Some of these links are relevant to my personal history.  (dinosaurs, mining)

• forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed.
• The untold story of the Carnegie Diplodocus.  (via)
• Mining And Refining: Drilling And Blasting.
• The Historical Tech Tree.  (via)
• watch(1) utility added to -current.  Does what it sounds like.
• XScreenSaver 6.12.  More Wayland changes.
• Switching From Desktop Linux To FreeBSD.
• The Wild Wild Web.
• AI-operated vending machines and business process innovation (sorry).  A decent analysis, though I feel like too many LLM examples are for avoiding feedback, when you want the opposite.
• Which leads me to Paul Pangaro’s Cybernetics page.
• New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal.
• FreeBSD 14.3 on FrankenPad T25.  Linked for the FrankenPad.
• Some notes on X terminals in their heyday.
• Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon.  Preorders are open.

Your unrelated music of the week: Chali 2na x Cut Chemist – Melt Like Plastic.  (via)