"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck... OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles' 'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources' nytimes.com/2025/07/03/opi…

you didnt build shit in 4 days you yoinked a gpl-v3 code, slapped an apache license on it, and called it a startup here’s a quick 101 on how not to steal open source Garry Tan Y Combinator is this what you invest in? yuck

Canonical adds extra shots to Ubuntu Java theregister.com/2025/07/03/can… Juices the tooling and support for developers and enterprise customers <- by me on @theregister

It's never too late to prove them wrong theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/p/its-never-to… This little boy was told he wasn't good enough. Yesterday he got a PhD from St Andrews university <- Lovely news, of a writer whose early books I championed (he doesn't need it any more!)

When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color? quantamagazine.org/when-did-natur… Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.

Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy theregister.com/2025/07/04/wik… There's more to the Wikimedia organization than the famous encyclopedia <- by me on @theregister

500× faster: Four different ways to speed up your code pythonspeed.com/articles/diffe… <- even as someone who almost never writes code, I could follow most of this and found it interesting.

Recent droughts are 'slow-moving global catastrophe' - UN report bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… From Somalia to mainland Europe, the past two years have seen some of the most ravaging droughts in recorded history, made worse by climate change, according to a UN-backed report.

Liam Proven I genuinely do not think humanity realises the extent of desertification, aquifer collapse, and droughts. Even though we have plenty of data showing it going on. It isn't all a disaster though news.cgtn.com/news/2023-04-0…

Why are some people happy with fakery, or even delight in it? lproven.dreamwidth.org/310263.html A rare blog post. Hastily written, first draught. This is the outline of a sketch of something deep, maybe, possibly. Don't expect greatness from it.

The Amiga 3000 UNIX and Sun Microsystems: Deal or no deal? datagubbe.se/amix/ Alas, the more I think about it, the less it adds up. Fact or factoid? Let's speculate!

The Decade of Linux on the Desktop. You're in it. liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/96112.html The long fabled YOLD came circa 2017 and not later than 2020. It's still going on. The Penguinsti didn't notice.

More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (June 27, 2025 by Riccardo Mori) morrick.me/archives/10068 <- closely-reasoned design criticism. Apple, sadly, continues sliding into style over substance. What's worse than everything flat? Flat _and_ seethrough.

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) jonoalderson.com/conjecture/jav… « Most websites are awful… They load slowly, render erratically, & hide their content behind megabytes of JS… Once… we had a fast, stable, resilient web. But we replaced it with a JS cargo cult. »

The Eternal Mainframe — A funny thing happened on the way to the future. The mainframe outlasted its replacements. winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal… «In the computer industry, the Wheel of Reincarnation is a pattern whereby specialized H/W gets spun out, more powerful, then folded back»

How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again nytimes.com/2025/07/03/opi… Can you hear it — that loud roar coming from the East? It’s the sound of 1.4 billion Chinese laughing at [the USA]

The Parrot in the Machine James Gleick nybooks.com/articles/2025/… The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

Are we the baddies? geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/u… I signed up for Hinge. Holy shit with the boosts. How does someone who works on this wake up every morning and feel okay about themselves?

How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in the case of neo-Nazi spy who abused women bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… When the BBC revealed that MI5 had lied to 3 courts, the Security Service apologised for giving false evidence - vowing to investigate & explain how… failure had occurred.