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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

When all you want to do is to get a gym membership, but they are so f*cked up in terms of GDPR compliance that you have to write several e-mails and file two GDPR complaints in two different German states instead :/

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

analyzing why osmocom ARM package building is taking too long: Turns out the build worker is spending 7.5 times more time in post-installation of latex (for setting up the package build) than it is taking to actually build osmo-sgsn including its user manual: osmocom.org/issues/7009

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Bug #7009: lx2 (aarch64+armv7l) OBS builder is near capcaity limit - Cellular Network Infrastructure - Open Source Mobile Communications

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Interesting and comprehensive report about sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns involving mobile operator signaling infrastructure lnkd.in/gmfmx4pJ and identifying three gateways to surveillance (019Mobile, Airtel Jersey, Tango Networks UK) #3gpp #gsm #gsma #ss7 #diameter

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

If you work at Amazon, Google or Microsoft, the NTP Pool project could do with some sponsorship. Its core DNS infra is partially run by volunteers and one of them recently breached trust to meddle with DNS serving. The project would like to not have to rely on volunteers for this […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

I'm currently looking to expand my social network and would love to get in touch with anyone in the "global south" (especially African countries) involved in #hamradio, wireless community networks, #FOSS or #OSHW development or the #maker and #hacker communities. I'd be very happy if anyone from […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

Heading to #Vancouver tomorrow, with some availability from March 19th through 24th. Not sure if any of my old contacts/friends from the linux/hacker community happen to be located there thees days. If yes, and interested in meeting over coffee, lunch, dinner or just drinks, let me know.

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

I just recovered the project information of the atusb IEEE 802.15.4 USB adapter since qi-hardware is now defunct. The page and all other resources/binaries/... (full backup) now live at people.osmocom.org/werner/wpan/web and a git repo with compiling tools can be found at […]

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Thomas Fricke (he/his) @thomasfricke.23.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Microsoft eröffnet Souveränitätsstudio in München | IT-Administrator Magazin www.it-administrator.de/microsoft-s… "Das neue Zentrum ist Teil des Microsoft Innovation Hub und soll Unternehmen sowie Behörden dabei unterstützen, individuelle Anforderungen an […]

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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

RIP FX - You are a legend

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Thomas Fricke (he/his) @thomasfricke.23.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

"ESC gehört der AWS European Sovereign Cloud GmbH, ... das eine hundertprozentige Tochtergesellschaft seiner amerikanischen Muttergesellschaft ist. ... Anschein einer europäischen Eigentümerschaft, ... Die AWS ESC hat daher nur eine eingeschränkte operative ... und ... keine technologische […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

This should be a legal requirement for being allowed to sell networked devices. (Original title: Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bos…

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Christian Schwägerl @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Eine Meisterleistung unterirdisch schlechter #Kommunikation: So gibt #Berlin das Ende des Stromausfalls bekannt. (Screenshot Carline Mohr) #Stromausfall

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/12/2025

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

One of the to german or english native speakers] more cryptic signs put up at various locations of [#39c3. I had to use cyrillic OCR and a ukranian to english translation software to make sense of it. Very nice, congrats to whoever did that.

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

Kabelsalat ist gesund! Equipment von @c3noc und @c3isdn auf der Empore von Saal 3 des #39c3

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igwigg @igwigg.sk.igwigg.space.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

why should i have a new years resolution? what is wrong with 5120x1440?

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

Is there any place at #39c3 that has a microwave for heating up food? I recall from past events that the Angel restaurant provided some, but that seems no longer to be the case. Now i brought homemade food and can't heat it up :/ @c3infodesk

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix… Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works <- by me on @theregister

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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered

: Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

So ziemlich das nerdigste deutsche #retronetworking Buch, das man ich vorstellen kann ist gerade auf booklooker aufgetaucht (Suchauftrag läuft schon lange): "Handbuch Btx-Recht. Mit einem Kommentar zum Bildschirmtext- Staatsvertrag" - leider antiquarisch zu teuer für den Spass. #btx #dfü

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Is there anyone in #brazil who would help me by purchasing some (small/lightweight) #retrocomputing items available domestically from mercadolivre and ship them to me in Germany? #followerpower #retronetworking #brasil

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

I'm currently looking for one or more volunteers to maintain the Openmoko USB PID + OUI service at github.com/openmoko/openmoko-usb-oui as the existing maintainer is no longer available. This is a service providing free USB Product IDs and Ethernet MAC addresses for the #FOSS and #OSWH […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

#Nokia is closing down their Munich site until 2030: www.heise.de/en/news/Nokia-plans-to… - is that part of the Siemens -> Nokia Siemens Networks -> Nokia legcay, and hence also the original Siemens GSM implementation (D900, ...) #retronetworking […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Ist es nicht schön, nach welchen Kriterien ein Deutscher Großkonzern die Arbeitsplätze differenziertm Ich hätte gerne auch einen [GSM, 3GPP, 5G, Bluetooth, TETRA] Arbeitsplatz bitte 😉

Schild an einer Zimmertür:

LAN-Arbeitsplätze
WLAN-Arbeitsplätze

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Usability, wie es nur die #DB in ihrer Lounge hinbekommt: Dort wo man seine Tasse zum einlegen des Teebeutels hinstellt, ist die Fläche minimal und Kante maximal abgerundet. Wer nicht genau hinsieht oder gar schlecht sieht], dem kippt die Tasse weg und fällt auf […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Regal mit Tassen in der DB-Lounge, extrem schmale Abstellgleis he davor mit extrem grossen Radius abgerundet; kippgefahr für Tassen

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

Ich suche nach einer Bezugsquelle für kleine Zuschnitte (30x40cm) von Schaumstoff-Platten h=2-3cm mit hoher Shore-Härte. Ideal 200 (20 kPa). Weiss da jemand was? #followerpower #maker #diy

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

in case anyone has an unused replicated] #39c3 presale ticket voucher left-over: @tnt, one of the greatest hackers I've ever had the pleasure of working with @tnt is looking for one. #ccc [#followerpower

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

I just managed to pick up eight "Sun Netra 210" 1U UltraSparc-IIIi servers yesterday. In case any #retrocomputing enthusiasts here (particularly those of you I know personally) are interested in such equipment, please let me know. #sun #ultrasparc

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Iván Sánchez Ortega @ivansanchez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot of a github discussion titled "can't disable copilot code reviews"

A screenshot of a github discussion titled "Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories"

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors)..

LaF0rge in a data centre, lifting a bunch of tangled up cables from the data centre double floor

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

video recording of operation SIMcartel: Police raiding what looks like a massive SIM + modem bank deployment in Latvia, using 40,000 SIM cards www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ImysXws-0

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

I'm happy to join the board of ARDC and thankful for the trust and the opportunity to be part of the team shaping this wonderful organization providing among other things] grants to digital communications related open source projects […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Ich war wieder bei golem.de im "Besser Wissen" Podcast zu gast, diesmal zum Thema "Geschichte des hauptsächlich GSM] Mobilfunks. Das Ergebnis könnt ihr unter www.golem.de/news/podcast-besser-wi… hören. #retronetworking #gsm #cellular […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

We'll be rescuing another Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchange. If anyone is interested in helping us with disassembly and loading into the truck in Munich on October 23rd/24th, please let me know - more information in German at […]

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Matthias Kirschner @kirschner.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Proud that @fsfe volunteer Nicole went through this whole process with #sumup about the #GNU #GPL. Nicole’s efforts show that individuals can have outsized positive impacts on #softwarefreedom, and many little steps like Nicole’s, when taken together, can amount to a large enough movement to […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2025

So there's a decades-old mechanism (and actual standard) how programs lock serial ports on unix-like systems in /var/lock. it's used in practice even in 2025 and #systemd >= 258 simply breaks it with "we don't care". I am not a systemd opponent, but that kind of behaviour without a prior […]

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ласточка61 @axaneco.layer8.space.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

Man konnte früher zwische Föhren und Kiefern Hirsche röhren hören. Doch Röhrentechnik ging verloren. Längst haben Hirsche Transistoren. (Hansgeorg Stengel 1922 - 2003)

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

I meanwhile arived in Amsterdam for the Embedded Linux Conf Europe which I haven't been to in ages. Will present on FOSS eSIM integration into Embedded Linux devices #elce2025 #linux #esim

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

So, after spending two half days in a colocation filled with several decommissioned but fully complete including software] Siemens #EWSD digital telephone exchanges, I am happy to report that two of them will be rescued. We've dümpelt the hard disks and done some initial disassembly. Full […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

Tonight I had a dream involving meeting a (recovered) fefe. Highly unusual, don't recall ever having dreams involving him before. In any case, let's hope for his best recovery and hopefully the dream will become reality at some point #fefe

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

on my way to Munich today. In the odd case that anyone local in my timeline feels like meeting up tonight, let me know. For the curious: Reason for the visit is to inspect and backup a Siemens EWSD exchange and plan logistics of its upcoming move to the Dresden telecommunications museum. #munich […]

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vga256 @vga256.dialup.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto […] [Original post on dialup.cafe]

A directory listing on an ftp server three continents away. It shows over a dozen files for US Robotics modems. Of incredible interest are the "Modem Pool Upgrades" and NetServer files, which are for commercial ISPs.

the user has typed "you are a hero rolando" into the ftp command line.

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

I recently briefly heard about the Indian rural telephone exchanges (RAX), which appear to go back all the way to electromechanical switches. They (C-DOT) even built a V5.2 Access Network called AN-RAX. Started to collect some documents at […] [Original post on chaos.social]

picture of a C-DOT 256P RAX cabinet with doors open shwoing circuit boards

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Mh. Riding the Nuremberg subway and noticing #vodafone still offers nothing beyond EGPRS there in 2025. Guess ezperiencing thst in Berlin that was more than a decade ago... #nürnberg #gsm #cellular

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

IVery interesting applied security research into the #GSMA #eSIMM universe, specfically the use of the JavaCard VM with its questionable security architecture depending on an off-card bytecode verifier in the context of the eUICC which inherently contains eSIM profiles of different competing] […]

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Anja @maristya.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Gesucht: eine Plattform, wo ich eingeben kann, wann ich fertig war, mit Schule, und mir dann – sinnvollerweise sortiert nach Themenbereichen – gezeigt wird, welche Sachen, die ich damals als Stand der Wissenschaft gelernt habe, längst überholt sind. Und mir dann die Gelegenheit gibt zu lernen […]

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

lT security 101: Don't leave your company laptop with authentication smart card inserted, applications open and without screensaver at your seat when using the lavatories on a train. Unbelivable...

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LaF0rge @laf0rge.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

does anyone know something about the coverage/deployment status of the LTE450 network of 450connect.de ? #cellular #lte #telecom

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