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Liam Proven
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Tall, dark, black-clad, atheist, skeptic, vegetarian, SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
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Canonical pushes Ubuntu LTS support even further - if you pay

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Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest

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Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS support again - if you pay
: Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest
www.theregister.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse:" Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity
John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse
Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity
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November 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Palmy like it’s 1999: how to revive a Psion Series 3a handheld
Palmy like it’s 1999: how to revive a Psion Series 3a handheld
I have a soft spot for the technology of my younger days. In the mid-1990s, for example, I was in my late twenties and one of the machines I used for a time — all my MacWorld Boston 1994 coverage w…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Old tech for typing: using 1992’s Amstrad NC100 Notepad in 2025
Old tech for typing: using 1992’s Amstrad NC100 Notepad in 2025
In the early 1990s, I got to play with a new Amstrad device: the NC100 “notepad computer”. At the time, Amstrad was the name in British computer manufacturing. Notably it had shifted more than a mi…
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November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Florida Northern Lights: Northern lights have come to Florida skies. In fact, the brilliant streak of a Northern Taurid meteor flashes through the starry night sky above the beach in this sea and skyscape, captured from Shired Island, FL on Nov 11.
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica

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Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans

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THEA1200 is a full-size working Amiga replica
: Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans
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November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta

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Linux-powered PC & Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller, all land on pre-order for next year

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Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
: Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year
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November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
A panel from Watchmen no. 4 drawn by Dave Gibbons. Script by Alan Moore.
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut

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The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump

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Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut
: The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Just got an email from the alumni office at my old school, inviting me to a talk by former pupil, arch-Brexiteer and climate denialist Lord Frost. I'm tempted to ask if rotten fruit and vegetables will be provided on the day, or if I should bring my own.
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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New all-female punk band name just dropped #BoudicanDestructionHorizon
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Part 83 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Queen Boudica revenge was so great against Rome she burned Londinium leaving a scorch layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the 'Boudican Destruction Horizon'
Smart folks looking at rocks
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree

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Includes about 1,240 operating systems so far
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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New jellyfish has just landed!!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:

“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: ‘We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh’

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<- one of my favourite strips. The strip is very very NSFW but the interview's pretty safe.
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie

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The real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there’s a downside, too.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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'Battling' Bessie Braddock (1899-1970) died on this day 1970. Labour MP for Liverpool Exchange from 1945-70, she won a national reputation for her forthright campaigns on housing, public health and other social issues
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived

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Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download

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'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 arrives
: Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download
www.theregister.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware

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VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
: Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware
www.theregister.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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There are many places around the City of London to see its old Roman Wall, notably alongside Noble Street, in Barber Surgeons' Meadow, through the Barbican, in St Alphage Garden and just outside the entrance to Tower Hill station.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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a reminder that we've been trying to regulate capitalism for 50 years and all we got for it was climate change, biosphere collapse, and billionairism. smashing capitalism does not mean eliminating markets, which have always existed. it means organizing society around care rather than profit
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. -Ursula K. Le Guin
October 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI

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Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar

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Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs privacy, bloats AI
: Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
www.theregister.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It was seventy years ago today. And that clock still doesn’t work..
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Nov 12th - The Hill Valley clock tower was struck by lightning, George decked Biff and saved Lorraine, Marty travelled Back to the Future.

📽️📅 Back to the Future (1985)
3 Screenshots from the movie "Back to the Future" (1985): First, a close-up of a young man and woman dressed in 1950s attire, gazing affectionately at each other on a dance floor, evoking a pivotal romantic moment. Second, a digital display showing "Nov 12, 1955" as the destination date, central to the film's time-travel plot. Third, an image of the town clock tower at night, with a dramatic lightning bolt striking the clock
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM