stan rogers' shipwreck song was so inspiring it saved a man's life in an actual shipwreck, hard to beat that

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Saw Watson give a lecture in 2001 and he managed to spend an astonishing proportion of it complaining about women

I sometimes wonder whether people realise that the patchset that resulted in the Linus "deep-throat[ing] Microsoft" rant was intended to make it possible for third party vendors to ship signed drivers without every distro having to independently trust their keys

The sort of day where I just drank an entire gin and tonic before realising I hadn't put the gin in it

Young people won't remember the Teletext letters page from the 90s that was mostly people complaining that widescreen films didn't use all of their television so what were they even paying a TV license for

xontext around the secure hibernation thing: imagine you have a system that will only boot signed operating systems, but will then read an OS into RAM off disk without verifying that. That's what hibernation is without security. Anyone who can write an image to disk gets arbitrary code on next boot.

As you do, spending the flight solidifying thoughts on secure hibernation on Linux systems with secure boot

This train does what now?

I think I may have been the first person to ever explain a Dril tweet to an English High Court judge

Garrett v Schestowitz and another will be heard tomorrow (30th October) at Court 13 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, starting at 10:30AM.

Huh my trial overlaps with Massa v Formula One Management Limited and others, that's exciting

Appreciating that the "Oh, no, my girlfriend lives in Canada, you can't meet her" meme is more realistic now that a whole bunch of Canadians refuse to visit the US

San Francisco: a Porsche with "thinkdif" plates

Welcoming the Marine Corps to the War On Cops

Removing wallpaper to repaint a wall. Wallpaper is on top of wallpaper, which is on top of at least three colours of paint, which is on top of at least 3 more layers of wallpaper, the lowest of which I'm pretty sure dates back to the original construction in 1907

Them: Can we have your Zelle details to send you a subset of the security deposit we owe you Me: Sure, but this will not satisfy your debt Them: We have paid you and California civil code 1521 means you no longer have a case against us Me: That is not what that says but thank you for the money?

Was reminded of Hacker News NSO wife guy and found that his most recent post is news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506...

another day volunteering at the openai museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the llm. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

The number of Amiga chipset writes I can make in hblank is influenced by network traffic which is a pretty solid indication that I'm being murdered by interrupts

why do people post such esoteric nonsense on social media when they could be posting extremely relatable content like this

the whole internet loves weird sweet eater guy, a weird guy who eats too many sweets! *5 seconds later* we regret to inform you-

Sometimes I'm "How could someone this smart believe this I just refuse to accept that" and then I remember that I used to be Brian Josephson's sysadmin

Current status: oh god why am I in the BRCM2837 interrupt controller docs all I wanted was a higher degree of graphical fidelity in Doom

Sunnyvale things

Based on track geometry, has anyone identified the station right at the beginning of the video for Smalltown Boy?

Fruitflies in my kitchen: … Me: I have a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

@penllawen.favrd.social Attn: hachyderm.io/@samhenrigol...

This is like my idea of putting England flags on speed cameras to stop them being cut down by patriotic drivers

I live in this little box now

No amount of cryptography will make up for you just displaying your secret material in public

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Your age was potentially leaked as a result of a highly sophisticated and targeted cyber attack. As a security measure, please choose a new age at your next login. You will not be able to reuse your existing age, or any previous age.

Elon Musk quietly furious he wasn't invited to the Riyadh comedy festival

Remembering the Republican reaction to this in 2000 and wondering what it would be today

If you had to choose the 6 most significant CPUs in history, what would you choose? Please rank (and yes obviously 6502 is in there)

A thing I was not expecting to have this year is correspondence from the Chief Clerk of the King's Remembrancer

Still waiting for someone to write the history of Nokia's fuckups from the perspective of the Linux side of the company, not the S60 side of the company

Having seen from the inside how hard it was to get Google to take down obvious stalkerware[1], it would not surprise me that more subtle tracking apps are prevalent and selling data to ICE [1] Frequently sold as some sort of child monitoring app but clearly aimed at people wanting to track partners

Trying to share my location and Google suggesting my lawyer and this is not the weekend for that

Ah, San Francisco

British government have any understanding of Northern Ireland politics Challenge - difficulty: Impossible

The current state of the UK is that TERFs are sufficiently transphobic that they'll forbid trans men (who they assert are "biological women") from using women's toilets, kind of putting a lie to the gender essentialism part of this

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

Oh come on

NGL the back cover text of the German translation of the Hackers novelisation goes hard

Setting up a new wireless network called GBus that's VPNed into China and watching Google employees walk past and have their corp access blocked

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

Google just kindly reminded me of this absolutely cursed image