Notes

current headline font-size values:

bbc: 28px
npr: 32px
reuters: 40px
axios: 40px
wsj: 52px
nbc: 60px
ap: 60px
nyt: 64px
cnn: 104px
washpo: 115px
msnbc: 128px
huffpo: 250px

I added a USB port inside my ThinkPad X1 Nano

https://jcs.org/2024/05/29/x1usb

Will today be a happy day or a sad and expensive day...

Do you set NO_COLOR in your default shell configuration?

yes
no
what

why

when you keep typing your sudo password wrong

Whoa, these old PowerBooks have Wi-Fi!

hi past me

Many of my projects seem to end right at the point where I have to design a PCB and then I give up. I need a Tinkercad for lazy PCB making.

Maybe instead of replacing everything with Rust, we can start by not relying on 25,000-line autoconf shell scripts

FWIW, this eBay auction is not mine, they just ripped off my pictures and description. Not sure if this is just a scam listing or if they are actually selling old PowerBook batteries.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166672331810

🤔

Supposedly a non-root RCE in OpenBSD up to 7.4, appears to require NFSd running though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_JOkHaCdzk

I wonder if there's a "sovereign citizen" group of wackos that try to ignore daylight saving time and show up to everything an hour late

Like they get a ticket for driving without a license plate because they don't believe in them, then they show up to court an hour late and get arrested yelling at the judge that the government doesn't have the right to control time

there are dozens of us!

There's a large cache of in-box (much of it unopened) classic Mac software being sold on eBay recently:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=chopinpiano745&store_name=xtraordinaryemporium&_oac=1&_sop=10

"We've put the keyboard to the back of the unit, placed the trackball here in the center, which left this area which we call a palm rest"

from https://social.jcs.org/@compchron/111653683399618214

I wonder if companies ever intentionally put spammy things in their "Updates to our Privacy Policy and User Agreement" e-mails to make sure they land in most users' spam folders, avoiding user scrutiny and complaints while providing legal cover that users were technically notified