Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: computer history

The coming war against local LLMs will be wrapped, as ever, in a choice between Child Protection and Anti-Terrorism

2025/12/19
Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent

2025/07/23
July 15th 1991: 34 years ago I published the first “modern” password cracker…

2025/07/15
No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard | Ars Technica

2025/03/06
For various reasons I’ve been musing to myself regarding “What is the traditional [male] national dress of my people?” and I’ve drawn up the following list

2025/02/09
Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 | … I spent days, weeks playing this

2025/02/02
History of “ping -a” (audible ping) on FreeBSD and MacOS, by @brucewmurphy on Threads

2024/11/27
NMS Ceefax | …this is gloriously retro and tremendously well done

2024/11/18
I lament the gradual loss of the diversity of online forums (…/email lists/USENET/BBS…) to Facebook groups, not least for the 40+ year bulwark of transferable skills they taught for dealing summarily & elegantly with trolls, edgelords & blithe critics (HT @dieworkwear)

2024/11/07
Once Linux’s Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices | FOSS Force

2024/11/04
Tension between US copyright office vs: video game historians regarding circumvention of copy protection

2024/10/30
We Are Old

2024/09/21