1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (921+ words) On the Windows side of the age verification question, Microsoft is obviously following trends among lawmakers the world over. To address this, Windows is introducing a new platform capability: the Windows Age API. This API brings age awareness beyond the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (145+ words) Do tech companies ever stop to think about the misery they unleash on people’s lives? The Apple Watch Series 12 uses “Audio Intelligence” that, as well as secretly taking notes, also has a Live Rewind feature that can replay the last…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (278+ words) Although Solaris is now mostly defunct, its influence remains substantial; technologies pioneered by Solaris can still be found across a wide range of software A lot of Solaris’ inventions have been described and talked about ad nauseam (such as the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (350+ words) Lotus Notes was the future of communications, a decade before laptops had WiFi. Yet of all things, it wasn’t even an email app. It was a notes app, a collaboration tool, an all-things-to-all-people software that let you build apps in…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (381+ words) The BSD news will continue until morale improves. I missed this two months ago, but Baptiste Daroussin, creator of pkg and poudriere, is working on a service manager for FreeBSD called rcd. rcd(8) is a service manager daemon called by…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (193+ words) Yesterday we had the final maintenance release for the NetBSD 9.x series, and today we have FreeBSD 14.5 entering the scene. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (416+ words) With ever-changing devices, browsers, operating systems, form factors, specifications, personal preferences, tooling, and corporate interests, the web is in a constant state of flux. As a result, so is the HTML we write. For every line of the HTML specification…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (166+ words) Why use an installer to install an operating system, when you can just do it yourself, step by step? In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (213+ words) Speaking of NetBSD, the fifth and final 9x release has been released. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons since the release of NetBSD 9.4 in April 2024. It is fully compatible with NetBSD 9.0. This also…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (175+ words) Zenith is a variant of Windows for “developer-class devices”. Project Zenith comes with a set of pre-installed tools spanning languages and runtimes, source control, and productivity tools. Windows Terminal and Visual Studio Code are pinned to the Taskbar by default,…...