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1. Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:10 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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   • Hans Hübner

   Many thanks to @hanshuebner

   #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:11 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     CommonLisp was used for the server part of the reconstruction.

     https://btx.vaxbusters.org/
     (home page of the CCC in 1987)

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:12 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     "I wanted to bring the official specification of Bildschirmtext to show you but I couldn't, it's too heavy."

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:13 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     SVG picture of the keyboard produced from the XML description through a XSLT program…

     Font created by taking screenshots of the screen… (ChatGPT gave a good way to do that)

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:14 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Bildschirmtext was invented the same year as the DNS :-)

     It as not a complete terminal, it required a TV screen. Network capacity was asymmetrical (you were a consumer, not a producer)

     Content creators needed to use a special keyboard.

     Software was not free and seems lost.

     The speaker started with a XML description of the keyboard.("If you don't know XML, it's a bit like JSON")

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:15 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     "Bildschirmtext - Reeenacting an ancient communication system using Javascript and Common Lisp" by Hans Hübner
     (for the French people: Bildschirmtext ~= MInitel)

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:16 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     "This [decoding] program is very important if you want to play Dragon Quest in japanese."

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:17 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     In a very retrocomputing style, we start with a talk about breaking passwords typed in a japanese script in an old video game.

     (With Rust)

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:18 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Another interesting project: Genode. I was not even aware of it, despite its age. (The great thing about #FOSDEM is that you discover that you know nothing, #JohnSnow.)

     Genode is a kernel written from scratch, which can run Linux drivers in headspace (to support a lot of hardware) and run unmodified applications with limited privileges (for instance a Firefox without write access to storage).

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:19 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     And we agreed to rant against NIS 2 and its bureaucratic approach to security.

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:20 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Very interesting chat with the people of QubesOS. (I was not aware of what happened with this project after Joanna Rutkowska left).
     I like the fact they emphasizes "reasonable security" ("perfect security is when the computer is turned off"), security which still allows people to do stuff with computers.
     And they also pay a lot of attention to #UX (a security product without concern for UX won'be used).

     #FOSDEM

   • Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Monday, 03-Feb-2025 06:14:21 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

     Good morning, Brussels! Second day of #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/

     Today, retrocomputing for me.