Eschatology

Looks like I’ll be putting away my Daring Fireball and Accidental Tech Podcast shirts for a while.

I’ve published my Lisa filesystem access tool: https://github.com/eschaton/lisafs It lets you list and extract the files in a Lisa filesystem, with automatic text file conversion.

Hey, remember when structures on fire had to be insured by specific fire companies to actually be protected against just being allowed to burn uncontrollably?

On the SIMH group, Al Kossow and others have been discussing how .tap is a terrible archival container format that also has a bunch of problems for use in emulation and simulation of systems.

In a vintage computing group, someone posted a picture of a terminal in use at a modern bookstore that’s still using the same infrastructure as they have for decades, and someone replied saying that while from a retrocomputing perspective it was cool, as a

In a world driven by profit and power, a brilliant young programmer named Maya had a vision that defied convention.

Nancy Pelosi, a while back, claimed that “America needs a strong Republican Party.”

So yesterday, Thomas Fuchs said on Mastodon: The LLM thing and people believing it will replace people reminds me so much of the “visual programming” hype in the 80s/90s, when companies promised that everyone could write complex applications with a few cl…

We don’t have a movement, but if you neutrally ask Americans their opinions on a variety of topics, a very significant number of us would prefer the far left if we at all thought it was feasible to pursue.

Did Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito commit tax fraud?

I read something tonight about how some telecom lobbies were sending automated “public comments” to regulators as if they were actual individuals represented by the government the regulatory agencies belonged to, and are starting to switch to LLM-generated

Here’s another interesting thing I’ve learned about Clascal and Object Pascal: It went through exactly the same evolution from combining object allocation & initialization to separating them that Objective-C did a decade later!

On January 19, Apple and the Computer History Museum released the source code to the Lisa Office System 7/7 version 3.1, including both the complete Office System application suite and the Lisa operating system.

One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it’s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser.

Web pages should be blazing fast on *25 year old* machines, modulo a little lag from more serious crypto.

jorm: it’s so clear to me that all the bullshit of the past 8 years was stoked so that we’d be too divided to enter this fight I mean, I think everything.

So, the Federation is “fully automated luxury space communism.”

Instead of ballot propositions for bullshit like splitting up the state, California really needs a ballot proposition implementing universal healthcare and seizing the existing health care infrastructure for the people.

Italian author Umberto Eco defined “Ur-Fascism” in an article in the New York Review of Books in June, 1995.

Today is my twelfth anniversary in Developer Tools at Apple!

A couple weeks back, I tweeted the following: Turns out a Raspberry Pi now is about 6 times as fast as a SPARCstation 20 was 20 years ago.

For hacking/prototyping/fun purposes I have a few embedded systems laying around.

Cupertino is at one edge of the Santa Clara Valley, one of the best places on the continent to grow fruit.

I’ve had my car for 10 years, and my odometer rolled over 100,000 miles earlier today.

Mac OS X has a number of concurrency mechanisms, and that increases with Snow Leopard.