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oh sure but when i ask the internet to cater to my 8mhz computer by serving markdown when i ask for it, nobody wants to do it

https://jcs.org/2021/01/06/plaintext#a-rant-about-gemini

Post from Ernie Smith:

This seems like a clever solution to the LLMs drowning websites in requests—auto-convert the content to markdown, which is what they’re doing anyway, and just give them the data.A good middle ground for folks who don’t mind their info getting plundered by bots.blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for...

your honor, i did not insult that man's wife and then publish a blog post defaming him, it was my openclaw agent

I saw the title and was like "wait what about the MailStation" but it turned out to be a whole video about the MailStation

I get e-mails about every year or so from someone that discovers them, tries making something useful, and then gives up

Maybe it can be you next!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/

my love language to my wife is "i will setup and monitor your computer's backups"

Post from Dan Nguyen:

VC, founder, dumbass

If I ever become extremely wealthy, I am going to build and live in a life-size replica of the Fisher-Price house, including a giant blue handle on the roof and a doorbell switch that is roughly 3 feet tall

any of my mac friends want a g7287 superdrive for repair?

it gets many read errors in applesauce and has a faulty auto-eject mechanism

ok i see here for the question "why are you removing this device from your z-wave network" you wrote "it exploded"

the ps/2 clock line has been restored, the dolch's keyboard lives on

"Blocking technology required: No 3D printer can be sold or delivered in New York unless it’s “equipped with blocking technology” that evaluates every print file against a firearms blueprint detection algorithm and prevents printing if flagged."

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/

computer

This carbon monoxide detector beeped and now shows "End"

It has ample battery but it decided its productive life of 10 years has been lived and it knows it can no longer function and must be discarded

I don't know why but it made me sad, like watching the Terminator descend into that steel vat

👍

Wallops 2.2 is out today:

https://jcs.org/wallops

It can now send @pushover.net notifications when you are mentioned and a screen saver is running

maybe someone could write a touch id duress utility (like https://github.com/jcs/login_duress). if you scan your middle finger instead of your usual index finger, it runs an action like powering the machine off or requiring a password

i wonder what metrics could be used by a utility app to disable touch ID in a situation like this, like how iPhones disable face ID if the face scanned looks very different

coming out of suspend with no home wi-fi signal in range? a long delay between waking up and a finger being scanned?

Post from Runa Sandvik:

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

bad news team, we have some savage cum errors

i ask again, wtf is this ui

I got flashrom on OpenBSD working with a USB ch341a programmer:

nano:~$ doas flashrom -p ch341a_spi -v goose
flashrom v1.6.0 on OpenBSD 7.8 (amd64)
[..]
Found Unknown flash chip "SFDP-capable chip" (16384 kB, SPI) on ch341a_spi.
Verifying flash... VERIFIED.

good morning