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'The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and The War on Some Drugs.' - Jacob Applebaum - Cypherpunks. Original quote is from Timothy C. May
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nintendo1889··on Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
The blinkerlights panel isn't even functional. But still cool looking .

At the computer museum in Alpharetta Georgia, none of the computers are on but the connection machine panel is on.

nintendo1889··on The Birth of Standard Error (2013)
Wow. And now we can run webservers on printers.
nintendo1889··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
meaning BIG THIEVERY
nintendo1889··on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA
The German haplotype already has that. Just hire Germans for creative engineers or Asians for noncreative ones.
nintendo1889··on Razor 1911
Use red light glasses after sundown and use f.lux or iris (anti flicker software).
nintendo1889··on Razor 1911
NFO viewers on GitHub:

https://github.com/model-map/EmpressNfo

https://github.com/syndicodefront/infekt

nfo files were used to describe the release.

Similar to FILE_ID.DIZ files, which were a way to describe a zip file for bbs software to index them.

Another good article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrinkOrDie

nintendo1889··on Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy
Buy bitcoin and forget the debt, if possible. Preach to the next generation do not go to school (public school is marxist-originated gov't propaganda at it's core; if not then why does the law require you to go to school in some areas), do not acquire debt. Learn real skills and trades. Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

I was home schooled until 4th grade. I finished my schoolwork in 2 hours and then played outside and read the encyclopedia the rest of the day.

nintendo1889··on The product manager role is a mistake
So you're saying that the dude fired in 'Office Space' for bringing the specs from customers to engineers was necessary?
nintendo1889··on US intelligence warned of potential for Gaza clash in days before attack
no duh. Why the "presidential alert" days before?

IDGAD about your responses

nintendo1889··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
I adamantly refuse to buy a USB c headset because I'm sure in 2 years there will be a new standard.
nintendo1889··on NeXTSTEP 2.0 Source Code Leak (2021)
NeXTDPS - NeXT display postscript server. NeXTDimension - next dimension rom/kernel code. NeXTMach - NeXT Mach kernel (not sure which version exactly) NeXTSrc - Various NeXT source pieces including Appkit, GNU sources, NetInfo libNeXT, and others. NeXTDSP - NeXT DSP code. Midi libraries, soundkit, and others. NeXTEmacs - NeXT version of GNU emacs. NeXTROM. - NeXT Firmware rom code.
nintendo1889··on NeXTSTEP 2.0 Source Code Leak (2021)
Discussion:

https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4690.0

nintendo1889··on ParkyTowers: Thin Clients Laid Bare
K-Meleon still runs well on older hardware (as well as Opera 12).

The best upgrade for my old x86 hardware seems to be Haiku OS. The browser situation is getting better all the time. As the overall system becomes more stable, even the full-featured non-native QT-based browsers will be more stable as well.

Other thoughts: nextcloud server running a single service (multiple nextcloud services will run like a dog on small hardware).

TinyTinyRSS gateway/server (your own google reader).

Text only usenet caching server via gmane.io and the other servers like sdf.org.

SSH / VPN gateway.

I have the first gen Apple TV and it makes for a great streaming server and networked stereo system.

nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
This is why Risc-V being developed in China and other countries and exported elsewhere is ironically a good thing at the base-level of computing. The chinese computers will require China's bugs, whereas exported good will NOT have it, otherwise it won't be bought.
nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
True but they aren't targetting browsers with user agent switchers.
nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
Buy a pixel and run GrapheneOS. That way google looses money.
nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
Elinks, Lynx, w3m still works.

Heck, you can run Opera, Vivaldi, Firefox, and Chrome 78 on 2000 or XP with a 2023 build of KernelEx.

nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
I use brave, arc, firefox, chrome, and safari. Safari is the best performing. 'tis a shame that other web browsers are unable to use it as their rendering engine.
nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
'The Four Horsemen of the Info-pocalypse: child pornography, terrorism, money laundering, and The War on Some Drugs.' - Jacob Applebaum - Cypherpunks
nintendo1889··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
They are now Msft, they want to own the web.

Thankfully we have brave, Tor, Arc, Opera, GrapheneOS, calyxOS, LineageOS etc....

If you purchase a pixel phone, and put graphene OS onto it Google loses money.

nintendo1889··on Intranet: Lightning powered VPN for anonymising Bitcoin and Lightning traffic
There is no incentive for anyone to run nodes on the network, and worse, the most common use case is tunneling back out of the network to anonymize location, is largely abused and led to a lot of automated block systems arising on many internet services to prevent this abuse.
nintendo1889··on Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research
Well I guess they better start living in tents, prepping, learning survival skills, and buying bitcoin! No, I am not joking: https://archive.is/ifiOt
nintendo1889··on NeXTSTEP Source Code
no one else posted it afaik
nintendo1889··on NeXTSTEP Source Code
It appears to be NextSTEP 2.0.

  NeXTDPS   - NeXT display postscript server.

  NeXTDimension - next dimension rom/kernel code.

  NeXTMach  - NeXT Mach kernel (not sure which version exactly)   

  NeXTSrc   - Various NeXT source pieces including Appkit, GNU sources, NetInfo libNeXT, and others.

  NeXTDSP   - NeXT DSP code. Midi libraries, soundkit, and others.

  NeXTEmacs - NeXT version of GNU emacs.

  NeXTROM.  - NeXT Firmware rom code.
nintendo1889··on NeXTSTEP Source Code
Various modules are under Jeffrey Johnson's Github:

https://github.com/johnsonjh

nintendo1889··on Are emergent abilities of large language models a mirage?
replying to your old message [1]. The openqnx monartis source code is on github:

https://github.com/vocho/openqnx

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26255095

nintendo1889··on Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen
Bitcoin will be the poor man's inflation hedge. Eventually others will wake up- see bhutan quietly mining it, and even family and private wealth offices (traditionally very conservative investors) are buying it.
nintendo1889··on Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen
Which is why we transfer small amounts to the wasabi hot-wallet, coinjoin, and then spend. Each spend is then joined with another spend to obfuscate every purchase.

It requires careful budgeting for future purchases (as the coin-join takes time).

Trezor now has experimental support for directly coin-joining bitcoin that is stored on the cold-wallet, but I don't think anyone should trust it.

nintendo1889··on How the blog broke the web (2017)
What do you think about trump 'selling secrets', in the light of the recent story of Sergey Shestakov and Charles McGonigal?

Again, I don't like taking sides. Just searching for absolute truth. We will never get there, but we can try.

ref to your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34019912

nintendo1889··on Lisa Source Code Release
The A/UX 0.7 source code has been floating around for awhile. If you search emule for 'various operating system source', you will find it in a (700 mb, I think) archive that also has NextStep, SunOS, Ultrix, and some other sources.
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