Notes

Version 1.3 of my BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory is available today

This version brings internationalization support and some bug fixes

https://jcs.org/bluescsi

I committed to not buying anything from Amazon this year, so I've been using local stores and eBay

The cheapest I could find a certain part on eBay was $25 but Amazon had it for $18

It cost more and I'd wait longer, but I bought it on eBay

...

The seller just drop-shipped it to me from Amazon

microSD
to SD
to CompactFlash
to ExpressCard
to Thunderbolt 2
to Thunderbolt 3

advertise your account with one Simpsons image

To this day I can't hear a smoke detector go off without thinking of @bradfitz.com's Nest video

Touchscreen pokins

System 6 on the @pimoroni.com Presto? 🤔

RP2350, 8MB PSRAM, 480x480 touchscreen, microSD, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth in a nice aluminum stand

the car's on fire
and there's [a] driver at the wheel

prepping kids for the future

Hey Wallops got a mention

Post from Retrocomputing Roundtable:

RCR Episode #279: A spree de Calc. In 1979, VisiCalc’s rampage began, and models 400, 800 (Atari), II (TRS-80), and 4 (TI 99) arrived. Also, Unicode news, more found lost Warhol art, Model 100 games, and the loneliness of Intellivision. rcrpodcast.com/2024/12/27/r...

I've seen WarGames like a hundred times and I never realized until today that this guy was Mr. Blonde

Here's the raw e-mail if anyone wants to see how it travels:

https://envs.sh/7_2.txt

Also, 24 kilobytes of header text is pretty ridiculous.

They can change the forwarding address at Gmail/Outlook fast enough that for every e-mail that comes in, they just forward the last hop to a new victim.

Seems easy to stop, just rate-limit forwarding address changes at Gmail/Outlook. Or require validation from the address being forwarded to?