly plagiarized instead of learning how to bake from first principles

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Daniel Gultsch

Same with Signal. I can't write anything remotely viral on #XMPP without some self proclaimed security expert stepping up to explain to me how much better Signal is.

I'm afraid that's just how the Fediverse works.

And since you seem to be advocating primarily for Signal you get to experience the XMPP fan boys and I get to enjoy the 'security experts'.

#xmpp

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I'm strongly debating converting my primary Windows physical OS install, and all data it encompasses to a KVM virtual machine, installing Debian on my currently primary Windows box, which is a pretty shweet machine, and running the Windows VM on top of it. The box has an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16Core, 32Thread CPU from 4.0-5.2GhZ, 64GB DDR4 3200 MhZ RAM, 10 gigabit networking add-on card, 2.5 gigabit networking onboard, gigabit networking onboard, an Asus Xonar Essence STX II sound add-on card, NVIDIA RTX 3060 TI GPU add-on card, 1TB NVMe, four 4TB HDD, 800 Watt power supply, and a full-tower case.
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Adam MacLeod

@BorrisInABox Ah. I guess I had made an incorrect assumption that passthrough audio was actually usable by now. But no getting around the extra latency issue, no matter how its sliced. And if it does still totally break, obviously that makes it entirely useless. LOL. Audio is way more your thing than mine, but I don't think I want broken audio, LOL. I've successfully passed through a port from my quad-10-gigabit Intel NIC to a VM with full performance, but it has features designed for VM stuff written all over the manual, so clearly, they really went the extra lengths to make it stable and usable. I suppose not so with audio devices. I can't say I'm all that surprised, really.
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Este video viral me encanta y su historia mas... 😂😂😂

El vídeo muestra a "Chunk", una marmota de Delaware, EE.UU., que roba vegetales de la huerta de Jeff Permar desde 2019.

Al notar que sus cultivos desaparecian, Jeff instaló un CCTV para ver que pasaba y capturó a Chunk comiendo descaradamente frente a la cámara.

En lugar de enfadarse, Jeff compartió los videos, que se volvieron famosos.

Chunk trajo a su pareja "Nibbles" y tuvieron crías.

Ahora tienen canal en YouTube e Instagram.
😍🥰🤩

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Abdulqadir Ahmad 😎

@clv1 Kind of... I'm thinking of a small kernel written in C / zig / rust, with either an abi or lua for extension.
I want the extension to be available to users of the operating system, so that they can tinker with it.
I think it might look like minix, but with support for user code execution in the kernel (probably like a lisp machine).
This is my first time hearing about lisp machine and I think it's interesting. I'm thinking about what having a gabage collector in the hardware means.
@Cleverson
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Ivan Stloukal

@jan @Unreed já měl kvůli tomu jednou i disciplinary, měl jsem tady babu, co řvala na celý autobus, tak jsem ji dvakrát slušně napomenul za jízdy a když to nepomohlo tak jsem zastavil na benzince a “tiše” na celý autobus jsem jí oznámil, ať to okamžitě položí, nebo si vystoupí, že my fakt nemáme zájem sledovat její posraný život (doslova).
Je, to byla v office mela, tak jsem se odkázal na přepravní podmínky.
Nakonec jsem dostal napomenutí za slovník 🤷‍♂️ ale pomohlo to, takže vlastně výhra.
@Jan Dytrych🇨🇿🇺🇦 @Unreed

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My phone has this reminders app, which is probably what normal people use to remind themselves to do things, and maybe I should play around with it one of these days and figure out how to use it, but, because I'm lazy/weird/whatever, I instead edit a file called .reminders on my vps, jot down a date and an hour and a note, and I have a script that cron runs that reads the file, emails the note to me when the date/time has passed, and rewrites the file to remove the note that it just sent. But, anyhow, here we go--if I mean 2026, then I'm going to have to remember to write 2026, not 2025, or things won't work the way I expect.

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Thanks to those who helped out with my mindly.social issue earlier today, which turned out to be strictly my issue. Mindly.social didn’t seem to like what I was trying to change my user handle to. It appeared to object to the term “radical left scum” after my name, so after three attempts to change it to that resulted in an error message every time that went by too fast to read I settled on “antifa member” which I think makes the point almost as well.

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Why would you use AI to lookup up something as basic and safety critical as tides? How have people lost the capability of just using a search engine? I don’t understand why so many people want to be spoon fed by a chat bot spouting bollocks.

Just insane, stupid, and risky as hell.

Use reputable sources for critical information. Weather and tide information are a solved problem. (Weather is not always perfect!)

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Warning about using AI for festive swim tide time advice

The Coastguard warns about AI after two people are stranded after being given the wrong tide times.
Natalie Grice (BBC News)

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I think my favourite software purchase of 2025 was a lifetime license for AdGuard. I mean, yes, I could have used one of my Raspberry Pi systems to do something similar, but, it literally took me 5 minutes to setup, while a Raspberry Pi configuration would have taken me more and then I'd have to baby it. Besides, it appealed to my inherent laziness and now I can read articles without all the ad fluff.
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Tech Singer

@BorrisInABox It's also worth noting that Pihole is a bit misleading as to the name. I think the last time I used it on an actual pi was in 2019. I now use it on a VM sitting on one of my desktops. I know I can use docker, I'm just too lazy. The VM doesn't have to be looked after, even if the underlying hardware blows up for some reason, I just put the backup on some other thing and am satisfied. That hasn't happened yet.
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"Moderates, those with a prior of 4, made the most valid model choice and are therefore most likely to obtain the correct estimate. Hence, pro-immigration researchers in particular appear to have reached their conclusion by making less valid choices in their analysis, thereby reaching a biased conclusion. If anti- and pro-immigration researchers were similarly frequent, such a bias may cancel out. However, pro-immigration researchers outnumber anti-immigration researchers and moderates, whose analyses are most reliable combined. The results is a literature containing mainly a small share of moderates doing rigorous research and a larger group of ideologically motivated pro-immigration “researchers” who torture the data until they “find” a pro-immigration message."

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Why immigration research is probably biased

Public opinion surveys across Western countries consistently show that majorities prefer lower immigration levels.
Laurenz Guenther

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J'ai vraiment vraiment aucune personne sur #tours ? J'avoue que je m'ennuie un peu j'aimerais bien rencontrer de nouvelles personnes en 2026, je me sens assez isolée avec le #handicap même si je suis dans des assos
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#france #handicap #tours #mastodonfrance #associatif #indreetloire #toursmaville #touraine #valdeloire

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Not so happy. Financially, 2025 was probably the worst year I had since I started translating for a living. I lost most of my long time clients - retirement, sickness etc. - and new ones are hard to find.
So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income.
References on my blog - see profile.
#translations #books #writing #author
#books #writing #translations #author
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