Honestly I just wanted to know what time it was in Prague..

I wonder if they used Erlang's work for estimating heavenly infrastructure requirements while they were planning out the #rapture.

Imagine having to perform risk analysis when selecting a telco in a country like Australia..

Gutmann und Neuhaus, "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

Imagine setting up a build that produced ramdisks compressed using LZ4 but doesn't compile LZ4 support into the kernel!!

And suddenly talk the of Ange managing at Nottingham Forest FC is very intriguing!

The best type of contention is different programs hard coding access to /dev/loop0..x devices.. What a glorious thing that is!

We evolved to detect human sounding and or looking things that are not human. We didn’t evolve to do that with text.

No words.. arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

Ok I am in.. Placed the order along with two joysticks! #C64 #Commodore64 www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fG... See: www.commodore.net

"We don't sell the death beam energy, so it doesn't count." Read more: chaser.com.au/national/won...

It is a start.. They will get around it quickly enough I assume, but social media companies can't just push shit to people without consequence. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Old Rupert can taste blood in the water..

I think I am officially sick of garbage collectors, especially when advice on how to deal with side effects has liberal use of the word "generally" in it. In colloquial en_au, "generally" means, "give it a go, it'll be fun to watch you try?"

Went to the Cowboy BeBop 25 concert in #Melbourne At the Plenary Theatre. Wonderful show so good to see Yoko Kanno and hear her play! I am very grateful she came to Melbourne!

Please, get yourself a satellite phone or fit an HF or CB or even an Amateur Radio to your vehicle if you are going to head out to remote areas of Australia. Remote in some states may only be a few 100km from the capital city. I have a bad feeling about Carolina Wilga.

There are only, just so many times, you can deal with, yet another, exposé on Erin Patterson. (Mushroom Poisoning Woman)

An evening for Ζωή Φυτούση. I grew up with it playing in the house from time to time.

The USA is 5.7% of Australia’s exports. Good luck with those tariffs.

It’s bad form to rip into people’s politics while they are dealing with a natural disaster.

The problem with the “boiled frog” analogy is that frogs sense the water temperature and actively get out.

... and a 29 minute old GitHub account starts posting the contents of old CVEs as new issues.

The word "denunciation" will be word of the year in 2025: Example: "They were jealous of their neighbour's new car so they denounced them to authorities and the neighbours were detained for 48 hours, while their loyalty to the state was ascertained. The car was confiscated and not returned."

Rust is a good language, Go is a good language, C is a good language, Java is a good language, C# is a good language, C++ is a good language usw.. Just use the "good" language for what you want to do.. Trying to use the not good language for what you want to do is where the trouble starts..

According to all the social media platforms, all I am interested in is UK immigration policy..

From The Shovel:

Reprising Heldmaschine tonight.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTMS...

Is the CMVP basically dead now?

I am still working out how to strip the US politics from my social media feeds.

If it wasn't for the other combustion byproducts I am starting to wonder if it may have been better to chase closing the liquid fuel cycle rather than pure EVs. FYI: I am only wondering here, I am not qualified to have an opinion either way.

From back when fictional AI was sarcastic but accurate. youtu.be/PJP-Ilw_xaY?...

If you have freshly emigrated to Australia, be sure to get a local driver’s license because the fine after the grace period is significant and it may affect your insurance in an accident. I know this because the person who t-boned my van in November is on the hook for the lot.

Postgres: May I change DB after connecting…NO! MySQL: May I have transaction for DDL? … NO!

What gets to me about the rise of #LLM is number of people who appear to live in a world where being imprecise has no material consequences to their existence.

Took #ANTLR for a spin after doggedly building my own parsers for years and I have everything I want working in about an hour. Not only that I was able to visualize it when I needed to!! Sensational stuff, thanks #ANTLR developers!

In a world full of shouting, there is always a quiet place for a little parser and AST development.

BC Java 1.80 now out. Secret sharing, updates to TLS and OpenPGP. HQC implementation updated to latest draft and updates to ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA private key encoding. See www.bouncycastle.org/download/bou... for details. #cryptography #HQC #PQC #OpenPGP

Concerning the Wordpress drama: There is an Australian band called TISM and they wrote this song called "Five Yards". People should really listen to it when they think of what is happening over in Wordpress land.. automattic.com/2025/01/09/a...

Learn to take notes by hand, if you have never done that pick one of your favourite content producers, pod caster etc and make notes on it. Don’t stress if your hand can’t keep up, it takes practice. You can do it!

Facebook has decided that I am long on AI generated or obviously doctored images of planets. Or mysterious, hitherto, just discovered, science that has somehow been overlooked by scientists until now.

For what it’s worth, don’t plant any plant from Australia if you are in a fire prone area. The trees, particularly, use fire to trigger germination of their seeds and are vert very combustible.

I don't lodge a lot of support tickets but when I do I like to embarrass myself by not knowing stuff like, OSX on Apple Silicon will translate a JVM complied for x86_64 to Aarch64 but with the unfortunate side effect of reporting the os.arch as x86_64.

📣 Initial public draft of NIST SP 800-227, Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms 🚨 This is the long-awaited SP that describes how to use KEMs like ML-KEM, including how to build PQC hybrids with ECC. csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/22…

Right well, that’s New Year’s Eve out of the way.. Off to bed!

I have this cunning plan to add some yellow paint to my unit tests so that people can easily explore them without getting lost.

Ohh boy, can’t wait to get off the celebratory food. There is such a thing as too much pavlova.

I didn’t quit X anymore than I quit Facebook. I just don’t go there to engage. As messed up as it is, it’s still better for realtime updates that this place or threads. You just need to apply a better bullshit filter to deal with the noise / spam or outright falsehoods. You know, set boundaries!

Is Bird 🦅 Flu adapting to humans? CDC sequencing of the #birdflu virus from the ill patient in Louisiana revealed changes that may result in increased binding to receptors in the upper respiratory tract of humans. One of the changes was also identified in a specimen 1/ #BlueSky  #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky