modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

Club Yellow Tokyo / Japan May 1996

#FlashbackFriday

#gnuplot turned 40 years old (!) back in December. Happy birthday!

Very random old throwback for #throwbackthursday - back when I got the lightpen for my Vectrex letting me draw a cartoon of myself in the glowing sharp lines of that unique and cool system!

#tbt #vectrex #retrogaming #art

> avarage foss youtuber, who never touched a single LOC: "The biggest problem in the open source world is the lack of documentation provided by open source devs"

Just shut the fuck up! If you want documentation, write the stupid documentation by yourself! Stop trying to ruin people's hobby with asking them to do mondane and boring shit like writing docu. Besides that 90% of the time docu is lying, and you need to look at the source anyways. Whenever i read docu, it is because the code uses obscure glibberish preprocessor magic, that would take years to comprehend and even then i often end up reading assembly because the docu lies

Pure poetry!

New, from me: The Kimwolf Botnet is Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

A new Internet-of-Things botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf’s ability to scan the local networks of compromised systems for other IoT devices to infect makes it a sobering threat to organizations, and new research reveals Kimwolf is surprisingly prevalent in government and corporate networks.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/kimwolf-botnet-lurking-in-corporate-govt-networks/

#botnet #infosec #IoT #DDoS #threatresearch #malware

This tune from the ending of the original 1988 version of "Snatcher" is so damn good. 🔊🎵
https://youtu.be/NE31DOyyipA?si=PYtgWcCF6X-IHovN

https://hachyderm.io/@itworldcup/115926604229775228

PHP was ahead. But at a staggering 1350 votes cast so far, python is pulling ahead again.

And still 10 hours until the poll closes.

Above all, this is testament to the engagement of both the PHP and Python communities.

Perhaps #php is not so dead after all

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SheHacksPurple/115930818373604665

What to Actually Do About Them:

Just stop fucking using the slop machines and rewarding the slop purveyors because the rest of us are going to be unfucking your slop for the next decade as is.

Battlefront Scenario Disk One: Guadalcanal.woz

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Battlefront_Scenario_Disk_One_Guadalcanal

Thanks to @A2_Canada for the disk!

#wozaday #AppleII #retrocomputing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/115924184016966918

I've been working with @A2_Canada to image, verify, and provide complete metadata for a number of scenario disks by Strategic Studies Group. SSG was an Australian video game developer+publisher that specialized in hex-based wargames. They had a multi-year print run of a magazine ("Run 5") devoted to these games and the community that centered around them. The magazine included type-in variations that nobody actually wanted to type in. They quickly started selling the variations on floppy disk.

Dreaming of your own Airbus cockpit? ✈️

We are proud to sponsor @flyfly's Open Source A320 Home Cockpit. Built with KiCad, Rust, and 3D printing, this project turns a "wire mess" into a sleek, reproducible simulator.

Full story and links to open-source files here:

#Hardware #Technology #OpenSource
https://community.aisler.net/t/fully-open-source-airbus-a320-home-cockpit/5476?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=creative-community

Easily the brightest and most widespread aurora I've seen from the west Highlands of Scotland.

Two of these photos are close to directly south facing.

#aurora

New @lukhash track is out and it's a real banger: https://lukhash.bandcamp.com/track/overdrive
#Music #EDM

You have to setup a NAS at home, which OS you choose?

Apologising to the sick astronaut, but this made me laugh for about a half an hour #IYKYK

Ultimate betrayal.

#mozilla #firefox

The intro from "Another World" (1991) still manages to impress even decades later, which is why I feel like it's nearly impossible to describe emotions one felt upon encountering it 35 years ago for the first time.