Liam Proven

Oh my god oh my god

A photo of entertainers Little and Large. Large’s face has been blanked out and a question mark placed over it.

this photo leaves little to the imagination

The Acorn Archimedes A3000. What your school might have if it still had funding during the early 90s.

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the flame alive with Debian 13 : Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13

www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/b...

Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing

<- by me on @theregister.com

A Red Hat On The Facade of Brno City Hall Will Commemorate The Visit of Queen Elizabeth II English News and Events in Brno

A Red Hat On The Facade of Brno City Hall Will Commemorate The Visit of Queen Elizabeth II

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<- could it be that local employer with a few thousand people swung the vote, at all? Surely not...

You don't have to if you don't want to. "In the year 5555, your arms are hangin' limp at your sides, your legs got nothing to do, some machine doin' that for you." Zager and Evans sang these words in 1969. Now, thirty-five centuries ahead…

"You don’t have to if you don’t want to."

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<- perhaps the single most eloquent essay against LLM-bot development I've seen. Very long, very worth it.

Cover of the book Voices from a Future Passed

Rob Napier's book on Acorn published

www.iconbar.com/articles/Rob...

Rob gave a preview of his book at the Decemeber Rougol meeting.

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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🤣

It's a self fixing problem.

Everyone involved goes bust, new companies arise.

Climate collapse kills them all anyway.

Don't worry about it.

1. Listen to tech illiterate tech bros, buy "AI" that doesn't exist.
2. Fire humans.
3. Discover "AI" doesn't work.
4. Go broke.
5. Some with deep pockets survive this stage.
6. As AI market collapses, its price rises to greater than cost.
7. Remaining users go broke.

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' : It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

you might want to check out my colleague @lproven.bsky.social 's piece www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/b...

Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak

www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/s...

Trick uses a simple configuration profile to convince Tahoe your Mac is under organizational control

<- by me on @theregister.com

Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality : A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality

www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/f...

A handy feature you can already try in recent versions

<- by me on @theregister.com

The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

The stranger secret: how to talk to anyone – and why you should

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Forget fear of public speaking. A lot of people now shy away completely from speaking to anyone in public. But if we learn to do this it’s enriching, for ourselves and society

a photo of a gas canister that says TO BE USED BY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRECTIONAL OR MILITARY PERSONNEL

a photo of a gas canister that says DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY

Picking up trash in the blocks around the Alex Pretti memorial this morning and found two munitions thawing out of the snow

🎶“War, huh, what is it good for?“🎶

Well, the price of oil and gas, the price of gold, the share price of armaments manufacturers, and many other things that have a positive impact on those people who are already obscenely rich.

For everyone else, 🎶”Absolutely nothing”🎶

“Absolutely appalled I cannot continue to live utterly risk-free in a highly corrupt tax free fishing village which got lucky to print money and behave however I like while conveniently ignoring sharia law and modern slavery with absolutely no consequences.”

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text

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Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic : Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora

LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go

www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/l...

Browser-based version back on the menu, reopening questions about TDF's relationship with Collabora

<- by me on @theregister.com

Makový Koláč (Czech poppy seed torte) Recipe | Whats4eats Variations of the poppy seed torte are found throughout Central and Eastern Europe. This recipe is a simple, flourless version from the Czech Republic.

First encountered even the _word_ harmentaschen when I was about 50 & had to go Googling to work out WTF they were. (They were quite good.)

But this poppy seed filling is ubiquitous in central Europe. It's called mák in Czech.

www.whats4eats.com/desserts/mak...

I'm not that fond. It's all right.

How about we ban investment banking worldwide? Incrementally. First ban derivatives trading and work down.

Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner Molson Coors says site, as well as national call centre in Wales, ‘no longer financially sustainable’

Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner

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Molson Coors says site, as well as national call centre in Wales, ‘no longer financially sustainable’

The Origins of Agar First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.

The Long Read: The Origins of Agar

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First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.

This time is different 3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and…

"This time is different" – Terence Eden’s Blog

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

Half way between "near-pathological overthinking" and impenetrable provinciality by the sort of world traveller who never leaves home in their head…

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

Do you remember Acorn Computers? The company designed and delivered the first ARM chip and the BBC Micro. Want to know more or catch up? The RISC OS North show, is on Saturday 21st March, in Warrington, UK.
riscosnorth.uk #RISC_OS #Event #Warrington #RaspberryPi #ARM

The Lost Art of Code Reading - Motley Bytes Wiki By Eric Alan Christiansen (2017).

The Lost Art of Code Reading — By Eric Alan Christiansen (2017)

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When Coding was a Labor of Love

Not many people really realize how laborious it was to write programs in the "old" days.

So, any other news yesterday?
Anything important?

Chaser.

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Shot.