How useful are portable battery power stations for the home?
Similar to mains power you can take with you, and able to be topped up by solar, battery stations are a new option when it comes to camping power or household back-up. ⌘ Read more
https://helderman.github.io/htpataic/htpataic01.html How to program a text adventure in #C
Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had wha … ⌘ Read more
The return of the tilde
As some of you may have noticed my web page is now under /~mc instead
of just /mc. This is a return to olden times.
The Apache web server, and probably many other web servers, had a
simple way of adding personal web pages for local users. This meant
that an URL ending with ~mc led directly to a subdirectory of user
mc’s home directory. Whatever they put in that directory was
immediately available on the Intertubes! Neat, huh?
We need to bring this back to the modern net! Many tilde pubnixe … ⌘ Read more
Computers in school
IntroductionA version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-23
(Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
16(?) computers with co … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pilogy, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/26/pilogy-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/21 to 04/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/25/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Another war story: the hardest bug I ever debugged
I recently stumbled on Jacob Voytko’s Google Docs bug story and it reminded me of the weirdest bug I ever chased.
It started with a user reporting their webcam was rotated by 90° — but only sometimes. This turned into a wild hunt across browsers, OS quirks, WebRTC, and even HTTP redirects.
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(#gwglesq) @lyse mooooo, mooooooooo, moooooooooooo! Those cows are not facing the same direction, they are rebels!
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org haha, not satire. It is also in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” as well:
“If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?”
“The whole fifteen, mum.”
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Rightful Heir https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/24/rightful-heir.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「Ivanti Connect Secureに設置されたマルウェアDslogdRAT」 ⌘ Read more
The Nintendo Switch 2 is $700, are video games getting more expensive?
High-end games and systems are more popular than ever, but what about their price tags? ⌘ Read more
Saw someone else posting this and, yep, it’s true:
This is something for @movq@www.uninformativ.de and old OS hobbyists alike: FreeDOS 1.4! Get it while it’s hot!
Blizzard developers reflect on 30 years of Warcraft
Blizzard game developers Darren Williams and Ely Cannon sit down with 9News.com.au to reflect on 30 years of Warcraft. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Grounation Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/21/grounation.html #programming #project #devjournal
“The Tree”™ in last winter:
Now it’s getting greener:
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Secrets in the Static https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/19/secrets-static.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/14 to 04/18 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/18/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
i feel so powerful i wrote a 3 line script that takes an inputted markdown filename from the current working directory and then spits out a nicely formatted html page. pandoc does all the work i did nothing
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Suspicions https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/17/suspicions.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
jenny really isn’t well equipped to handle edits of my own twts.
For example, in 2021, this change got introduced:
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/6b5b25a542c2dd46c002ec5a422137275febc5a1.html
This means that jenny will always ignore my own edits unless I also manually edit its internal “json database”. Annoying.
That change was requested by a user who had the habit of deleting twts or moving them to another mailbox or something. I think that person is long gone and I might revert that change. 🤔
@david@collantes.us @andros@twtxt.andros.dev The correct hash would be si4er3q. See https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html, a timezone offset of +00:00 or -00:00 must be replaced by Z.
(That said, there’s a bug in jenny as well. It only replaces +00:00, not -00:00. 🤡)
お知らせ：インシデント報告Webフォームメンテナンス（2025/04/17）終了のお知らせ ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：CyberNewsFlash「AiCloudが稼働するASUS製WiFiルーターからの通信の観測」 ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：ソフトウェア等の脆弱性関連情報に関する届出状況［2025年第1四半期（1月～3月）］ ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC 活動四半期レポート［2025年1月1日～2025年3月31日］ ⌘ Read more
お知らせ：JPCERT/CC インシデント報告対応レポート［2025年1月1日～2025年3月31日］ ⌘ Read more
CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Article URL: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3963190/cve-program-faces-swift-end-after-dhs-fails-to-renew-contract-leaving-security-flaw-tracking-in-limbo.html
Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/ite … ⌘ Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me This is one of my concerns too. The moment you post publicly ciphertext, you open yourself up for future attacks on the ciphertext, which you really want to avoid if you can. If you have a read of the Salty.im Spec you’ll note we went to great lengths to protect the user’s privacy as well as their identity and make it incredibly hard to guess at inboxes. It’s still a WIP, but I’d love to see it progressed even further – I truly feel strongly about a purely decentralised messaging ecosystem 👌
(#2zhuzoa) @eapl.me@eapl.me This is one of my concerns too. The moment you post publicly ciphertext, you open yourself up for future attacks on …
@eapl.me @eapl.me This is one of my concerns too. The moment you post publicly ciphertext, you open yourself up for future attacks on the ciphertext, which you really want to avoid if you can. If you have a read of the Salty.im Spec you’ll note we went to great lengths to protect the user’s … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Pohela Boishakh https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/14/pohela-boishakh.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nose Ears, part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/12/nose-ears-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
There’s one way you can make your super more secure
Super funds are attractive targets for hackers, and recent attacks on funds have put the sector’s security practices under the microscope. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/07 to 04/11 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/11/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Introducing NEO Gamma - Another Step Closer to Home
NEO Gamma is the next generation of home humanoids designed and engineered by 1X Technologies. Source: 1X ⌘ Read more
New Elder Scrolls Online expansion unveiled
The next big expansion for the long running Elder Scrolls Online video game has been unveiled. A decade on, players will be able to continue the original storyline in Seasons of the Worm Cult. Coming to PC and consoles in June. ⌘ Read more