From the original > I truly believe the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages. [...] if Linux doesn't internalize this, I'm afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix. This is why I want multi-kernel NixOS. We need to make that threat credible.

I'm not sure who's right in this legal fight, but the winner is probably RISC-V.

If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong. This is the staff absence rate for the seventh largest employer in the world. See the consistency of the absence rate leading up to the pandemic... Look at how it changed in 2020. And see where it's going *now*.

Given that Puerto Ricans are US citizens this seems extraordinarily dumb. (Is there any reason besides racism that Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico can't vote for the US president?)

'Alexander Hamilton endorsed the [electoral college] in 1788, saying [it] guaranteed that a US president would be of “characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue” and not merely adept with “the little arts of popularity”.' 🤣hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-…

A normal day in Saxony: "Spiegel magazine reported that three of the suspects were politicians who had held local office for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party." theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Having grown up in Berlusconi's Italy, I can feel it in my bones that when they win the first time, it's tough, but when they win *again*, after all they've demonstrated, *that's* the really hard one to take

“Why don’t you move to Dubai?” Average day in Transylvania:

Seven zeroes

Monitor/mwait is b0rken on Lunar Lake. 🤡 phoronix.com/news/Intel-Lun… #intel

When they greet the author of x86.lol with a creative memorial of the Pentium's famous bugs. 🥲 #intel #fdiv

If you are disillusioned by The Atlantic's one sided coverage of the war in Gaza/Lebanon, but otherwise enjoy long form journalism, what do you subscribe to? The guardian?

He cites the bible to justify annexing southern Lebanon. Wtf. jpost.com/opinion/articl… #israel #lebanon #war

1987: It was disclosed that members of The Chaos Computer Club had hacked NASA’s SPAN network, then installed a backdoor and password grabber.

Totally relevant for all programmers.

ein sonniger Nachmittag heute in Dresden rund um das Blaue Wunder bei 8°C

Because I can't attend FOSDEM this year, I wrote down some thoughts about the microkernel community. x86.lol/generic/2025/0… #fosdem #microkernel