This piece really, really deserves a read: Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media - DATATERM

It’s beautiful.

How Cyberpunk 2077 Won the Open World Arms Race - DATATERM

PineTime - a $27 smartwatch that runs open source firmware and software that's easy to flash and easy to modify and tinker with - DATATERM

This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the multiple open source options available are all an open book to any hacker worth their cyberlinguistic salt, and I can know for a fact that it won’t phone home with my location or other data to any corporation behind the scenes. If we are all going to be cyborgs integrating technology onto and eventually into our bodies, better to control that tech ourselves!

Haiku Got Awesome. Really Awesome. - Action Retro - DATATERM

I’ve been following Haiku OS off and on since I was 10 (I’m 21 now) and it’s been really nice to see it actually progress in a substantial and noticeable way since I first found out about it.

Anarchism as a Spiritual Practice - DATATERM

I may not be particularly inclined toward religion or spirituality, but I did really find this essay interesting and attractive.

GitHub - jart/cosmopolitan: build-once run-anywhere c library - DATATERM

> Cosmopolitan Libc makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, like Java, except it doesn’t need an interpreter or virtual machine. Instead, it reconfigures stock GCC and Clang to output a POSIX-approved polyglot format that runs natively on Linux + Mac + Windows + FreeBSD + OpenBSD + NetBSD + BIOS with the best possible performance and the tiniest footprint imaginable.

Black Flags - Renzo Novatore - DATATERM

In the current moment of rising fascism I find this piece particularly powerful. Novatore is one of my favorite anarchist writers; even though I may not agree with everything he says I think he has a lot of unique insights and certainly writes beautifully.

Upgrading my A500 to Kickstart 2? - DATATERM

The jump in operating system capability and quality from 1.3 to 2.0 is really substantial, so I want to switch, especially since I’m doing the ECS upgrade to my Rev6A A500 anyway so it would make sense, and 3.1 is way less compatible with early games than even 2.0 without the same leap in quality so it makes sense to stop at 2.0. My question is, exactly how compatible is KS/WB 2.0? Is there anywhere I can find a list of games that are/aren’t compatible? Thanks!

Little Things That Made Amiga Great | datagubbe.se - DATATERM

Honestly, this list of features is really impressive, I’m really starting to see what made AmigaOS so special for so many people, and I’m a hard-line *nix gal. AmigaOS seems really unique, in that it’s an especially lightweight, responsive, yet structurally clever and well thought through system. It must’ve felt light years ahead of everything well into the 90s. This is definitely making me want to upgrade my A500 to Kickstart 2.04 or 3.1 to get these features.