Famicoman

Joined 12 years ago

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Jun 5

Hack on Philly Mesh, Philly 2600, Anarchivism.org. Write for n-o-d-e.net, NeonDystopia.com, 2600. Previoualy Exolymph.news, LunchmeatVHS.com.

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Comment · 10 months ago

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?

Comment · 6 years ago

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 anyway and it was much harder to "snooze" than a normal alarm clock.

Comment · 6 years ago

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 examples) at Radical Networks last year. https://livestream.com/internetsociety/radnets19/videos/1980...

I tried to make it accessible to those who have only a basic understanding of home networking. Assuming you know what a router is and what an ISP is, you should be able to to ingest it without needing to know crazy jargon.

NODE VOL 02 – A zine featuring open hardware projects and decentralized software n-o-d-e.net

20 Famicoman 6 years ago 2 comments

Mondo 2000 – Issue 08 (1992) archive.org

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Comment · 7 years ago

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

Mondo 2000 – Issue 07 (1992) archive.org

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Mondo 2000 – Issue 06 (1992) archive.org

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Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

2600 isn't a hacking group, it's a publication that has meetups.

Both 2600 and cDc started in 1984, however. LOD did too.

Comment · 8 years ago

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 communications infrastructure in NYC, written as a field guide. Inspired me to make a website in the same style for Philadelphia.

* Kitten Clone: The History of the Future at Bell Labs by Douglas Coupland - This is my first non-fiction Coupland book and it was nice to see his punchy writing translate to the topic. The chapter where he goes to the old facility in New Jersey is fantastic. There is a shorter, edited version of this part online, https://www.wired.com/2014/09/coupland-bell-labs/

* The Philip K. Dick Reader - My second time reading any Dick, this collection is amazing, lengthy, and inexpensive to pick up. You'll be up all night reading this and surprised how sci-fi from the '50s is so relevant today.

Comment · 8 years ago

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 might have us seeing more performant operation coming up :)

Comment · 8 years ago

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

Comment · 8 years ago

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

Comment · 8 years ago