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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 23:06:37 JST Cory Doctorow

   Empty tomb

   #payphone #2600 #decay #TTC

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     Martijn de Vrieze - TK69241 (martijndevrieze@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 23:06:35 JST Martijn de Vrieze - TK69241

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     • SHODAN :nonbinary:

     @SHODAN @pluralistic
     I do not recall seeing any functioning payphones in London, However I ran into this still functioning relic last year in Oxford.

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     SHODAN :nonbinary: (shodan@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 23:06:36 JST SHODAN :nonbinary:

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     @pluralistic Seen similar in Cockfosters Tube Station in the UK. Still illuminated mind. Not sure there are any public phones left in London at this point.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 23:19:06 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Martijn de Vrieze - TK69241

     @martijndevrieze @SHODAN @pluralistic BUSINESS STARTUP IDEA: Buy up empty phone booths, slap PV panels on top and a battery/distribution board inside, then rent them out as smartphone fast-charge charging points (with a lock-box to leave your phone in while it's sucking juice at £1/30 minutes).

     "It's a phone box. You pay us for permission to leave your phone in it. You're welcome."

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     Den of Earth (denofearth@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 13:22:23 JST Den of Earth

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     • Manu

     @manu @pluralistic
     I knew a guy in the 80s who would make collect calls from Canada to a payphone in France. When his girlfriend answered, she would say she accepted the charges, but the Canadian operator didnt know that there was no such mechanism in France so they would have long free talks at a time when international calls were expensive and neither Skype nor the Internet existed.

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     Manu (manu@freiburg.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 13:22:26 JST Manu

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     @pluralistic
     And it's all the Phreakers' fault! Damn freeloaders 😡