Spencer Salyer
@b3rts.dev
Senior engineer, dad, husband, and helper.
Disciplined, principled, and multi-passionate.
Interested in Linux/Unix, Open Source, Systems & Embedded.
https://b3rts.dev
Disciplined, principled, and multi-passionate.
Interested in Linux/Unix, Open Source, Systems & Embedded.
https://b3rts.dev
Ready for the bubble to burst. The world went too hard and too fast on AI. It's revolutionary in so many ways, but vastly outpaces regulation and legislation.
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Ready for the bubble to burst. The world went too hard and too fast on AI. It's revolutionary in so many ways, but vastly outpaces regulation and legislation.
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Return of the Immersive Sim collection through 11/25 @pcgamer.com
@atari.com @nightdivestudios.bsky.social @newblood.games @fireshinegames.bsky.social @colepowered.bsky.social @90sgraphics.bsky.social @hyperstrangesa.bsky.social @fallenacesdev.bsky.social @mindthunk.bsky.social
bit.ly/48o74jl
@atari.com @nightdivestudios.bsky.social @newblood.games @fireshinegames.bsky.social @colepowered.bsky.social @90sgraphics.bsky.social @hyperstrangesa.bsky.social @fallenacesdev.bsky.social @mindthunk.bsky.social
bit.ly/48o74jl
You can pick up both Nightdive's System Shocks for $20, plus other imsims
Shame about the name, though.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Return of the Immersive Sim collection through 11/25 @pcgamer.com
@atari.com @nightdivestudios.bsky.social @newblood.games @fireshinegames.bsky.social @colepowered.bsky.social @90sgraphics.bsky.social @hyperstrangesa.bsky.social @fallenacesdev.bsky.social @mindthunk.bsky.social
bit.ly/48o74jl
@atari.com @nightdivestudios.bsky.social @newblood.games @fireshinegames.bsky.social @colepowered.bsky.social @90sgraphics.bsky.social @hyperstrangesa.bsky.social @fallenacesdev.bsky.social @mindthunk.bsky.social
bit.ly/48o74jl
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Last night’s lavish White House dinner showed us the global oligarchy coming together in plain sight.
By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.
By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Last night’s lavish White House dinner showed us the global oligarchy coming together in plain sight.
By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.
By cozying up to MBS, Trump has signaled to the world that the United States is now on the side of authoritarianism, not democracy.
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One of the most powerful coding habits is stopping to explain the problem to yourself out loud.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
One of the most powerful coding habits is stopping to explain the problem to yourself out loud.
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We’re genuinely excited to announce our very first collection: Return of the Immersive Sim.
We’re a small, passionate team trying to do things differently. Own some of the games already? Trade them in for something else on the Digiphile Exchange.
We can’t wait to show you what’s next!
digiphile.co
We’re a small, passionate team trying to do things differently. Own some of the games already? Trade them in for something else on the Digiphile Exchange.
We can’t wait to show you what’s next!
digiphile.co
Digiphile - Expert-Curated Game & Book Collections
Expert-curated, premium game and book collections from Humble Bundle vets offering discovery options for digital media enthusiasts like the Games Exchange.
digiphile.co
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
We’re genuinely excited to announce our very first collection: Return of the Immersive Sim.
We’re a small, passionate team trying to do things differently. Own some of the games already? Trade them in for something else on the Digiphile Exchange.
We can’t wait to show you what’s next!
digiphile.co
We’re a small, passionate team trying to do things differently. Own some of the games already? Trade them in for something else on the Digiphile Exchange.
We can’t wait to show you what’s next!
digiphile.co
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Movie night, Rust style! 🍿🦀
Who needs Netflix when you can binge-watch #RustConf25 keynotes and sessions?
Full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Event photos: www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...
#RustLang #OpenSource
Who needs Netflix when you can binge-watch #RustConf25 keynotes and sessions?
Full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Event photos: www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...
#RustLang #OpenSource
Rust Foundation
The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit dedicated to the stewardship of the Rust programming language and its global community. Visit us at rustfoundation.org.
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Movie night, Rust style! 🍿🦀
Who needs Netflix when you can binge-watch #RustConf25 keynotes and sessions?
Full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Event photos: www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...
#RustLang #OpenSource
Who needs Netflix when you can binge-watch #RustConf25 keynotes and sessions?
Full playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Event photos: www.flickr.com/photos/rustf...
#RustLang #OpenSource
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#picotron 0.2.1c is up on lexaloffle & humble: www.picotron.net
- tracker fx: fade, oscillate, fast arps
- batch matmul() // demo: treegen.p64
- fast tline3d / spr / sspr / map
- external .p64 change reloading
- trinkets wallpaper
full changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
- tracker fx: fade, oscillate, fast arps
- batch matmul() // demo: treegen.p64
- fast tline3d / spr / sspr / map
- external .p64 change reloading
- trinkets wallpaper
full changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
November 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
#picotron 0.2.1c is up on lexaloffle & humble: www.picotron.net
- tracker fx: fade, oscillate, fast arps
- batch matmul() // demo: treegen.p64
- fast tline3d / spr / sspr / map
- external .p64 change reloading
- trinkets wallpaper
full changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
- tracker fx: fade, oscillate, fast arps
- batch matmul() // demo: treegen.p64
- fast tline3d / spr / sspr / map
- external .p64 change reloading
- trinkets wallpaper
full changelog: www.lexaloffle.com/dl/docs/pico...
Nerds candy ain't broken. Quit tryin' to fix it.
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Nerds candy ain't broken. Quit tryin' to fix it.
Spiraling headlong towards The Autofac at incredible speed. Not only do we fill our front porches with their boxes, but they are bankrolled by an insane amount of the internet (including gov't) hosted in their cloud infrastructure. Robots in the warehouses, AI in the cloud. #BoycottAmazon
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
They’re taking our jobs.
www.theverge.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Spiraling headlong towards The Autofac at incredible speed. Not only do we fill our front porches with their boxes, but they are bankrolled by an insane amount of the internet (including gov't) hosted in their cloud infrastructure. Robots in the warehouses, AI in the cloud. #BoycottAmazon
Hawaii is trying to ban #BannedBooksWeek? The irony of disallowing words like "censorship"...
apnews.com/article/cens...
apnews.com/article/cens...
Hawaii library system bans displays that refer to 'Banned Books Week,' rebrands to 'Freedom to Read'
Last week Lani Kawahara, who oversees the young adult section at Kauai’s largest library, set up her annual display to mark Banned Books Week, a national campaign that kicked off Sunday to spotlight t...
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hawaii is trying to ban #BannedBooksWeek? The irony of disallowing words like "censorship"...
apnews.com/article/cens...
apnews.com/article/cens...
Share the good word. Or a whole bookful. #BannedBooksWeek
"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."
#BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984
youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...
#BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984
youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...
George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair
YouTube video by Banned Books Week
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Share the good word. Or a whole bookful. #BannedBooksWeek
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All the RustConf 2025 talks are now live on YouTube — time to catch up or rewatch your favorites! 🦀
#Rust #RustLang #Programming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-u...
#Rust #RustLang #Programming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-u...
RustConf 2025 Highlight Reel
Take a look back at RustConf 2025, held September 2-5 in Seattle, WA, and relive the best moments that made this year's event so memorable.
Proudly hosted by the Rust Foundation
www.youtube.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
All the RustConf 2025 talks are now live on YouTube — time to catch up or rewatch your favorites! 🦀
#Rust #RustLang #Programming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-u...
#Rust #RustLang #Programming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA-u...
This is a growing concern of course, but with #AI in its infancy, how long until another leap forward rewrites the books again - - or is this a bubble that's near to burst?
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...
Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code
An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or fix code that was generated by Large Language Models. If you’ve wo…
codemanship.wordpress.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is a growing concern of course, but with #AI in its infancy, how long until another leap forward rewrites the books again - - or is this a bubble that's near to burst?
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...
codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/c...
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Do you like black metal?
Do you like Choose Your Own Adventures?
Do you like religious trauma? (WHO DOESN'T?!)
If you answered yes to any of the above, then this is the book for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
Do you like Choose Your Own Adventures?
Do you like religious trauma? (WHO DOESN'T?!)
If you answered yes to any of the above, then this is the book for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Do you like black metal?
Do you like Choose Your Own Adventures?
Do you like religious trauma? (WHO DOESN'T?!)
If you answered yes to any of the above, then this is the book for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
Do you like Choose Your Own Adventures?
Do you like religious trauma? (WHO DOESN'T?!)
If you answered yes to any of the above, then this is the book for you🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
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lue is a TUI ebook reader with text to speech (TTS) support.
It can read EPUB / DOCX / PDF / TXT / files, supports 100+ languages, highlights words in sync, saves your progress, has themes and more.
Starry Eyes (superstarryeyes on GitHub) made lue and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️
It can read EPUB / DOCX / PDF / TXT / files, supports 100+ languages, highlights words in sync, saves your progress, has themes and more.
Starry Eyes (superstarryeyes on GitHub) made lue and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️
September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
lue is a TUI ebook reader with text to speech (TTS) support.
It can read EPUB / DOCX / PDF / TXT / files, supports 100+ languages, highlights words in sync, saves your progress, has themes and more.
Starry Eyes (superstarryeyes on GitHub) made lue and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️
It can read EPUB / DOCX / PDF / TXT / files, supports 100+ languages, highlights words in sync, saves your progress, has themes and more.
Starry Eyes (superstarryeyes on GitHub) made lue and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️
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me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
September 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines
#BannedBooksWeek is coming up in just a couple weeks. I encourage everyone to stand up against censorship and the banning of books. Find one and read it! Read them all!
Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 are good, relevant choices.
Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 are good, relevant choices.
We are so excited to announce the #BannedBooksWeek honorary chair for 2025: legendary actor/author/activist GEORGE TAKEI! "Please stand with me in opposing censorship, so that we all can find ourselves — and each other — in books.”
bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
bannedbooksweek.org/legendary-ac...
@georgetakei.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
#BannedBooksWeek is coming up in just a couple weeks. I encourage everyone to stand up against censorship and the banning of books. Find one and read it! Read them all!
Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 are good, relevant choices.
Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 are good, relevant choices.
I've long been a fan of that "Gothenburg sound". Tomas was one of its proprietors. Scandinavian metal has lost a great. 🤘
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Tomas Lindberg, Lead Singer of Swedish Death-Metal Greats At the Gates, Dead at 52
Tomas Lindberg, vocalist for Swedish melodic death-metal greats At the Gates, has died after a battle with cancer.
www.rollingstone.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I've long been a fan of that "Gothenburg sound". Tomas was one of its proprietors. Scandinavian metal has lost a great. 🤘
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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It’s World #Sepsis Day
Sepsis kills 11 million people each year.
Symptoms incl.:
🔸Fever or shivering
🔸Confusion
🔸Shortness of breath
🔸Rash that does not fade when pressed
🔸Extreme discomfort
🔸Sweaty skin
Seek medical care as soon as possible when an infection is not getting better.
Sepsis kills 11 million people each year.
Symptoms incl.:
🔸Fever or shivering
🔸Confusion
🔸Shortness of breath
🔸Rash that does not fade when pressed
🔸Extreme discomfort
🔸Sweaty skin
Seek medical care as soon as possible when an infection is not getting better.
September 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
It’s World #Sepsis Day
Sepsis kills 11 million people each year.
Symptoms incl.:
🔸Fever or shivering
🔸Confusion
🔸Shortness of breath
🔸Rash that does not fade when pressed
🔸Extreme discomfort
🔸Sweaty skin
Seek medical care as soon as possible when an infection is not getting better.
Sepsis kills 11 million people each year.
Symptoms incl.:
🔸Fever or shivering
🔸Confusion
🔸Shortness of breath
🔸Rash that does not fade when pressed
🔸Extreme discomfort
🔸Sweaty skin
Seek medical care as soon as possible when an infection is not getting better.
Reposted by Spencer Salyer
We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/c...
crates.io phishing campaign | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/c...
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We’re at $1845 with a little over two hours to spare
Anyone wanna help us get to $2K?
All proceeds go to my local cat rescue @alley-aristo.org
#CozyCatJam #CharityBundle #TTRPGs #RescueCats #CatSky
Anyone wanna help us get to $2K?
All proceeds go to my local cat rescue @alley-aristo.org
#CozyCatJam #CharityBundle #TTRPGs #RescueCats #CatSky
Get games - help cats 💙🐈⬛
My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal
We can’t cross the finish line without you!
Can you give us a boost?
$10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam
itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
My #TTRPG fundraiser for #Ohio rescue @alley-aristocats.bsky.social is slowly inching toward its $2500 goal
We can’t cross the finish line without you!
Can you give us a boost?
$10 gets you a collection of charming cat-themed games #CozyCatJam
itch.io/b/3118/cozy-...
September 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
We’re at $1845 with a little over two hours to spare
Anyone wanna help us get to $2K?
All proceeds go to my local cat rescue @alley-aristo.org
#CozyCatJam #CharityBundle #TTRPGs #RescueCats #CatSky
Anyone wanna help us get to $2K?
All proceeds go to my local cat rescue @alley-aristo.org
#CozyCatJam #CharityBundle #TTRPGs #RescueCats #CatSky
The iconic 555 timer, wool edition.
A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, ...
www.righto.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The iconic 555 timer, wool edition.
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The more I understand how success and popularity works the more I realize that there are probably millions of Einsteins dying in poverty every year.
August 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The more I understand how success and popularity works the more I realize that there are probably millions of Einsteins dying in poverty every year.
Anxious Autumnal Apathy Approaches?
Autumnal Anxietal Apathy Approaches
August 27, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Anxious Autumnal Apathy Approaches?
Autumnal Anxietal Apathy Approaches
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Autumnal Anxietal Apathy Approaches