New-to-me, from Get Info: Macintosh Magazine Media: 1 million files. “I am proud to announce that my Macintosh Magazine Media project has surpassed my self-imposed goal of 1 million files, an achievement that fills me with both immense satisfaction and slight bewilderment. If you’ve never heard of it before: it’s an archive of vintage media containing mostly Macintosh files sourced from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files-get-info/

In 2001, Steve Ballmer famously referred to Linux as a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," claiming it posed a direct threat to Microsoft’s business model and market share. He saw Linux as a parasitic force, undermining the proprietary software model that Microsoft had built its empire on. Fast forward two decades, and the landscape looks drastically different. Microsoft not only runs Linux on Azure, but also contributes regularly to the Linux kernel, has embraced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to allow Windows users to run Linux natively, and even acquired GitHub, the largest open-source hosting platform. This about-face underscores an undeniable truth: open-source is a force that is impossible to ignore. It doesn’t always win immediately, but its collaborative and transparent development model has proven resilient, and in the long term, it has reshaped the very fabric of the tech world. Open-source wins, not by force, but by virtue of its ability to adapt and thrive in the face of competition.

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Tom’s Hardware: The first-ever ransomware dropped 35 years ago disguised as a floppy sharing ‘AIDS Information’. “Thirty-five years ago, as December 1989 turned into January 1990, the then-largest ever cybercrime investigation was launched in response to the world’s first known example of ransomware. This first ransomware payload was secreted on a 5.25-inch floppy disk titled “AIDS […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/21/toms-hardware-the-first-ever-ransomware-dropped-35-years-ago-disguised-as-a-floppy-sharing-aids-information/

Say my name: The Evolution of Shared Libraries

https://www.jocheojeda.com/2025/01/21/say-my-name-the-evolution-of-shared-libraries/

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Latest Interfaces article! (Sept '24) UPenn History & Sociology of Sci ABD Sam Franz's insightful article on the UMich Computer Center in the 80s & debate on students playing computer games--useful to their education or a drain on computing resources? #computergameshistory #videogameshistory #softwarehistory #gameculture

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