I sometimes collect roadside horse shit voluntarily, it’s a good fertilizer

At least physics will never get patched. The spark device with zinc spheres will always do that thing.

FCC: And get you arrested

Half of the field is viable thanks to a single algorithm: FFT

Seterra was my preferred quiz site to practice for Geography tests!

No, it’s on Google Play too

https://www.sevenspies.app/

You can’t play offline anyway. Fuck DRM.

The human assignment system is working

It could have been a top Lemmy app if open sourced…

At least they have the rule of tagging genAI posts.

Electoral college does that

Nach Bilder im Internet sieht Dresdner Friedrichstraße wie eine durschnittliche größere Straße in Prag… haben wir eine scheiße Hauptstadt??

Yes, I know about phreakers but what I mean is, phone numbers differ by length. Did the exchange wait until no more tones/clicks in a while or is there a variable length acheved by, say, making all area codes start with 0?

Obligatory https://justfuckingusehtml.com/

Too bad his non-populist successor Fiala came during the Covid crisis and a recession, and despite his great effort to tackle both we’re likely to see a “Trump-Biden-Trump” situation in this year’s parliamentary elections.

Earlier this year, a train also derailed near Bečva and hundreds of tons of benzene were spilled or burned. It is the biggest benzene disaster to date, and will take an ungodly amount of effort to clean up.

I travelled with DB to enjoy the 2022 9-€ Ticket. The cross-border train ČD drove into Germany got stopped in the first city and got cancelled because it “didn’t meet standards”. I mean, it was missing a car, there was no AC, it was super loud and crowded, but it was a train and went on time. DB’s replacement was literally nothing so I was stuck waiting in Schwandorf for an hour. This happens dozens of times every year.

Meanwhile, my trip last year was an orderly experience, probably because I went through former East Germany via Dresden instead. Communists did a lot of bad shit but they understood the power of trains (and streetcars).

Ngl, this is so clever

I studied electronics and GSM was a big part of the telecommunications subject. I visited the HQ of a mobile provider, was shown around and met the cartel boss (in hindsight, I wonder how much a Luigi moment would have affected the triopoly). I also visited a museum of technology and used an early touch-click model still connected to the network (pre-DTMF so not touch-tone, and no buffer so you had to wait for the simulated dial to stop clicking).

But still, I don’t know the basics of wired phones cuz I’ve never really used them. How does voice travel both ways on a single twisted pair? How can Inspector Clouseau the telephone engineer in The Pink Panther (1978) hear a conversation from other phones in the house? How does the exchange know I’ve dialed the last digit? Can I use voice services on rotary phones, and what if I need to press * or #? All these would be obvious to 1980s kids…

Poor deaf kids. Not because they’re being held captive but because they’re relying on shitty automatic captions.
For example, Czech was only added very recently and the captions really suck, they change the meaning of most sentences and even include spelling errors.

Everyone making scripted videos should at least:

1. go through their script to convert it into a transcript (match what’s actually been said – looking at you CGP Grey – and remove visual cues)
2. upload it for YouTube’s auto-timing (which is not perfect but we’ll take it)

Too bad the FCC’s captioning act is toothless, even TV stations (like HBO) uploading their content to YouTube don’t bother importing captions even though they’re legally required to.

My grandma was a disabled stay-at-home mom with a hyperactive daughter who tended to run away and wreak havoc, and all the police would soon know who to return her to. Grandma was scolded by neighbors for using a leash but able to explain herself. This was in 1970s Czechoslovakia.