Notices by Liam Proven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)

9Front "This was supposed to be fun" released

https://9front.org/releases/2026/08/02/0/

RE: https://norden.social/@hart/116944056952271840

"Too few people know this ⬇️ and they fear this development... #climatecatastrophe"

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/15/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-haters-to-fork-off/5271894

Linux supremo says contributors opposed to AI use can 'just walk away'

<- not by me, but significant news from @theregister

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624

Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

<- by me on #TheRegister

@davidgerard @duke_of_germany @ecosia @fasterandworse @ketan @kimcrawley

No, it's just another example of forcing us to guzzle the slop.

This is a classic business move: foist something the users don't want on them, then make them pay to turn it off.

There is probably a name for it.

It's why I won't even look at Kagi (or Orion): I am not paying for something which requires me to turn off things I don't want.

Also see: MS Windows.

Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses

https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/why-i-use-the-gpl-and-not-cuck-licenses/

<- look through, or past, the inflammatory language. Look at the concept here. The point is a powerful one.

Dogpile, the original meta-search engine, still exists, & it works superbly.

https://www.dogpile.com/

Google has been intentionally enshittified into uselessness, even if you use `&udm=14` in the URL to disable AI junk. I am not paying for search, especially for any outfit using "AI". But this 30Y old site is my new favourite.

RT @misterjayem.bsky.social

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

There's a lesson here for all contemporary computing. When you're absolutely compelled to keep things tiny and simple, it becomes possible to keep them working for years on end without updates or site visits.

The best software is tiny software.

How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science

https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science

It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home

@killyourfm Been there, done that, and you're right.

But tell me... that yellow-orange band in the distance... is that the smog cloud hanging over Denver? I saw that too and it scared me...

"the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html

"[AI coding tech] is horrific for attention. It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends."

To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks.

https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks

«
I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI.
»

-- @martyn

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/23/the-virtual-os-museum-opens-its-doors/5243459

A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them

<- by me on #TheRegister

The original Bourne shell was written in a *very* strange style of C, which shows that even in 1979, some of the original Unix greats disdained C's famed terseness & wanted _keywords_ instead of punctuation marks.

TIL it has a name: it's known as "Bournegol".

https://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html

Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software

https://fitsonafloppy.com/

«
Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.
»

LocalSend puts your sneakernet out of business

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/05/15/localsend-puts-your-sneakernet-out-of-business/5241407

Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in

<- by me on #TheRegister

"They Live" Adblocker

https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker

«
A fork of uBlock Origin Lite that, instead of hiding cosmetically-blocked ads, replaces them with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film _They Live_
»

Your phone is about to stop being yours.

https://keepandroidopen.org/en/

125 days until lockdown

Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.

Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.

Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/eurooffice_forks_onlyoffice/

Meanwhile, Collabora splits from LibreOffice amid claims TDF ejected 'all Collabora staff and partners'

← by me on @theregister