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For some reason your comment reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-uzsw0kqw

Not true. Individual authors could sign up for the settlement. One of my books was in there under my name.

This is so great. Another fun trick we used in the 90s was palette animation -- by swapping the palette you can create incredibly cool effects at a low runtime cost.

JAMF is popular. I've heard of Kandji too.

Recently I've been thinking about the nerds/hippie dichotomy from that book. Really missing the anti-authoritarian streak that was so formative in the early computer industry.

But that communication is clearly intended to be confidential. Also isn't having one attorney on a multi-party communication marked confidential sufficient to create privilege?

There's a pattern of movies flopping in theaters only to become top 10 on Netflix. It's very similar in many ways. The difference is there was backend participation for VHS/DVD ren…

Fifty years ago this week, The Byte Shop opened its doors, becoming one of the epicenters of the personal computing earthquake that reshaped our world. A secret rebel base for a ge…

I know it's been days but since you asked he made a link: https://byteshop50thyearbirthdayp.rsvpify.com

Zynga was acquired by Take2 in 2022 and is very much alive today. IMHO the "predatory business" period of Zynga (e.g. the Tiny Tower vs Dream Heights) was prior to the arrival of t…

At this point I'm surprised they haven't been training on thousands of professionally-created SVGs of pelicans on bicycles.

Yep! Paul is my uncle. My parents had a franchise Byte Shop in Greensboro, NC when I was a kid.

Lee will be speaking next month in San Jose at an event for the 50th anniversary of the Byte Shop computer store. Incredible opportunity to hear from the man himself. For computer …

Please, this was my first thought too.

holy crap, what a rabbit hole you sent me down.

If you're smart enough to get hired for one of these roles, and you're willing to work 996, be just a little bit smarter and found your own startup and take all the upside.

I have one in the basement! The bar was called the "ISOpoint" bar. It was a great use of the tiny space. Also innovative was the IR keyboard. You could disconnect and move it prett…

ModBook is mentioned in the article. But Outbound (another deconstructed Mac) is not.

As a published author who had works in the training data, can I take my settlement payout in the form of Claude Code API credits? TBH I'm just going to plow all that money back int…

With the per-item limit for "willful infringement" being $150,000, it's a bargain.

There's this one too: https://jcm-1.com/product/picomicromac/

I have an appscript that uses Gemini for this. Works great. Usage is in in the free tier. I even had Gemini write the appscript.

This is the correct answer. More memorable and better number of syllables. Although I'm sure he wasn't the first either.

Wired is killing it with great reporting this year. Worth subscribing and supporting.