🐧 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

@llvm IMHO, Perl is underrated in the hands of someone with good taste & OO design skills. But not by much.

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

Reminder: the CfP for LSS-NA is open until March 15th.

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

@mossmann @oscherler is time going backwards here?

📣 All Systems Go! is back in 2026! Same location, same dates.
We hope to see you 🫵 in 📍Berlin 📆 Sept 30-Oct 1 for 2 days of presentations, conversations and collaboration around foundational user-space Linux technologies.
More info here 👉 https://all-systems-go.io/
Follow to get notified when the CFP opens and 🎟️ tix go on sale.

@flexion I wanted one of these so badly back in the day.

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/116102728174568820

New ⸭ ParticleOS ⸭ branding dropped!

Now to figure out how to get an IPE policy loaded, per Luca Boccassi's presentation at @fosdem https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DVVAV9-particle-os-from-trad-distro-to-immutable-image/

I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me?

My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.

Experience includes the Internet Archive, GitHub, Shopify, and others alongside a number of open source projects.

Available in Vancouver, BC or remote.

No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

In 1925 a doctor said vacuum cleaners will make women lazy. In 2026 mastodon dudes said the same thing (and worse) about a woman engineer using a tool to make a CAD part.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/16/no-tools-for-you-a-century-of-men-policing-womens-tools/

Pascal lives!

I've uploaded some filter simulation source (WGFIL & INTRFIL) to github with the permission of the author, Dennis Sweeney WA4LPR.

https://github.com/xjamesmorris/wa4lpr_filters

It was fun building these in the Free Pascal IDE, which will be familiar to anyone who grew up on Turbo Pascal.

I sometimes wonder what we threw away when folk moved on from Pascal. Did we end up with anything better?