ErikJonker, to random
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social avatar
CenturyAvocado, to random
@CenturyAvocado@fosstodon.org avatar

If were invented or still in use today, there would be people breaking into joints in the phone network and implanting devices to change bank details on the fly.

greg, to random

I’m actually kind of surprised this worked :blobfoxcofecute:

Video description: A hand presses the start button on an LCD fax screen. Camera pulls back to reveal a Canon MFP scanning a document through the ADF. Camera pans down to reveal a rotary phone with a thing strapped to the handset. That thing has a cable connected to a Nissei Fax-305 portable fax machine. A spool of paper curling out the top. A hand reaches out to the ringing phone, lifts the receiver, and places it on the floor. The hand presses start on the Nissei; a status light starts flashing. After a short time, the paper starts moving very slowly, one line at a time. The first line to appear is the sending station info, reading: 2024 02/04 22:16 Fax 69 @greg The next line is the Fax Wikipedia article title and URL. Then the Wikipedia logo, followed by the title and first few lines from the Fax article. The camera then pulls back out to show the equipment on the floor again, before looking up at the modern Canon machine. The video ends here. Audio description: 0:02 Machine beeps and the document feeder whirs. Another beep at the end of scan 0:09 A click then a dial tone. Three number tones dialed 0:13 Rotary dial phone rings 0:18 Sending fax machine beeping over the phone 0:22 Long tone then data signal 0:30 Repeats 0:38 Ticking / creaking when paper advances (continues for rest of video)

nSonic, to random German
@nSonic@troet.cafe avatar

„Können Sie uns faxen an 04…“ – 🤨 äh, nein, kann ich nicht. Warum nicht? Weil ich hier in 2024 kein Fax habe.

Ja, EINE Seite könnte ich als TIF/PNG mit der FritzBox senden… aber ein mehrseitiges Dokument (PDF)? Nope. Ich habe mal per Ein-Seiten-Fax um eine E-Mail-Adresse geben 🙈

Kliniken in Deutschland 2024

lukas, to random German
@lukas@social.lukas-schieren.de avatar

Wer ist heute beim FaxgeräteClub alles so dabei? 😊

lukas,
@lukas@social.lukas-schieren.de avatar

@blumenrad Ich denk schon. Für nicht war der Raum zu gut gefüllt. ^^'

es gibt :matrix.org als Raum. ^^'

DerSchulze, to random German
@DerSchulze@elbmatsch.de avatar

Schickt mir doch mal ein Fax an: 7646 oder von Außen +49405730830-7646 - ich warte auf euch :)

DerSchulze,
@DerSchulze@elbmatsch.de avatar

Es scheint sich manchmal doch zu berappeln. Danke @wasserbombe und @Pipiwoman

DerSchulze,
@DerSchulze@elbmatsch.de avatar

Eim mit dem Bild eines Faxes kommt gerade rein.

nando161, to philosophy

11/30/23: is an anti-LGBTQIA+ bill. It is essential you call THIS week. Tell them you are specifically against KOSA and especially against hotlining the bill.

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the Senator of your choice.

Here is one that will send your reps a : https://resist.bot/

Hey the rest of us are going to get fucked by this too and we don’t get to have an , please fucking at least send a fax

https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse/

huitzlipochtli, to random German

Zustand der in Deutschland, Symbolbild (via Sascha Lobo)

_L1vY_, to random
@_L1vY_@mstdn.social avatar

Why does every freakin printer listing have seven images including a model standing next to the printer but NONE of the back or sides showing the connectivity!!

JFC I am SO sick of opaque-operation feature-proliferation- upsell culture.

Just show me the ports!! 😤

_L1vY_,
@_L1vY_@mstdn.social avatar

OKAY. Overall I am liking the so far.

I just needed a workhorse after all and B/W is fine for my purposes.
The works coming in and going out (and directly from desktop), my phone works fine passed through the machine, and copying is fine, too.
Scanning works fine too EXCEPT (my only gripe): each page scanned requires selecting an option before starting to scan. It means FOUR key presses with each scanned page, instead of staying set.
I often have hundreds to scan.

ada, to random

please use matrix we have:

  • a client made by an enterprise who will willingly backdoor your messages
  • a client made by 3 people that get random breaking changes that completely obliterate flow
  • a client that is one giant html5 canvas that uses 100% of your browser gpu power
  • a client that requires systemd
  • way too many abandoned android and ios clients

please use fedi we have:

  • an instance software which is so popular but so feature deprived it makes no sense why it exists, also it's trademarked in a bad way
  • an instance software that has so much code rot it spawned 500 forks to try and fix it only to become rotten themselves
  • an instance software that doesn't really know what it's doing and instead implemented 3 different api standards, and this is the fork i'm talking about. no one should talk about the upstream project.

this really is the FOSS curse, huh?

kkarhan,

@Natanox @ada I mean it's the .

Do you know why , , , & still exist whilst , & are basically dead?

It's because they are that are and have a working / around them.

Same reason why people still buy gasoline and diesel vehicles: Shit just works and scales...

manawyrm, to random
@manawyrm@chaos.social avatar

Very exciting news for collectors of old cellphones:
There's ways again to get data connectivity on devices which don't support GPRS/packet data.

This Nokia Communicator 9110 is running DOS on a AMD x86 CPU and is connected to the internet via a 9600bps CSD call through a private GSM network!

The Osmocom free/open GSM stack gained CSD support over the last months and it now actually works :)

kkarhan,

@manawyrm Kinda.

They could've just reduced capacity accordingly a.d maybe discontinued which is really complex and kept it like running.

After all, it's basically a "data call"...

Private
mburr,

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic

I'm convinced that people who call you on a are being sadists.

Or, more realistically, they are playing a manipulative game. Ever got a response to an email?

It makes me want to them right back.

pmonson, to random

A fax machine just called my phone and left a 2 minute message. I guess I'm going to waste the rest of my day figuring out how to decode the audio. Any advice out there?

mastodonmigration, to mastodon
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

Anybody else feeling it? Mastodon becoming essential...?

Mastodon is tiny, yet are we now seeing the vital niche that this nascent open social media platform is beginning to fill?

Today the AoIR, Association of Internet Researchers @AoIR abandons Twitter for Mastodon (https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/), and EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova declares Twitter the largest source of and (https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/111132449403615794)...

People are turning to Mastodon...

1/3

kkarhan,

@CodexArcanum @mastodonmigration I do hope so that people finally realize that only & / solutions and standards will survive and live.

That's why & are dead but & alive and well.

That's why and are around and why & only exist in their small nieches.

That's why failed and died before and why in the end only & will survive long-term.

MOULE, to art

Nothing to see here folks, just an I made of a dove of peace that DEFINITELY won’t be appearing in an upcoming 6,000-beats-per-minute track’s cover ...

kkarhan,

@MOULE it's basically a / hybrid system, so that's why it worked that way...

thejapantimes, to Japan
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar

Two men have been arrested for allegedly faxing a bomb threat to a Tokyo college, police have said, adding that the pair are suspected of sending over 300,000 similar faxes to other schools, firms and local governments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/23/japan/crime-legal/bombs-threats-arrests/?utm_content=bufferbcd80&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

thejapantimes, to Japan
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar

Two men have been arrested for allegedly faxing a bomb threat to a Tokyo college, police have said, adding that the pair are suspected of sending over 300,000 similar faxes to other schools, firms and local governments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/08/23/japan/bombs-threats-arrests/?utm_content=bufferc200a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

fitheach, to email
@fitheach@mstdn.io avatar

I've received a phishing email with this subject line:

New fax message 08-25-2023

Attached to the message was a zip file (of course).

Wow!

I haven't even thought about fax in twenty years. The phishing email must be targetting a select breed.

JustCodeCulture, to Automobiles
@JustCodeCulture@mastodon.social avatar

CBI Image o' Day

Car Fax Machine, 1971

Everyone had the 8 Track Tape player, so what dashboard (or near dashboard) amenities really made a car stand apart, well, a fax machine, of course!


@histodons
@sociology
@commodon

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

> What is your biggest fear ?

I have concerns about the possibility of losing my job to robots or AI. The thought of it is distressing, and I worry about how I would manage to pay my bills. It feels like a nightmare, especially since I don't possess any other skills apart from my current occupation in IT. 😰😨

What about you?

gjkroese,

@nixCraft your skills replaced a lot of manual jobs in the last decades, such as typing pools, & operators and slide ruler calculations. I believe (in the end) will create many new types and opportunities

cs, to random
@cs@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Speaking of … Do you need a free commercial ? This Canon Laser Class 3175 with two paper drawers, two lines and lots of programmability can be yours. Pickup in area.

Front of fax machine “Canon Laser Class 3175”
Manual for Laser Class 3170 Series

cs, to random
@cs@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Are there still film machines out there? We still had some 20 years ago, but since then, all have been laser. Now, we're on virtual faxes, which have their own security issues.

https://www.computercrusher.com/fear-your-fax-machine

cs,
@cs@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

8 in 10 German firms still use machines. I've heard they're also popular in Japan still.

https://thenextweb.com/news/8-in-10-german-companies-still-fax-study-finds-but-why

petersuber, to random

My doctor's office is frustrated with me because I don't have a machine, as if I were the luddite.

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