A friend, @chloetankahhui has been speaking up against the proposal to enforce age verification at the OS level, and the QRTs to this shows the extent of naivety that a lot of people have.

No one who does hardware security believes that any system is bulletproof, but do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?

Let's dive in. /1

I have been off once again but this time for a very good reason: we got married! Let's get this story from the very start; it was quite a heavy work week and had to leave the next week for a business trip when @lilongueti insisted on celebrating our anniversary with a hike as usual. The whole thing felt pretty forced to me and everything that could go wrong went wrong, but when he started losing hope of having a good time I stood up and tried to turn the situation. For my good luck this change of attitude brought the most beautiful moment I could ever have on either a hike or an anniversary celebration:

Also, this was just an exploration of Finca La Venturosa route to Cerro Catedral, but they offer guided hikes on weekends if anyone is interested.

#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into a given class of retrocomputer today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!

This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.

Minicomputer poll: https://oldbytes.space/@fluidlogic/116026497511100991

32-bit home/personal computer poll: https://oldbytes.space/@fluidlogic/116026605156645610

I felt that Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Office, could use a mascot. So I asked Copilot to design something in the spirit of Clippy.

Let me introduce you to Sloppy, a cheerful slightly gooey assistant with glasses and a headset.

#Microslop