Notes

Wallops 2.2 is out today:

https://jcs.org/wallops

It can now send @pushover.net notifications when you are mentioned and a screen saver is running

i wonder what metrics could be used by a utility app to disable touch ID in a situation like this, like how iPhones disable face ID if the face scanned looks very different

coming out of suspend with no home wi-fi signal in range? a long delay between waking up and a finger being scanned?

Post from Runa Sandvik:

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

maybe someone could write a touch id duress utility (like https://github.com/jcs/login_duress). if you scan your middle finger instead of your usual index finger, it runs an action like powering the machine off or requiring a password

bad news team, we have some savage cum errors

i ask again, wtf is this ui

I got flashrom on OpenBSD working with a USB ch341a programmer:

nano:~$ doas flashrom -p ch341a_spi -v goose
flashrom v1.6.0 on OpenBSD 7.8 (amd64)
[..]
Found Unknown flash chip "SFDP-capable chip" (16384 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

good morning

@actionretro.bsky.social fwiw, that version of MacTCP you installed on your latest Mac Plus video from the Garden is old (2.0.6) and you likely want 2.1 which no longer has that terrible class a/b/c selector that is hard to figure out, and has bug fixes

we all did that too right?

didn't we all do that?

"i have a binary war dialer, it can crack any security system"

did you know there was a tv show in 1998 based on The Net and it was terrible?

https://archive.org/details/the-net-complete-tv-series/

her trusty sidekick is a talking toshiba libretto

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

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