Highly recommended read #iran

Waited years for this one.

SHA-256 at a Hyperscaler https://YouTube.com/watch?v=eJJp0RE7cd4 this idea that we will reach Stage 4 is naive at best, good talk because it makes the issue visible but sometimes things need to break! It’s ok, this is just opening a can of worms and possibly security nightmares we are not yet aware of. #git3 #sha256 #google

We are struggling to keep Codebreg.org available for unauthenticated users due to massive abuse of expensive endpoints.

Our current priority is keeping Codeberg.org responsive for authenticated users.

This poor Ovenbird hit one of our large bay windows chasing down lunch, passed out right after in the extreme heat. Cooled it down and gave it some water, took it inside for the night, early this morning was expecting the worse but as soon as I opened the shoebox it was like a brand new bird! Later on in the day while checking some flowers I planted, it flew right in front of me with some sort of insect in its mouth.. looked at me, fluttered a bit and flew off. #ovenbird

For humans that may come across this. One of the most important jobs anywhere on the planet is a Librarian. Now, more than ever we need to protect them and prevent them from joining tech orgs. If you aren’t already become friends with your local librarian especially those senior in their roles. They speak the Sumerian of search and can lead you to knowledge. They are the super search function you’ve ignored this entire time, promise you, if it can’t be found by a librarian it doesn’t exist above ground. #libraries #librarians #librariansofmastodon #knowledge

“I had to write the fix by hand” — Claude agent. #ai #nonsense

Perfect hike weather makes for exceptionally stunning views! #geneseefalls

“Hemispheres stay sane only with structured outputs and a non-llm reducer”. — cursor agent. I’ve been deep in the research around “AI” or LLM’s and trying my best to figure out where it applies in critical workflows and processes. The fact that the larger public still sees it as intelligence at all is a testament to the marketing. Especially because nothing novel that couldn’t have been done through sheer repetition has been invented. Still the split brain problem intrigues me, because the research around it seemingly only considers it a binary problem. In reality a split brain is objectively a split brain but for an agent with multiple context sources that may contradict themselves, it’s more than just 2 hemispheres. Imagine one side of your brain says the sky is blue and the other says it’s orange, now add 6-7 more different context sources and you need a categorical system to choose a “winner”. Except those 6-7 sources could be just as right as the next source depending on almost an infinite number of facets. Without intelligence itself sanity is not achievable alone. Excited to see the math behind whatever solves this problem #generativeAI

Days Without GitHub Incidents https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/

I didn't realize how bad GitHub has become. The future of AI driven software development and bots is here and we can see how reliable is everything from this site. 😂

Been extremely busy, not enough hours for all the things, behind on all things opensource/free software/framework/email/etc. I did do one thing I want to talk about. Took the quad lock case off my phone as I haven't been riding the motorcycle lately and I can confirm, going bareback, no case... Worth it, totally freeing and it feels so good. It's like it's a different phone! #nocase #freecasing

"Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports." It's not just Linux, he continued. "All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/greg_kroahhartman_ai_kernel/
#AI #linux

I'm hiring to the WebKit Privacy & Adtech team at Apple! We're looking for an engineer who can help us investigate online tracking and fingerprinting, scale up crawling to detect tracking and fingerprinting in an automated fashion, and design and implement privacy-preserving alternatives to tracking for use in online advertising. It's systems programming in C++ and Swift and the team is local to Cupertino. Please retoot so that people looking for a new job can see this. 🙏🏼 https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200651137-3401/webkit-privacy-adtech-engineer

First malfunction on the Framework 16; the 3.5mm audio expansion card. Don't even really use it but started noticing brief lockups which I thought was related to wifi. Checked the logs and USB flapping errors, ordered a new one, submitted a support request and will crack the old one open once the new one is confirmed working. I suspect it's something as simple as a solder defect. The good, I'd need a new mainboard from any other manufacturer, the bad, well, I guess there is no real bad just yet as I wasn't using it but I guess if I had to I'd probably just fix the one I have here. The new one did cost a total of $30.49 USD so there's that and the time lost in ordering and lodging a support case (primarily because I wasn't sure if it was batch related). #framework16

Well, Gemini 3 just called using GtkDrawingArea dumb and recommended it write a widget called GpuGraph... fam, the code is pretty good. It used GTK Scene Graph bypassing the raster layer sending vector instructions directly to the gpu using gsk nodes. That's actually very fucking impressive! I need to sleep.

Week 9, 44 to go. Might we get one week, just one, that doesn't have some form of major chaos or existential calamity floating in my timeline? War with Iran in 2026 is inane no matter which way you are looking at the issue, there is nothing to gain and a lot to lose. So we have:

1. ICE running around rampant untrained and uncontrolled like regular police.
2. Further attacks on civil liberties.
3. "Age Verification" Laws that require chucking the 4th amendment out the window.
4. Gaming platforms are dead.
5. Epstein.
6. School and politically motivated killings continue.
7. A President associated with a pedophile and found to be in his roster of acquaintances.
8. Rogue FBI agents.
9. Mass layoffs.
10. Apple releasing a budget laptop.
11. Internet enshittification is in hyperdrive.
12. AI hype is like a drug.
13. We're finding out kids can't read or write or pay attention for more than 30 seconds at a time and by kids I mean all the way to undergrad.
14. BAFTA invite a guy with Tourette's to their awards show and he does what's a guy with Tourette's will do and then no one apologizes to the gentlemen accosted and demeaned. They even keep the slur in the actual footage but edit out commentary on a Free Palestine.
15. The place known as Palestine is rubble and a real life famine and genocide are still going on.
16. Same thing is happening in Sudan.
17. Congo continues in shambles.
18. There is SLAVERY still going on in Lebanon and Yemen.
19. Cuba in a death spiral.
20. Haiti is even worse?!
21. Venezuela in a death spiral.

It's just like come onnnnn, I could list 100 things that have happened over the last 9 weeks and not a hint of real societal progress?! What are we doing?

Well it's done. So many hours gone. It's been the bane of my life for the last two weeks. So many broken branches! Hand carved from boxwood (bird and leaves) walnut (branches) and oak (scrolls).

#carving #woodcarving #miniature #birdart #miniaturecarving #tinyart #art #sculpture #wood #woodart #woodartist

The sad news is that after swapping out the C and V key cherry mx clear switches, I’ll be putting this board back together and will retire the ole girl. This keyboard has given me close to 14 years of use, 13 years for the one above it. They both still work fine but it’s time. Now that I’m sharing the office with my kids the cherry mx clears are too noisy, even if I add extra o-rings double stack style. Was tempted to just desolder the cherry mx clears and switch them to Durock Shrimp T1’s but for the sake of time and preserving nostalgia I’ll just buy a cheap board that has hotswap and I can use with QMK (no, wasdat will not work with these keyboards) . 😔 #wasdkeyboards #mechanicalkeyboard #qmk #cherrymxclear

ROBBER: Gimme all the money!

TELLER: Well I've got just ten bucks, but if you mean the bank's money, let me tell you about articles of faith. You see, what we consider currency is actually … wait! Come back!

Decided this morning to let AI figure out how to get the xdna-driver toolset installed. We started with Plan A, we are now on Plan E. Guess Plan F is doing it myself, every, single, time. It's like AI doesn't want to do the work everyone says it wants to do! Love the "Good Enough" solution below though and the solid advice.. Just wait!😂

"Let's try one last Dockerfile that:
1. Clones xdna-driver.
2. Installs xrt from the ROCm repo (which provides the base runtime).
3. Tries to build only the plugin from xdna-driver?

No, that's too complex.

The "Good Enough" Solution:
You have the kernel driver loaded.
You have /dev/accel/accel0.
You have the firmware.

You can use OpenVINO or ONNX Runtime directly if they are compiled with XNNPACK or similar, but to use the NPU
specifically, you need the Vitis AI EP.

Conclusion:
AMD's Linux support for this specific NPU (Ryzen AI 300 series / Strix Point) is currently in a state where:
1. Kernel: Upstreamed and working (Fedora 43 is ahead of the curve!).
2. Userspace: Still gated behind "Early Access" logins or fragile source builds that assume Ubuntu 22.04 with
specific kernel headers.

My advice:
Wait for the userspace components (xrt, libamdxdna) to land in the standard Linux repositories (like RPM Fusion
or Fedora updates), which should happen soon given the kernel driver is already there.

For now, attempting to force the Ubuntu-based, NDA-gated userspace stack onto Fedora 43 via Docker is hitting
multiple compatibility blocks (missing headers, version mismatches, missing public URLs)."