Someone somewhere said that they wouldn't believe the UNIX V4 recovery was real unless they saw video of the tape being read on an original drive. So: here's the video of the tape being read on an original drive, last week. View quoted note →
The @npub17wuu...8g3u end-of-year roundup does not pull its punches, in an admirable way: « Some distributions, particularly the commercial projects, shifted focus this year, discarding useful tools and replacing them with AI buzzwords, less capable installers, and broken core packages. We saw Red Hat/Fedora discard an old, functional installer for a limited, broken replacement while introducing a barely functional AI chatbot into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Ubuntu swapped out its tried and true GNU core utilities for less functional Rust alternatives while also breaking Flatpak packages. Meanwhile, openSUSE threw away its famous YaST system administration tools and brought in a system installer which barely works. It's been a bleak year if you're a user of commercially-backed Linux distributions. Programs licensed as free software are being replaced by more liberally licensed alternatives, AI slop is being hyped as a main selling point, and powerful administrative tools are being replaced by watered down web-based alternatives. »
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The oldest Unix written in C was successfully recovered from tape this weekend -- and here it is running on IRIX. The amazing bit is the contents of the big window in the middle, for children under 50, *not* the windows themselves. View quoted note →
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
: Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.
 Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. <- by me on @npub1p4kx...wfhv
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectivel...
 «I effectively have over $30,000 worth of previously-active “bricked" hardware. My iPhone, iPad, Watch, & Macs cannot sync, update, or function properly.» — Paris Buttfield-Addison
Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
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One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics | Gábor Nyéki
 <- I recently wrote a short piece about the early days of PC Unix. This is what Unix was like before then, in the minicomputer era.