joshua stein
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joshua stein
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Hello, cyberpals. I make @pushover.net and old Macintosh stuff and sometimes OpenBSD stuff for you and me.

Projects here: @klud.ge | @deskto.ps

Oak Park, Illinois
World Wide Web: jcs.org
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man i am not good with these computers
January 15, 2026 at 9:16 PM
when you click "open account" and it takes you to a PDF
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
tldr: Adafruit had some dispute with Sparkfun over "harassing actions" by Sparkfun staff, to which Sparkfun responded by cutting off Adafruit from selling Teensy products and posting this weird notice, so Adafruit made their own "Teensy-compatible" PCBs called "Freensy" that they will be selling
January 14, 2026 at 3:24 PM
I wrote a thing I needed, if you also need it:

github.com/jcs/atalk-pr...
GitHub - jcs/atalk-proxy: AppleTalk (EtherTalk) proxy
AppleTalk (EtherTalk) proxy. Contribute to jcs/atalk-proxy development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Choose life.
Choose a job.
Choose a career.
Choose a family.
Choose a printer.
January 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Reposted by joshua stein
Over the break I spent time on my complete remake of MacPaint (with some quality-of-life improvements). I started in 2024 and intended to release for the 40th anniversary, but MacPaint has way more god damn features than I think anyone remembers. Here's some video of me using the latest build. 😄
January 6, 2026 at 7:53 PM
send help
January 9, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Hey, Lingo. Let's party!
January 7, 2026 at 1:24 AM
No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).
January 4, 2026 at 12:28 AM
neat talk on bypassing multiple hardware security layers in the rp2350

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-of-bo...
Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot
In August 2024, Raspberry Pi released their newest MCU: The RP2350. Alongside the chip, they also released the RP2350 Hacking Challenge: ...
media.ccc.de
January 4, 2026 at 12:26 AM
i hear the high power demand of all these new datacenters for ai is requiring upgrades to the power infrastructure to deliver it all

so once the ai bubble bursts i guess we'll still have an upgraded power infrastructure

maybe we can trick these idiots into funding other things that we need
January 2, 2026 at 9:41 PM
January 1, 2026 at 6:12 AM
Reposted by joshua stein
I was going to be a bit more celebratory today with getting the last video of the year finished and stuff, then it got dropped on me pretty hard this morning that over the weekend we lost an icon in the world of tech reporting.

😔

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
December 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
December 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
for christmas this year i got strep throat and 3 days of isolation

seasons greetings
December 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The boxed copies of my Mac software that I sold at VCF Midwest this August had these registration postcards in them

I finally got my first reply mailed in, it's a Festivus miracle!
December 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Still snowing in 2025 thanks to @rckjnsn.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
my kid went to an art thing and they got CDRs to draw on because apparently such things are worthless now, but one of them had this magnificent label that seems kind of sad to discard
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
a penny for your thoughts is now being rounded down to zero, your input is worthless
December 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
a dumb idea i had yesterday
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reposted by joshua stein
Time to keep my inner Monk satisfied. Me:
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
typical openbsd
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
hot dog stand 4 lyfe
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
you suck penny, nobody liked you
December 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM