Lenovo BIOS simulator: https://download.lenovo.com/bsco/#/

mp3fs: https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/

The IBM PC110 (486 palmtop) hosting this website reached 3 years of uptime a couple weeks ago. Impressive! http://pc110.yyzkevin.com/

Garage, an "open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting": https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

Viddy, a modern watch(1) alternative with paging, visual diffs, and history: https://github.com/sachaos/viddy

The mystery airship phenomenon of the late 1890s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate added support for Edge and Safari a while ago and I didn't realize. Very cool!

Why Monero: https://benkaiser.dev/why-monero/

KTeaTime: A customizable tea steeping timer application from the KDE project: https://apps.kde.org/kteatime/

Trying out Flexo, a caching proxy for Pacman: https://github.com/nroi/flexo

Canada + Cryptocurrency = Ehthereum: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/

Great writeup on New Outlook, even though it's a biased source: https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

We'll make our own driver! With blackjack, and hookers! https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html

This is why people go full Kaczynski. https://weel.bike/

Jeffrey Paul: Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance: https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/

Grep for network connections: https://github.com/jpr5/ngrep

How to download and install Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

How did I just find this program? Reptyr: Reparent a running program to a new terminal: https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

Play the sounds of a buckling spring keyboard as you type: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

Free Public WiFi: https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html

Mount iOS devices on GNU/Linux, great for photo backup: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/ifuse

Happy 4th! I added fireworks to my ASCII art on https://mckinley.cc/

Microsoft's trickery department strikes again: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/b0e1a1c1-bd62-462c-9ed5-5938b9c649f0

Lab6 issue 4, at long last: https://lab6.com/4

mckinley.cc is now available as a Tor hidden service: http://mckinley2nxomherwpsff5w37zrl6fqetvlfayk2qjnenifxmw5i4wyd.onion/

Proof-of-work has been merged into Tor. Should help a lot with DoS issues: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/702

The only JSON feed I've ever seen in the wild: https://localmonero.co/static/rss/knowledge/feed.json

USBGuard, USB device authorization policies for Linux: https://github.com/USBGuard/usbguard

@jmjl I explain the favicon trick in https://mckinley.cc/blog/20210824.html

XEP-0464: Cookies https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0464.html

There's one for GitHub too: https://codeberg.org/gothub/gothub

Finally, a JavaScript-free frontend for GitLab instances: https://git.vitali64.duckdns.org/utils/laboratory.git

Dumb, an alternative frontend for genius.com written in Go: https://github.com/rramiachraf/dumb

Sudo CVE of the day: Sudoedit can edit arbitrary files: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/42

Every copy of Firefox is personalized: https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/

Here's a nifty tool to identify MQA in FLAC files: https://github.com/purpl3F0x/MQA_identifier

Git man page generator: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

A bootrom exploit for the iPod Nano 3rd-5th gen has been found. Looking forward to Rockboxing my nano! https://q3k.org/wInd3x.html

Huge Tails update. Better persistent storage, Wayland, QR codes for bridges: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.8/index.en.html

This is blowing my mind. Real-time music generation with Stable Diffusion: https://www.riffusion.com/

A special build of cURL that can impersonate Chrome and Firefox: https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

I started a notes section of my website. It's for shorter, less formal posts. https://mckinley.cc/notes/20221101-yet-another-blog.html

An NES emulator in <5000 bytes of C++: https://github.com/binji/smolnes

Wikiless, a self-hosted Wikipedia proxy, has been temporarily taken down from Codeberg at request of Wikimedia Legal: https://orenom.fi/

Warpd, a modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer: https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd

Kloak, a Keystroke-Level Online Anonymization Kernel: https://github.com/Whonix/kloak

Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki: http://c2.com/doc/etymology.html

I have a new Atom feed at https://mckinley.cc/blog/atom.xml. Open it in a Web browser for a surprise. :)

You don't want to be on Cloudflare's naughty list: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/cloudflare-ip-blockade.html

Tabloid: The clickbait headline programming language: https://tabloid.vercel.app/

http​://http​://http​://@http​://http​://?http​://#http​://: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/08/http-http-http-http-http-http-http/

Here's the bug report, it's very entertaining. Tony Marston is my favorite character. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98168

Cemu, the leading Wii U emulator, is now free software. Linux support is in progress. https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu

A website served using NGINX on ReactOS: http://reactos.aaron.cc/

This is, perhaps, the greatest bug report of all time. IRC clients should specify a Gentoo-specific username: https://bugs.gentoo.org/35890

I compiled Ladybird, the Linux port of the SerenityOS browser. Here's a screenshot of my website: https://mckinley.cc/img/ladybird.png

TeamViewer installs a suspicious font, apparently only for browser fingerprinting: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html

A tour of Windows 11's GUI: http://toastytech.com/guis/win11.html

Great blog post. I've been thinking about this, just couldn't put it into words. https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/25/two-types-of-privacy/

Lab6, the zine about itself, just released Issue 3! It's a PDF/Gemini/HTML/TeX/x86 polyglot this time. Great stuff! https://lab6.com/3

Farside: "A smart redirecting gateway for various frontend services" like Nitter and Scribe. https://github.com/benbusby/farside

Cheese DRM: Coming to a store near you. https://www.foodandwine.com/news/parmigiano-reggiano-fraud-micro-transponder-rinds-digital-label

A website hosted on an IBM PC110 palmtop: http://pc110.yyzkevin.com/

Only bureaucratic incompetence can produce something like this https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/

On Switching to Ed: https://atthis.link/blog/2020/usingEd.html

I improved my RSS feed. It uses HTTPS links now and it includes the full content of new posts, starting with today's.

Big day for privacy. Tails has been updated to 5.0, now based on Debian 11. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.0/index.en.html

Mullvad VPN now accepts Monero: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/5/3/we-now-accept-monero/

Xlibe: An Xlib compatibility layer for Haiku, allows X11 programs to run on Haiku without an X server. https://github.com/waddlesplash/xlibe

Wayland tech tip #2: "wev" is a great "xev" clone for Wayland. It's available on the AUR (wev) or at https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev.

"Merge branch 'articles-of-confederation'" https://git.sr.ht/~usa/constitution

OpenBSD Webzine issue 2 is out: https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-2.html

90 fun things to do in an elevator: https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/Twister/fun/elevator-fun90.html

Check out https://search.marginalia.nu/. It's a search engine that indexes simple, text-heavy websites.

Moment in time: "A True Pirate At Work Ripping Off MP3s" http://www.musicinit.com/pirate.html

"How I repurposed a Kodak CD Kiosk tool into a bulk optical disc ripper" http://www.davisr.me/projects/cd-ripping/

Current WebBS for mckinley.cc: 0.041; https://www.webbloatscore.com/?url=https://mckinley.cc/

Apple: "Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us." https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

This could be our future: https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/; Please consider signing https://appleprivacyletter.com/

Decided it was high time for a sitemap on mckinley.cc, hopefully made it a little easier to find. https://mckinley.cc/sitemap.html

YouTube has stopped youtube-dl from circumventing age restriction. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578

"Native JavaScript IDE for iOS" are five words that don't belong in one sentence. https://codesandbox.io/post/codesandbox-acquires-playjs

https://bree.dev/horse/

Audacity PR closed. Author wants tracking, but willing to avoid Google. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835#issuecomment-835880865

A look into the dystopian future: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airbag-vest-will-stop-working-if-you-miss-a-payment

The VERY NEXT PR adds a Google telemetry library. Not a coincidence. Watch PRs closely. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/836

Yandex and Google trackers will potentially be added to Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835

MCKINLEY NEWS: GUY WITH EYE DESTROYING WEBSITE SELLS A GIT COMMIT https://nitter.42l.fr/tjholowaychuk/status/1377163602776367104

140 characters cannot even begin to contain my problems with this blog post. https://apex.sh/blog/post/pre-render-wget/

Everyone should read this. 'User domestication' is a great term. https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html

1100 lines of CSS, 700KB of JavaScript, and 4 fonts on the home page of a blog named 'Web Dev Simplified' https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/

Reject modernity, return to poor contrast and flashy GIFs. https://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

Automatically generated web content never ceases to amuse me. (Spyware warning) https://www.slant.co/versus/126/128/~go_vs_brainfuck

Found a PGP signed twtxt feed. I've been thinking about this, I wonder how many clients it breaks. https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt

/twtxt.html, at 12.9KB, is now the largest HTML document on https://mckinley.cc/.

Live.js is neat, but I don't know why you would include it in the document. I just put it in a userscript for 127.0.0.1. https://livejs.com/

I stopped browsers from automatically requesting a favicon on https://mckinley.cc/ thanks to this blog post: https://k1ss.org/blog/20191004a

@prologic Twtxt.net's privacy policy says you store emails, /register disagrees. Which is true?

"Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web." Yeah, okay Google. https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-first-web/

@prologic Vim, and it's really not that awful.

@prologic 36 characters left makes it rough.

@darch Just inline images, they wrap like text.

@adi I can't find it now, keep an eye out for it.

@adi Thanks, man. I'll take a look.

@prologic Logs say it's just you :)

@prologic 36% of requests since I enabled logs

I turned on access logging for https://mckinley.cc/, so if you want to go there using weird browser/hardware combinations, now is the time.

I can't tell if this is going to be a real product or not. I sure hope it is, because it looks really cool. http://violence.works/

What an adventure, shame the article was never updated. (Google warning) http://unforgettability.net/content/page/projects_cobalt

Good discussion about bad article on HowToGeek: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020.2248402/

The computers page on https://mckinley.cc/ kills Lynx compatibility, and I'm stumped on how to fix it without the looks tanking for everyone

Just added a new page on mckinley.cc with some of the computers I have and their specs. https://mckinley.cc/computers.html

Reminder that https://mckinley.cc/ is fully Lynx-friendly :)

https://hardware.majix.org/ cool website showing off someone's old computers

https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 Domains visited using mobile DDG browser get sent to DDG servers... I'll switch to Firefox.