Notices by Ryan Baumann (ryanfb@digipres.club), page 2

Before starting this series, I was completely unfamiliar with this game from the makers of the Oregon Trail…because it was recalled shortly after its release in 1992 (CW for content in video: slavery, potentially offensive portrayals of Black people/speech) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBa9ZmZaCBc #WozADay #AppleII #retrocomputing #apple2

@tchambers FWIW I’ve been mostly happy with whisperX for local transcription: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

Any journalists interested in informing the public about the uncertainty and risks involved with this now publicly-traded social media corporation, feel free to reach out for inquiries! https://mastodon.social/@gbhnews/112162105752356614

Also, if anyone has concrete information showing that Truth Social is actually using Pleroma in production now instead of Mastodon, please get in touch with compliance@sfconservancy.org via email

I've filed a formal complaint with the SEC regarding Truth Social's potentially misleading statements to investors in public filings

From a “securities fraud” perspective, knowingly violating software licenses to form your core product without ever disclosing it in public filings may actually be worse than a disclosed risk of security vulnerabilities. And in case it’s not entirely clear, Trump is using this IPO to try to make bond on a $454M penalty…for committing fraud https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/business/trump-media-merger-truth-social.html

Had a chance to look back at the SEC filings. Pleroma is not mentioned, and they continue to state that they use Mastodon and post the source code publicly for AGPLv3 compliance:

As an update, Truth Social's posted Mastodon source code has not been updated since my initial post in this thread, and has seemingly not been updated since at least June of 2022 (compare: http://web.archive.org/web/20220614001551/https://opensource.truthsocial.com/mastodon-current.zip). So if they're still using and updating Mastodon internally, they're no longer complying with its AGPL license at that link.

I don't know who needs to hear this but #TruthSocial, which is running a forked version of Mastodon, does not from the source code appear to have appropriate mitigations in place for CVE-2023-36460, which theoretically allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36460 (probably other CVE's as well, but some rely on federation which Truth Social doesn't use?) #infosec

On the back of a taxation report, a student writes out a maxim in iambic trimeter followed by some doodles, #OTD #OnThisDay March 8th, 243 CE: https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;44;3174v

"ἔθος ἐστὶν μνααίους εὐτυχεῖν τοὺς πλουσίους"
It is the custom of high stakes to be fortunate to the wealthy.

@thomasfuchs when I was 15, I fixed a Y2K bug in a compiled System/36 billing system with no source available

another obscure #Apple2 #AppleII #retrogaming #retrocomputing inquiry—ring any bells for anyone? I couldn’t turn anything up under this title for the Apple II, just legit games on other platforms. I strongly suspect a homebrew gag game, maybe even circulated among a small group of people…

#WozADay: Dueling Digits (1982)

I’m curious if anyone ever actually learned any math from this game

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://youtu.be/5DnzIVzQECQ

#WozADay: Gorgon (1981)

that’s right, once again, it’s time for another Nasir Gebelli game

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://youtu.be/g8sRSSADEdY

#WozADay: Top Fuel Eliminator (1987)

split-second reaction times: the game

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://youtu.be/8GfBl2Bt5bE

#WozADay: The Sands of Egypt (1983)

surprising amount of animation for an #InteractiveFiction game

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCK9G8-9Gz0

#WozADay: The Arcade Machine (1982)

hard to believe I’ve done 300 of these

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://youtu.be/gdj4JBdBDBw

#WozADay: Magic Spells (1981)

can we defeat the wizard of spells??

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://youtu.be/yhLhKnLdhko

#WozADay: Stationfall (1987)

after Trinity I was a little wary of an #InteractiveFiction game running long again, but, well, you’ll see

#retrogaming #apple2 #AppleII
https://youtu.be/whR2Yt_l760

#WozADay: Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress (1985)

[leaning over to my date when Alcazar comes on screen in Alcazar (1985)] that’s Alcazar

#retrogaming #apple2
#AppleII https://youtu.be/Hz0YvPTVpv4