Found a good way to attach a 3D-printed gear to a motor shaft. Timing pulleys are cheap and come apart pretty easily! #FreecadFriday

We're going to be hiring someone to work on CHERIoT software things soon. Full remote, but UK Only (for various funding purposes, we need more people in the UK). Happy to talk to junior people who have some C/C++/Rust experience. You'll initially be mostly writing C++, though we expect this to move to more Rust over the next year or so.

Some of the job will be driver development gruntwork (here is a datasheet, here is a software interface for this device class, please write a driver for the device that exposes the interface), some will be at a higher level of the stack (so, how do you design a secure, compartmentalised {something} stack?).

If these sound interesting, let me know!

#GetFediHired #CHERIoT

"Cars can be weapons, and the ubiquity of guns and cars in our society means a single crazy person is always going to be able to do huge amounts of damage if they want to. The only way to stop that is to limit them, which nobody in power seems to want to do."

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/08/02/summer-bummer-annual-car-free-street-event-squeezed-in-nypd-overkill

@wren6991 we have a bugzilla

@floooh I’ll happily co-sign less code in more time.

One of the really scary things all the LLM discourse is showing is just how many people think more code is the goal.

We’ve done this as an industry before. Every big tech company has had a “pay per line” and “pay per bug” phase. Ask anyone who’s been around a while how well that went. (Hint: It’s never gone well.)

But now we have companies saying “buy our thing and you can have more code faster!” and half the industry is salivating at the idea. “Just think of what we’ll be able to do with all that code!” 🙄

"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."

https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

Waaaaa! Linux Plumbers Conference 2026 registrations are open! /me types madly. Done, registered, see you in Prague in October :-)

Linux Plumbers Conference 2026 registration open

https://lwn.net/Articles/1084938/ #LWN #Linux #LPC

A friend’s dad was hit by a driver while riding in the bike lane. He’s a local musical legend who rode his 1973 Schwinn around Santa Monica daily. He’s recovering from brain surgery and multiple fractures. Please share if you can. I wish this kind of thing were already designed out of our streets. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-stan-heal

Local stratum 1 GPS NTP time server, yay!

Now to see how it copes with sun and rain. The bag is an extra precaution. Tracking 36 satellites and using 19, over three networks.

Current PPS tracking with σ=16ns

Current jitter measured at FireBrick (NTP client) of 0.08ms, and latency of 0.7ms. Selected over any pool (via Internet) servers, understandably.

PoE

#PCB #ESP32 #GPS #NTP

Good morning friends. What are your favorite blogs? Not newsletters, not news sources: personal blogs. I'm looking for replace some of my reading material and I am looking for bona fide humans words to put into my eyes. Boosts welcome. Thanks!

The kids are alright. From an email I received today:

I am writing to express my huge appreciation for your incredible work and dedication to maintaining curl—one of the most essential building blocks of the modern internet.

I am a 16-year-old IT student from Poland. Inside my home server laboratory, your tool is a vital part of my daily life. Whether I am writing backend web tools, integrating APIs, or creating system automation scripts, curl is always the absolute backbone of my setups.

https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAHt=NyPsTpkp+cZ=MyYAjprMHzo_RkbSPAkZnaB1Bp-2rytbPw@mail.gmail.com/

GNU Tools Weekly News Week 43 (June 21, 2026)

Release updates for GNU toolchain:
* GCC 14 branch is frozen
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/7qp3n3rq-3935-0qnn-s4s9-425230sso679@fhfr.qr/
* GCC 14.4.0 RC1 is done
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/864p303q-o5n8-s3q4-9901-24o31420p21s@fhfr.qr/

GNU toolchain conference reminders:
* FOSSY 2026 toolchain track North America, Aug 6-9 (Vancouver, Canada)
* GNU Tools Cauldron 2026, Fri-Sun, October 2-4 (Prague, Czechia)
* https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2026
* https://conf.gnu-tools-cauldron.org/prg26/cfp
* Toolchains Track at LPC 2026, October 7th (Prague, Czechia)
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAKwvOdkaE7nHQbMRKBHmY6jE326bx=czi8yeL2qypsOj3Pq+Og@mail.gmail.com/
* https://lpc.events/event/20/abstracts/

General/big GNU toolchain news (including sourceware news):
* Acceptance of GCC WebAssembly Backend
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAGWvny=AE17wQU5mfz8UGWybVBSsb_ffqHcthS78g8zdzK6xSw@mail.gmail.com/
* Joel Brobecker is stepping down as a gdb release manager
* https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/536dc95f-540f-4a1a-9ccc-73b34eb50819@simark.ca/T/

GCC easy issue to tackle of the week:
* strlen(s) != 0 not folded into *s (when separate statements)
* https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92408
* Reach out to Andrea Pinski <andrew.pinski@oss.qualcomm.com> for
mentoring on this issue.
* Previous ones are listed on https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/EasyIssuesOfTheWeek

GCC commits:
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1560 ... r17-1732 173 commits
* Ada updates (Thanks Marc)
* Bug fixes.
* Diagnostics improvements.
* Constructor Flare extension adjustments.
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1633-g881cb10e96d875 ...
https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1653-g52f6d044261933
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1688-g343265c50f930c ...
https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1701-g3b0af59dc9e67f
* match.pd: Recognize integer spaceship operator patterns
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1582-g7659926b80deaf
* c++, libcpp: Add -std=c++2[9d] and -std=gnu++2[9d] options
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1595-g0c5c6249a2e9a7
* prange was improved and used
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1601-g8b45cd81fc3509 ...
https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1604-gca582ee36820a3
* Add vec_deconstruct costing kind
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1655-g7d351b07e5b85c
* match: mask/sub sign-extension idiom to sign extension
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1680-gc05164c348242b
* match: Optimize bit_ior/bit_and {bit_not} rshift to min/max
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1683-g43356828d897ad
* PHIOPT (ifcvt): load commonization/factoring
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1703-g3c0fd2976ab4f4 ...
https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1705-gcf64e6b0e07355
* Match: Support unsigned scalar SAT_MUL form 13
* https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1730-g971f8d5b5fd5ce ...
https://gcc.gnu.org/r17-1732-ga05799c29c50d7

GCC bugzilla stats
* 128 new issues filed
* 91 issues closed

glibc commits:
* riscv: Add RVV memmove for both multiarch and non-multiarch builds
* https://sourceware.org/cgit/glibc/commit/?id=60f7247847ba7244541fc783079c298416756399

@mattgodbolt I can't say no to an ABI mug ;)

I did Compiler Explorer's monthly accounts, and for the first time in ages we only broke even. Usually we run at a small surplus (which I save) & we have a year contingency saved up.

If you want to support us:

* Buy stuff: https://shop.compiler-explorer.com/
* Patron/GH: "Other" menu on CE

Would appreciate a repost - thanks so much! :)

"No mercury added" sounds a little suspicious...

@stellarskylark Thanks, I'm pretty sure I made that mistake

Kernel Recipes 2026 registration will open on June 19. We will start publishing the conference schedule in coming days.

Stay tuned! #kr2026

On July 7th, the inimitable Shuah Khan will be interviewing me on my life as a Linux-kernel developer and maintainer. And it is not just every day that this old man gets an invitation to reminisce! Kidding aside, it has been an exciting journey, and I hope to be able to share some of that excitement with you. ;-)



https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-paul-e.-mckenney?hsLang=en

Jeff Bezos went on TV to whine about Zohran Mamdani to stop demonizing billionaires and the very next day Mayor Mamdani responded by forcing Amazon to pay $9M in fines accrued by Amazon delivery trucks for illegally idling and blocking NYC traffic.

This is what happens when you elect a mayor for the people, not the corporations. We need more of this.