Happy prime number birthday, @AndreasZeller! All the best!

@AndreasZeller I've just watched the Fandango video and I really must commend you for your David Attenborough. It is very good. "Nature always finds a way" indeed.

Oh look, Christmas is early this year! @lcamtuf

Bruce Schneier making a convincing argument (if one was needed) that mass surveillance should be re-examined. He's talking about the US but the arguments apply to other states, too. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html

@23n27 kam eigentlich gestern noch jemand vom @ccczh?

@lcamtuf I think I found another bug, one that's not already in the errata. On p. 118, you calculate the noise of a 10 kHz resistor on a 20 kHz spectrum. My calculation gives 0.129 sqrt(10 kOhm) sqrt(20 kHz) in nanovolts. Plugging in the numbers, I get 1.82 microvolts, not 1.3 as printed.

Maybe I'm unusually dense, but can anyone please explain to me why curl | sh is bad but sudo dpkg - i is not?

@lcamtuf Hi, I think that Fig. 1-5 of The Secret Life of Circuits has a bug. The two Cl- ions are described as having "net positive charge" but I think "net negative" is correct. But am really enjoying it so far 😊

Happy birthday, @david_colquhoun!

ML-KEM implementation in WolfSSL gets a CVE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6330 Funnily, it gets a CWE of "CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm"

Old joke: "What school did you go to, Holmes?" "Elementary, my dear Watson"

I think a failed update may have bricked my #cycliq Fly 6 Pro. The update procedure said to short-press the power button, which I did. Then the camera turned off and nothing happened for many minutes. I disconnected the device and it is now unresponsive. I have already contacted Cycliq but no response yet (it's Sunday, so that's to be expected). Does anyone have any experience?

Nerd question: is the OEIS down? I get cloudflare errors and can't load the site although the favicon does load.

I'm using the GRILLPLATS smart plug from IKEA and I've noticed that it stops updating the energy sensor after about a day of constant use. Power is fine, but the energy sensor stops updating. Maybe it's Home Assistant, maybe it's the plug (I think it's the plug. mainly because HA has no problems with the other sensors, but I can't prove it.) Does anyone know why?

I've just learned that C.A.R. "Tony" Hoare died on 5 March at the age of 92.

Sie meinen gut 37%, nicht 0.000037%, wie ich erst dachte. https://www.
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I just finished watching the latest video from @TechConnectify here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM and it's very, very good. Stay until the end, I promise it's worth it.

I mean, I'm sure the FNB58 USB tester from Fnirsi is a great piece of kit, but I'm not sure about the description of the "operation logic"

While I'm ranting, here are a few things that ansible could do for me:

- Don't ask me for vault passwords when those vaults won't be needed in the current play
- Optimise package installation so that all package installs are done in one go
- Resume failed plays properly. Yes, I can do it manyally, but why would I want to? That's what a computer is there for!

YAML is such a stupid, stupid format for human-written config files. I've just spent an hour finding a two-space "error" in netplan. Using spaces (or tabs) for semantics was (and still is) a mistake in makefiles, it was a mistake in Occam, it's still a mistake in Python and it's a mistake in YAML. It's a mistake whenever humans are supposed to write these files.