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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

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