24 links from the last 24 hours · 4 October 2026
Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux ga…
Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.
Peter Bex on CHICKEN Scheme
Chicken Scheme maintainer, optimizer and Postgres fan
Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …
Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? - The Old New Thing
They either predate hot-patching or never needed it.
Why My Asus Laptop Kept Rebooting After Sleep and How to Fix it
Three years ago, I bought an Asus laptop, specifically the Zenbook Pro 17. It's a powerful machine and works just fine for my needs, but it had one problem that made me want to either return it or thr
By David Buchanan (aka retr0id), 2nd October 2026
Shut Up About Rsi
I'm already exhausted of hearing about Recursive Self Improvement
Over the past few days I’ve been collecting tweets about people using AI to reverse-engineer games, build ports, and get them running on different …
A note on content restrictions
One of my readers mentioned that eblong.com is now showing a "restricted website" warning for some UK users when browsing with iOS. Thanks to Stuart Langridge for the screenshot. If you try to modify the "Allowed List" preferences, you find ...
Flatpak from the CLI sucks - kowalski7cc
Flatpak is today's preferred distribution platform for graphical desktop apps, yet it isn't popular for terminal apps, and for good reason! Launching CLI apps is difficult and not very user-friendly. However, Flatpak can take inspiration from other systems to …
I know you run LLMs. Will it boot?
Fourteen open models, from one RTX 4090 to eight H200s: Apron predicted their memory before renting the GPU, then booted each one on vLLM and measured.
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable …
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
Today at Lowe's I passed a Simbe robot doing inventory. A tall pole on a wheeled base, moving the aisles, looking at shelves. I was startled, but only because it appeared behind me. And then I felt nothing. No one else even looked up. The novelty collapsed imm…
Stop rebuilding your CI runner on every push — Peter Wiggers
Stateless CI runners made builds clean, and then made us write caching logic into every workflow. Warm microVM snapshots give you a disposable runner that already remembers everything.
everything is a ralph loop
I’ve been thinking about how I build software is so very very different how I used to do it three years ago. No, I’m not talking about acceleration through usage of AI but instead at a more fundamental level of approach, techniques and best practices. Standa…
Humans Out of the Loop — Matthew Boston
Agents open trivial PRs faster than anyone can read them, so the approvals turn into rubber stamps. Build the guardrails that earn trust, write down what counts as trivial, and let those changes ship without a person in the way.
How I setup downloading pending updates on my workstation on my NAS.
Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works
Kolibri is Aleph Alpha's open-weight German and English LLM: 78B parameters, 3.5B per token. How it works, what it's good and bad at, and when to use it.
Shipping is the foundation
There are lots of skills involved in being a successful engineer at a big tech company. Running effective meetings, writing good design docs, fleshing out…