@lproven.bsky.social
Tall, dark, black-clad, atheist, skeptic, vegetarian, SF fan; writes (mostly about computers) for a living. All opinions expressed are my own & not those of any employer.
Florida Northern Lights: Northern lights have come to Florida skies. In fact, the brilliant streak of a Northern Taurid meteor flashes through the starry night sky above the beach in this sea and skyscape, captured from Shired Island, FL on Nov 11.
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Retro Games opens pre-orders for THEA1200, a full-size working Amiga replica
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Company behind THESPECTRUM brings the holiday season early for retro computing fans
<- by me on @theregister.com
The Steam Machine rises again as Valve readies 2026 hardware trifecta
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Linux-powered PC & Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller, all land on pre-order for next year
<- by me on @theregister.com
A panel from Watchmen no. 4 drawn by Dave Gibbons. Script by Alan Moore.
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
14.11.2025 05:34 — 👍 1370 🔁 470 💬 8 📌 56
Ubuntu 25.10's Rusty sudo holes quickly welded shut
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The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump
<- by me on @theregister.com
Just got an email from the alumni office at my old school, inviting me to a talk by former pupil, arch-Brexiteer and climate denialist Lord Frost. I'm tempted to ask if rotten fruit and vegetables will be provided on the day, or if I should bring my own.
14.11.2025 10:53 — 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy
14.11.2025 10:15 — 👍 219 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 1I never knew and I stayed very very near there last month.
14.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TIL a new word for scum.
14.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New all-female punk band name just dropped #BoudicanDestructionHorizon
14.11.2025 01:09 — 👍 75 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
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Includes about 1,240 operating systems so far
My daughter, aged 6, occasionally enjoys me reading from tWitW, which pleases me greatly.. and I enjoy it too.
P.S. hi David! Very long time since drinking in the Penderel's Oak...
New jellyfish has just landed!!!
14.11.2025 07:55 — 👍 74 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 1That's very cool, but the Portuguese man of war isn't a jellyfish. They're amazing animals that don't even resemble jellyfish. It's a colony with specialised individuals... Every tentacle is a separate animal, so is the float, so is the collective stomach...
14.11.2025 08:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: ‘We’d stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh’
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<- one of my favourite strips. The strip is very very NSFW but the interview's pretty safe.
I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie
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The real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there’s a downside, too.
'Battling' Bessie Braddock (1899-1970) died on this day 1970. Labour MP for Liverpool Exchange from 1945-70, she won a national reputation for her forthright campaigns on housing, public health and other social issues
13.11.2025 08:16 — 👍 179 🔁 27 💬 8 📌 2
To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived
www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/m...
Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download
<- by me on @theregister.com
Me personally, I like @waterfox.net -- it works with global menu bars properly, too.
12.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf lauded for keeping the media player free of crapware
<- by me on @theregister.com
Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall
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There are many places around the City of London to see its old Roman Wall, notably alongside Noble Street, in Barber Surgeons' Meadow, through the Barbican, in St Alphage Garden and just outside the entrance to Tower Hill station.
a reminder that we've been trying to regulate capitalism for 50 years and all we got for it was climate change, biosphere collapse, and billionairism. smashing capitalism does not mean eliminating markets, which have always existed. it means organizing society around care rather than profit
25.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
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Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI
www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/f...
Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address bar
<- by me on @theregister.com
It was seventy years ago today. And that clock still doesn’t work..
12.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Controversial opinion: Bad News were *so* much better than Spinal Tap in every way.
12.11.2025 09:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks like Russia’s first homegrown robot had one too many before the big reveal…
Can’t wait to see what Russian AI can do… 😂😂😂
