2026-07-24 13:41:25
OTD 1992: Sun Labs vs SunSoft water war. Epic nonsense!
#SunMicrosystems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io
OTD 1992: Sun Labs vs SunSoft water war. Epic nonsense!
#SunMicrosystems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io
Manchester Code IEEE Milestone: https://spectrum.ieee.org/manchester-code-ieee-milestone
(Used in early Ethernet)
Learn all about “the most moral army in the world” (currently committing genocide, but, hey, no one’s perfect):
How three terrorist groups formed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) [aka Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OCGtHMxNr…
Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
Alex is a software engineer who has built a tool which she licences to her customers. She only has a small number of clients, but they like her tool. She built her tool using Rust, with about 20 direct dependencies from crates.io. When you count indirect dependencies, her tool has about 250 dependencies.
— by @…
“If u iz at dis borin wimbledore final lookin 2 get grand slammed, I iz here wif de hookup.”
The offer was from Ali G, real name Alistair Leslie Graham, AKA the malapropism-dropping home counties wide boy played by Sacha Baron Cohen,
kitted out for the occasion in trademark skullcap and gold chain, plus custom Wimbledon jacket, traditional crossed rackets replaced with cannabis leaves.
Security released him without penalty, but the reprimand was captured on scores of smartph…
Fetmamedicinerna hjälper vid alkoholberoende https://traningslara.se/fetmamedicinerna-hjalper-vid-alkoholberoende/
Ich darf meinen Küchenbalkon jetzt wieder benutzen ohne die ganze Zeit lautstark und ausdauernd angeschrien zu werden (aka: Die Meisenküken sind ausgeflogen.)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Iro Aka:
🎵 Gendo
#IroAka
https://glossymistakes.bandcamp.com/track/gendo
what happened when clive davis (aka siva devil c) met owsley & robert hunter, 1973. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/wake-flood-50-mississippi-half-step-uptown-toodeloo
Expert Knob Twiddlers - Still one of my fave feel good tracks after all this time (30 years)...
Mike Paradinas & Richard D. James aka µ-Ziq & Aphex Twin are offering you to enjoy:
Mr. Frosty (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAaBbFmCWoE
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
AKA:
🎵 It Grows On Trees (Money)
#AKA
https://akasongs.bandcamp.com/track/it-grows-on-trees-money
https://open.spotify.com/track/1MlM3cDZ9P4baCP27CHxBp
Oliver Neumann aka #bikolinux just arrived at CP1! 🥳 #tcrno12cap392 #tcrno12
#potd Fat Freddy's Drop @ Arena, open air, family outing; great gig playing Based On A True Story (and some more, including a Happy-Birthday-Interlude); RIP DJ MU aka Fitchie https://domm.plix.at/potd/2026-06-18.h
Essener Comedypreis erinnert an Dr. Stratmann
La Signora - Carmela de Feo erhält den "Essener Ehrendoktor", Ryko (@ryko.wav) den Nachwuchspreis "Jupps Pott". Die Laudationes halten Jochen Malmsheimer und Gerburg Jahnke.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-22.0
Bats Around our Home aka 16WW - Our house in a bat hotspot - pipistrelles rather than vampires! #bat #Chiroptera #dataset -
OTD 1975: The first UNIX Users Group meeting - the organization that evolved into USENIX.
https://archive.org/details/unix_news_july-30-1975_waterloo
RE: https://c.im/@strayhorse/116613690311629490
This is indeed insightful. Anyone else peep the Saul Hudson (aka Slash) byline...?
If you never have broken your tuber ischiadicum aka the sitting bone, I highly recommend you to keep not doing that.
Also, when you turn around on concrete stairs, take your time to ensure your footing, or you may find yourself testing the limits of your sitting bone bouncability.
#lifehack
#NowPlaying If you missed out on these Ground Zero (aka Otomo Yoshihide) CD albums, I have good news for you! https://groundzone.bandcamp.com/music
Around the world in 80 charges:
'Elektrotrucker' Tobias Wagner plans to travel around the world in a fully electric truck
https://www.
70 years of A.I.: OTD 1956, the Dartmouth Workshop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop
Personally, I was happier when A.I. meant American Idol.
Heavy boiling below the calm surface, occasionally breaking through... Incredible production by Samuel van Dijk aka VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics...
VC-118A — Silver (2021)
https://soundcloud.com/mohlao/silver
50 years ago yesterday, the debut of phil lesh’s side jam, touloos ta truck (aka toulousse, aka too loose to truck), at river city in fairfax (with father guido sarducci!), feat. terry haggerty (from sons of champlin) on guitar, plus hardcore marin locals john allair on organ, & steve mitchell on drums. a few notches above the garcia band energy-wise, some of the groovier lesh. soundboard:
„Wir hatten nicht mit einer Empörung in diesem Umfang gerechnet“ heißt halt ganz banal auch: Wir haben ihn nicht deswegen zum Rücktritt gedrängt, weil sein Verhalten für uns nicht mehr tragbar war, sondern weil wir dies aufgrund der Reaktion von Dritten für notwendig hielten.
Und das ist ganz banal eine moralische Bankrotterklärung. Aka Politik.
#pol
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka "Cobie", will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/408504/coinba
Am Donnerstag ging nach Monaten mal wieder einer meiner spärlichen Newsletter aka #klexpressbrief von mir raus. Ich habe Rückmeldung bekommen dass er bei einigen nicht bzw nur im Spamfilter angekommen ist. Falls er auch bei dir trotz Anmeldung nicht angekommen sein sollte und du ihn aber gern noch haben möchtest sag mir bitte kurz Bescheid, dann reiche ich ihn dir gerne manuell hinterher.
Microsoft just announced a partnership with Replit, the famed vibe-coding solution, to publish applications to Microsoft Fabric.
http://aka.ms/replitfabric
#microsoft
Bei CDU und SPD im Bund knallen die Sektkorken: nach dem sie zig tausende Arbeitsplätze für Zukunftstechnologie vernichtet oder ins Ausland vertrieben haben und erfolgreich verhinderten, dass wir bei der Batterietechnologie überhaupt mithalten können, wird ein vor vielen Jahren geschlossenes Werk für veraltete Billigtechnologien aka hocheffizient Verbrenner wieder hoch gefahren. Nicht besonders viele Arbeitsplätze, aber wenigstens keine grünen Arbeitsplätze.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/116700877544715088
Image Description: black and white photo of a woman in a striped dress in front of hundred of little post boxes with computer printouts. We only see the woman’s back, her hands clasped behind her, p…
Speaking of John Tukey - I found this plaque on my recent visit to Princeton.
The plaque is in the E.E. department, although Tukey was always in math & statistics department.
And Cooley was at IBM. #FFT
Glaubt eins der im Salzburgwiki dokumentierten Stellungnahme der österreichischen Bundesforste, war die Abkürzung RF aka "(Staats- und) Reichsforste" für Grenzmarkierungen nicht nur 1938-1945, sondern bereits ca 1852 bis 1867 gebräuchlich, ab 1867 wurde KK verwendet, zu Zeiten der Republik BF aka Bundesforste.
So why, all the sudden, would it be really high in nutrients?
My guess is they refilled it with city water.
Washington DC like most major metropolitan areas, adds orthophosphate to the water for lead corrosion control.
It works beautifully for this,
but orthophosphate is also a bioavailable form of phosphate,
aka algae food!
IETF I-D updated - Programming Methodology Framework aka PMF
This update includes "Swearwords and Software Engineering"
#update #computerscience #methodology
Na, Merz-Bros, kapiert ihr es langsam mal?
Alles, was dieses Land lebenswert macht, reißt ihr mit dem Arsch ein (aka "gute Politik") - und die A💩D trotzdem so:
"Über Merkel witzelte Steimle, die »Grande Dame« sei eigentlich immer noch im Amt. »Man hat den Eindruck, sie führt Friedrich Merz.« Die ehemalige Bundeskanzlerin sei die eigentliche Gründerin der AfD, »ohne das Merkel würde es die AfD gar nicht geben«, sagte er und würdigte die Ex-Kanzlerin herab, indem er d…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/116840098196799526
i like the part in
PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF THE LOGICAL DESIGN OF AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTING INSTRUMENT
(28 june 1946)
MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/mrbeast-500-million-youtube-subscribers/
Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020) - Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats... - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-1.html
Happy Tukey day! Born this day, 1915.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey
My wife has a patch of Bee Balm which I'm planning to camp out at with the right gear on a day with the right light; aka Bergamot this is the scent of Earl Gray tea and I learned the hard way that if I mixed the essential oil with sweet orange the industrial cleaner smell would make me evacuate my office
#photo
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Stadtbäume sind unverzichtbar für ein angenehmes #Stadtklima.💚
Sie kühlen durch #Wasserverdunstung, spenden
Demnächst unternehmensweite Festivität, bei der aus Kostengründen nur die Auswärtigen (aka Management) übernachten dürfen und der Rest soll sich „lustige Spiele“ ausdenken, damit es nicht zu langweilig wird.
Ich wünsche allen viel Spaß.
Ich wüsste nicht, was es zu feiern gäbe und auch nicht mit wem.
#Job
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs/116840098196799526
New word of the day for me 'radicand' - the value from which a root is taken; used in the description of the square rooter in the EDVAC:
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/112665952895937577
Aus aktuellem Anlaß aka wie sich das Bürgertum Art. 20 (4) GG so vorstellt…
/cc @…
Join us now at 5:30 pm at the RUSTlab (online) lecture, Pat Brodie will discuss the book “From Bog to Cloud”, aka why the heck are there so many #datacenters in #Ireland??
The event:
Slop-Code produzieren schon vor den Zeiten von LLMs - gesponsert by Venture Capital aka Kapitalismus!
https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html
(Gefunden via
Morgen findet der Fachtag #digitaleGewalt für Fachkräfte & Multiplikator*innen in #Dortmund statt, veranstaltet vom Gleichstellungsbüro der Stadt.
Ich halte den Einführungsvortrag (aka Keynote) und bin sehr gespannt auf die Berichte aus dem Alltag der Fachkräfte.
Yo de la salida a bolsa de Neo Nueva Rumasa, aka SpaceX, sólo le pido a Eris que los fanboys de Musk metan ahí todo su dinero y se arruinen hasta la miseria. Que lo pierdan todo para mayor gracia de su líder moral.
Legacy Internet (aka pre-LLM)
OTD 1983: Toronto USENIX conference!
https://www.krsaborio.net/unix/research/1983/0713.htm
The Intel ME Gen 2 file system used variable sized chunks.
TIL this may be aka Content-Defined Chunking.
More to look into.
https://joshleeb.com/posts/chunking.html 👀
If anyone here is a file system expert and wants to help out, I'd be happy to exchange. :)
BuyVM aka FranTech (#AS53667):
"We've never raised prices in all the years we've operated, and have eaten every data-center & bandwidth provider increase. Most of these have been fairly small, usually pinned to inflation, but over the past 6 months we've been hit with >15% hikes from most of our facilities."
Increases vary. On the low end percentage increases are around 25%-50% respectively, and on the higher end in the range of 10%-25%
"Es gibt überhaupt keinen Grund, weshalb jeder zuhause sein eigenes LLM laufen lassen möchte."
Well … »There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.« (Ken Olsen, Gründer der Computerfirma Digital Equipment aka DEC, 1977).
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Aka Kelzz:
🎵 Memories
#NowPlaying #AkaKelzz
https://open.spotify.com/track/2VhET892wU8tKC33Y9OfdB
#NowPlaying Been a minute since I’ve done one of these! #CDFriday with this recently remastered trilogy of cavernously dark ambient albums from Drift, a short-lived project by Gabriele Giuliani aka Dead Body Love. Kudos to
MrBeast hits 500M subscribers on YouTube, a record for the platform (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/mrbeast-500-million-youtube-subscribers/
Alles muss man selber denken ist das Motto von Robin Tiesmeyer aka @… bei #2MR
I got your Open Source Operating System right here. (1959)
SHARE Operating System for the IBM 709/7090/7094: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vrlJOfXNxxE3Ik_a3SZfj2rEb9hV9qru/view?usp=sharing
Draußen is noch Frühling, aber ich muss schon die Planung vom #klexadventskalender 2026 starten.
Der wird ausschließlich über meinen Newsletter aka #klexpressbrief kommuniziert; meist im Juni. Öffentlich bewerb ich den gar nicht. Wer's mitbekommen will: jetzt eintragen: #artShop
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Stadtbäume sind unverzichtbar für ein angenehmes #Stadtklima.💚
Sie kühlen durch #Wasserverdunstung, spenden
Apropos of nothing, here's a Sun Multibus Ethernet card (1983).
It used Intel's 82586 chip and an array of 256KB of memory because
(a) Multibus was slow, and
(b) The Sun-1 didn't support DMA from Multibus.
The horrors of programming this mess and others are described here: https://www.
Released as a single humongous monolithic pull request within a week since opening, the kind of ad-hoc, uncoordinated, trigger-happy, just-because-we-can attitude of the #Bun "LLM Rust rewrite" is so symbolic of the cultural shift many people & orgs are undergoing, where their focus has moved almost exclusively to quantity & speed-to-market (aka "higher productivity"), completely shoving asi…
Ich frage mich, ob man der Agrarlobby und Reiche irgendwie unterschieben könnte, daß Kartoffelbatterien¹ der neue heiße Scheiß sind, um analog zu Bio-Ethanol auch E-Autos mittels großangelegtem Verbrauch von Anbauflächen aka landwirtschaftlicher Erzeugnisse anzutreiben. Vielleicht in ihre Reden-KI injecten?
Ich mein, sie erzählt ja sonst auch lauter absurdes Zeug, da fällt das doch quasi gar nicht auf…
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¹ihr erinnert euch, wir treiben einen Kupfer- und einen Eisennagel in …
#Requiescat For Abdullah Ibrahim aka Dollar Brand. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_OcdqkeeI2xgbOKGW5-PfTzd1NlKuZBt
ALMOST hacked.
Just had a very believable 1/2 hour conversation with "Google" about someone trying to recover my account, which they would then "do a security scan" of.
They sent notifications, emails, SMS, all looking very official.
1/2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Metronomy:
🎵 Everything Goes My Way
#Metronomy
https://akavinnie.bandcamp.com/track/metronomy-everything-goes-my-way-aka-vinnie-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/67wcAJeaNwGm0fcB4HzzYm
About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Stadtbäume sind unverzichtbar für ein angenehmes #Stadtklima.💚
Sie kühlen durch #Wasserverdunstung, spenden
The new Halo: Campaign Evolved - with 3 new campaigns, all running on the Unreal Engine 5 - is coming to Xbox Series X|S, PC, and PS5 on July 28.
▶️ Halo: Campaign Evolved | Cinematic Story Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MxBFXH2a_U
✅Preorder at
rundll32.exe catte.dll.notavirus,#1
#TrustMeBro
OTD 1982: Boston #USENIX conference.
First "trade show" for #SunMicrosystems.
https://www.krsabori…
#InternationalRockDay — Pyrite, Manganese (among other things)
Compared to the more northern areas, the central ridges of the eastern Alps consist of a much larger variety of rocks/minerals with often intense colors. Depending on sun direction, the pyrite (aka fools gold) makes the rocks in the scree fields glisten brightly in the sun...
cozy psychedelic history: thanks to a tape fragment discovered by the owsley stanley foundation where the grateful dead announce upcoming gigs, we’ve added 4 shows to jerrybase, april 6th-9th, 1966 at the huntington beach pavilion, aka the pav-a-lon. a dead beach party! https://jerrybase.com/runs/1046 /1
OTD 1995: Legato Systems goes public.
Founded by brother Bob and other folks from Sun.
Red Herring: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KWCzF5phK5vi6gUSKJ83eFyy25ofqS_j/view?usp=sharing
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Ozomatli:
🎵 Cut Chemist Suite
#Ozomatli
https://brigatone-aka-the-mad-hatter.bandcamp.com/track/ozomatli-cut-chemist-suite
https://open.spotify.com/track/4g4R3XcrrtvoUVGIN1RheU
Bryan Johnson,
a 48 year old American entrepreneur,
has made headlines for his outlandish anti-ageing techniques
-- spending millions of dollars in a bid to extend his life
and reduce his biological age to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson refers to his Benjamin Button-esque ways as
‘Project Blueprint’,
meticulously taking 54 supplements a day,
eating every meal between 6am and 11.30am,
and following a strict exercise regimen.
In 2023, …
About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
#NowPlaying Hey everybody, Brad Rose (aka Foxy Digitalis) has a new project called Morning Sounds, collecting unedited recordings of waking routines. A new batch dropped yesterday with Elaine Gale Aubrey, Mike Bullock, and me! It’s free to download or name your own price.
It's 2002: the dot.com bubble has burst, telecoms are struggling, data is coming to cell phones, the Internet is still growing, but rife with what will be known as "network neutrality" problems. We need a new public network.
The future I wanted to see: https://speakerdeck.com/pugs/2002-cr…
finally spent time with dummy #2, aka john kelly's sumptuous history of the air pirate funnies underground #comix saga. breathtaking! but maybe most intrigued by this bit that implies that #disney opened a fake/honeypot head shop in glendale to try to bust the makers of the disneyland memorial orgy poste…
OTD 1982: #SunMicrosystems ships 1st Sun-1 workstation. Customer is "Solo Systems", never heard from again.
OTD 1987: #SunMicrosystems announce the SunLink Channel Gateway. One of my favorite projects.
https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?
OTD 1956: Burroughs acquires Electrodata, the southern California developers of the later B5000 series.
Blog about the development of the Electrodata/Burroughs 205 and 220 machines:
https://datatron.blogspot.com/2018/02/introducing-burroughs-220.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
David Ambrosio:
🎵 For Duke
#DavidAmbrosio
https://bluefrogrecords.bandcamp.com/track/for-duke-p-aka-xyz
https://open.spotify.com/track/7hyl9LgWrTsZK9YMy0Szwk
OTD 1970: IBM System/370 announced. The main reason for the bump from System/360 to System/370 was the use of IC memory instead of core. Virtual memory features took another 2 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
when the frow show returns to the @… lineup on tuesday evening, i'll be celebrating the late great sleepy doug shaw. #radio
OTD 1945: von Neumann's EDVAC report published. The beginning of modern computer architecture.
https://web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PDFs/edvac.pdf
Born this day 1927: Professor Bruce W. Arden, who was chair of the department and my advisor at Princeton. Wonderful person with seminal contributions to computer science.
https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/re
R.I.P. Cleve Moler - LINPACK & MATLAB.
https://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html