modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

Microsoft Implements Return to Work Somewhere Else Policy: https://theneedling.com/2025/07/18/microsoft-implements-return-to-work-somewhere-else-policy/

Steampunk Copper PC is as Cool as it Runs

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/14/steampunk-copper-pc-is-as-cool-as-it-runs/

Number of car companies that are #curl sponsors or paying customers: zero.

Seven years ago I estimated a hundred million cars ran #curl. Eight of the ten biggest car brands used it then. All the top three ones.

It probably means that there are some additional cars using curl now. libcurl really.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/08/12/a-hundred-million-cars-run-curl/

Github is now a subsidiary of the MICROS~1 Spicy Autocomplete division, so I guess it's time to re-up my "LOL Github" I-told-you-so post from 2018, since in those intervening 7 years you have all learned nothing.

Anyway, good luck with that! I hope your migrations go really well.
https://jwz.org/b/yks-

Intel's 386 processor was popular in late 1980s microcomputers. From the outside, the 386 chip is a boring ceramic square. But I obtained a 3-dimensional CT X-ray scan from Lumafield, revealing six layers of complex wiring hidden inside the ceramic package. Let's take a closer look... 1/N