hold on. holdonholdon

the Schmitt trigger, the one used in basically all digital electronics, is inspired by a biological object? More specifically, _the_ squid giant axon?? I can't believe I'm only learning this now despite hearing a lot of things about Schmitt triggers _and_ squid giant axons!

The X Window System didn’t immediately have X terminals

For a while, X terminals were a reasonably popular way to give people comparatively inexpensive X desktops. These X terminals relied on X's network transparency so that only the X server had to run on the X terminal itself, with all of your terminal windows and other programs running on a server somewhere and just displaying

https://www.osnews.com/story/142629/the-x-window-system-didnt-immediately-have-x-terminals/

#Wayland

israel bombed what the news calls "a notorious facility used to house political prisoners" and the news spoke of this as a liberating act. they uhhhh... airstruck it though?

also, what would the news call our prisons if israel bombed them? are ours not notorious and used to house political prisoners?

New from me: I've been lookin into ways to stand up a cloud-based honeynet that 1) didn't look like some random nub hangin out there on open internet, 2) was as cheap/fast as possible, 3) actually looked "real" and not such an obvious trap. I found that answer in using an external IdP like Okta

Seems like honeynet in cloud has 3 options, none of which I like: Put it in your tenant and segregate it, put it in another tenant named somethin different, or hang it out there on its own w/ no real identifiers at all. None are great, as you're either increasing risk or making it look less legit.🧵

https://mattysplo.it/2025/06/22/deceptiontech.html