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spicywasabion Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

these channels weren't abandoned, chatting one minute and banned the next isn't "abandoned"

spicywasabion Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

freenode has now started taking over and removing access, bans, and forwarding users from official on topics channels (such as #wikipedia, #znc etc) and forwarding them to ##offtopic channels saying they are in violation of apparent new policy. no explanation and lots of users losing access to official groups.

spicywasabion Rock the Cash Box: Writing a Host Processor for a ATM

We were (and are) learning as we go on this. Modems and PBXes were very unfamiliar. This might be a fun future goal for us! Never actually thought about that.

spicywasabion Rock the Cash Box: Writing a Host Processor for a ATM

I wrote the article, I think that can be cleaned up. The Pi Served as the payment relay, which would forward to the payment processor. The RING RING is actually generated by the auto-dial on the modems, which were set to auto answer every time the ATMs dialed. Its a visualization of what the modems are receiving from the ATMs

In a "real world" example, the Pi would be the Localized Payment Processor which then forwards transactions to a remote one.