Notes

Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh Plus

neat

"enable widevine support; now chromium can utilize multimedia/openwv to play [drm encrypted] content"

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/2c123968c3cab8b8a91c4f6eb03fca499462d801

for https://lobste.rs

when you click "open account" and it takes you to a PDF

tldr: Adafruit had some dispute with Sparkfun over "harassing actions" by Sparkfun staff, to which Sparkfun responded by cutting off Adafruit from selling Teensy products and posting this weird notice, so Adafruit made their own "Teensy-compatible" PCBs called "Freensy" that they will be selling

Post from Jeff Geerling:

Today @sparkfun.bsky.social is dropping @adafruit.com over CoC violations, and what timeline even is this? www.sparkfun.com/official-res...

I wrote a thing I needed, if you also need it:

https://github.com/jcs/atalk-proxy

Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a printer.

The result of all that debugging is a 691% speed-up in EtherTalk speed when going over BlueSCSI Wi-Fi

https://github.com/jcs/BlueSCSI-v2/commit/33eefcb2984e58ae3a5b8ae6f55ff6f3c91e1a85

send help

Hey, Lingo. Let's party!

No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).

neat talk on bypassing multiple hardware security layers in the rp2350

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-of-boot-vectors-and-double-glitches-bypassing-rp2350-s-secure-boot

i hear the high power demand of all these new datacenters for ai is requiring upgrades to the power infrastructure to deliver it all

so once the ai bubble bursts i guess we'll still have an upgraded power infrastructure

maybe we can trick these idiots into funding other things that we need

for christmas this year i got strep throat and 3 days of isolation

seasons greetings

The boxed copies of my Mac software that I sold at VCF Midwest this August had these registration postcards in them

I finally got my first reply mailed in, it's a Festivus miracle!

Still snowing in 2025 thanks to @rckjnsn.bsky.social

my kid went to an art thing and they got CDRs to draw on because apparently such things are worthless now, but one of them had this magnificent label that seems kind of sad to discard