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rigonkulous··on Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins
Narwala Gabarnmang says hi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabarnmung

44,000 years of continuous human occupation. (Except for a brief period during the 20th century ..)

rigonkulous··on Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes
> Is this really "good enough" for a triode?

Let us not overlook that its also a lot of energy. Its not a matter of "good enough", I think in this case - more "can I?" ..

rigonkulous··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Also, a price increase like this can be used to address over-subscription/under-utilization .. there will be a lot of dormant chaff blown off by this, or in other words the provisioning demand will also be adjusted by this aggressive price change, imho.
rigonkulous··on Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem
No, your comment is not LLM generated. Or, at least, I hope it isn't.
rigonkulous··on Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem
I agree with you, I also enjoy reading it, and admire the method as well as the result in this case.

FUSE is immensely useful, also. Its the front-/back- door to a lot of things. There's only a few steps left to a tiny crypto-stack, hosted on top of it ..

rigonkulous··on Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem
Indeed, the glibc test suite .. plus a suite of BPF scripts for instrumenting .. can provide a great deal of information about how things are running in a target OS .. if you give a process its own filesystem and then rig up a bpf console with some hot gnuplot, you can get some very significant details, at the i/o level, about the heuristics of an application, library, user-space module/plugin, etc...

It used to be you had to wade through massive logs though, if you don't get things quite tweaked - but in the AI/ML agent sense of things these days, just describe what you need, FUSE the right nodes, and run the bpf scripts, yo ..

rigonkulous··on What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
Nerds were commoditized by Hollywood, who exploited the rising digital era to develop stereotypical caricatures which could be easily pigeon-holed, and thus controlled.

They were compelled to do this, because nerds ate Hollywoods' lunch.

Just look at the show, Big Bang Theory. A heinous exposition of nerd culture which derides and degrades nerd'ism and aligns it with the neo-fascist Ayn Rand'ian ideology being propagated by Hollywoods' culture class in order to promulgate division and derision.

The Wests' copycat culture, not really able to develop culture of its own, simply picked up the baton and ran with it.

Now, gullible impressionable generations assume - courtesy of incessant mass-media groupthink - that its necessary to be a misanthropic asshole if you want to sound clever.

rigonkulous··on 'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings
>Stunning, and amazing to consider that these were painted by firelight/flaming torch.

I could imagine the coals, not quite so much flame any more, soft and still in the windless depths, casting a warm glow for eyes to adjust in sanctity, so that the hands could find the lines in the mind and put them out on the wall.

Just a fantastic moment in time, echoing on throughout history.

rigonkulous··on 'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings
I feel the same sort of floating disconnected-ness when I am out back in the desert of Western Australia, and come across a rock shelter with paintings and obvious signs of working by human hands.

Its just such a humbling thing, to look at a piece of art that is 10's of thousands of years old, and realize that a human was once there, making it, just so that some day, a human would be there, looking at it.

What it would be to have a way to talk to these old humans and let them know just how inspiring their work turned out to be...

Would that we could have the same impact on humans a thousand years from now, ten thousand years from now. Hello, Future Human.

rigonkulous··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
No. This is a disgusting attitude.

Make peace, assholes.

rigonkulous··on Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux
sigh .. and SGI would've been the ones to make the killer laptop which morphed into a slick metal pocket dependency for billions ...
rigonkulous··on Watching a Z80 from an RP2350
So, what problems does it solve? In this case, it gives the Z80 an amazing co-processor that will push the Z80 itself, into the stratosphere of modern connectivity.

The RP2350 can be used with older, 8-bit computers, to really open up the world to them.

It is the ultimate upgrade/accessory co-processor, for Z80, 6502, 68000-based retro- computing/alternative-platform based designs and so on..

Oh, for a retro-computing nerd, the RP2350 has solved so, so many problems!

The biggest bug-bear for retro computers is: storage (and also connectivity).

For example, in my retro collection I have machines where the RP2350 has given these 8-bit computers access to as much as 32 gigabytes of storage - and in many cases that is many, many, many times of a multiple too much space, even if you put everything that was ever written for the 8-bit computer, on the SD card.

However, if you have ever hacked on a retro computer, you will know that storage is everything, and having everything that was ever released/made available for any particular platform one might curate, is simply a delight.

The RP2350 has opened that vista wide.

rigonkulous··on ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol
One thing in BP v6's favor is the RP2350 - which can be put into operation as a "data-cap analyser for GPIO" - true - but it can also be programmed for use as a full protocol tap for embedded projects which will also integrate the RP2350, or something like it, in an embedded design.

The ESP32 is great - I will get a couple for my toolbox, sitting alongside my own ancient Bus Pirate and things - but the RP2350 is a bit more BOM-friendly, imho. All of these things can be used to bring-up an embedded system - I'd really want to use the BP v6 to bring up an embedded system with an IO package I could emulate/integrate with the RP2350 on both sides of the design ..

rigonkulous··on Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5
I understand .. but its not 'mostly a product shell' and distribution framework, there are a lot of things JUCE brings to the table that might've been useful in this context, such as being able to host plugins and adjudicate resources (shared memory primitives, extremely easy parameter setup and management across DSP and MIDI frames, easy integration of common codebases into both DAW and standalone versions, etc.) that are generally good for DSP .. you're not obliged to use JUCE's DSP incidentally, I have my own synth project based on JUCE with both ARM and x86 SIMD implemented side-by-side .. JUCE' primary value is as a runtime environment, which I guess you are more interested in setting up, yourself, and I get that, so yeah ..
rigonkulous··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
The only ones who can do anything about their war criminals are the citizens, themselves.

This is also the reason Western war criminals are currently free to continue their heinous blood-shed.

If you want to prosecute their war criminals, you better prosecute yours first, or else the moral cliff upon which you climb is merely a shadow.

rigonkulous··on CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment
GEM had a CP/M compatibility mode.
rigonkulous··on CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment
GEM.
rigonkulous··on Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git
I have multiple relatively well-established Jira projects I've been able to add agents to, and also clone/use as a template for new agent-only projects which give me another kanban to manage, pretty comfortably ..

The big thing about my Jira use besides the fact that its a historical tool into which I've integrated agents, is that managing agents through Jira's custom workflows is really, really cool. You can actually do any of the old workflows with agents - they'll just do it. Finally, effective waterfall! ;) *Just kidding, I've always been able to do waterfall properly...

rigonkulous··on Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git
Yes, looks fun .. thanks for sharing. A lot of competition in this space though, of course ..
rigonkulous··on Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git
Proxmox.
rigonkulous··on Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git
One thing that is vital to managing agents this way, is the ability to easily create and use workflows, which can be easily kanban'ed. This is where I find Jira very comfortable - plus, I am already accustomed to managing Jira with both a workflow-driven Kanban, and jira-cli, the command-line interface.

So actually, firing off commands with jira-cli to get flows started by multiple agents watching their issues and putting their work in issue threads, is quite a nice interface .. and compatible with the other human-powered projects I'm managing this way, also.

rigonkulous··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
This justification for state violence is false.
rigonkulous··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Well, lets see .. the invasion and destruction of Iraq, the destruction of Libya, Afghanistan, Syria .. the violence in Somalia .. the genocide of Gaza, and now ethnic cleansing in Lebanon.

You can say as many stupid things as you want, until the war crimes are prosecuted, the war criminals will continue to get away with war.

rigonkulous··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Yes, the military is fed by the one thing all cultures have in common - their susceptibility to warrior narcissism - and indeed in the modern age any military is little more than a criminal murder-class protected by a thin line of paper.

However, murder is meat. Wars feed people. Not often the 'right' people, but the moment one starts drawing another such thin line about who and who doesn't deserve to be fed, the narcissist demon draws closer and so then, is the warrior devil justified.

Anti-war rhetoric is unpopular, it is true - but there is more of it out there than most people realize, or else we'd all be ash already. Warrior narcissists are only given the space for such identity by quiet, humble peace-makers. Get louder about making peace and stay proud about it.

rigonkulous··on UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
In the context of Julian Assanges' treatment by UK media, and his subsequent disassembly at Belmarsh, who cares what they have to say about Russia or China.
rigonkulous··on Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git
I have started sandboxing all AI's in their own VM, and interfacing with them primarily through Jira and Git.

It really is the only thing that makes sense. Completely sandbox'ed, and treated like the junior programmer who will do, literally, any dumb thing you tell them to do, as long as there is an Issue for it.

rigonkulous··on Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5
JUCE runs great on Raspberry Pi.
rigonkulous··on Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5
Did you give any thought to using JUCE as a general framework? This way you could add more synths very easily ..

(Apologies if you already do, haven't looked for sources yet..)

rigonkulous··on Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5
Very well done! I'm very inspired by the Lua scripting layer, this seems to be just a great solution.
rigonkulous··on Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web
What you're looking for, is Endlesss:

https://endlesss.fm/

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