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Feb. 16, 1978 -- forty eight years ago today -- the first public dial-up bulletin board system went online.
Wired: "1978: Ward Christensen and Randy Suess launch the first public dialup bulletin board system. The two unleash the kernel of what would eventually spawn the world wide web, countless online messaging systems..."
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/0216cbbs-first-bbs-bulletin-board/
I got my first modem in the summer of 1986, a Prometheus ProModem 1200A (modem on a card) for the Apple II. The first BBS I logged in to was OxGate, an RBBS/RCPM system the phone number of which I still can remember (my earliest BBS software -- firmware-based on that modem card -- had no phone book). I used BBSs avidly until sometime in 1994, when I subscribed to a local ISP's (Widomaker of Williamsburg, VA) dial-up modem-based PPP service that brought TCP/IP to my 486 PC with Windows 3.1. I could then browse the web from home, and that was basically the end of BBSing for me -- for the moment, anyway.
For those interested in experiencing this early form of online community, there are many BBSs online right now, accessible via telnet on systems old and new. I've enjoyed getting back into BBSing this way, especially when using vintage systems to login.
Most any computer can do it, today. Tips on how: https://bytecellar.com/bbsing
#BulletinboardSystem #BBS #BBSing #telnet #dialup #modem #online #terminals #terminalprograms #computinghistory #history #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #nostalgia #ATDT #onlineforums #preinternet #internet #communication #RBBS #AppleII #CRT #memories #Wired #tech #technews #technology
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Apple IIe computer (circa 1983) dialed into an electronic bulletin board system (BBS)
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OxGate BBS login screen from 1986
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Prometheus ProModem 1200A modem packaging with details
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Logged into a telnet-based BBS using MuffinTerm for iPadOS
The paper argues that agent systems can’t solve problems like the travelling salesman problem because of fundamental limits. That sounds impressive, but it’s really just computer science 101. The travelling salesman problem is NP-hard, which means no computer can efficiently solve every possible case unless P = NP, a question that is still unsolved.
👉 This limitation applies to all computing, not just agents or language models👈 .
In the real world, nobody tries to solve every case perfectly. Practical programs use shortcuts: heuristics, approximations, and clever pruning. That’s how routing software, logistics systems, and scheduling tools work. They don’t find the perfect answer every time, but they find good answers fast enough to be useful. Agentic systems do exactly the same thing.
👉 The paper also mixes up two different ideas👈 . Computational difficulty explains why some problems are slow to solve perfectly. It does not explain why a system might confidently give a wrong answer. Those errors come from lack of checking, missing information, or bad assumptions, not from NP-hardness.
So the core claim is: hard problems are hard for everyone. That’s true, but it’s not a special weakness of #agentic_ai systems, and it doesn’t really explain the kinds of failures the paper is trying to blame on theory.
TLDR: The paper is shit, thats why no one serious peer-reviewed it. What is super embrassing that #Wired and #Futurism parroted it.
I expect to keep encountering reposts of this shite for the next 6 months like that "AI atriphies your critical reasoning" preprint from MIT.
There is plenty to hang dogs on #AI and #LLM, no need to make silly arguments against it.
#RegulateAI
@GossiTheDog From the linked article, range of exposed data: "name, email, address, phone, etc." "but no passwords".
Great; so basically all the stuff that's hard to very hard to change, but not the one thing that's *trivial* to change (at least if you do it right).
And the worst alt text of 2025-12-29 does to Wired, with
Image may contain Elon Musk Clothing Hat Adult Person People Face Head Cap Formal Wear Suit and Crowd
https://www.wired.com/story/most-dangerous-people-on-the-internet-2025/
Condé Nast faces major data breach: 2.3M #WIRED records leaked, 40M more at risk
https://securityaffairs.com/186224/data-breach/conde-nast-faces-major-data-breach-2-3m-wired-records-leaked-40m-more-at-risk.html
#securityaffairs #hacking
For those being notified or first learning about the #WIRED #databreach:
On December 25, I broke the story of how I had been contacted in November by "Lovely," who claimed to have discovered a vulnerability. They asked for help getting Condé Nast to respond to them. They claimed they were not seeking any bounty or payment and had only downloaded a few profiles as proof.
They showed me my own data.
Trying to help, I reached out to Condé Nast corporate as well as to a contact at #WIRED.
Condé Nast never responded to me -- or to "Lovely" who eventually showed their true colors as someone trying to extort Condé Nast.
Do they have more data? Yes, it appears they do.
@troyhunt verified the data leak and #HIBP has been notifying its affected subscribers.
Read more details in my blog post at https://databreaches.net/2025/12/25/conde-nast-gets-hacked-and-databreaches-gets-played-christmas-lump-of-coal-edition/
@zackwhittaker @campuscodi @gcluley @euroinfosec @ValeryMarchive
#databreach #dataleak #infosec #cybersecurity #incidentresponse
Any #Ruby users here. #Wired thinks you're misguided.
https://www.wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-a-serious-programming-language/
Everyone and their mom has a #Wifi232 to get their #VintageComputer online, but I wounder if there's a #wired (#LAN) option instead.
Background: In my area, 2,4 GHz WiFi is so overcrowded that it's basically unuseable and also because Ethernet is more reliable.
- Ideally it can be powered via #PoE to enable #WakeOnLAN / #WakeOnDialin....
I don't mind if it looks like a MAU but with like a unmanaged 4-port Gigiabit Switch for #10Base2 / #10Base5 - lookalike "passthrough" and internal 10 MBit/s port so it can be used to directly link units or be hooked up to a switch. Similar to FriendlyNet
- Bonus points if it still supports 10MBit/s @ Cat.3/ single pair and 100BaseVG, but regular Fast Ethernet & #Gigabit Ethernet via Cat.5 and up is more important. (Maybe do like 2x #SFP ports at the sides and 1x 8p8c #RJ45 at the front ?)
So technically it's closer to a DEC DELNI than real AUI but if someone wants to implement an #AUI and even add a an AAUI adaptor cable I'm not gonna tell anyone not to.
#LAN232 #Ethernet232 #FriendlyNet #VontageComputing #embedded #Networking
Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform’s embrace of AI tools has been a success.
I'm not going to link it. It should be easy enough to find if you must.
"indicating the platform's embrace of AI tools has largely polluted the information ecosystem there" is how it ought to read. "Success" is a wholly inappropriate word to use.