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Bad culture fit

Doh! That's a better link :)

It's certainly rewarding and interesting to design the hardware and then write the software in Assembly, and helps understand how simple operating systems work.

For those who want to build a new system around the 65C02 there's plenty of information to get you started here: http://wilsonminesco.com/6502primer/potpourri.html

A bunch of people are still building new systems with modern twists, fixing old ones and writing software. forum.6502.org has been an invaluable resource for me building my own machine

I guess even in California rich privileged people like class seperation

The kinda critical thinking that makes them think working for China to throw people in deathcamps is good but working with the US government is bad?

I am typing this from an iPad Air 2 (A1567) running iOS 13

Just about all public road systems are subsidised but are public transport systems?. This will work better in cities with cheap/free public transport

Before Bootcamp was a thing the community developed XOM to boot XP on Intel macs (which at the time lacked the legacy bios in it's ROM) so it should be possible

I'm not having much luck finding very much information on it though

I still have no idea why people voted them in again, Everything they do can be found to benefit the developers (like selling waterfront property in Woy Woy for only $40k to a developer, selling the land the powerhouse museum is on to developers, rail corridors etc)

It's pretty depressing

Sorry for the extremely late reply, but you can test using http://its-netzwerk.com/bscatter/

Alternatively attempt to send a message to a nonexistent address on your MTA using telnet which should throw an error after "RCPT TO" if the server is configured correctly Steps to test SMTP via telnet: https://my.esecuredata.com/index.php?/knowledgebase/article/...

Some IDS systems do it for you I was using Darktrace at my last job and it would tell us when servers started querying domains they don't usually query so there are products that do it

I'm guessing backscatterer.org

The fix is to configure your MTA so that it doesn't send backscatter

If you read the article you'll find they were fired for stalking and harrassment (if Google is to be believed)

Some mail systems can tell you if a user is valid or not during the initial connection while some forward to another mail system or delivery process and therefore cannot tell your MX during their conversation that the recipient is invalid.

The downstream MX could be configured to then send an NDR email itself but this lands you on spam lists as "backscattering" will then send spam back to whoever owns the email address the spammer is spoofing so it's generally not done.

Yeah, I suddenly woke up with tinnitus a few months ago and while I can ignore it most of the time there are days where it's louder with a constantly changing pitch and it drives me insane

Unfortunately our government is very anti-technology and would like for all Australians to grow up to be coal miners instead of building a tech based economy.

Amiga HD floppy drives spun at 150RPM rather than the usual 300 from my understanding because the chipset couldn't handle a higher bitrate whereas on a PC the FDC switches between 250/500Kbit/s modes so I wonder if a pc controller could indeed read an Amiga HD floppy at all or if there are other differences?

Yeah, I've got a gotek for my A500 but I like to take on stupid useless projects, like a uC that does nothing except spit out sector headers lol

That's a really cool hack, I wonder if it would work on 82077AA or compatibles? I might give that a try later this month after I resurrect my A500

Presumably it should be possible to create a simple drive emulator to spit out that sector/track header without needing an actual disk. Not sure if I'm smart enough to tackle that but it's worth a try!

I'm already working on a 6502 System at the moment that has an 82077AA compatible FDC and can read PC Formatted floppies so it should be relatively easy for me to tool around with this hack.

Will this will make people less likely to use Python in future for some projects? I'm no developer or manager but I figure there'd be a thought in the back of my head thinking "what if we need to rewrite this all again for the next major release"

That's a good point!, it has to be for another reason.

Interested to hear what it's for

I'm guessing it's to protect against MITM of the USB interface

BankID is really nice, I think when I move back to Aus I will feel like I've gone back in time.

I don't know about Canada but I feel like if you tried to implement this in Australia there'd be a lot of paranoia over a system like BankID with regards to privacy or gatekeeping

Yeah "it will happen anyway" misses the point that curl will notify you of the failed download before you run it, whereas piping it to sh will immediately run it

I mean it's unlikely but imagine it did happen and something in the script like "rm -rf /some/path" gets truncated to "rm -rf /" & immediately run

Even if your connection is TLS secured an MITM attack of causing a connection reset after X bytes could be a viable attack

I disagree with some of this, I.e paste jacking.

Plenty of software projects put more care and focus into their software and not in their website, if you're running a vulnerable version of Wordpress or whatever CMS it'd be easy for someone to insert something malicious without being noticed whereas something that modified your code would show up in git, code reviews etc

It's done while shouting about "post-meritocracy" too which makes me think it's a selfish way for unskilled people to insert themselves into projects and make claims about being contributors

Ah okay, yeah I think I'll get citizenship somewhere else

As an Aussie living & working overseas I'm still not sure if it applies to me and makes me a liability? I know they can't enforce it unless I go home but I will someday

I'd play it! One of my favourite mods for Minecraft ages ago was Redpower2 which included 6502 computers you could program to interact with the world via peripherals which was neat