Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit
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V7 pwd, converted to modern POSIX systems
This is a conversion of the original V7 pwd program for use on POSIX systems (tested primarily on Linux). This is mostly of historical interest — modern systems have a library routine or system call for getting the current directory, and don’t need this. I’ve attempted to make the minimum set of logic/functionality changes needed to make the program work, preserving the core of the original logic. I’ve made slightly more aesthetic changes, to make r … ⌘ Read more

Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence is working to stabilise Pokrovsk, denies Russian claim that landing group was wiped out ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Strange Attractors
I went down the rabbit hole on a side project and ended up building this: Strange Attractors( https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors). It’s built with three.js.

Working on it reminded me of the little “maths for fun” exercises I used to do while learning programming in early days. Just trying things out, getting fascinated and geeky, and being surprised by the results. I spent way too much time on this, but i … ⌘ Read more

She looks so cute but I have to work ⌘ Read more

Security Doesn’t Have to Hurt
Do you ever wish security would stop blocking the tools you need to do your job? Surprise: your security team wants the same. There you are, just trying to get your work done, when… You need an AI to translate documentation, but all the AI services are blocked by a security web monitoring tool. You… ⌘ Read more

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator ⌘ Read more

Hacking India’s largest automaker: Tata Motors
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Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works
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Measuring what matters: How offline evaluation of GitHub MCP Server works
Take a look inside our automated pipeline for rapid, rigorous evaluation for the GitHub MCP Server.

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Feel Guilty Leaving My Clingy Boy When Going to Work ⌘ Read more

Congress Enjoys Ultraluxe Health Care as It Fights to Gut Yours
Alexis Coe,  Staff Writer  -  rsn | Rolling Stone

_Stephan: About to lose your Medicaid coverage, won’t be able to afford your health insurance fees with the coming rise? Well, you needn’t worry about the Representative or Senators. They have health and other benefits only billionaires could afford. We may not have a working Congress anymore; many House members aren’t even in the United States. Th … ⌘ Read more

America’s Impending Population Collapse
Idrees Kahloon ,  Staff Writer  -  msn | The Atlantic

_Stephan: Donald Trump, convicted felon, sex offender, multiple bankrupt, was elected to the Presidency largely because a large White segment of the American voter population did not want people of any color to come into the country. They didn’t realize or care that millions of them worked for companies founded by immigrants or the children of immigrants. They didn’t understand or note, parti … ⌘ Read more

Easy RISC-V Provides an Interactive Way to Explore the RISC-V Architecture
Easy RISC-V is an open, browser-based learning resource that allows users to experiment with RISC-V assembly and gain a deeper understanding of how the architecture works. Created by developer Dramforever, the platform runs entirely online and does not require installation, offering a convenient way to study RISC-V instructions, registers, and execution flow from any device. […] ⌘ Read more

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The one for Delphi was quite good.

It was! I didn’t use Delphi for long, though. Dunno why, I always gravitated towards Visual Basic back then. 😅

These days I don’t deal with GUI programming anymore.

I also avoid it when possible, because … it’s exhausting, because … the tools that I have/know are “subpar”. Doing anything regarding GUIs always feels like a chore. That wasn’t the case in the VB days.

Well, I made this in ~2009 with Java/Swing and it was pretty nice to work with, custom widgets and all:

I wouldn’t dare doing this with GTK.

Does brand advertising work? Upwave (YC S12) is hiring engineers to answer that
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First look inside the Derby factory building the Elizabeth line’s new trains
“Inside the simulation room, they can test almost any situation that a train could encounter, and even use digital twins to work out why a train developed a fault on the railway. To try and keep the simulation as close to real as possible, they even include the circa five miles of cabling intact.”

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When nothing works anymore and we have to wing a demo ⌘ Read more

Holly! I thing I might have figured out a way to twt like a true caveman 🤣
The sad thing tho is this caveman will have to cheat a bit in order to replay properly…
(P.S: I hope the multi-lines trick works, if not then F..rog it!)

Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
At Universe 2025, GitHub’s next evolution introduces a single, unified workflow for developers to be able to orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere.

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When I’m working from home and the video call has already started ⌘ Read more

We couldn’t figure out how Blue (our ex-outdoor cat) got outside, because he was definitely there when I got home from work and took the dogs out. So we did some investigating. ⌘ Read more

How Open Source License Scanners Work
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@prologic@twtxt.net Ouch, I don’t want to get hit by these projectiles! :-O Is that black tube on the bottom the remains of a chair leg?

I reckon one could collect these hail stones and put them in the drinks to work around the lost air conditioning. At least if one doesn’t mind icy drinks. (I can’t stand that, because I immediately get hickup when drinking something cold.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They’re seriously telling us at work: “Can it be AI’d? Do it, don’t waste time!” Shit like that is the result. (What’s this weird gray triangle in the bottom right corner?)

Stray at my work finally let me pet him ⌘ Read more

Just FTR, in case this wasn’t obvious, the “right to repair” (if there ever is one) needs to be more than just “you’re legally allowed to repair stuff”.

I just fixed this thing by replacing two capacitors. Great, but this was an absolute shitshow and it took several days. So many obstacles, everything’s tiny, connectors glued together, … It worked in the end, but I was so close to giving up.

Being legally allowed to do something is basically worthless if it’s not feasible to actually do it.

Burning out
This is about the 9/9/6 work phenomena in silicon valley

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Upcoming Kwin changes extend battery life
I think most of us are aware that compositors use multiple planes to render our user interfaces, and in the case of KDE’s Kwin specifically, they use two planes – one for the user interface, and one specifically for the mouse cursor. Kwin developer Xaver Hugl has been working on changing Kwin to use more than just two planes, and it turns out this delivers some considerable power use reductions and thus battery life improvements. So, when can you u … ⌘ Read more

Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
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Okay I think it’s working now

@bender@twtxt.net It used to work just fine™ - I wonder if it’s my WAF? Lemme turn the WAF off for this tie…

Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.

Radios, how do they work? (2024)
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‘Weaponised’ CAR T-cell therapy shows promise against solid tumours
So far, immune cells that have been engineered to kill cancers, known as CAR T-cells, haven’t worked well against solid cancers - but a study in mice suggests that could soon change ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de My impression also is that good sysadmins are missing. No wonder if they all get laid off because they’re “not doing anything” and developers can just operate their shit themselves. Or so the bosses and plenty devs think. Sadly, that’s the general view.

Hell no, devops is bullshit in my opinion. Most developers (including myself) are rather bad at administrating. A good sysadmin offers other skills. Great admins appear to just sit around, but they’re much more proactively working than programmers who also operate the same stuff. The latter have a waaay more reactive work model in comparison. When things have already gone south. The sysadmin, on the other hand, would have noticed and thus prevented the vast majority very early on when it was far from becoming a problem in the future.

At least that’s my personal experience in all those years in different projects and what my mates tell me from their companies. Sure, skills can be learned, but it’s just not happening (enough). And obviously, there are people out there who excel in both disciplines, but they are rare. Most fall in one of the categories. Not to forget, plenty are just bad at everything. :-)

Serum promotes hair growth by mimicking the effects of skin irritation
Skin irritation, such as through eczema, promotes hair growth in mice, which prompted scientists to create a treatment that works via similar pathways, with no discomfort required ⌘ Read more

Advent of Code will be different this year:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1ocwh04/changes_to_advent_of_code_starting_this_december/

There will only be 12 puzzles, i.e. only December 1 to December 12. This might make it more interesting for some people, because it’s (probably) less work and a lower chance of people getting burned out. 🤔

Personally, I’ll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. 😅

Maybe this makes it more interesting for some people around here as well?

Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0 (Beta): Reflecting what’s next for cloud native — and we want your input
The CNCF Cartografos Working Group is excited to announce the beta release of the Cloud Native Maturity Model 4.0. This version expands the framework to include AI, FinOps, and evolving cultural practices. We invite the community… ⌘ Read more

F-Droid Says The Bible is Safe For Work… for Now
The story of the F-Droid Android App Store listing The Bible as NSFW (”Promotes Pornography”) continues as developers de-list their Apps from F-Droid & Code of Conduct shenanigans. ⌘ Read more

How to Show Battery Percent in Menu Bar of macOS Tahoe
Knowing the percentage remaining of your MacBook battery life is valuable information for many Mac laptop users who work on the go or away from a power source, and a simple way to always know where your battery stands is to adjust the Mac battery menu icon to show the battery percentage remaining. This article … Read More ⌘ Read more

AI Is Making Us Work More
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When my try/catch works exactly as expected ⌘ Read more

Office supervisor cat is hard at work ⌘ Read more

Haha, beds “stopped working” due to that outage? 🤪

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White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on $250M ballroom
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Portions of White House East Wing being demolished amid ballroom construction
Michelle Stoddart,  Reporter  -  ABC News

_Stephan: When I first went to work for National Geographic after Unversity one of my first assignments was to become part of the team that did the official guidebooks on the White House and then the Capitol. It left me with a deep appreciation and respect for the historical appearance and continuity of both of these buildings. I … ⌘ Read more

A distant comet is forming new rings while we watch in real time
The comet-like object Chiron has been caught in the process of forming new rings, which could help us understand how these complex systems work ⌘ Read more

Create Your Own AI Voice Agent Using EchoKit, ESP32, and Rust
Step-by-step tutorial for EchoKit, a DIY AI voice agent (fully open source) I’ve been working on.

🔹 Hardware: An easy-to-assemble ESP32-S3 board (EchoKit). 🔹 Server: A high-performance server built entirely in Rust to manage the ASR -> LLM -> TTS pipeline. 🔹 AI Models: Fully customizable, using Groq’s APIs (Whisper, Llama 3, PlayAI-TTS) in the guide for near-instant responses.

This project is perfect for:

Developers wantin … ⌘ Read more