• zarathustrad@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Lol. This kinda reminds me of early hacking. Phone Phreaking for LLM compute time instead of 10c/min.

    (If it actually works, for useful non-free tasks.)

    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Oh it has been a long time since I’ve heard those words. I had an Atari 800 and a printer and would set the thing to autodial sprint or radius or metro and hammer random codes until it got a dialtone. When it did it would print the code and return to work. I’d come home to a huge list and getting that pirated copy of Paperboy off a bbs in California using 5 hours of free long distance seemed like some cool James Bond trickery.