modrobert @modrobert@qoto.org

“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

Today is Everything curl's tenth birthday. 115,000 words of #curl documentation for free: https://everything.curl.dev/

Monitor Lizard

Help us share the word about #FSF40 with our flyer designed by our intern Miles Wilson: https://u.fsf.org/48w #FreeSoftware #FSF

r2ghidra 6.0.2 is out! #reverseengineering

If travel vlogs are to be believed, Singapore has nothing but the glitzy Marina Bay area and Newton food centre.

If anyone is coming here, feel free to ask me for tips.

#singapore

Am human

literally the dumbest thing I've ever read
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-uxF4KNdTjQ

#curl

GNU Midnight Commander (mc) is a classic, dual-pane file manager for the terminal. It simplifies file management on Linux and Unix, making it fast and easy to use tool for new and power users as well. Try it out, after all it is free and opensource tool. You can easily install it yourself using your favourite package manager https://midnight-commander.org/

Ever seen a chip on thin plastic film? That's SERV by @olofk taped out on Pragmatic's FlexIC process.

Related to the post I just made. What's your preference (I need more reach, so please boost)

https://functional.cafe/deck/@loke/115198145992320649

The best pizza is from which country:

Apple will make hacking iPhones much, much more difficult via memory integrity enforcement (ARM memory tagging). This technology will make many classes of exploits impossible. In all models of iPhone 17. If you're a concerned HVT/VIP, buy the new iPhones. https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

We love Mad Magazine and always will. 😻