All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Modern programming languages should have logos like this

2nd of to nights fixes. A 139 year old electrotherapy machine.

Three problems, a brush wasn't contacting the rotor (bent back into shape). The handles were suffering from corrosion (cleaned), and the horseshoe magnet had lost most of its power(see 2nd image).

Works well now... no wonder they were nervous :)

A VM tuning case study: Balancing power and performance on AMD processors

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/26/vm-tuning-case-study-balancing-power-and-performance-amd-processors

📣 IDA 9.2 is here!

➥ Smarter Go decompilation
➥ New Dynamic Xref Graph & Xref Tree
➥ Debugger & UI upgrades
➥ Expanded processor support (ARM, RISC-V)
➥ And more...

Explore the full release here: https://hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.2-release

Imagine that the first-ever commercial transistor computer fell into your laps (figuratively!). What would you do with it? Is it even practical to use?

Now you can answer these and many other questions, because I made a thing~

"My first transistorised computer: A Crash Course" is a short user manual for the simulator and the autocode/assembler of a computer highly inspired and mostly compatible with Metrovick 950, the first-ever commercially available transistor computer from 1956.

https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/mv950toy/tree/main/item/docs/crash_course.md

Getting silly with C, part ~(~1<<1) https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/c3/?n

Keep an eye on my Medium blog posts. Will be doing more of these crash dump analysis and other troubleshooting related stuff.
https://bird.makeup/users/debugprivilege/statuses/1963541699247943917

If you've ever spent time around Wikipedians, you've doubtless heard its motto: "Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a mess." It's a delicious line, which is why I stole it for my 2017 novel *Walkaway*.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before

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This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces.

https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

"In a time of misinformation, in a time of suppression, having this place where people can come and bring knowledge and share knowledge, that is a statement."

#Wikipedia

yesterday's weird discovery is that every regular sized carrot I have tested is almost exactly 100kΩ end to end with sharp probes stuck in it. a couple of them come out at 100.0k on the dot.

inb4 NIST carrot-based electrical resistance metrology reference

This is a fascinating article about AI-based productivity claims, with a ton of data to back up his claims. Definitely worth a read regardless of your stance on AI.

https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding

It's time to take a sneak peak at the new Dynamic Xref Graph and Xref Tree. With these, you can now see function relationships and data flows more clearly, simplifying the task of mapping code paths in complex binaries.

https://hex-rays.com/blog/mapping-relationships-in-ida-9.2-dynamic-xref-graph-and-xref-tree

When the only tool you have is an LLM …
everything looks like a linguistic pattern problem…

Seems like people are jumping to LLMs to solve any task now, when simple ML models or linear regression just do the job at a fraction of the power cost and better precision.

PHRACK Ambassador @dugsong hand delivered a signed hardcopy and PHRACK-COIN to umich.edu Prof Peter Honeyman for his awesome article 🤟

https://phrack.org/issues/72/14_md#article

In 1983, Peter (+2 others) wrote a significant revision of UUCP (Unix2Unix Copy), part of System V Unix.