📣 The CFP for All Systems Go! 2026 is now open!
Submit your talk about foundational user-space Linux technologies now 👉 https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2026/cfp

ℹ️ More info here: https://all-systems-go.io/

🎫 Tickets go on sale in April.

We’ll be talking more about the progress on the CHERIoT port of Rust at CHERI Blossoms next week, but here’s a teaser:

The embedded graphics crate rendering an image on Sonata. This currently using a (memory-safe) C function to draw pixels (that can go away with a little bit more work) but the current compiler is able to build this crate and run it in a CHERIoT compartment.

#Rust #CHERI #CHERIoT #CHERIBlossoms

Oh great. If you see an elephant with an IR flashlight on the side of the road, beware. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/targeted-physical-evasion-attacks-in-the-near-infrared-domain/

I need to find a better way to do this.

I've been experimenting with having Claude finish an unfinished coding project. You've really got to watch it like a hawk. It does some inexplicable things like removing important comments, fixing non-existent buffer overflows, breaking protocol parsing etc. What am I missing?

I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.

Ok, nerds. Here’s a photo of a beta XBox (One S?) in dazzle camo, from a random hallway cabinet in Redmond.

I'm hoping to reproduce this cavity stabilized oscillator design from NIST but at 12 GHz as an ultra low phase noise reference clock for the vector signal generator. This nonsense is optional, the clock could be as simple as an LMX2594.

These pipe couplings are very close to what I need for a TE015 resonator at 12 GHz. They need some minor machining, polishing, endcaps, coupling loops.

https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1887.pdf
https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2729.pdf

CFP for LPC 2026 is open!

Important dates:
Thursday, April 23, 2026: Deadline to submit proposals to host a microconference
Sunday, June 28, 2026: Deadline to submit LPC Refereed Track Presentations Proposals and Kernel Summit Presentations Proposals.

Please use the following to access the full CFP and submit your proposal!

https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/

🐧 Get your proposals in this week! The CfP closes this Sunday, 15 March. 👀 ⏰

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/b4dcda9a-582c-4803-9d6a-30e42dfc8538

@occult What's stopping you from coding like this?

RE: https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399

@palmer TIL there are JIS versions of these things :-)

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/5da2b96e-6715-46b8-b0ae-c1bfe65e4868

Oddly, the standard metric sizes are 0.9 and 1.3mm. No idea why these tools are slightly different, nor why there's a random Phillips head. I assume excellent reasons, however.

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/ff0ff177-e6d7-4604-a913-3f6e611576e9

@jamesb typical Big Dart.

RE: https://fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk/@jamesb/statuses/01KKA7Y2Y497DPF0Z3TRY8PXP2

These color-coded hex tools are proof that Japan is living in the future.

RE: https://social.afront.org/@MLE_online/116116531245705615

Apparently certain amazon basics color changing smart light bulb's contain ESP32 boards.
If one happens to come across one. As the PSU's are the likely parts to fail, not the rest of it.

#systemd v260~rc1 is out! We are not late on the schedule, we simply took over and reimplemented the meaning of punctuality from the traditional shell-based implementation.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v260-rc1

We will be having Fedora Hatch at @socallinuxexpo this year! On Friday, March 6, join us for our dedicated track!

What are we talking about?

* Getting started in open source
* @centos and Fedora collaboration
* RPM packaging workshop
* And more!

➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/hatch-scale-23x/

#Fedora #SCaLE #Linux #OpenSource

The “RTTY Receiver by Artificial Intelligence” article I wrote for ORI will run in May/June 2026 QEX. Roughly 18 months after it was submitted and accepted for publication. Very happy it's been scheduled, but it does take about a year on average to get an article into their magazines.

The work has been presented multiple times, and the recordings of the presentations are online. What we did was to build and train a machine learning model to receive RTTY in noisy conditions. Not LLM stuff.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but f'ing magnets, how do they work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSjCOKDtpk