by wkat4242 on 8/20/23, 5:03 PM
For who wonders about the waving cat: These are used a lot at hacker conferences to check if the cams are still working (and not frozen). Shenanigans on the network are of course common at these events :) So they are put on the stages while nothing is on.
This was a big success and it turned out to be a bit of a mascotte :P They've become a permanent fixture now.
by richarme on 8/20/23, 9:25 PM
My master's thesis from 2008 [0] gives some insight into the early design and strategic considerations (from a Nokia perspective) behind eSIM technology, in case anyone's curious.
[0] http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/edoc/imm6812.pdf
by notpushkin on 8/20/23, 6:14 PM
by anderspitman on 8/20/23, 4:39 PM
I've had a great experience with eSIMs these past few days during a trip to Europe (coming from the US). It's so convenient to be able to arrive at a city and use airport wifi to download a mobile data package for a few bucks. The process is slightly clunky but not bad at all.
by HumblyTossed on 8/20/23, 7:25 PM
For those with multiple phones, how easy is switching back and forth?
by markdown on 8/21/23, 3:10 AM
Fun fact: Singapore doesn't support eSIM at all. Very strange, given that that country is relatively progressive when it comes to tech.
by Titan2189 on 8/21/23, 3:55 AM
Anything from Harald Welte (LaF0rge) is awesome. He's the world's best GSM / Phone hacker / explainer
by badrabbit on 8/21/23, 11:12 AM
Why did they change ccc to be at the same time as defcon instead of end of year?
by eimrine on 8/20/23, 6:24 PM
Esim is a death for featured phones.
by Veliladon on 8/20/23, 5:13 PM
We really dodged a bullet on eSIM. The implementation could have really sucked if the carriers controlled it from the start. Apple do a lot of dumb shit but they set a really high bar for an eSIM implementation for others to match.