I've possibly found a regression in #texlive but it might not be packaging but the #upstream. Reading the build instructions does not make me confident I can bisect this one.

It's been awhile since I've posted a #jonathanpie video. I'm not terminally online but even on the fediverse you get some backscatter from regular social media channels. I do wonder how much is genuine division and how much is a relatively small number of people and an army of bots wedging them […]

I posted the feed link last week so I'll indulge in some shameless self promotion today. Here is the #qemu #keynote from #kvmforum2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-A4YKABalY It's only 13 minutes long but you can find the slides here: https://pretalx.com/kvm-forum-2025/talk/GDPJJP/ and the […]

I did a bit of recreational #elisp today and added #cargo support to #Hubi, my #transient build interface. I think the extensible approach works pretty nicely even if I'm sure there are some edge cases to work out on other cargo projects […]

The #kvmforum2025 videos are now online at #youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kvmforum6546/videos - taking the opportunity to catch up on the ones I missed while on the hallway track (or clashing with the other room).

Fortunately I hadn't bricked the #xiaomi sensors with the custom #firmware. It looks like the display driver is now done with #spi which isn't supported - hence the frozen/blank screens. Reverting to the original firmware got everything running again. I was able to follow instructions for […]

The Mendel's Museum in Brno is possibly the best scientific museum I've ever visited. I've got a science background and I learnt stuff about genetics, but someone with zero knowledge could come away with a good grasp of the subject and having been entertained on the way. Highly recommended (and […]

You can see September came in hard and now we are paying for energy again. Hopefully we can hold on longer before the central heating starts taking up it's chunk of cost. #homeassistant #graphs

Well that is the first #work related thing I've seen affected by #onlinesafetyact #geoblocking. The repo.or.cz source repository isn't available to those in the #uk.

NYT - President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/business/russia-disinformation-trump.html

The strike at MXP ended up delaying me by about an hour. I've landed in the UK and the travel gods just need to stay on my side for two more transfers and I'm home.

"She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was.”

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

And that's a wrap for #kvmforum2025. It's great to catch up with the people I work with every week but rarely see in person. Excellent talks and as always a very productive hallway track. Time to head out for the #linaro team meal. Hopefully I'll be able to navigate tomorrow's airline worker […]

Note to self: don't re-run your query scripts just before you put your presentation to bed just in case you have to re-organise your talk flow. *sigh* still I have until Friday morning. Time to travel. See my fellow hackers @ #kvmforum2025

*My problem with this interesting effort is that I don't believe the core thesis, although I agree that a taxonomy, description and diagnostic criteria for AI-platforms misbehaving in seemingly crazy ways is pretty important https://www.psychopathia.ai/#glossary

When you think about it it's pretty amazing we are carrying devices around that could at a pinch #transcode an hour of video live from #vlc on your phone to a TV that can't handle the codec without any discernable drain to the battery.

The latest #qemu just dropped. The biggest #emulation feature #linaro worked on was the next iteration of the Scalable Matrix Extensions (FEAT_SME2) which you can currently only see in the wild on #apple's #m4 hardware. If you want to test those local inference models before wider silicon […]

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

one of the things discussed was the US measles outbreak and how it has been made much worse by the Trump administration. Here is some more detail on that for those interested kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Ok that #fork diagram is looking a lot better than the last one. Fixed a lot of bugs in the data processing and I am starting to see some useful #information in the diagram. #qemu #kvmforum2025

Continuing to experiment with plotting the #fork network of #qemu for my talk at #kvmforum2025. I need to figure out a way to filter out normal developer forks from the rest.

I don't know how #macos can be so popular with #developers given how actively hostile it is to being able to generate core dumps or attach #debuggers. I guess most people are using it to shell to a proper OS where the developer ergonomics are better.

The latest #homeassistant has #sankey diagrams for energy flow. I obviously need more energy tracking #sensors for the house ;-)

"Musk has told allies that he wants to focus his attention on his companies and is reluctant to alienate powerful Republicans by starting a third party that could siphon off GOP voters."

😆 #emacs users roasting each other for not using enough of Emacs for everything on Hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44955952

Dear #lazyweb, I think I've reached the limit of #matplotlib trying to graph the forks from a #git repository. What I want to to plot the slowly growing trunk and then show the relative sizes of the forks from where they start in the trunk to their current […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

I'm a day behind Daphne, but here's my take on the UK Wikipedia ruling... www.techdirt.com/2025/08/13/u...

Naming things is hard. I finally landed on *hubi* or the *Homogeneous Unified Builder Interface*. There are many #build interface tools for #emacs and this one is mine: https://github.com/stsquad/hubi

I think the #strangenewworlds writers are having a lot of fun this season. I've enjoyed the first four episodes leaning into the campiness of the original series, before the #federation became too stultified by its aging bureaucracy. I'll even forgive somehow retconn ing in a malfunctioning […]

Trying to think of a project name for my #transient #emacs build tool interface. I've been playing around with an anglicisation of the #welsh phrase "iechyd da" which is often used as a drinking toast meaning "good health". One potential English spelling "Yachi" would lend itself to the acronym […]

Welp - trying to work out how to build a #linux #kernel under a #macos shell is sending me down a bit of a rabbit hole.

John Oliver's segment on Gaza was good but hard to watch. It was noteworthy how silent the crowd was; there was nothing to laugh at, except occasionally when Oliver yelled at Netanyahu or Fox anchors lying about starvation.

Is it wrong to skip digging into a project just because it's build setup needs to install #npm first? Asking for a friend.

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

The UK gov look like complete digitally illiterate idiots. The disaster of huge VPN uptake as a consequence of ill thought out simplistic age verification policy in the UK is stupid beyond credibility. We ARE led by donkeys. I said a while back that AI policy (in HE, and at national level) is […]

Hello. I am a character in a space opera. I visit lots of semi-terrestrial planets with alien life forms that try to eat me, but I am strangely immune to all their infectious diseases and parasites and never get dysentery from the local food and water.

Sitting in the shade enjoying the first day of my holiday and I'm already half way through Rory Stewart's "Politics on the Edge". It's a beautifully written if slightly concerning run through his political career and how the system fails us. #ukpolitics #books

Well that was a bit of a worry. I went to tidy up my #webpage links and happened to notice a #blog post about a film I don't remember watching. It very much looks like my old #wordpress instance had been compromised and subtly added movie link spam in the archive and I never noticed. When I […]

There are many things wrong with #twitter's approach to moderation but at least asking for a community note when #grok gets it so very wrong worked:

Apparently I should watch the season premier of the new #southpark. I wonder if I'll need to verify my age to do so? (narrator: he didn't)

👀 well this is an interesting #qemu patch which in some ways implements to the pre-TCG days of stringing gadgets together: https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/ It's a workaround for the lack of #jit support on #ios which is why #utm's emulation is really slow. It's the […]

There appear to be no downsides to this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23g5xpggzmo

Tux appropriate henna for a wedding tomorrow.

Oh #octopus you cheeky scamps - you are the reason my daytime car charge automation kept being gazumped and pulling extra from the grid.

Well this is all very exciting. Go #lionesses! #euro2025

My first #podcast appearance has finally gone live. SAP's "The Open Source Way" is a regular podcast looking at various #floss projects. This week Karsten to Helge and myself about #qemu, its capabilities, development model and project governance. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts or just […]

Its too hot outside so I've been doing some #emacs hacking porting #counsel-compile to a #casual #transient interface: https://github.com/stsquad/casual/commit/79c958c47fd02c4ceab8c21f6048b668c2192b6e It's been a bit of a learning curve as I'm not familiar with the philosophy of the transient […]