we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.

now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.

free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.

Massive respect to his efforts so far. 🙏

#linux #linustorvalds

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UNIX v4 tape successfully recovered

Almost two months ago, a tape containing UNIX v4 was found. It was sent off to the Computer History Museum where bitsavers.org would handle the further handling of the tape, and this process has now completed. You can download the contents of the tape from Archive.org - which is sadly down at the moment - while squoze.net has a readme with instructions on how to actua

https://www.osnews.com/story/144052/unix-v4-tape-successfully-recovered/

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RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/115752573933914452

oh my. this is so beautiful.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/09/09/ai-agents-are-coming-for-your-privacy-warns-meredith-whittaker?giftId=859d3a46-a913-4ee0-a3d5-060b774c2501&utm_campaign=gifted_article