Franklin

@fport
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Generalist, some humor, lots of decades

Been stalling, procrastination, was going 14900/128GB/4090. It's probably my last machine and I'm coming off a i7 4790K/32GB/980Ti.

Anyway, looking five years down the road and having been a survivor of the Pentium I opted out and went AMD 9950X/92GB/4070 with at least two generations of upgrades likely.

Got it built because old/eyes/fumble fingers/instant replacement while burning in and so on. No OS installed.

So Arch and Win10 (neutered).

Working through content creation of the next part of "Amiga as a Workstation in 1986" videos.

We write a simple program to get used to the #CommodoreAmiga Intuition and Graphics libraries.

I will record the video soon. #retrocomputing

The truth is that @openprivacy and the @cwtch team could disappear tomorrow, and Cwtch would continue to work just fine - people could continue to augment the clients and protocol with new capabilities.|

Cwtch is an example of p2p metadata resistant decentralized comms, but there are others.

This tech exists, and people use it. The security of already released versions can only be impacted by mathematical reality - nothing more.

“We Need To Rewild The Internet”

"When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them, and the devastating consequences sometimes aren’t obvious until it’s too late." https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

We Need To Rewild The Internet 

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

NOEMA

The Notepad++ project is seeking the public's help in taking down a copycat website that closely impersonates Notepad++ but is not affiliated with the project. There is some concern that it could pose security threats—for example, if it starts pushing malicious releases or spam someday either deliberately or as a result of a hijack.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/notepad-plus-plus-needs-your-help-in-parasite-website-shutdown/

Notepad++ needs your help in "parasite website" shutdown

The Notepad++ project is seeking the public's help in taking down a copycat website that closely impersonates Notepad++ but is not affiliated with the project. There is some concern that it could pose security threats—for example, if it starts pushing malicious releases or spam someday either deliberately or as a result of a hijack.

BleepingComputer
molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) on X

The 7 major ways China has changed between 2019 and 2024

X (formerly Twitter)
"Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79". I read "True Names" after "cyberpunk" authors like Gibson and Stephenson, and really enjoyed it. Now I need to go back and read Vinge's other works. https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/22/vernor_vinge_obituary/
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79

CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant

The Register
3D Printed Apple Macintosh - The Brewintosh

YouTube
@nixCraft seems like the Seagate "memes" are all over the world. We, in Germany, call the drives "Sie-Geht-Oder-Sie-Geht-Nicht" ("Sie Geht" sounds like "SeaGate"). Translated it means She-Works-Or-She-Does-Not-Work.