froh42

@froh42@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hungry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The basic idea is not letting anyone nuke anyone else by making the consequences really really absurd.

  The doomsday machine isn’t for winning wars, it is for avoiding them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 80s there was a way to cheat phone booths in Germany: With a small tool that had an adjustment screw you could position the hook switch to an exact position where the phone booth had already connected the line but did not yet power up the rest of the machinery (including coin counters)

  You could then call arbitrary nunbers by pulse dialing using the hook switch (the rotary dial was still powered down)

  Basically a EU pulse dial version of phreaking.

  My father, who died this year, used this a lot too make “free” calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still hear every sound including the error at the end...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my, that dad is young. The bwong bwong bwong came later with the faster transmission speeds.