From open-source color grading and backyard bird ID to a Chrome Web Store purge, a desert payphone, and 12 TB of recovered gaming history, today moves between what we can still do locally and what platforms decide for us.

Who is responsible when an AI-written app clones an open-source project? That fight set the day’s tone, while a phone turned into a home server and an 11-year bet about dying URLs rounded out a quieter argument about what we keep and what we throw away.