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Apple M1 Assembly Language Hello World (2021)

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Last week, we talked about using a new Apple M1 based Macintosh as a development workstation...
Last week, we talked about using a new Apple M1 based Macintosh as a development workstation and how installing Apple’s development system XCode also installed a large number of open source development tools including LLVM and make. This week, we’ll cover how to compile and run a simple command line ARM Assembly Lan...
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Public Library Is Reducing Our Maximum Digital Holds. Here's Why

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Starting Tuesday, March 19, The Seattle Public Library is reducing the number of maximum holds allowed...
Starting Tuesday, March 19, The Seattle Public Library is reducing the number of maximum holds allowed on e-books and e-audiobooks from 25 to 10. Please note that if you have more than 10 holds on digital books at that time, you won’t lose any of these holds. You just won’t be able to place new holds until you’re wi...
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TrueNAS Core versus TrueNAS Scale

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I was really disappointed when I got to know that the FreeBSD based TrueNAS CORE storage...
I was really disappointed when I got to know that the FreeBSD based TrueNAS CORE storage appliance – owned and developed by iXsystems – will be moved into the ‘maintenance’ mode and that (Debian) Linux base TrueNAS SCALE is the future of their offerings. Later iXsystems after all the backslash started to ‘calm down’...
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Simplifying the Xz Backdoor

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I’m not a security expert, however I’m an expert at simplifying. Throughout my career I’ve simplified...
I’m not a security expert, however I’m an expert at simplifying. Throughout my career I’ve simplified many things others thought impossible, and I’ve done so by following a simple strategy few engage in: never surrender. My past successes gave me the confidence to give a try to simplify one aspect of the xz backdoor...
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Proving Heron’s formula by complex number (2013)

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Xz Backdoor and Autotools Insanity

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I’ve been arguing for more than a decade now that GNU Autotools is too complicated, unnecessary,...
I’ve been arguing for more than a decade now that GNU Autotools is too complicated, unnecessary, and stupid. The latest xz backdoor simply adds more fuel to the fire. First a little bit of background. I have been doing package-related stuff for Linux for more than 20 years now. I’m competent with Debian, RPM and Arc...
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Terraform makes carbon neutral natural gas

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We did it! After two years of hard work we hold in our hands hard proof...
We did it! After two years of hard work we hold in our hands hard proof that the incredible team at Terraform can make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air, as reported in TechCrunch. Last Wednesday March 27, 2024, we commissioned our integrated power-to-gas demonstrator. The system converts electricity and a...
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The CIA's Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies

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In the 1960s, the CIA made a failed attempt to use bugged cats as spies. Secret...
In the 1960s, the CIA made a failed attempt to use bugged cats as spies. Secret Agent Kit E. Katt photo from Wiki Commons By 1960, the Cold War was raging full blast. The United States and Soviet Union faced off with each other over Berlin and Cuba, nuclear weapons were armed and targeted, and the fate of the world ...
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Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions

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After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy...
After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy valuable stuff – like adapters or handlers or … yeah – all kind of stuff. With many of them I did not even knew they existed until I find out about them – mostly accidentally or after long searching for some problem s...
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Sensible Firefox Setup

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I really wanted to do that Firefox guide earlier but always other things came up as...
I really wanted to do that Firefox guide earlier but always other things came up as usual. But that also has some upsides. Yes – I used the Firefox logo from 2009 as I believe it looks a lot better then the current one … below You can check the Firefox logo declining progress. Fortunately progress of the Firefox bro...
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Strategic Mobilization and Potential Unrest in Russia, May 2024

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This report analyzes a potentially burgeoning movement within Russian digital forums focused on organizing a nationwide...
This report analyzes a potentially burgeoning movement within Russian digital forums focused on organizing a nationwide strike in May 2024. The movement aims to destabilize the current government and challenge President Vladimir Putin’s regime through economic disruption and peaceful protest. Drawing parallels with ...
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How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers

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As recently discussed on The Carbon Copy with Brian Janous, utilities are seeing major forecasted demand...
As recently discussed on The Carbon Copy with Brian Janous, utilities are seeing major forecasted demand growth for the first time in decades, and almost entirely from data centers. These data centers are running the internet, serving videos, hosting blogs etc, but most of their projected growth comes from new AI ap...
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Lemonade Stand

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Introduction This was a fun nostalgia trip. But it ended up being an attempt to collect...
Introduction This was a fun nostalgia trip. But it ended up being an attempt to collect and preserve some retro computing history as well… and I also learned– or forgot and remembered?– another interesting quirk of that programming environment from nearly 45 years ago. In 1981, I had a friend down the street who had...
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How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kg

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At Terraform Industries we believe in a future where energy is universally cheap, clean, and abundant....
At Terraform Industries we believe in a future where energy is universally cheap, clean, and abundant. We’re developing a scalable electrolyzer to deliver the cheapest possible green hydrogen, which we use as a precursor chemical to make cheap synthetic carbon neutral natural gas in our Terraformer. We find in our c...
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Comments Are Code (2018)

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Ace of Aces: or, why you should Do Maths as a game designer

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Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction....
Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction. Last week I stumbled on a magic trick of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Al Leonardi’s Ace of Aces, a paper computer running a first-person shooter, programmed in 1980—eleven years before Wolfenstein 3D, the “first” first-person...
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Notes from an Interviewer

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Gemini Has a Problem

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Google’s Gemini 1.5 is impressive and I am excited by its huge context window. I continue...
Google’s Gemini 1.5 is impressive and I am excited by its huge context window. I continue to default to Gemini Advanced as my default AI for everyday use when the large context window is not relevant. However, while it does not much interfere with what I want to use Gemini for, there is a big problem with Gemini Adv...
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Well Temperaments (Part 5)

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Okay, let’s study Kirnberger’s three well-tempered tuning systems! I introduced them last time, but now I’ve...
Okay, let’s study Kirnberger’s three well-tempered tuning systems! I introduced them last time, but now I’ve developed a new method for drawing tuning systems, which should help us understand them better. As we’ve seen, tuning theory involves two numbers close to 1, called the Pythagorean comma (≈ 1.0136) and the sy...
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An Extreme Antipattern for Programming Books (2023)

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Start in the Middle (2010)

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I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John...
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John Coltrane Newspaper reporters are taught to write fractal articles: summarize the entire article in the title. Elaborate a little in the first sentence, then fill out the most important details in the first paragraph. A reader should be able...
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Smart Terminals: Personal Computing's True Origin? – The History of How We Play

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During the creation of Episode 6 of Play History, I launched deep into the subject of...
During the creation of Episode 6 of Play History, I launched deep into the subject of computer monitors. In addition to hosting many computer games, the early computer monitors served as a bridge between the timesharing model of personal computing and the microcomputer revolution in the mid-1970s. This woefully unde...
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Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018)

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Can you think of a famous password, such as one used in a book or a...
Can you think of a famous password, such as one used in a book or a movie? Do people see passwords being typed on screen and think “hey, now that is a pretty good password…”? I downloaded the Exploit.in combo list containing over seven hundred million leaked logins and tried to look how often than happens. Famous pa...
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Apple Vision Pro: What About Comic Books?

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Obviously the Vision Pro isn’t the first VR/AR/whatever device, but it’s the first one that’s got...
Obviously the Vision Pro isn’t the first VR/AR/whatever device, but it’s the first one that’s got enough resolution to prevent me from getting pissed off as soon as I stick it to my face. And while there have already been reams of articles published about other aspects of using the Vision Pro, I haven’t seen anybody...
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