Brooks Davis

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TfL is doing some stuff for Neurodiversity Celebration Week and I just learned that they have a 'travel mentoring' service where people will help you route plan and use the maps, as well as accompanying you on practice journeys if you need. This is very cool!

https://tfl.gov.uk/transport-accessibility/learn-to-use-public-transport?cid=email_FINAL_TFL11183_Neurodiversity_week-our+free+travel+mentoring+service

Travel mentoring

Our free travel mentoring service helps people to start using public transport.

Transport for London

First Post! Uh, I mean, First CHERIoT Silicon!

We have our first chips back! It is very exciting! Spatial and temporal memory safety, fine-grained compartmentalisation, and also a load of other big chips on a board, so you can play 'Where's ICENI?' on the board picture!

#CHERI #CHERIoT

First CHERIoT Silicon!

Welcome to the CHERIoT Platform, a hardware-software co-design project that provides game-changing security for embedded devices.

CHERIoT Platform

“Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn’t him.”

Hitchhiker's Guide hits a bit different as an adult...

Yeah, quite a puzzle.

Do you want to come to #ottawa and tell a bunch of #BSD geeks about what you enjoy doing?

Submit to BSDCan 2026!

Our submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

Tutorials: June 17-18, 2026
Conference: June 19-20, 2026

More about the BSD conferences: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #development #sysadmin

Call for papers — BSDCan

BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

So I was going through my photos doing a purge, came across this, and laughed so hard I started crying. Thus, I’m sharing.
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing

An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.

Science News
i fucking hate it when people in hobby communities are like "gotta hide this from The Wife haha can't let her know how much I'm spending" or "wow this looks great maybe I'll win The Wife's approval" ,,, like wtf??? if your partner disapproves so greatly of your hobby that you have to hide it from them or sneak expenses past them that really doesn't seem like a healthy relationship. whatever happened to being supportive of each others' interests???