1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imagine having the confidence of the person who designed the new Outlook desktop app and thought they did a good job.

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen "closing as stale" on a GitHub issue, I could afford to pay for the new Hobart stadium all by myself.

"Putting respect for country above colonial mythology"... what a great way to describe the brumpy shitshow in Kosciuszko. Sucko Barilaro!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/nsw-upper-house-vote-scrap-brumby-bill/105916360

Fuck your half hour video, this could have been three paragraphs, five bullet points, a code block, and a screen shot if you wanted to get Fancy.

Half hour of my life and I could have just skimmed.

"Tier 1 Datacentre" sounds really impressive until you realise you've just described the linen closet of the average r/homelab user.

Logged into the Microsoft 365 admin portal this morning to do... something. Got so infuriated by the "new dashboard" just being an ad for Copilot that I completely forgot what I logged in to do.

Ah well, guess what I probably wanted to do was cancel my subscriptions (I wish).

Two new arrivals in one day! They must have known about the severe weather warning for tonight!

#farming #cowsofmastodon

y'all ever think about how there's decades old archives of newsgroups, mailing lists, forums, irc rooms, so on and so forth, freely accessible to those with the ability to use the wayback machine... and now we have entire software projects whose documentation is in discord, where you cannot see […]

Decided to start playing around with a self-hosted instance of GitLab for my work CI/CD. Initially it was going to just be a backup in case Azure DevOps or GitHub disappeared (or enshittified), but I'm liking the features so much it might become our primary platform quite quickly.

#gitlab […]

Writing a device driver for a video card (ATI Rage 128) using QEMU for testing, and I've found a bug in QEMU's mouse emulation that's utterly hilarious.

If you set up a hardware mouse cursor in the video card hardware with a fixed location on screen, and the OS makes no updates to that location […]

Exactly this 💯

#actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

I genuinely don't have a beef with rich people. You should be able, by your hard work, to provide for yourself and your children.

But the number matters. When wealth provides for generations of idleness, when wealth corrupts our government, when children go to bed hungry while filth like, oh […]

Today in #osdev: I started writing a device driver for the ATI Rage 128 (circa 1999). Using hardware registers, not VGA/VBE BIOS calls. Soon I might be able to run it on real hardware!

Behold! The world's worst-performing mouse pointer (plus some hardware probing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxNrSH5F6WU

#osdev #programming #gui