@kkarhan my comment wasn't about having them outdoors but about the ashtray on top...

@mangeshm @rahulporuri @triskelion Arun doesn't run the domain.

And inb4 all the upcoming posts and articles on what “Europe should do”, please ponder: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europe-must-invest-in-xyz/

@triskelion @rahulporuri foss.in was registered by/to the late Atul Chitnis. I believe I can put you in touch with the people who have defects control over it. I walkways thought it's a shame that the page is dead and not showing some kind of history of the very successful event series. But then, I also didn't get involved to actually make that a reality.

@starbug Anlass ist eine Konferenz (Open Compliance Summit der Linux Foundation), habe das dann für Stopover in Taiwan und urlaub in Japan genutzt.

@msowen the picture was taken yesterday. Most vending machines I saw [also those frequently encountered to place your food order at small restaurants] accept only cash. I was extremely positively surprised by that. Makes me feel much more welcome than certain countries that seem to insist every payment needs to be tracked.

This is the first time I saw a #Sriracha vending machine (pic taken outdoor on a parking lot in Asakusabashi, #Tokyo)

@isotopp yeah, you also see that a lot in Taiwan, and my most used travel accessory for many years looks like this:

@isotopp I haven't seen any grounded AC wall outlets to begin with. At least not in hotels, restaurants, malls, ...

It seems the Japanese have a lot of trust in the safety of their gas meters (seen in Asakusabashi)

my take on recent regrettable events in the #linux kernel community. https://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20241025-linux-maintainers-russian/

Feeling like a TV repair man 30 years ago: Fixing the CRT part of [Germanys?] first #ISDN video phone "BildTel 001" #retronetworking - detailed debug journey at https://osmocom.org/issues/6587

And... the CRT is operational again, presents me with the configuration screen of the Video Phone

slides of presentations of a 3GPP workshop celebrating 20 years of #GSM in 2007: https://www.3gpp.org/ftp/workshop/2007-03-14_20%20Years%20of%20GSM/Presentation #retronetworking

#GSM security nightmares keep repeating every few years. A5/4 was approved by 3GPP at the same time as A5/3 (2009), but most vendors were lazy to change from 64bit to 128bit keys on both UE and network side. After the A5/2 and later A5/1 disasters of the past decades, the industry now again wasted 15 years until practial attacks catch up: https://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/data/paper.php?pubkey=34281 https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2024/crypto/crypto2024/500/slides.pdf

Marking the 20th anniversary of my gpl-violations.org activities, I have the opportunity to present the keynote "The Dark Ages of GPL Compliance 20 Years ago" at #linuxfoundation #opencompliancesummit in Tokyo https://sched.co/1j5BC #GPL #licensing #copyleft

@hubertf thanks. I will certainly publish the slides. Sadly the Open Compliance Summit does not have published video recordings, as ironically legal folks often are more open among their peers if things are "off the record"...

CompilerFax: Sending C source code via telefax to a compiler-as-a-service which then faxes you the output of your program; demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-25-pRhpY git: https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax intended for #emfcamp #retronetworking #whatagreathack

yesterday and today marks the first time we've transmitted Telefax G4 over our OCTOI #retronetworking community ISDN-over-IP network using an actual historical G4 capable fax machine (Canon FAX-L260i) - the machine itself can print D- and B-channel protocol traces!

Big photo session taking high-res photos of each and every circuit board in a #Siemens EWSD #ISDN switch yesterday. Will all go to the #retronetworking wiki after editing.