eBay isn't always bad. I won a 24-port 10baseT hub (with BNC and AUI ports!!) from user dominio11 and for £6 in shipping costs I got the hub's original box, wrapped in many square metres of bubble wrap, wrapped in a tough outer corrugated cardboard box, and then an awful lot of parcel tape.

Watched Fantastic 4: First Steps yesterday. I did not like it.

I agree with @osnews.com www.osnews.com/story/143696...

I inserted Disk 3 of 3 but I did not press Enter because I was not ready to continue.

I see the Debian mailing list hasn’t progressed beyond: taking past each other, taking issue with things they imagined the other person has said, and generally being terrified that Rust signals the end of days.

The Raspberry Pi 500+ has a network-enabled OS flashing tool built into ROM (or at least the ROM can get on the network, download it and then boot it). This is very useful and all computers should have it. It even flashes as it downloads, to save time.

Fascinating to hear the early history of the Acorn RISC Machine from the key players (but note, not “the” designer - Sophie insists the instruction set was co-designed by her and Steve Furber together) youtu.be/t8MWXdEbDeI

Bought a new (old) hard disk off eBay. A proper spinning platters IDE drive. It was shipped wrapped in a plastic bag. That’s it. No ESD bag. No padding of any kind. Just in a plastic bag, with an address label. What is wrong with people?

www.instagram.com/richardbrans... I’ve taken Eurostar to Paris, Brussels and Rotterdam - many times. The whole process is miserable and I’m really hoping Virgin can make it better.

Espressif hired a bunch of Rust devs years ago and they have been quietly doing great work supporting Rust on their chips ever since. Still haven’t seen any other chip companies get close. developer.espressif.com/blog/2025/10...

It has been zero days since I compiled LLVM from source.

EJAE has a new song out. youtu.be/fSzpkgeotB8?...

people when it comes to Rust: "I won't use it because there's not multiple implementations" people when it comes to coreutils in Rust: "How dare someone write a second implementation"

Windows 7 (2009) is now as old as Windows NT (1993) was when Windows 7 was released.

Next time AWS senses sneezes and you can’t get any work done, you could just read my blog to kill time. It lives on a user account on a server at @[email protected] and it’s survived the front page on HN multiple times. You don’t have to over-complicate things.

I got a googlewhack. Is that still a thing? www.google.com/search?q=lib...

Wanted: Something like an RC2014, but the CPU is RISC-V and there's a 32-bit address bus and a 16-bit data bus, and the bus runs at 3.3V. I'd use an ICE40HX for the CPU card (£6), and a few IS66WVE PSRAMs for the RAM card, plus an EEPROM, a Clock/Reset and an RP2350 as a universal I/O device.

Doing a restore of IRIX 6.2, from a backup I made, onto a new hard disk I've just formatted. Will it work?

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, don’t buy Club - because it’s now a chocolate flavour palm oil mix.

Currently installing HP-UX 8 (1991) onto an HP 9000 / Apollo Model 705 PA-RISC Workstation (1992) so it can be a remote boot server for an HP 9000 Model 340 (1989) 68020 Workstation. This was only possible because I found a compatible hard disk in a random SPARCstation 2 I had.

The sheer hubris of imagining that because people are forced to use Teams to talk to their fellow humans, they would naturally therefore love to talk to a bullshit generator built into Windows. It's staggering.

Caldera OpenLinux for me, back around then. It had a proprietary desktop that expired after 30 days without a licence, and I had to recompile the kernel to get sound working.

> Maybe he could be motivated to spend a bit of time on $OPEN_SOURCE_PROJECT maintenance with community encouragement. Please do not attempt to "motivate" open source maintainers with "community encouragement".

Did you enjoy my blog post last year about the MIPS R8000 based POWER Indigo 2 from SGI? Well here's Cameron Kaiser with an even better blog post (with even more photos), all about the R10000 based Indigo 2 IMPACT that replaced it. oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/09/refu...

I did some early projects a long time ago on Arduino. I liked its focus on simplicity, rather than making people assemble the build system, compiler and HAL from a kit of open source parts with no instructions. I will miss it.

> This PR appears to be extractive, and requires additional justification for why it is valuable enough to the project for us to review it. Please see our developer policy on AI-generated contributions: <url> Love it. discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-llvm-a...

I picked up a new computer today. Blame @robert.smallshire.no. Whilst I was there I picked up six more. Oops. To be fair, two I immediately gave away, on the grounds of extreme space shortages.

My #RustConf '25 talk has posted! The story of adapting #rustlang at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies ... Slides: docs.google.com/presentation... Rust jobs @ RVT: docs.google.com/document/d/e... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RIx...

The exhibitors are telling us what they're bringing to the RCF - and, wow, what a line up! PDPs and oscilloscopes from the dawn of gaming to brand new projects for the Sega Mega Drive - and into the future with the Spectrum Next! Tickets are selling fast - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/re...

I am recompiling LLVM for the seventh time today.

Matt Berry with The Orchid is the best advert I’ve seen in years. Decades even. Just go watch it.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I accidentally wrote an RTOS, and then wrote about the RTOS I accidentally wrote thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-20...

Cool cool. Github changed the default runner image to work-around a non-issue in the Rust compiler, and now my builds don't work and I cannot do a release.

ARMv6-M is hard work. Want to STMFD (aka STMDB)? You can’t! Only STMEA (aka STMIA). Why? They aren’t useful?!

OneDrive is so bad, honestly, I'm just embarrassed for them. How big is this folder? No idea. Where's all my space gone? Well here are the big files on your account, randomly selected from any directory. Cool, can I see that one? No, because I deleted it already.

I have levelled up my Cortex-M knowledge and I now just about understand lazy stacking, and the weird selection of EXC_RETURN values.

One of those "what is even happening??!" bugs rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann...

As a citizen of a country with functioning digital ID and single sign on for basically everything public and private, I can’t recommend it highly enough.

I have a lot of Government digital IDs already: I have a passport number, a National Insurance number, an HMRC Unique Taxpayer Reference, a Drivers Licence number, an NHS number, and so on. I’m OK with harmonising this, and I hope we can move towards what Estonia enjoys.

Been playing with mine for a while. It’s a lot of fun. www.raspberrypi.com/products/ras...

this aged really well lol x.com/dhh/status/1...

I am bringing a selection of 1990’s UNIX RISC exotica to RCF25. You weren’t supposed to be playing games on your $15,000 Silicon Graphics workstation, but that’s not going to stop us this weekend! Come and have an illicit five minutes of gameplay on a machine you couldn’t afford to have at home.

Them: But no-one is using Rust in Production Me: Well, actually… ferrous-systems.com/blog/rust-wh...

And to those who question the need for human rights laws or international courts, this is it. Because even functioning democracies can end up with authoritarian, oppressive regimes. And it is vulnerable people who suffer when there is no way to curtail government powers.

Off to The Netherlands today to talk to ESA about Rust. Again.

Want to talk about Rust? We're officially giving the bird to the former bird and active on Blue Sky now! But if you happen to be at any of these events, come say hi! ferrous-systems.com/blog/where-t...

My hotel is just outside the bomb evacuation zone in Berlin-Mitte but I can confirm the Cell Emergency Broadcast System will wake you up if it goes off at 11.52pm. My office is right next to where the fun is happening so, I guess I’m not going to the office just yet.

If you don’t install macOS 26 they will know you didn’t install it and it might make them think about what they’ve done.