Notices by Codhisattva (codhisattva@mastodon.social)

@dansup windows NT 3.51 was the last great OS from Microsoft

@mekkaokereke is this the piece that exalts Louis Armstrong for his continue touring? “He never went off the road!” 💕

@cstross @angusm and wonders for the profits for the few megacorps. Sysco and Cargill already have prison based processing plants so this will just be scaling. AP investigated this for 2 years and released a sprawling condemnation.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/01/30/prisoners-in-the-us-are-part-of-a-hidden-workforce-linked-to-hundreds-of-popular-food-brands

@angusm @cstross the prison labor force to the rescue?

@jwz “my brother, the courts will stop this illegal act”

@aral sure I understand all that. What I am referencing is the 12 person team that gave the world a specification that lead to the PC revolution in the 70s. The PC specification was public domain and defined the standard that would dominate computing for decades.

@aral the IBM PC may provide a model for how to do it with VC and without greed.

Create an open specification for a cell phone that uses commodity components and can be assembled by hand. V1 might be the size of a book but it would be a start.

Might be impossible given some of the complexity in cell phones, so maybe a WiFi only tablet is a better way to begin.