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Article note: Oh neat. The experiments and demos answer a bunch of questions I've had since I read about the Cat.

Article note: Neat. Single-header wrapper around the WebGPU (which was a terrible name choice for a generic mid-level GPU API) bindings for doing compute. Less vendor-specific lock-in, less boilerplate.

Article note: HN apparently did not like Cory calling out the combination of monopolistic practices, B2B middlemen, patchwork legacy tech, and regulatory capture/failure that makes the exploitation engine run, but it's a great piece.

Article note: This has come up a couple times in different venues, this version links several of the earlier iterations. They seem to be so complicated no one can _exactly_ root-cause the behavior, but the gamers, and the hosters, and folks doing benchmarks and such all come to the same "there seem to be problems with Raptor Lake K-series parts that escalate over time" conclusion. I tend to believe the theory that they're slowly degrading some little chip area - likely in the memory system, probably because of localized heating and/or over-stressed power/ground routing, less likely due to some charge build up triggering migration - when run flat out near the top of the range that was supposed to be safe.

Article note: This is the most "do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making your happy" project. ARC firmware shim so you can boot NT4 on a handful of ancient PowerMacs. I love it.

Article note: Oh look, gigantic data silos that probably shouldn't be retained, held by third party vendors subject to supply chain attacks. Sprinkle on a little negligent reporting practices, and you've got a disaster.

Article note: Man The Register has produced some good wordplay over the years. I will be referring to RHEL-like distributions (Alma, CentOS, Oracle, Rocky, SLL, etc.) as RHELatives (R-hel-atives) from now on.

Article note: This is some students-evading-plagiarism-detectors shit. Embedded text that doesn't show up to a human reader but is parsed by computers. Anyone want to try to convince me academia isn't dominated by the epeen contest?

Article note: Ugh, scammers bought the domain and now they're algorithmically mangling macrumors articles and passing them off under the bylines of people who worked for TUAW decades ago.

Article note: Neaaaat. I have a restored(ish) Selectric II and have done the reading on typewriter and especially Selectric history, they're a fun chapter in technology. This serious collector found a MT/ST (Probably the first thing that could properly be called a wordprocessor. The typewriter parts are coupled to a core-and-SLT baby computer with some magnetic tape drives for storage) - which were so exotic and generally leased that no surviving examples were known to exist. Locally. The whole multi-part system with one input only recorder unit and a full IO unit and accessories. With their service manuals and records. ...At least none of my hobby projects are that big and exotic.