Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Argent Stonecutter]

I first experienced music on my computer by typing in programs with the music encoded in DATA statements.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I remember my first real experience with music on my computer. There was a small computer shop in my town in 1993 that specialized with Amigas, and the owner gave me a floppy disk full of Protracker mod files and a player to play them. I was hooked. I still have those files, plus hundreds more I had downloaded from BBSs since then.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I remember my first real experience with music on my computer. There was a small computer shop in my town in 1993 that specialized with Amigas, and the owner gave me a floppy disk full of Protracker mod files and a player to play them. I was hooked. I still have those files, plus hundreds more I had downloaded from BBSs since then.

It was just before my time really but as an digital art-maker I've always been a little bit fascinated by the Amiga, because from what I've read it was like the first "favored" machine for AV production, with some special hardware and software made especially for that industry. I looked into doing a little emulation just to play around with it but you can't really do that, you can't just download some images and an emulator like you can with the C64 or Apple II or early Macintoshes and etc because somewhere along the line, despite being abandonware, some rando company managed to grab the rights to Amiga's OS and they have paywalled it hard.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It was just before my time really but as an digital art-maker I've always been a little bit fascinated by the Amiga, because from what I've read it was like the first "favored" machine for AV production, with some special hardware and software made especially for that industry. I looked into doing a little emulation just to play around with it but you can't really do that, you can't just download some images and an emulator like you can with the C64 or Apple II or early Macintoshes and etc because somewhere along the line, despite being abandonware, some rando company managed to grab the rights to Amiga's OS and they have paywalled it hard.

If you're looking for an Amiga emulator, this might be what you're looking for: Amiga Forever - Amiga Software, Emulation, Games, History and Support Since 1986

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

That's the company I'm talking about. They want $40 for that emulator! That's nuts. Maybe it wouldn't be nuts if every other emulator you can possibly think of wasn't free, but they are. For something I would just poke at a few times for fun and curiosity, I'm definitely not spending that.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

That's the company I'm talking about. They want $40 for that emulator! That's nuts. Maybe it wouldn't be nuts if every other emulator you can possibly think of wasn't free, but they are. For something I would just poke at a few times for fun and curiosity, I'm definitely not spending that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator)

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

That's the company I'm talking about. They want $40 for that emulator! That's nuts. Maybe it wouldn't be nuts if every other emulator you can possibly think of wasn't free, but they are. For something I would just poke at a few times for fun and curiosity, I'm definitely not spending that.

It's not the emulator they're charging for, since they likely use the free WinUAE emulator. They're charging for the Kickstart ROM images, which are needed to boot AmigaOS. I think they also include the OS itself, each version from 1.3 to 3.9.

 

[Noodles]

I am a bit worried my NAS has finally started dying. I may have to replace it.

I am not worried about losing data, most is backed up to the cloud, but the unit itself (Synology) is like 10 years old now. I had a drive I replaced just last year show as bad already, it's out for a warranty replacement now. But in the meantime, now the system suddenly shows the volume has "crashed" though the single remaining disk shows healthy.

Not entirely sure what that is about. I will know better once the replacement drive arrives and I can properly set it up again. I can still access the files on it even though it is "crashed", but none of the apps currently want to run.

Fortunately I have a bit of spare cash built up at the moment, so if I need to, I can order a new DS223 unit to replace the old one (DS213j). I don't really WANT to but I can.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Mozilla acquired Anonym, an advertising company. So Mozilla is now an ad company it seems. *sighs*

Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising | The Mozilla Blog

Mozilla has acquired Anonym, a trailblazer in privacy-preserving digital advertising. This strategic acquisition enables Mozilla to help raise the bar for

blog.mozilla.org

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

There is no such thing as privacy-preserving digital advertising that still uses data harvested from users to target ads. I don't care how many middle steps or algorithmic mechanisms are in place; I don't care what is done downstream to allegedly "anonymize" the data. The vast majority of the privacy violation happens in the collection. I'm not upset that data-miners are selling my private information to advertisers "in an unsafe way", I'm upset that they're mining my freaking data.

 

[Noodles]

I mean, there is.

Say, Virtualberse wanted to run Digital Ads.

They could just, run ads for virtual worlds, maybe some SL stores.

Video game review sites run ads for game consoles and accessories.

The point is, it's centered around the content and matches that instead of tracking the users.

It assumes you are interested in X because you are on a website about X, instead of tracking the shit out of you and showing you some bull shit drug ad on a car forum or whatever because you accidentally clicked a link 3 weeks ago.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

It assumes you are interested in X because you are on a website about X, instead of tracking the shit out of you and showing you some bull shit drug ad on a car forum or whatever because you accidentally clicked a link 3 weeks ago.

Yeah, but that's not using harvested user data to target ads, that's using website context, and that's perfectly fine.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Mozilla already injecting adware into Firefox

Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly to the latest release of Firefox, in an experimental trial you have to opt out of manually. This "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" (PPA) API adds another tool to the arsenal of tracking features that advertisers can use, which is thwarted by traditional content blocking extensions.

If you're a Firefox user, please read this super-important article, and also make sure you turn this "feature" off in your browser immediately if you've updated - the procedure is described at the end of the article.

Yep, it's true. Mozilla, the company behind the only major non-Chromium browser, is an ad company now.

 

[Noodles]

I am starting to understand why some people insist on staying on Internet Explorer 4 or whatever.

 

[Free]

LYNX 4 EVAR!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

LYNX 4 EVAR!

Psssht, if you're not browsing by Teletype you're just a poser

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Inb4 abacus.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

Mozilla already injecting adware into Firefox



If you're a Firefox user, please read this super-important article, and also make sure you turn this "feature" off in your browser immediately if you've updated - the procedure is described at the end of the article.

Yep, it's true. Mozilla, the company behind the only major non-Chromium browser, is an ad company now.

Kind of makes me wonder how viable IceCat (formerly IceWeasel) currently is...

 

[Free]

Psssht, if you're not browsing by Teletype you're just a poser

pics or stfu

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

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