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Monday, March 17

Daily News Stuff 17 March 2025

Antiwoke Edition

Top Story

The LibreWolf developers are insane. (Reddit)

So is Reddit, but leave that for the moment.

There's this guy named Bryan Lunduke. He's a Linux journalist and YouTuber who comments extensively on the fallout of wokeness in open-source software projects - like the Godot game engine, which woked itself to death last year.

He has spoken out against software codes of conduct - what I call codes of cancer. His name is one of the handful that ChatGPT would sooner die than speak aloud.

And his name has been banned from the LibreWolf forum. (LibreWolf is a fork of the Firefox browser.)

And if you ask why, you will be banned.

Ask why someone was banned, and you will be banned.

They haven't gone full Mullenweg yet, but the clock is ticking.

"Libre" does not here mean "Congress shall make no law"; it means "Join the glorious revolution or die, and we don't care which".

Tech News

The Akira ransomware can be cracked in ten hours with 16 4090 video cards. (Tom's Hardware)

That puts an upper price on the ransom of about $7000, because you can rent a cluster of 16 servers with RTX 4090s for a month for that amount.
If you Atari has a broken bit, you can get replacement parts. (Tom's Hardware)

Controllers, keyboards, disk drives, tape drives, individual bits like replacement sockets and crystal oscillators, you name it, Best Electronics has in stock.

Continuously, for more than 40 years.
A Mac Studio M3 Ultra cluster that is doing nothing uses half as much power as a particularly power-hungry network switch. (WCCFTech)

Unless it doesn't.

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1 Well, regarding that last story, that's because the network switch is doing useful work.
/troll

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, March 18 2025 09:43 AM (NEIix)

2 If there is a company that still sells components for Commodore 64, that would be fantastic.

Funny that I was reading about the Firefox fork today - my version of Firefox is now so old that UBlock Origin is no longer considered a 'verified' add-on/extension and thus is disabled. A lovely development.

Am trying Brave right now. I am not taking a shine to it - it even lacks some of the functionality of Edge, let alone Firefox, and UBlock Origin is not considered a verified extension for it. Also, importing my favorites was more troublesome than it should be.

Posted by: cxt217 at Tuesday, March 18 2025 09:55 AM (ZLF73)

3 Did C64 use the STS, or did they not?
BTW, since that bombshell more than a year ago, the Z80 CPU has also seen discontinuation announcements, although not to every packaging (e.g. the silicon chip itself remains in production).

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Tuesday, March 18 2025 12:56 PM (LZ7Bg)

4 I'm currently using Brave and was able to get Ublock Origin added to it? As for C64 parts, there are a number of C64 user groups out there. Some of them should have a way of getting parts. Shot in the dark - does AMI64-dot-com have anything useful?

Posted by: Frank at Tuesday, March 18 2025 04:57 PM (+i6Xr)

5 UBlock Origin is available for Brave, but since it is not a verified extension/add-on, it can act somewhat oddly - I need to refresh my start page every time I open Brave to have the filtering work properly, for example.

As another example for my disappointment with Brave - it also does not allow me to open in new tabs, multiple links as I am scrolling down my Favorites without closing the Favorites list. Edge and Firefox both allowed me to do that, but Brave does not.

AMI64 would be useful if so many items were not out of stock.

Posted by: cxt217 at Wednesday, March 19 2025 03:23 PM (ZLF73)

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