I mean if you think $65k is the price of air time go for it, but personally this sounds more like Irrational Exuberance and the madness of crowds. For those studying history, we all know how that ends. Market bubbles pop, and BTC is not easily fungible.

fair enough, and maybe at this point i'll stop. I finally got it out of my system that I was missing out. But I sure do love my coinbase portfolio i'm now "stuck" with.

You did see the FSF executive director and two board members giving their notice right?

To be fair, I can imagine these being the people who voted against him being reinstated, so they've just ended up consolidating his control over the FSF.

Hardly! The rest of the world is 100Mbps+... stop lobbying against much needed infrastructure.

But if they're required to actually spend money upgrading infrastructure (outside of areas with mean income above $500k), they won't be able to make the same kind of obscene profits they do now.

Have you ever seen San Francisco internet? It's awful in many populated places and mean income is quite high. I get a gig pretty much anywhere I live in a big Texas metro area.

A good point; I didn't mean to imply that they would always upgrade infrastructure where income was high. Just that they would try to avoid it by any means necessary where income was lower.

Let the corporations pull out, the grass roots is rising up.

https://rms-support-letter.github.io/

I see a lot of accounts with no commits, no repos, no history.

Same as the anti-RMS letter wich, even worse, barely links the profiles

COVID Passports are basically what Larry Lessig (Code v2) and Snowden (Permanent Record) warned us about. A papers please society that digital tracks and restricts movement of people in the real world.

Never let a good crisis go to waste!

Might be possible to slap these patches on top UXP and get it building. http://thereisonlyxul.org

Author here. Sadly, not without a current toolchain, plus all the custom changes for Mac OS 9 on top of NSPR and other pieces. CodeWarrior is a solid compiler but the classic Mac OS versions definitely show their age compared to modern gcc and clang.

I wonder how much work would be needed to generate PEF from a modern PowerPC toolchain...

There's Retro68. It might be able to pull this off. You'd still need all the other pieces, of course.

Regardless, thank you for all of your work and contributions. Keeping those old PPC devices alive did more for the environment than I think you'll ever be able to quantify. Not to mention, I had a lot of fun with old PowerBooks and iMacs surfing the web.

Hey, thanks. It's nice to hear it said.

Oh wow! I didn't know that was a thing -- it looks as though that's exactly what I was thinking of.

With that in place... I suppose the next step would be to start writing a Mac OS browser shell to run WebKit in.

You can still use the old version called Silence.im, it was not behind a central server, used MMS to exchange private keys.