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Today's topics:

Mac OS X on Wii - A developer got Mac OS X 10.0 “Cheetah” booting natively on a Nintendo Wii, highlighting retro PowerPC hacking, drivers, and creative bootstrapping.

Linux app-level network monitoring - Little Snitch arrived on Linux with per-app outbound connection visibility and block rules, using eBPF for privacy-oriented traffic monitoring.

Open-source supply-chain hardening - Astral shared a practical CI/CD defense-in-depth playbook—pinned GitHub Actions, least privilege, protected releases, and Sigstore—to reduce supply-chain risk.

Thunderbird funding and sustainability - Thunderbird says fewer than 3% of users fund development, framing donations as key to keeping a privacy-first email client maintained without ads or data sales.

Modern C# in Unity - Unity’s move toward modern .NET makes newer C# features more viable; the discussion covers pragmatic use of properties, tuples, records, and LINQ performance tradeoffs.

Dr. Dobb’s archives preserved - An Internet Archive ISO preserves decades of Dr. Dobb’s and related programming journals, a searchable time capsule of software engineering history and source code.

The Fifth Element VFX craft - A retrospective explains how The Fifth Element’s “futurescape” blended miniatures, CG, and matte work—an influential late-1990s VFX workflow snapshot.

Old English dual pronouns - A linguistics feature revisits Old English dual pronouns like “wit” and why they faded, connecting pronoun change to clarity, simplification, and social history.

-Objective Development Releases Little Snitch for Linux Using eBPF to Monitor and Block App Connections
-Thunderbird Appeals for User Donations to Sustain Development
-Developer Boots Mac OS X 10.0 Natively on a Nintendo Wii
-Astral details its defense-in-depth approach to securing open-source builds and releases
-How Digital Domain Built The Fifth Element’s Comic-Book Future with Miniatures and Early CG Pipelines
-Old English’s lost dual pronouns and how English simplified them away
-CSS Studio launches early access for visual CSS editing synced to source code via AI agent
-RavensBlight Catalogs a Large Collection of Gothic Printable Paper Toys
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