Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club), page 2

Really sad to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She made key advances in CPU design that ended up being an influence on everything we use today. http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-conway-january-2-1938-june-9-2024/

Oh man, this news story. Former MLA from Manitoba asks Meta's own "ask AI" chatbot if a phone number he found on Google is really Meta support. It tells him yes. It isn't, and he's scammed out of $500 and control of his accounts. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/facebook-customer-support-scam-1.7219581

Huh, interesting. First time I’ve seen federated spam that uses bridges to cross networks. In this case it targeted Bluesky but went nostr -> mastodon -> Bluesky to get there. https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/federation-and-political-spam

Well, I'm sure that's fine

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2024/05/08/ai-generated-employee-handbooks-are-causing-mayhem-at-the-companies-that-use-them/

Looks like the same attack that took down the British Library for so long also targeted the US Library of Congress, but good multifactor auth and fast action from their IT and security staff protected them. https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/05/thwarted-cyberattack-targeted-library-congress-tandem-october-british-library-breach/396399/

I was recently reminded of this great older post in the Library of Congress Blog about the time an unreleased PSP Duke Nukem game was found in the copyright deposit archives - source code, assets and all. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/dukes-legacy-video-game-source-disc-preservation-at-the-library-of-congress/

I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.

Looks like it's official - Akira Toriyama, world-famous manga artist, passed away on March 1. The website is failing under load, so here's a copy of the letter.

https://en.dragon-ball-official.com/news/01_2499.html

New blog post! I set out to dump an arcade game and correct MAME's database, only to end up discovering that this game revision didn't actually exist in the first place - or rather, once properly dumped, it was actually a duplicate of another one.

A real #digipres lesson here, and a reminder that even widely-used and well-maintained catalogues are fallible. It can be just as important to deduplicate entries and remove phantom ones as to discover new ones.

https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2024/03/01/that-time-i-accidentally-deleted-a-game-from-mame/

Come on! Waku Waku Mirai!

Multimedia advertisement. From a December 1994 issue of Micom Basic: https://archive.org/details/basic-1994-12/page/n15/mode/1up

“If you are the stingray at the center of a pregnancy scandal, you are probably doing fine because you have no concept of social media.” https://defector.com/charlotte-the-ray-did-not-have-sex-with-a-shark-so-stop-asking

Oh dear. It's very funny that Air Canada tried to pull the “well, the AI chatbot lied, not *us*" as a legal argument. https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454

It was a weird feeling having had to explain the XFree86 drama to someone the other day. In my brain it still feels like one of those foundational bits of free software history everyone knows but, in fact, it's been 20 years and so many people weren't even in the free software community at the time

@thomasfuchs That transparent case is gorgeous!

Got my iFlash! Once the battery arrives, I’ll be able to update my old iPod 5th generation with a fresh battery and lots of fast flash storage in place of the old spinning rust drive.

And now my replacement high capacity battery’s here! All set to do the mod.

Success! I now have 128GB of flash storage and a gargantuan battery - something like four and a half times the original battery capacity.

I reformatted the SD card before starting. I've heard that modern exFAT cards sometimes come preformatted with a partition layout that confuses the iPod, so I did a full reformat and then recreated it as HFS+ since I'm going to be using it on a Mac.

Getting the iPod open's a bit of a chore, but I'm getting good at it now. The plastic iFlash tools help.

Defragging my drive while I degauss my monitor

Just found out there's such a thing as a *USB Adlib card* https://shop.sudomaker.com/products/retrowave-opl3-express

Accidentally typoed an email filtering rule, so it ended up sending all incoming mail to trash. For maybe a week I sat basking in inbox zero before I realized what I'd done