⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Hey Unix history nerds:

Do we know who wrote tar(1)? Like, the original tar.c included in V7 Research Unix (which is the earliest one I can find). The list of potential culprits is pretty short, but there's no attribution I can find.

(If you have an answer, please clarify where you got it from, and reference any contemporaneous/primary sources if you've got them.)

95% of the time all you need to know about git is add, commit, push, and pull. maybe log if you want to see a list of commits

but then the other 5% of the time it’s suddenly like

!!! you didn't transverse the planes before ancilpating the forward inverse!! entering CRITICAL DATA RECOVERY MODE NOW!!!

and I’m like “uhh uhh uhh” *frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2* “phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!”

version control is the best

From their forthcoming release on Flame-Retardant Records, here's Public Fire Extinguisher

#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames

SpaceX put out this long blog post yesterday, singing the glory of its Starship based moon lander and its vision of making life multiplanetary, ...

Most of the post reads like a project status report. It mentions "11 Starship-only flight tests and 11 integrated flight tests of Starship and Super Heavy" without indicating how many actually succeeded.

It refers to "a simplified mission architecture" without providing any details.
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https://www.spacex.com/updates#moon-and-beyond
2/n

Cathedrals of Light: Tron and Tron: Legacy in 4K Restoration Reviewed

Disney has newly restored the classics Tron and Tron: Legacy. Are the UHDs worth it compared to the streams and Blu-rays?

https://www.heise.de/en/tests/Cathedrals-of-Light-Tron-and-Tron-Legacy-in-4K-Restoration-Reviewed-10965350.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#K #Entertainment #Heimkino #Test #news

for the ancestors #Samhain

Finally had time to post about some of the Dutch gov's open source projects and efforts to become more digitally sovereign.

Tldr: we're heading in the right direction, but we need to work on a gov-wide strategy instead of relying on individual projects.

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #foss #ospo

https://ginaplat.com/posts/20251031-digital-sovereignty-and-gov/

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I dressed up as a UDP packet for Halloween……but I don’t think anyone got it. 😅🤭

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

"In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google." What this means for your rights, and how you can help: https://keepandroidopen.org

There’s Nothing Boring About Web Search on Retro Amigas

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/31/theres-nothing-boring-about-web-search-on-retro-amigas/

So Prince Andrew’s punishment is to move from a 20 bedroom house he paid zero rent for, to basically slumming it into a 10 bedroom house he will pay no rent for.

Wow. Poor guy.

This is the future I was promised in 1996. Email on the #appleNewton

#newton #retrocomputing #geek #apple

My old employers are hiring technical talent in the UK. Fully remote / hybrid (London).

* Senior Data Engineer
* Senior Security Engineer (Developer)
* Engineering Manager - (Genetic Data)

And several more.

Great team with an amazing mission. All the jobs are listed at:
https://apply.workable.com/our-future-health/

(I don't work there any more so can't answer specific questions about the roles.)

You wanna know what time it is?

𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨 time!