What the hell have you built? wthhyb.sacha.house Complexity is not a virtue. Start simple. Add complexity only when you have proof you need it.

This seems significant: "Models show that between about 15,000 and 19,000 years ago, during a period of warming that ended the last Ice Age, glaciers with ice plains retreated hundreds of meters a day. But “we hadn’t seen it play out live before, certainly not at this rate,” Ochwat said."

80-year-old grandmother becomes oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona (Hawai'i) buff.ly/m61NNLN She was the only person in her 80-84 age group.

Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.

Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u... It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C <- by me on @theregister.com

Antarctic glacier saw the fastest retreat in modern history; it could spell trouble for sea levels, report finds buff.ly/r0kBOKC An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

Mr TIFF – from Inventing The Future buff.ly/jaNl3Py <- tracing Stephen Carlsen, the man who invented the TIFF picture file while at Aldus, just before he died

“first-mover disadvantage or dialectics of lead, is a theory in economic history and technological development that proposes that an initial head start in a particular domain may paradoxically become a handicap over time.“

Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa buff.ly/sWJKMGs Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past

It’s mainframes all the way down (2019) buff.ly/oAURGAp <- if it ain't broke, don't attempt to rewrite it in another language on a different platform...

Fantastic journalism.

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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Covid is still here because we chose not to do enough. The climate is changing because we chose not to do enough. And democracy? We can’t afford to just wait and see.

Apparently loads of my work is being sold on that Ali Express, if you're an artist who tries to make a living from your work I suggest you check if your stuff is there too.

"I made a machine which solves the problem of predicting text to go into documents, based on lots and lots of documents."" "Wow, It greeted me politely, and even I put in 2+2= and it gave me 4! IT'S DOING MATH TOO!" "No, it really isn—” "The Singularity is upon us!"

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

I'd say "slop" would be the word of the year if not the decade.

The Hardest Program I’ve Ever Written (2015) buff.ly/UpRK8QX « The hardest program I’ve ever written, once you strip out the whitespace, is 3,835 lines long. That handful of code took me almost a year to write. Granted, that doesn’t take into account the code that didn’t make it. »

Branch bought Nova Launcher in 2022, laid off all the team, and in September, original author Kevin Barry too. buff.ly/NGDWMWx Branch promised to make it open source, but it hasn't. Petition them to release the code:

Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become Smart buff.ly/wzNOhv1 <- fantastic read. Terrifying code. For Linux types -- the chap who's code is being analysed here wrote about 3 versions of the most terse programming language ever invented… & your bank runs it.

Hello, Linux Developer. My name is Jigsaw. In this "Saw Trap" (as I've taken to calling them), there is a wheel in front of you. Your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. It works fine. It's a perfectly good wheel. The door is unlocked.

When Debian won't do, Devuan 6 'Excalibur' Linux makes the grade www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/d... Debian 13 base, minus systemd and RISC-V build <- by me on @theregister.com

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost buff.ly/dGh8Dh3 “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

UK publication day for this wrist-spraining beauty! Appropriately, I’m travelling to Cambridge, where I’m doing a book launch talk at the LMB tomorrow afternoon.

Waiting at the station and the Chad Varah train has just pulled in. Astonishing man - really deserves a “Mary Seacole” style bump in public awareness en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Va...

Just one more hit. One more hit please man you know i'm good for it i'll pay later i swear

So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages: The Leadership Blindspot: How Identity Drives Multi-Million Dollar Technical Debt buff.ly/7pFiShk <- this is THE dominant factor explaining 21st century computing

Repurposing Dodgy Android TV Boxes As Linux Boxes

Famed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C… and likes what he sees www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/d... A ‘three-letter person’ experiments with the new type-safe C, and is impressed <- by me on @theregister.com

Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?

ZING.

Game on! Penguin levels up as Linux finally cracks 3% on Steam www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/s... Only a point up in a year, but that’s a 50% leap for Linux gamers <- by me on @theregister.com

Fish in the Wrong Place: "Liquid Empire: Water & Power in the Colonial World" by Corey Ross, and "In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River & the Life It Brings" by James C. Scott", reviewed by Oliver Cussen in The London Review of Books

Why Nextcloud feels slow to use buff.ly/wAQLY7z « I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set… but no matter how hard I try… it feels slow. […] It’s the Javascript. »

Dick Cheney, the infamous war criminal, has died.

Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0 www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/c... Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat? <- by me on @theregister.com

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again buff.ly/FyfsveW 2025-11-01 - Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more <- a sequel of sorts to the earlier post

Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/d... Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026 <- by me on @theregister.com

People will mock this. But something to note: When Remembrance Day was introduced, this is EXACTLY what many British WW1 veterans did on it. They would meet up with old friends and colleagues from their units. Talk. Laugh. Cry. Toast those not there and get joyously, and utterly shitfaced. /1

‘Pariah’ Carey is incredible subbing work, 10/10 no notes.