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Tall, once dark, black-clad atheist skeptic SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. Grizzled internet veteran, online since 1985. Current […] 🌉 bridged from https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-7-marketshare-jumps-to-nearly-10-as-windows-10-enters-final-weeks-of-support/

<- this is funny. Neowin can't imagine why. I can.

I nuked 2 of my machines & put Win10 IoT […]
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5d
A 3000-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding the origins of iron

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-year-copper-smelting-site-key.html
A 3000-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding the origins of iron
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the invention of iron.
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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Dear LLM, please make me a pet site about cats. Make sure to include recipes!

#ai #slop #aislop #llm
AI slop website with "A Guide on How to Cook A Cat: Preparing, Cooking Methods, and Serving Suggestions"
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 6d
More Dr Goodall in the comics...

https://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1290.html
Irregular Webcomic! #1290
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Who Goes Nazi?
by Dorothy Thompson (Harper's Magazine, August 1941)

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

<- this is fascinating. The language is a little dated but it's 84 years old.

Most Nazis don't know they are. Do you? Are you sure? Have you checked recently?
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/aurora_immutable_kde_workstation/

Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs

<- by me on @theregister
Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation big, slow, confusing
: Based on Universal Blue, it's akin to Fedora Kinoite with knobs on… A lot of knobs
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Gharbeia, Ⓐ @gharbeia.org · 7d
@lproven Facsimile of a signed copy
https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115301426581804165
MostlyHarmless (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The Jane Goodall Institute was "not amused", but Jane Goodall loved it.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d
The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.

She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d
Large Language Muddle

It’s OK to be a Luddite!

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d
Pop! System76's 24.04 beta is here – complete with a beta of polarizing COSMIC

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/pop_os_2404_beta_released/

Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?

<- by me on @theregister
Pop!_OS 24.04 beta and COSMIC beta arrive
: Twice the betas and twice the crashes means twice the fun, right?
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d
Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack)

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/28/works-well/#fails-well

<- Cory Doctorow again. The URL here is a good summary of part 2, the difference between open kit & (e.g.) Apple kit: "works well, _fails well_"
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d
The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/#subprime-intelligence

"AI" is bullshit & the entire industry faces imminent collapse. "AI" is the asbestos in the walls of 2020s business.

So what happens next? What do you do?
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d
Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/remember-kurt-vonnegut-was-47

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… in 1969, when Slaughterhouse-Five came out, he was not young, not new, and certainly not destined to succeed. He was forty-seven.
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Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47
The Long Apprenticeship
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d
Seen two people talking about a new, paid-for "AI" powered browser from "Norwegian browser company Opera" today.

1. Opera sold out to China in 2016. It's a Chinese browser company now.

2. This is a key indicator the "AI" bubble is about to pop: when they start charging the rubes for the snake […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
Here at the Post Office physical research laboratory we do real science. Our package accelerators have allowed us to make genuine advances in the field of logistical mechanics. We have proven the Heisenberg-Comstock conjecture¹ , and also shown that the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Aramex limit applies to […]
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 8d
@jockr @DamonHD I find that the phrase "dumb bunch of fuckheads" springs irresistibly to mind.

"Found the power cables unsightly" my arse.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 9d
@thecorodon Windows 10 LTSC is a thing. The standard edition has 2 more years to go, the IoT edition (US Engliish only) 'til 2032.

massgrave.dev has download links, instructions and can activate it for you.

Otherwise: yes, Mint is good. Cinnamon if you have a 3D card with Linux drivers, Xfce […]
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 9d
Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/legacy_updated_updated/

Need – or prefer – an EOL version of Windows? Don't panic!

<- by me on @theregister
Legacy Update updated – so your old Windows can be, too
: Need – or prefer – an EOL version of Windows? Don't panic!
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 9d
The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) – Part 2
(24 september 2025)

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1092/the-amphora-of-great-intelligence-agi-part-2
The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 9d
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/dont_even_consider_microsoft/

A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

<- by me on @theregister
'Don't even consider' Microsoft? Gosh
Comment: A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d
A few to get me started...
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d
@greem No squirrels where I live, sadly. No badgers, no common shrews -- lots of things missing. :-( Post-glacial landscape and impoverished community.
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d
The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard

In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "dog" in Russian, "strudel" in Hebrew and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes […]
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Please do share this sentiment more widely. We all can do a lot to spread trees. Forests are burning across the world. Isolated trees & small groups away from woodland have chances to survive & form species reservoirs.