HxD @hxd@mastodon.sdf.org

The computer built to last 50 years
https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

🕹️ Title: Open Transport Tycoon
🦊️ What's: A libre business & transport sim game
🏡️ http://www.openttd.org
🐣️ https://github.com/OpenTTD
🔖 #linux #flagship #game #management #transportation #libre #bin #deb #rpm #arch #appim #snap #flatpk

🥁️ Update: 12.0➜12.2
⚗️ New features
📌️ Changes: https://www.openttd.org/news/2021/10/17/openttd-12-0
🐘 From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/108063475806043534

🏝️ http://youtu.be/huwt9MKqdaQ
🕹️ http://youtu.be/7ZX0yngA65g?&start=298

This is wonderful: someone's put a lot of effort into getting System 7 and Mac OS 8 running in the browser, with data persistence and being able to drag and drop stuff from the host system into it.

- https://system7.app
- https://macos8.app

He wrote a blog post about it: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html

#RetroComputing

The European Commission has started the initiative "Sustainable consumption of goods - promoting repair and reuse” and is calling for public input. We welcome this, are already preparing our statement and encourage you to participate as well: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13150-Sustainable-consumption-of-goods-promoting-repair-and-reuse_en

I feel personally attacked.

Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion! - Zach Mandeville: https://coolguy.website/basic-html-competency-is-the-new-punk-folk-explosion/

Interested to see how this plays out: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreign-corrupt-practices-bribery-whistleblower-contracting #Microsoft #governmentcorruption #digitalcolonialism

Such a wonderful blog post on how, through the efforts to replace the mainframe, we all just ended up re-inventing the mainframe.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

What I find quaint is that post-Brexit Britain is apparently still afraid us unwashed masses might want to go there and sully the furniture. Could do with never entering that modern-day Dickensian Tory shithole if we didn’t have family there.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/non-irish-eu-citizens-crossing-border-face-travel-clearance-requirement-after-mps-vote-1.4833667

this is why programming is, in a way, so accessible: you can basically fail as much as you want for free

i wonder if an extended global chip shortage could enable any of these things

- profitable electronics refurbishing and recycling industry
- less e-waste
- right-to-repair type laws forcing chip manufacturers to open source firmware and specs for chips they have end-of-lifed
- advances in home chip fabrication
- cars with tactile, mechanical controls, less whizzy techy bullshit
- elon musk loses money
- cryptocurrency mining becomes unprofitable
- more interest & development in uxn and similar

Today’s “A Step Farther Out” was far from my most informative, entertaining, or edifying show ever.

It was, in fact, nothing but thirty sustained minutes of me complaining that something has gone terribly wrong with the humans on this planet, and requesting a billion dollars so that I don’t have to stay here.

https://archives.anonradio.net/202203121900_publius.mp3

#anonradio

Russia’s disinformation machinery breaks down in wake of Ukraine invasion

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/russias-disinformation-machinery-breaks-down-in-wake-of-ukraine-invasion/

A few critical errors have cost #Russia dearly when it comes to #disinformation.

#Ukraine

Situation at the Chernobyl site
https://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20220311_Situation-at-the-Chernobyl-site.aspx

OpenSSL v3.0.2 and v1.1.1n releasing on March 15th:

https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2022-March/000216.html

> These are security-fix releases. The highest severity issue fixed in these releases is HIGH.