<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> Speaking of repasting. 2018 MBA had a gap between radiator and CPU of about 1.5mm, filled with thermal paste. Lots of people (me included) stuck a copper shim there, which solved all kinds of problems with temp, fan and shitty performance due to heavy throttling. Good times.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> can’t be, not rose gold</p>

<p><span>PSA: If you want to help 86Box emulation accuracy, the project is seeking dumps of ISA plug-and-play cards' PnP ROMs to facilitate more accurate emulation. Here's how you can dump your retro rig's PnP ROMs easily:<br><br>1. Download </span><a href="https://github.com/86Box/probing-tools/releases/download/2024-02-06/probing-tools-2024-02-06.zip">https://github.com/86Box/probing-tools/releases/download/2024-02-06/probing-tools-2024-02-06.zip</a><span><br>2. Put isapnp/ISAPNP.EXE on your retro PC<br>3. Run ISAPNP.EXE on the retro PC (if you have many ISA cards, consider running it many times as to cover them all)<br>4. Respond to this Fediverse message with a ZIP file containing the output .BIN files!<br><br>Sound Blaster and ESS Audiodrive dumps are particularly sought after by the project (including duplicates - a few undocumented revisions have been spotted this way), but any and all dumps will be useful long-term! Thank you!</span></p>

<p>a hill I will die on: the majority of human communications are not associated with a threat model where E2EE is particularly important compensating control, and as such it is a public good to build communications systems that shun security maximalism and instead prioritise reducing friction in human expression.</p><p>1/x</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> how to become wildly popular:</p><p>1. fork matrix</p><p>2. remove everything but the UI, app logic, and plaintext message format serialisation stuff </p><p>3. write a server that manages chat rooms and passes the messages around. use regular TLS for cryptography.</p><p>4. job done we now have a simple open system for chatting with people that focuses on the core goal of conversation instead of trying to implement one of the hardest classes of cryptographic protocol for totally overkill reasons</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hannesm" class="u-url mention">@<span>hannesm</span></a></span> happy to have met you by chance 😌</p>

<p>i&#39;m learning that the state of open source instant messaging is still a fucking joke</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> GOLD IS BEST</p>

<p>i&#39;ve been asked about &#39;matrix&#39; (chat platform). does anyone have strong opinions about &#39;matrix&#39; (chat platform)?</p>