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Today's topics:

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux - A community reverse-engineered Windows XP’s Space Cadet Pinball into portable source code, with Flatpak installs and tricky questions about copyrighted game assets and preservation.

Idempotency beyond replay caches - A deep look at Idempotency-Key pitfalls in side-effecting APIs—payments, notifications, ledgers—arguing for durable records, canonical request hashing, and explicit HTTP 409 conflicts when clients misuse keys.

Assembly-only macOS web server - A new open-source macOS HTTP server written in ARM64 assembly using only syscalls demonstrates how close-to-kernel software can work—while spotlighting portability and security tradeoffs.

AI boosts, AI dependency risks - One developer’s account of “task paralysis” shows how generative AI can kick-start coding and motivation, but also create a dopamine loop tied to usage-based tokens and spending.

Internet Archive Switzerland launches - Internet Archive Switzerland is a new nonprofit focused on preserving endangered archives and even capturing artifacts of the gen-AI era, including early efforts to archive AI models with academic partners.

Mister 880 and tiny fraud - The story of Emerich Juettner, who counterfeited low-quality $1 bills for years, reveals how systems optimized for big crimes can miss small, careful abuse—and how investigations can become costly anyway.

-Space Cadet Pinball Comes to Linux, Rekindling Debate Over Preservation and Piracy
-Why Idempotency Breaks When Retries Aren’t Identical
-How ‘Mister 880’ Passed Crude $1 Counterfeits for Nearly a Decade
-jobs.ashbyhq.com
-ymawky: macOS ARM64 Assembly Web Server Released on GitHub
-Google Adds Multimodal Search, Metadata Filters, and Page Citations to Gemini API File Search
-Essay: Using AI to Break Task Paralysis Comes With an Addiction Risk
-Internet Archive launches Swiss nonprofit to preserve endangered archives and AI models


Episode Transcript

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Let’s start with software preservation, because it’s having a bit of a moment.

A community reverse-engineering effort has brought the classic Windows XP game Space Cadet Pinball to Linux, with a port built from reconstructed source code. In practical terms, it means you can install it like a norma