Notes

I've used Reddit for 17 years and was on Twitter for 15 years and it's surprising how quickly they both imploded relative to their lifetimes, but also how little it bothers me to suddenly stop using either of them.

That's probably a good indication that I was consuming too much wasteful content on them every day and this is for the better.

Though I'm really sad to see @christianselig have his hard work shut down with no recourse, especially seeing how much he enjoyed working on Apollo over the years.

These "reliving memories" scenes are starting to feel very Black Mirror #WWDC23

scuzzyin'

I made a bot account to post a random episode of Computer Chronicles every day

@compchron

A double free or use after free could occur after SSL_clear(3) in LibreSSL

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.3/common/004_ssl.patch.sig

Palm IIIxe backlight

I wonder how big of a project it would be to replace the guts of the Palm Modem with an ESP8266 and have it do PPP back to the Palm for WiFi

The software would be easy but I am not so good with the hardware side

Such resolution from this Kodak PalmPix camera

Another monochrome 68k device to play with

What's... Novell NetWare

Lobsters didn't end up growing into what I hoped, but I think it had some good ideas and I am proud of what I (initially) built, especially with the invite tree

But I don't know how it became this laughing stock that everyone likes to dunk on, which makes me sad

Anyway, it came up on the latest Oxide & Friends in the context of Blue Sky using a similar invitation system for moderation during their private beta

From @ahl
https://mastodon.social/@ahl/110300083056444456

If you need to bridge LocalTalk to Ethernet in 2023, these Asante AsanteTalk devices are garbage

I was struggling with them for years, dealing with devices not showing up in Chooser, devices that would take ~30 seconds to show up, and having to restart Netatalk and the AsanteTalk in some magic voodoo order to make everything work

I replaced mine with a Farallon EtherMac iPrint (not just for printers) and all of my problems went away and all devices show up instantly, every time

I told this to a friend the other week who was having similar problems with an AsanteTalk which were solved by switching to a Farallon device

My beige Epson Zip drive collection is expanding

This new one needed a thorough cleaning but seems slightly less yellowed than the first one