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https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

>There will be programs that run on general-purpose computers, and peripherals, that will freak even me out. So I can believe that people who advocate for limiting general-purpose computers will find a receptive audience. But just as we saw with the copyright wars, banning certain instructions, protocols or messages will be wholly ineffective as a means of prevention and remedy. As we saw in the copyright wars, all attempts at controlling PCs will converge on rootkits, and all attempts at controlling the Internet will converge on surveillance and censorship. This stuff matters because we've spent the last decade sending our best players out to fight what we thought was the final boss at the end of the game, but it turns out it's just been an end-level guardian. The stakes are only going to get higher.

Use the source, Luke [0] (or equivalent. I am not paywall jumping unless necessary today.)

YouTube crackles down on ASMR content (Boing Boing)

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For us who are not familiar with ASMR:

> Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, describes the tingling feeling that some people get when hearing certain sounds; it’s become shorthand for a genre of content where ASMR artists whisper, brush, tap or make other sounds near a microphone. A lot of ASMR content is meant for relaxation, mindfulness, and sleep.

I prefer classical music. Some works really do transport one to great places in the heart, because they are magnificent human expressions.

[0]https://boingboing.net/2026/07/31/youtube-crackles-down-on-asmr-content.html

Remember that he’s not actually that smart. Rob Beschizza has the best description of Musk:

“I love how childish and petty it is. There is no depth or human complexity to Musk whatsoever: he's just a rich kid who got lucky and now we marvel at his exertions day in, day out. The New York Times still casts Musk as a public intellectual, even now, because its editors live in a floating world of narrative imagination and are impervious to the facts of the matter. In return, he calls it ‘diarrhea.’ They completely deserve one another.”

https://boingboing.net/2023/04/02/petulant-musk-rants-about-new-york-times-and-takes-away-its-blue-check.html

This strikes me as being part of the larger war on general purpose computing. Microsoft is saying that, in order to use your expensive device, you need another expensive device, and you need to involve a third party as an arbiter.

See Cory Doctorow's excellent 2011 keynote to the 28th Chaos Computer Club conference entitled "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing": https://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html

What do we do about this? I can (and do) run open-source software on my laptop, but what about my parents, kids, friends, et al? Some of them care, but can't be bothered. Others are oblivious.

The AAA was by far the best most luxurious terminal a programmer could have. The Guru XL could display 66 lines of 170 characters, and came in either portrait or landscape orientation!

https://boingboing.net/2016/10/20/reviving-an-ann-arbor-ambassad.html

https://books.google.nl/books?id=-tNb_j8ivU0C&pg=RA1-PA36&lpg=RA1-PA36&dq=AAA+ann+arbor+ambassador&source=bl&ots=kwbSfO9Jx6&sig=ACfU3U2CT0-EUthZA0ol5kCM0Pls-f3eqg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiztZGz1d7mAhXCUlAKHbsiDaoQ6AEwBHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=AAA%20ann%20arbor%20ambassador&f=false

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/datapro/alphanumeric_terminals/Datapro_C25_Ann_Arbor.pdf

SuperUser is Jeff Atwood's hobbyist self-identity manifested as a Q&A site. The allowed categories neatly cover everything he's blogged about on CodingHorror that wouldn't fit into SO or SF first. There are a lot of Jeff Atwoods out there, so it works.

You know what would make a really hilarious and likely-successful StackExchange site? One focused on http://BoingBoing.net -- it'd be all about how best to anagramize a subway map or break functioning consumer electronics by hot-gluing brass gears onto them, but there's clearly already an audience for Cory Doctorow's self-identity (just as there was for Jeff).