RIP my lovely cat Beryl, only 12 but she was sorely tried by various ailments and had to leave this earth last Monday.

Roooooooot

Just validated my age on @bsky.app by writing a BASIC program.

8bitdo mechanical keyboard is heavily recommended. Compact, great feel and not too clacky. Resembles a C64 but nothing is perfect!

an orange and white cat relaxes atop a server, with a paw outstretched to touch a neighboring bass guitar

A cat guards her server on #CaturdayEve.

Cool blog post by Vitalik Buterin about "the tree-ring model of culture and politics": vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025...

Screenshot of Grok web interface showing a query "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict. One word answer only." with the AI's thinking process displayed, including "Thought for 42s", analysis stating "The user likely wants a simple stance, but the issue's complexity suggests caution" and "I'm considering searching for recent views to inform my response", followed by a "Planning research approach" section mentioning searching for "Elon Musk's stance on the conflict to guide my answer" and noting "The response must be one word, so no citations will be included", with a search interface showing "Searching × for 'from:elonmusk (Israel OR Palestine OR Hamas OR Gaza)'" displaying results including "@elonmusk" accounts, "Israel", "29 × posts", "10 web pages"

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks

I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

RISC OS 7 post-boot showing its initialization messages and then a list of available OS-level modules. Taken from http://shell.riscos.online/

Acorn's Maestro music editing and playback application running on Gerph's Pyromaniac RISC OS in the desktop

RISC OS Pyromaniac desktop running full-screen on macOS Source: https://pyromaniac.riscos.online/examples.html#talk2022

FYI: Gerph has been re-implementing RISC OS – which started as Arm's very first OS – in Python, allowing 32 and 64-bit apps and other software to build and run on non-Arm systems. Amazing work

More on RISC OS Pyromaniac: pyromaniac.riscos.online
Latest here: www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums...

So long and thanks for all the RoundRects: https://leo.fm/2025/06/07/so-long-and-thanks-for/

John Young, co-founder of web archive Cryptome, dies at 89 Obituary: The original leak site that never sold out, never surrendered

“Cryptome actually published the embarrassing US diplomatic cables that landed Assange in hot water the day before WikiLeaks…”

It's cool that Microsoft released a new text mode editor, but I must point out that the original MS-DOS 5 editor was officially called "Microsoft Editor", and not EDIT.

Wikileaks before wikileaks.

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that g...

In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.

Ian Lance Taylor deserves an award for the most patient person in Open Source.

He also has an amazing ability to translate the clarity of his thinking into the written word.

He has had such impact on the way people create software.

I really hope he continues to contribute to Go.

YouTube video by UnHerd Robert Zubrin: How humans will live on Mars

Excellent @zubrin.bsky.social interview, with quite a few relevant considerations regarding, in fact, terrestrial nations and competitiveness.

(Spoiler: countries / planetary colonies which attract the most *voluntary* emmigration, are those which become the most successful.)

@elifkus.bsky.social

VAX 4000-100A

A VAX 4000, a featureless beige rectangle

well at least I was able to get vaxxed today

• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

so they're mycoblogging

Late night International Space Station tracking, on the Atari 800 XL. I can even see who's in space at any given time.

Software is called: "FujiNet International Space Station (ISS) Tracker for Atari 8-bits"

I love this computer.

Have you played Atari today?

So Let's Encrypt is now having certificates expire in six days. That must mean it's feasible to crack a key in less than three months, right? Is anyone familiar with the state of the art?

Lawrence himself recoded a version of Telengard, releasing it for MS-DOS machines. A copy is still available at his home page which is still maintained in his memory, letting adventurers new and old experience a D&D inspired dungeon crawl that managed to break free from the world of mainframes!

I've just been told that John Young of Cryptome.org passed away last week.

#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets.com and #Wikileaks.

RIP, John.

So here we are. The best day of the year.

In a few short hours, the umpires will lead the players out onto the field, hand the bowler that beautiful, shiny red ball and say “play”

Cricket from now until the end of September! Have a wonderful season everyone.

PLAY!!!

There were constant repeats of Dark Star and Silent Running back in the day as well.

Our challenge against UK’s secret TCN powers | Privacy International + Liberty file suit against the UK government regarding Apple backdoor demand On 13 March 2025, Privacy International, alongside Liberty and two individuals, filed their own case with the IPT, challenging the purported Technical Capability Notice (TCN) served on Apple.

Our challenge against UK’s secret TCN powers | Privacy International + Liberty file suit against the UK government regarding Apple backdoor demand
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112774
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #surveillance #tcn

cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...

TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go.

Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here.

Two days later: WIP 5x speedup.

HN: why pick Go anyway?

Mike James has been a UK computer journalist I've been reading since the 80s. He is still around and does iprogrammer.

YouTube video by Guerilla Cricket IND v ENG 2nd ODI, Cuttack

We are now back on Youtube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BXG...
Apologies for the hiatus!
#INDvENG

Black and white photo from a newspaper, with caption. Hand pointing at a screen with (sh) and various other unix file names listed. Caption reads "Here's the culprit: MIT's Jeffrey Schiller points to three computer files each named "(sh)" that comprise the virus program which spread through a network called ARPANET. Schiller said the label "(sh)" is the title the virus author gave his program.

Found this photo of someone analyzing the Morris worm, back in November of 1988 (source: New Straits Times)