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erk__on PSPi 6 – Raspberry Pi in a PSP

Anyone who has a PSP laying around somewhere should go have a look at it because the battery in them consistently turn into a rather spicy pillow. Which I guess makes mod like this more interesting.

erk__on Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome

No, that was not part of the reason the Google Chrome team gave: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/WjCKc...

erk__on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

Greenland, though that is probably not much better in any measurable way, when it comes to transport.

erk__on Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

Hi I can't really spot any information about how Obscura is funded on the website. Is it a fully self funded project or have it accepted outside investments?

erk__on The case against JPEG XL

DNG added JPEG-XL as a format for both raw and compressed recently

erk__on “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

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erk__on “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

Simon Oxley designed quite a few of the most well known animal logos in the tech world today including GitHub's Octocat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Oxley

erk__on MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

Paint.net actually just recently got ownership of paint.net, it only took 22 years: https://www.xda-developers.com/after-22-years-paintnet-downl...

erk__on Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

Interestingly IBM have made LEGO sets of various mainframes. I believe that they have been giving them away as prizes and such, there is also a few other companies with LEGO sets listed on the page as well: https://domjant.hu/bricks/

erk__on Rewriting Bun in Rust

Deno started in Go, but was rewritten in Rust before 0.1

erk__on Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation

There is also MLKit which is pretty interesting in how it handles memory, it is region based with some fallback to garbage collection.

https://elsman.com/mlkit/

erk__on Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

Usually it's Rewrite it in Rust, but both work I guess

erk__on Adafruit vs. Flux [pdf]

Last week Adafruit received a demand letter from Flux.ai, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368121

Yesterday Adafruit updated their blog with a link to the complaint: https://blog.adafruit.com/

erk__on CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

There is actually work on adding autodiff to Rust, maybe not really first class citizen, but at least build in: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/autodiff/index.html (it is still at a pre-RFC stage so it is not something that soon will be added)

erk__on Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

Will this be the reason for the Stoll prize to be set up?

Instead of a medal it should be a klein bottle of course.

erk__on Introduction to Atom

GitHub have some quite nice feeds

If you want all the commits from a repo you can do something like: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/main/.atom

And if you now only is interested in the num module you can do: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commits/main/library/std/s...

erk__on Introduction to Atom

YouTube still does

    <feed xmlns:yt="http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

I don't think they are linked to anywhere but the url is http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<channel_id>

erk__on Artemis II Photo Timeline

Hasselblad still uses it in their advertisement to this day

erk__on SpaceX to develop space-based interceptor weapon prototypes

How does that work with SpaceX's product called X (formerly known as Twitter)

erk__on Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future

Also it is quite a leap to the conclusion that HVDC eqipment will not have long lead times as well especially since there are quite a few less companies making it.

erk__on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps

This is what they already are doing, the article is behind a paywall so no clue if they say it there but you can for example see this article about it: https://www.etechvolution.com/p/byd-megawatt-flash-charging-...

erk__on US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows

What news media would you recommend?

erk__on Z80 Sans – a disassembler in a font (2024)

It's not OpenType that can execute wasm it's a experimental extension in HarfBuzz so compared to this it does not work online since it is not enabled for the HarfBuzz builds in Chrome or Firefox. Which makes this more cool to show of online.

(disclaimer, I made the Tetris font)

erk__on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor

The history section of the repo clears it up [0]

> LibreSprite originated as a fork of Aseprite, developed by David Capello. Aseprite used to be distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2, but was moved to a proprietary license on August 26th, 2016.

> This fork was made on the last commit covered by the GPL version 2 license, and is now developed independently of Aseprite.

Also I am not really sure if you can convince me that this is a open source license: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/main/EULA.txt

Not that it is a unreasonable license, but it is not open source.

[0]: https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite?tab=readme-ov-fil...

erk__on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

Another one just popped up recently though it does not have a lot of coverage if anywhere yet: https://corporate.e-boks.com/loesninger/e-wallet/e-boks-id/

erk__on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

Well they provide that if you want. they have both a OTP dongle, a OTP loud speaker and one that uses FIDO U2F (though you need to pay for that one).

https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get-started-with-mitid/how-to-use...

erk__on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

It is actually at least two agencies that is working in that direction, The Danish Road Authorities is also working on it: https://www.fstyr.dk/nyheder/2025/dec/faerdselsstyrelsen-tag...

erk__on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

Well the last annual report I could find actually says that they got a return of 17.65% so 3% would be pretty bad

https://wikimediaendowment.org/annualreports/2023-2024-annua...

erk__on Zig Libc

There is a couple libc implementations:

- c-ward [0] a libc implementation in Rust

- relibc [1] a libc implementation in Rust mainly for use in the Redox os (but works with linux as well)

- rustix [2] safe bindings to posix apis without using C

[0]: https://github.com/sunfishcode/c-ward

[1]: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc/

[2]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix

erk__on xAI joins SpaceX

xAI bought Twitter a bit under a year ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqjq11202ro