I have high hopes for
The operating system
Based on Be, Haiku.

@chirpbirb A very short list, I have to admit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category

Akamai Prolexic, Fastly, F5, Google Project Shield and Verizon seem to be the largest.

@chirpbirb If you go third party, then use literally anyone but Cloudflare. I'm not aware of any evidence since these receipts that they've changed for the better:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudfla

nocloudflare.com/

@binney This worked for me in 2017, when someone fly-tipped asbestos in a local lane. Council did nothing for months, then I decided it was worthy of a blue plaque.

Unbelievable props to whoever's been leaving 3D printed blue plaques on my mum's road to celebrate local potholes

AI, LibreOffice, hope 

In a rapidly AI slopifying world, there is hope after all.

The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice, the most frequently recommended free alternative to Microsoft Office, listed its *lack* of AI integration as a product feature in the newest version: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

It broke their previous download record for the first week post-release: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl

How I found out: manualdousuario.net/en/libreof

microsoft fucks with hacker, hacker makes it their life mission to ruin microsoft, hacker is winning 

Nightmare Eclipse is such a hero tbh. if you haven't been following this saga, a bunch of the backstory is here:

theregister.com/security/2026/

they've been dropping exploits right after microsoft's patch tuesdays, where microsoft patches their previous exploit. in many cases, they negate microsoft's "secure" patches to make the new exploit. which is such an incredible flex.

theregister.com/security/2026/

M4, POSIX, bad intrusive thought of the day 

Implementing in POSIX M4 the GNU & BSD M4 macros not in POSIX, such that the Heirloom Project M4 can run them without smashing its limited buffer and recursion stack space.

I always find it impressive when someone breaks previous records, but the new hide and seek champion is taking it a bit far

My wife started making animations in the spirit of 2000s Flash clips and I couldn't be more proud.
#noai #animation #gif

New on Ramen Science!

A curious CC-0 Wikimedia picture inspires one of the best ramen bowls I've had on the blog to date.

ramen.science/blog/nissin-dema

60 years ago tonight, NBC aired its first red-shirt dying on an alien planet, while on a routine mission in some kind of Star Trek, thinking he would get stereotypical sailor lucky with a salt monster and falling into The Man Trap.

The red-shirt's uniform was a blue shirt.

@maddy Then they went and made as their logo a rudder wheel with not-8 spokes and not-8 handles inside a polygon with not-8 sides.

@maddy It's not just you. The way I often say it is that them using 'a11y' for 'accessibility' everywhere makes them the furthest thing from an ally for accessibility.

It took me a month to figure out why a CSS background was perfectly aligned with rows of pre element text in one browser on one PC, but refused to line up in any browser on another PC, not even the same browser.

Some fonts have line height oddities, & my font-face stack named fonts not on both PCs. Oops.

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