Notes

A translucent battery, what'll they think of next

Charm is the viscous grease with which he oils his flim-flam machine!

A SCSI disk emulation device like BlueSCSI/SCSI2SD but using CompactFlash... from 1999

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305144502751

Off to the post office... thanks everyone!

After many test builds and case design tweaks, my first batch of new PowerBook 1XX (140-180c) batteries is now available for sale:

https://www.tindie.com/products/jcs/powerbook-1xx-battery/

I have a small number of salvaged battery doors if your PowerBook doesn't have an old battery with one to swap over.

Apple M0110 vs Vortex M0110

I don't think I've ever seen a 5 1/4" floppy drive with an eject button before

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186106481893

Why do so many cheap electronics have their USB-A ports upside down?

My wacky goal was to try to do this transparently on the wire, with the BlueSCSI intercepting TCP packets of plaintext to remote IPs on port 443, then do TLS and send out encrypted traffic, read the reply, decrypt it, and send back plaintext on the wire to the Mac. This way applications on the Mac wouldn't need to know anything about TLS, they could just connect to things on port 443 and get plaintext.

But this was too difficult to do because the plain/cipher packets wouldn't match up one-to-one, so I'd have to answer the Mac's TCP connection and buffer data, then create my own outbound TCP connection to the server with hand-crafted TCP packets built using the Mac's IP (since the Pico doesn't have its own stack/IP), and shuffle data between both TCP conections. That meant adding a TCP state machine, trying to find/maintain the current time (needed for x509 validation), etc.

My PowerBook 100 fetching google\.com over TLS over Wi-Fi

It uses BearSSL on the Pico W on the BlueSCSI to handle the actual TLS session, with the Mac feeding ciphertext from its own TCP connection into BearSSL over SCSI, and vice versa

I am all setup here at #VCFMW with my portable Macintoshes, so stop by tomorrow or Sunday and say hello (and grab a cyberpals sticker and print something dumb in Print Shop Deluxe)

So cool to finally have Prusa Slicer on my #OpenBSD laptop thanks to @renatoaguiar. Now I no longer need to use my Mac just to slice my STL files from Tinkercad.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=169405396303337&w=2

The more I read about Wayland, the more it sounds like one of those "I wrote a Twitter clone in a weekend" projects which totally ignores the long-tail of features that many X11 users actually rely on.

And then as time goes on, those features actually do need to be implemented but because they weren't part of the core design, they get poorly integrated with yet another dependency on some external thing.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/