I started keeping notes in December 2022, mostly to document why the panic was overblown. The notes turned into this. The quotes in orange boxes are real. You can look them up. The gray comments are paraphrased from a few … Read more
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make … Read more
I know, this title might come as a surprise to many. Or perhaps, for those who truly know me, it won’t. I am not a fanboy. The BSDs and the illumos distributions generally follow an approach to design and development … Read more
or at least the open versions of it. I have this very stupid rule. A couple of years ago I decided to turn this blog into a podcast. At the time, I decided to make up a stupid rule: whatever … Read more
On the afternoon of April 14th, a hacker using a UK IP address exploited an out-of-date software package on one of 4chan’s servers, via a bogus PDF upload. With this entry point, they were eventually able to gain access to … Read more
Books & the Arts / February 24, 2025 The political theorist Lowry Pressly thinks we’ve abandoned a more creative and humanist definition of the concept. Ad Policy Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s The Lord of the Castle Spying on His Daughter (circa 1900). … Read more
There’s this old video from 2009 that’s been going viral on Twitter recently. Its supposed to give viewers an intuition of the difference between CPUs and GPUs. You can watch it here, it’s 90 seconds long: Thanks for reading No … Read more
Telnet, the protocol and the command line tool, were how system administrators used to log into remote servers. However, due to the fact that there is no encryption all communication, including passwords, are sent in plaintext meant that Telnet was … Read more
Why I Still Use Windows 95 – The Andrew Turnbull Web Journal The Wayback Machine – https://web.archive.org/web/20080220175358/http://www.andrew-turnbull.net:80/tech/windows95.html (After you’ve partaken of my wisdom, but sure to check out my blog, such that it is.) Why I Still Use Windows 95 … Read more
There is no doubt that GPT-4, the latest iteration of the artificial-intelligence engine created by the company OpenAI, is innovative and cool. It can create a poem in the style of Basho, spell out the chord progression and time signature … Read more