Old Desk Phone Gets Doom Port

Old desk phones are fairly useless these days unless you’re building a corporate PBX in your house. However, they can be fun to hack on, as [0x19] demonstrates by porting Doom to a Snom 360 o…

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A Working Intercom From Antique Telephones

Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around before the widespread adoption of the transistor in the latter half …

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Limiting Battery Risk On Repurposed Smartphones With PostmarketOS

PostmarketOS is a Linux distribution specifically designed for those who wish to repurpose old smartphones as general-use computers, to a degree. This can be a great way to reuse old hardware. Howe…

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Create A Tiny Telephone Exchange With An Analog Telephone Adapter

An analog telephone adapter (ATA), or FXS gateway, is a device that allows traditional analog phones to be connected to a digital voice-over-IP (VoIP) network. In addition to this, you can even cre…

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An eight-minute read on how to play hide-and-seek with your phone's #WiFi antenna because who needs GPS when you have "environmental fingerprints"? 📡🔍 It's like a tech-savvy game of Marco Polo, but with extra steps and fewer pool noodles. 🤡
https://www.svendewaerhert.com/blog/nearby-peer-discovery/ #hideandseek #environmentalfingerprints #techsavvy #MarcoPolo #phonehacks #HackerNews #ngated
Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints

I propose a peer discovery technique to detect nearby devices by comparing similarity in their observed environments, such as WiFi or Bluetooth networks. Using locality-sensitive hashing and private set intersection, peers can compare their environments without disclosing the full details. With sufficient similarity between environments, peers can conclude they are near each other.

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Swiping Away Apps? You Might Be Wasting More Battery 🔋🚫

Modern smartphones are designed to handle background apps smartly. Constantly swiping them away might actually waste more power since they reload from scratch every time.

Tag a friend who keeps swiping — show them the smarter way to save battery. 📱⚡

#BatteryLife #SmartphoneTips #BatteryMyths #PhoneHacks #MobileTips #Neuronus