it’s gonna be really funny when it turns out that this guy uses gcc (licensed under the famously pro-capitalism GNU GPL)

reasons that The Diamond Age is science fiction’s most accurate prediction of the future:

you can tell that OpenGL is a better religion than Christianity, because OpenGL has a SuperBible, while Christianity only has a normal bible

mainframe for zoomers mentioned!

"so actually we were trying to do the thing that might be wrong, but we were prevented from doing it because of a bug, which is either good or bad depending on whether it was wrong or not"

ANTHROPIC: “artificial superintelligence will certainly cause the end of the human species, which is we must build it before OpenAI does so we can have some chance of inscribing human moral values on the post-human future” OPENAI: “what if we put ads in ChatGPT?”

Inspiring! This System Still Serves CPU Compute The Old-Fashioned Way

the “G” actually stands for “GNOME”, because it’s from the GNOME Project. few know this.

CHATGPT IS NOT AND WILL NEVER BE AN “OPERATING SYSTEM”, CALL IT THAT ONE MORE TIME AND I WILL STAB YOU

"dingus" is a technical term btw

Release Notes with Threatening Auras

i gotta say, it was incredibly good timing that the ST-Link caught fire *right* as Steve and Bryan were being asked a question about how "your management style is that you treat your employees like grownups"

listen carefully at around 22:52 into @changelog.com’s interview with @sdtuck.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social, and you can hear me in the background yelling “oh shit! there’s smoke coming out of it!” as the cable on a SWD debug probe violently shorts out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=smsV...

DO NOT BUY this graphics card!! i learned this the hard way!

this is also true in engineering

interestingly, @jamesmunns.com points out to me that the GigaDevice GD32F470 MCU is essentially a Chinese STM32 clone, and is kinda surprising to see in an American product. but based on this switch being a used eBay purchase, i kinda wonder if it was manufactured during the 2020 silicon shortage…

there's been a multi-day meltdown over on the everything app on F-35 vs A-10 and this is an accurate distillation of the whole stupid thing

how did libs get the f-35 in the national divorce

anyway, shout out to @tef.bsky.social and @elizas.website who have both been suggesting that I back off the simpler-but unfortunately limited fixed-class routing approach, much like pretty much everyone else did back in the late 80s/early 90s for ~the same reasons. Turns out: not built different.

this Ubiquiti USW-Aggregation switch decided to abruptly stop working yesterday for unclear reasons. anyone have troubleshooting tips for these things before i start taking it apart?

CS# is a scam made up by Big Trace to sell more traces

"for some reason, the word that was in the register, which i have just *copied* out of the register on your behalf, is not `Copy`, and cannot be copied safely. i am very smart" --- svd2rust, apparently

testimonials

today i am Upset About PMBus

“i work at a computer company, so i can tell you a lot of information about computers. for example, one thing i know about computers is that it’s not good for computers to have maple syrup inside them.”

Because children in stellaris are pre-sapients, you can legalise hunting them for sport

45Drives Make A Server That Doesn’t Look Like It Was Designed By A 12-Year-Old Challenge (difficulty level: impossible)

it is obscene to treat the unfortunate but (as he himself pointed out) routine murder of this Nazi shithead who believed that Jewish gelt was corrupting the blood of white Americans like a national tragedy

CHAT IS THIS GOOD?

the thing about writing docs is that your first draft is never dumb enough or detailed enough

it is very telling that “BIOS”, in addition to being an acronym, is also the Greek word for “life”. meanwhile, “UEFI” is, of course, ancient Greek for “unified extensible firmware interface”

at Eliza Networks, safety is very important to us

at Eliza Networks, safety is very important to us

today in profoundly upsetting things i discovered while trying to tidy up the lab: a Raspberry Pi that a cat seems to have coughed up a hairball onto

decided that maybe it would be a good idea to store some of my Loose NICs in anti-static bags like you’re supposed to, instead of in a pile on the floor

i spent all morning trying to install some software, but then it turned out that this was impossible because the software was written in Python, so maybe i’ll just rewrite it in Rust instead

Anathem is the only novel brave enough to ask the question, “what if Plato was Real?”

we all like to joke about the legendary “fiber-seeking backhoe”, but a recent Eliza Networks outage that left ones of customers without service was actually caused by a fiber-seeking robot vacuum,

Every CPUID Vendor String: - “GenuineIntel” - “AuthenticAMD” - “CyrixIsFineToo” - “SomeOtherShit” - “ImAHypervisorLol”

we should start a campaign for intel to require the bytes "we must first acknowledge that we are on the traditional intellectual property of Advanced Micro Devices" at the reset vector

ah yes, i love to use the VendorCoProductCode (version 2.00) as my boot device

it is still incredibly funny to me how “GamersNexus” remains one of the hardest-hitting voices in contemporary investigative journalism

wanna know the *actual* best feature of the @oxide.computer rack? NO GODDAMN CAGE NUTS!

still need to mess with the BMC a bit, update the motherboard firmware, and install an OS, but…it’s ALIIIIVE!!!

trying to teach my cats that “claws are for helping, not for hurting”

I started a substack! I wrote about how batteries are already cost competitive with diesel for data center backup power in many scenarios today, and how the magnitude of AI's demand for energy makes this increasingly true, you can read it here camillefassett.substack.com/p/how-batter...

my girlfriend said that my computer was “turbocharged” and i said “they should invent a way for a computer to be lifted”

referring to instant coffee as “accelerated coffee”