oh right. today's the day

i have now never had a computer running a version of windows that is currently supported

3:46 PM: Fare inspectors on 33 headed Inbound from 18th St & Church St

My PowerMac 8500 battle station still runs like a champ! Originally 120 MHz PPC 604 upgraded to 500 MHz G3 with 704 MB RAM. I used this machine all the way through Mac OS 9.1 and even installed an early version of Mac OS X on it for some time.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

Tips for using memory efficiently

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/tips-using-memory-efficiently

This is a brief guide (8 pages; International edition) on using memory efficiently under System 7. Part number: Z030-0661-A.

#macgarden #macinfoliterature #1991 #apple

Getting Started With TrueType

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/getting-started-truetype

A beginner's guide to TrueType, International, part number Z031-0099-A. applepc.org suggests that this came with the StyleWriter Accessories Pack, but it didn't come with mine, and isn't on the

#macgarden #macinfoliterature #apple

Macintosh Quick Reference Card

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macintosh-quick-reference-card

A quick reference card to keyboard shortcuts in System 6.0.x from 1988. Unsure what this would have come with, or precisely which OS version this refers to (if only one). Part number: Z031-0156-A

#macgarden #macinfoliterature #1988 #apple

Set up your Macintosh SE/30

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/set-your-macintosh-se30

The "Read Me First" kind of setup guide for the Macintosh SE/30, International edition. Part number Z030-3356-B.

#macgarden #macinfoliterature #apple

For those following along with the Framework shenanigans, the CEO has posted a response:

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/1609

The new SNCB art style for tickets is catgirl inclusive!

year 201x: linux sucks, it can't do a whole bunch of things windows and macos can

year 202x: linux rocks, it doesn't do a whole bunch of things windows and macos do

#linux

Here, I fixed that Mastodon meme. That's most of my bookmarks...

This is insane! A few researchers from UCSD and UMCP scanned bunch of satellite links, found much of the traffic is not encrypted, and went on to decode them. It's amazing what came out.

- T-Mobile backhaul: Users' SMS, voice call contents and internet traffic content in plain text.
- AT&T Mexico cellular backhaul: Raw user internet traffic
- TelMex VOIP on satellite backhaul: Plaintext voice calls
- U.S. military: SIP traffic exposing ship names
- Mexico government and military: Unencrypted intra-government traffic
- Walmart Mexico: Unencrypted corporate emails, plaintext credentials to inventory management systems, inventory records transferred and updated using FTP

While it is important to work on futuristic threats such as Quantum cryptanalysis, backdoors in standardized cryptographic protocols, etc. - the unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of real-world attacks happen because basic protection is not enabled. Lets not take our eyes off the basics.

Great work, Wenyi Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin, Nadia Heninger and Aaron Schulman!

https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.

You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.

Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.

I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).

Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.

https://wellness-p.ing

I will say it again:

ICE agents constantly screaming profanity at citizens is a problem.

I swear all the time, but I don’t swear at patients. I have violent, angry people assault me and my staff frequently. I don’t say “Get the fuck back”. I say “We need to keep this safe, I need you to step back”, or “Step back now!”.

Using profanity as a cop in a high-stakes professional interaction is a sign of poor training, poor accountability, and poor self control.