I was in town and near the FreeBSD Foundation address, so I decided to drop by. Did I find the dungeon full of neckbeards I was hoping for? No. Sadly, it’s just a mailbox. I did see a homeless fellow with a sign that informed me that he uses Arch, BTW.

This was good.

40 years ago today.

$ telnet mapscii.me

I just picked up and turned on my M5Paper that’s been sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. 65% charge and it just started feeding me data, doing its job. This is the kind of future I want to live in.

This was very well produced and interesting.

"Nobody can read the source code of Chrome. Not alone, not as a team. Humans don't live long enough. Any group that claims to have gone through the code and de-Googlized it is lying: all that's possible to do is some searches, and try to measure what traffic it emits. A thousand people working for a decade couldn't read the entire thing."

The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases

FOSDEM 2024: The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead

I just used espeak to convince my 4YO that it is bed time…no protests or anything!😂

Our whole society is based on technology like this. I remember back in 2022 Autodesk just stopped working everywhere for a day. Maybe it will be war, a natural catastrophe, or some strange cascade of failures that nobody saw coming, but failure of our critical systems are a matter of when, not if. Is there anything we can do about it?

The Verge

Alamo Drafthouse blames ‘nationwide’ theater outage on Sony projector fail

“Due to nation-wide technical difficulties with Sony, we aren’t able to play any titles today.”

Finally trying out the Reticulum Network Stack and NomadNet. Very cool tech.

Sitting with the pups, listening to music.