jcs

joel, 5 hours ago to random

Hi @jcs , I was reading https://jcs.org/2021/07/19/desktop again at wondered if you ever measured the power consumption of this setup?

jcs, 2 days ago to random

why

paulrickards, 7 days ago to random

Noticing a lot of eBay descriptions clearly written by AI lately. Like a 4th grader trying to boost the word count of an essay with sum-zero phrases.

I’ve not sold on eBay in years so I’m curious to know if they’ve added an AI description service for sellers or are sellers getting them from an external service?

nulleric, 13 days ago to random

One more Google service removed from my life, Google Fi - insanely difficult to port out my number, but done now.

Three left:

Google Music - kids listen to it a lot, but getting them hooked on Plex amp

Gmail - in progress of moving to Proton

Photos - will be the hardest because it's still the best UX out of any manager

Google's completely lost any appeal.

jcs, 16 days ago to random

when you keep typing your sudo password wrong

jcs, 22 days ago to random

jcs, 28 days ago to random

Whoa, these old PowerBooks have Wi-Fi!

jcs, 1 month ago to random

hi past me

rsc, 1 month ago to random

Does pcre want a maintainer? 😈

jcs, 1 month ago to random

Many of my projects seem to end right at the point where I have to design a PCB and then I give up. I need a Tinkercad for lazy PCB making.

jcs, 1 month ago to random

Maybe instead of replacing everything with Rust, we can start by not relying on 25,000-line autoconf shell scripts

TechByAndroda, 1 month ago to random

The Mac Portable VGA Out board V1 is done:
https://androda.work/product/vga-adapter-for-macintosh-portable/

The listing is up but there's very minimal stock available from the fist test run. Will get another production run going soon.

#marchintosh #marchintosh2024 #macintoshportable #macportable

jcs, 1 month ago to random

🤔

jcs, 1 month ago to random

Supposedly a non-root RCE in OpenBSD up to 7.4, appears to require NFSd running though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_JOkHaCdzk

netbsd, 1 month ago to random

I usually try to keep you informed about interesting commits that are happening, but we're all clenching for NetBSD 10 right now...

Regardless, nat committed a new audio driver...

... for Motorola 68000 Macintoshes. enjoy!

christianselig, 2 months ago to random

Right outside the warranty period my beloved mouse started needing you to click really hard for it to function ;_;

Comfy mouse though, will probably rebuy

qwertyoruiop, 2 months ago to random

#MARCHintosh RCE challenge contest: whoever gets code execution on my Macintosh LC 475 running Mac OS 8.1 on the public internet at 185.218.227.18 wins $350 over PayPal

jcs, 2 months ago to random

I wonder if there's a "sovereign citizen" group of wackos that try to ignore daylight saving time and show up to everything an hour late

Like they get a ticket for driving without a license plate because they don't believe in them, then they show up to court an hour late and get arrested yelling at the judge that the government doesn't have the right to control time

jcs, 2 months ago to random

there are dozens of us!

jcs, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

There's a large cache of in-box (much of it unopened) classic Mac software being sold on eBay recently:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ssn=chopinpiano745&store_name=xtraordinaryemporium&_oac=1&_sop=10

nick, 2 months ago to random

@jcs Random question of the day for you: I see in your X1 Nano you upgraded to a SanDisk WD PC SN740 which I think is the shorter 2230 NVMe card. Any problems or does it stay snug under the copper heatsink?

jcs, 2 months ago to random

"We've put the keyboard to the back of the unit, placed the trackball here in the center, which left this area which we call a palm rest"

from https://social.jcs.org/@compchron/111653683399618214

Video of an Apple representative on Computer Chronicles debuting the PowerBook 100, 140, and 170, and explaining why the keyboard is toward the back of the unit as all of them are these days

jcs, 2 months ago to random

I wonder if companies ever intentionally put spammy things in their "Updates to our Privacy Policy and User Agreement" e-mails to make sure they land in most users' spam folders, avoiding user scrutiny and complaints while providing legal cover that users were technically notified

jcs, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

For any pentesters out there, I came across this wacky MIME syntax for an e-mail attachment in RFC 2231 that is properly parsed by iOS Mail and other things, but I'm curious if it can make a .exe attachment pass through an e-mail scanning appliance:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename0="a.txt";
filename1=".ex";
filename*2="e";

Which is to be properly decoded as:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="a.txt.exe"

Section 4.1 says this encoded syntax is also legal:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename*=us-ascii'en-us'a.txt%00%2E%65%78%65

iOS Mail displays it as "a.txt<?>.exe" and can't seem to download it. Mutt and FastMail's web interface stop at the null byte and just show "a.txt".

jcs, 2 months ago to random

computer