⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Getting the hell out of Whitby for the day.

> 80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes.

that's also where progressive disclosure comes handy

https://danieldelaney.net/normal/ #ux

The next Global Newton Users Meetup (GNUM) has been scheduled!

Global Newton Users Meetup #17
Saturday, November 15th, 2025 @ 17:00 UTC

Join us on Zoom for a casual, online get-together for fans, aficionados, developers, and collectors of the #AppleNewton platform.

Details on the NewtonTalk mailing list:

https://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2025-October/003482.html

Hope to see you there!

You can run #QEMU over your existing #Debian system to try an upgrade. If anything goes wrong the system is untouched, but otherwise you can apply the changes!

What kind of sorcery is this.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade#Do_a_trial_run_in_QEMU

Imagine being part of a party who wants to remove the rights of queer people to get married while asking your brown wife to convert from her religion and then immediately soft-launching your affair with a white woman at a political rally. It’s beyond parody. Nobody could write this shit because it’s that deranged

#CBP Searched a Record Number of #Phones at the #US #Border Over the Past Year

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-searched-a-record-number-of-phones-at-the-us-border-over-the-past-year/

#privacy #politics

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/