RMP 045 — My Top 10 Substacks Right Now

Episode Notes

News

Apple News

• US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, claimed the UK is ceasing efforts to gain backdoor access to Apple devices

• Apple announced a new “Awe Dropping” event on September 9th

• Two new Apple Stores opening in India

Linux/FOSS News

• LibreOffice 25.8 released

  • Release Notes: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8

• Firefox 142 released

• Thunderbird 142 released

• Arch Linux and AUR still under DDOS attack

Microsoft News

• 8/19 - Worker Intifada Occupies Microsoft Main Campus, Demands MS Cut All Ties With Israel

• 8/20 - Microsoft "Intifada" Shut Down After 4 Hours

• 8/21 - Microsoft “Worker Intifada” Escalates, 18 Arrested, More Violence Planned

• 8/23 - Microsoft "Worker Intifada" says "Go Away, Jews!"

• 8/24 - How Will Microsoft Solve Their Intifada Problem?

• 8/26 - Video of "Worker Intifada" Occupying Microsoft President's Office

• 8/27 - Microsoft Fires "Intifada" Employees

• Microsoft Office NT for PPC found on eBay, demoed, and archived for community preservation

Other Tech News

Nothing to see here this time…

Creepy AI News

• ChatGPT user creeped out after AI shares others’ info — in yet another eerie episode: ‘Very scary’

• University of Colorado Boulder: AI ghosts are coming

  • Research paper: Generative Ghosts: Anticipating Benefits and Risks of AI Afterlives

Retro Gaming/Tech News

• New Open Source GameCube ODE (optical drive emulator)

  • PicoLoader Github: https://github.com/makeo/PicoLoader

• Atari and Limited Run Games have released the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection for Xbox Series, PS5, Switch and Switch 2

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Command Line Tool of the Month: SCLI

scli is a simple terminal user interface for Signal. It uses signal-cli and urwid.

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Main Topic: My Top 10 Substacks Right Now

Tech & Tech History

• The Video Game Library’s Substack

• GoTo 10

• Al’s Geek Lab

• Abort, Retry, Fail

• Obsolete Sony

• Computer Ads from the Past

• The Lunduke Journal

Christianity

• The Anglican Catholic

• Christian Warrior Training

Tech & Culture

• After Babel

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