Two or three instance changes back, I was blathering about building an off-highway vehicle sort of thing to scoot around events like Wasteland Weekend. For obscure reasons, I was determined to build such a vehicle primarily with unistrut and teleperf. Progress stalled a while back, and I kinda forgot about it.

Dawned on me, today, that I could vastly simplify my design, mechanically, if I use diesel-hydraulic propulsion. No need for linkages which allow suspension travel, just flexible hoses!

Success Stories: Digital Twins Advance #IoT https://twp.ai/9Obd59

Azul 3-1-2

Percent of 42 to total (275) = 15.3%
Percent of 105 to total (275) = 38.2%
Percent of 72 to total (275) = 26.2%
Percent of 56 to total (275) = 20.4%

Top 5 enterprise use cases for AI agents #AI #redhat https://twp.ai/4hwP0Q

Strictly speaking, standout in the #termcap/#terminfo model is not necessarily the same as reverse video.

The Z shell's prompt sequences can only do standout, not reverse video.

Here's a #zsh 5.9.2 patch that adds %O/%o to prompts. (It turns out that the better letters were secretly taken.)

https://github.com/jdebp/slashpackage/blob/trunk/shells/zsh-5.9.2-JdeBP/package/patches/reverse-video.patch

Yes, I have been experimenting with changing standout mode to be boldface+italic. (-:

#Zshell

Should anyone want that sort of thing, I've polished the font conversion utilities in #Unscii and given them manual pages.

They include a #vtfontcvt for non-FreeBSD platforms. (It doesn't do BDF input, but Unscii also has a separate #bdf2hex conversion utility.)

A couple of YAFF utilities, too.

As a consequence, I am building fonts for #nosh toolkit #VirtualTerminals directly on #Debian and #NetBSD, rather than building them on FreeBSD and copying them over.

https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f
#fonts

57 links this week. PHP2Shell and the AI pipeline behind it lead the post, next to eMudhra's broken CA keys, OpenBSD 8.0 and a Switch 2 jailbreak.

🔐 PHP2Shell: two critical PHP bugs, CVSS 9.2
📜 eMudhra: CA keys that were single byte numbers
🐡 OpenBSD 8.0: 512G address space on amd64
🎮 ns2jb: Switch 2 jailbreak on firmware 23.0.1
💿 Doom on a 75 dollar DVD player

https://www.underkube.com/2026-10-24-what-edu-is-reading-this-week-oct-18-24-2026/

#tech #linux #security #ai

One of the very few things President Carter got wrong, before the dark times, before Reagan, was cancelling the breeder reactors. If spent fuel is raw material for more fuel, it's not waste that causes a long term storage problem.

Of course, if we weren't trying to provoke a war with Canada, the best neighbor a country could ever hope to share a border with, our "spent fuel" waste would be exactly what they need for their CANDU reactors.

RE: https://dmv.community/@pixelpusher220/117494239975188736

I'm generally kinda sorta pro-nuclear, based on the assumption that the risks and the storage problems are outweighed by the certainty and severity of the harm done by fossil fuels, but I'm not sure I'm all that pro-nuclear in this dysregulatory environment.

Microsoft, translated:
From a security perspective, treat pseudointelligences as insider threats, just like you treat your employees.

TIL if I add a dash of scorpion pepper tabasco every time I mix a drink with the cheap fake grenadine in the liquor cabinet, you can't tell it's cheap fake grenadine.

It's friday, which means I have to metacognate 5 paragraphs of nonsense for one of my classes, which, over the course of the term, accounts for 10% of my grade. This is not a task best approached while afflicted with sobriety.

Ate pickled herring with no shot of akvavit to chase it. Don't recommend.

Many moons ago, a mentor told me that all 2N2222 resistors in a plastic package are fraudulently labeled PN2222s, and that I should only use 2N2222s with a metal casing if I need it to handle anything close to the rated current, or a heavy duty cycle.

Can anyone confirm?

Balooomtang

3 horizontal, 2 vertical, 1 color

MLOps for edge AI: Managing AI models across distributed fleets #redhat #edge https://twp.ai/9ObSdc

MLOps for edge AI: Managing AI models across distributed fleets #AI #redhat https://twp.ai/4hwEMS

Shared GPUs without shared latency: Priority-aware serving in Red Hat AI #AI #redhat https://twp.ai/4hwEMT

Red Hat and HP: Empowering physical AI from bench to fleet #AI #redhat https://twp.ai/4hwEMU