Ahhh Devs:system-configuration or SYS:system-configuration at 232 bytes. I remember being 11 and trying to make my own compilation disks and trying to figure out what file kept the system prefs on my A500. Don’t forget to copy the RAM: handler from L: if you wanted to use RAM:
I used Kindwords to make my first compilation disks until I discovered Diskmaster 1.3 and then later on Diskmaster 1.3 and shell commands.
This is a nice pointer collection, I used to enjoy putting in compilation disks and seeing the 4 system colours and the 4 mouse sprite colours. I also remember the compilation disks that used “rainbow” or “stripes” which changed the background or text colour on each scanline.
Bonus points for the kiwi pointer (personal NZ bias).
No. What is this revisionist nonsense? Where the hell did you think the meme of "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog" came from? Conventional wisdom was alias up, or maintain a well-known handle. Do not use or share personal info. Ever.
Was contracted to a New Zealand government department and all the Edge browsers had AdBlock installed by default. I guess the New Zealand government that I worked for is a terrorist organisation. The department that I worked for did take other peoples money though. (Won't give any more information than that).
You can but they can constantly scan for any open connection that happens by and then dump cached data into it when one is found. Cell modems are becoming cheaper too, as is bulk cellular bandwidth, especially if buffered for periods of low utilization. In those cases, it might be less data since the connection is limited or the data harvester is paying. People with basement laundry rooms will have a built in advantage when dealing with this sort of thing.
One can still conduct deauth attacks fairly easily, or, if the device just picks the strongest open network signal, one can set up a dummy / honeypot WLAN right next to the appliance that has no internet connectivity, and as you note with the basement reference, faraday solutions can work well, too, not to mention simply removing or disabling the networking hardware.
This is also true for cars - it's often not terribly difficult to pull the fuse for the cellular modem provided you can procure a manual.
Counterpoint: Stallman was right.
Technology is a net benefit to society when users can control it, whereas stripping control from users (a la proprietary software) enables and promotes abusive, exploitative business practices like these.
I have personally installed equipment that included non-optional, always-on cellular data connectivity that allowed it to be configured and monitored from The Clown.
And Amazon rather famously included cellular connectivity with their early Kindle e-ink book-reading devices -- back in '07.
Eh. If someone wants to waste money keeping up a data connection with my washing machine, I don't have much of an issue with it, as long as it doesn't have any microphones.
There were a lot of global crews during c64 days and a few crews on the Amiga. In New Zealand on the Amiga a lot of the warez and compilations had importros on them. So was a small coding scene here but not as big as Europe or during C64 days.
Nokia was already in decline before the iPhone came along. Sony Ericsson and Motorola, and to a lesser extent, Samsung, had supplanted Nokia as the fashionable handsets for consumers.
I think the iPhone more directly killed Palm and Blackberry. Also PDAs to an extent too.
No, I worked at Nokia 2008-2012 and it was definitely not in decline. It had a near monopoly on high end phones when the iPhone launched. It took several years for its impact to be felt.
Sony Ericsson dominated the high end consumer phones. They supported Java games, Google Maps, could play MP3s, and so on and so forth. These feature phones weren’t nearly as advanced as the iPhone but this is pre-iPhone.
And BlackBerry dominated the business domain. With Palm and Windows CE taking some specific domains, eg where security was a greater concern.
The Motorola Razor (however it was spelt) was massive around your time of working at Nokia. Though granted that’s not high end.
There wasn’t really a bit smartphone market then. Largely because phone manufacturers were still figuring out how to make smart phones successful. Most businesses either went down the Blackberry route, or the PDA route. Nokia definitely dominated with Symbian handsets but that was such a small fraction of the overall high end and business devices in people’s hands that it’s hardly noteworthy.
At least that was the trends I saw in the UK. Maybe in parts of Europe Nokia had more popularity?
Edit, looking into this, it seems I’ve either been misremembering or lived in some kind of bubble.
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