You've made a classic blunder! Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games is American. Steve Jackson of Fighting Fantasy games is British. They have the same name and run in similar circles but aren't the same person.
Although maybe this is a trap because the American Steve Jackson *did* write three books in the series, but none of the ones he wrote (Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep, and Robot Commando) was the Citadel of Chaos (the one you showed).
My guess is that F is going to be for FAT. After all, this was a file system that was crucial to computing for such a long time... And unlike some other comments here, it perfectly fits the requirement of being a TLA.
Definitely F is for the notorious F.A.T. ! Not just "was" - it still is the format in which USB thumb drives and SD cards come in - the only FS format that Windows, MacOS/iOS and Linux /Android sharedly speak Be it FAT32 or the newer "extra FAT" 🤡. Oh and how hacky the long file names are stored via the VFAT hack
Woo! Captain Crunch mentioned! I loved reading about phone phreaking back in my teens. That era had been over for decades by then, but I loved the picture it painted in my mind of rogue geeks building so called blue and brown boxes, dumpster diving to get ahold of technical manuals to discover new ways to hack the phone system, and all the wild tech hijinks of the 60s and 70s.
FPGAs are cool and have had a massive impact on electronics design, but I'm not sure it's had anything like the same impact on computer use as it has had on computer engineering. I'm putting my money on FAT.
Great video! I had no idea that the EFF quite so historically important, I would have guessed that they were founded ~2010 and picked up importance around Snowden’s leaks. Wonderful organization, it’s not terribly surprising that they’re responsible for some of the most fundamental online rights. The Wyoming cattle farmer *was* a surprise though! If you’ve never listened, the EFF have an *excellent* podcast, “How to Fix the Internet.” They talk to all sorts of people about how we fix the digital problems of our time, and what a better future looks like. Their episode “Chronicling Online Communities” with Alex Winter (yes, Bill from Bill & Ted) is excellent, taking fresh perspectives on Napster and what TH-cam/Discord mean for youth. If you’re interested in politics, I think that “Open Source Beats Authoritarianism” with Taiwan’s Audrey Tang is my all-time favorite, covering how Tang and others brought hacker ethic (FOSS and Rough Consensus) to Taiwan’s government and how it created the strongest government in the world.
Please note that the protection of emails and bbs messages only extends to the emails etc of US citizens from US authorities. In Germany, for instance, the level of protection given to telehone and (snail)mail are explictly not extended to electronic communications (and if memory serves), this also is the case in the UK (where passwords in you brain don't even get protection).
That's extremely disappointing -- email replaced phone and mail for most of their use cases, which is extremely strong evidence that the communications worthy of that protection were now taking place using email. And now those essential communications are often moving out of email and into other platforms. It's bad enough when the law doesn't keep up with changes in technology and how people perform their (formerly) protected tasks, but from your wording, it sounds like the German law specifically codifies the stance of "if you get with the times, you lose legal protections", and I find that quite gross.
Here in Europe in the late 80s we had to do significantly more to make free phone calls. 😂I created 3 devices, first just my c64 with my assembly code to create the 16 tones at the right 50-100-2000ms duration, that hardly ever worked because of the infamous bug of the C64 that “gives a plop” when you switch the volume to 0. Then I made my own tone generator using an MCS51 that I controlled via an Atari Portfolio that held all the numbers on its massive 128KB internally storage. That was rather reliable but very bulky with the portfolio, parallel port and my mcs51 board. But hey, it looked like John Conor stealing cash from the ATM, so coolness factor was an 11 😂 Then I bought the kit from HacTic by now my regional PBX was already using a different channel for control but my friend lived in the sticks there we could still do it. Then together we reverse engineered the KPN phone card system on college to mimic these call cards again the trusty portolio came to play as inspired by T2 and we managed to simulate a 25 guilder card. When that ran empty, you would have to hang up and you could reset the whole system and you could do it again. It would basically fry mini fuses on the phone card. So we mimicked these with opto couplers. We wanted to publish our research in HacTic but the school prohibited this. As KPN was one of the companies that took in lots of apprenticeships for the school. And protectionism by this oligarch kept it out of the news for quite sometime till the had a new system ready to be rolled out. Bastards!
hmmm... I hope F could be for FSF (Free Software Foundation) but it's probably about something else. If it isn't, hopefully it would get a mention when you get to G, as that could be about GNU.
speaking of beige pc-compatible boxes: My grandparents worked at Bell Labs doing some of the earliest computing stuff there. They were going through their old stuff (punch card punchers all the way up to more modern things and whatnot) and I found this weird device with an even weirder cable on it. I said "I don't think we have a beige enoughdevice to use this with" and they got a kick out of it.
E is for Enhanced Graphics Adapter, like the Colour Graphics Adapter and Monochrome Display Adapter before it. The A changed to Array for the Video Graphics Array, which was the standard implemented by the PS/2 Display Adapter.
I didn't know SJG instigated the foundation of the EFF. That's a great trivia! Also, SJG open sourced their RPG system GURPS (just the system, not the settings, fluff, or artwork) , making them a pioneer of Creative Commons.
copying digital information is the default thing too. there's not really an original in any meaningful sense, maybe the ram state of the pc something was created on if you make something all in one go. As soon as you save something even a local ms paint doodle, you've made a copy and there might be some more copies in some temporary folder, but grifters and marks don't know how computers work so they sell and buy idiocy like NFTs.
Ahh, also a djb fan. 👍 Ran Qmail at one of the UK's first ISPs … after hand rolling a mass virtual email address router in sendmail. (Wasn't fun maintaining that!) I still used tinydns up until a couple of years ago to host my domains. I've moved to Fastmail and Route 53 now … value my time more these days! I remember the crypto case and the years of discussion it caused! (I'm _old!_ 👴🙄😀)
Theft is largely about stealing money. i.e. Replacement costs where applicable. So Theft of software seems to apply. It's not the goods your ststealingeeling it's the owners paycheck your stealing.
All money should be steel, I agree. But seriously tho, no one is owed anything. But we made this monetary system in life so we die under that limitation.
That assumes the existence of such a thing. Many cases involve the recipient being unable to pay in the first place (a great source of motivation for alternate methods), usually as a direct result of the arbitrarily instated restrictions, like refusing to sell across random borders.
@@lucidmoses No, it's a remark that the losses you attribute as an excuse to label copying as theft are often imaginary. In fact, they're infamously exaggerated in all cases dragged to court, making the persecution blatantly unjust. In short: three wrongs don't make you right.
@@0LoneTech What? You say No, as in it's not a justification and then you try and justify it again. Take a side. Do you think this is a valid justification or not?
You've made a classic blunder!
Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games is American.
Steve Jackson of Fighting Fantasy games is British.
They have the same name and run in similar circles but aren't the same person.
Although maybe this is a trap because the American Steve Jackson *did* write three books in the series, but none of the ones he wrote (Scorpion Swamp, Demons of the Deep, and Robot Commando) was the Citadel of Chaos (the one you showed).
I hope this leads to an entire video about namespace collisions.
I can't understand why anyone could possibly make this mistake! ;)
@@phyphor wow. Thank you for the correction. I had literally no idea.
@@DylanBeattie it's easily done, hence the Princess Bride quote
I thought F is for "pay respects"... I'll see myself out now.
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My guess is that F is going to be for FAT. After all, this was a file system that was crucial to computing for such a long time... And unlike some other comments here, it perfectly fits the requirement of being a TLA.
Definitely F is for the notorious F.A.T. !
Not just "was" - it still is the format in which USB thumb drives and SD cards come in - the only FS format that Windows, MacOS/iOS and Linux /Android sharedly speak
Be it FAT32 or the newer "extra FAT" 🤡. Oh and how hacky the long file names are stored via the VFAT hack
@@enterrr and tons of embedded devices use FAT in their flash to store data because of its simplicity. Even when there is no regular OS involved.
Woo! Captain Crunch mentioned! I loved reading about phone phreaking back in my teens. That era had been over for decades by then, but I loved the picture it painted in my mind of rogue geeks building so called blue and brown boxes, dumpster diving to get ahold of technical manuals to discover new ways to hack the phone system, and all the wild tech hijinks of the 60s and 70s.
I'm gonna hazard a guess that F is for FPGA! Just because they're insanely cool devices.
They are, but I would probably go with FOSS instead. Sadly, neither of both is a three letter acronym...
@@fabii5555 That's ok, it's an ETLA (Extended Three Letter Acronym)
FPGAs are cool and have had a massive impact on electronics design, but I'm not sure it's had anything like the same impact on computer use as it has had on computer engineering. I'm putting my money on FAT.
Great video! I had no idea that the EFF quite so historically important, I would have guessed that they were founded ~2010 and picked up importance around Snowden’s leaks. Wonderful organization, it’s not terribly surprising that they’re responsible for some of the most fundamental online rights. The Wyoming cattle farmer *was* a surprise though!
If you’ve never listened, the EFF have an *excellent* podcast, “How to Fix the Internet.” They talk to all sorts of people about how we fix the digital problems of our time, and what a better future looks like. Their episode “Chronicling Online Communities” with Alex Winter (yes, Bill from Bill & Ted) is excellent, taking fresh perspectives on Napster and what TH-cam/Discord mean for youth. If you’re interested in politics, I think that “Open Source Beats Authoritarianism” with Taiwan’s Audrey Tang is my all-time favorite, covering how Tang and others brought hacker ethic (FOSS and Rough Consensus) to Taiwan’s government and how it created the strongest government in the world.
E is for F
Please note that the protection of emails and bbs messages only extends to the emails etc of US citizens from US authorities. In Germany, for instance, the level of protection given to telehone and (snail)mail are explictly not extended to electronic communications (and if memory serves), this also is the case in the UK (where passwords in you brain don't even get protection).
That's extremely disappointing -- email replaced phone and mail for most of their use cases, which is extremely strong evidence that the communications worthy of that protection were now taking place using email. And now those essential communications are often moving out of email and into other platforms. It's bad enough when the law doesn't keep up with changes in technology and how people perform their (formerly) protected tasks, but from your wording, it sounds like the German law specifically codifies the stance of "if you get with the times, you lose legal protections", and I find that quite gross.
Wasn't expecting the Crimson Diamond to be mentioned here. Not just EGA graphics but a very specific style of EGA graphics that was heavily dithered.
Here in Europe in the late 80s we had to do significantly more to make free phone calls. 😂I created 3 devices, first just my c64 with my assembly code to create the 16 tones at the right 50-100-2000ms duration, that hardly ever worked because of the infamous bug of the C64 that “gives a plop” when you switch the volume to 0.
Then I made my own tone generator using an MCS51 that I controlled via an Atari Portfolio that held all the numbers on its massive 128KB internally storage. That was rather reliable but very bulky with the portfolio, parallel port and my mcs51 board. But hey, it looked like John Conor stealing cash from the ATM, so coolness factor was an 11 😂
Then I bought the kit from HacTic by now my regional PBX was already using a different channel for control but my friend lived in the sticks there we could still do it.
Then together we reverse engineered the KPN phone card system on college to mimic these call cards again the trusty portolio came to play as inspired by T2 and we managed to simulate a 25 guilder card. When that ran empty, you would have to hang up and you could reset the whole system and you could do it again. It would basically fry mini fuses on the phone card. So we mimicked these with opto couplers. We wanted to publish our research in HacTic but the school prohibited this. As KPN was one of the companies that took in lots of apprenticeships for the school. And protectionism by this oligarch kept it out of the news for quite sometime till the had a new system ready to be rolled out. Bastards!
dear god
F for FAT and its variants (for computing), or FFT (for signal processing). We would not be where we are today without both.
Hey Dylan is coming to Utrecht my town! ❤
F is for Friends who do stuff together
hmmm... I hope F could be for FSF (Free Software Foundation)
but it's probably about something else.
If it isn't, hopefully it would get a mention when you get to G, as that could be about GNU.
Looking forward to listening to this, much appreciated !
I'd hope that 'F' is going to feature Richard Stallman.
Dylan, you are a treasure to this world ❤ thanks for sharing your knowledge and being who you are!
Somewhere around minute 4 I hoped, you'll speak about SJG, and then you did it! Was great!
(I didn't remember the SJG/Cyberpunk story lead to the EFF)
speaking of beige pc-compatible boxes:
My grandparents worked at Bell Labs doing some of the earliest computing stuff there. They were going through their old stuff (punch card punchers all the way up to more modern things and whatnot) and I found this weird device with an even weirder cable on it. I said "I don't think we have a beige enoughdevice to use this with" and they got a kick out of it.
Interesting; I had heard of the raid on SJ Games before, but I didn't realise that the legal consequences was what lead to the EFF.
Old computer nostalgia is the best computer nostalgia. New computer nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.
E is for Enhanced Graphics Adapter, like the Colour Graphics Adapter and Monochrome Display Adapter before it. The A changed to Array for the Video Graphics Array, which was the standard implemented by the PS/2 Display Adapter.
I didn't know SJG instigated the foundation of the EFF. That's a great trivia!
Also, SJG open sourced their RPG system GURPS (just the system, not the settings, fluff, or artwork) , making them a pioneer of Creative Commons.
Fortran 🎉
I wanted FORTH... but we're both wrong... neither are 3 letter abbreviations.
f for vescence
copying digital information is the default thing too. there's not really an original in any meaningful sense, maybe the ram state of the pc something was created on if you make something all in one go.
As soon as you save something even a local ms paint doodle, you've made a copy and there might be some more copies in some temporary folder, but grifters and marks don't know how computers work so they sell and buy idiocy like NFTs.
shouldn't F be for the FSF? or would it take G since GNU?
As a South African looking at the title and thumbnail, I was surprised that Julius Malema would feature in this series. The possibilities....
I think it would be remiss to talk about John Draper blowing his whistle without mentioning how he got other people to blow his whistle.
Save EGA for episode V(GA) ;)
Fly by night 👍
How many people joke the tee shirt joke?
Fly By Night 😁
F is for F000:FFF0 ... of course ...
F is for FUD
uh....you got the wrong Steve Jackson.
Its Steve Jackson Games, ie the American Steve Jackson, not the British one.
Ahh, also a djb fan. 👍 Ran Qmail at one of the UK's first ISPs … after hand rolling a mass virtual email address router in sendmail. (Wasn't fun maintaining that!) I still used tinydns up until a couple of years ago to host my domains. I've moved to Fastmail and Route 53 now … value my time more these days! I remember the crypto case and the years of discussion it caused! (I'm _old!_ 👴🙄😀)
FFT used in picture and video compression,
Or FPGA
Or FAT file systems. Should be FFT.
this comment, like, and sub for the algorithm
cause i want to support the channel and help this video be seen
F is for Forth
@@eldersprig FORTH would be fabulous but, sadly, it's not a 3 letter abbreviation.
Fat, fifo, fortran, fps, ftp, faq, fb (for facebook), fcc, fft, fi (for finland and torvalds? Have to be a bit biased..), fubar and fml :)
My first guess was Free Software but those are good candidates too
You forgot foo
FAT, FFT or FTP
F is for Frequently Asked Questions.
Theft is largely about stealing money. i.e. Replacement costs where applicable. So Theft of software seems to apply. It's not the goods your ststealingeeling it's the owners paycheck your stealing.
All money should be steel, I agree.
But seriously tho, no one is owed anything. But we made this monetary system in life so we die under that limitation.
That assumes the existence of such a thing. Many cases involve the recipient being unable to pay in the first place (a great source of motivation for alternate methods), usually as a direct result of the arbitrarily instated restrictions, like refusing to sell across random borders.
@@0LoneTech Interesting. So in your mind that's a justification?
@@lucidmoses No, it's a remark that the losses you attribute as an excuse to label copying as theft are often imaginary. In fact, they're infamously exaggerated in all cases dragged to court, making the persecution blatantly unjust. In short: three wrongs don't make you right.
@@0LoneTech What? You say No, as in it's not a justification and then you try and justify it again. Take a side. Do you think this is a valid justification or not?