Shufei 🧸 @Shufei@mastodon.sdf.org

David Cameron, one of Living Computer Museum Engineers has passed away. He was responsible for power supply restoration as well as interbay connections of the CDC-6500. He was a very kind and generous human being. #rip 1958-2020

Reading about how "automatic content recognition" works in smart TVs, and honestly I don't understand why this isn't a bigger scandal. Your PC and smartphone don't take a screenshot every five minutes and send it to Dell or Apple. I don't get why TVs can get away with this.

- https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features/
- https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/02/samsung-lg-vizio-smart-tvs-watch-everything-you-watch/index.htm

Yet another reason why the "Internet of Things" is a phenomenally bad idea: it only took a week of effort for a security researcher to completely hijack a "smart" coffeemaker: https://u.fsf.org/35s

Wow this one looks promising!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-venus-idUSKBN2652GO

We aren’t talking about Trumps taxes this morning because we’re so busy talking about Trumps insane debate performance

-- Molly Jong-Fast
https://nitter.net/MollyJongFast/status/1311316146839261187

#ItsTheDistractionStupid

#deboop

@Shufei @claudiom hahaha last nite's showdown was more like this 🤪🤪

ICE preparing targeted arrests in ‘sanctuary cities,’ amplifying president’s campaign theme
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-ice-raids-sanctuary-cities/2020/09/29/99aa17f0-0274-11eb-8879-7663b816bfa5_story.html

After reading some recaps from last night's debate, I have to say that many people (especially the media) isn't paying attention and/or even mentioning the emergency our republic faces.

Wake up.

every time i see "VS Code" my brain tries to fill in "girl" after

California will ban new combustion-engine vehicles starting in 2035 - Photo by Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images

California Governor Gavin N... - https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/23/21452825/california-ban-combustion-gas-vehicles-cars-2035

A national privacy bill really would have helped the US deal with COVID-19 - CNET - Until people can trust contact tracing apps, it's hard to gauge how useful they will actually be. - https://www.cnet.com/health/a-national-privacy-bill-really-would-have-helped-the-us-deal-with-covid-19/#ftag=CAD590a51e

Coming up in 7 hours on https://aNONradio.net is Vintage COMP w/ jasmaz feat. The Prophet-5 Synthesizer and John Bowen (mr. Poly-Mod)

#vintage
#z80
#analog
#synth
#prophet
#sequentialcircuits

Rewrote our NES sprite editor Nasu in Plan9 C(libdraw) and ANSI C(sdl).