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This sounds amazing, I’m a big fan of the tech that went into both the Sega Channel and XBAND platforms. Any more information you’d be willing to share about your work?

I have a television that's about 20 years old with a built in timer to turn it on. I used it as an alarm clock back in school because I wanted to watch the news every morning anywa…

It likely has some inaccurate info as I'm not a network engineer, but I gave a talk about BGP (with a history, protocol overview, and information on how it fails using real world e…

There have been at least 3 attempts. The current one is still lacking much of a community.

I feel like the author should have said "longest running," but sensationalized it a bit instead. I'm sure there were many hacker groups before 1984.

2600 isn't a hacking group, it's a publication that has meetups. Both 2600 and cDc started in 1984, however. LOD did too.

Only 9 books this year, https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/40352124-mike?shelf=re... Highlights are: * Networks of New York by Ingrid Burrington - A fascinating look at the comm…

Cjdns’ crypto is a known cpu bottleneck, meaning it isn’t well suited for soho routers. Some of us mesh folks are squeezing power out of SBCs with great results, but cjdns’ roadmap…

Hey there, I run Philly Mesh and am friendly with the MetaMesh folks in Pittsburgh. You might want to give them a shout if you’re interested in this stuff, https://www.metamesh.org…

They used to run a Matrix bridge, but from my understanding the administrators had no interest in maintaining it.

Hi, I run Philly Mesh. You might be close to some other geeks, but if not you can always use cjdns' overlay ability :). Come chat if you’d like, https://phillymesh.net

The Ultimate History of Video Games (2001) is amazing, if that's the angle you are looking for. Over 600 pages of great stories and information about the industry. I've read it twi…

Tubes by Andrew Blum does a great job at introducing how the infrastructure is layed put and operates to a certain degree, https://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Journey-Internet-Andrew-Blum…

Like the other comment in this thread, I've read all three and think The Fugitive Game is my favorite. It was definitely an enthralling read. If you haven't read it, I highly recom…

I have read Masters of Doom and both The Cuckoo's Egg and Dealers of Lightning and these recommendations are spot on. I'd love to reread all of these soon, especially Dealers of Li…

One of my favorite examples of this is the magnetic boots in Face Off (1997) and the boots the Goombas wear in Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Via detectives at reddit, Here is the original complaint, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=227998 And here is the admin's original request to use a mirror with the name m…

I have 2 issues of EXTROPY myself and hope to scan them at a point after Mondo. The issues rarely hit ebay, and when they do they are listed at incredibly high prices. I'm always l…