Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw

#retrocomputing

waiting 15 months for a payday is hard work - I get antsy after a month or so waiting for payment for services rendered… #security

https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115565995302720207

ref https://pnqk.me/bdkvqo

Arr be Catching me an episode of One Piece as it’s #talklikeapirateday #internationaltalklikeapirateday

I've often wondered how Cory Doctorow can write so much high-quality material in a year, when it can take me all day to write one vaguely-passable blog post. He shared his strategy in In this 2009 article;

https://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

This is […]

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]

“I’ve used them all it did nothing!” is the current loud volume no context exclamation from the far end of the house from the young adult who is #gaming while the rest of us are considering sleep.

later on we learn it’s a “med pack” of some sort. one that is “fscking useless”

I’m sitting with […]

As a fediverse power user, I'd really like to have 2 separate feeds populated by my follows;

* Firehose; anything that someone on the service I use, including me, might find interesting.

* Home; stuff I definitely want to read on a regular basis

Is this an experience anyone else can relate […]

"The architectural view in which search, social, and browsing are distinct is a distraction that does not map to the experienced reality of most people and that is in fact conceptually arbitrary with respect to the tasks that people actually seek to accomplish on the Web. In a sense, we're […]

Stuart Niven, who describes himself as;

"... an experienced urban designer of some 40 years with some detailed knowledge of the Civic Precinct and its original creation 35 years ago ..."

https://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=169731

... believes there's no need to demolish the City to Sea Bridge […]

When there’s no help coming, “thoughts and prayers” is about al that one can offer and do. We are all personally responsible for our lives IMHO - ref https://infosec.exchange/@ArenaCops/114078201349282630 - and yes, I will check https://belief.garden in case I can offer nuance on my position

If you want to see what we’re doing as the largest #apple Users Group in New Zealand - click me a DM for the invite link to #AGM Zoom tonight. #augd via @WelMac on X see https://WelMac.org.nz/join

Wow is Facebook down? Fun times for people.

We too saw and heard the thunder and lightening and heard the sad news of the passing.

#KīngiTūheitia

@[email protected] Hi

@httpjames mastodon doesn’t yet have the “boost” ability or “levels” that makes for awesome times on #noplace. Boost to the moon! 🚀💖

it’s so myspace. i do miss those times.

apparently I want u in my top 🔟 friends on #noplace 🤩

here’s your invite code: YLDQBL https://get.thenoplace.com/TJVBecPqXKb