Colin Ian King
colinianking.bsky.social
Colin Ian King
@colinianking.bsky.social
kernel bug fixer, Open Source advocate, C64 and Lego fanatic, hobbyist artist. Author of stress-ng.
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Today I helped build leaky dams at woods mill

Replicating beaver activity, they should filter water and create small pools during heavy downpours

@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Sussex Wildlife Trust celebrates success in legal battle to stop Marine Conservation Zone dumping as licence is quashed

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/sussex-...

Short-snouted Seahorse © Paul Naylor
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm pleased to announce a new V0.19.06 release of stress-ng. The source has been analysed using AI tools and I've fixed over 800 small buglets to corner cases, typos, comment updates, bugging API usage and resource leaks. github.com/ColinIanKing...
Release stress-ng 0.19.06 "refreshed kernel agitator" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
This release contains many minor fixes found with AI bug analysis tools, it is primarily a bug fix release. New options: --oom-no-child to remove OOM child wrapper, less overhead, more OOM deaths -...
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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As a hobby project I put a neural network in the Linux kernel scheduler using sched_ext and it actually works, at least for the workload it was trained on. :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywW8...
I put a neural network in the Linux kernel scheduler
YouTube video by arighi_linux
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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“Our investigation uncovered that an elected MEP was taking payments to peddle narratives beneficial to Russian interests... This case goes to the heart of our democratic values.”

— head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, Commander Dominic Murphy
🚨 This is serious. Ex Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, 52, pleads guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for making pro-Russia statements in the European Parliament when serving as a UKIP MEP.
Ex-Reform leader pleads guilty to Pro-Russia bribery charges
The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has pleaded guilty to numerous bribery charges relating to pro-Russian statements.
caerphilly.observer
September 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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It was a great honor to speak at @kernelrecipes.bsky.social again this year. This conference is always a rich source of inspiration, I'm going back home full of new ideas... and lots of work to do. :)

To all kernel folk: don't miss it next year! #kr2025
September 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
UK's bombers were sturdy old things, for example the Handley Page Victor Flying could fly inverted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7R9...
INSANE Manoeuvre Handley Page Victor Flying Inverted!
YouTube video by Mike Barnett Aviation
www.youtube.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
preparing stress-ng 0.19.04 September release...
September 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I see wilful ignorance is wrecking the United States at the moment: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
White House fires CDC director as other officials resign
Lawyers for Dr Susan Monarez say she is being targeted for refusing
www.bbc.co.uk
August 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Useful C6 state info for Xeons: github.com/intel/pepc/b...
github.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:16 AM
August 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Discovered deepwiki today, it can analyse code in git repos and help one to understand the overall functionality of a codebase. For example: deepwiki.com/ColinIanKing...
ColinIanKing/stress-ng | DeepWiki
stress-ng is a comprehensive system stress testing tool designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer system as well as different operating system kernel interfaces. It provides over
deepwiki.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I'm pretty sure it's a waste of time for the BBC news to fact check what Trump is saying for most folk who have a brain.
August 12, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I am half convinced that solar panels are magic. What do you mean that I can charge my laptop, phone and cameras using the power of the #sun
August 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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While futzing around with a new stress-ng memory mapping stressor I discovered I can mmap a page but can't mumap it(!), see bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi...
Making sure you're not a bot!
bugzilla.kernel.org
August 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
stress-ng V0.19.03 has been released. A few more new options, clean-ups to the manual, porting improvements and misc bug fixes. Release notes here: github.com/ColinIanKing...
Release stress-ng V0.19.03 "savvy system smasher" · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
Improvements More progress feedback when sending ^C (SIGINT) Clean up manual Improved portability New Options --spinmem-yield - force sched_yield() calls in spinmem loops --ioport-port - specify ...
github.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Farewell Shunsaku Tamiya: The Man Who Gave Us The Best Things To Build
Farewell Shunsaku Tamiya: The Man Who Gave Us The Best Things To Build
In the formative experiences of most Hackaday readers there will almost certainly be a number of common threads, for example the ownership of a particular game console, or being inspired …read more
hackaday.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Just pre-release testing stress-ng on a Windows system using WSL and stress-ng made Windows 11 reboot. Yay.
July 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Eek!
Think I've been spotted! We regularly get a Red Kite over our North Horsham garden nowadays. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #redkite #Horsham #birds
July 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM