- The Internet Archive is under legal siege: four major publishers (Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Wiley) won a federal ruling against its COVID-era “National Emergency Library,” and an unsuccessful appeal could cripple one of the largest public digital libraries ever built.  
- lkcl circulated the 2023 Silicon Salon slide deck on open-source hardware (PDF) and later posted full transcripts to the diyhpl.us wiki, documenting recent progress and debates in libre silicon development.  
- A practical HDL toolchain discussion outlined how to simulate VHDL designs with open-source tools: GHDL for simulation, the yosys-ghdl-plugin to convert VHDL→Verilog, and cocotb/Verilator for mixed-language verification against Python reference models (e.g., validating a JPEG decoder with Python Imaging).  
- Guix’s new “full-source bootstrap” announcement—building the entire system from a minimal 357-byte hex-seed—was shared as a step toward fully auditable, supply-chain-secure computing stacks.  
- Replit’s newly released 1.3 B parameter code-generation LLM (“replit-code-v1-3b”) was highlighted as a promising smaller-scale alternative to the current wave of giant language models.  
- A mini-symposium on note-taking practices concluded that most participants favor lightweight, searchable digital tools (Markdown + tags, Readwise, Anki) over elaborate PKM systems, while some still argue for ultra-low-latency pen-and-paper or mechanical-pencil methods to maximize information density and avoid cloud dependencies.