Announcing airbreak, a toolkit to jailbreak inexpensive CPAP machines to turn them into emergency #COVID19 ventilators by unlocking all operational modes and allowing custom software extensions. https://airbreak.dev/
Now with the 4-bit palette decoding! It appears to be a simplified form of the Windows 4-bit RLE BMP format, without the alternating runs and without the alignment restrictions.
It's Fortran day! Here's a fun general purpose program to compute spacecraft turn maneuvers: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720023254.pdf
DIGITAL-8-16-F `DOUBLE PRECISION SINE`:
```
/INI
/ T
/ I
/ A
/ L
/ IZE
```
https://trmm.net/Papertapes #retrocomputing
Now that we're all video conference, all the time, @yaelwrites's writeup on the privacy concerns of using the commercial chat tools is very timely. https://onezero.medium.com/slack-zoom-google-hangouts-are-your-remote-work-apps-spying-on-you-cf1e33809cf7
1969 Tektronix white paper explains how a mouse works. #retrocomputing https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_tektronixcormationDisplayConceptsJan69_5521470/page/n69/mode/2up