Articles by pabs3
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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)

6

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media (politico.eu)

4

Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code (2001) (dreamsongs.com)

4

No one can force me to have a secure website [pdf] (tom7.org)

171

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (xda-developers.com)

2

CoLaptop – Personal Laptop Colocation Service (colaptop.com)

14

Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd (moooo.farm)

2

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages (theverge.com)

3

AI Code Is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers Are Looking the Other Way (quippd.com)

2

789 KB Linux Without MMU on RISC-V (2023) (popovicu.com)

1

A Source Code Exhibition (softwareheritage.org)

1

To peer or not to peer – online cartels (init7.net)

3

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not? (denmarkification.com)

224

ML promises to be profoundly weird (aphyr.com)

3

HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules (bbc.com)

1

Quick notes on KERNSEAL (dustri.org)

4

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme (suricrasia.online)

2

Defense in Depth: A Practical Guide to Python Supply Chain Security (bernat.tech)

1

Pidgin HTML Markup for Writing, or How Much Can HTML Sustain? (aartaka.me)

5

systemd has not implemented age verification (bofh.it)

1

The great Linux file pickers tragedy (erika.florist)

7

Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give (kennethreitz.org)

4

The Equal Vote Coalition (equal.vote)

154

Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record (eff.org)

4

Redox OS AGPLv3 Violation (gist.github.com)

2

Open Source Pledge (opensourcepledge.com)

11

Israel to expand Lebanon ground campaign, fuels fears of prolonged occupation (theguardian.com)

2

Chrome Prepares Nudge to 'Move Tabs to the Side' as Vertical Tabs Near Release (onmsft.com)

3

Open Source, Open Mind: The Cost of Free Software (2024) (freeasinweekend.org)

1

Free as in Weekend (freeasinweekend.org)

3

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories (arstechnica.com)

2

Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation (businessinsider.com)

78

An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills (reddit.com)

1

RAM: WTF? (2025) (gamersnexus.net)

1

Prairieland 19 Case Update (wewillfreeus.org)

2

AMD: WTF? [video] (youtube.com)

3

Fatal Core Dump Game (robopenguins.com)

6

Trump Administration Opens Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected Being Trans (transitics.substack.com)

2

AI-generated passwords aren't random, it just looks that way (theregister.com)

2

Who Will Remember Us When the Servers Go Dark? (newdesigncongress.org)

1

Dear parents, social media are yesterday's battle (mfioretti.substack.com)

2

Wrong Ban? (leaflessca.wordpress.com)

4

Dead Kennedys front man Jello Biafra in stable condition after stroke (sfgate.com)

53

SBCL: A Sanely-Bootstrappable Common Lisp (2008) [pdf] (gold.ac.uk)

5

Trump says not mulling a draft executive order to seize control over elections (pbs.org)

22

Sem – Semantic version control. Entity-level diffs on top of Git (github.com/ataraxy-labs)

1

Attested TLS (chainbound.io)

7

Revisiting Time: UT1, UTC, NTP and NTS (potaroo.net)

1

The Digital Credentials API origin trial (chrome.com)

1

Your binary is no longer safe: Conversion with LLMs (reorchestrate.com)

2

Your binary is no longer safe: Decompilation with LLMs (reorchestrate.com)

2

To update blobs or not to update blobs (codon.org.uk)

5

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too (gizmodo.com)

15

Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024) (github.com/nevesnunes)

3

Iranian Number Station (iz0kba.it)

5

Free software needs free tools (lwn.net)

377

Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)

3

Developer Certificate of Origin and AI is a no-go (brokenco.de)

44

You can't use a code editor when you're under 18 now? (mastodon.online)

4

The exploitation paradox in open source (lwn.net)

2

Ask HN: Tools to Flag Vibecoded Repos?

2

Digital products and services are getting worse – but the trend can be reversed (forbrukerradet.no)

2

GPL as the Best Licence – Governance and Philosophy (hansenpartnership.com)

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Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)

2

Why Tehran's Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous (schneier.com)

3

Scotiabank Divests from Elbit Systems (bdscoalition.ca)

1

Eleven Freedoms for Free AI (elevenfreedoms.org)

1

RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (406.fail)

1

Socialist Excellence in New York City (pluralistic.net)

2

Hackers expose vulnerabilities in Discord's age verification system (ibtimes.com)

2

The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well (softwaremaxims.com)

2

The Takedown Campaign Against archive.today (2025) (algustionesa.com)

3

Your tech or my tech: make up your mind quickly (2024) (berthub.eu)

3

Ditching Discord (alopex.li)

3

An update on upki (ubuntu.com)

2

Introducing Package Chaos Monkey (nesbitt.io)

3

GitHub - New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)

2

On The Crank Spectrum (tive.org)

1

Utter Disregard for Git Commit History (2015) (zachholman.com)

1

Development on Flirt – Fabulous, Legendary, Incremental Review Tool (2025) (buenzli.dev)

15

Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback (torrentfreak.com)

4

Can my SPARC server host a website? (rup12.net)

4

Some Thoughts on LLM Coding (dave.tf)

2

It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)

2

Mid-life transitions (gnome.org)

1

Digital Independence Day (di.day)

4

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse (theguardian.com)

3

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices (thetimes.com)

4

March for Billionaires (marchforbillionaires.org)

1

The Local Weather (joeyh.name)

1

LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good (buddingh.eu)

5

Spotify's Crackdown on Anna's Archive Domains Hits a Jurisdiction Snag (torrentfreak.com)

1

Can We Build Trustworthy AI? (gizmodo.com)

2

Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something? (schneier.com)

2

Mourning Didier Spaier of the slint accessibility Linux distro (freelists.org)

2

scx_horoscope – Astrological CPU Scheduler (github.com/zampierilucas)

7

National Shutdown - No Work. No School. No Shopping. Stop Funding ICE. (nationalshutdown.org)

2

Disrupting the Largest Residential Proxy Network (cloud.google.com)

1

The end of the curl bug-bounty (haxx.se)

1

I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software (lgug2z.com)