The Code Linux
Great movie about Linux - kinda long I know but worth watching. Richard Stallman is one of my personal heros, I really enjoy listening to his philosophy on life and software. His work with the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation has been amazing, and he has made countless contributions to the open source community.
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Recent Favorite Blog Posts
This is a collection of the last 8 posts that I bookmarked.
- Deeper dive: Were Touch Bar’s problems software rather than hardware? from Unsung
- Joining Cursor from Fatih Arslan
- Pluralistic: Digital sewer socialism (08 Aug 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Pluralistic: Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs go global (29 Jul 2026) from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making from Ludicity
- The default person from https://popagandhi.com/
- No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass from Fernando Borretti
- Is it ethical to use AI? from charity.wtf
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
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Sunday Morning Birding at Dorey Park Slow morning - only 14 species. The highlight was a Great Blue flying into the pond right over our heads as we were finishing up.
via O'DonnellWeb August 30, 2026Exploit on Rain crypto payments infrastructure provider causes losses for "self-custodial" neobanks
A vulnerability in a smart contract belonging to Rain, a crypto payments infrastructure provider, resulted in $1.1 million in losses to various firms. Customers of the Avici cryptocurrency neobank, which offers a Visa credit card through which customers ca...
via Web3 is Going Just Great August 30, 2026“We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy.”
I often link to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball posts with a nod, but this time around I want to offer an opposing point of view. About a month ago, Gruber linked to a Markdown editor written by Sean Malseed in 2026 for the early 1980s Macs, and commented: I...
via Unsung August 29, 2026Generated by openring