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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 01/10/2026

Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984) #UNIX computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microsyste...

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Microsystems Interviews Andrew D. Hall, Director of the Bell Labs System V Development (1984)

They discuss Unix in the 1980s.

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 09/09/2026

Inspired by @klarainc.bsky.social great video on FreeBSD hardening, I wrote a beginner-friendly guide expanding on their key points for anyone getting started: freebsd.toomany.net/hardening Huge credit to Klara Systems for the foundation! #FreeBSD #Security

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FreeBSD Hardening Hub

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 08/07/2026

@EU_Commission A €3 fee per item category on non-EU imports is a 1985 band-aid that only feeds bureaucracy. Modern industry needs automation and competitiveness, not protectionism. Producing here is too expensive and wages are tight—consumers look for the lowest price.

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 16/06/2026

Great news!!! #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Now Available!!! www.freebsd.org/releases/15....

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FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Announcement

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artofmanliness.bsky.social @artofmanliness.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Against the Cult of Travel, or What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Hobbit - www.artofmanliness.com/living/leisu...

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 04/03/2026

Capsicum vs seccomp — capability vs syscall‑based sandboxing #FreeBSD #Linux #capsicum #seccomp vivianvoss.net/blog/capsicu...

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 01/02/2026

1994 Flashback: Bud Tribble on the pivotal NeXT & Sun alliance. 🖥️ It’s amazing to see how OpenStep laid the groundwork for the architecture we still use in macOS today. Real engineering history. #RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #TechHistory #Apple computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/nextworld-...

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NeXTWorld Interviews Bud Tribble, One of the NeXT Founders (1994)

They discuss NeXT's OpenStep, open standards, and more.

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Món Terrassa @monterrassa.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🦅 La població del falcó mostatxut es manté estable al Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac #Terrassa monterrassa.cat/societat/med...

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La població del falcó mostatxut es manté estable al Parc Natural

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Mark Moxon @markmoxon.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I am delighted to announce the release of my latest project: Fully documented source code for The Sentinel, Geoff Crammond’s 1986 masterpiece. Here’s the repository; deep dives coming soon. See thread for details. 1/9 github.com/markmoxon/th... #retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

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GitHub - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro: Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

Fully documented and annotated source code for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro - markmoxon/the-sentinel-source-code-bbc-micro

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Pierre Arlais @pierrearlais.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Une plateforme de partage de "stickertop" (autocollants d'ordinateur portable peut être une traduction) stickertop.art

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Erwan Velu @erwanaliasr1.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

If you run some Solaris or BSD systems, dmidecode needs you ! lists.nongnu.org/archive/html... This tool is a basic brick we all use and need to understand the low configurations of our machines, if you have 5mn, please help.

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Call for non-Linux testers

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 13/10/2025

Meet the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park Deciphering enemy code during the second world war was arguably the first role for women in tech by Suzanne Bearne (from the archives) www.theguardian.com/careers/2018... #womenInStem

A Mark 2 Colossus computer. The ten Colossi were the world's first (semi-) programmable electronic computers, the first having been built in 1943.

Unknown author - This file is from the collections of The National Archives (United Kingdom), catalogued under document record FO850/234.

A Colossus Mark 2 codebreaking computer being operated by Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker (right), 1943

The image shows a Mark 2 Colossus computer, one of the ten machines built during World War II for British codebreaking efforts. Two women, Dorothy Du Boisson (left) and Elsie Booker (right), operate the large electronic computer, which occupies an entire room. The machine is composed of panels filled with switches, dials, cables, and vacuum tubes, representing the first (semi-) programmable electronic computers in history, built in 1943 to help decipher encrypted German communications at Bletchley Park.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park#/media/File:Colossus.jpg

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Emile `iMIl' Heitor @imil.net · 13/10/2025

Modern Linux Tools ikrima.dev/dev-notes/li... from Hacker News via #gcufeed@libera.chat / gcu.info/gruik/

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Modern Linux Tools - Gamedev Guide

Programming notes for Unreal Engine, Houdini, Game Development, Math, & Graphics

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 12/10/2025

#FreeBSD 15.0-BETA1 Now Available A summary of changes since ALPHA5 includes: - OpenZFS upgraded to 2.4.0 rc2 - Various fixes to "no-root" release building - Various fixes to the process for building OCI container images - Various fixes to the process for building VM and cloud images Continue...

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 08/10/2025

When the #Atari 1040ST appeared in 1986, BYTE featured it on the cover with the headline: “A megabyte of memory for $999.”

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 04/10/2025

Xerox Star was the first personal computer to feature a GUI, desktop icons, and a mouse. David Smith, one of the principal designers, wrote: “Every user’s initial view of the Star is the Desktop, which resembles the top of an office desk, together with surrounding furniture.” @unix-byte.bsky.social

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 04/10/2025

In the 1980s, during the Cold War, US restricted computer exports to the Soviet Union. The Soviets nevertheless cloned VAX/VMS. In response, DEC etched onto the #VAX chip in Russian: "VAX... when you care enough to steal the very best" Via @unix-byte.bsky.social

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 02/10/2025

Layers was AT&T’s proprietary windowing system, shipped with the #UNIX PC (PC 7300), predating the widespread adoption of X11. Layers acted like a graphical multiplexer—a distant ancestor of tmux or screen—but ran directly on a bitmap display with rudimentary window management. Via @unix-byte.bsky.

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 02/10/2025

In 1985, AT&T introduced the #UNIX PC (known as the PC 7300). It featured a Motorola 68010 CPU running at 10 MHz and ran UNIX System V. Its built-in monochrome green monitor had a resolution of 720×348. The system sold for $5,500 ($16,500 in today’s dollars) Via @unix-byte.bsky.social

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PSConfEU @psconf.eu · 04/08/2025

😴 A Lazy Coder's Guide to Exploiting Class Features – @james-oneill.bsky.social (#PSConfEU 2025) 💡 Extend objects without writing full classes 💡 Improve IntelliSense & output formatting 💡 Smarter code, less boilerplate #PowerShell #Automation #CodingTips

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 01/10/2025

"Unix was a very small.So it was very beneficial to a lot of people, especially at universities, because it was very hard to teach computing from an IBM end-user point of view. That was the origin of the so-called #Unix culture." Ken Thompson, 1999 IEEE Computer interview Via @unix-byte.bsky.social

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 30/09/2025

MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from Santa Cruz Operation (1987) #UNIX #Xenix #SCO computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microtimes...

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MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from Santa Cruz Operation (1987)

They talk about XENIX and more.

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Marc-André Moreau @awakecoding.com · 27/09/2025

New blog post! 📰 Visual Studio build logs are useless 😤 — but MSBuild Binary Logs reveal everything VS hides. Learn how to capture .binlog files, expose analyzers & generators slowing you down, and finally fix slow builds! ⚡💻👇 awakecoding.com/posts/msbuil...

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MSBuild Binary Logs Reveal What Visual Studio Hides

Visual Studio build logs are noisy and useless for real insight. MSBuild binary logs reveal what the IDE hides: where time is spent, which analyzers drag, and why projects rebuild. Learn how to captur...

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 26/09/2025

One of the first reviews of #Linux appeared in BYTE from Sep 1994. It was a Linux distribution packaged and sold by Fintronic USA Via @unix-byte.bsky.social

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Manu TooManySecrets @sotomonte.net · 24/09/2025

Before BYTE became the go-to magazine for computer enthusiasts, there was Creative Computing. Published from 1974 to 1985, it was one of the first popular magazines dedicated to computer hobbyists. Via @unix-byte.bsky.social

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