Notices by tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)

Ok apparently this is what actually happened with the Canadian "trade deal".

It is insane.

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-the-annexation-papers-what

I fear that I will need to actually understand how fonts work on X. I've avoided this for decades, now it is too late. Wish me luck.

@halfpress

Oh those horrible screens we thought were so great! Lol

Where does everyone find the time to watch all these videos?

EVERY WHITE PERSON
ON NORTH AMERICA
IS AN IMMIGRANT

For fuck's sake.

I don't know why this took me so long to do: here's the root-down snapshot of my 1994 fido.wps.com server, a 386BSD machine ("Jolix"). I have no idea how this folder survived.

There's some 1990, 1991 source trees for archie, gopher, etc as well as /home.

First link here: https://www.bleeve.me/Texts/index.html

Oh for fucks sake, this shitbag is on the fediverse. Seems real.

The obvious and inevitable backlash is well under way. Computer touching may soon become suspect, again.

@tchambers

Its telling and interesting they've not produced any pocket sized tools we could use at home, on our own data sets. Even just inverted word indexes or whatever for search. Not that I'd necessarily trust them. But they've not contributed one thing at all, beyond letting people use chat, which is of as much or more benefit to them than any user.

@tchambers

They are not building tools. They sre building surveillance and extraction systems, squandering planet scale resources to do so fast enough before they can be stopped.

The njump arg normalizes this to mere large scale web activity and as Dana says, presumes there is value there.

The near universal revulsion at the l.l.m scammers is not at the technology or the ideas; its against the structured exploitation and ruination designed into its deployment by corporations that have abundantly proven to us over and over *that the (mostly) men running these schemes are dangerous people*.

(Lol if a i or l l m appear as words in the text my filters will block it. )

You cannot write good code in a hurry.

"Ten years ago, we had Johnny Cash. We had Bob Hope and Steve Jobs. Today, 10 years later, there's no cash. There's no hope. There's no jobs."

I found Phil Karns (ka9q) cp/m code for NOS, his tcp/ip stack and clients (in sn all in one program). It has been on a well lnown retro site for some time, but not findsble via web search somehow, and its not just me not searching well. Which is a separate story.

Its written in C, eith the Aztec compiler (very nice tool). It sll compiles.

It has as serious hardware integration with the Zilog SIO and Timer in a Xerox 820 that would need adaptation, but thats acreaons le project. Without the actual SIO chip there would be no HDLC and attendant functions but in 2026, no loss.

Doesnt compile under MP/M -- not enough memory. NOS is pushing things.

Its clean snd readable code.

The Little Garden ISP ran on the DOS version of NOS, we pushed it hard, it had few problems. As a router, with four modems, we hung four customers each full /24 subnet, on one low end single floppy DOS box feeding w router to the net. We called it "nail up" as opposed to dial up; stsy connected round the clock.

Im not gonna pursue it at this time, ive got other things to do first.

If someone here had the skills, and would bring it up, id provide them with a free fZ80 machine in exchange....

The partially prepped software bundle will be downloadable tomorrow. With compiler. Dev on CP/M is rough, you should know thet before you start.... MP/M is almost a joy. But since the task is narrow the device driver -- which will be firmware in thr Teensy 4.1 therefore gcc -- could be tested in an easy standalone program under MP/M which would be kinda fun and not gruelling at all. I'd help with that.

Very briefly and decades ago there were attempts, mainly by computer magazines, to work out data-transfer methods involving printed paper sheets with optically encoded data. The goal then was to use a reader that could be constructed at home, eg no more than a photodiode on a stick and a bright light. The magazine could encode computer data and print it on magazine pages. None of it caight on for long, but its still and interesting idea.

But now we have cheap hi res laser printers and hi res computer cameras in every pocket.

What could we do today? How much data could we reliably (emphasis on RELIABLE AND ERROR TOLERANT, OVER CAPACITY) on a sheet of Letter or A2?

A code that would work on odd shapes? Rectangle, square, long strip, intermittent chunks?

A code that works when output as a movie? Large number of frames, optically read? Then we could go phone handset to handset without requiring radio permission.

Its likely such things exist already. Ive never come across them but i dont do much internetting that's not narrowly pointful these days.

@dlakelan

Segway? A classic solution in search of s problem, and emblematic of one of tech's social problems.

The technology itself was at the time quite amazing. And most tech folk stopped there.

It was a social disaster. Its position in the world was something like enhanced pedestrian, not streetable. They took up more room in ped space than a wheelchair, but their users were well off abled nerds.

Segway gave nothing to people with mobiity issues. We gladly give up abled convenience to support folks in wheelchairs etc (most of us anyway), but Segways were toys for the already privileged demanding even moreaccommodation.

Technically clever gadgets should not take priority of peoples daily needs. We need systems thinking not toys for the rich.

Look at the tiny niche they live in now; mall and airport security guard mobility.

@inthehands

@Anne_Delong

mastodonhelpteam@mastodon.cloud

@teledyn

Oh yes! Not a very clever one. Be dure to click "receive funds"! Lol

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BTW, the very first BBS in San Francisco CA was Kinky Kumputer, run by Bill (last name forgotten). A phone phreaker, he had a PBX in his house. Phone number was a memorable MAN-KINK. Area code 415. Homebrew software I think.

Sex and much nerdity. Bill was a cool guy. He moved to Japan. No idea where he is now.

I need to update the notable BBS list on wikipedia.

Put RedHat in your killchain.

Every traded corporation does evil when their market is evil and growth is the goal.

@timbray

They can't. In 2026 it's not even a good fantasy.

The way these corps treat data, im gonna delete my acct now/soon, though it provebly won't ever be deleted in fact. And its an empty gesture anyway.