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Gentle Giant "Give it Back" (2023 Steven Wilson Remix)

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Give It Back (Steven Wilson 2023 Remix) by Gentle Giant
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from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
A common theme and observation I notice in all reports about Ukraine, is the incredible disconnect the rest of the world has with the conflict - as if it weren't creeping up to their own back door.
As this summer heats up in every way, I expect a lot of people to suddenly learn how connected we all are, as the fires burning in Ukraine and the Middle East spread around the world.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and breathes life…

A Nuclear Drill Covers the Russian Defeat: When the Bomb Is a Fig Leaf
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

from my link log —
Linn Rekursiv: The computer at the bottom of a canal.
https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
saved 2026-07-19

The computer at the bottom of a canal
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap in silicon, […]

A timeless classic ... from 2023 https://song.link/s/19kHhX6f6EfLU7rcO3RqjO

Back On 74 by Jungle
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❝Criminalizing dissent isn’t a sideshow. It’s central to the plan. They want to stop you from taking to the streets in massive numbers if and when they take illegal actions to keep the Republican Party in power. They are using these bogus indictments to lay the foundation for the solution that Vice President JD Vance proposed for Minneapolis back in January — to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in tanks.❞
EDIT: Updated with gift link
https://share.inquirer.com/dCg3tG

from my link log —
Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep
saved 2026-07-20 https://…

Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem | deadSimpleTech
With that in mind, it became fairly clear to me that the tech industry these days has a depth problem: as much as tech is becoming quite a bit more complex, it's also becoming shallower. Learning new things in tech these days, as often as not, simply doesn't give me the same feeling of satisfaction or achievement as learning or writing C back in the first years of my career did. Being effective in tech these days feels as though it's less about understanding than it is about memorising a big li…

@… Someone at work recently asked if I knew of a “free” way to generate QR codes.
I held back the desire to explain how it would be insane to pay for a QR code, and sent them your link instead.

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Switzerland’s right-wing SVP party is urging voters to “send a clear signal” to policymakers to curb what it calls “overwhelming” population growth.
If Swiss voters back the population curb proposal, the country’s Federal Council and parliament will have to roll out measures to curb population growth until 2050.
Immigration systems would be tightened if the population exceeded 9.5 million at any point over the next 24 years,
with asylum and family reunification programs fir…

Switzerland is voting on whether to cap its population at 10 million. Here's what to know
Switzerland votes on a population cap that could tighten immigration and put its EU free-movement agreement under pressure.

How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/04/how-to-fight-back-against-gen-z-socialism?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=266b82bd-d8f8-4711-abd5-6a00a5d0096a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p68#a260604p68

From Bill McKibben
Lee Raymond, former Exxon CEO who denied climate change, dies at 87,
when people think back in a hundred years or a thousand or ten thousand, the one thing worth remembering about him will be the crucial role he played in holding back action on climate change.
I would like to add a link but all I could get was a promo for the Substack app

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Dell introduces the $699 Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the MacBook Neo (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Dell is bringing back the XPS 13 as a MacBook Neo competitor — with a temporary discount to $599
Dell is bringing back the XPS 13, but the new model is now aimed at the MacBook Neo, with 8GB of RAM and a temporary starting price of $599 for students.

Adding files to notes in @… is now live! Now I'm adding bulk editing. So many new features. I can't wait to write about them.

I'm seeing an odd rendering (?) glitch on mastodon at the moment - *sometimes* when I mouse over someones @example link the text in that toot 'jumps' slightly and then goes back just for a few frames; I'm not sure if it's mastodon version, firefox, or the phase of the moon.
(Firefox 152.0/Fedora/x86)

Donald Trump's newly-minted secretary of Homeland Security,
Markwayne Mullin, has made explosive headlines with his repeated threats on cable news to pull back Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in
"sanctuary cities" that don't cooperate with federal immigration agents
— a move that would sharply reduce or eliminate the ability of major airports like New York-JFK, LAX, Philadelphia, Boston, and Minneapolis to process international flights…

White House insiders throw DHS chief under the bus over threats to cripple air travel
President Donald Trump's newly-minted secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, has made explosive headlines with his repeated threats on cable news to pull back Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in "sanctuary cities" that don't cooperate with federal immigration agents — ...

I guess I should link back to this now too:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/114450640250852613

from my link log —
Question: Is matching fixed regexes with back-references in P?
https://branchfree.org/2019/04/04/question-is-matching-fixed-regexes-with-back-references-in-p/
saved 2026-06-28

Question: Is matching fixed regexes with Back-references in P?
There is a persistent meme out there that matching regular expressions with back-references is NP-Hard. There is a post about this and the claim is repeated by Russ Cox so this is now part of recei…

OOIOO are back!!!
Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL

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Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL by OOIOO
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FR, Apple voice dictation, are you drugs? Like how did you even get this out of “little two-pack”‽
I refuse to believe my pronunciation of “two pack” sounds like “Tupac”. Is it 2Pac related?
Otoh Siri consistently writes “Wyld” instead of “wild” so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as "Xbox needs to be our identity" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft brings Xbox back, scraps Microsoft Gaming
Microsoft is returning to the Xbox division internally, instead of Microsoft Gaming. It’s part of a “return to Xbox” from the new Xbox CEO.

Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick.
Excellent analysis, history, and perspective the billionaires don't want you to see.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and weakens the power of assholes and idiots everywhere: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/u

Ukraine Update May 31
2026 — Dazzle is BACK! Oil is not.

from my link log —
Deciphering a business card raytracer. (2013)
https://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
saved 2026-05-27

from my link log —
LOAD "PL/CBMBASIC",8,1: Commodore 64 BASIC for PostgreSQL.
https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html
saved 2026-07-06

from my link log —
Verilog: Back to the building blocks’ building blocks.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/buildingblocks.html
saved 2026-05-27

Back to the Building Blocks’ Building Blocks
Verilog is the foundation of all hardware design, and it is fatally flawed. We should all be worried about a glut of hardware bugs caused by Verilog’s unpredictable semantics and simplistic type system.

from my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…

from my link log —
Google Chrome reduces its root DNS traffic.
https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/chromiums-reduction-of-root-dns-traffic/
saved 2021-01-07

Chromium’s Reduction of Root DNS Traffic - Verisign Blog
As we begin a new year, it is important to look back and reflect on our accomplishments and how we can continue to improve. A significant positive the DNS

from my link log —
The longest train journey in the EU.
https://jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-journey-in-the-eu/
saved 2026-04-25 https://

The longest train journey in the EU
Anyone who has been following my work for a while knows I have long had a rather abstract discussion about the definition of the World's Longest Train Journey. I started calculating this back in 2021, after an incorrect map on Reddit went viral, and have updated my thoughts about it

from my link log —
The Glorious Revolution and the causes of the industrial revolution.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-smashing-the-nimbys-created-modern
saved 2026-06-22

The secret cause of the industrial revolution
In 1688, England swept away the encrusted vetocracy that had held back economic growth for centuries. Could we do the same today?