Notices by Pixel Doge (aperezdc@oldbytes.space)

@mntmn @thomholwerda @osnews wow, I remember very clearly using Melt on the Pentium 120 that I “inherited” from my father, where I also had a Linux install. It took me some time to figure out how to burn CDs and run X11 in Linux (remember the monolithic XFree86?) so I would routinely boot BeOS to burn CDs :blobcheeky:

I keep thinking of silly ideas to do some tinkering with electronics, just for the sake of having fun. Today's idea: an adapter to use #Amiga mice on #MSX computers. That way one could use one of those newfangled USB “tank” mice in one more retro architecture, while looking period correct. I imagine somebody could have done such an adaptor back in the late 80s of early 90s, possibly using some i8051 microcontroller... Betcha @foone would have liked that, given how their “it's always an i8051” is their equivalent of Dr. House's “it's never lupus” :blobeyes:

People talk about how search engine results have gotten worse lately. Here's a clear example: trying to search how an #Amiga mouse works (protocol, pinouts, etc.) these days results in a few pages of links to sites trying to sell you adaptors, and links to actual documentation are a few pages deep (if at all). It used not to be like this, the #enshittification is real.

I know the information is in the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, which can be read at a few places, e.g. https://archive.org/details/amiga-hardware-reference-manual-3rd-edition/page/327/mode/1up — but what if I didn't know?

@hisham_hm while there are other sites for specific things (like Bitsavers) you make a good point about archive.org — I do trust their ability to keep infrastructure running, though. I would be more worrier about it being headquartered in a country with values and legislation often opposed to the Archive's goals. Also, mixing this with Google's recent Web Environment Integrity proposal makes me think we may see a day where two parallel Internets exist: the corporate one, and the “archived” one. And, oh boy!, do I want to be proven wrong about this thought!

Curious to know what the standards position coming from the @webkit folks will be about the Web Environment Integrity proposal: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/234

If only the fruit company cared enough to reject it, then it would be another browser vendor alongside Mozilla:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#issuecomment-1648820747

Although it's definitely not looking rosy: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/