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Simon 14h ago

Max Maass

1d ago

Today in #ITSecurity gone wrong: I am in Austria as a German. I just received a notification via cell broadcast about a fire in the area. The broadcast contains a URL - but this URL is only accessible from an Austrian IP address. My LTE roaming IP isn’t allowed. So… I guess I just suffocate because I have the wrong IP address, then? 😅

Simon 22h ago

Jon 22h ago

#retrocomputing was fun when Sony made wild personal computers.

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Simon 1d ago

@henryk The sync thing is probably true, and I fully understand the announcement thing (also a lot of small broadcasters are participating without complicated broadcasting systems). But I would have though this is a common problem and there would be some value in adding some more information (e.g. which kind of graphics is shown).

Simon 1d ago

How are the graphics for the national phone numbers triggered during #eurovision?

“Graphics in three, two, one, now!”
*lengthy 1 kHz tone*
“Graphics away in three, two, one. now!”

Using an 1 kHz tone on an digital audio track in an MPEG-TS instead of… anything else (e.g. a subtitle track?) seems a little bit odd?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uAP9pZIBB0

The hidden beeps that control Eurovision graphics

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Simon 1d ago

scy 1d ago

"from another service". You fucking liars.

#SoundCloud

Simon 1d ago

Stabi Hamburg 1d ago

Die Karl-May-Spiele in Bad Segeberg locken seit 1952 jedes Jahr Hunderttausende ins Kalkbergstadion – für viele sind Winnetou und Old Shatterhand Kult. Weniger bekannt ist dagegen die Geschichte des Stadions in der NS-Zeit. https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/schauplaetze,kalkberg103.html

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fasel 1d ago

10jähriges Nicht-Stattfinden des #CSD in Istanbul.

2015 fand dort die letzte legale Pride statt. Seitdem wurde jeder Versuch mit Tränengas und Massenverhaftungen niedergeschlagen.

Simon 2d ago

Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2d ago

I can't believe we're still having to say this in 2025, but would people *please* scroll back to the top of a website when they're finished reading, so it's ready for the next person. We've even got buttons at the bottom to do it all in one go, it's not 1994 any more.

Simon 2d ago

Vildis 2d ago

i spent too much time on this

Simon 3d ago

Nonya Bidniss

4d ago

LOL https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10530-025-03622-4.pdf

Jon 22h ago

#retrocomputing was fun when Sony made wild personal computers.

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~n 22h ago

@SamuraiSakura Thinking “oh wow, this is retrocomputing, now” makes me feel old, but just a bit.

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jan guerillahandwerker ullrich 22h ago

@SamuraiSakura these were the times they were also producing car audio equipment and somehow this looks quite familiar

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deBaer 21h ago

@SamuraiSakura Noone should ever buy a computer without a MiniDisc drive.

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Nazo 18h ago

@SamuraiSakura Rofl, that is indeed wild. It even had a TV tuner? Man those were neat as heck back in the day. (I had an ATi All-in-Wonder Pro for quite some time and even later a nVidia card -- I believe a GeForce 2 GTS -- with a tuner.) But to have it controlled with a hardware interface like that (one which apparently can also play radio and even control CD music playback) is neat as heck! It even has a record button. Man I miss being able to record stuff...

I'm almost tempted to try to get some sort of integrated player device like that now, lol. They've whet my appetite for this!

I see they even threw in a MD drive. I'm sort of curious what that little inset button is next to the floppy drive though. It's too low res and blurry to tell what the label says.