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Hello again. Lots more interesting stuff this week, so I’ll jump right in.

• This is a fascinating Mastodon thread. A very impressive reverse engineering of some train software, showing that it was deliberately designed to brick itself when being fixed at third-party repair workshops. Capitalism makes people do silly things.

• A mammoth article by Emily Gorcenski, dissecting the recent A”I”¹ “revolution”. It is meticulously researched, and gets deep into the motivations behind the grift.

• Next up, a technical breakdown of the inner workings of Shazam. This is always something that I have been amazed by, but never looked into the technology behind it. Who knew that Shazam used to be a phone number you could call? I’m certainly too young for that.

• Something a bit different: I learned this week that you can play (online!) chess from you command line, through telnet and freechess.org. Just run telnet freechess.org 5000 and play some games. I love things like this, and that they continue to exist.

• A tool for easily dithering images, very cool.

• I learned this week about the Rockbox project, which is custom software for mp3 players (inlcuding iPods!). Here is a thread from Daniel Stenberg about how the iPod was “rockboxed”.

• I was too quick to use “mammoth” earlier. For the final link today, this is a mammoth deep dive into the problem of plagiarism on YouTube. Some incredible stuff in here, and it is very interesting throughout, despite being almost 4 (four) hours long.

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Pinout Leaf Generator

Pinout Leaf Generator If you're working with modern electronics, may it be a Raspberry Pi, an ESP32 microcontroller or any of the myriad of available development boards, you are aware of pinout diagrams. They are helpful graphics quickly showing you th…

via splitbrain.org - blog April 27, 2025

"It's not that bad" they told me - Coreboot

I don't know if I enjoyed doing this. This was hell.

via The Cool Blog April 9, 2025

What's New in Neovim 0.11

Neovim 0.11 was just released. As in previous installments in this series, let’s talk a bit about some of the big highlights! As always, the full list of changes can be found in the release notes (use :h news to read inside of Neovim). Table of Contents B…

via g.p. anders March 26, 2025

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