Car Brain.

There's a lot of stupid in the world, but here's some more. For those of you not in San Francisco: we have an old freeway running right past the ocean. It is falling into the ocean, and for decades had been closed like 20% of the time as...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1T

Hey #linux nerds. Anyone interested in a #mac pro 2013 trash can?

This is an 8 core Xeon with 32 gigs of ram. I got it for free and had a good play.

I was never able to get #nixos running on it because the graphics cards are problematic. But it seems to run Linux mint perfectly.

I'm happy to simply pass it on for free. If your local you can pick up or if want to pay shipping from Olympia, WA, I'll send it to you.

Bravo #canada #CanadianIndustry, bravo Canadians for keeping our Elbows Up and above all, thank you Prime Minister Mark Carney for this!
Canada 🇨🇦 Strong!

Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

For the first time, open silicon wasn’t just a niche experiment in 2025 - it was a real ecosystem spanning three fabs and thousands of designs. And then one company collapsed and hundreds of chips effectively disappeared overnight.

Then somehow we recovered, sent 12 chips to be manufactured, sent 1 chip into space and gained access to another fab!

Read my review of 2025 and goals for 2026 here: https://zerotoasiccourse.com/post/year_update_2025/

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu

I'm going to put https://www.tumblr.com/prokopetz/736059196246769664/mimi-croissant-prokopetz-bossbot97 here since it's December 1st, as a "hah that's funny" that quickly turns "damn, that's a good short fic".

So many Europeans are telling me that they've been seeing a lot of the "huge" Ford Ranger trucks appearing in their cities.

Wait until they find out that the Ford Ranger is a small Ford pickup truck, and most of them are significantly larger. 😬

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-ranger-2022-4-door-pickup-vs-ford-f-350-2016-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

Twenty streets of Paris before and after in one minute

Scoopy, new, by me:

Meet Rey, the Admin of 'Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters'

"A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the tables seem to have turned somewhat for "Rey," the moniker chosen by the technical operator and public face of the hacker group: Earlier this week, Rey confirmed his real life identity and agreed to an interview after KrebsOnSecurity tracked him down and contacted his father."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/meet-rey-the-admin-of-scattered-lapsus-hunters/

Valve’s announcements last week about their upcoming gaming devices were particularly welcome here at Igalia: a lot of our work will be in the Frame, as it has been in the Deck. From translation layers to frame rates and preventing rendering glitches, we’ve been helping Valve push gaming forward. https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

GCC 16.0.0 Status Report (2025-11-17), Stage 3 in effect NOW
Read more at
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/4s6800n3-43n8-n0qq-2105-2n643027q69n@fhfr.qr/T/

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

Dear #Forgejo admins and users,

We are launching another series of user research interviews in the next weeks and invite you to participate. The 45-minutes interviews help us a lot to learn about your usage of Forgejo.

Visit https://cloud.splvs.net/apps/calendar/appointment/cHr5MB2PoZDp to learn more and to schedule an appointment.

At GNU Tools Cauldron, Eduard Zingerman presented four examples of compiler optimizations that can break #eBPF verification in Linux. The discussion then centered on how to mitigate this in GCC, with a potential -fverifiable compiler flag.

I wonder if the PREVAIL verifier could do better on those four examples. At least for the first one, I'd expect the ability to track relationship between variables to help.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgiEC3qSNKE&t=2705s
LWN.net article: https://lwn.net/Articles/1039827/

It's wild how many more laws car drivers follow when you have a clearly visible camera on the bike than when you have a clearly visible infant on the bike.

cleaning up some old files and found a Csmith poster from 2011

cc @eeide

SBI is a beautiful place to put a software page table walker in
software filled TLBs

Asshat service of the day: spfbl.net

Not only do they have asinine requirements that privacy protection is removed from the DNS record, they want $2 for each delisting request.

Do not use.

We haven’t found evidence of Stingrays being used at protests in the US yet, but if you’re going to a No Kings protest this weekend, why not bring Rayhunter to be sure? Don’t forget to charge and update it, then let us know what you find! https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/support-feedback-community.html