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First up, a love letter to computing history. The Virtual OS Museum has opened its doors online, cataloguing more than six hundred operating systems across upwards of two hundred fifty platforms. It runs locally, so clear out a few gigabytes, but what you get in return is a remarkable archive stretching all the way back to the Manchester Baby. For anyone curious about how we got here, this is essential.
Shifting to a story with real teeth for the open source community — Bambu Studio, the slicing software behind Bambu Lab's popular three-dee printers, stands accused of violating the AGPL license of PrusaSlicer, the open source project it forked from. Josef Prusa raised the alarm publicly, and the implications are significant. When companies build on open source and quietly close the door behind them, trust across the entire ecosystem takes the hit.
And finally, something delightfully absurd from the maker community. A developer has built GobanFTP, a fully playable version of the ancient board game Go — conducted entirely through FTP directory listings. No interface, no graphics, just file paths as your game board. It is impractical, clever, and a perfect reminder that programmers will find a way to play anywhere.
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