Are they still managing versions and rollback via BTRFS snapshots?

Yep, using snapper, same as tumbleweed.

The TI-99/8 looks like it would have been awesome. It solved the issues of the 99/4a, had improved basic and pascal built in, all while being backward compatible.

and I literally just saw the other headline "Waymo says its robotaxis get help from remote workers in the Philippines"

I currently have hopes / am watching Apostrophy who are building on top of Graphene but at least they acknowledge that people need Google Play and are attempting to support that while not sacrificing the entire device to privacy issues. https://www.apostrophy.ch

Only Android needs Google Play. The thrust of this post is that there's a third alternative which is neither iOS nor Android - and that's a killer feature.

Now it's up to capricious EU leadership whether to support a sovereign OS, including mandating that banks and other institutions open up their requirements to use solely US-controlled devices.

This is great to see. I have played around with Turbo Rascal Syntax Error and will give this a shot. SpeccyNext coming when round 3 ships.

There will be a video from FireShip if its a big one. /s

Ah FireShip, I forgot that channel existed at all. I asked YouTube to not recommend that channel after every vaguely AI-related news was "BIG NEWS!!!", the videos were also thin on actual content, and there were repeated factual errors over multiple videos too. At that point, the only thing it's good for is to make yourself (falsely) feel like you're keeping up.

Fireship consistently makes some of the most entertaining tech content out there

Hey if you enjoy it, go for it. I used to like it a couple of years ago too, but I found that more and more lately, it was neither entertaining nor reliably informative. The jokes/memes were lazy and recycled a lot, the tech content was often poorly researched, and it started feeling like content produced for the sake of having content.

Well its an amphetamine, so there's that.

It is interesting to watch them try to grow so quickly. At some point they'll need to turn more profit to hold all this scale up. We'll see if they can stick to the privacy claims or start to sell out.

They just switched to a non-profit system of governance.

They are already profitable without any VC investments.

10x less is a weird way of saying 90% less, or better yet reduced to 10% from before.

so if ChatGPT hallucinates 10% of the time, their model hallucinates only 1% of the time?

Yes, I was waiting to see a Basecamp alternative written in PHP :D