It's the period between Christmas and New Year so its time for #39c3. This was a nice guide to how #fex_emu works. Their "hack" for dealing with memory ordering vs some game engines does raise an eyebrow or two. I would have liked to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDXyW1WERg #x86 […]

Today I will be mostly diving down the #3dprinting rabbit hole. First task is a couple of mounts for the hall effect #sensors for my garage door opener.

Minor kerfuffle with #evlife charging at my parents means it's going to be a two stop strategy getting home today. At least my policy of always having my #SteamDeck when travelling pays off. To get to 80% charge is about one round of Vampire Survivors 😉

I did a bunch of tidy-up to #Hubi and tagged a initial release: https://github.com/stsquad/hubi/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Hubi is a #transient builder interface that allows you to kick off make, meson or ninja builds of your projects. It's based on a similar thing I wrote for counsel and is now the […]

I hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Christmas yesterday. Today was 2/3 for #automation #diy. I can now see #co2 levels in the living room and toggle the garage door from #homeassistant. The hall effect sensor fitting will have to wait until I have assembled the #3dprinter which is a […]

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Adin Ross is 25 years old, has 7 million subscribers on Twitch, 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and livestreams daily to hundreds of thousands of people. **This is him finding out what fascism is.** Chat, are we cooked?

I thin chart quite precisely explains **why Ukraine is fighting so fiercely.** And why all of these countries on the top right are so desperately rearming themselves right now. And why most of of them joined #NATO on the first opportunity. You can play with […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

I watch most of the #linus and Dirk shows but this weeks from #oss #japan is a good one. It's hard to avoid mentions of #ai in the #tech world but Linus is at his pragmatic best here. I liked him pointing out that smarter #compilers have made us 1000x more productive but even if #llm's make us […]

I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them. "These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]

This is a pretty good example to demonstrate why people are often shocked at the inference cost of #vibe #coding tools. I've been playing with #ECA in #emacs and gave an 81 word prompt. This results in 4433 words of internal "thought" before invoking the tools. And it still wasn't quite right […]

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I entered #whamhalla just as we were finishing lunch at the pub after an energetic hill walk.

This is right up my alley. A discussion about the merits of the various #simd implementations. There is even a mention of #linaro and #arm in the episode. #floss Weekly: Episode 857: SOCification https://b27a1a7a-dbb9-4922-ac3e-601e2d6ca1e1.libsyn.com/episode-857-socification #podcast

#qemu 10.2-rc3 has been posted: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/T/#u Please test and report any regressions that need fixing for the final release. There are a number of new emulated #arm64 features in this release including FEAT_GCS and […]

Apropos of yesterdays #vibe coding thread I do have one other observation. Looking at the #api usage stats you can clearly see how many more api calls and tokens are processed when using it this way. All those tokens can quickly add up to extra costs - my individual queries are basically noise […]

While the data still looked garbled it turns out that was my fault due to an endianess bug in my non-vibed #pico code: https://github.com/stsquad/mp-depth/commit/753ee9c07f847aac87815f3058c248fe66528c61 While the code might not be the prettiest and suffers from the usual verbosity of #llm […]

I had a play with #vibe coding today to get an idea of its limitations. Obviously as I'm an inveterate #emacs user I needed something integrated to my editor so I thought I would try out #ECA which comes with Emacs integration as a first class citizen […]

...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right? "I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto" "Over time however, I felt like I have […]

It's #EmacsConf #2025! I didn't watch live but I'm catching up. I found this interesting because it outlines 3 very different ways to interact with #llm's. I must admit I'm not yet confident enough to hand over the keys to an agent until I'm satisfied with […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

It's #EmacsConf #2025! I didn't watch live but I'm catching up. I found this interesting because it outlines 3 very different ways to interact with #llm's. I must admit I'm not yet confident enough to hand over the keys to an agent until I'm satisfied with […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

excited to finally announce to the world what we've been planning in Berlin these last few months. I hope the core tenets of Modal is something that many people can get behind :3 #modal #linuxmobile https://mastodon.design/@modal/115667365166451345

I ran a #paranoia game for my eldest and their friends yesterday. The party made it to outfitting before they lost their first two clones although there was quite a lot of random laser fire in the transport to the mission briefing before that. Everyone seemed to have fun although I'm sure the […]

*How odd to hear an AI eruditely discussing one of my novels with its two generated pseudo-personal voices https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ACLHtklERVy3kwaTfF75w

There's #emacs async.el copying, and then there's dired-rsync.el which shells out and shows process in a buffer and that works amazingly well.

#til that #r7s doesn't describe the fitting size, just the fitting mechanism.

Oh how does this keep happening to #reform? They really must be very unlucky to have so many wrong-uns in their ranks. Gill was the party leader in #wales : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c891403eddet #politics #cymru

I was fighting with #lsp-mode in #emacs to get it to use my system #clangd and failed. But I discovered #eglot-mode which picked it up fine and I much prefer the #ui choices they have made. How long has it been in core Emacs?

It may be cold 🥶 but it is very bright 😎.

There is a a very mushy line between education and indoctrination in the UK's approach to religious education. We've had problems ourselves with one of my kids RE teacher declaring that fossils are fake and that the big bang made no sense. I'm perfectly fine with the education part, especially […]

Holy Shit, #valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.

If my #lemmy feed is too be believed it looks like #valve have just announced a bunch of hardware. I'm a big fan of my #SteamDeck so consider my interest piqued.

While tap-and-go travel is great trying to resolve an unwanted charge from another countries public transport system because RFID trumps the PDF you are trying to scan is a bit painful.

Trying to decide if I hate #gitlab's new #ui layout or I'm just an old man shouting at clouds.

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as big tech tries to enable it everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjubxfeICo

I gave a lightning talk about the use of generative #ai at our engineering offsite this week. My general conclusion is that it is useful in some places but where you are a domain expert the gains might not be there. Just before the talk I came across this study […]

Is it#DNS? Microsoft Azure outage: Heathrow, Xbox and Minecraft among sites down https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj45n4x5eo

Dear #lazyweb, It turns out I'm one of only a few people who are using the #znc #irc bouncer at work. As a result I'm looking for hosted bouncers. So far I've found #irccloud and #irctoday. Are there any other hosted options I should look at? I'm tempted by irccloud if the #slack integration […]

Dear #lazyweb, It turns out I'm one of only a few people who are using the #znc #irc bouncer at work. As a result I'm looking for hosted bouncers. So far I've found #irccloud and #irctoday. Are there any other hosted options I should look at? I'm tempted by irccloud if the #slack integration […]

I can't wait for the breathless articles about how coming second in a by-election shows #reform is poised to sweep the #senedd next year. /s

Worth noting that the one by-election poll we had for Caerphilly over-estimated Reform by six points and under-estimated Plaid by nine.

git #bisect-ing a kernel on real hardware sucks. I can at least be grateful I'm not testing on my main machine. The #firmware wait times are huge and the grub window so tiny you can't leave it to it. I need to apply patches at each stage that touch pgtable so almost everything needs to be […]

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

Raised a bug about #ramalama today not playing well with #arm64 and and #amd gpus. However if you force the base image local inference does use #vulkan to run - and much faster than maxing out the CPU cores on my #altra.

It's never a good sign when your Monday morning feed is full of #dns and #aws memes. Monday's eh? 🤷

I wonder if Amazon have tried turning it off and on again?

Ok people didn't lie, Murderbot is great TV entertainment. Now, Apple Tv, give us "The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon" you cowards! #murderbot

Hmm I kinda wish the #dirvish extension had submitted fixes and enhancements to the #upstream project rather than just lift and shifted the code. At least the license is the same: https://github.com/alexluigit/dirvish/blob/main/extensions/dirvish-rsync.el #emacs #dired #rsync