So what we have, after 40 years, is a pile of source code. Which is amazing -- for 99% of programs we don't even have that. But if a program is a living thing in the minds of the people who make it, then we don't have that.
Could we recreate it?
@gilester45 We have a small tent but there's enough room for the fax machine and network switch. Some other stuff will probably be in the ECHQ marquee.
Dawes: "Good men do bad things, like Fred Johnson. And bad men do things believing it's for the good of all mankind"
Good atmosphere at #Macclesfield #pride
What a wonderful story about building products and a startup.
What in the fuck is this 24h clock that came with my phone's recent update.
I have never seen anything so horrendeous.
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/07/03/1652234/video-game-history-foundation-says-piracy-remains-the-only-viable-preservation-method?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
I am the word witch.
I have the magic.
The men behind the machines keep stealing the spells after they're cast, but they can't recreate the magic because they aren't the source, and no matter how clever they make their machines, they can only steal, not create.
We are the source.
We have the magic.
Don't forget it.
Adobe is just fucking trolling at this point.
Listen to my PDF as a podcast? What the fuck are you even talking about.
This is a “no bad ideas” whiteboard session about “creative uses for AI” come to life, and it sucks.
What the trolls ruining social media actually look like.
[📹 BestMoon_boxphonefarm]
Within 9 seconds, attackers had made these GETs:
58 /
6 /favicon.ico
2 /___proxy_subdomain_cpanel
2 /login.action
2 /info.php
2 /graphql/api
2 /graphql
2 /.git/config
2 /ecp/Current/exporttool/microsoft.exchange.ediscovery.exporttool.application
2 /.DS_Store
2 /debug/default/view?panel=config
2 /console/
2 /config.json
2 /api/graphql
2 /api/gql
2 /api
2 /actuator/env
2 /about
1 /wp-config.php
1 /wp-admin/setup-config.php
1 /.well-known/security.txt
1 /_vti_pvt/service.pwd
Why I love Mastodon: someone famous got married to someone else famous today and my wife told me about it. I didn’t see one person talking about it here. Thanks for being great.
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets
<- by me on #TheRegister
New post: IPv6 Foundations.
IPv6 isn't "the future of the internet." It's the internet. IPv4 is the relic we keep alive on NAT life support.
A laid-back tour through the basics: how the addresses are built, the two rules for crushing out the zeros, a /64 per subnet so you stop counting hosts, SLAAC, and why blocking ICMPv6 is a self-inflicted wound.
And no, dual-stack isn't a destination. It's a burden.
https://blog.hofstede.it/ipv6-foundations-the-internet-protocol-you-should-already-be-using/
Unsurprisingly, disagreements about vague or unspecified crucial details of the draft US-Iran peace deal have led once again to an exchange of fire.
What I'm listening to today: "Can You Feel", Torchkas (Namco WSG remix by Abstract 64)
The sound chip in the "Pac Man" arcade cabinets turns out to be a really fascinating piece of engineering, a 4-bit wavetable synth like the tiniest, cheapest Korg Wavestation.
Covering a vaporwave chiptune originally for SNES, A64 makes a song using only the "Pac-Man" waveforms and a WSG emulator, and it's *so* evocative. Definitely the best song I've ever heard to sample "Pac-Man".