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Having explored why dial-up internet is better, why VHS tapes are better than DVDs and Blu-Ray, and why SaaSS is your digital savior, we now turn to the cell phone.

Some people seem to be tempted to say, "I dislike LLMs, so my license should forbid LLM training."

Late last year, I wrote about the state of interactive fiction.

Imagine the silence in Mission Control on July 20, 1969.

The apartment wasn't just Jaeyun's home; it was Beauty's domain.

Somewhere in São Paulo in 2001, a patent examiner approved Brazilian filing BR PI0109962-0, assigned to Siemens AG, covering some sliver of what would become the MPEG-4 Visual standard.

The line didn't merely stretch down the block; it pulsed.

Narrowed Estraier This is a fork of the original Hyper Estraier version 1.4.13 by Mikio Hirabayashi at https://dbmx.net/hyperestraier/, a full-text search system released between 2004 and 2007.

The "Stop Killing Games" movement is making progress with the advancement of California AB 1921, a bill designed to stop developers from permanently bricking games when they shut down their servers.

To better support the wide variety of 32-bit ARM hardware in the wild, starting with Linux-libre version 6.6-gnu and moving forward, the 32-bit ARM (armhf) Linux-libre kernels will be split into two distinct flavors: one with LPAE support, and one without.

This is a follow-up to Shifting the Trap and to Jacob K's Writing custom programs for yt-dlp's jsinterp.

HELSINKI - The highly anticipated Linux 27 kernel dropped early Tuesday morning, sending ripples of ecstatic validation throughout the developer community.

Back in 2009, Richard Stallman warned us about The JavaScript Trap.

Trisquel version 12 (Ecne) officially launched on April 11, 2026, a little over three years after the release of version 11 (Aramo).

When it comes to digital security, one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal has nothing to do with software at all.

Note: The central metaphor and several of the key observations regarding corporate strategy in this piece came directly from a discussion with a good friend.

I was catching up on my backlog of FOSDEM 2026 talks - you know how it goes, the schedule is always packed - when I clicked through to Jose Marchesi's update on the GNU Algol 68 project.

Note: The analogy comparing ecosystem migration to escaping a cage was sparked by a conversation with a good friend, who deserves the credit for framing the issue this way.

Over a decade ago, I had an idea for a text adventure game.

I've talked about the dangers of the SaaSS-quatch, the creature with a voracious and specific appetite for your data and your freedom.

January 1, 2026, marks the arrival of Public Domain Day - the one day each year when the "all rights reserved" padlock is finally removed from a new batch of cultural works.

As the final days of 2025 slip through our fingers like sand, I find myself looking back not just on the past twelve months, but on the last four decades.

We live in a world that constantly pressures us to say "yes."

I recently saw the news that LoongArch64 is becoming officially supported in Debian.

For anyone born after 1990, the internet is the World Wide Web.

Thirty years ago, on December 4, 1995, the technological trajectory of our species shifted on its axis, though few recognized the seismic nature of the event at the time.

The road to proprietary software is frequently paved with good intentions.

There's a long-running joke, a shibboleth tossed at new users, that "ed is the standard editor".

In the history of human freedom, there's always been the frontier - a place to escape the confines of established society and build a life of self-reliance.

I was looking into post-quantum cryptography (PQC) support in GnuPG, eager to see how we prepare our digital identities for "Q-Day."

Adam didn't just own Apple products; he professed a faith in them.

When Jean-Luc Picard approaches a modest alcove and says, "Tea.

Code's being prepared for the 6.19 kernel, which integrates ML-DSA (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm), also known as CRYSTALS-Dilithium, which NIST finalized as part of the PQC standardization process, to validate the digital signatures on…

I recently read the news that RISC-V International has been approved as a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) Submitter by the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC 1).

For too many, the command-line interface (CLI) is an intimidating relic, a throwback to a less user-friendly time.

Today's children are growing up as "digital natives," immersed in a world of screens, apps, and connected devices from their earliest years.

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 In my previous post, The Long Game of Free Software, I discussed the nature of our struggle.

Gather 'round the digital campfire, fellow adventurers, and listen to a tale of a creature that haunts the misty jungles of the internet.

In today's digital era, we enjoy instant access to a torrent of news and data.

For years, many of us in the free software movement have watched with a mixture of hope and frustration as the mobile computing world has exploded.

It was a beautiful moment.

We can recognize the signs of a controlling relationship in our personal lives: one person dictating the terms, making the rules, and holding all the power, leaving the other feeling helpless and trapped.

From its inception, free software has been about ethics.

Greetings, fellow owners!

I was thinking about the ghosts of UNIX the other day, not in a supernatural sense, but wondering who actually holds the copyright on ancient UNIX?

To understand the world of free software, you must first discard any notion that about a superior development model, about making software faster, with more features, fewer bugs, a price tag of zero, or anything like that.

The toast was always wrong.

What if the architecture of your computer - the fundamental way it thinks about memory and executes programs - wasn't built on ones and zeros in a straight line, but on the elegant, branching structures of a high-level programming language?

Part I: The Core Revelation - Theology and Cosmology The spiritual foundation of the Church of Emacs rests upon a core revelation concerning the nature of computation, freedom, and community.

I was walking around the Talbot Hill neighborhood and saw a coal cart on display, which prompted me to wonder if there was a history of coal mining in the area.