Bits&Terminal Jeff

@jf_718@oldbytes.space
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#Queens Early Gen-X nerd ❤️ 🇹🇼☕🐱. Online since 1992. He/him. Bi/ace🏳️‍🌈:bisexual: :asexual:. White lapsed Catholic/Immigrant/ESL/Citizen. Not nice but tries to be kind.

Notes: kindness not extended to bigots. Someone from a marginalized group can be a bigot too. Reverse racism isn't a thing, so fellow white people please don't ever whine about it.

General account is @jf_718 but here for #retroComputing stuff.

AKA@jf_718

LibreWolf @librewolf

#LibreWolf v146.0.1-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/146.0.1-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

Notable Changes:

AI Link Preview functionality (which was already non-functional) is now more thoroughly disabled and hidden.

LibreWolf is now built with `--enable-replace-malloc`, so manually replacing memalloc (with, for example, `hardened_malloc`, via `) is now possible.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/146.0.1/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

Cookie monster!

The recapping and most of the cleaning of the Fujitsu FM Towns II UG20 is complete. Let's see if we can figure out how to put this thing back together and hopefully see what happens when we give it electricity. Saturday noon EST. https://youtube.com/live/2hrAfl9FcrU?feature=share
I have successfully fixed my #AppleIIc 's IWM - a few weeks ago, I toasted it, probably by hot-(un)plugging something by mistake. It then considered every floppy in both drives to be read-only, which was Not Good. Today I received a for-parts donor Mac SE, which has the same chip, and proceeded with the surgery. But wait, there's more.
🧵 #RetroComputing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

Surprise: I'm supportive of queer folks.

If you don't like it, hit the bricks.

J'ai reçu le moniteur #philips noir et ambre que j'avais commandé, l'affichage est superbe, mais ça je le savais car j'ai déjà exactement le même 😁
Je l'ai testé avec un #Apple2c mais je le destine surtout à être un écran de secours pour mon Tavernier 6809 , car ce serait dommage de l'utiliser avec autre chose que cet écran !
#retrocomputing #crt

La présence d'handicapé-es dans l'espace public n'est pas un appel à l'aide.
Notre simple existence en ta présence n'est pas une demande d'aide.

(Edit : j'ai mis tout en bas une version imprimable du dépliant, va voir, et si t'es valide je t'incite fortement à l'imprimer et à diffuser (si t'es handi tu fais comme tu veux et peux))

Wirth's law, software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.

And yes, because Mozilla is our only ally to preserve open web standards, it’s very likely they’ll focus on trying to attract new users rather than pleasing their core community. Expect more AI and fewer nerd treats.

Pick a Firefox fork il you like (I’m really happy with Zen) — just keep in mind none of these forks will survive a month if Mozilla had to stop working on Firefox. I guess we’re in a “keep calm and carry on” phase.

Since a bunch of people have joined here to learn about Seequa, here’s a fun fact! You can actually change the color palettes of the CGA on the Chameleon! Here is Alley Cat running with my “American” CGA color palette!
#seequa #seequachameleon #retrocomputing