Let’s all meet up in the Y2K
2026-08-06 5 mins read true Back in 2024 I posted a few of these on Twitter (thread reader) after digging out old photos from the dot-com boom. I was working in London at a digital agency called Blueberry. Please take a seat for peak translucent plastic frutiger aero aesthetic, long before the term was coined, […]
On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
Describe the feature you want The ”Disable mode” (”Freeze” in AppManager) should be the default. ”Uninstall” causes too much problems Acknowledgements This issue is not a duplicate of an existing feature request. I have chosen an appropriate title. All requested information has been provided properly.
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t
It’s always great to be able to support authors by buying their books, but sometimes the cost of self-education can prohibitive. It is my firm belief that any of the authors listed below (unless they’re dicks) would not want anyone to be prohibited from reading their work. This is why sources like www.libgen.is and www.sci-hub.se […]
Python string literals are kinda funny
pop quiz: which of these lines is valid python, and what’s the content of the resulting string? r’asdf’ r’asdf” answer the first line is a syntax error; the second line is valid. the content of the resulting string is asdf’ the ’r’ prefix makes it a raw string literal, so backslash escapes aren’t interpreted in […]
LLMs won’t break symmetric crypto
On July 28th Anthropic announced new cryptanalytic attacks discovered using their LLM Claude Mythos: A key-recovery attack on HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme candidate in NIST’s “Additional Digital Signatures” standardization project. Except for the toy version HAWK-256 whose 64-bit security is practically breakable, the new attack is not practical. But it’s a meaningful break of […]
No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore
In the 1990s, the puzzle adventure game Myst sold more than 6 million copies—so many that WIRED credited it with sparking the widespread adoption of CD-ROM drives. It remained the bestselling PC game of all time until 2002, when The Sims set a new record. Last week—after four sequels, one spinoff, and five remakes—the creators […]
Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night
I use Strava for the obvious stuff, like runs, HIIT classes, and the occasional commute that goes full workout when I’m desperate to get my steps in. I’m not a pet owner, but I can understand a dog walk making it on there, too. The dog may be involved, but at least you’re still the […]
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are composed of letters and how each of those individual letters has been designed to convey a small bit of meaning. If you see the typography rather than read the […]
Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
Hello you fine Internet folks, NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus core. On paper, Vera is a fascinating chip with an 88-core monolithic compute die, Olympus being a 10-wide Arm v9.2 core that has value prediction, a graph prefetcher, 2 MB of private […]
Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Today, we are launching Prime Agent, our self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) [citation] and Continual Harness [citation]. Modern harness designs were built around the capabilities of earlier generations of models, and they do not reflect what frontier models can do today: fixed tool-calling schemas and context compaction force […]