apparently normally you can disable #Secure-Boot in the #BIOS or #UEFI
#Secure-Boot stops working on #Linux in September because #Microsoft’s signature on "shim" expires
vegan #ethics page by #100-rabbits includng #permacomputing background
#history #retrocomputing Game Boy Advance used 200mW #energy running Donkey Kong
#history of #Sun 3 workstations and servers. #retrocomputing
the STM32F746 is the #STM32 in the #Playdate and it costs US$14.33 in quantity 1
the STM32F103C8T6 is the #STM32 in the #Blue-Pill
The #ARM Cortex-M3 (used in many processors of the #STM32 line) has #performance of 1.25 #Dhrystone MIPS/MHz
Ivan #Illich says silence is a commons. “Computers are doing to communication what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets.” #toread
#reverse-engineering of Tim J. Clarke’s MARS.COM #demo which did heightfield #3D #graphics, similar to the #VoxelSpace algorithm used in Comanche in 01992
Ben Bridle’s #Uxn fork "Bedrock" which introduces undefined behavior
discussion of Ben Bridle’s #Bedrock where I told him I thought undefined behavior was a bad fit because all programs are broken
“#Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by #Moonshot #AI team.” “Kimi K2 is a state-of-the-art mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. Trained with the Muon optimizer, Kimi K2 achieves exceptional performance across frontier knowledge, reasoning, and coding tasks while being meticulously optimized for agentic capabilities.” #neural-networks
Nora Sandler wrote a #compilers #tutorial in 02017 working through writing a C compiler. At some point she made it a No Starch book. #toread
Notes on working through Nora Sandler’s introductory book on writing C #compilers.
a software conference organized around Casey #Muratori’s ideas
"NorNed" is a 700MW subsea #HVDC cable to bring the #Netherlands #energy from #Norway, costing €600M (€0.86/W).
archive of #energy #news article from the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment #toread
The #Netherlands also has a 700MW subsea #HVDC cable to #Denmark to get #energy, presumably #wind. It broke for several months in 02020.
#USA IRS standard mileage deduction rate is 70¢ per mile (43¢ per km) for self-employed and business driving; there’s a table here of previous year costs, which have gradualy edged upwards from 51¢/mile in 02011, the oldest year in the table
simple example code for running a #Python Flask app under #wsgiref with #WSGI
The cgi module being removed from the #Python standard library. #CGI
you can serve 5800 requests per second on one Linux machine under gohttpd with #CGI now! If it has 60 cores and 240 GB of RAM and you write the CGI program in C. #performance
Walter Benjamin’s 01936 “The Work of #Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” translated by Harry Zohn
#history of why we “call” functions; the metaphor was that we use a “call number” to “call up” a subroutine out of a “subroutine library” #programming-languages
Jecel Assumpção is working on some #small-is-beautiful languages
why using #5-digit-years doesn’t cost me anything
Andrew #Zonenberg’s #reverse-engineering of errata in the VSC8512 SERDES from Microchip. #electronics #toread
#PDF #paper explaining that no #honey has ever actually been found in #archaeology of tombs in #Egypt
my comment on "hallucination driven development" #neural-networks #AI
my comment on #E-Prime and how it does or doesn’t help careful reasoning
Geoff #Pullum recorded a #video series on the #English #passive-voice. #linguistics
#Pullum shows that the #English writers who complain most about the #passive-voice, like Orwell and Strunk & White, use it more than average writers
#Pullum thoroughly explains the #English #passive-voice. #linguistics
my comment showing examples of the #English #passive-voice used well.
#HCI #UX technique where a person pretends to be a computer.
the #history of why the #Macintosh didn’t have a decent #BASIC programming environment: Bill Gates bought MacBasic from #Apple for a dollar and killed it.
Twitter Jack’s #Bitchat protocol white #paper; it “implements a custom mesh networking protocol over #BLE” #Bluetooth #decentralization
#Bluetooth #BLE can reach over a kilometer with “coded PHY” at 125kbps! #toread #radio #communication
in 02016 Mark Felder at #FreeBSD didn’t want to implement Linux’s #inotify #filesystem-notification API based on the "world of hurt" experienced by Bryan Cantrill in #SmartOS
a 50¢ 16-line I²C GPIO expander chip #electronics #hardware
Oscar #Toledo explains that he’s using 74LS00 #TTL #electronics #hardware in his latest #Transputer board design instead of CMOS because his local electronics parts stores stock it
#Geohot criticizes #price-discrimination and other forms of manipulating others at scale.
“the modern distinction between “programmers” and “users” is evil and destroys agency,” approving of #loper-os Stanislav. #Excel is #malleable. #free-software #politics #toread
my popular comment about why #Python removing #CGI after deprecating it was bad. #planned-obsolescence #boring-technology #politics
my comment with a history of #cryptocurrency over the last 40 years.
transistors in #electronics can decay; certain models are known for this, like 2SA706, 2SA720, 2SA725, 2SA726, 2SA798, 2SA809, 2SC458, 2SC631, 2SC632, 2SC693G, 2SC871, 2SC1000, 2SC1124, 2SC1312, 2SC1313, 2SC1318, 2SC1344, 2SC1345, 2SC1400, and 2SC1451. (forum thread) #toread
#PDF of #propylene-glycol freezing point chart. 10% depresses water’s freezing point to -3.3°, 20% to -7.1°, 40% to -21.1°, 60% to -51.1°, and beyond that they don’t bother to tabulate.