Sam Machin

@sammachin@chaos.social
202 Followers
85 Following
505 Posts
Named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for calling out Bullshit | 99% Sarcasm 1% Genius.
Makes phones work in fields for fun.
websitehttps://sammachin.com
Naming things is hard
This is a really interesting project but seems like it could become a spammers paradise, ability to place calls from asterisk via a cellular SIM card (with unlimited mins) is begging to be absued, it’s the next gen of sim farming https://fosstodon.org/@osmocom/114223433953999859
Open Source Mobile Comms (@osmocom@fosstodon.org)

Make VoWiFi calls from an open source client using asterisk: https://osmocom.org/news/297 - osmocom main contributor @sysmocom@mastodon.social has recently released a forked version of asterisk that can be used to make VoWiFi calls using nothing but FOSS, a smart card reader and a SIM card. #foss #opensource #telecom #3gpp

Fosstodon
lol someone has marked the North Hyde Substation as “Temporarily Closed” on google maps
So has anyone found a site that’s blocking the UK or using age verification yet? OSA came into force on Monday didn’t it?
UNIX includes a command to deal with your cat walking on your keyboard. When your cat is coming, you just type "cat" and press enter, and your cat's input won't mess anything up.
Anyone want to go halves? FB2900 for £330 each?
Seeing as I've got 2 perfectly serviceable FB2700's I can’t really justify having a spare 2900 too
https://social.aa.net.uk/@aaisp/114030029556663393
Andrews & Arnold Ltd (AAISP) (@aaisp@social.aa.net.uk)

We are running a special promotion on FireBrick 2900 Fully Loaded: BUY ONE GET ONE FREE! https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/fb2900-bogof-24th-jan-2025/ A bit more background : https://firebrick.co.uk/about/news/BOGOF/ We intend to run this until the end of April, but we may possibly end it before then, depending on stock levels.

AAISP
So... how many days before i get some scam texts from this number then….
@revk just received my openmic commbadge, 2 questions, do you have a link for a good lipo battery with the right connector? Its a picoblade 1.25mm not JST I think?
Also is there any firmware on there already or do I need to configure and build myself, got any notes for that?

New blog post: ✨ Building Social Media Bots With Node-RED ✨

https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2025-02-08-building-social-media-bots-with-node-red

Building Social Media Bots With Node-RED

I run several bots that post to social media and the number seems to keep growing. I've had a few people in the past ask me how I run them so I thought I'd finally get around to writing down how I manage it by leveraging Node-RED.

Marcus Noble