some of my partners have recently started using Linux and open-source so to help them get familiar i thought i would make a guide to FOSS game ecosystem iconography

new video! Intel x86 SMP pre-history: what was the first multi-processor x86 PC, what came before it, and why asking those questions is actually pointless??

Pretty sure this is my most ambitious production to date. Watch it here:

• https://tv.ol-worldwi.de/Intel%20x86%20Multi-Processor%20Pre-History.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fatcpr9BDtk

subs available sometime later tonight :3c

Also: there’s now an atom feed for my videos! https://tv.ol-worldwi.de/atom.xml

We really, really, really need to stop using oil. It's destroying the planet, causing neverending wars, eroding countries' independence and crippling the world economy.

It's no longer just an ecological priority, it's a national security priority and an economic priority. People of any political persuasion ought to be doing everything they can to replace fossil fuels with other energy sources ASAP.

• Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile
• people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend
• now many dubious open source-ish knockoffs in python and rust being derived directly from the source

What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a violation of copyright???

Looks like exactly the kind of AI abuse I feared could happen in the kernel is happening.

Now you can see why I pushed back so hard on the automated tooling docs to make it clear we should reject this crap out of hand, being attacked in various publications online for saying so.

Wonder if they will talk about this or?

And yes I told you so.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cbd0aafa-bd45-4f4d-a2dd-440473657dba@lucifer.local/

RE: https://econtwitter.net/@TimHarford/116375811993176529

And this is what #LLMs s destroy.

The human joy of just figuring shit out.

Doesn't matter if it's useful now. Someday it could be invaluable. Or it may not.

Like how people studied bees and ants to understand how they decided on the best routes between their homes and their food.

That understanding ended up embodied in how packet routing happens on the internet.

You would not be reading this if people had not studied the social behaviour of ants.

One of my favorite features of the Baochip-1x is the BIO. It's an I/O coprocessor that is based on the PicoRV32, with custom register extensions to allow direct access to GPIOs from the ISA.

Read more about the BIO at this blog post: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/bio-the-bao-i-o-coprocessor/ I go in-depth into the architecture and its trade-offs relative to the PIO, and conclude by working through a couple of coding examples.

POV: we’re all living on the most beautiful tiny blue dot in the universe… and a handful of greedy nature-wrecking billionaires are ruining it for all of us.

Earth could be the perfect place, with a future that works for everyone, not just a few.

SECURITY ADVISORY: musl libc up through 1.2.6 (present version) is affected by CVE-2026-40200 affecting qsort with large arrays.

Unless you have a setup with at least tens of terrabytes of virtual memory, this does not affect 64-bit systems, only 32-bit ones. But all users should patch.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/04/10/3

With that being said, I will admit there's one LLM I do use, but it is one that does not waste my VALUABLE time.

It's the STANDARD ed...LLMitor!!!!

$ ed
hi how are you?
?
please rewrite u-boot in python
?
????
?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116341703108645603

Thats a sign that the software engineers need more psychology, not less

(signed a software engineer with a psychology degree)

IQ and other psychometric assessments are not actually backed by hard science but vibes

so when someone brags about having a "genius level IQ", just write them off as a narcissist

sincerely, your local psychologist turned software engineer

It's so cool that anthropic is setting up a double-sided protection racket where it will profit from the massive token burn of attackers and defenders with a tool specifically designed to generate exploits and their only observable mitigation is a clientside system prompt that sternly warns the LLM to be good and not do malware
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

I can confirm Creative Cloud has added to my /etc/hosts file.

Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason: https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/

finally got my old powermac G4 going again...

AI is good at finding bugs, they say.
Everyone uses AI, they say.
No one cares about the ethical issues of AI, they say.

...

How about writing less code and thus introducing less bugs in the first place?
You're working on a Linux-first app, no one uses Linux, everyone runs on Windows. Why not switch to Windows too?
This is truly evil that speaks, "who cares about AI needing large amounts of energy to operate, and operating on stolen data?"
I thought FOSS was about building a more ethical computing ecosystem.

@famfo GREAT SUCCESS!

driver written in bash, of course. source

tldr: nintendo nunchuck connected to an i²c bus stolen from a DVI port, read with a bash oneliner, then thrown over the network, then parsed with another bash script. it works really well, except for the scroll

The Jellyfin project started working on a new desktop client. They've deprecated the current Qt-based one and are working on a new CEF-based client.

Opened the new repository and… well fuck, looks like Jellyfin is going down the AI slop route now:

#jellyfin #ai #aislop #slopware

People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?

It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.