Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

It's less that atom/RSS is "dead", and more that its "done".

The protocol is finished. It works well. It's stable and unremarkable as opposed to trendy.

And to capitalists, that's "dead".

Nothing to hype, no wealth to extract.

EFF joins 18 organizations in writing a letter to UK policymakers urging them to address the root causes of online harm—rather than undermining the open web through blunt restrictions https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-and-18-organizations-urge-uk-policymakers-prioritize-addressing-roots-online

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116522211073876311

"project" - what, like a school project?

I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. Literally every blogging platform has RSS/Atom support. Not just the "indie" ones, even the big corporate ones, like Substack and Medium. Every mastodon account has a built-in RSS feed. Every Bluesky account has a built-in RSS feed. Almost every major news site has an RSS or Atom feed. WordPress automatically produces RSS feeds (and WordPress powers almost half the Web).

RSS and Atom are almost certainly even more ubiquitous than they were in the 2000s, if only because the web has gotten so much bigger than it was back then.

There are more podcasts now than there ever have been, and each of these has an RSS feed.

Every fucking YouTube channel has an RSS feed. In 2005 there were probably fewer than 20 million blogs. Right now there are more than a hundred million YouTube channels.

RSS/Atom is bigger than ever.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073

this is insane from multiple viewpoints

Good morning Fedi friends.

When I started my laptop this morning, I found this picture... which was the background image for a slide I used at the #2MR conference in Hamburg.

I may turn it into my wallpaper... a powerful reminder to do good work to promote the Fediverse every day, step by step... 🤗

#FediAdvocacy #TheFutureIsFederated

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

#Denmark built Europe’s cleanest grid. #AI data centres are overloading it. - https://thenextweb.com/news/denmark-data-centre-grid-pause-ai-energy

There are a bunch of folks trying to create 'low emission cows/bulls'... but they're missing the point, at least in Aotearoa: lowering greenhouse gas emissions won't fix the problem of the dairy industry ruining our land and water with nitrogen pollution. We need to halve the herd. There are neither shortcuts nor technological solutions. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/594290/outcome-of-research-into-low-emitting-bulls-disappointing

By me: I'm suing the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/plot-twist-i-am-suing-the-justice-department-and-fbi/

Putting some feelers out, as I am facing the potential of losing my job for an aversion to engaging with generative AI.

I am looking for work. I am in New Zealand.

I am very good at:
- Written communication
- Picking up new software and...
-- Writing help guides
-- Developing e-learning
-- Delivering training (in person or online)

I also have some experience with
- Digital design
- Interpreting legislation

My software-specific skills are unfortunately
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Power Apps
- Microsoft Power Automate

I do no want to engage with generative AI in any way. This seems to be incompatible with my skillset, but I have to try I guess!

If you know someone hiring something like this, I'd love to hear about it.

#GetFediHired

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books

#Books #Library

Remember Don Martin, whose bizarro, sick cartoons were always one of the best things about MAD magazine? I did a deep dive on him and his work for the latest issue of @flaminghydra, on the first day of our soon-to-be-legendary MAD WEEK! https://flaminghydra.com/don-martin-mads-sickest-artist/

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Holy shit, Microsoft. Whoever made this decision should be fired. Into the Sun.

https://lemmy.world/post/46435614

#infosec #facepalm #clowncar