#cellphones — Public Fediverse posts
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Controversial #press reporter Max Blumenthal wants answers after US #BorderPatrol seized his #cellphones upon return from trip abroad but not his laptop. While US government eventually returned the communication devices a week later, many questions remain about basic journalistic freedom and just how the devices may have been compromised.
Blumenthal sought a court hearing and a #FederalJudge Leonie M Brinkema agreed, and gave the #USgov 14 days to respond to who had custody of the phones, and explain what they did to them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/border-patrol-reporter-laura-loomer #Guardian #MediaScrutiny #EnemiesList #WorldPressFreedom
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@bloui @zil voilà, je suis passée à Fizz, finalement. Transfert de numéro : a fonctionné comme un charme (l’opérateur historique précédent me harcèle depuis avec de mégas offres… té, fallait se réveiller avant … ce n’est pas faute d’avoir prévenu que j’étais tannée de leurs stratégies commerciales caduques… ).
J’ai aussi trouvé un Pixel seconde main, je suis désormais sous GrapheneOS. Quelques réglages à finir mais… installation bien expliquée et guidée sur le site officiel ! -
Exclusive-US military may require some troops in Mideast to surrender cell phones, sources say
By Phil Stewart July 29 (Reuters) – The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Americanservicemembers #BradCooper #breakingnews #Cellphones #deployedtroops #Iran #operationalsecurity
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A study of approximately 50 schoolchildren in third and sixth grades in linguistically diverse districts found that those who simply *owned* a cell phone had lower reading comprehension than those who did not.
Non-native English speakers benefited from learning to text early, however.
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-kids-cellphones-poorer-comprehension-scores.html
Original paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16/8/1263
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Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company:
Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, t... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/cognyte-sells-a-mobile-cell-surveillance-van.html#lawenforcement #Uncategorized #surveillance #cellphones #privacy #Israel
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Have People Changed?
Taking a look at how people may have changed since Covid.https://lynnefisher.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/have-people-changed/
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https://social.gamefan.net/@techwire/116953662799825253
Best "Rugged Phone" 2026 article.
My #NothingPhone was accidentally left in my Jeep in direct sunlight in 95-100 fahrenheit weather for about 45 minutes (coming back from an outreach event & putting things back/talking to ppl gets hectic). It shut down on its own due to the heat, and after I popped it into the fridge for 5 minutes, it recovered fully. I was so worried but that baby survived! 🤌📳🫂 #CellPhones #TropicThunderSurvive.gif
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Good morning. 🌸🌸🌸
11 July 2026
I use my phone mostly as a pocket‑sized computer rather than a telephone, though I do occasionally make or answer a call. If I want to look something up—anytime, anywhere—I reach for my back pocket, pull out my iPhone, and the world opens. It’s amazing, really, and I know I’m not the only one who does this. But if I set my phone down while moving around and suddenly think of something I want to research, which happens often, I find myself scrambling. Where did I leave it? That moment of panic is unsettling. It’s strange to feel so tethered to an object. In a way, it’s like carrying around a genie everywhere I go—one that can answer any question or fetch almost anything with a tap. Aladdin’s lamp has nothing on this little slab of metal and glass; I get far more than three wishes.
It makes me wonder how I managed daily life for so long without a cell phone. Maybe it’s similar to what my grandparents must have felt when they looked back and asked how people lived without running water or electricity. Was there really life before the automobile? I suspect most of us today wouldn’t last long in that world.
Imagine the chaos if all the cell towers suddenly went dark. It’s not impossible. Then what? Payphones have vanished, and most homes have abandoned landlines. And that’s just the communication piece. If electricity and fuel stopped flowing, survival itself would be at stake.
It’s almost comical that misplacing my iPhone can spark visions of a dystopian future—but here we are.
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan
“Big Brother is watching you.” - George Orwell, 1984
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #cellphones #flowers #dystopian #genie
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"why not just --" Brain no worky. Need simple.
Can't be having with holidaying in the settings, but at least having sync'ed mobile and tablet would help a lot.
Or maybe any old touchscreen handset? But which ones, for how long, because security updates n shit.Altho annoying to lose the
"is it only on Android or iOS? Oh right! I don't have to care" ability.#phone #Phones #mobile #mobiles #MobilePhone #MobilePhones #cell #cellular #CellPhone #CellPhones #OchMeinHandi
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Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
This is from a 2024 company presentation:
Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top rack... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates.html#identification #Uncategorized #surveillance #geolocation #cellphones #cameras
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#Hackers are suspected of sending an unauthorised #alert to #cellphones across #Brazil, including São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The alert, which read “misantropi4” (misanthropy), was sent via the National Civil Defence’s #warningplatform, which has been taken offline for investigation. The alert was not issued by any official agency and there is no record of any incident justifying the extreme alert. https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam
#HackerNews #UnauthorizedAlert #Brazil #Hackers #CellPhones #News
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People born between 1970 and ’85 are trading Gen X and Millennial labels for ‘Gen Goonie’
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/what-is-gen-goonies-ex1/
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The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones
A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person.
The... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/the-fcc-wants-to-eliminate-burner-phones.html -
Perhaps, someone who likes vintage phones and whatnot can help me. I recently bought a Cell2Jack. This device allows someone to connect a mobile phone to a regular one via Bluetooth and use the latter for making and receiving calls. I bought it because I don't carry my mobile (iPhone SE 2022) with me and many times, when I'm outside on the deck, I don't hear it ring in the little house (the room on the deck) and I miss Mom's calls. I also hate touchscreens and trying to dial and hang up with them. I own several normal phones, but they're not available right now. The same is true of my stand-alone answering machines. I am trying to decide if I should get an ITT 2500 that I found on Ebay, or another Trimline, and just use one of them, or if I should get a phone with an answering machine attached. I have no interest in digital things. My requirements are as follows.
1. Dual cassette. It can be standard or micro, but I would prefer standard if possible. I don't want a single cassette because it has to rewind to the beginning each time to play the greeting, then fast forward to the next blank space, making the caller wait a long time before he can leave a message.
2. No endless loop recording tape. The only reason I am against this is that they are typically twenty or thirty seconds long, and if my message is shorter, it will still run the whole tape. But if a machine exists that doesn't do that, then an endless loop is fine.
3. No screen, menus, clock, etc. I don't mind if it puts indicators/time stamps on the recording, so that when I fast forward, it stops at each message. But clocks, menus, and so on won't talk and are therefore inaccessible to the blind.
3. Standard jack, not hard-wired. This one is obvious, but I had to add it because I once bought a 2500 that was and I couldn't use it.
4. (optional but strongly preferred Detachable phone cord. This makes things easier should something happen to the cord. I'm referring to the curly one that goes between the phone and receiver but also the one that plugs into the wall (or in my case, into the Cell2Jack).
5. Able to record my own greeting. I know some later AT&T phones have a pre-recorded message that can't be changed.
6. (optional) Bell ringer. This is not necessary at all, and some phones are completely fine without it. It's just nice to have.
7. (optional) Speaker phone. Again, this is not necessary, but it can be enjoyable.
8. (optional) Remote. I like the idea of having a remote (I think it's called a pocket coder but could be wrong) that I can use on another phone to check and delete my messages, and I have seen an answering machine which has this.Right now, I am considering a few DuoPhones, a Unisonic Corded Trimline (must get model number), and the AT&T 1506, but I am very open to suggestions, particularly if you can reference one on Ebay in good/excellend condition. I know nothing about fixing the belts, changing parts, etc. so I need something that just works.
#AT&T #accessibility #analog #analogue #AnsweringMachines #blind #cassettes #Cell2Jack #CellPhones #DuoPhone #landline #MobilePhones #Panasonic #phones #technology #telephones #vintage
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They don't make them like they used to! #cellphones #nostalgia
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Tired pup, but no rest for the wicked. AT&T gateway showed up, so new internet is up and running, and with that comes the porting of the last number.
Vik had his number for a decade or so, and after he passed, I continued to pay for it and let it idle for six months until I decided what to do, and that was port it to Tello. I gotta say, if'n you're trying to save on your phone, give Tello a look, I do gig last mile package deliver (think UPS's job DoorDash style), hence the testing with a spare phone number. Five months later, and zero problems. And ports are fast, like under 5 minutes fast. So, moved the last phone number from Verizon, last step is to cancel internet, but that can't be done yet as they're still processing the port on their end. Yeah, the VMO is faster than Verizon at this stuff, which is ridiculous.
So, now I get to update my phone number with all my gig apps tonight, and that'll be done.
The other thing is a new pair of boots, TimberlandPro this time. Yes, this time, third pair in a year and a half I think? I go through shoes fast, so this is nothing special, and for the price Timberland has held up well. I was thinking about Brunt work wear, but the reviews online are not particularly good, especially as they cost around $50 more than the Timberland, basically good, but not that good. I was wearing a pair of Vik's boots, but they suddenly disintegrated. No, really, the pleather cracking was annoying, but not a big deal, but then the cloth and the pleather separated on the back of the right boot, so time for new boots. This'll be the third type of Timberlands, and we'll see what I think about these, first were great, basically chosen by throwing a dart at the board. Second were picked by price, cheaper than the first pair, but still Timberlands, and they worked well. This time around, I had around 3 or 4 choices within the same $5 range on price, so I decided to try a different style, plus these are TimberlandPro, so I'm curious to see if'n they hold up better.
Beyond that, not much, work actually is sucking this week, and of course things are way too busy between work and home repairs/improvements. And then there'll be estate matters, tax matters and investment matters. That said, the lion's share (why do we say that?) should be done by end of June, heck I might even be able to take a break on my birthday. I guess after that the hunt for where I settle for the rest of my life begins in earnest, we've done some casual looking, but nothing serious as there's too many variables, but those will be wrapping up, and there'll be little left other than cleaning this place out.
#Life #Today #Shoes #Phones #Internet #Cell-Phones #Verizon #Tello #Prepaid-Cellular -
@davidgerard if you just need cheap and adequate temporary domestic cellular internet access, I vote for buying a rolling 30d contract, unlimited data sim card, on whichever is the cheapest of the networks that run on the frequencies that your nearest (best line of sight) tower delivers. https://www.cellmapper.net/
https://www.mobilecoverage.co.uk/networks/frequency-bands
https://mastdatabase.co.uk/gb/arfcn-list/https://www.quidco.com/merchant/uswitch-mobile-comparison/
Good luck!
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A teacher asked 7th graders the worst part of the 80s, and their answers have us howling
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/students-answer-questions-ex1/
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Software #Developers Say #AI Is Rotting Their Brains
by Emanuel Maiberg, May 13, 2026
Excerpt: "The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.
"The problem all the developers I talked to agreed on is that the more they relied on AI to code, the more the skills they’ve honed for years deteriorated. This is by now a well studied phenomenon sometimes referred to as '#CognitiveDebt' or '#CognitiveAtrophy.' The idea is that people who use AI to automate certain parts of their job lose the ability to do those tasks well, therefore #DeSkilling themselves." 'I had some issues where I forgot how to implement a Laravel API and it scared the shit out of me. I went to university for this, I've been a software engineer for many years now and it feels like I am back before I ever wrote a single line of code,' the software developer at a small web design firm told me.
" 'It's making me dumber for sure,' the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got #cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.'
" 'When I was using it for code generation, I found myself having a lot of trouble building and maintaining a #MentalModel of the code I was working with,' the software engineer at the FAANG told me. 'Another aspect is that I joined late last year and [the company’s] codebase is massive. As a new hire, part of my job is to learn how to navigate the codebase and use the established conventions, but I think the AI push really hampered my ability to do that. '"
Read more:
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2vjJm#AISucks #DumbingUsDown #BrainRot #AIBrainRot #MentalMaps #CriticalThinkingSkills #UseYourBrain #UseItOrLoseIt
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One moment, I have to make a call
https://piefed.social/c/politicalcompassmemes/p/2046375/one-moment-i-have-to-make-a-call
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Windows keeps asking me lately to hook my cell phone up to my desktop. My immediate reaction is always "NO!" to that sort of thing, but it would be handy to have access to my texts on the desktop. Has anyone done that? Is it a bad idea?
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Starting next Monday, Seattle Public Schools will implement its first district-wide cellphone-use policies for students.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/stricter-cellphone-rules-are-coming-to-seattle-public-schools
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#Nevada Police Can Now #Track #Cellphones Without a #Warrant
“ signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports AP. "All without a warrant." The software from #FogDataScience, adopted this January in Nevada through a Dept Public Safety contract, pulls info from apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices
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So I've realized this morning that my Pixel 8 Pro no longer sits flat. It now has a noticeable twist along its longitudinal axis.
Is this a cause for concern? And what the heck could have caused this?
