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More on 4chan hacking incident

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Yeah some of the dox are posted on screenshots on the fediverse. It’s now coming out there were no .gov addresses but plenty of .edu.

There’s a long thread on the fediverse but I don’t think anyone would be able to see the contents if I posted it.

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Phone Freaking

I think it’s pretty cool from a historic stand point.

Back in the early 70s a guy named Jon Draper figured out that a toy whistle that came in a box of Captain Crunch cereal was the perfect frequency to initiate free long distance phone calls when blown into a phone.

Sometime after that people realized they could build an electronic device that could produce that frequency and two guys started building them and made a decent amount of money off it: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak before they started Apple Computers. So Apple Computers’ startup was funded in a large part by Phone Phreaking devices.

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Tinker WriterDeck OS

I think the DIY chiclet keyboards aren’t popular is because working with the scissor switches is a pain in the ass. I’ve never seen one either and I don’t know about foldable keyboards for phone.

I recently read a post about something like this OS a few days ago for old Apple PowerBooks to get some use out of them as a minimalist writing device. I would t have any use for it but it’s a nice way to recycle an older laptop if you’re a writer.