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California lawmakers unanimously passed an amendment exempting most open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act—a needed correction to a law written for platforms, not forks.
Inspired by tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware
LG monitors can trigger Windows to install manufacturer software that later advertised McAfee—exposing a trust boundary between hardware identity and automatic app distribution.
Inspired by s-config.com · S-Config
Ernie Smith’s Columbia House retrospective reads like SaaS: penny bait, negative-option billing, and retention that means making leaving annoying.
Inspired by tedium.co · Ernie Smith
decayfmt is a Rust experiment that damages .tdcy and .idcy files on every open. It is a social contract, not cryptography—and a reminder that true ephemerality needs more than a file format.
Inspired by github.com · Arav Panwar
Ian Cortina, EI3LH, hosts a working telnet BBS in BASIC on a Casio VX-4’s 8 KB of RAM—bridged by a Pi Zero W at 4,800 baud—proving constraints can be the whole point of a networking experiment.
Inspired by ei3lh.eu · Ian Cortina
Slashdot asks what switching among Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS really costs: not only licenses and apps, but years of muscle memory, utilities, and habits migration tools cannot move—classic economic switching costs and lock-in.
Inspired by ask.slashdot.org · Slashdot
A Hacker News comment on “My server is a phone now” uses theme and rheme to explain why known information comes first—and how years of Japanese-to-English translation taught one reader to reorganize English for natural flow.
Inspired by seg6.space · seg6.space
Chris Garry’s Apollo-11 repository preserves the original Apollo Guidance Computer source for Comanche055 and Luminary099—transcribed from MIT Museum hardcopy with Virtual AGC—arguing that mission software deserves the same care we give spacecraft, spacesuits, and recordings.
Inspired by github.com · Chris Garry
late.sh by Mateusz Piorowski is a cozy SSH clubhouse—chat, music, arcade, news, challenges, and ASCII art—where your key is your identity, no passwords or OAuth, and connecting still feels a little like finding people on a BBS.
Inspired by late.sh · Mateusz Piorowski
Ashley Strickland reports on New Horizons waking from its longest hibernation nearly six billion miles from Earth. Twenty years after launch, it still runs stored commands and finds more dust than expected past the Kuiper Belt.
Inspired by cnn.com · Ashley Strickland
