@froh42@lemmy.world
member since 12 Jun 2023 16:31
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- on Sony patent could let players tap a credit card on their PlayStation controller to buy games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3h ago
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on Verizon announces end of landline coverage pending FCC approval in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
It’s good enough for what I need as is. I was thinking about doing something like this with an esp32, IIRC there’s a voip firmware for the esp. I was thinking of hiding it in the rotary phone along with a battery, connecting it to the mobile network via a hotspot or just setting the esp32 up like a BT headset. Then put the rotary in a backpack and using it to receive a call on the commuter train or so.
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on Verizon announces end of landline coverage pending FCC approval in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
It’s an old FritzBox where I turned off wifi etc and just use for VOIP - Pots. When I set it up a some time ago it was EUR 15 or so on ebay, as these old FritzBoxes have no other modern use. They put out “just” enough juice to ring the phone. Ringing is softer than what I know from. my childhood, though.
Pulse dialing works, but you can’t pause while dialing as it interprets a pause as “now connect the call”. (Real POTS had “incremental” dialing)
I have these phones for fun, but if I’d need to use them I’d probably buy a new dedicated voip adapter (EUR 150+).
Old FritzBox routers are cheap here, that’s why I use them.
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on Verizon announces end of landline coverage pending FCC approval in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
The most common routers here in Germany have POTS connectors and convert that to VOIP internally. At least for POTS with DTMF. I keep one specific router around that even still supports pulse dialing as I have two rotary phones from the 1950s and 1970s still hooked up for fun. (They work, except for the fact that nobody knows the number of my land line)
When the biggest provider in Germany switched from POTS and ISDN to VOIP there was also a number of solutions available for bigger installations, so you could keep your POTS installation while the adapter does the VOIP conversion.
So all in all switching worked mostly fine.
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on C shark shark in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 16 Sep 2026
There’s a bug in 🍒, it pretends to be 🍉
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on What’s the difference between F-35 and Gripen fighter jets? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
It’s not about US made parts, its about depending on servers running in the US running all the software, ready to be turned off at any time.
And for nuclear sharing we should go French or British. The US are notoriouly unreliable and have proven not to be a partner anymore.
Yeah, we all saw the amazing US victory in Iran. One more reason not to partner up with the US.
In the end the F35 is a tool for bullying other nations with the tools of yesteryear, not something for modern conflict. “Put all your eggs into one overpowered basket” ist not the way to fight wars anymore, as the US is learning in Iran. Numerous and cheap is what counts.
I give you the thing about Eurofighter. I just believe the F35 is completely the wrong tool for the future. Maintenance heavy, ongoing support dependent, expensive, hard to replace. All it’s cool features can’t make up for its shortcomings.
It’s a classical Wunderwaffe.
What we need is something simple, defense oriented and not attack oriented.
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on What’s the difference between F-35 and Gripen fighter jets? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6 Sep 2026
The Gripen flies, the F35 is parked in a maintenance shack. Or parked forever if the US decides they don’t like you anymore and to turn off all the software defined shit.
My country (Germany) planning to buy F35 instead of Gripens boggles my mind, it’s just dumb in the current political climate.
We can see that Ukraine fucking F16s make a huge difference - all the buzzwords buy you nothing, what you need is airplanes that actually are in the air.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
If you fully submerge an object, you displace its VOLUME of water. It will always be the same amount (imagine a bowling ball and a soccer ball). You might need to push it.
When you relate that to its weight, you get the density.
Imagine you have two 1kg lumps of steel. Out of one you make a bowl with thin walls the out of the other a metal ball. Afterwards they still have (about) the same weight, volume and density - as it’s still steel.
But put the bowl onto the basin and with a little luck it will float like a boat *, put in the steel ball it will sink.
But when you put in the bowl sideways without splashing it will displace about the same amount of water than the ball. And it will still weigh 1kg.
*= The thing with floating people remember from school: The floating bowl will displace as much water as it weighs - that’s the thing Archimedes found out. So our 1kg bowl will displace 1kg of water - which is incidentally about 1 liter, because the density of water is about 1kg/l (it was intentionally defined that way, some guys in the French revolution used water to define mass by volume)
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on Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
No, they should find the most sorry thing of a mud puddle (preferably one in Patagonia or so) and call THAT Lake America.
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on Forth in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 10 Aug 2026
That’s true, but as the Forth is top of stack I’d read it as the subject and I as the object. OFC that’s just how you define the heart-word, but still.
Sony turning the PS into a P. O. S.
No, not sale.