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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Once I decompiled the contol app for a cheap chinese vibrator. The vibrator uses Bluetooth LE to talk to the phone app, the phone app connects to chinese servers and offers remote control and chat functionality.

    Spiciest thing I found in the App was a list of words (mostly Chinese) you are forbidden to use, stuff like references to Tianmen. Yes the sex toy app had a cleartext list of political and kinky forbidden words it will locally filter out.













  • Don’t.

    Remove people who regularly insult you ("haha, it was just a joke, can’t you take anything?) from your life. They will suck your soul out in the long run. If you can’t avoid dealing with them keep it very formal.

    You can prepare a few stock answers for them (to repeat whenever you need them), something like “That was disrespectful, please stop it”. (In your own words) You also might want to read up on setting and enforcing boundaries and red lines.

    To train your spontaneity try improv workshops, but that’s something you do with people whom you feel safe with, who do respect you.

    You are not the only one whom they use as the butt of their jokes, so just hang around with people who are better for you. People who are making hurtful “jokes” are simply disrespectful. You can’t change that by lowering yourself to their level and bitching back.

    And build your creativity having fun, not fighting back. The idiots are not worthy of your time, of what you think, of what you do.





  • It’s an old FritzBox where I turned off wifi etc and just use for VOIP - Pots. When I set it up a some time ago it was EUR 15 or so on ebay, as these old FritzBoxes have no other modern use. They put out “just” enough juice to ring the phone. Ringing is softer than what I know from. my childhood, though.

    Pulse dialing works, but you can’t pause while dialing as it interprets a pause as “now connect the call”. (Real POTS had “incremental” dialing)

    I have these phones for fun, but if I’d need to use them I’d probably buy a new dedicated voip adapter (EUR 150+).

    Old FritzBox routers are cheap here, that’s why I use them.


  • The most common routers here in Germany have POTS connectors and convert that to VOIP internally. At least for POTS with DTMF. I keep one specific router around that even still supports pulse dialing as I have two rotary phones from the 1950s and 1970s still hooked up for fun. (They work, except for the fact that nobody knows the number of my land line)

    When the biggest provider in Germany switched from POTS and ISDN to VOIP there was also a number of solutions available for bigger installations, so you could keep your POTS installation while the adapter does the VOIP conversion.

    So all in all switching worked mostly fine.