Misty @misty@digipres.club

Been awhile since I heard about a nasty 0-click Zoom vulnerability, but looks like we got a new one https://arstechnica.com/?p=1856508

Interesting read from a few years ago when glibc accidentally broke ABI compatibility on S390. It’s a hard problem! https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/

@quephird Had an espresso martini stout and it immediately made me think of you!

Neko no Dayan: Dayan in Wonderland (Wachifield/Glams Interactive, Photo CD, 1995)

Spending my Saturday learning about computers

Brian Fitzgerand’s All New Super Taxman 2 (HAL Labs, Apple II, 1981)

Had a realization: Substack wouldn’t exist if we hadn’t killed off RSS. Getting blog posts email to you as a service only makes financial sense if you don’t have another, better way to subscribe to feeds of posts.

Hmmm, a book I placed on hold at VPL has been stuck in “trace” status for a week… I wonder if that means they lost it.

Beyond the Time (Tsuga Takeuchi, published by A & P Coordinator, Mac/Windows, 1996)

Really love this piece on the culture of Chinese electronic dictionary games. It’s a whole world I’d never heard of. https://chaoyangtrap.house/s02-episode-9-china-dreams-of-electric-words/

Absolutely love this interview with radical librarian Sandy Berman. Fantastic read. https://turtleroad.org/2022/03/08/sandy-berman/

The Reactive Square (John Maeda, Digitalogue, 1995)

Ugh, damn it, I think it’s gone. It was a publicly-hosted archive of *dozens* and dozens of albums by London Ontario-area bands from 1967 through the 2000s. A ton of it was never available anywhere else, by bands that never recorded any other material.

Anyone know what happened to CHRW’s London Music Archives? Did it get taken offline? There really wasn’t much else like it out there…

Ugetsu Kitan (Will/Tonkinhouse, PC-98, 1992)