cynicalsecurity 

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IT Security, cynically aged. Maths. Some nukes. Four languages. Longing for Symbolics and Connection Machines. Keeper of Ancient Computing Lore. Ⓐ
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First 0day1986
underrated life hack: if you read the manpages they tell you how things work
Last time I watched a NASA launch live was Challenger in 1986… if we ignore the running commentary about the greatness of the USA, the rest was worth it, especially the last ten minutes.

from my link log —

ARX, Arthur and RISC OS.

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2012/PaulFellows/

saved 2020-08-21 https://dotat.at/:/8ECZN.html

ARX, Arthur and RISC OS - Paul Fellows

I am unable to find much to laugh about with this year's crop of 1st April jokes...

Today, you can't trust anything you read from the Internet, except of course the next part of the #OpenBSD on m88k story, in which new hardware enters the scene, setbacks happen, and many hopes are left unfulfilled (for now).

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k3.html

OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 processors

XScreenSaver 6.15 is out now. A whopping thirteen new savers this time:
New hack by me, worldpieces.
New Shadertoy hacks brought into the fold: bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball.

I fixed a bunch of Android bullshit, too (some of which meant needing to reimplement glRotatef etc. from first principles). Android's implementation of GLES is a buggy mess...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5c

Back when I used to do pranks on April 1, I spent some time and effort planning them.

This was perhaps my best one, from 2008. It will be somewhat fresh for many people now. Perhaps it will give some inspiration to those of you who need new prank ideas?

https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/prank.html

Spaf's 2008 April Fools Prank

Eugene H. Spafford's personal webpages: Spaf's 2008 April Fools Prank

Thrilled to see MLX support for Ollama, accelerating your local AI workloads without having to send your data off your machine!

"Ollama on Apple silicon is now built on top of Apple’s machine learning framework, MLX, to take advantage of its unified memory architecture."

https://ollama.com/blog/mlx

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview · Ollama Blog

Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.

Come and join us working in the heart of the European research and innovation ecosystem.

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As an experiment I asked both Claude Opus and Gemini 3 to design the same network with multiple sites and paths.

Interestingly Claude insists on eBGP with separate AS numbers for each site and Gemini insists on iBGP with the same AS across all sites.