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NASA used this "Up-Data Link Test Set" to test one of the electronic systems onboard the Apollo spacecraft. I've been reverse-engineering this box and I found that it uses LED-based opto-isolators. I didn't realize that they had LEDs and optoelectronics in the mid-1960s, so I investigated... It turns out that opto-isolators existed back then but were extraordinarily expensive. 1/N

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Funny FPU trick I discovered yesterday to detect arm64 or x86_64 architecture at runtime

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The Densha de Go 64 controller has a spot for a pocket watch so you can make sure you're on time and feel like a real conductor! I'm using an old one as a placeholder, but you can get Densha de Go branded ones perfect for that slot (though they can get pricey!)

#retrogaming #nintendo #trains

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Col. Douglas Macgregor is a breath of fresh air, an overdose of truth.

"Col. Douglas Macgregor: Israel in ‘VERY SERIOUS TROUBLE’ in War with Iran"
youtube.com/watch?v=7pO0-49_oC

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We had a long & productive day 2 session judging IOCCC28 (we are C programmers so we start counting days at 0 🤓). We've more days of judging to go.

For our IOCCC patrons patreon.com/IOCCC we've been uploading short videos (around 2 minutes) about what is going on "behind the scenes".

When the winners have been selected, we will host a live reveal on the Our Favorite Universe YouTube channel youtube.com/@OurFavoriteUniver & post src at the show's end.

You're going to enjoy the winning entries!

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💥 I'm a youtuber now! 📺

Just recorded a short video solving a crash in the #r2dec decompiler to lower the barrier to help new contributors get handy with the radare2 codebase and common developer workflows. #r2tv

youtube.com/watch?v=Fr6cOa_YRkI

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If you ever want evidence of 'money can't buy happiness' just look at all the sad pathetic losers in the American billionaire class.

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"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."

Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph

(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)

blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-

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If I'm going to be totally honest: implementing anything in #curl is about fourteen times easier and more fun than the thread- and object-spaghetti that is #Firefox code... But don't tell anyone I said this.

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In 1989 we participated in a "copy party" in Eskilstuna Sweden and our demo group Horizon won the demo competition. Triad came on second place.

This photo contains members of Horizon and Triad present at that party.

I'm the guy in middle of the lowest row with the McGyver look.

Bonus: here's the demo: youtu.be/I72jFMtacp4?si=vwfQ7x

For you @bjoreman 😁

Switch 2 hardware tamper detection?

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