It took about a year, I think, but I’ve now finished another run of Tomb Raider I, II, and III. And I have, for the first time, played the two bonus packs “Unfinished Business” (for TR I) and “Golden Mask” (for TR II). They’re available as a free download, if you have the original games. (The bonus pack for TR III is not free.)

I just love these games – and the game mechanics. It’s just the right balance between challenging and relaxing.

This aggressive auto-logout on my bank’s website …

Dude, you want me to print something, sign it, and scan it back in. This takes forever and I’ll have to re-login a dozen times. Narf.

I didn’t manage to leave the house yesterday. But when I went into the woods this evening, activity first was 10% of what it had been the day before yesterday. By the end it got a lot busier, about 50% of last time I reckon. Around 500 fireflies I’d imagine. I might have been faster than the days before. When I left the forest, I was right in the fog, that was cool.

Shortly after, I saw another lightshow. Right behind the Wasserberghaus somewhere on the Swabian Alp there was very crazy heat lightning every 5-10 seconds. That looked absolutely amazing. :-)

Laura Groves – Deep Blue
One of our all-time favorites, London’s Laura Groves returns with a gorgeously hazy late-night gem from her new YES EP, coming on August 1st… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Heey… Welcome back!! 🫡 How was the trip? I Hope you’ve had a good time!

Someone did a thing:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114763322251054485

I’ve been silently wondering all the time if this was possible, but never investigated: Keep doing X11 but use Wayland as a backend.

This uses XWayland’s “rootful” mode, which basically just gives you a normal Wayland window with all the X11 stuff happening inside of it:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-Useful

In other words, put such a window in fullscreen and you (more or less) have good old X11 running in a Wayland window.

(For me, personally, this won’t be the way forward. But it’s a very interesting project.)

Not Too Active Here
As you can see, I am not too active around here. I am elsewhere writing notes, which are short, silly, but fun. I am keeping this around for, mostly, two reasons. Old stuff, though bad, is part of me, a record of my past. I also may decide to come by, eventually, and write something in a longer format.

So, here I leave this blog—which I insisted on calling “weblog” for a while—frozen in time. ⌘ Read more

** My measurer **
My dad is an electrical engineer and physicist. Measuring things is a core part of his professional life, and something he seems to spend a lot of time doing around the house. This is all to say my dad is relatively expert in the ways of measuring things so I think it’s hilarious that he calls absolutely anything he is using to measure anything else“my measurer.” Measuring tape, oscilloscope, scale, volt meter, bubble level, table spoons, whatever. They’re all“my measurer.” ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Not intended as a vampire thing, at least not this time. 😅 His canine teeth are usually one pixel long, when visible, but on this one, he’s making a face, that makes them more exposed.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I use Alt+. all the time, it’s great. 👌

FWIW, another thing I often use is !! to recall the entire previous command line:

$ find -iname '*foo*'
./This is a foo file.txt

$ cat "$(!!)"
cat "$(find -iname '*foo*')"
This is just a test.

Yep!

Or:

$ ls -al subdir
ls: cannot open directory 'subdir': Permission denied

$ sudo !!
sudo ls -al subdir
total 0
drwx------ 2 root root  60 Jun 20 19:39 .
drwx------ 7 jess jess 360 Jun 20 19:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Jun 20 19:39 nothing-to-see

I also just noticed that the performance issue doesn’t affect all games. 🤔 Sigh, I’ll just downgrade for the time being. Not in the mood to fiddle with this.

Speaking of Wine, Arch Linux completely fucked up Wine for me with the latest update.

• 16-bit support is gone.
  
• Performance of 3D games is horrible and unplayable.
  

Arch is shipping a WoW64 build now, which is not yet ready for prime time.

And then I realized that there’s actually only one stable Wine release per year but Arch has been shipping development releases all the time. That’s quite unusual. I’m used to Arch only shipping stable packages … huh.

Hopefully things will improve again. I’m not eager to build Wine from source. I’d rather ditch it and resort to my real Windows XP box for the little (retro)gaming that I do … 🫤

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m trying to call some libc functions (because the Rust stdlib does not have an equivalent for getpeername(), for example, so I don’t have a choice), so I have to do some FFI stuff and deal with raw pointers and all that, which is very gnarly in Rust – because you’re not supposed to do this. Things like that are trivial in C or even Assembler, but I have not yet understood what Rust does under the hood. How and when does it allocate or free memory … is the pointer that I get even still valid by the time I do the libc call? Stuff like that.

I hope that I eventually learn this over time … but I get slapped in the face at every step. It’s very frustrating and I’m always this 🤏 close to giving up (only to try again a year later).

Oh, yeah, yeah, I guess I could “just” use some 3rd party library for this. socket2 gets mentioned a lot in this context. But I don’t want to. I literally need one getpeername() call during the lifetime of my program, I don’t even do the socket(), bind(), listen(), accept() dance, I already have a fully functional file descriptor. Using a library for that is total overkill and I’d rather do it myself. (And look at the version number: 0.5.10. The library is 6 years old but they’re still saying: “Nah, we’re not 1.0 yet, we reserve the right to make breaking changes with every new release.” So many Rust libs are still unstable …)

… and I could go on and on and on … 🤣

Nourished By Time – 9 2 5
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Rust is so different and, at the same time, so complex – it’s not far fetched to assume that I simply don’t understand what’s going on here. The docs appear to be clear, but alas … is it a bugs in the docs? Is it a lack of experience on my part? Who knows.

By the way, looks like there was a bit of a discussion regarding that name:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120048

Hmmm 🧐 Not what I thought was going on… No bug…

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@bender@twtxt.net I just babble on Twtxt 🤣 I honestly find that I don’t realy have the time nor the energy to “blog” in full really, I rarely do 😢

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh but it kind of is mine 😅 Or at least I’ve done this kind of thing at least 3 or 4 times now 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net do you remember Hamachi? Tailscale/Headscale is Hamachi on steroids. They are used primarily for creating a VPN among all your devices so they can talk to one another as if they were on the same LAN, even when they’re not. That was, mostly, my WireGuard usage.

I still have WireGuard running—because it is so lite that it doesn’t matter—to use as regular VPN, but Headscale keeps all my devices connected forming their own “mini-Internet” 100% of the time.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s difficult, you often don’t get what you’d expect. They also make heavy use of 3rd party libraries. IIUC, for random numbers, they refer to this library. I’ve read many times that the Rust stdlib is intentionally minimalistic (to make it easier to maintain and port and all that).

I’m struggling with this, using 3rd party libs for so many things isn’t really my cup of tea. I’ll probably make my own tiny little “standard library”. It’s silly, but I don’t see any other options. 🤷

‘Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google’
If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be an engineer at Google during the early to late 2000s, here you go. Now even though Google is fundamentally a spyware advertising company (some 80% of its revenue is advertising; the proportion was even higher back then), we Engineers were kept carefully away from that reality, as much as meat eaters are kept away from videos of the meat industry: don’t think about it, jus … ⌘ Read more

My sweet 15 year old girl, Mia, closed her eyes and went to sleep for the last time last night. ⌘ Read more

10 Movie Characters Who Make Us Laugh at Unemployment
For one reason or another, most people have been between jobs at some point and experienced the frustration, uncertainty, and various problems that come with unemployment. That’s why movies that deal with being out of work in a lighthearted way can be so appealing. Humorous depictions of what is normally such a stressful time may […]

The post [10 Movie Characters Who Make Us Laugh at Unemployment](https://listverse.com/2025/ … ⌘ Read more

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ROC-RK3506J-CC Board Integrates RK3506J and Dual LAN Support
The ROC-RK3506J-CC is a compact single-board computer based on Rockchip’s RK3506J processor. Designed for embedded systems with real-time demands, it supports a wide range of I/O and OS options and is available in both industrial and commercial variants. The RK3506J processor includes a tri-core ARM Cortex-A7 cluster alongside a single Cortex-M0 core, fabricated using a […] ⌘ Read more

Apple introduces new Liquid Glass design language
Apple at WWDC announced iOS 26, introducing a comprehensive visual redesign built around its new “Liquid Glass” concept, alongside expanded Apple Intelligence capabilities, updates to core communication apps, and more. Liquid Glass is a translucent material that reflects and refracts surroundings to create dynamic, responsive interface elements, according to Apple. The new design language transforms the Lock Screen, where the time f … ⌘ Read more

Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
Companies building software in the US were hit hard a few years ago when the tax code stopped allowing deduction of software dev expenses. Now they have to be amortized over several years.

HN has had many discussions about this, including The time bomb in the tax code that’s fueling mass tech layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 - (927 comments) a few days ago. Other thr … ⌘ Read more

WebSocket Wizardry: How a Forgotten Channel Let Me Sniff Private Chats in Real-Time ️‍♂️

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Go 定時任務筆記
Go Timer,Ticker,Sleep———————time.Timertime.Timer 是一個單次的定時器，在指定時間後觸發一次後就不再重複。雖然說觸發後不會再次觸發，但資源不會自己就釋放了，需要調用Stop()方法來釋放資源否則還在內存中。在 Timer 結束後可以用Reset()方法重置計時器 (要在 Stop() 之後或未觸發時使用)。基於這種特性 Ti ⌘ Read more

Go 定時任務筆記
Go Timer,Ticker,Sleep———————time.Timertime.Timer 是一個單次的定時器，在指定時間後觸發一次後就不再重複。雖然說觸發後不會再次觸發，但資源不會自己就釋放了，需要調用Stop()方法來釋放資源否則還在內存中。在 Timer 結束後可以用Reset()方法重置計時器 (要在 Stop() 之後或未觸發時使用)。基於這種特性 Ti ⌘ Read more

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Coffee prices up to $12 needed to make industry viable, supplier says
US tariffs and supply issues are creating uncertainty for an already strained coffee market, and roasters say it’s only a matter of time before Australians will pay more for their brew. ⌘ Read more

Simulating Time With Square-Root Space
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Live tracking solution for OsmAnd
I previously shared my transition from Komoot to OsmAnd, and after some time, I’ve grown accustomed to its comprehensive capabilities. Whether for cycling, hiking, or general navigation, OsmAnd truly functions as a versatile “Swiss Army knife” for offline mobile navigation and tracking. ⌘ Read more

10 Recent Times the Earth Acted Bafflingly Strange
We like to think Earth is a well-oiled planetary machine—spinning reliably, shifting gradually, and following natural rhythms. But every now and then, it throws us a curveball. From pulsating seismic events to disappearing landmasses and bizarre atmospheric phenomena, these recent examples prove that our planet still has secrets. Whether explained after the fact or still […]

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Astonishing discovery by computer scientist: how to squeeze space into time
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A bill from our ISP in 1998.

We’re talking about a month here, 1998-07-27 to 1998-08-26.

Basic fee: 7.50 DM (about 6€ today).

Online time: 516 minutes, 23.53 DM (about 20€ today).

That’s just the ISP costs, if I’m not mistaken. The underlying phone calls were pretty pricey as well.

During a massive attack in Kyiv, a man in the metro was holding his cat’s paw the whole time. ⌘ Read more

使用 dig 查詢 dns 遞歸查詢過程
DNS 查詢過程中如果沒有命中緩存，查詢實際上是一個遞歸過程。DNS 解析工具 dig 提供了 trace 功能，可以展示遞歸查詢的整個過程。以查詢 www.baidu.com 爲例，查詢結果如下：root@ubuntu:~# dig +trace +nodnssec www.baidu.com;; communications error to 114.114.114.114#53: timed ⌘ Read more

A critical look at NetBSD’s installer
NetBSD is an OS that I installed only a couple of times over the years, so I’m not very familiar with its installer, sysinst. This fact was actually what led to this article (or the whole series rather): Talking to a NetBSD developer at EuroBSDcon 2023, I mentioned my impression that NetBSD was harder to install than it needed to be. He was interested in my perspective as a relative newcomer, and so I promised to take a closer look and write about it. While … ⌘ Read more

Redox gets X11 support, GTK3, and Mesa3D EGL
We’ve cleared another month by the skin of our teeth, so it’s time for another month of progress in Redox, the Rest-based operating system. They’ve got a big one for us this month, as Redox can now run X11 applications in its Orbital display server, working in much the same way as XWayland. This X11 support includes DRI, but it doesn’t yet fully support graphics acceleration. Related to the X11 effort is the brand new port of GTK3 and the arriv … ⌘ Read more

How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub
Learn how to spin up a GitHub Issue, hand it to Copilot, and get a draft pull request in the same workflow you already know.

The post How to create issues and pull requests in record time on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Avoiding Common Startup Tech Mistakes
When you’re moving quickly in a startup, taking shortcuts in your tech stack is tempting. A quick workaround here, a temporary fix there, with plans to tidy it all up later. But later can easily turn into never.

Those early decisions, however small they seem, have a habit of sticking around. Over time, they slow you down, create technical debt, and make it harder to scale.

This blog looks at how to avoid common startup tech mistakes b … ⌘ Read more

Sophia Stel – Everyone Falls Asleep In Their Own Time
Vancouver’s Sophia Stel drops a wistfully ethereal and romantic gem that we haven’t been able to stop listening to all week… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

用 Go 語言實現用戶一鍵登錄，有哪些可靠的方案
一鍵登錄是現代應用中提升用戶體驗的關鍵功能，本文將深入探討 Go 語言實現一鍵登錄的幾種可靠方案，並提供完整的代碼實現和對比分析。方案一：短信驗證碼登錄（最常用）實現原理用戶輸入手機號 服務器發送短信驗證碼 用戶輸入驗證碼完成登錄 完整代碼實現package mainimport(“crypto/rand”“fmt”“math/big”“net/http”“time”“githu ⌘ Read more

用 Go 語言實現用戶一鍵登錄，有哪些可靠的方案
一鍵登錄是現代應用中提升用戶體驗的關鍵功能，本文將深入探討 Go 語言實現一鍵登錄的幾種可靠方案，並提供完整的代碼實現和對比分析。方案一：短信驗證碼登錄（最常用）實現原理用戶輸入手機號 服務器發送短信驗證碼 用戶輸入驗證碼完成登錄 完整代碼實現package mainimport(“crypto/rand”“fmt”“math/big”“net/http”“time”“githu ⌘ Read more

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My May ‘25 in Review
May is already over. This time, it was quite an eventful month. ⌘ Read more

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are
Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t designed to save us. It’s meant to save them. ⌘ Read more

Can’t fool him 3 times 😅 ⌘ Read more