A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

What allowed occultism to blossom in the United States at the turn of the 20th century? Linotype machines, cheap pulp paper, and newly improved postal networks. Allan Johnson investigates the forgotten history and (still living) world of mail-order magic.

How a 1970s-era application like a terminal emulator can consume more battery than Zoom with video. The irony, the causes, and the solutions.

Robust semiconductor enables devices to operate close to absolute zero, with potential applications in space missions and quantum computing.

And why that shape demands a compiler.

: Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere

Ask ChatGPT to estimate the carbs in your lunch. Now ask it again. And again. Five hundred times. You’d expect the same answer each time. It’s the same photo, the same model, the same question. But you won’t get the same answer. Not even close — and the differences…

In a letter, Bundestag President Klöckner recommends that MPs switch to the BSI-certified messenger Wire to curb phishing threats.

git is decentralized, but what of the rest?

From the Zed Blog: The editor we set out to build is now 1.0.

With climate change impacting the world’s coffee supplies, can physics help you reduce waste by brewing smarter? Michael Allen investigates

Introducing Mistral Medium 3.5, remote coding agents in Vibe, plus new Work mode in Le Chat for complex tasks.

Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS printouts. Contribute to DOS-History/Paterson-Listings development by creating an account on GitHub.

They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

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1/ Online age verification is the hill to die on.

Not a fight you can sit out. Not a battle you can skip. Not a policy you can afford to ignore while you focus on something else.

This is it. This is the line. This is the infrastructure that enables…

Linux 7.0 delivered roughly half the throughput of Linux 6.x on the same hardware and workload.

A federal court ruled that firearms parts without serial numbers could be protected under the Second Amendment. That’s good news for Wyomingites who build…