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Here is a complete description of the changes that are coming for the US #HamRadio Technician exam on 1 July 2026:
https://gist.github.com/taxilian/c6fca675a58fd4b165e…

This was glorious, and it is now implemented in SwiftTerm by default.
While it is true that certain users in a dorm at Darmouth or MIT might carry with them the script to tune their color palette, I believe that users in the wild deserve to keep their retinas.
https://gist.github.com/jake-ste…

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
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I got bored and reverse engineered how SCO #cpio is able to store such large files in their archives when the newc format only officially supports 4Gb file entries.
I am not a coder, so I just made some files with cpio from the Heirloom Toolset and looked at them in hexdump.
#rpm packag…

SCO file size extension
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Ever wondered about the inode trunctation in #cpio formats and what that might mean for the integrity of your archives on modern systems?
No? No, I didn't think so because that is nerdy as fuck!!! 🤓
Nonetheless, I typed this up. No need to… umm… thank me. 🤪

GNU cpio and inode truncation considerations
GNU cpio and inode truncation considerations. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I hadn’t planned to do this today, but I just added a new filter to pandoc-lecturenotes https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes, which allows you to produce slides in any of the formats supported by

Running a custom kernel on a HiSilicon IP camera SoC again after a few years, rediscovering the importance of picking the right toolchain.
https://gist.github.com/orangecms/5c597bdbe165a7151ff85f14ddffbdcf

IP camera running custom kernel
IP camera running custom kernel. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

This is a pretty good example to demonstrate why people are often shocked at the inference cost of #vibe #coding tools. I've been playing with #eca in

gist:af008d6d0d2923f4e8cc361ce80f0951
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from my link log —
Lessons from merging hash tables.
https://gist.github.com/attractivechaos/d2efc77cc1db56bbd5fc597987e73338
saved 2026-01-08

2026-01-01_hashmap-merge.md
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Rich Hickey goes right for the #AI jugular, and is spot on correct.
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f

Thanks AI!
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This is precisely what the “presentation” and “lecturenotes” classes in the pandoc-lecturenotes filters are for: they allow you to show or hide certain elements only on slides or on lecture notes. ⇢
https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes