to me the way the symbolism of this resonates feels like a symptom of a culture that can't imagine future and big things that aren't bad, that feels alienated from how the world it exists in works, so it's left with escapism into images that feel familiar and therefore non-threatening

i just saw some paper expand UAV as "Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle", which raises some questions about people's living habits

#Godot 4.6 is out, and all about your flow! This release puts you and your workflow first with a new theme, flexible docks, and dozens of UX improvements. And Jolt Physics by default, revamped IK, better reflections, and more. Less wrestling with UI. More making games. godotengine.org/releases/4.6

ironically, mouse event handling in ratatui is a bit tricky

looking forward to FOSDEM next weekend

aside, something cynical i’ve noticed is how often it’s the most vulnerable who are roped into these extreme anti-[new tech] perspectives, and so discouraged from looking, even critically, at the thing at all which prevents them from benefiting from having early adopter knowledge

mech synchronisation sequence monologue

aurora Taken by Carol DeSain on January 19, 2026 @ Tofte Minnesota USA facing south and then north at 48 degrees latitude spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

paul laffoley proposed houses grown from genetically modified seeds with lighting plumbing and food production integrated into the designs

just the Dutch government panicking after they suddenly wake up to how dependent they are on US tech companies nos.nl/artikel/2599...

rootless mode, finally ! guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026...

til about this airport / car park in southern phoenix that lets homeowners park their airplanes in their backyard

so what is the deal with Celestia 1.7 only being installable with a github song and dance anyway? it's worked quite nicely for a while now, and yet the website and app stores have been on 1.6.x forever... and they still seem to be making 1.6.x versions, even?

i've lost it after reverse-engineering this library for a few hours crackhead.technology/anjoy-ssc338...

These people were prepared for the internet far in advance

i need ppl to talk to about symbolic execution papers but i don't seem to find those kinda cs/tech ppl on bluesky so much????? like that niche just doesn't seem to have made it over here. hell, they weren't super active on twitter even, kinda not super social bunch lol.

I'm happy to release the next installment of 🏝️ Isle #FPGA computer with a #RISCV CPU design from @brunolevy01.bsky.social. This chapter demonstrates how to interface a CPU with your own hardware and how to write bare-metal RISC-V assembly code for it. projectf.io/isle/riscv-c...

this seems it could be a useful introspection / diagnostics tool, for those wondering "what is eBPF actually used for, and how, right now on a linux system"

scoring at least 2/3 here

if you thought supply chain management for your hardware company was cursed

at least i haven't forgotten how to do it

kind of bummed how much, with the vibe coding thing, aside from giving it directions, my job becomes "clean up after the ai"

who made it up that the only way to back up google authenticator is, by showing a QR code

One of our engineers made a PR at 3AM last night, with the description "Had a dream where delete action was miss-clicked instead of csvexport. So removing the option from action list. Prefer this dream to never come true" Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

can't say the current US-EU political situation wasn't a motivation, too, but i'd been on the fence for a while to sell my NVDA stock anyway

game to control a tiled map based on iNaturalist observations I have to rethink the scoring and add landcover classes to each tile, add the actual backend database etc inspired by avicaching games where players were awarded points based on birds seen in areas with poor data coverage to reduce bias

some of the key leds on my corsair k95 keyboard are starting to flicker, should i worry

Considering all the insane stuff currently happening, let me try doing daily "pallet cleanser" news. Today: someone is developing a VR mode for KDE Plasma (which might be relevant for other VR Linux distros & perhaps even SteamOS VR's desktop mode if @valvesoftware.com were to sponsor that project):

Enjoyed yesterday's "menger sponge" example computed by hashtag#geogram and Tessael's geogram+ ? Let's see a more interesting example: a nice plane engine that Cyprien found on grabcad. Can we apply boolean operations to such a complex mesh ? Yes !!

A good crash-test for #geogram: level-5 Menger sponge 100K facets have intersections, and some of them more than 1K intersections in same facet. Final mesh: 1.4M vertices and 3.8M faces, CSG engine and geogram+ arithmetic kernel marketed by Tessael go brrr !!! github.com/BrunoLevy/ge...

You hate nvidia because video game machine expensive I hate nvidia because I have been forced to use cuda against my will We are not the same

QP with a video game that takes you back to your childhood

mm i like how GNOME nowadays has unicode symbol search in the default search that pops up with the meta key like u can just type <meta>"purple square", enter, and voila 🟪 "empty set" ∅, and so on

i should look into @radicle.xyz and @tangled.org some time. there must have been a lot of progress since last time i looked into decentralized git forges (that was back when radicle just started)

Anyone have any idea when/if @radicle.xyz will support having a simple web ui to allow contributors who don't want to use the CLI to at least open/comment on an issue? That (+moderation) seems like the biggest blocker to larger-scale adoption.

From the archives: 2026-01-16 at 02:00 AM The common ideological kernel of all of this behaviour is a deeply embedded trope in anglosphere societies: a contempt for materiality, or the idea that the material world that we eat, sleep, drink, fuck and die in is… Coding in a material world

Digital media is preserved like oral tradition, passed down from SSD to SSD

this is the reason i've only tried it on some hobby code it was a fun experiment, and genuinely useful for porting over some things i intended to for a long time, but i don't intend to make it part of my day-to-day workflow. probably better to try to keep my own skills sharp

trying some vibe coding too

Recently after finding myself on a website full of clearly AI-written SEO content I immediately knew I should ignore, it occurred to me that maybe there could be some eventual benefit to AI pulling back the curtain on a game we should never have been playing in the first place.

Some quiet time with jellies. Pace yourself. Take care of each other. 💙

extremely Dutch public broadcaster headline "but which companies dare to exploit resource extraction in Venezuela tho?"

Guys! Guys! This is SO cool. This is a time lapse from the Chandra X-ray Observatory of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant over 25 years!

TIL there's explicit support for reverse-sshfs in the "sshfs" command nowadays

What a beautiful visual depiction of the changing balance between night and day over the course of the year, as seen from the Netherlands. (A "keogram," derived from the Inuit word for aurora, is a time-series of sky images intended for monitoring auroral activity.) 🧪🔭

From the archives: 2026-01-04 at 20:43 PM The consolation of containerisation