Eric Alper
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Nirvana’s 'Nevermind' returns to the U.K.’s Official Albums chart at No. 100, reaching 450 weeks on the ranking—a rare milestone that cements its status as one of the longest-running albums in chart history.
Happy 33 #NetBSD
Did a thing, https://codeberg.org/smurfd/netbsd-deploy have not yet tried the install part in a VM. Install part copied from: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/771-netbsd-desktop-part-1-manual-netbsd-installation-on-gptuefi
Did a thing, https://codeberg.org/smurfd/netbsd-deploy have not yet tried the install part in a VM. Install part copied from: https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/771-netbsd-desktop-part-1-manual-netbsd-installation-on-gptuefi
NetBSD Foundation 🚩Like a few of you pointed out, NetBSD* became 33 years old yesterday.
In unrelated news, ow, my back...
* As in, our version control repository. The first commit was made on 21 March 1993.
Electronic Frontier FoundationApple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data. https://www.encryptitalready.org
For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
Instagram is about to lose its optional end-to-end encryption feature. Without it, Meta can view every DM on Instagram. Mozilla has a petition to push the company to reverse this decision. [external petition link] https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/petitions/keep-encryption-for-instagram/
Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages
Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're communicating. When end-to-end encryption is enabled, no one – not even Meta – can snoop on you. Right now, hundreds of millions of people use Instagram to message friends, family, and communities. Privacy should be a default feature of the technology we rely on every day – not an optional extra, and not something that quietly disappears. That's why we're asking Meta to reverse its decision and continue to support encryption on Instagram.
The Whore of Blahbylon
Jesus Michał "Le Sigh" 🏔 (he)I truly believe that LLMs are the worst thing that happened in IT over the recent years (or well, the culmination of the worst thing that's been poisoning the IT world), and I wholeheartedly support all the subversive actions against it, ranging from poisoning the training data to abusing support chatbots to make them unprofitable. However, at the same time I realize that all these actions are increasing the environmental harm caused by the #LLM folk.
It's like true guerrilla warfare. We're metaphorically burning down buildings, and I hate that it had to come to that.
Slashdot 
Backblaze Hosts 314 Trillion Digits of Pi Online https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/03/13/182207/backblaze-hosts-314-trillion-digits-of-pi-online?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Backblaze Hosts 314 Trillion Digits of Pi Online - Slashdot
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion digits of Pi publicly accessible. The digits were calculated by StorageReview in December 2025 after months of heavy computation designed to...