TIL about Irdabama, a powerful Ancient Persian (Iranian) businesswoman who, ~2500 years ago, controlled vast estates, traded across the Achaemenid Empire, managing hundreds of workers whilst travelling around Iran and Mesopotamia with her own entourage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irdabama
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1j4l7dx/til_about_irdabama_a_powerful_ancient_persian/

I always felt like this screen was judging me for answering "no"

General Electrix (a.k.a. Olli Koponen & Santtu XL) - Year of the Dragon EP (SOFYI-01, Secret Order, 27 January 2025).

https://soundcloud.com/secretorderfyi/year-of-the-dragon

#GeneralElectrix #techno #breakbeat #bassmusic #electronic #SecretOrder #OlliKoponen #SanttuXL #Finland

As I like be open about my downs too, and not just ups, I already feel that #EdTech is much more me than #blockchain tech :-D I feel I made the right choice this time.

And generally speaking, maybe it is a good profile for someone working on technology for schools, to be one who does not pretend to be perfect, and actually makes mistakes sometimes.

https://bsky.app/profile/governorwalz.mn.gov/post/3ljo6xcches2e

If you ever find yourself saying “It’s just business” to justify an action, you should pause and recognize that the presence of that phrase is a sign capitalism has begun corroding your brain's moral center, and is alienating you from your own beautiful humanity!

Let's talk about Microsoft Flight Simulator! The very first one. The OG.

This is what you see when you boot the game:

🧙‍♂️

Adding a WiringPi module to TIC-80's Python interpreter https://rvr.typepad.com/wind/2025/03/adding-wiringpi-module-to-tic-80-python-interpreter.html

This is a project that I worked on last weekend. TIC-80 is one of the most popular open source "fantasy consoles", imaginary retro-console emulators with IDE for code, sprites, maps and music. I show how to extend TIC-80's Python interpreter, pocketpy, to add GPIO access for the Raspberry Pi.

Edit: Just uploaded the code to github.

#gamedev #tic80 #python #pocketpy #retrocomputing #raspberrypi

A classic!

#Trump #politics #economics #finance #StockMarket #Markets

https://bsky.app/profile/godpod.bsky.social/post/3ljm3qdvam22s

One area where I think AI is quite nice: I like to tell roughly how a sequence should look like and ask AI to do me a snippet of Mermaid.

It's far from truth but then I can continue editing the snippet manually. My biggest difficulty with Mermaid is that I use it so rarely that I forget the syntax so this will help me to recall all of that. That's actually gist of this whole exercise.

It does not even require powerful AI: I use a local Ollama running llama 3.2 on my RTX 4090. The sequence does not need to be correct as long as it has about the right lanes and some stuff going back and forth.

This makes me wonder tho what is the value of paying Mermaid Charts, which does this on a paid subscription (that's where I got the inspiration in the first place).

This makes me wonder also all of the paid stuff. If you are smart software engineer in the first place you can get 90% of the "efficiency benefit" with a local 2k-4k GPU, which mostly recalling syntax of e.g., Mermaid.

Interesting, I thought that I'd save time on looking Intel SDM just to check up the size of PCMD, one of the data structures in Intel SGX.

I tried Google Gemini and two different AI flavors it has and got three wrong answers.

So eventually I went to Intel SDM and got the answer that I wanted :-)

If this is AGI, it will suck...

TinyGo 0.36 is released & we've got what you need right now: initial Go 1.24 support, many WASM/WASI improvements & fixes, RP2040/RP2350 enhancements, LLVM 19, & so much more! Full changelog here:

https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/releases/tag/v0.36.0

#tinygo #golang #wasm #wasi #embedded

It is with great sorrow that we share the news that Hannu 'Haa' Aronsson, a regular at the Alt Party, and winner of the latest Most Obscure Computer Competition (with a Canon Cat) has passed away. He also created the world's first ever demo for that machine. Haa was an amazing force of positive energy who never forgot the joy that we have all experienced from tinkering with some new computer gadget or technology. He will be very greatly missed.

#demoscene

Sailfish OS Linux for Phones Gets 5.0 'Tampella' Update https://www.howtogeek.com/sailfish-os-5-0-tampella-release/

Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

I'm glad Hellwig is no longer blocking Rust development in the Linux kernel, but I feel like some of the posts I'm seeing about it are unnecessarily harsh: he did good work too, and I hope we can avoid driving him away from contributing altogether.
If nothing else, some of his refactoring work has helped the rust devs as they would have had to do it themselves otherwise to make the C side clean enough for Rust bindings.

Thank you, Christoph Hellwig!

Currently shopping for ideas and opinons on how `sbctl` should approach the revocation list in Secure Boot (`dbx`).

https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/issues/23

Feel free to come with ideas but trying to keep things simple is the goal here.

#sbctl #SecureBoot #Security

The latest cover of French magazine "Le Point":

Reads:

"The Man from Moscow"
"Putin & Trump, an alliance of predators."