Cygwin SSHd works of course, but I'll have to figure out project/workspace management for this to be actually useful...

The little devil (notice the vi reference) on my shoulder took over and made me connect #Emacs TRAMP to OpenSSH running on Windows.

Now Emacs is struggling really hard, spinning up the CPU fan 😆

The livestream on crypto-polyglots is up!
https://www.youtube.com/live/RP5PVRUs6L8?si=udjoa6O0MSyq6w9D

This review is one reason why I write so many blog posts that simply restate what is obvious if you look really well. But it turns out that "seeing in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle". Orwell mentions in the review ^ that it is therefore the duty of "intelligent people" to restate the obvious. On seeing in front of one's nose: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/in-front-of-your-nose/

[RSS] Chop, Chop, Chop: Trying Out VR for Woodworking

https://hackaday.com/2025/02/15/chop-chop-chop-considering-vr-for-woodworking/

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master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @Researchbuzz

Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/cmd/vendor/golang.org/x/tools/go/types/objectpath/objectpath.go:172 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/refs/tags/go1.23.4/src/cmd/vendor/golang.org/x/tools/go/types/objectpath/objectpath.go#L172

func (enc *Encoder) For(obj types.Object) (Path, error)

SVG:
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Oh my god Internet Archive you magnificent bastards what did you do, and PLEASE KEEP DOING IT FOREVER

Emacs made me extensively use LLM's to search for answers and watch videos to understand features. This is a first!

I think the reason is that I lack the meta-knowledge about where to look for information. This is in part because Emacs tutorials prevalent in search results don't directly apply to Space Emacs and I don't know yet how to translate between the two worlds.

I think the same underlying issues in part explain the popularity of LLM's and video tutorials. It seems an important personal decision if we deem a topic important enough to invest in acquiring the missing meta-knowledge. It seems an important quality of the tool we use if it helps us acquire the meta-knowledge they provided a shortcut for.

In my next livestream, I’ll hexplore crypto-polyglots:
- files that remain valid after encryption.
- contents that decrypts to different valid content via different keys, with authenticated decryption.
https://www.youtube.com/live/RP5PVRUs6L8?si=cEFkVUC1AeTGri7k

@jerry Wait what happened?

After 6-ish tries with Space #Emacs I managed to:
- Edit a file on a remote server with TRAMP
- Create a new Git Branch
- Commit changes to the branch
- Switch back to my original branch (and revert the buffer to reflect changes)

It wasn't a terrible experience, although my brain hurts a bit.

You should write more

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/you-should-write-more

/by @lcamtuf

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

job listings in 2025 are weird.
I never would have guessed a car wash even needed an on-site kubernetes cluster

@albinowax Thanks for the link! I'm sure some business executives applied this methodology to selling shampoo with great success. I also believe Burp exists in a different kind of market in several aspects, but I'm no business executive...

Nerd-snipping of the day - a sharp programmer on a Chinese forum noticed an extremely obscure fact about K&R - its Courier font is unusual and doesn’t seem to match any of the modern or common versions of Courier we know today. So now I find myself hunting for technical references of that Autologic APS-5 machine used by K&R. #retrocomputing #unix

[RSS] NVIDIA/Mellanox ConnectX-5: Custom #Ghidra processor module for iRISC

https://irisc-research-syndicate.github.io/2025/02/14/writing-a-ghidra-processor-module/