MadcapOcelot @elephant@mastodon.social

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@cac a few people floating about now we are up to 20 users

Forget #Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium etc... We should switch our currency to potatoes

Benefits:
- Works in any century as a medium of exchange
- Delicious and healthy
- Inherently shows proof of work
- Best of all, hacker proof (unless you own a knife)

If you can watch the Juicero and Fyre Festival news cycles go down in one week and still think that wealth corresponds with merit or intelligence, then I've got a presidency to sell you

So after a lot of conversation with folks on here, I've decided to go ahead with my game project.

I'm going to develop it as publicly as possible, and use it as a learning experience.

I'll be talking about the development on my blog (http://ajroach42.github.io/)

Right now I'm still at the story//planning stage, and I'll probably be there for a few more days, at the least.

For the next little while, I'll be talking through some of my thoughts on the subject here. Join in! Tell me off! Provide Feedback?

Hipchat has suffered an #infosec incident

https://blog.hipchat.com/2017/04/24/hipchat-security-notice/

They're blaming a "third party library" but, -extremely- annoyingly, have neglected to state which library it is - so be prepared to keep an eye out for other services having incidents in the future, if this isn't a case of hipchat having used something catastrophically out of date.

The final remaining patent on the MP3 format — "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DIGITAL SIGNALS EMPLOYING BIT ALLOCATION USING COMBINATIONS OF DIFFERENT THRESHOLD MODELS TO ACHIEVE DESIRED BIT RATES" — has expired today.

I read a mastodon criticism article and it's fine. But it ends on the note of basically "without a company to buy the code and save it—it'll never survive!". Like, capitalism is gonna swoop in and save the day. smh

It's just obvious in this guy's head the idea of something existing without the stability of a company is inconceivable, because companies are the ideal.

Well, the Internet Archive has surpassed itself: full in-browser emulation of the early Apple Macintosh has been made-available.

http://blog.archive.org/2017/04/16/early-macintosh-emulation-comes-to-the-archive/

It is a work of love, beauty and, quite frankly, skill.

The Internet Archive are really making an effort to preserve our IT history.

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Twitter sued Customs and Border Protection for trying to unmask one of their pseudonymous alt agency accounts. Within 24 hours of Twitter filing the lawsuit, the government withdrew its subpoena. What happened here?

I explain it all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/alt-twitter-account-trump-customs-lawsuit

Guide to new Mastodon users: the furries control the east block, the French control the exercise yard, and the infosec people and gamerdevs have forged an alliance

Should anyone care: Twitter for iOS is actively blocking you from mentioning the link to mastodon.social…

https://mastodon.social/media/rRQdnCOGKdNUAc53ggc

When the demo fails so hard that #YourBoySerge has to call in the cavalry for the distraction...