Hitchhiker's Guide Quote BotThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
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Jeroen BaertIntroduction to the A* Algorithm (very cool interactive visualisations)
https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html
Chris Nelder 🤘Hat tip to John Kemp for admitting that he was wrong to blame Spain's blackout on excessive reliance on inverter-based renewables and insufficient inertia, and 👏 for his very decent explainer on what actually happened. https://jkempenergy.com/2025/06/19/spains-blackout-blamed-on-poor-voltage-control/
Rutger ClaesKlarrio (my employer) recently uncovered a large scale malware network on GitHub https://klarrio.com/klarrio-discovers-large-scale-malware-network-on-github/
Klarrio Discovers Large-Scale Malware Network on GitHub - Klarrio
(English translation below) Klarrio ontdekt grootschalig malware-netwerk op GitHub Klarrio heeft onlangs een belangrijke ontdekking gedaan: Het gaat om een omvangrijk malware-netwerk op open source-platform GitHub dat de CTO van...
Ludic 🧛Great news everyone! Thomas Ptacek at Fly.io published "My AI Skeptic Friends Are Nuts", and it was shoved in front of me enough times that I have sentenced him to a swift death. Godspeed, Thomas, I pray that your incineration is speedy and painless.
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/
Phil CalcadoFunny how so many of the “AI will replace engineers any day now” takes come from people who’ve never been paged at 2am because a certificate expired in Tokyo.
Steven Op de beeckThe world is shit. So moments like this are very welcome. Getting a sudden unexpected warm fuzzy feeling about numbers that meant a lot to me when I was young. My first PC. #486
Aras Pranckevičius“jemalloc Postmortem” https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/
Jason Evans
The jemalloc memory allocator was first conceived in early 2004, and hasbeen in public use for about 20 years now. Thanks to the nature of open source software licensing,jemalloc will remain publicly available indefinitely. But active upstream development has come to anend. This post briefly desc...
JP MensI stumbled over an issue today the title of which makes me grin. I have to slightly redact it to protect the <del>guilty</del> innocent, but it goes like this:
[DNS] NOTIFYs not sent out on Thursday
which reminded me of the marvellous story about not being able to send email over 500 miles:
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