Month: January 2024

I have been on the road so it’s a short week.  The links are more cheery, though.

• Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens.
• The Rise of POMG, Part 1: It Takes a Village…
• The Dobbstown Mirror.  I subscribe; it’s a treat in the mail
• Ship of Theseus on Wikipedia is a Ship of Theseus.  (via)
• Crusty, the Indestructible Mac.  (via)
• Reboi, I suppose the 2020s version of a MAME Cabinet.
• The Book 8088.  I almost think it’s a prank?
• Inside .git.  (via)

 

I’ve got some real gems this week.

• MULTIPLY – A BOOK ABOUT CALCULATORS.  Discussion of the open source tools used to process it.  (via)
• diagram.website, or An Internet Map.  Lots of links there.  (via)
• Googling symptoms of the flu.
• Sorry but I can’t generate a response to that request.  AI, a customizable spam tool.  (via)
• What was ISDN?  Analog lines completely going away makes me nervous.
• The biggest problem with selling print books is the software.  A nice Print on Demand summary in there.
• ou sont les blogs d’antan?  Lots of links to other esoteric blogs in there.  (via)
• Fast NetBSD booting, which led me to smolBSD.
• DSA removal from SSH.  Matters most if you are running an very outdated system.
• Modern Commodore 64 motherboards.
• Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics.  Applies to DragonFly too.
• Hardening an OpenBSD Workstation.

Your unrelated extended music of the week: Bill Laswell featuring DJ Rob Swift – Reanimation.  Which of course reminds me that Rob Gets Busy.  If you like that, here’s a crazy amount of beat juggling, at its best when it creates new music and rhythms.  (via)

Mini-theme is about building the Internet without platforms, or at least without ones designed to extract revenue from you.

• Please, Own Your RSS Links.
• “I’m ChatGPT.”
• Vintage Calculator Designs, 1968-1983.
• Why do I know shell, and how can you?
• Banner Depot 2000.  (via)
• Damaged Earth Catalog.  More links.  (also via)
• Multiplayer Mandelbrot.
• Barely Minimum.
• TeX == blech.
• Standard Ebooks and classic web tech.  (via)
• Floppy Disk Fever.

Your difficult music link of the week: There Will Never Be Another Harry Partch.