Online shopping 2025.

🤵 Orders something online.
🏬 Want to track the order?
🤵 Yes!
🏬 Scan this code:
🤵Uh, okay.
🏬 Download our app to track your order.
🤵 Ugh.. alright..
🏬 Before you can use our app you need an account!
🤵 Never mind!

Data data harvesting, it's all data harvesting.

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

This day 30 years ago - on Oct 26th 1995, #CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) was announced to the world by Jarkko Hietaniemi – CPAN's Self-Appointed Master Librarian (OOK!), to the comp.lang.perl.announce newsgroup.

Happy Birthday, CPAN!

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.perl.announce/c/1qlLHdviZlY/m/hU90ubJHrf4J

#Perl #OpenSource #Programming #History

If you use What’s App… I do not but I know some people who do: WhatsApp Issues Emergency Update for Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS and macOS Devices.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/whatsapp-issues-emergency-update-for.html