more languages should have total symmetry between input parameters and output parameters; we have toiled under the tyranny of C-likes for too long

i keep being accidentally surprised that "ls" "rm" just work in a windows shell window nowadays

late to the chorus but this is obviously correct: text should be an interface, not the source

mapscii is still my favorite OpenStreetMap renderer, but, zooming in it goes through this domain of dwarf fortress-like chaos

We had an amazing launch of our new headquarters in Amsterdam. Thank you to everyone who made it a fantastic afternoon and it was a beautiful sunny day! Such great luck. Sebastian’s photos did a great job capturing the atmosphere and enthusiasm.

no no no no no no no no

inb4 "reverse-engineering is such an important cooking skill ! how else do you shut up the smart devices and cook in peace"

Pretty neat little open source EM FEM solver github.com/FennisRobert...

We are hiring! Both technical and admin, please take a look at our jobs page! www.yosyshq.com/jobs #jobs #hire

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

brb proposing a new text encoding standard, UTF-768×float32

age yourself with a tech problem you solved i once reverse-engineered part of the BIOS of my 486 PC to figure out the port voodoo to re-map the 384kB of upper memory, so that it could be used yes, kilobytes

bitcoin fixes this

joy of missing out

"billing item #94839483: €0.50: a copyrighted value was in CPU register %rax for 200ns"

This is amazing: A direct image of the shadow of a black hole. A direct image of the hot, swirling gas circling and falling into it. And brand-new images showing an apparent magnetic flip around the black hole, a sign of turbulent, tumultuous changes. 🧪🔭 eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

editing a text file on a samba share in neovim in 2025 (no, the file isn't changed):

live now thought experiment: what would it take to actually stop arbitrary data? www.twitch.tv/achow101

Tessier-Ashpool slept in ice Preserved their hate, forgot the price. Track #4 - Legacy Iris Lucid Overdrive Streaming now on Spotify, Apple Music, and everywhere else. irislucid.bandcamp.com/album/iris-l... #newmusic #cyberpunk #neuromancer

Another gorgeous view of the @eso.org's Extremely Large Telescope under construction in Chile. It's expected to begin scientific operations in 2030. 🧪🔭 www.eso.org/public/image...

It's good that we're seeing more infrastructure come online in ATProto and the ATmosphere, and groups like Blacksky and also Northsky are actually doing the work. But there are huge challenges I anticipate we'll see ahead (visibility, scaling, governance): I outline them a bit in this thread.

mega luxury yachts are super cringe and boring, if you're a billionaire, why not buy this ship, and contribute something to our knowledge about the world www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

TIL the Voyager 1 engineering telemetry screen looks like this

Also sort of the situation with fixing the communication problems with Voyager 1. They had only a rough idea of the actual instruction set and CPU architecture from the few documents still available. Yet they were able to diagnose & repair from 1 light-day away! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUy...

There's a sick linenoise article by @there.is.no.aarch64.mov in @phrack.org 71 called "Learning An ISA By Force Of Will", where ixi goes from unknown binary blob, to manual instruction decoding, to figuring out control flow, and gives a critique of the RE'd ISA. phrack.org/issues/71/3#...

i think it is unbelievably cool that we have so much control over the natural world that you can go to aliexpress, type "<gem name> 200g" and boom, more often than not you can buy a crystal clear, perfect gemstone for like fifty bucks

im sorry what www.politico.eu/article/alba...

today in arbitrary, sudden new password requirements "your password has to be 16 characters" "no, we totally didn't get hacked, i promise"

This is how hatred colours the perception.

Who else is mesmerized by the patterns on this Fluted Giant Clam (Tridacna squamosa)? Nature is so whimsical. 📷 momaz on iNaturalist 📍 New Caledonia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

The full Nature paper about the Mars biosignature ("Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars") is openly available: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🔭

Magazine advertising for Homeworld by Relic & Sierra Studios in the issue #9 of PC Accelerator, in May 1999

age verification i've typed in entire games from listings in magazines. this was a common form of software distribution for home computers in the 80's

From Jonas Nick: Provable cryptography for Bitcoin: an introduction github.com/cryptography...

Do you Design + Code? Do you like advancing digital privacy UX? Are you looking for a j*b? We're hiring a Design Engineer at Obscura! jobs.ashbyhq.com/sovereign-e...

my "backdoor-free & killswitch-free" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

hard to find specifics, but one interesting aspect is that it uses ARM64 CPUs (a new design from NVIDIA), and it's mostly aimed at parallel GPGPU computation. a significantly different architecture from usual supercomputers www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/j...

TIL this is a thing that exists

monero reporting version v0.18.1.0 at their git master branch while v0.18.4.2 has been released, is a bit confusing

There’s nothing better than the combination of an education in science and a few decades writing sci fi to fill one with skepticism at claims of radical life extension.

Barnard’s Universal Criminal Cipher Code (1895) was a book of codes to help disguise internal police telegrams in what amounted to some kind of 19th-century version of the encrypted email: http://buff.ly/2ut1vvs

TIL about the strange /run/credentials mounts in recent systemd systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/

#pixelart #artpost

Initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 is heading to #OpenBSD -current arm64 snapshots soon, with some caveats. 🐡 marc.info?l=openbsd-cv... marc.info?l=openbsd-cv...

GPUs ca. 1875

TIL ircd-hybrid changed a large part of their configuration syntax from the version in debian 12 to the one in debian 13

it looks like my "rpi5 reboots during guix builds" problem wasn't caused by overheating or power issues, as i feared, but simply because /tmp (4.0GB tmpfs) filled up

reducing communication roundtrips, a guide for humans

basically losing all your keys' signatures when changing your identity in pgp, really sucks. wish i at least hadn't spelled out my first name in full