ok, remember the jug crushing robot I didn't get finished? well, I got it working. There are some details to having it technically "finished"

big media! https://bsky.app/profile/ruenahcmohr.bsky.social/post/3mlzoli2ya222

The last baby was just born! The #BabyGoatCountdown for 2026 is complete! (But don't worry, there will be loads more super cute photos)

13 babies from 8 mamas.

OK, this is funny...

"X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code":

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/x-user-tricks-grok-into-sending-them-200000-in-crypto-using-morse-code-3361036/

NEW: Kaspersky says hackers planted and activated a backdoor in the popular Windows disk imaging app Daemon Tools a month ago, infecting thousands of computers around the world in a n ongoing, "widespread" attack.

The attack appears to be ongoing. A representative for Disc Soft, which makes Daemon Tools, said it was aware of Kaspersky's report and was investigating.

This is the latest supply chain attack targeting software used by a large number of people.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/kaspersky-suspects-chinese-hackers-planted-a-backdoor-into-daemon-tools-in-widespread-attack/

Very exciting discovery in Velasco Labs right now!

People keep sending me links to that German feminist hacker collective that made wild clay PCBs, and while i think that's pretty cool, the way they applied the conductive traces felt a little like a cheat to me because they were sort of painted on.

Last night after someone linked me to it again, i suddenly remembered my experiments with adding copper powder to ceramics glazes, and how, by smothering the red-hot ceramics in sawdust, i was able to reduce the copper oxides into something that looked like metallic copper. That got me pondering.

So, i applied some tinning flux meant for plumbing to a small spot on this test piece from last year and hit it with my soldering iron. Sure enough, it tinned the copper, and with that, i was able to solder a piece of wire to it.

Your eyes to not deceive you. This is copper wire soldered to a piece of ceramic pottery and it is firmly attached.

Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing

https://hackaday.com/2026/05/04/why-leaded-fuel-is-still-a-thing/

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.