A team of archivists have recreated the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) website from just before it was purged by US President Donald Trump, hosting it in Europe!
Ahh ... the good old days when one use Telix with these modems. :D https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/why-56k-modems-relied-on-digital-phone-lines-you-didnt-know-we-had/
CRTs are particle accelerators built for videogames. I need you to understand this!!!
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Let me give you another peek into the everyday work of the #curl security team. A reported UAF we deem not a security problem:
When a newcomer shows up at a maker meetup, some come in with the attitude "I have this idea but I don't know how to build it to see if it's real" This is good! We're happy to introduce them to the resources they need and help as they learn.
But more frequently people come in with "I have this great idea, I JUST need somebody to build it for me." When we offered the same kind of help, it is rejected. "No I don't care about that, that's your job. I'm the ideas guy."
What did they think happens at a maker meetup? Did they think we were all sitting around idle and helpless "I wish somebody would walk in with an idea"?
Ha!
Everybody else here have their own list of project ideas to-do list. Longer than we'd ever get to finishing. Look at the table in front of you, full of stuff we've brought for show-and-tell. None of us needed "an ideas guy" that thinks execution is beneath them.
If I'm in a good mood, I would try to encourage them to further develop their idea while being firm I am absolutely not signing up to build it for them.
If I'm not in a good mood...
À propos of nothing, here's the inlay design of a _word processor_ app for the ZX Spectrum.
I never had a ZX Spectrum and don't have a need for an 8-bit word processor at the moment, but this design — as they say — goes hard.
Notice the word "PUNISHMENT" that's included in the design — for seemingly no reason at all.
I yearn for the alternate reality in which COMPACT OFFICE is what we use instead of boring MS Word and Google Docs.