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

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An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

Presented without comment

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Screenshot of a Firefox window with the URL for the "Right to Read" essay on gnu.org in the URL bar. The page is not loading, instead it just says "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access this resource."

Ok! Packaged and working. Aluminum chassis, big rubber feet, stainless hardware with nylon washers, actually more 1970 than 1980, but the color is very 2020 (Mtn 94).

I can't afford silkscreen panels but I'm making transparent stickers for the front panels.

So far I've made only a pair of chassis, first time using outside service for metal work (send cut send) so the bottoms took teo go rounds to get right. These two have flaws but are more than usable. I'll keep these two.

I'm liking the gloss orwnge, I had it on hand. The green is too dull. I intend to use Vivid Red in gloss.

Overall performance is ok but disk throughout is not good when loaded up. If I can get that up (likely not; mp/m and cp/m do literally no disk buffering -+ no room) it would be decent even by modern standards. But there's work techniques you learn to minimize it.

Mp/m is shockingly usable. It boots in milliseconds. Done? Power off.

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Two Friendly fZ80 prototypes freshly assembled, one orange one green, with brushed aluminum front panels. 8 inches wide 2 inches tall. Workbench and junk in the background.

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#2 unit in use now up off the damn table in its nice orange box. Under s 22" ViewSonic LCD monitor and a Mountain Everest 60 compact keyboard. The LCD has four windows, the bottom two are running twiddles (programs that make pretty patterns on console lights (sic)) intended to consume resources and tax that machine, which they do, because both are awful BASIC programs running in resource hog Microsoft BASIC 5.1.

We deal with a bank that sends us data by zipping-up a CSV and emailing it to us every day. They told us they'd have an API in December 2022 so they're a little late on that.

Usually the CSV headers are in English, but sometimes they're in German, and sometimes a mix of English and German. Sometimes the file is UTF-8 and sometimes ISO-8859-1. Sometimes dates are dd.mm.yyyy, sometimes dd.mm.yy.

I'd really like to know how things work on their end. Again, this is a BANK.

They’re trashing our rights, man.

They’re trashing the flow of data.

They’re trashing! Trashing! Trashing!

Hack the planet! Hack the planet! Hack the planet!

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/794759180750864384
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting in front of a whiteboard, where Green has crudely illustrated a hole, a table at the bottom of the hole, and two foxes sitting on the opposite ends of the table. Holding a pointing stick, Green taps at the board, as Blue listens attentively. Green: We dig a hole, and then set up our game table there. Blue: Right. Having drawn a cover over the hole, Green taps at the addition. Green: Then we cover the top and wait for an unsuspecting victim. Blue: Huh. Green taps at the whiteboard again, pointing at the most recent addition to the drawing: A startled third fox falling through the cover at the top. Green: Eventually someone will fall through. Blue: I see. Last, Green's illustration looks the same as it did in the first panel, save that there are now three foxes sitting at the table. Blue turns to look at Green with suspicion. Green: And they'll have no choice but to play with us. Blue: Are you sure this would work?

So, windows 10 will not be supported anymore soon.
How long after that is it gonna be safe to keep it?

CC: @meluzzy@woof.tech

CC: @rexo@st.transbus.social

It's rude to show AI output to people

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/