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Thursday, 22 January 2026
quote [ How the virtual machine, a foundational element of cloud computing, found its modern footing after a couple of scientists proved a couple of theorems wrong. ]
In my virtual machine.
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Friday, 9 January 2026
quote [ The Republican calendar crystallised a French dream of rationality and symmetry, which echoes in everything from the geometry of garden design to the metric system. ]
[sings] Time is on my side, yes it is
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Thursday, 8 January 2026
quote [ The number 26, which gets back-burnered compared to numbers with neater divisibility, is an essential digit. And you?re gonna be hearing all about it in 2026. ]
Was it 26?
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Sunday, 4 January 2026
quote [ ProtoWeb is an online service that allows users of vintage computers to browse classic web sites. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days. ]
I thought you might be interested in this. While the link goes to the main page, read the Features page for info.
This is a combination of proxy/archive allowing for browsing on very old devices seemingly using a combination of http/ftp protocols for use with backports like Retrozilla. Didn't test.
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Friday, 2 January 2026
quote [ ?Cyberselfish? saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian. ]
Great summary of a book that's currently being unearthed by many people. The original website is still online and has an update from 15 years later (10 years ago) in two parts.
(full in extended)
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Friday, 26 December 2025
quote [ A colossal fossil hidden inside a seaside boulder is forcing scientists to rethink everything they knew about life before the dinosaurs. Measuring the length of a car, this ancient creature didn?t just break size records?it upended decades of scientific assumptions. ]
He?s a marvellous millipede.
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Wednesday, 24 December 2025
quote [ A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ]
The end of giant a massive star
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Wednesday, 17 December 2025
quote [ For now, just one question: Why should I waste my time correcting what the SumoBot writes when I could have simply updated what needed updating? ]
Via a Firefox subreddit moderator: Some translation teams had been assigned a bot that moves fast and breaks things, leading to the Japanese community stepping down last month.
Auto-translation seems to work better for some languages than others. Also, the bot is Gemini-based. Quote: an Italian contributor chiming in on the announcement referenced in the post (thumb: marsf's profile picture).
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Sunday, 7 December 2025
quote [ Eich himself wrote in 2006 that ?ECMAScript,? the official name for the language standard, ?was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.? ]
No new facts for people in the know, but a nice recollection of 90s style programming and trademarks lingering in our machines. Also: the 10 days were a demo prototype, as the article states itself.
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Wednesday, 3 December 2025
quote [ While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the fact that you could set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in song birds is crazy. ]
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