Tootfinder

llvm has some incredible option names
disable arm... lol, oops

Lest we forget: "The U.S. exit from Afghanistan happened during former President Joe Biden's term, but it was set in motion by the first Trump administration, which signed a deal with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw after two decades in the country."
A history of ‘Operation Allies Welcome,’ which allowed Afghans U.S. entry : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622991/afghan-refugee-program-national-guard-shooting-suspect

Texas A&M System declines to reinstate fired lecturer despite faculty panel's findings (Jessica Priest/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/texas-am-system-fired-lecturer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p17#a251226p17

60 years ago #OTD (or tomorrow) #comet #IkeyaSeki showed a dramatic tail: https://solarviews.com/cap/comet/ikeya.htm - and this chemical 'raw' picture proves it beyond doubt ... while nowadays creepy 'astrophotographers' past high-end stacks of the faint tails of comet Lemmon into landscape pictures creating similar "photographs" which then get likes galore. Sigh ...

I don't use YouTube much. Mostly for the occasional research. I've been using it since before Google bought it, since when you could only post 10 minute videos on it. I stopped using the YouTube app because of the ads, and for a while, just using Firefox with ublock would block them. But now, it doesn't. So now, I watch YouTube with Firefox in desktop mode, even on my phone. That works, for now. But for how long, who knows. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that Googl…

The true geeks among you will appreciate this:
How to convert a day number (and, transitively) a number of seconds since an calendar start date ("epoch", e.g. 1970-01-01) into a readable date in only 24 CPU cycles.
https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-date-64

from my link log —
How the CPython compiler works.
https://tenthousandmeters.com/blog/python-behind-the-scenes-2-how-the-cpython-compiler-works/
saved 2020-09-24

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself/115794002427871534
Life hack.

Just checked out some truly excellent books from the library to read to my 4-year-old:
Adèle & Simon by Barbara McClintock (things to find), The Marvelous Now by Angela DiTerlizzi and Lorena Alvarez Gómez (rhyming & positive encouragement about mood regulation), and Forts by Katie Venit & Kenard Pak (lovely ode to children's forts).
I had a wonderful reverse-Magritte moment reading Adèle & Simon where Simon loses his drawing of a cat and my kid pointed out one of the actual cats in the image. I said "No, that's a cat, we're looking for a drawing of a cat," before realizing that technically we were looking for a drawing of a drawing of a cat, and the thing my kid pointed to was indeed a drawing of a cat, just not in that category relative to Simon's frame of reference...
#AmReading #ReadingNow #ChildrensBooks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
William Parker:
🎵 Morning Mantra
#WilliamParker
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BBtZv25Yg8VeaTgVFHVNm

Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
PROVINE: No! Now, then, Tronos, you know what to do.
TRONOS: I give you four minutes to reach the launch area, then I activate. I then follow without delay.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/22 B7B3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Wreckx‐N‐Effect:
🎵 Rump Shaker
#WreckxNEffect
https://absolutedance.bandcamp.com/track/rump-shaker
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dY4JVC0Q9CwpeZ6JAclIc

Post Malone honors Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland during Thanksgiving halftime show https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6843722/2025/11/27/post-malone-kneeland-94-halftime-cowboys-chiefs/

"Dana, Elliot wants to know why there's a 20-pound frozen turkey on the light grid."
"It's 24 pounds."
"I'll tell him, but he'll probably just want to know why there's a 24-pound frozen turkey on the light grid."
#ThanksgivingQuotes #HashtagGames

The top 10 US tech billionaires collectively added $550B to their combined net worth in 2025, reaching $2.5T by December 24, up from $1.9T at the year's start (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9dcd770a-1ca7-4533-980c-08c5704c9670

LLMs never make mistakes or hallucinate, as this presupposes they actually know what they’re doing—they don’t: they have no concept of what words mean.
They don’t even deal with language, as they generate chains of big numbers based on statistical correlations.
The resulting transformation into human-readable text is always only a statistical approximation of what a real answer could maybe look like.
By sheer chance sometimes LLMs are even correct (usually for trivial things); however above a certain length of answer it is always wrong.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer zum 01. Juli 2026 vom 24.11.2025"
hat bisher 832 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29168 Unterschriften bis zum 21.01.2026.
https://

2026 NFL Mock Draft: Mendoza and Moore Go Top Two; Simpson to Steelers https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/2026-nfl-mock-draft

A Building Full of Cats: up on the roof
I like cats. I like Little Kitty Big City, I like Pix the Cat, I even liked Blinx. If I like games with a few cats in, then I am almost certain to love games with hundreds of cats in, right? In this case, yes. A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object game where the objects are cats. Lots of cats.
…

🧮 The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-texas-instruments-cc-40-invades.html
#calculator

The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
I've mentioned on the blog several times the continuum that exists between handheld computers and pocket computers , battery powered devices...

Période : en semaine de soirée.
Dates : du lundi 03 au vendredi 07 novembre et le lundi 10 novembre et du mercredi 12 au vendredi 14 novembre et du lundi 17 au vendredi 21 novembre et du lundi 24 au vendredi 28 novembre.
Le trafic est interrompu entre La Verrière et La Défense. Dernier train de La défense vers La Verrière: 22h15.
Dernier train de La Verrière vers La Défense: 21h20.
Un service de bus de remplacement est mis en place, avec desserte des gares intermédiaire…

Ukraine says it struck Russia's only Il-38N in the Black Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/ukraine-says-it-struck-russias.html

I love this.
http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/coffeestains/coffeestains-en.pdf
Chances are, I'll use it in future. Even though I'm more and more using

Heute vor 55 Jahren: Am 28. Oktober 1970 kam es zum #Atomtest "Truchas" (3 Bomben simultan). Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Atomtestdetonationen zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

Mano a Mano con Dylan Laube https://www.raiders.com/video/mano-a-mano-con-dylan-laube

Good point:
https://mastodon.online/@jetton/115776258558952358

How Gotham FC Won the NWSL Championship by Welcome To The Party
#nwsl

Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/santa-fe-university-of-new-mexico-consumer-price-index-mayor-experts-b2873967.html

The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation plans to gradually cut 900 jobs to help it save $334M by 2029 as it faces a lower license fee and falling commercial revenues (SWI swissinfo.ch)
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/swiss-broadcasting-corpo…

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation confirms plan to cut 900 jobs by 2029
Under the ongoing restructuring process, 900 full-time equivalent job cuts are planned, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) confirmed.

Yes! Well done nonprofit @… living your values! The #Union makes us strong.
#Utah #jouralism

Blizzard warning?! Guess the weather is looking to add some excitement to this Christmas.

Esta entrevista me ha parecido muy interesante
https://youtu.be/FkuxTpWzo8M

Es gibt sie noch, die guten Dinge. Nicht nur von manufactum. https://atomteller.de/

Atomteller.de
Die Tage der Windmühlen sind längst vergangen und nun neigt sich die Dämmerung über die Ära der deutschen Atomkraft. Höchste Zeit also, Atomkraftwerke als das zu zeigen, was sie sind: Denkmäler des Irrtums - Hoffnung von Gestern - Folklore von Morgen

I guess the plans for Sunday swimming are off the table at the current temperatures. #Uckermark #coldswim

The ‘S&P 493’ reveals a very different U.S. economy

A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains.
Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/s…

The ‘S&P 493’ reveals a very different U.S. economy
A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains. Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States.

My family got me a copy of Donald Knuth’s “Art of Computer Programming” (The current volumes anyway) for Christmas. I appreciate people knowing exactly what kind of nerd I am.

"Don't use curl -o /dev/null (or -o nul on Windows) because it's not portable, use curl -IXGET instead"
Can you imagine…
So out of morbid curiosity, what platforms is curl available on that don't have a /dev/null (or nul)?

@… the last time I tried to do a CSS in Tailwind it had that same look

"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
-- Groucho Marx

Do you celebrate #Christmas as...
(RT for funsies etc)
#poll

How to factory reset your cat

Treating emergent traits of the microbiome like quantitative genetic traits of the host reveals how environmentally acquired symbionts can contribute to hosts' adaptation
https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf171

25c per shot.
Could laser weapons actually be on the verge of reality? Crazy.
https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/this-laser-cannon-shoots-down-drones-at-400-mph-a-game-changer-for-european-defense_22374/

would love to post this here too but I’m getting 503s – enjoy after click ;)
https://bsky.app/profile/hynek.me/post/3m6fyyqqbu22s

Hynek Schlawack (@hynek.me)
hanging out with new frens #mantaRay #hawaii #sealife

Sometimes a piece of writing says exactly what you already know, but says it so well that you relish it from begin to end anyway. This was such a piece for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/analysis-sustainable-diets-missing-from-nearly-99-of-climate-media-coverage-2025-11-24/

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage
Center for Biological Diversity: Only 3% of 10,000+ Articles Mentioned Meat, Animal Agriculture

コミティア、みんなのスペースか遠いという難がある（今回、大きく3カ所に分かれている）

Campbell: Lions in 'little bit of a hole' after loss https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47122780/coach-dan-campbell-says-lions-7-5-little-bit-hole

Disruptive CEO Alex Davis says Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq for $20B in cash; leaked email: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is not acquiring Groq (David Faber/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-g…

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion in its largest acquisition on record
Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion.

Is Russia preparing Europe for war? Kremlin propaganda has crossed the line: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/is-russia-preparing-europe-for.html

Don’t forget these 5: Turpin’s alert fumble recovery https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/don-t-forget-these-5-turpin-s-alert-fumble-recovery

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115605216261158113
As my good deed for today, I updated the FlashPath Wikipedia page as it was missing references and had a wrong announcement date (FlashPath was announced in March 1998, not May 1998).

NFL Insider Leaks Baffling Chip Kelly Stories From Raiders Tenure https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/nfl-insider-leaks-baffling-chip-kelly-stories/?adt_ei=[email]

from my link log —
Python anti-patterns.
https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/
saved 2019-07-24 https://do…

Mamdani economic advisor is reparations activist who says 'devaluation of Black lives' ingrained in US system (Alec Schemmel/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-economic-advisor-reparations-activist-who-says-devaluation-black-lives-ingrained-us-system
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p122#a251125p122

Thanksgiving Love: Pack QB tosses 4 TDs in win https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47122958/packers-jordan-love-feats-thanksgiving-4-tds-win

A year into Trump’s second term
MAGA’s internal contradictions can no longer be ignored.
The movement that had promised an end to foreign adventurism has found itself torn between an alliance of ideological noninterventionists and realists and a hawkish national security establishment.
Trumpism promised a revival of domestic manufacturing,
yet neither the president nor his advisers have decided whether this means tariffs, industrial policy, reviving organized labor,…

Opinion | The Strange Death of Make America Great Again
Trump has begun to recede from the movement he created.

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giving side-eye to certain tech executives for giving ketamine a bad name
look. it's not the ketamine. it's their values and beliefs doing that

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Wie gelingt es mächtigen Akteuren, den #Klimaschutz systematisch zu verzögern?
Mit rhetorischen Tricks, falschen Hoffnungen und strategischem Pessimismus werden #Klimaschutzmaßnahmen blockiert und Verantwortung verschoben. Die bekannten A…

Verzögern statt leugnen: Die neue Taktik der fossilen Lobby
Nicht alle leugnen den Klimawandel – viele verzögern bewusst. So funktionieren die Strategien der Klimaschutzverzögerer.

The Girl with the Kali Dragon Tattoo

'May he perish,' — Zelensky voices Ukrainians' wish in his Christmas Eve address: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/may-he-perish-zelensky-voices.html

Game Recap: Cowboys gobble up Chiefs, 31-28 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/game-recap-cowboys-gobble-up-chiefs-31-28

More time goes by the more I want to spend more time taking MAGA phrases and take them back. The right takes left phrases and turns them to mush and we should do the same.

Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… あべるおはよー！

They should have an article about what’s real and fake about what’s in the Washington Post
https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/115605669765801191

Another blast in Moscow kills two police officers allegedly involved in torturing Ukrainian POWs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/another-blast-in-moscow-kills.html

I am The Post's 'federal government whisperer.' It's been brutal. (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/24/trump-federal-government-workers/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY2NTUyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3OTM0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjY1NTI0MDAsImp0aSI6ImI0MWExYTBhLTg4ZGUtNDY0ZC05ZjY2LWFlMzU4NDUwMGQ1NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzEyLzI0L3RydW1wLWZlZGVyYWwtZ292ZXJubWVudC13b3JrZXJzLyJ9.Ezntv_M0MTgAqtBOVWaSV73jbRQ_YTWcuea9FJ2KKEM&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p10#a251224p10

Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900 facilities in 50 countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The near deadlock on land has led to an alternative Ukrainian effort to win by economic means.
While Russia has stepped up bombing of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure
and residents of the country’s cities endure electricity outages,
Kyiv is still able to get power to the front,
its defences not obviously impaired.
And despite the regularity of Russian drone and missile attacks,
civilian morale appears not to have been significantly affected.
In retu…

from my link log —
Container security: a developer guide.
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/07/18/container-security-a-developer-guide
saved 2019-07-31

Keep Christ in Christmas? First, keep Christ in Christian
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/24/keep-christ-in-christmas-its-not-about-your-holiday-themed-caramel-macchiato-cup/

おはようございます（本日はコミティア154）

Well, idk, maybe MAKE SOME FUCKING PHONES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE NEW FEATURES AND AREN'T JUST FLATTER
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html

Cowboys’ Marshawn Kneeland was driving more than 145 mph in police chase, records show https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6838290/2025/11/25/marshawn-kneeland-death-crash-cowboys/

Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/…

Bitcoin (BTC) Funds Set for Worst Month as Investors Yank $3.5 Billion
Exchange-traded funds investing in Bitcoin are heading for their worst month of outflows since launching nearly two years ago, piling yet more pressure on a jaded crypto market.

Scoop: Trump ready to talk with Maduro over Venezuela gunboat strikes (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-maduro-talks-meeting-venezuela-boat-strikes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p95#a251124p95

from my link log —
Container security: a developer guide.
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/07/18/container-security-a-developer-guide
saved 2019-07-31

Container Security: A Developer Guide
A short guide which explains how to properly secure containers and things to keep in mind when using containers.

Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration,
according to a new report
Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files,
which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign.
The administration has sought to withhold files from the public,
and the Justice Department has said it
"nee…

'End of the era': Trump just created the 'kryptonite' that could bring down his presidency
President Donald Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration, according to a new report. Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which Trump promised to release i...

and maybe devices decidedly NOT having "AI"

Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-24/nvidia-…

Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb, tied for NFL lead in drops, has easy fix: 'I need to catch the f---ing ball'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-…

U.S., Ukraine move closer together on peace plan after lengthy talks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/24/ukraine-peace-plan-europe-russia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p98#a251124p98

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Larry and David Ellison didn’t always have a close relationship. Now they’re one of the most intriguing partnerships in business.

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/827607/openai-h…

Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype
Altman and Ive’s mysterious AI device is finally taking shape, with a “playful” design that could be revealed within the next two years.

for science's sake also have some fun with your device design and don't just make rectangular slabs of various sizes

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online

Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…

Why Nvidia Struck a $20 Billion Megadeal with Groq
Nvidia stunned Silicon Valley on Wednesday by agreeing to pay about $20 billion to license technology from Groq, one of the best-funded startups trying to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in chips for powering AI applications, known as inference computing, according to a person involved in the deal. ...

‘tis the season

A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

"Well, if you don't use AI it won't affect you, you luddite!"

Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…

Elon Musk's Starlink is adding 20,000 new users a day as it hits 9 million customers
Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.

Saying it again, anthropomorphized "chatbot" user interfaces to LLMs should be illegal.
There's zero reason these interfaces have to be like this—other than companies making people addicted to them.
This is wrt to a WaPo article (tw:child abuse, child suicide) , here w/o paywall: https://archive.is/GUIEF

You'd think with idk 200 million people in the US who are eligible to be elected president they'd find one who isn't [points to everything]

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-security-…

Changes to the agency that helps secure elections lead to midterm worries
The federal agency that oversees the security of election systems was largely absent from planning before elections this month in several states. That's leading many state election officials to be concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be for next year’s midterms. Officials are citing the shifting priorities of the Trump administration, as well as staffing reductions and budget cut. Some officials say they've begun scrambling to fill the anticipa…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115602153224142336
unsurprisingly getting replies that claim or at least imply differently
sigh