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Jason Scott

@textfiles

21 Jul

The person who killed Mark "Sparky" Herring last year with a SWATting was sentenced to 5 years in prison today, the maximum allowed.

I hope he isn't worrying nobody will remember him when he gets out.

krebsonsecurity.com/2021/07/serial…

But that's another circled date in the Jason Doesn't Forget calendar. Instead, let's just talk a bit about Mark Herring, who was a fantastic guy, one of the real good ones, and the creator of the QWK packet, one of the most genius aspects of BBSing to be invented at the time.

FidoNET is another one - allow postings from messages from different boards to swap at night so the reach of people was increased exponentially. But QWK packets were a whole other deal altogether.

Since only one person could use most BBSes at once, time and bandwidth was scarce.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

17 Jul

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1416235276582760448

OK, very quickly. Jason Explains Soverign Citizens.

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1416235276582760448

If you want a much better, much more entertaining presentation about Soverign Citizens and the wonders of their thinking, just see my presentation on one:

I didn't understand that Paul Andrew Mitchell was a Soverign Citizen, but now I do.

Before anything else: Yes, they're crackpots. Yes, they're completely off the scale. No, there's no secret germ of truth inside the SovCits. Generally, they are tax dodgers or scammers.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

5 Jul

THE AUDACITY/MUSE PEOPLE HAVE COME ROARING BACK WITH A TOTAL OWNAGE OF THE CONCERNS I'VE BEEN MENTIONING

just kidding, they posted a note on a github thread that they're going to massage it a tad

github.com/audacity/audac…

I'm just one stupid little pony in this horse race, so everyone coming in to discuss this is going to go face deep or leaf off depending on their little bit of what matters to them. Let's just quickly restate what I'm going off about.

I said "RIP Audacity" when it got bought.

Now, Tantacrul ("project lead", now "design lead" of Audacity) went a little extra at me, in a way that says "I'm probably not the best person to have defending all this", so it got my interest, and people can attest to what it's like when you have my interest (and attention).

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

4 Jul

Audacity and it's super-nice-except-fuck-you-dude project leader seem to be getting ahead of schedule on the ruination.

Your personal data collected goes to Russia? Check.

A sound editing app that children should not touch until the magic age of 12, demolishing it as a teaching tool or inexpensive introduction to editing for young ones, in service of the terrible things it intends to do with data? Check.

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Jason Scott

@textfiles

3 Jul

1992: I have graduated from college! The world of potential is infinite!

2021: I just figured out there were only 16 episodes of Hong Kong Phooey

Whoops, this is taking off.

Hong Kong Phooey also appeared in the Laff-A-Lympics series, and probably got shoved in sideways through a bunch of Hanna-Barbera licensing and appearances. Here he is as late is 2017, in a Boomerang series, voiced by Phil LaMarr:

Laff-A-Lympics is 24 episodes, so since Hong Kong Phooey is all up in that (voiced by the same actor, Scatman Crothers), it's possible many tiny child brains combined it all into one big blob and so there's a lot of HK in memories.

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