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from my link log —
Discovering Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation.
https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
saved 2020-06-20

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?

It's a pity they didn't make a fork of MkLinux for UltraSPARC called MK ULTRA

By the way, has everybody switched to that vibe-coded WordPress fork by now? What was it called again…?

Murena /e/ OS 4.0: Android-Fork soll Umstieg von Google-Diensten erleichtern
Das französische Unternehmen Murena hat den Google-freien Android-Fork /e/ OS 4.0 veröffentlicht.
https://www.

Google-freies Android: Murena kündigt /e/ OS 4.0 an
Das französische Unternehmen Murena hat den Google-freien Android-Fork /e/ OS 4.0 veröffentlicht.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
catbandcat:
🎵 Fork and Knife
#catbandcat
https://catbandcat.bandcamp.com/track/fork-and-knife
https://open.spotify.com/track/3VYEGKJeMiPZ0bM6cQaB0Y

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270
I’d say let’s fund it from the commons with the EU funding an independent org to maintain such a fork but I don’t see that happening with the muppets in charge at the moment who think …

I decided it was time to check out Firefox alternatives.
LibreWolf came up, and being a FF fork, and a quick check shows it seems to update in a timely manner, I decided to give that a go.
I decided to utilise Firefox Sync to get most of my FF setup imported into LW. Went smoothly enough, although I discovered that the tabs syncing is just providing a list of what's on other devices, not actually creating and populating all of the same windows.
And, of course, some ext…

#SilentSunday

Not wanting genAI code in the kernel is “puritanical” now. https://bsky.app/profile/esteraxiom.mom/post/3mqrtrd24522m
This is like some evil mirror universe version of the rust in the kernel discourse.

Monkeys Have Geometric Skills On Par With Human Preschoolers, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-have-geometric-skills-on-par-with-human-preschoolers-study-suggests

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google-freies Android: Murena kündigt /e/ OS 4.0 an

Google-freies Android: Murena kündigt /e/ OS 4.0 an
Das französische Unternehmen Murena hat den Google-freien Android-Fork /e/ OS 4.0 veröffentlicht.

TWO BINS. TSA took everything out of my bag 1 by 1 & laid them out in across 2 bins, plus the bin I already had with my laptop, display, mouse & 3 cables.
They threw away my biodegradable 'potatoware' utensil package (fork/knife/napkin) cuz apparently my potatoware knife is a 'threat'.
#smh

I've been enjoying practicing for field day using my fork of Morse Walker, and also using cwsim for a more realistic simulation of a busy contest CW experience.
It made me wonder whether anyone had made a cwsim fork to support field day.
When I did a Google search, it sent me to Gemini, which helpfully …

cursed TIL of the day:
posix_spawn is a fork() and exec() in a trenchcoat1️⃣
1️⃣ on Linux
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/e741fe3071f0bf0a/

When the housing is 100% adorable.
(“Happy Home” by Timur Fork, in Osaka, Japan as photographed for Hi Fructose magazine issue 75)

NYT tech reporter Kevin Roose, host of Hard Fork with Casey Newton, is leaving the paper to launch a new show with Newton (Kevin Roose/@kevinroose)
https://x.com/kevinroose/status/2067620115223593241

Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) on X
Leaving The Times

Lots of patches are pending for @… - currently 8 open PRs, with even more to come.
Who could help out reviewing them? 🥺
https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot/pulls

Pull requests · oreboot/oreboot
oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust. - Pull requests · oreboot/oreboot

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116935974212144392
Never mind not being a fork
– It's a rewrite of an early kernel from December 8, 1991
– just a few months after the initial release, Linux 0.01.

When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers - FOSS Force
<https://fossforce.com/2026/04/when-your-xorg-fork-is-more-about-dei-than-display-servers/> @…

In my latest article for Inquirer.net, I talk about @… and its 15-year history despite being only 1 year old. (I also talk a bit about data privacy and @….)

CoMaps and the right to fork
CoMaps, my favorite OpenStreetMap-based mobile app, is now one year old! This Google Maps alternative first became available on Google Play and the Apple App Store on July 3, 2025. What

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737
Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.
Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.
Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.
Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.
Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.
In short, you have choices!

A IS FOR APPLE
https://web.archive.org/web/20150723005417/http://aisforapple.net/main.htm

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Google-freies Android: Murena kündigt /e/ OS 4.0 an

Google-freies Android: Murena kündigt /e/ OS 4.0 an
Das französische Unternehmen Murena hat den Google-freien Android-Fork /e/ OS 4.0 veröffentlicht.

from my link log —
Spork: A posix_spawn you can use as a fork.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3713082.3730396
saved 2026-05-19 https://

Looking at something claiming “Accessible by default” with its barely-WCAG-passing thing & tiny 10px text, vibe-coded patterns, SC misrepresentations, Twitter-only social presence, and failure to use HTML correctly reminds me that this ‘law’ also applies to sites:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/03…

Accessibility Law of Headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

Godot USD: Moved from a patched Godot to a proper GDExtension, so you no longer need a fork.
Pretty happy with the live variant changes, it also has a traditional "one-off" importer if you do not want to pay a runtime libOpenUSD price.

This week, I'm happy to welcome a new guest blogger, Peter Firmstone from Down Under 🇦🇺.
He's written a whole series about #security baked into the #JVM. Today's post answers the question: why fork @…

Misjudged some chicken on the end of a fork and ended up cracking my front tooth. FML.

Dear #lazyweb,
I've totally forgotten the name of the downstream #fork of #qemu that packaged up TCG as a library so it could be used programmatically in

I‘m late to the party, but I have to say it: #aerc is such a delightful e-mail client for the terminal.
https://git.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc

"It is no coincidence that tech oligarchs in the U.S. have been on a media purchasing spree, scooping up newspapers, TV stations and social media networks - especially in the past 4 years. Controlling the flow of information is a potent thing - and we should be very careful of whom we give that power to."
https:…

W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

This is looks really great https://boxd.sh

"if you enjoyed your dental visit, please review..."
Enjoy is a slightly strong word. I'd rather go to the dentist than, say, poke my eyes with a rusty fork, but to jump from that to "enjoy"... I evaluate that conditional to "False".

Linus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
In reply to a developer on one of the Linux kernel mailing lists, Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly put a foot down to push back against anti-AI comments.

@… @… GDExtension-version of the USD loader/importer, no Godot fork necessary: https://

GitHub - migueldeicaza/godot-usd: Adds USD support to Godot using a GDExtension
Adds USD support to Godot using a GDExtension. Contribute to migueldeicaza/godot-usd development by creating an account on GitHub.

I wish this weren't on xitter; calling out bad behavior on that platform feels ironic. But @… seems to me to be sanely connecting dots:
https://xcancel.co…

Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain why does #Thunderbird avoid supporting the system tray? It's such a bad experience on KDE 😔 I had to install a fork (Betterbird) to have an email client always listening for new mail without having to trip over it when I alt-tab.

:::RESCUE UPDATE::: 7:04 AM
The two stranded fishermen near Holman Flats on the South Fork Skokomish River have been successfully rescued by the United States Coast Guard and transported to Sanderson Field for medical evaluation.
We are grateful for the coordinated efforts of all responding agencies, communications personnel, and volunteers whose teamwork helped bring this incident to a safe conclusion.
~40
:::UPDATE::: 6:35AM 5/30/26
Overnight, Guardian One success…

#bambulab macht schon wieder unfug. Nachdem man letztes Jahr bereits versuchte durch DRM den Druck über alternative Slicer zu verhindern und ziemlich Gegenwind kassiert hat, geht man nun wohl rechtlich vor. Man hat einem #OrcaSlicer Fork Drogungen geschickt. Der Entwickler hätte gegen …

If I had all of the time in the world, I'd fork Frigate NVR, set it up to offload all of the processing and video storage to a server in Atlantic Canada, and call it Frig It NVR.
Sadly: this would not be my first "did it for the name” project.
Doubly sadly: mostly only maritimers and Trailer Park Boys fans would even find it funny. But I sure would.

@… After all, that is why just about every FOSS license allows you to fork and develop onwards on your own.
It’s okay to just use my project as a stepping stone towards the project *you* want, without expecting me to get involved.
Feels like a lot of folks out there don’t consider that option for whatever reason.

In addition to Ana’s layout fork, @… made one using the anchor positioning polyfill and @… provided details on how to hide, er, `<details>` (which I don’t use) from an in-page search.
‘Link Popover Navigation’

Link + Popover Navigation
This is a redress of my 2019 post Link + Disclosure Widget Navigation, except (as the title implies), I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets. Popover has the benefit of using appropriate HTML structure and semantics while removing the need for scripting…

American Fork's police department are straight up corrupt. It's on VIDEO.
This is astounding.
▶️ Police Violated Reckless Ben's Rights - Legal Eagle
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3P36bPNMxIM&si=eguvoyGxwoKOm7Dl

Den Windows-Klassiker Notepad gibts jetzt auch nativ für macOS. Ein Community-Fork ohne Wine, Crossover, etc.
#notepadplusplus

Notepad++ for Mac: Free Native macOS Code Editor
Notepad++ for Mac is a free, open-source, native macOS code editor. Universal Binary for Apple Silicon (M1–M5) and Intel Macs. No Wine, no Rosetta, no emulation.

Wow... FCP Cafe folks are bringing an Apple Silicon/Metal optimized fork of the amazing Corridor Key to the App Store.
https://corridorkeybylatenite.fcp.cafe/

CorridorKey by LateNite
We're currently in a public beta testing phase. 👷

from my link log —
gosentry: fuzz golang with LibAFL.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/05/12/go-fuzzing-was-missing-half-the-toolkit.-we-forked-the-toolchain-to-fix-it./
saved 2026-05-12

Go fuzzing was missing half the toolkit. We forked the toolchain to fix it.
We built gosentry, a fuzzing-oriented fork of the Go toolchain that keeps the standard fuzzing workflow while using a stronger stack underneath.

Forking the #JVM to Save #JINI
https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/06/forking-the-jvm-to-save-j…

I have my own CLI parser - a fork of the old kingpin - and over time its evolved to have deep runtime introspection among other unique features.
Here using that to generate web based help viewers and I think this is a pretty sweet idea, will have to think how to incorporate this into my doc sites.
Short 2 minute video and screenshots
https://w…

So I wanted to unbundle #uChardet from #cChardet #Python package.
It didn't build against system uchardet 0.0.8. So I've checked, and it turns out cchardet is using some old patched fork of uchardet. Ugh.
Fortunately, upstream added the "missing" function too, with a different API (that's not really a problem), but they didn't make a release in 4 years. Ugh.
I could at least replace the old patched uchardet with upstream uchardet, right? Except now I'm getting test failures over misdetected encodings. 0.0.8 works fine there. Though the particular test doesn't look very realistic (note all the repetitions):
#Gentoo

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- Energy-Efficient On-Device RAG on a Mobile NPU: System Design and Benchmark on Snapdragon X Elite
Zhiyuan Cheng, Longying Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11257 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116730488820684308
- TileFuse: A Fused Mixed-Precision Kernel Library for Efficient Quantized LLM Inference on AMD NPUs
Wesley Pang, Gregory Hyegang Jun, Feiyang Liu, Deming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11357 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116730303808083247
- XPR: An Extensible Cross-Platform Point-Based Differentiable Renderer
Rhyner, Durvasula, Kovalev, Jia, Zhao, Mrutunjayya, Ahuja, Panneer, Giannoula, Vijaykumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11529 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116730305576192171
- Beyond Per-Token Pricing: A Concurrency-Aware Methodology for LLM Infrastructure Cost Estimation
Chitral Patil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11690 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116730304985870885
- From Fork-Join to Asynchronous Tasks: Parallelizing Tiled Cholesky Decomposition with OpenMP and HPX
Alexander Strack, Alexander Van Craen, Dirk Pfl\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11937 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116730405487451638
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I'm trying to build a fork if Ghidra, and depending on what version of Gradle I use, I get different errors.
Using the minimum version gives me this:
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/could-not-open-cp-init-generic-class-cache-for-in…

Could not open cp_init generic class cache for initialization script
Hello im using Gradle 8.0 and java 19 and i get the following error when i try to run it in eclipse FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. What went wrong: Could not open cp_init generic class cache for initialization script ‘C:\Users\stich\eclipse-workspace.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.buildship.core\init.d\eclipsePlugin.gradle’ (C:\Users\stich.gradle\caches\7.5.1\scripts\7fciaz2tzo3lxxw75zggl661a). BUG! exception in phase ‘semantic analysis’ in source unit ‘BuildScript’ Un…

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116521805012366059
Chrome prohibits first-class ad blocking extensions.
Chrome now installs a 4GB AI model.
Google is an ad company. They harvest your data.
Use Firefox or else a Chromium fork like Vivaldi.

I spend a lot of effort on noise reduction. Turning off alerts, reducing the size of (especially redundant) messages I don't really need to see—that kind of stuff.
It's REALLY disruptive when software I use decides to get rid of those filters. Like not even just turning the noise back on, but fully removing my ability to even filter things.
I regularly mourn the wonderful period of time when software worked for us. (This *is* open source, but maintaining a fork is more wo…

Agent libOS: A Library-OS-Inspired Runtime for Long-Running, Capability-Controlled LLM Agents
Yingqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03895
arXiv:2606.03895v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are evolving from request-response assistants into long-running software actors: they maintain state across model calls, fork subtasks, wait for external events, request human authority, generate tools, and perform side effects that must be resumed and audited. This paper presents Agent libOS, a library-OS-inspired runtime substrate for LLM agents. Agent libOS runs above a conventional host operating system; it does not implement hardware drivers, kernel-mode isolation, or a POSIX-compatible operating system. Instead, it treats an agent as an AgentProcess: a schedulable execution subject with process identity, parent-child lineage, lifecycle state, a tool table derived from an AgentImage, typed Object Memory, explicit capabilities, human queues, checkpoints, events, and audit records. Its central design rule is tools are libc-like wrappers; runtime primitives are the authority boundary. Filesystem access, object access, sleeps, human approval, JIT tool registration, and external side effects are checked at primitive boundaries under explicit capabilities and policy.
We describe the design, threat model, Python prototype, and safety-oriented evaluation. The current prototype implements async scheduling, namespace-local Object Memory, runtime-integrated human approval, one-shot permission grants, per-process working directories, shell and image-registration primitives, Deno/TypeScript JIT tools over a libOS syscall broker, filesystem/object bridge tools, an injectable Resource Provider Substrate, deterministic demos, real-model smoke scripts, and 123 regression tests at the time of writing. Rather than improving planner accuracy, Agent libOS demonstrates a runtime substrate in which long-running LLM agents can be scheduled, authorized, resumed, and audited without treating tool dispatch as the trust boundary.
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Moon Seen Through Fork in Dead Poplar Snag Next to My House
#photo #photography #moon #nature

There's a MangoWM fork with "infinite canvas" which seems to implement something akin to a ZUI on top of Mango. I've installed it but don't have it configured properly yet. It runs, but it's ignoring some of my keybinds! https://github.com/ernestoCruz05/mango-ext

I remembered yesterday that I had already known and implemented a few things I needed to analyze Intel ME Gen 2 binaries.
The load address is in the metada that `intel_fw me show` prints.
Modules can be unpacked and decompressed via unhuffme, which puts the load address in the file name. I will add the Huffman decompression feature to intel_fw, too.
So with the load address and the Ghidra fork, I now get sensible decompiled code and references, e.g. I can see where strings a…

Well, we've finally packaged #Valkey (another #Redis fork) in #Gentoo, along with its #Python bindings.
Not that we wanted to, but #FakeRedis now started requiring it for tests so heavily that it was too much effort to patch it out. Just to be clear, it just requires the Python bindings, because its test suite happily runs against either Redis or Valkey, and literally doesn't support testing against both simultaneously. But to add the bindings, we needed the database to test them against. And since I've added the package too, I've put a lot of effort (and swearing) to test FakeRedis against both servers.
Should you be using Valkey? Well, let's put it like this. You shouldn't be using Redis, because it's enterprise quality shit. Valkey is roughly what happens when you fork enterprise quality shit and have no clue what you're doing. Though you are able to mostly get renaming right (one valkey-py test failed over the server calling itself "Valkey" rather than "Redis").
Disclaimer: I've only looked at the Python bindings. Maybe the maintainers are more knowledgeable with the server itself.