Thanks for your expressed concern for my well-being in these testing times.

Yes, it is exhausting and I did 50 hour work weeks already before this. My wife and family help me keep sane and are effectively "non-digital activities" that help me to momentarily let go of these things once in a while.

Also: no, there are no companies and no organizations that step up to help. Not before. Not now. We're on our own. As always.

Cue xkcd dependency image.

good night Infinisys.co.jp, and thank you for your 35+ years of selling the official After Dark screen savers and modules. 🫡

here are a few snapshots of their After Dark pages over the past 30 years.

#macintosh #vintageApple #japan #retroComputing #win95

Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a reply https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/1t826y8/emailed_ken_thompson_about_the_unics_to_unix/

#unix #history #computing

I’ve published my Lisa filesystem access tool: https://github.com/eschaton/lisafs

It lets you list and extract the files in a Lisa filesystem, with automatic text file conversion. It supports both the flat Lisa OS 2.0 and the hierarchical Lisa OS 3.0 filesystems.

Right now it only works with Disk Copy 4.2 disk images but should be straightforward to extend to any other format that preserves page labels, e.g. raw 536-byte/sector ProFile dumps.

Open Source, MIT license.

#lisa #retrocomputing #opensource

Yes

#catsofmastodon #haha #Funny

Whoa: <https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html>

> What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception.
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> Therefore, effective today, I am permanently and irrevocably dedicating the Slug patent to the public domain.