Notices by jbz (jbzfn@mastodon.social), page 2

🐧Lindows, the weird Walmart Linux from 2002!
➥ @ActionRetro
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SWmvtdyXlTA

#Lindows #Linux #Retrocomputing

🚪 Highly invasive backdoor snuck into open source packages targets developer
➥ Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/developers-targeted-with-malware-that-monitors-their-every-move/

#Malware #Opensource #Cybersecurity

They sent me a calendly link without asking me or explaining the reason for the meeting.

I'm about to get sacked. Crossing fingers expecting it's true.

They already layoff half the team, expecting the rest to quit. As you grow older learn to never quit if you see firings left and right, but start sending resumes and interviewing.

Your priority is to get paid and benefits, depending on your country and contract, getting fired is better for maximizing your interests.

「 Pretendo is a free and open source replacement for Nintendo's servers for both the 3DS and Wii U, allowing online connectivity for all, even after the original servers are discontinued 」

https://pretendo.network/

#Pretendo #3DS #WiiU #Retrogaming #Opensource

🥹 The LAST SUN Workstation Made: Sun Ultra 45 Overview (UltraSparc IIIi)

#Sun #SunUltra45 #UltraSparc #Solaris #Retrocomputing https://youtube.com/watch?v=BjshAKzhxTE&feature=share

@aral Responsibility shared by the developers, managers and execs that designed and implemented these changes.

They knew exactly what it was, and unless they became whistleblowers themselves, they're on the hook, just like the VW employees that blamed "company culture" on everything for their emission scandal.

Half the EU will line up to destroy Musk for this, not to mention lying to the PCC is gonna cost him more than just money.

He keeps me from 'innovating'
BAD LUDDITE CAT
#CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse

</> htmx in 100 seconds
—fireship.io

#Webdev #Frontend #htmx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-GSGH2RxJs

:SMOrc: @eff writes:
⎧ The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF, which used this process to fight the Personal Audio “podcasting patent,” from filing patent challenges altogether ⎭
#USPTO
#Patents
#PatentTrolls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-junk-patents-under-threat

「 Apple’s Hypercard was a terrific and highly successful end-user authoring system whose media was scripted, WYSIWYG, and “symmetric” (in the sense that the “reader” could turn around and “author” in the same high-level terms and forms). It should be the start of — and the guide for — the “User Experience” of encountering and dealing with web content 」
— Alan Kay
#Hypercard #WebStandards

「 It’s both surprisingly and dismayingly difficult to get people — especially computerists — to criticize the web and the web browsers — even more so perhaps today.

This is despite the glaring fact that the interactive media provided by the web and browsers has always been a hefty and qualitative subset of the media on the very personal computers that run the web browsers 」
— Alan Kay

#Web #OpenWeb #WebStandards
https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers-and-a-discussion-of-news-5cb92c7b3445

「 One of the great realizations of the early Unix was that the *kernel* of an OS — and essentially the only part that should be in “supervisor mode” — would only manage time (quanta for interleaved computations) and space (memory allocation and levels) and encapsulation (processes) — everything else should be expressible in the general vanilla processes of the system 」
— Alan Kay
#Unix #Web #WebStandards #ModernWeb

「 what has happened is that a critically weak subset has managed to dominate the imaginations of most people — including computer people — to the point that what is possible and what is needed has for all intents and purposes disappeared 」
— Alan Kay
#Web #WebStandards #ModernWeb

「 The underlying system for a browser should not be that of an “app” but of an Operating System whose job would be to protectively and safely run encapsulated systems (i.e. “real objects”) gotten from the web. It should be the way that web content could be open-ended, and not tied to functional subsets in the browser 」
— Alan Kay
#Web #WebStandards

⚠️ Camel case isn't just for people using screen readers, it's also important for a multicultural fediverse.

For example:

#nosearch means "No Search" in English.

In Spanish means "I don't know Arch".

#Accessibility #Humor #Arch