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

@KimSJ

Zero popups would be a symptom.

Zero logins without stated justified and truthful reasons.

Zero advertising as source of income.

@sarahdal

Cool. Yeah radio is great. and messy and "unreliable" in the RF sense. The physics of it makes it interesting.

I look forward to reading about it!

@sarahdal

Congratulations!

I love those little things. I have a flocking protocol written for them. They're so cheap! And the range is pretty good, considering.

Brand new and modern CP/M-80 computers!

With USB keyboard, SD card floppies, fixed disk... and all Z80 code (OK 600 MHz ARM host underneath but you wouldn't know unless you poked inside).

https://www.bleeve.me/eZ80/index.html

I have five of them, and 10 more with hardware fix "soon".

Anyone (or two) interested in having one, in exchange for putting a few hours on one and doing a modest review? And report any errors?

These are turn-key boxes (OK, board only for now) and full source and Kicad PCB for download. There's a solid collection of tools and a ton of work in them. I intend these to be solid and reliable daily drivers (sic).

If there's any interest I'll sell assembled and tested boards for cost, probably $60 or so (Teensy 4.1's are $30).

Website downloads are sketchy, complain and I'll fix.

#cpm #cpm80 #z80 #retrocomputing #permacomputing

Here's two things that bug me about phones.

One, we can't routinely share files directly, phone to phone. You're playing a song, I like it, you send it to me.

Two, no one notices this. This is worse.

There's world's of shit that would have followed from this. You share playlists with a friend. Phone: "do you want me to put them side by side and compare?"

Organize, compare, track, tag, groups...

Songs, spreadsheets, documents whatever.

Palm Pilots, even, could do the basics. It's been taken from us.

And the worst part, no one notices of asks for such.

Copyright and IP is not involved in responses. That's a corporate issue not a human one.

I run grapheneOS and have one login for Google, to run maps. I have remember web history and location history turned offwhen you do they eventually Google maps removed the START button for navigation.

This persisted for 24 hours. 10 minutes after I enabled "web history" -- this in Google maps mind you, not s browser -- map navigation was re enabled.

It's probably not legal but it's complex of enough it's hard to describe.

Here's two screen shots.

I'd done what you usually do: navigate to an address from current location, on a phone, driving in a car. This is the screen where below there would normally be the START button. It is not present until you agree to Google tracking you.

@aral

But they're not rehiring. Theyre going the Uber independent contractor route. Fuck them twice.

Stop clicking on things.

@jackeric @0xabad1dea

Panicking on malformed payload is very last century.

I had a subtle-seeming but ultimately stupid problem with my CP/M project and was forced into using ED.COM.

ED.COM is a 1960's paper tape editor, like unix ed, that you Yank lines from the input file into the in-memory work buffer, and Put lines to the output file. Unlike paper tape editors you can actually go backwards in the file.

(In the 1970s, I had a junk Varian 622/I minicomputer, all paper tape, on which I actually edited programs using the paper tape editor. You pressed a front panel switch (!) and it would load ONE LINE of text to core; spacebar advanced through the line, printing on the tty; another letter would insert, delete, etc; another would punch the edited line. You could only go forward. Backwards required punching out the rest of the tape and physically placing it in the reader. ed, ex, and vi still contain this paradigm within them.)

Its kinda awful, but very easy.

The ED.COM binary is 6656 bytes of 8080, and that's rounded up to the nearest 128 byte sector.

There is something fascinating and instructive about th3e brutal but elegant *spareness* of ED.

And after solving my Stupid problem (having to do with Side Effects of the absolute value of a JMP instruction address in low memory) i can now run PMATE, the text editor I used 2nd longest, after vi/vim.

Today was a good programming day'; solved a bunch of months old bugs that all had the same cause which was dumb and easily fixed once I actually delved deep into a program with SID, instruction y instruction. Hadn't done that in years.

#cpm #retrocomputing

@lanodan
LOL!

My sneaking in extra codes. That was a test! You passed! Lol.

Fixed.

Why do I still remember the Amphenol connector alphabet?

ABCDEFGHJKLMNPWRSTUWXYZ

At genuine risk of pissing off a lot of fedi folk -- I'm appalled at all the gushing over a new leader for one of the most reactionary and irrational quasi states out there -- the Catholic Church.

It's a vicious homophobic and misogynist force in the world. I do get that Francis was an actual good guy especially compared the the previous Rat bastard, but sheesh, some context please.

The new guy may have many positive symbolic and real attributes, but he ain't done shit yet. You are what you do. Wait and see.

I piss you off? Block me. Because reference to religiosity and orgs like global churches pisses me off, is hurtful to me and I know lots of others. They were a key source of straight up oppression for me and many thousands of other kids and adults.

The people who do good things in the world are people, not the orgs they belong to.

Maybe consider CWing the Pope shit.

Sheesh.

@istvan

End to end encryption is totally required. It's just not sufficient. There is no one step solution. It's just a tool.

Relying on old hardware or old code is at best security through obscurity, which is automatic lose. And no reason to believe old exploits are not still in use. Hardly anyone keeps up with the latest and greatest. My dentist still runs win7.

It it's true, that xkcd cartoon, rather than deploy quantum systems to crack yr cool machine, you'll get arrested and force the password out of you. It's all about lowest cost.

If you really need to keep secrets, don't use a computer. I'm not joking.

@ThatCrazyDude @eriner

@vga256

Well I've since backed off gopher, for two reasons: one, the channel from server to client needs to be encrypted and the server-side data arrangement is too barbaric and error prone.

Many home ISPs actually insert ads into peoples' browser streams; which of course means they're spying on everything. This is simply intolerable. Everything needs encryption because the folk runnint teh innernets are universally scumbags.

I know of no gopher client or server that can set up TLS/SSL.

Server side, the old gophermap data structure is simply horrible; its extremely delicate, uses an invisible and problematic character (ASCII TAB) as a critical marker, is grossly unstructured.

The semantics are chaos and not merely undstandardized, which I'm less concerned by, but all over the place. It's extremely difficult to script arranging/manipulating content.

I make websites with a subset of HTML5 and CSS. I manage it with perl scripts. It's far from ideal, but it's utterly ubiquitous stuff. A server that could deliver a stripped subset of HTML would be a great start.

This stuff needs to serve us, not the other way round. I like writing code, but it just ended up as a bunch of busy work, for me.

Port 80/443 is fraught. I don't know what to do. I had all sorts or gyrations to go through this week to get a VM up that could run letsencrypt (which by this point is damn easy to set up).

I wish it were otherwise; and it can't be extreme-nerd to set up. I may or may not be smart enough to do that; but I don't want to. There's too much to do already!

@scott

@babble_endanger

Race cars get whacked and stressed. No one will loan you one.

But buy a beater and make it reliable. Half the fin is on wrenching. And problem solving. It's a team effort.

Volunteer for a 24 hrs of LeMons team. Holy crap will you learn a lot and have fun. Or just go to one and walk around the pits.

Autocross is maybe better and probably more findable. They vary in quality. The big money folk seem to have less fun than the lower end diy folk.

"Run what ya brung". Doesn't need to be fancy. Im fact all of my fun with cars has been making unlikely stuff behave well. It's also cheaper!

Do dogs match color?

I had a dream and we were in an elevator and I made a joke about how we should call them "evelators" because "evorlate" means to go up.

@lanodan

No! They smell different and a lot less. And Devo loves baths.

Hairless dogs disdain rain. Even with a T-shirt and puffy coat.