Notices by r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk?? (cypnk)

Great bit of hacking:
"Bug Report D20"

Basically, a 20 sided dice to resolve all your bug support issues by Chris Fritz

https://cdpn.io/chrisvfritz/fullpage/BxXyEJ

Social media and services reimagined as hardware devices

#ConceptArt by Sheng Lam

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/zADNeZ
#Art

Actual New Year Resolution:
Stop doing more of this

5:55AM. #Naptime

Right now, Voice and Gmail are the only two Google products that I have to rely on. But it's time I moved those out as well

It's going to be a challenge
And it needs to be done

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/google-is-losing-users-trust.html

TIL In 1975, the women of Iceland went on strike

Like completely

As in not paid work, house work, child-rearing, or anything else expected of women at the time. Most schools closed. Bank execs ended up working teller positions. Flights got cancelled because flight attendants didn't show up

The country basically shut down for a day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women%27s_strike

Bookface got compromised

50 Million users may have gotten their personal info leaked (excluding those which FB is already selling)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-data-breach.html

Some days, you hear loud music from a car a long way

Other days, you hear an eerie nursery rhyme that keeps you up at night

This took quite the unexpected turn

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nursery-rhyme-late-night-mystery-loudspeaker-ipswich-alarm-spiders-a8541746.html

I'm sick of computers

Anyone wanna hire me as their personal woodsman? I'm good at starting a fire (even in the soaking rain), campfire cooking, building a shelter out of leaves and sticks, rudimentary carpentry, and identifying some edible mushrooms

These are superb renders (yes renders!) of a Commodore 64 with inside out parts by Cem Tezcan

The whole set is really amazing in the level of detail. The blueprints are amazing too

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PL6Pn

#RetroHardware #Art

When I woke up today, I told myself “self, what you need today is to run Windows 2000 emulated in #JavaScript”

Well, here it is in WebAssembly

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=https://bellard.org/jslinux/win2k.cfg&mem=192&graphic=1&w=1024&h=768

Oh good, there’s a word for it

I just came across this Motorola MDT-9100T (a gorgeous machine in its own right) hacked by @qrs into working, among other things, as a Fallout-style terminal. Now that's #HardwareHacking done right!

The core is now a BeagleBone Black. This is superb work and totally my aesthetic

https://trmm.net/MDT9100

#RetroHardware

Reminder: There are other ways to host a code repository than Git

Some folks like Fossil to self-host, which is also what the SQLite project uses internally
https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

There's Darcs, which has a unique set of features I think some folks will enjoy
http://darcs.net/Features

Old-school SVN and CVS aren't dead either

Point is, you have many other options
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_version_control_software

@bobstechsite That’s a great observation and I think it’s completely true. It seems the current trend is to turn every connected personal computer into a “fat client”

TIL There are a bunch of characters in Unicode for Japanese that are actually meaningless

They were mistakes created during the transcribing process (for various reasons) and now they're in the standard and on countless systems across the planet

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

2020 - We must adopt #serverless to solve all problems with kubernetes

Chrome/Chromium's private browsing is definitely broken

If a site can tell you're browsing incognito, then it's completely failed to prevent data leakage

I'd very much like to know how these sites accomplish this privacy violation

#Privacy

Oh good

“Compromised #JavaScript Package Caught Stealing npm Credentials”

Once again, #npm delivers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/compromised-javascript-package-caught-stealing-npm-credentials/

When I look at Slack Engineering’s flowchart on whether to send notifications or not (and cutting back on its gargantuan memory usage), I can’t help but wonder whether any of this should have been built on top of XMPP somehow and written in a language other than JavaScript

It seems a lot of software is a never-ending cycle of finding solutions to problems that shouldn’t exist

Or were largely solved a decade ago

https://slack.engineering/reducing-slacks-memory-footprint-4480fec7e8eb