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anthonypants posted:this one isn't in use but No one will believe me but I used to do telephone work for a motel that still had one of these and used it. I was very surprised the first time I walked in to say the least.
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redleader posted:how do you nerds know and care so much about the obscure workings of telephone systems im almost 40 and steam wasnt a thing when i was 11 so we made our own fun
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Jonny 290 posted:im almost 40 and steam wasnt a thing when i was 11 so we made our own fun Pretty much same, but a little older (not wiser, however). Listening to the *chunk-kachunk* sound from the louvered vents at the switching station was magical. You were hearing calls be routed and connected via electro-mechanical ingenuity. (Drawing in the dirt with a stick was fulfilling and entertaining and we loving liked it!) (stop using my lawn as a shortcut, you little shits) Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 17:55 on May 8, 2018 |
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Mechanical switching? Man, back in your day, y'all probably needed to get one of them warrants to violate a citizen's reasonable expectation of privacy 
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Potato Salad posted:Mechanical switching? Yeah, that station had been there forever, and GTE took forever to update it since it worked just fine serving 2,000 or so households and small businesses. GTE was also experiencing explosive growth during the 80s and 90s, so who wants to plow money back into infrastructure when there's money to be made? (that attitude held over when they rebranded as Verizon)
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I grew up in a little town that was the regional switching hub for Southwestern Bell. I remember when I was a kid riding in the back of my dads truck that when we passed the "telephone building" downtown I could hear the switches clicking and whirring. It was pretty cool at the time, and hell it still is.
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old technology is cool!! you can even hack old stuff. for example you can hack a printing press by getting a job as a type setter at an old newspaper (use your time machine to get there) and then secretly putting the type for "PENUS" in one of the columns
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:I grew up in a little town that was the regional switching hub for Southwestern Bell. I remember when I was a kid riding in the back of my dads truck that when we passed the "telephone building" downtown I could hear the switches clicking and whirring. It was pretty cool at the time, and hell it still is. i'm still amazed by early switching equipment like the 4a toll crossbar. an electro-mechanical system designed in the 1940s which automatically and reliably routed calls around the us while also handling billing (recorded on paper tape) and were so large that they took up an area the size of an entire city block. when they started designing this thing in the 1940s, transistors hadn't even been invented yet. it's like telling someone "build an automated nationwide phone system. here's some lumps of iron and a hammer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZNGxfH2ZJ8
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i'm sure this will go great and have no unintended consequences https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-adds-support-for-javascript-functions-in-excel/ posted:At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel.
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(4) literally anything js can do to gently caress you
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Arcsech posted:i'm sure this will go great and have no unintended consequences quote:. (2) Bring information from the web, like a bank account balance lmao 'here have this loaded gun, now if you just aim it down towards your feet you're good to go! "
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from the appel threadNEED MORE MILK posted:lmao new iOS beta disables the USB port if the phone hasn't been unlocked in 7 days to gently caress over the usb data extraction tools
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:from the appel thread that seems good to me
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Potato Salad posted:(4) literally anything js can do to gently caress you (5) embed a bitcoin miner and a real-time update on how much money you've earned (that last half is just "return 0")
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Lain Iwakura posted:on and off i want to find a mechanical switch still in use somewhere in this world. i don't know where you'd still find one but not in the west at least There’s a museum in Seattle that has a variety of electromechanical switches, if you visit, you can dial through them, see and hear them work. It’s cool to see these old switches in action. http://www.museumofcommunications.org
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Proteus Jones posted:(stop using my lawn as a shortcut, you little shits) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path It appears that your lovely yard is the problem, friendo?
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Raere posted:no microprocessors? it's a prison not a hardened nuclear command bunker the reason the article states is so they can hire rando handymen to fix it instead of having to pay someone who knows what they're doing
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RISCy Business posted:i finally started a twitter account for my professional/hobbyist computer touching @troyhunt @random_walker @gossithedog @binitamshah @dinosn @x0rz Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:i've been curating an attempt at a decent list for a while and it's been posted in past threads https://twitter.com/zylche/lists/security evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 10:23 on May 9, 2018 |
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Arcsech posted:i'm sure this will go great and have no unintended consequences no no no no no no no gently caress NO
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Dear Intel: Hire technical writers. -Thanks, Humanity
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Arcsech posted:i'm sure this will go great and have no unintended consequences https://twitter.com/CharlesDardaman/status/993912675804614657
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Arcsech posted:i'm sure this will go great and have no unintended consequences i honestly don't think there's anything you can do with js in excel that hasn't already been cobbled together using normal excel formulas and maybe macros or whatever other garbage from the mid-90s still exists in excel not that it's any excuse to add more garbage from the mid-90s to it, mind you
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i'm not sure what that even means in this context. unless there was an effort to bring php to excel at some point in the past which i would not necessarily put past microsoft
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could somebody please explain what this means thank you https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/pop_ss
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anthonypants posted:could somebody please explain what this means thank you https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/pop_ss An unprivileged KVM guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, escalate their privileges in the guest.
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