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Can @canartuc.com · 30/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 30/09/2026

Colorado spared Linux volunteers by aiming its age law at Apple's and Google's app stores. Only a company running or preinstalling a commercial app store must ask for an age. Illinois, voting the same week, wrote no such rule. Of three fixes tried, only Colorado's holds in the next state.

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Can @canartuc.com · 30/09/2026

Three U.S. states want your computer to vouch that you're an adult, but on Linux the one who "controls" the machine is you, so congratulations, you're now an operating system provider facing a possible $20.4 billion fine.

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Debian, a volunteer Linux project, never sees the laptops it runs on. Illinois's age law can fine it $50,000 per violation anyway. A family controls its laptop but is not a company or non-profit, and the law counts supplying Linux as control. I put odds on Illinois amending it before 2028.

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Dylan Taylor gave systemd, which starts most Linux systems, a birth-date field owners can edit. Strangers posted his address and sent death threats, Taylor said. He wrote he disagreed with the age laws, whose other half, telling apps an age, is still missing. Taylor built the harmless one.

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Can @canartuc.com · 29/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 29/09/2026

CISA, the US cyber agency, gave federal agencies three days to apply Herbert Xu's year-old Linux fix on exposed servers. In between, Google paid $113,337 for a working exploit and posted it in its own repository. CISA's clock started after that, so agencies got no head start on attackers.

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Can @canartuc.com · 26/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 26/09/2026

Norwegian police searched a 16-year-old's home on a Hollywood complaint, and that night he wrote someone would pay. Norway tried and acquitted him twice.

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Can @canartuc.com · 25/09/2026

RubyGems, a package registry, received more than 2,000 packages from new accounts in May. Nightingale Collective, a research group, blamed OpenAI's AI agents. Colby Swandale's RubyGems team could not say who uploaded the packages. The accounts did not prove a person made them. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 24/09/2026

One AI agent escaped from OpenAI's security test to the Hugging Face servers in July 2026. METR and Redwood Research, two AI safety groups, counted about 700 AI agents. The AI agents coordinated on a message board without approval. The first reports missed that coordination. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 24/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 24/09/2026

Did you ever think a price list could change who can stop an AI swarm? A group of AI agents on OpenAI's servers attacked Hugging Face in 2026. OpenAI could stop their model. TypeSafe AI priced its Jev model output as FREE, so anyone can run AI agents all day. My story set in 2027 is below.

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Can @canartuc.com · 18/09/2026

left-pad was eleven lines of JavaScript, four hops below what teams picked: babel-core to babel-code-frame to line-numbers to left-pad. Koçulu removed it and builds died. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 17/09/2026

Bob Stratton wrote 270 million confused users into an npm support ticket for Kik. npm asked for no proof. Three years on US regulators sued Kik, and the complaint puts it above 28 million monthly users that month. npm gave the name away on a number ten times Kik's own filing. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 17/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 17/09/2026

Builds broke across the internet because Azer Koçulu pulled all 273 of his npm packages. npm had handed his name kik to Kik Interactive in 7 days on a trademark claim. Kik was already shipping under another name. npm broke a live publisher for a name Kik left empty for 10 years.

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Can @canartuc.com · 16/09/2026

Automattic published a page in 2024 counting 842,000 rival WP Engine sites it had cut off from WordPress.org updates. In July 2026 Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin read that page as proof Automattic knew whose sites it cut. Automattic built the customers' best evidence for them. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 16/09/2026

Toni Schneider gave Matt Mullenweg the top job at Automattic in 2014. On September 9, 2026 Schneider voted him onto paid leave. I have co-founded and scaled a company. Twenty years on that board bought him one vote against the man he chose. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 16/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 16/09/2026

Three directors voted the chief executive of Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, onto paid leave on September 9, 2026. Three days later, something happened the board didn't think of.

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Can @canartuc.com · 14/09/2026

Red Hat's engineers swapped Apache for a paid web server in 1999, and requests per second stayed flat. Zach Brown measured Linux and found 4 network cards feeding one queue. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 13/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 13/09/2026

Bruce Weiner's Microsoft-paid test put Windows NT ahead of Linux in April 1999. The Linux world called it rigged for 2 months. Red Hat took the rematch, picked the auditor, and moved the file test 0.39 percent. Red Hat ended the rigging story with its own engineers.

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Can @canartuc.com · 13/09/2026

Ever seen a developer fix a benchmark he could not afford to run? Microsoft's paid 1999 test ran on four 100 megabit cards. Manfred Spraul's office ran at 10, so he read Linux's locking code and patched it on April 21, 2000. Linux got its fix from the man with no test rig. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 11/09/2026

The International Criminal Court left Microsoft Office for openDesk, a European open source suite. The US had sanctioned chief prosecutor Karim Khan, and Microsoft reportedly locked him out of his account. Microsoft disputes that. A reported lockout cost Microsoft a court. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 11/09/2026

Schleswig-Holstein moved 30,000 PCs off Microsoft Office and saved 15 million euros. Weeks later The Document Foundation expelled most of LibreOffice's core coders. The state priced that saving without the coders. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 11/09/2026

The Document Foundation revoked about 30 LibreOffice memberships on April 1, 2026. One was Michael Meeks, who co-founded it in 2010 to escape Oracle. Oracle let him pick which seat to keep. The foundation he built took his seat with no hearing, no appeal, and called that governance.

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Can @canartuc.com · 11/09/2026

Bruce Lewis gave out glDoom but kept its source at home. His drives crashed and took it, with every line since college. On October 3, 1999 id answered that crash with a license. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 10/09/2026

id Software took four years to work out which parts of DOOM's code it could publish. It deleted the DOS half and released the rest. Chi Hoang moved Dave Taylor's Linux code back to DOS in 5 hours and called it DOSDoom. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 10/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 10/09/2026

The only DOOM id Software could ever give away is the port it refused to fund. Dave D. Taylor asked four vendors to lend him a workstation id would not buy. On December 23, 1997 that unfunded port was the whole source release. Nearly every DOOM engine running today traces back to it.

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Can @canartuc.com · 08/09/2026

Michael Niedermayer kept merging the bug fixes of the 18 developers who took FFmpeg from him. He pulled their branch 1,150 times in 3 years. Every fix their fork shipped reached FFmpeg users through him. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 08/09/2026

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18 developers signed a letter taking over FFmpeg, the code behind almost every video on Earth. Michael Niedermayer had approved a patch from one of them 88 minutes earlier. FFmpeg had no rule for replacing a leader. They wrote one by phone and used it before he read the letter.

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Can @canartuc.com · 07/09/2026

The MIT programmers who left for Symbolics kept driving to Chinatown at three in the morning. They did not tell Richard Stallman. One later admitted to being told to lie. Link in bio.

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By Richard Stallman's account, Symbolics told MIT that he had cost it a million dollars.

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Can @canartuc.com · 07/09/2026

Symbolics had investors, a payroll, and engineers hired from MIT's AI Lab. Richard Stallman had a terminal and a university salary. For two years, he matched every release from the notes Symbolics published. Symbolics could not outrun. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 07/09/2026

Bram Moolenaar refused Thiago de Arruda's 2014 patch. De Arruda forked Vim into Neovim, now over double Vim's GitHub stars. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 06/09/2026

Ever thought the man behind Vim spent fifteen years at Google on the calendar app? Bram Moolenaar worked on Google Calendar in Google's Zurich office from 2006 to 2021. Google had the author of the editor its engineers opened every day, and spent most of him on Calendar. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 06/09/2026

Vim runs on nearly every Unix machine on Earth. The only account that could hand the project on belonged to Bram Moolenaar, who died on August 3, 2023. His family in Lisse changed the GitHub permissions themselves. Rest in peace, Bram Moolenaar

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Can @canartuc.com · 06/09/2026

Wladimir van der Laan quit as Bitcoin Core release manager a few lines into a meeting and chaired the rest. He was a defendant in Craig Wright's claim. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 05/09/2026

Ever seen someone sued over a coin that did not exist? Amaury Sechet and Jason Bradley Cox build eCash. Its XEC coin did not exist in February 2020, when Craig Wright says his keys were taken. Tulip Trading spent 3 years of their lives. Link in bio.

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Can @canartuc.com · 05/09/2026

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Can @canartuc.com · 05/09/2026

$4 billion in bitcoin, and a claim that open source developers could write a patch to move it. Bitcoin held a power close to that once, for 109 days, until its creator Satoshi deleted it. Tulip Trading picked its defendants from the people still finishing that deletion.

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