Notices by Jason Scott (textfiles@digipres.club)

@foone because 1. This is the backlog since the services were cut off from the network to do a security sweep and 2. There have been review spammers and I've been running custom scripts to deal with it while we fixed up solutions but I'm not able to do so currently.

Mozilla Apologists:

I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5587

I'm looking to hustle a bit for April - if you're looking for a dynamic (paid) speaker for a remote (or in-person?) event, ping me at talks@textfiles.com.

Every time I hear about another group trying to reverse engineer a now dead or killed Nintendo infrastructure system, I want to ask them to remember to take a selfie with the judge for me

Hey, people. Foone Turing (the "I go way too deep into computer investigations of vintage tech" person) has indicated they're officially laid off, and running out of money while trying to find a new job. If you have a job, hit them up. Otherwise, please throw some dollars:

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

Tom Hall, John Romero, David Craddock: Classic streamer backgrounds

John Carmack: I live in the backrooms

@foone Nessus was such a dick for telling the Kzinti about the eugenics program his species was reigning on them

Folks, I can't take this on. If you want to take it on, I'll give advice.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/zip/d/san-francisco-vhs-tapes/7707937218.html

Andy Baio places Ello (RIP) on the table and does a dissection that leaves not a single hypocrisy, lie, overstatement, and fake promise untouched.

https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

For over 15 years, I've been maintaining a near-comprehensive collection and overview of all the BBS Software that was ever released. New versions and items come in occasionally, and the addition of a few more recently made me remember it.

(F15SIM came by and fixed up the whole thing recently, too.)

If you're sitting on BBS software, or want to, visit it:

http://bbsdocumentary.com/software/

It's pretty amazing there are prototypes.

"OK, here's every Frogger PSX Prototype"

no, wait, I don't need every

"Here you go"

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https://archive.org/details/frogger-psx-prototypes

"So, You Searched Reddit To Figure Out Why Your Internet Archive Emulated Item Didn't Work."

https://www.reddit.com/r/internetarchive/comments/16sbiuq/so_you_searched_reddit_to_figure_out_why_your/

Reminder that a while ago, I made a Flickr album called STOCK PHOTOS OF THE FUTURE OF THE PAST, a collection of professional images grabbed from stock photo CD-ROMs on the Internet Archive. Truly futuristic past.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/72177720301387492

Are you, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart, the absolutely stupidest person in the world, and have to do taxes?

There's now a complete unvetted anime-themed tax preparation software program on Steam that sucks in all your personal information and hopefully doesn't do what you know full well it will do?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2363850/Tax_Heaven_3000/

What I think when they tell me a large-language model can now be run on a Raspberry Pi

There's paternalistic and then there's Windows 11.

They're giving it away, so I'm making sure it sticks around to give away: The MEGA BOOK Collection, a never-published book about the Mega Drive, by Greyfox books.

https://archive.org/details/mega-book-collection-digital-version-2023-greyfox

Some chef's kiss film leader transferred to a UMATIC tape that I digitized. This was a pile of tapes destined for a discard bin someone bought from a recycler.