Today, EFF and other civil society organizations issued a damning report about the prosecution of open source software developer and security expert Ola Bini, whose trial may come to an end next week. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/eff-and-other-civil-society-organizations-issue-report-danger-digital-rights-what
A Raspberry Pi As An Offboard Display Adapter https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/a-raspberry-pi-as-an-offboard-display-adapter/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1523754775791157248
Checking out some things over on #gemini
Just started on this page. - I'm liking it already. This reminds me a lot of the old BBS days when things were TEXT based. - The internet IS bloated.
A successful weekend project. OpenBSD/macppc on my Apple PowerBook G4. Pictured here is SDF Com running in GNU Emacs. #OpenBSD #MacPPC #Apple #PowerBook #G4
Thank you so much to those who tuned in and chatted with us on COM! 🙏 coming up next is the SDF Amateur Radio Club's TechLink Node 9229 on EchoLink!
APPLE2IDIOT Expansion Card Lets Your Apple II (Sort Of) Access the Internet https://hackaday.com/2022/05/07/apple2idiot-expansion-card-lets-your-apple-ii-sort-of-access-the-internet/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1522984761333268480
This fine fellow sat in Grandfather's garage for close to 30 years. It is all there in original packing material. I think I was probably the only one who ever used it much--when I was about 7 or 8.
I would have taken it to the Living Computers (RIP) in Seattle. Now I'm not sure how best to re-home it.
Any ideas? I have not yet explored what it looks like inside or whether it even turns on.
Re-imagining the Resistor Color Code Cheat Sheet https://hackaday.com/2022/05/07/re-imagining-the-resistor-color-code-cheat-sheet/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1522848985735651330
Here's today's #FollowFriday...
@Roland
@cprompt
@MsMadLemon
@rudi
@scm
@paulgatling
@randynose
@cmdln
@hpr
@ken_fallon
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@dch
@thedaemon
@rowens
@stsp
@bill
@umgeher
@herag
@onan
@Shrigglepuss
@robert588
More to come next week!
ISPs have tried for years now to stop California's #NetNeutrality law. After losing three lawsuits against the state, they've given up, and accepted what we knew was true: if the FCC does not enact net neutrality, the states are free to do so.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/stung-by-3-court-losses-isps-stop-fighting-california-net-neutrality-law/
While you learn lot of mathematics at school, in real life you can mostly rely on cross-multiplication [1] for all your needs.
I feel like in IT, rsync and a shell script is the equivalent of cross-multiplication...
Here's a fun project for the weekend: a $15 Linux machine. https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/LinuxDevice.html
Some statistics on what will become NetBSD 10.0
Performance: Some benchmarks show 3x or more improvement over 9.0 on multi-core systems
Device drivers: 19+ new, 13+ significantly extended, 13+ removed (mostly non-Ethernet wired networking that's fallen out of use!)
Userspace programs: 5+ new, 20+ significantly improved, 1 removed.
Quality assurance: 2000+ new test cases, 2 new kernel sanitizers, several complete kernel-wide audits.
Time: Nearly three years 👍
Synth Battle Royale XII archive can be found here:
https://archives.anonradio.net/202204300300_openmic.mp3
Tribute to Klaus Schulze
Very cool to see @netbsd here on SDF #mastodon ! SDF is the largest NetBSD site in production and we've been running it since the 1.2 release while we were on DEC Alpha and currently on 9.x x86_64 Thanks to Eric Schnoebelen (RIP), Christos Zoulas, ryo (rsh), Masa Saitoh and ebijun as well as others for the support over the years!
Archive of Synth Battle Royale XII tribute to Klaus Schulze can be found here:
Unix-like computer operating system user since 1999. Communications graduate. Failed musician. Computer science dropout. SDF https://sdf.org/?join user since 2011. Unfortunate receiver of a late autism diagnosis with a working memory disability. 20+ years of wearing many technology hats in the public/nonprofit/charity sectors. More at https://scm.sdf.org/.