Colin Ian King

A sun soaked solarpannel

I am half convinced that solar panels are magic. What do you mean that I can charge my laptop, phone and cameras using the power of the #sun

Turbostat Now Displays CPU L3 Cache Topology Information - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Turbostat

While futzing around with a new stress-ng memory mapping stressor I discovered I can mmap a page but can't mumap it(!), see bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi...

Release stress-ng V0.19.03 "savvy system smasher" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng Improvements More progress feedback when sending ^C (SIGINT) Clean up manual Improved portability New Options --spinmem-yield - force sched_yield() calls in spinmem loops --ioport-port - specify ...

stress-ng V0.19.03 has been released. A few more new options, clean-ups to the manual, porting improvements and misc bug fixes. Release notes here: github.com/ColinIanKing...

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Just pre-release testing stress-ng on a Windows system using WSL and stress-ng made Windows 11 reboot. Yay.

Eek!

I worked on some kernel optimisations for Clear Linux, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to do so and I'm very sad about this decision.

One of the upsides of open source software is that folks report bugs and provide bug fixes when you make coding errors. Keeping it open makes one humble and honest. This is quite unlike politics where problems are coved up and folks reporting problems have lawsuits filed against them.

Filing a $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal's shows some form of desperation to silence truth.

Today's the day ! It's launch day for the #BigButterflyCount . . .

Get out between now and 10th August for 15 minutes and count the butterflies you see & help the great citizen science of @savebutterflies.bsky.social ! Get involved at bigbutterflycount.org

2 tickets left for the 3 days of the conference ! We will open then a waiting list.
If you are not able to attend please drop us a message so that somebody else can attend.
#kr2025

Got a new HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V system to play with

YouTube video by 🕹️ Retrobzik Bad Apple!! on Commodore 64 – Is This Really 8-Bit? 🤯 Mind-Blowing C64 Demo!

Bad Apple!! on a C64. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhaV...

cool, we can get the source and fix the bugs

Shoutout to my Dad @colinianking.bsky.social for helping me to come up with a fix for faulty tripod legs

this is why I contribute to open source software - I do so to benefit others

Funny, I have Autism but I don't behave like that, and never will.

I will unfortunately not be able to make it to this event, but if you are in the #Brighton area and would like to see what we young people get up to in the world of conservation, don't give this a miss!

Is it bigger on the inside?

Blue bird box

Painted some bird boxes for the local zoo with @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. based off of my Doctor Woot tee-shirt #birds #DoctorWho

Are we great yet?

Waiting for Canonical's LaunchPad to build some stress-ng RISC-V debs for over 21 hours. Somebody donate them more RISC-V builder kit :-)

Yeah, I've been working on open source for a while... :-) openhub.net/accounts/Col...

new month, new release! stress-ng V0.19.02 "manic memory mangler" includes two new stressors, fd-abuse (file descriptor abuse) and mmapcow (memory mapping copy-on-write exercising) and some new options. github.com/ColinIanKing...

Seems legit

Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions Company’s Starbase launch site in Texas near the Mexican border has seen test failures resulting in large explosions

Go, President Sheinbaum! Imagine if we had more global leaders like her!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The worst humans are most normally the most unhappy. Try to be your best.

Hedgehog eating from a bowl

My IR camera's first outing 🖤🤍