Voice Modems(computer.rip)

63 points by K7PJP 6 months ago | 8 comments

LotusNotes(computer.rip)

167 points by TMWNN 7 months ago | 93 comments

History of Telecommunications T-Carrier(computer.rip)

31 points by aberoham 1 year ago | 11 comments

Memories of .us(computer.rip)

172 points by sabas_ge 11 months ago | 61 comments

Telephones Caught in Between(computer.rip)

30 points by speckx 2 months ago | 4 comments

Extremely Low Frequencies(computer.rip)

179 points by pinewurst 5 months ago | 15 comments

Just disconnect the internet(computer.rip)

364 points by bathtub365 2 years ago | 193 comments

A Computers Are Bad newsletter essay by J. B. Crawford arguing against the common refrain that critical systems should simply be disconnected from the internet.

Cooler screens(computer.rip)

317 points by kevincox 3 years ago | 203 comments

A Computers Are Bad newsletter essay by J. B. Crawford about Cooler Screens, the digital display doors replacing glass on Walgreens refrigerators.

Free Software Is a Failure(paritybit.ca)

7 points by gum_wobble 1 day ago | 6 comments

Blog essay by Jake Bauer arguing that the copyleft Free Software movement and the GPL fail at their stated goals and harm the broader FOSS ecosystem.

Minuteman missile communications(computer.rip)

351 points by sklargh 2 years ago | 59 comments

A Computers Are Bad newsletter article by J. B. Crawford on the communications systems, including HICS, used for Minuteman missile sites.

AI's Dial-Up Era(wreflection.com)

441 points by nowflux 11 months ago | 395 comments

A Wreflection newsletter essay comparing the current state of AI to the dial-up era of the internet in 1995.

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information(blog.burkert.me)

328 points by curioussquirrel 1 year ago | 132 comments

A personal blog post by Tom Burkert praising RSS and the value of controlled, user-curated information feeds over algorithmic ones.