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2025-11-20

• 10:06 UTC How Slide Rules Work – How Slide Rules Work An excellent page about slide rules -- very relevant to my interests, as I have a lovely antique Keuffel & Esser rule (previously owned and used by a 1950s rocket engineer) framed on my wall Tags: science maths slide-rules computing history antiques via:hn

2025-11-19

• 11:50 UTC Mic92/strace-macos – Mic92/strace-macos "A clone of the strace command for macOS" -- yayyyy, I've been lamenting this loss for years Tags: osx tools strace tracing debugging macos cli unix
• 10:38 UTC Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 – Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 tl;dr: a configuration-generation tool had buggy error handling code. Triggered by a permissions change, it generated over-large configs which then caused a crash in buggy config-reading code in their Bot Management module. This configuration was rolled out globally within minutes. As @kiall in ITC Slack notes: "the one thing I'd be pushing on after an outage like this (config mistake, propagated globally..) is "treat config like any other deployment - with a slow and steady rollout" -- and this is not called out in the postmortem. I agree this is a significant oversight..... Tags: postmortem cloudflare outages configuration deployment cloud error-handling rollouts via:itc

2025-11-13

• 10:00 UTC Bitcoin’s big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement’s secret weapon – Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon At the 2025 Bitwarden Open Source Security Summit, WIRED's Andy Greenberg sat down for a fireside chat with GigaOm analyst Paul Stringfellow to discuss a revelation that turned his decades-long reporting on its head: Bitcoin became a criminal's worst nightmare: In 2011, Greenberg thought he'd discovered the story of a lifetime: digital cash that promised complete anonymity. A decade later, that story flipped entirely. "I had this slow-motion epiphany that I was entirely wrong about Bitcoin. It was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable." But here's the paradox: if cryptocurrency tracing is so powerful, why do ransomware attacks, pig butchering scams, and North Korean hackers continue to steal billions? The answer: identifiability isn't the same as accountability. Tags: accountability prosecutions law policing bitcoin cryptocurrency andy-greenberg crime anonymity

2025-11-11

• 10:47 UTC Real VT102 emulation with MAME – Real VT102 emulation with MAME MAME, the Multi-Arcade Machine Emulator, can now emulate your favourite UNIX terminals. Amazing stuff Tags: mame retrocomputing terminals vt102 hardware hacks unix emulation

2025-11-10

• 12:14 UTC The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric – The ‘Three-Body Problem’, the Imperative of Survival, and the Misogyny of Reactionary Rhetoric Very interesting; it seems China has "gongye dang", its own alt-right, misogynistic techno-nationalistic movement, which chooses to kick back against "baizuo" and "shengmu" in an "anti-wokeism" fashion. Turns out they are big fans of Lui Cixin's "Three-Body Problem" trilogy: It has become clear that the narrative structure of the Three-Bodies series, just like the gongye dang techno-nationalist discourse, is masculinist and misogynistic. Liu explicitly depicts human society under deterrence peace as ‘feminised’, noting the physical as well as mental feminisation of the ‘new era’ men. The qualities conventionally associated with femininity, such as love, compassion, and moral sentiments, are blamed for the extinction of human civilisation, whereas qualities associated with masculinity, such as rationality, determination, and aggression, are framed as key to civilisational survival. The reactionary rhetoric adopts a similar strategy, which is not only evidently anti-feminist, but also feminises social justice issues ‘as a prelude to devaluing and subduing them’ (Kaul 2021: 1624). By labelling anyone with any concerns about human rights or equality a shengmu, this rhetoric constructs certain ideas and political agendas as feminine as a way of delegitimating them: they are either hopelessly idealistic or dangerously undermine stability, growth, and ‘national interests’. Tags: literature review gender scifi misogyny books culture three-body-problem liu-cixin woke china
• 11:04 UTC What Would “Good” AI Look Like? – What Would “Good” AI Look Like? Anil: "it's possible to imagine some traits of an AI system that could credibly offer an alternative to the offerings that are currently dominating the conversation." He lists the following highlights, in summary; Content consent; Hallucination-free; Green; Actually open source; Community-led; Accessible. "We simply need to start thinking through the implications of a fundamentally better approach to AI, and to understand that all of these things are extremely possible. Consumer-grade AI tools that are actually good do not have to be a hallucination." Tags: ai llms future good-ai anil-dash tech
• 11:01 UTC An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI – An exploration on what could be a leftist position on generative AI Jacky Alciné's essay with a black, US-leftist take on generative AI, the tech industry, and the immediate and planned impact of it on society and work Tags: how-we-work socialism jacky-alcine politics left-wing black ai llms future tech

2025-11-06

• 10:39 UTC What the hell have you built. – What the hell have you built. ? Did you just pick things at random? ? Why is Redis talking to MongoDB? ? Why do you even use MongoDB? A single-use-site update for the classic, now-12-year-old architecture shitpost Tags: shitposting funny architecture riak redis mongodb ouch scalability

2025-11-05

• 12:52 UTC Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Ireland was a key founder of the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons TIL that Ireland was a key founder of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty: Within the framework of the United Nations, the principle of nuclear non-proliferation was addressed in negotiations as early as 1957. The NPT process was launched by Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for External Affairs, in 1958. (via Gerard Cunningham) Tags: via:faduda history ireland un nuclear nukes non-proliferation frank-aiken

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