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Update on the Steam Machine knock-off: like I was saying earlier, there are some sharp edges on going down your own path building your own. The latest sharp bit is resuming from sleep which I'd argue is pretty critical for any "set top box". Can you wake it up from sleep via the controller and jump back into gaming?
Right now for my build, the answer is *yes. Unfortunately, that yes has the caveat of "and when it comes back from sleep you will be presented with th…

I do lots of long-ish horizon work (e.g. OpenSSL PRs I can't actually use for years after merging). Remarkable how bad LLMs are at even considering this as an option. Quick fix every time, even if there's a clear long-term right answer we should do instead. Does not bode well for the ecosystem...

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

The Magnificent Loser: The Book I Wrote to Answer Two Words in Red Ink
Every writer carries a verdict he never agreed to. Mine was two words long, written in red marker across the title page of a play I cared about, by a historian whose judgment I had asked for and could not afford to ignore....

I parlamentari USA chiedono spiegazioni mentre la CISA tenta di contenere la fuga di dati
I parlamentari di entrambe le camere del Congresso stanno chiedendo spiegazioni alla CISA ( Agenzia statunitense per la sicurezza informatica e delle infrastrutture ) dopo che KrebsOnSecurity ha riportato questa settimana che un collaboratore esterno della CISA ha intenzionalmente pubblicato le chiavi AWS GovCloud e una vasta quantitŠ di altri segreti dell'agenzia su un account pubblico di Git…

I'm prepared for the #MeshCore fork
https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split

Sources: the EU Parliament plans to launch EPGenAI Hub as early as September, giving MEPs and staff access to Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai…

The European Parliament’s answer to its AI worries: More AI
The institution is opening its doors to models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Mistral as it tries to bring lawmakers’ growing use of the technology under control.

Um die Schäden, die Darth #Trump allein in den eineinhalb Jahren seiner zweiten Amtszeit angerichtet hat, brauchen die USA wohl Jahrzehnte, um diese wieder zu bereinigen, und die Welt wird auch lange noch daran laborieren.
Siehe: Er macht Saudi-Arabien zur Atommacht – wie dumm ist das denn?
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US-Atomdeal mit Saudi-Arabien: Trump setzt eine Dummheit auf die andere
Seit 20 Jahren will das Königshaus an Amerikas Nukleartechnologie ran. Der jetzige Präsident gibt die Erlaubnis - und dann doch nicht.

I did a test in Romania, #meshtastic vs #meshcore and here is the quick summary:
Over 250 Meshtastic nodes found, compared to 70 Meshcore nodes.
BUT
Meshtastic was basically dead, no one talked, or answered anything. I only got one message with the following - "test&…

from my link log —
The meaning of doing mathematics.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15998
saved 2026-05-23 https://dotat.at/:/JBTPR.html

The meaning of doing mathematics
Can AI solve all math? What do we actually mean by doing mathematics? How do we communicate mathematics? What is mathematics beyond problem solving? This essay is my attempt to answer these questions.