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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:07:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I wonder how well my smartphone would work if I was at the bottom of a lake.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:27:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     like assuming I'm dry. like I'm in a car that hasn't filled with water yet.

     do I have signal?

   • Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 08:57:15 JST Tim 🎮

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     @foone you could approximately test this at an aquarium with an underwater tunnel

   • philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:09:27 JST philpem

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     @foone The water would provide a pretty low-impedance path to ground, so I'd expect very little signal to get through. Submarine communications is through frequencies in the kilohertz range, so I doubt 900, 1800 or 2700 megs would get through.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 03:25:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross that was the subtext, yeah. A podcast was talking about how hard it is to open the doors on one if the power goes out, with different manual override techniques depending on model. I was wondering if it would even be possible to google that in a sunken car, and guessing no

   • Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 03:25:02 JST Charlie Stross

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     @foone Is it with you inside a Tesla Model X? Enquiring for a billionaire.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 05:36:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Charlie Stross
     • Landa :graz:

     @Landa @cstross brilliant! great idea.

   • Landa :graz: (landa@graz.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 05:36:12 JST Landa :graz:

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     • Charlie Stross

     @foone I have a horrible idea:
     Every Cybertruck gets a wifi hotspot and a cellular antenna and when the car detects submersion in water those two hijack all tcp connections and reply with an html page explaining how to open the doors on that exact model.

     The luxury package includes hijacking all VOIP connections and a voice that almost sounds like Lawrence Fishburn calmly telling you how to open the doors. 😈
     @cstross