Consumers Warned Away from Temu's "Free Money" (cybernews.com)
Protip; Ain’t nothin’ free, nowhere nohow.
Meetings this Friday. (www.2600.com)
Take a look and go to your local meeting! If you’re looking for something to talk about, think about going to the HOPE conference.
The Jargon File (web version) (catb.org)
This legendary reference has been around since 1975. The Jargon File contains a lot of hacker jargon (‘programmer slang’?) and just as much hacker humor. Added to by hundreds over the decades, it got fairly huge....
Who else has pay phone pics? (i.imgur.com)
How about this one in Italy?
RIP Cheshire Catalyst (talkoftitusville.com)
What are my chances of salvaging my old landline number?
I figured some teleco geniuses out here, so I figured I might give it a shot....
In honor of the guru himself. Here's the best of Kevin's Stories
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGwdoS706M
Kevin Mitnick has passed away. (www.dignitymemorial.com)
I didn't know him, but he did have an impact on me.
Kevin Mitnick was a name that I heard many times before, but I was never really familiar with the person. I just knew about the “getting in trouble for computer stuff” and of course the “Free Kevin” movement....
Four London Underground phone kiosks given Grade II-listed status (www.theguardian.com)
Kevin, one of ours have passed away :( (hispagatos.space)
Phreaking Intro
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPXQGnsrnx8&pp=ygUPcGhyZW…
Phone Phaq: 212 is the shortest dialing area code
www.youtube.com/shorts/_IZF7MXmYfQ
Pay phone in Kanazawa Japan (i.imgur.com)
2600 Madrid! – 2600 Madrid Meeting - WorldWide 2600 Meetings (2600.madrid)
#2600 meetings worldwide, and of course 2600.Madrid in 7 days! 2600.Madrid gemini://2600.Madrid matrix: #2600_Madrid:hispagatos.org mobilizon: …hispagatos.org/…/608a824b-9c9f-473b-bc9f-9c3b115… PLEASE RESERVE SO WE CAN TELL THE BAR how many people we are going to be #HappyHacking #HackingIsNotACrime #2600Madrid 2600.com
Forest Hills/71st Avenue Subway Payphone: 718-520-9702 (lemmy.world)
Red box (lemmy.world)
Read an article about building a Redbox either on the 2600 Usenet group or some other hack/phreak BBS probably around 1993. Went to radio shack the next day to buy the tone dialer and crystal. I messed up the solder pretty bad but it still works to this day....
2600 Lives on in the fediverse
With all things in history there is usually a person of power whom abuses that power. In this case the CEO of reddit has taken a dump on its user base, and yes that is mildly an option but one shared by the over 38% of subreddits out there still dark at this time of writing....
Volume 40 Issue 1 - Serving our hacker community for 40 years of dedicated service (lemmy.world)
Get the latest issue out now....
How to join Lemmy
In this howto we’ll show you how one can join lemmy.world or any Fedirated lemmy instance so they can free themselves from the evils of reddit’s CEO:...