For #caturday sharing an old meme that always made me laugh

for i in {10..1}; do echo "${i}..."; sleep 1; done; echo 'Happy New Year 2026! 🥂'

It doesn't matter who wins the AI race, whether it’s OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or world governments. We will be the collateral damage in this. Energy bills, water bills, and hardware prices are going to become major talking points in 2026 and beyond. These are just a few things I’ve noticed as 2025 comes to a close.

Personally, I think it’s high time to introduce higher taxation for companies that have started using AI or robots to replace humans in any industry ( not just IT OR office jobs). We could call it an 'AI tax.' The revenue collected should go to people who have lost their jobs to robots. Of course, there would need to be a framework and laws to manage this. We need something like this to preserve the fabric of society and to keep people from falling into poverty, or worse, crime.

Do you love Unix? Do you want to experience the old school Unix that ran on PDP-11 computers? Fear not, you can now do it for learning purposes right on your own computer. This page explains how to use the UNIX v4 tape to bootstrap the system and enjoy the nostalgia once again on your modern machine. Give it a try! You have nothing to lose in an age where most modern commercial operating systems (Windows/Android and othes) have turned into data harvesting machines.

UNIX Fourth Edition

Is it a good idea for new developers to learn ‘C’ language in 2026?

User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call. Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.

TIL, an open source internet search engine called MarginaliaSearch exists. It mainly for text-oriented websites, specifically indexing the 'small, old, and weird' web. You can even run it on your own server if you have 32GiB of RAM and plenty of fast SSD space for the index. This is perfect for those seeking an alt search engine, but more importantly, it teaches you how to build a search system and manage its dataset. It’s a fantastic CS learning experience to satisfy your itch.

Zen Browser is a free, open source browser based on Firefox, designed for a calmer internet experience by removing Firefox's "bad bits." It has zero telemetry. It comes with more "hardened" privacy settings out of the box, whereas Firefox requires you to dive into the settings to achieve the same level of protection and zero Ads etc. this is what Firefox should have been. Anyway, I shared information. Now it is up to you 😉

Zen Browser

Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features.

It’s a beautiful day until you realize that 64GB of high performance RAM carries the same price tag as a brand new MacBook Air featuring a "generous" 16GB of RAM. How did we get here? Here we call it the “AI” tax 😏 and it is just the beginning of the new era for DIY users.