Colin Ian King
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kernel bug fixer, Open Source advocate, C64 and Lego fanatic, hobbyist artist. Author of stress-ng.
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IsThatDonHeath?
1 day ago
silodrome.com/emma-peel-lo...
Hot wheels I'm guessing that it has been sold by now.
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Emma Peel's Lotus Elan From "The Avengers" Is For Sale
There were few cars more iconic to the television watching 1960s British public than the Lotus Elan, thanks largely to its use by Emma Peel in The
https://silodrome.com/emma-peel-lotus-elan-the-avengers/
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health
1 day ago
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Sir Nicholas White
@moru-mip.bsky.social
Nick was a visionary in
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treatment whose work transformed global health. He will be remembered with great respect and affection Read our tribute š
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...
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added bit-flipping to the stress-ng register stressor and it's now making my system a bit more toasty!
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Sussex Wildlife Trust
6 days ago
Watch out vampires - we've got a crack team of stake-holders! Katie Bell, Youth Action Officer, led a leaky dam building collab at Woods Mill nature reserve, between our Youth Rangers and the regular Friday Conservation volunteers. Leaky dams help prevent flooding.
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1984 in 2026
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štill šøndy really
12 days ago
Dear BBC Please defund Mrs Browns Boys and divert funding to Winter/Spring/Autumn watch Thx ever so Signed Everyone who isnāt a wrong āun
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Be focused on who you can help rather than who you are.
13 days ago
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Trump's policies make the US look ridiculous from the standpoint of the rest of the world. It's going to take many years for the US to regain it's lost reputation. Sorry, but that's the reality we're now in.
14 days ago
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I'm retiring at the end of February, I've been fighting various illnesses and I need to slow down and focus on my health. It's been a fun career, I've been programming in C and assembler for ~40 years and a lot has changed in that time. I'll still be keeping stress-ng going.
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From his mouth are lies and corruption, his madness was clear to see. Yet the people shouted "he is our king, he does no wrong, let us destroy those who come against him". And so corruption killed sanity, and the world headed into war.
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Brian Tyler Cohen
15 days ago
A January 6th insurrectionist who Trump pardoned is now being charged with molesting a child. Trumpās pardon released him from prison.
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Amy King
17 days ago
I have written a new blogpost about my attempt to get to 1,000 species this year:
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...
#PSL
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The Big Thousand
Iām very much a generalist when it comes to natural history. Wildlife filmmaking often means that I know a little bit of everything, with a...
https://amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-big-thousand.html
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Wow. This is shocking:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vqj...
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Justice Department issues SHOCKING announcement
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vqj44VgF1M
17 days ago
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Now is not the time to be silent.
18 days ago
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Time for NATO countries to call a meeting and kick the US out. It's now a rouge state that can't be trusted with NATO secret.s
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Tariffs on NATO countries supporting a NATO country by Trump is insanity. Trump is a Putin puppet for sure. The US basically declaring a trade war on NATO countries. Mad.
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Alan Pope
19 days ago
Oh dear. How does this get through any kind of validation!? #linux #snapcraft
snapcraft.io/publisher/te...
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Amy King
19 days ago
Last summer,
@myabambrick.bsky.social
and I found filmed some nightjars:
youtu.be/ySe0ynevFb4?...
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Finding Nightjars!
YouTube video by Mya Bambrick
https://youtu.be/ySe0ynevFb4?si=oUnJwBlKXkLBi_H8
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tamrakat
21 days ago
GOP lawmaker said trans people āharmā children. Now heās going to prison for child porn.
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GOP lawmaker said trans people āharmā children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. - LGBTQ Nation
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/gop-lawmaker-said-trans-people-harm-children-now-hes-going-to-for-child/
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Sussex Wildlife Trust
20 days ago
Debris from lost shipping containers is washing up from Selsey to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The clean-up is a huge task & we are grateful to all the volunteers, local authorities & others who are helpingĀ
https://f.mtr.cool/ixdwegqtze
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Sussex Wildlife Trust
23 days ago
Amy King has written a blog about what the Youth Rangers got up to at Tilgate Park last year
https://f.mtr.cool/rqzjygpkbk
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Amy King
24 days ago
What does it mean to be a Youth Ranger in 2025? I've attempted to answer this question in a blog post for the
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
. You can read all about it here:
sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/our-exp...
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Our experience of being Tilgate Youth Rangers in 2025 | Sussex Wildlife Trust
https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/our-experience-of-being-tilgate-youth-rangers-in-2025
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Amy King
27 days ago
Two Siskins in my back garden? We haven't had those around here since Pre-Covid!
#birds
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I think Trump knows he's dying and wants to take the whole world with him.
about 1 month ago
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Time to sanction the US for Trump's actions in Venezuela?
about 1 month ago
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stress-ng V0.20.00 "versatile vma vexer" has been released! contains a new variable load stressor and support for Openrisc and NetBSD VAX. Happy 2026!
github.com/ColinIanKing...
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Comparing V0.19.06...V0.20.00 Ā· ColinIanKing/stress-ng
This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a compute...
https://github.com/ColinIanKing/stress-ng/compare/V0.19.06...V0.20.00
about 1 month ago
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2025 was quite a year. Got over long COVID (yay), Intel made me redundant (boo), Got hired by NVIDIA (yay), Got shingles in my face and right side (boo).
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0!+1+2^(3+4+5+6ā7)ā(8 Ć sqrt(9)) = 2026
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Ken Shirriff
about 1 month ago
Intel announced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980. Now I have a blog post that explains a small part of the microcode in this chip.
www.righto.com/2025/12/8087...
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Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode
In the 1980s, if you wanted your computer to do floating-point calculations faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor ...
https://www.righto.com/2025/12/8087-microcode-conditions.html
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nixCraft
about 1 month ago
loong64 is now an official architecture on Debian Linux.
lists.debian.org/debian-devel...
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loong64 is now an official architecture
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/12/msg00004.html
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The first kernel bug I found was in BSD 4.2 UNIX on a HLH Orion Clipper where I messed up on a socket fd and crashed the machine. That was back in 1988.
about 1 month ago
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Michelle
about 2 months ago
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
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My first real computing job was where I was told an overlay manager needed to be altered for some F77 code that got too large to run on a 64K PDP-11 running RSX-11M+. That was fun.
about 2 months ago
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Just assume all the redactions in the Epstein files are referring to Trump otherwise show the proof it's not.
about 2 months ago
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Andy Craig
about 2 months ago
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Greg Pak
about 2 months ago
From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
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God
about 2 months ago
This is what Trump calls transparency.
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One of the redacted Epstein files. Literally all redacted.
www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%...
- pretty sure the DOJ is covering up something
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https://www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%204/EFTA00006209.pdf
about 2 months ago
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Andrea Righi
about 2 months ago
Video of my opening talk at the sched_ext microconference (LPC 2025), discussing open issues and future directions for sched_ext: deadline server, hierarchical schedulers, and built-in scheduler improvements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26...
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sched_ext: current status and future plans - Andrea Righi (NVIDIA)
YouTube video by Linux Plumbers Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26nF5Ctv4
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Amy King
about 2 months ago
Would you like to see something both cute and Christmassy? My friend Claire Tomlinson has made a short film about the local Wagtail roost:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfP...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
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A Hundred Tails A-wagging
YouTube video by CTWildlife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfPkyYNYfM
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Pete Buttigieg
about 2 months ago
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Reform Party UK Exposed
about 2 months ago
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian assetās script
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian assetās script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/07/farage-bloc-meps-alleged-to-have-followed-russian-assets-script-ukip-brexit-party
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Was there a FIFA prize for physics? Did I miss anything?
about 2 months ago
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Phoronix
2 months ago
Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers -
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-sched-ext
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Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers
The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-sched-ext
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Thad š Star Trek: The Cruise
2 months ago
If you heard the sound of a million nerds crying out in anguish, it's because I installed Linux on an old computer and then setup Microsoft Edge as the default browser.
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Andrea Righi
2 months ago
The most noticeable feature is MCP server support, enabling AI agents such as Claude, Cursor, etc. to automate kernel development workflows, from quickly running commands/scripts inside rebuilt kernels to even performing automated bug bisection.
github.com/arighi/virtm...
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Amy King
2 months ago
A couple of days ago, I went to Ebernoe Common to see what I could hear:
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
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Listening to Winter Woods
Itās been a weird November ā this week felt like the first proper bit of Winter this side of the calendar year. With near-freezing temperat...
https://amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/listening-to-winter-woods.html
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7 millionth stress-ng docker downloads reached!
2 months ago
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