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Sometime in the next few months, my regular stream co-host will be out of pocket for a few weeks.

I think that that'll be a great time to do some #HomeLab #Streaming instead. Maybe that'll be the motivation to get the full CO-to-subscriber T1 circuit working and we can poke at it while on air?

Still need to snag a H4TU-C card for the CO side, and will probably need to rig something up for power and signal since I won't have the unit that that's meant to slot into.

Anyone have experience with IMS and SIM cards?

I have exhausted my internet-research abilities and am asking for help.

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Allegedly, one can block data usage on SIM-2 entirely and route all data usage to SIM-1, as well as enable SIM-2 for WiFi-Calling/SMS/RCS only.

tl;dr: keeping US number without incurring intl. rates.

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I know I can get a cheap ATA that’ll convert an FXS port to SIP over Ethernet, but it seems dumb to do SIP over my home network when I could just plug the phone directly into the computer. I hate unnecessary layers, ya know? More to configure and go wrong.

📢 With PipeWire 1.4 almost out of the door, let me introduce you to one of its highlights: Bluetooth telephony support.

This feature consists of a new D-Bus API which allows applications to manage phone calls using the Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile (HFP) protocol.

Check out my short tutorial on how to use the API from the command line and have fun calling! 📞

🔗 gkiagia.gr/2025-02-20-pipewire

George Kiagiadakis · Introducing Bluetooth telephony support in PipeWirePipeWire 1.4 is almost out of the door! One of the highlights of the new release — which I personally worked on and presented also recently on my FOSDEM talk — is Bluetooth telephony support.

#telephony #gpo #telephone

@lpbkdotnet

Hey -- I hope you're well.

Quick question for you. As you might recall, I've some GPO telephones hooked into an internal PBX. This all works fine.

However, I'm wondering if there's a better way of managing this. My primary concern is that in order to get different telephones in each room round the house, I'm going to have to run a s*it tonne of cables through the walls and elsewhere.

Is there a more, err, modern approach to this? I just want to be able to use these GPO telephones for internal room-to-room comms only, if that helps?

TIA for any guidance!

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@lispi314 @Avitus @lauren exactly that.

Espechally given that @signalapp discontinued #TextSecure, which was #SMS-based where one could've claimed a "technical necessity" existed.

  • Nowadays it's rather empowering bad actors and introducing weaknesses given #GSM and #Telephony is inherently and unfixaboy insecure by design and that noone should rely on it being reliable or accurate to begin with as technology to selectively reroute calls and SMS are as old.as the underlying teoephony network!

The #FCC is investigating #SanFrancisco -based #KCBS for its coverage of #immigration enforcement actions in #SanJosé last month, sparking concerns from press freedom advocates and drawing #RightWing #backlash to the #radio station.
#KCBS is considered one of the world’s first rradio stations, and formative to #SiliconValley history. Its original license goes back to #CharlesHerrold in 1909 and his radio- #telephony system. Based in San Jose, it’s historically significant as #Marconi himself.
Attacking this station which survived through two world wars, the Great Depression, and led to the development of Silicon Valley is bound to have immense significance. They’re literally attacking the nation’s oldest broadcaster, which is integral to information and American democracy!
#SFBA #ICE #FreedomOfInformation #FreePress #CBSNews #AmericanPress #Broadcasting #Telephony #history #California
kqed.org/news/12025977/fcc-inv

KQED · FCC Investigates SF Radio Station for ICE Reporting, Sparking Press Freedom FearsBy Juan Carlos Lara

Dear #AskFedi,

I'm trying to call a Belgian phone number from France, using FR, LU, PL SIMs. Each time I am getting a message in German, telling me that the extension is not known.
The number is eight digits without the country code.
The number is supposedly callable from Poland.
WTAF is going on?