modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

Earth at night viewed from space.

Remember the old days?

Why aren't today's routers made out of wood?

A cartoon by @b_loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/humor

In Mexico, people call Oracle the company "Obstacle".

And I think this is beautiful.

New #chiptune track out today 🩷👾
👉 https://fanlink.tv/pxlc

We fixed the vintage IBM printer at the Computer History Museum yesterday. Introduced in 1959, the IBM 1403 line printer provided fast, high-quality output, printing 132 character lines. Unfortunately, one column stopped printing, so we disassembled the printer to fix a bad hammer. Keep reading...

The emotional rollercoaster when "BandNameOfficialVevo" has an "HD Remaster" of a video and then it's clearly just a hamhanded "AI" mangling of a VHS version.

Good meowrning

AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.

Let us play the forgotten music...

“Microsoft says its (vibe working mode) in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets”

Imagine being a hiring manager and hiring somebody to use Excel who says they do their job wrong about half the time. Welcome to AI.

If #git makes #Rust mandatory it will block future git versions to be ported to our niche platform. While this would not immediately lock us out of repos (the current version will likely continue to work fine some time) it eventually would complicate access (all git work would need to be circulated via some proxy setups or similar).

Needless to say I'm not thrilled by this idea.

I am not against Rust. I am against breaking change that leaves everyone not embracing Rust behind.

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/

@harrysintonen @kornel A couple of years back, there was a even proposal to change the m68k Linux ABI to cater for the internal limitations of Rust and LLVM that was ill equipped to deal with the requirements of this - admittedly, historic - architecture.

Being a compiler hacker myself, to me this meant: it is seriously immature, not ready for prime time. But for people pushing Rust, throwing away 4 decades of compatibility was completely justified, because fixing the world was more important.

We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s

How Many Phones Sport A 5 And 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

"It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul Sanjay] took that personally, or at least thought “Challenge accepted” because he immediately hooked an old Commodore floppy drive to his somewhat-less-old smartphone."

https://hackaday.com/2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/

#Commodore #C64 #1541drive #retrcomputing #retrocomputer

🚀 radare2 6.0.4 released!
After a month of development with 202 commits thanks to 18 contributors.

Learn the highlights below 👇

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.0.4 #reverseengineering