#nokia is closing down their Munich site until 2030: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Nokia-plans-to-close-Munich-site-by-2030-11079263.html - is that part of the Siemens -> Nokia Siemens Networks -> Nokia legcay, and hence also the original Siemens GSM implementation (D900, ...) #retronetworking […]

Ist es nicht schön, nach welchen Kriterien ein Deutscher Großkonzern die Arbeitsplätze differenziertm Ich hätte gerne auch einen [GSM, 3GPP, 5G, Bluetooth, TETRA] Arbeitsplatz bitte 😉

Usability, wie es nur die #db in ihrer Lounge hinbekommt: Dort wo man seine Tasse zum einlegen des Teebeutels hinstellt, ist die Fläche minimal und Kante maximal abgerundet. Wer nicht genau hinsieht oder gar schlecht sieht], dem kippt die Tasse weg und fällt auf […]

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Ich suche nach einer Bezugsquelle für kleine Zuschnitte (30x40cm) von Schaumstoff-Platten h=2-3cm mit hoher Shore-Härte. Ideal 200 (20 kPa). Weiss da jemand was? #followerpower #maker #diy

in case anyone has an unused #39c3chaos.social/tags/39c3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">replicated] #39c3 presale ticket voucher left-over: @tnt, one of the greatest hackers I've ever had the pleasure of working with @tnt is looking for one. #ccc [#followerpower

I just managed to pick up eight "Sun Netra 210" 1U UltraSparc-IIIi servers yesterday. In case any #retrocomputing enthusiasts here (particularly those of you I know personally) are interested in such equipment, please let me know. #sun #ultrasparc

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […]

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Just completed the disassembly of another two Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchanges, which are now in a truck on their way to the Telecom Museum Dresden (Fernmeldemuseum Dresden). Largest time sink was untangling the hundreds of cables (mostly with proprietary Siemens connectors)..

video recording of operation SIMcartel: Police raiding what looks like a massive SIM + modem bank deployment in Latvia, using 40,000 SIM cards https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ImysXws-0

I'm happy to join the board of ARDC and thankful for the trust and the opportunity to be part of the team shaping this wonderful organization providing among other things] grants to digital communications related open source projects […]

Ich war wieder bei golem.de im "Besser Wissen" Podcast zu gast, diesmal zum Thema "Geschichte des hauptsächlich GSM] Mobilfunks. Das Ergebnis könnt ihr unter <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 #retronetworkingrget="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.golem.de/news/podcast-besser-wissen-wie-der-mobilfunk-erwachsen-wurde-2509-200081.html hören. #retronetworking #gsm #cellular […]

We'll be rescuing another Siemens EWSD digital telephone exchange. If anyone is interested in helping us with disassembly and loading into the truck in Munich on October 23rd/24th, please let me know - more information in German at […]

Proud that @fsfe volunteer Nicole went through this whole process with #sumup about the #gnu #gpl.

Nicole’s efforts show that individuals can have outsized positive impacts on #softwarefreedom, and many little steps like Nicole’s, when taken together, can amount to a large enough movement to […]

So there's a decades-old mechanism (and actual standard) how programs lock serial ports on unix-like systems in /var/lock. it's used in practice even in 2025 and #systemd >= 258 simply breaks it with "we don't care". I am not a systemd opponent, but that kind of behaviour without a prior […]

Man konnte früher zwische Föhren
und Kiefern Hirsche röhren hören.
Doch Röhrentechnik ging verloren.
Längst haben Hirsche Transistoren.

(Hansgeorg Stengel 1922 - 2003)

I meanwhile arived in Amsterdam for the Embedded Linux Conf Europe which I haven't been to in ages. Will present on FOSS eSIM integration into Embedded Linux devices #elce2025 #linux #esim

So, after spending two half days in a colocation filled with several decommissioned but fully complete #EWSDs/EWSD" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">including software] Siemens #EWSD digital telephone exchanges, I am happy to report that two of them will be rescued. We've dümpelt the hard disks and done some initial disassembly. Full […]

Tonight I had a dream involving meeting a (recovered) fefe. Highly unusual, don't recall ever having dreams involving him before. In any case, let's hope for his best recovery and hopefully the dream will become reality at some point #fefe

on my way to Munich today. In the odd case that anyone local in my timeline feels like meeting up tonight, let me know.
For the curious: Reason for the visit is to inspect and backup a Siemens EWSD exchange and plan logistics of its upcoming move to the Dresden telecommunications museum. #munich […]

i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years

thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto […]

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I recently briefly heard about the Indian rural telephone exchanges (RAX), which appear to go back all the way to electromechanical switches. They (C-DOT) even built a V5.2 Access Network called AN-RAX. Started to collect some documents at […]

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Mh. Riding the Nuremberg subway and noticing #vodafone still offers nothing beyond EGPRS there in 2025. Guess ezperiencing thst in Berlin that was more than a decade ago... #nürnberg #gsm #cellular

IVery interesting applied security research into the #gsma #esimm universe, specfically the use of the JavaCard VM with its questionable security architecture depending on an off-card bytecode verifier in the context of the eUICC which inherently contains eSIM profiles of different competing] […]

Gesucht: eine Plattform, wo ich eingeben kann, wann ich fertig war, mit Schule, und mir dann – sinnvollerweise sortiert nach Themenbereichen – gezeigt wird, welche Sachen, die ich damals als Stand der Wissenschaft gelernt habe, längst überholt sind. Und mir dann die Gelegenheit gibt zu lernen […]

lT security 101: Don't leave your company laptop with authentication smart card inserted, applications open and without screensaver at your seat when using the lavatories on a train. Unbelivable...