A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package . . Way more complex than I expected for 1987!. From Ken Shirriff's blog – Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever.

Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font. . FireWire, the Newton PDA, and other technologies from Apple's past are still hiding in macOS.

Thank you, @ioccc !.

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest is back for 2024 . . Yes, 2024 – the prizes in the 40th anniversary edition prizes were just awarded. <- by me on @theregister.

Ubuntu 24.04.3: Noble Numbat point release slips out quietly . . Bugs in the current LTS are getting squished. <- by me on @theregister.

Star leaky app of the week: StarDict . . Fun feature found in Debian 13: send your selected text to China – in plaintext. <- by me on @theregister.

You Know More Finnish Than You Think . . To call Finnish “tricky” is only fair depending on your perspective. It has gained a reputation for difficulty through a general European point of view. Most of Europe today is a patchwork of [Indo-European]….

Meet the campaign connecting affluent techies with progressive candidates around the country . . (The Verge, 2018). HT Don Hopkins. May be time to resurrect this. if it's not too late. .

Faced with £40B budget hole, UK public sector commits £9B to Microsoft. . Government plans £1.9B annual spending during five-year MoU . <- the true cost of monopoly. Not 1 of these depts would have a clue how to use FOSS instead.

Ubuntu and Its Leader Set Sights on the Mainstream. . A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows (NY Times, 2009).

OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 reaches RC status . . Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE. <- by me on @theregister.

The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now .

RT @Cadigan: Attention, @Siegel_Jan.

Windows NT 4.0: Released to Manufacturing July 31, 1996 . . In many ways, version 4 was a breakthrough release for the technology. Let’s take a moment to look back at what made Windows NT 4.0 such a breakthrough.

MX Linux 25 loses systemd toggling power as Debian 13 looms . . Upstream changes force users to pick an init system at install instead of boot. <- by me on @theregister.

The Markdown Monster. . <- A Markdown file with enough special rendering features that it can be used to distinguish between *24* different MD rendering tools. I am impressed.

RT @Cadigan: It hit me funny & now I can’t stop laughing—because it’s true:.

NetBSD 11 prepares for launch with 57 supported platforms . . New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one. <- by me on @theregister.

RT @tomaspueyo: This map tells you how a seemingly innocent difference, like wheat vs rice eating, can have dramatic political, economic, a….

Project Banana ripens into a pre-alpha for KDE Linux, and you can test it . . Desktop project's in-house distro is impressively ambitious, but nowhere near ready. <- by me on @theregister.