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John Minnihani was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.
the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.
so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:
it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.
Tom StepletonThe Computer History Museum in Mountain View has worked with Apple to secure the release of the source code for the OS and office applications of the #AppleLisa computer.
Arguably, this is the earliest comprehensive #GUI environment for a personal computer, and it was first for sale 40 years ago today. It was written in a whole lot of #Pascal .
You can download it here:
https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-lisa-apples-most-influential-failure/
Meanwhile, on LisaList2, folks are starting to dig in:
Mike WI DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!
✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.
✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.
✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default
✔️ I want the country to own it.
Matthew GreenThis discussion of website security plugins in South Korea is pretty fascinating. Apparently there are a dozen of these things needed to access online banking services, and they install local web servers. https://palant.info/2023/01/02/south-koreas-online-security-dead-end/
nixCraft 🐧Lastpass: Notice of Recent Security Incident https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/ Attackers got access to the vaults and the threat actor may attempt to use brute force to guess your master password and decrypt the copies of vault data they took.
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