nerd7473 @nerd7473@librem.one

To get a sense for the type of enterprise retro gear I'm talking about, here's the weird crossover between Cisco 2801 and DEC 3000 AXP colorschemes #retrocomputing #retronetworking

Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
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Read more via Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/

PSA: YouTube confirms ongoing widespread outage [Update: Fixed]
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/17/psa-its-not-just-you-youtube-is-down/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-9to5mac

Polymaths server seems to be having some minor problems.
Amin is asleep.
I guess I have to actually get some work done, now. XD

The books is THE HOUNDS OF DAWN by H. S. Torben. I don't even like the cover art, but this book got its hooks into me, and now I want to read the other two.

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/hounds-of-dawn/9798986314129.html?searchType=products&searchTerm=undefined

the payoff is that we now have barebox bootloader with internal DSI display + keyboard support, and the display keeps working when booting linux... which didn't work before and resulted in much frowning

quick video of barebox boot menu interaction for @josch (sorry for potato camera, trying to fix focus and exposure a bit later in the vid)

@tramtrist
has "life of brian" preacher vibes 😂

btw that project's license is LGPL, which actually requires source code release of modifications

/cc @thelinuxcast

Less than 24 hours after launching on Crowd Supply, PicoIDE has doubled its goal. I’m overwhelmed (in a good way) by the response! Thank you so much to everyone that has backed the project so far. https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide