Found a couple iPod Shuffles in a box. Plug them in (yes, I had one charge/sync cable!), wait 5 minutes to get some charge on the battery, and Shazam, one GIG of capacity in all its glory.
Grab some wired headphones and hello Genesis Abacab, it’s been a hot minute…
Remember that ancient router in the server room? Turns out, AI is making it a VIP target for attackers, according to Cisco. It's not just 'aging tech' anymore, it's 'AI-vulnerable tech'.
What's the oldest piece of tech you're still relying on (and secretly praying doesn't break)?
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/cisco-aging-technical-infrastructure/
#Networking #LegacyTech #AIThreats #Cybersecurity #DevOps
El Adiós a una Leyenda – Samsung Retira el Soporte al Famoso Galaxy S20 FE
Cinco años después de su lanzamiento, el icónico Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, el teléfono que revivió la serie Fan Edition, llega al final de su soporte oficial de software. La actualización de seguridad de octubre de 2025 será la última para este dispositivo, marcando su salida definitiva de la lista de firmware de Samsung. Su legado, sin embargo, vive en las nuevas políticas de soporte de hasta siete años.
El Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, lanzado el 2 de octubre de 2020, se convirtió rápidamente en uno de los smartphones más populares e interesantes de ese año, siendo el primer modelo Fan Edition basado en la serie Galaxy S. Tras cinco años de servicio, el dispositivo ha cumplido su ciclo de soporte de seguridad, con la actualización de octubre de 2025 siendo, previsiblemente, la última. Aunque el teléfono aún figuraba en la página oficial de soporte al momento de redactar el artículo, se espera que Samsung lo retire de la lista el próximo mes.
Este retiro del soporte de software significa que los usuarios ya no recibirán parches de seguridad ni actualizaciones de sistema operativo. A lo largo de su vida útil, el S20 FE recibió tres actualizaciones importantes de Android OS y cinco años de parches de seguridad.
A pesar de su despedida, el legado del Galaxy S20 FE es innegable. Este modelo estableció el concepto de la serie FE: ofrecer un excelente valor por dinero y especificaciones clave de alta gama a un precio más bajo, una estrategia que continúa con sus sucesores. El último de ellos, el Galaxy S25 FE, se beneficia de la nueva y mejorada política de soporte de Samsung, que promete hasta siete años de actualizaciones de seguridad y siete grandes actualizaciones del sistema operativo Android.
Para los usuarios listos para un cambio, Samsung ofrece descuentos por intercambio de hasta $200 (en mercados como EE. UU.) al entregar su antiguo Galaxy S20 FE para adquirir el nuevo Galaxy S25 FE.
#ActualizacionesDeSeguridad #arielmcorg #FanEdition #FinDeSoporte #GalaxyS20FE #infosertec #LegacyTech #PORTADA #S20FE #Samsung #smartphones
🧬 Heredity OS - AI evolution for ALL hardware! 📱
Even your dusty T-Mobile G1 from 2008 can run genetic algorithms! Why trash perfectly good devices when you can evolve them?
✨ Legacy support from HTC Dream to modern systems
♻️ Sustainable AI computing
🚀 Turn retro hardware into evolution labs
#HeredityOS #TMobileG1 #LegacyTech #AI #OpenSource #RetroComputing
huh, grafana and friends are being considered #legacytech already.
are there viable alternatives in the oss realm or time to brush up on #b4devops tools like nagios, munin smokeping, and cacti?
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/GrafanaAndLokiLegacyHere
I found an old box of technology from my childhood in my parents' attic. This got me thinking about all the old technical devices that are out there waiting for a purpose and to be used again.
#ChatGPT #ai #legacytech
Brand new HP M501dn has TLS 1.0/1.1 enabled, no way to disable.
Update firmware to latest(!) 2021(!) version and now there’s a menu page to turn that off.
Printer came out in 2016, sadly no “use by 2019” date on the package…
So, why is #dotnet involved in the blame for #MicrosoftAzure CLI upload to blob storage being weird?
Due to how #dotnet computes an MD5, and returns an array of 16 bytes (the output of `xxd -r -p` in the cautionary tale), instead of the more common hexadecimal string.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.md5?view=net-10.0#remarks
An MD5 string is 32 bytes, so #Microsoft saved 16 bytes by making it less easy to get an MD5 string... #640kEnoughForAnyone
#MicrosoftLogic #ShamelessTechShaming #LegacyTech #LegacyCode
I imagine it went down like this at the #MicrosoftAzure design meeting:
> Microsoft engineer: We should store the MD5 of the content in the blob storage database.
> Senior Microsoft engineer: Let's use #dotnet (!), and interpret the hexadecimal MD5 (with a newline!) as binary, and then base64 encode it!
They might have saved a couple of bytes... #dotnet ...👏 ...😬
#MicrosoftLogic #ShamelessTechShaming #LegacyTech #LegacyCode #LegacyCodeProblems
But try uploading a single file to blob storage with the #MicrosoftAzure CLI! (and consume it with official #dotnet API's - which require an MD5 checksum for blobs)
Surely `az storage blob upload --file foo [account] [container] [dst]` is enough?
Wrong! You need `az storage blob upload --file foo --content-md5 $(md5sum foo | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | xxd -r -p | base64) [account] [container] [dst]` 😬
Likely due to doing stuff with #dotnet
#ShamelessTechShaming #MicrosoftLogic #LegacyTech #LegacyCode
#USpol #GeoPol #Security #China
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...thinking out-of-the-box. Time for the #US to stop the partisan fighting and catch up.
These big #LegacyTech #AircraftCarriers from the (previous) #ColdWar period?--I think the #60Minutes report indirectly shows that they could be "sitting ducks" for the #PRC's new rockets...
Oh, and yes, 2027 seems like a plausible date for a #Chinese invasion of the #RepublicOfChina. If #MoscowAgentGriftingAmerica, #MAGA #Trump remains the...
"a stark new #reality: With #AI, #legacytech companies are sucking the innovation out of the room like a giant squid & more rapidly than w previous waves of #technology. And they're doing it right under the noses of #regulators. Requirements around computing power & talent hv made it too expensive for most companies to build cutting-edge #generativeAI models without e #patronage of a tech giant .. Bec #bigtech buys, rather than innovates, the strategy benefits #Microsoft"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2762829/the-ai-assembly-line-ends-with-the-tech-giants
I have an original Microsoft Surface Pro with original keyboard in near pristine condition. Now running Windows 10. It was bought for me at a Microsoft convention in California in (I think) 2015, just after the Surface range was launched. Now has an aftermarket charger, but I still have the original USA charger, which works, but has an output cable fault. Is this thing of any value? #microsoft #computers #legacytech
DVDs are going the way of the cassette tape. The latest company to say goodbye is Best Buy.
#LegacyTech #DVDs
https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-goodbye-to-more-dvds-best-buy-plans-to-phase-out-sales-of-physical-movies-in-the-coming-months/
Step into the world of technical debt and learn from the legacy of long-dead techs. Discover our reflections on the journey in our latest blog post.
https://www.eliza-ng.me/post/javatechnicalde/
#technicaldebt #legacytech #blogging #techreflections
I'm trying to remember the term for when a company stops supporting your "smart" thermostat. It's so horrible what happened to these people.
#ArtificialEyes #BionicEyes #LegacyTech #MedicalAppliance #PlannedObsolescence #UnplannedObsolesence #InternetOfShit
I haven’t used a floppy disk since 2005, but yes they are still using them because of legacy machines. Probably most if not all of Gen Z wonder, what are those things called floppy disks.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/why-the-floppy-disk-just-wont-die/
