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⚠️ Update: Internet connectivity has fallen further in southern #Turkey and particularly in #Osmaniye as authorities implement emergency power shutdowns to support the rescue effort; levels collapsed in the region earlier today after a series of deadly earthquakes ⚡📉

Did some deeper digging into the Teletex protocol stack. So we have X.21 physical interface at synchronous 2400 bps with HDLC/X.75SLP as link layer and then T.62 as session and document layer. Interestingly, T.62 was also reused for G4 (ISDN) fax. Rather complex state machines, nothing you can implement in an afternoon. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletex https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/Teletex

What's inside the famous 8086 processor from 1978? I opened up a chip, took microscope photos, and I'm reverse-engineering it. One of the 8086's instructions is HLT, which halts the processohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnalrlNXEBoU1I_?format=jpg&name=4096x4096r. Seems simple, but there's a lot of circuitry to make the halt instruction work... 🧵

#Accessibility is cool.
I had wondered about the change, but never checked.
Excellent work by @FinancialTimes

#DigitalComms #Communications #Screenreader #Screenreaders #TextToVoice

Sunak apologised for taking off a seatbelt for 30 seconds. Zahawi won’t apologise for failing to pay £3.7m of tax, lying about it, threatening to sue people who write about it, and then secretly admitting it all to HMRC and paying up behind our backs https://taxpolicy.org.uk/zahawi_story

This is pretty near:

Detect breaches with Canary credit cards!

TL;DR;

Today we’re releasing a new Canarytoken type: actual credit cards!

1. Head over to canarytokens.org;
2. We give you a valid credit card (number, expiration, and CVC);
3. If anyone ever attempts to use that card you’ll be notified.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/01/swipe-right-on-our-new-credit-card-tokens.html

Something new I learned today: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font is a font designed with low vision readers in mind.

Can be downloaded off of Google Fonts or directly from the Braille Institute: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

[ #FediArt #MastoArt #typography ]

I made this photo frame to show EPIC satellite photos of Earth from space!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4M3cm4ml_c

Thames Water finally opened up their sewage discharge monitoring data, which is good. Unfortunately what the data shows is not so good, but I'm glad it's finally public.

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map

Axing the ONS infection survey would be a MASSIVE mistake.

Instead of cutting it we should be EXPANDING it - we have an opportunity for an incredible public health tool. Let's add Flu, RSV & other resp viruses and really understand their seasonality 1/2

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-infection-survey-tracks-cases-uk-shut-down-spring-2081271