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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

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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

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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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