Matt

@Wizard3rdClass
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PronounsI haven't gone pro yet
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MICROSOFT: Wait, I can explain!

GOOGLE: You spy through the whole OS?? I only spy on the web.

APPLE: Your users know that you're spying?

LINUX: You guys are spying?

here is the video from the ms ceo
C. Gordon Bell died May 17th. A giant in computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell
Gordon Bell - Wikipedia

Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324
Just Some Weirdo πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ (@lonestartallboi.bsky.social)

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social
I just started into "Unmatched - 50 Years of Supercomputing" by David Barkai. MUCH deeper than I expected. Organized around architectural epochs of supercomputers, but goes deep into applications, languages, and business history. Much to chew on. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/137852319-unmatched #bookstodon #supercomputing #ComputerHistory
Unmatched: 50 Years of Supercomputing (Chapman & Hall/C…

50 Years of A Personal Journey Accompanying the Evolut…

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Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS - Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update) https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-beta-delayed-xz-liblzma-security-update/43827 #linux #ubuntu #opensource
Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)

Canonical never stops working to keep Ubuntu at the forefront of safety, security, and reliability. As a result of CVE-2024-3094, Canonical made the decision to remove and rebuild all binary packages that had been built for Noble Numbat after the CVE-2024-3094 code was committed to xz-utils (February 26th), on newly provisioned build environments. This provides us with confidence that no binary in our builds could have been affected by this emerging threat. As a result of this, the Beta release ...

Ubuntu Community Hub
What the cluck?

They say every good thing comes to an end, so it’s with a poignant bittersweetness that I have decided to announce my retirement from social media. But you can still keep in touch with me at my substack!

I want to thank all the fans for being so loyal, engaged and hilarious over all these years. It’s truly been an honor of a lifetime to gain and keep such an amazing following. See you over at the stack.

β€” Uncle George

Just saw a White family walking out of a grocery store and the kid, lingering behind, was carrying a black, realistic toy gun. That's a pretty big lesson on White privilege.
@chrisgeidner
Anyone who uses products/services based on VLSI semiconductors, especially those with ARM microprocessors (i.e., ~all smartphones) should know major contributions were made by trans folks, both Fellows of #ComputerHistoryMuseum, among many other honors.
Lynn COnway (VLSI design, crucial 1979 book, I still own one)):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway
Sophie Wilson, ARM:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
Lynn Conway - Wikipedia