watching what's happening to Debian (and Linux, and open source in general)

And on the topic @kenshirriff is posting about, here's my old macro photo of an Ampex core memory module.

It sure is strange just how many actually legitimately criminal terrorist orgs have their shit behind Cloudflare, or host actual pedophile rings on Telegram, but it's Autistici/Inventati that gets taken down.

Before semiconductor RAM, most computers used magnetic core memory. This is the 128 KB core stack from the computer on Spacelab, the Space Shuttle's experimental laboratory. Let's take a closer look...

@JenMsft I'm not crying, you crying!

@TarkabarkaHolgy @tschenkel @juergen_hubert TIL! Still, I find the test incredibly stupid both from the perspective of the future relationship and country governance.

@TarkabarkaHolgy added to my Kids Entertainment list thx!

the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

Young people deserve better than a policy built on panic. We're happy to see France's top court acknowledge this and strike down the country's legislation banning social media for under-15s. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/french-top-court-gets-it-right-strikes-down-social-media-ban-youths

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.

Thought of the day:

We need more product testing teams consisting entirely of elderly people.

Oops im late to the party #skynetday

@juergen_hubert @tschenkel @TarkabarkaHolgy do you think similar politics are behind the one where the princess is identified by placing a pea under her many duvets and pillows? I've always found that one unsettling and an incredibly bad decision point.

(Now read it again and also suspect that the whole thing was just a cover story for the princess' lack of sleep, which would make much more sense?)

Everyone a happy random "ഊ" in your filenames.

That's UTF-16 0x0D0A which when read as UTF-8 gets interpreted as CRLF aka. a windows line break.

And when you used the UTF-8 function for trimming a string it'll break everything.

Oh and while we're on it also a happy "슜" which when read the same way will be "Â" followed by a string terminator control character.

Why I mention this? Well it just broke things. Also #KDE doesn't render them in the GUI.

#UTF8 #UTF16 #programming #development

New article: this time, we use Heidegger to explain why the "it's just a tool" line that often comes up in tech is so very silly:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool

Kaspersky AV 0day LPE https://github.com/MSNightmare/HardBreacher

In memory of the controversial, hated, loved Kevin Michael "GG" Allin, American singer, punk rocker, songwriter and record producer, born on this day in 1956, Lancaster, New Hampshire, U.S.

#punk #punkrock #ggallin #history #punkrockhistory #otd

RE: https://fedi.steph.tools/@steph/117177725850638988

I touch on similar ideas, things like Eutube, Eumail in this piece: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/#:~:text=It%E2%80%99s%20also%20possible%20to%20procure%20solutions

Meta's Celebration https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/3284.html

[RSS] How virtio-msg Works: A Technical Deep Dive into Message-Based Virtio

https://www.linaro.org/blog/how-virtio-msg-works-a-technical-deep-dive-into-message-based-virtio-1/