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snvzz··on AEONKit targets TheA1200 and Amiga's partners with worldwide trademark grab
The Amiga drama never ends.
snvzz··on PIC64GX 64-bit RISC-V Quad-Core Microprocessors
RISC-V is inevitable.
snvzz··on SiFive positions RISC-V as the control layer for AI accelerators
AIUI TensTorrent has some sort of contract with Rapidus.

You won't have to wait long.

snvzz··on Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
It is only possible to draw the rest of the safe owl if you have a safe crayon.

seL4 is the choice that allows for a safe system to be built. Any other choice of kernel currently available does lack the mechanisms and guarantees.

snvzz··on The case of the 9 bit AES key
That's way too many PDF implementations affected by this category of stupidity.

It makes me wonder: Coincidence, really? There's enough there to think that there might be some invisible hand behind it.

snvzz··on AlpineBSD
Not using AI is a choice they can make.

They'll be left behind, but it clearly doesn't matter to them.

snvzz··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Knowledge is knowledge. "Illegally obtained" is obsolete thinking.
snvzz··on Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
>You can point an LLM at any large codebase and it will find vulnerabilities, so "patch the planet" isn't very scalable.

So the solutions need to be structural.

e.g. relative to a monolith kernel, seL4 is small, has no known bugs (AI can try, but so far crickets) and is the only piece that needs to run privileged.

Everything running under seL4 benefits from the guarantees seL4 provides.

snvzz··on GPT-6.1 Terra
Intended to test it with openrouter, but no provider meets the ZDR requirement.

Unlike Sol, Luna and Astra. Odd.

snvzz··on I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
The linked webpage refuses keyboard navigation e.g. cursors, pageup/down and home/end seem to do nothing.

Awful.

snvzz··on Why I Am a Programmer
One word: AMIGA.
snvzz··on The Curse of Soldered RAM
But no ECC support.
snvzz··on OpenSSL 4.1.0
Was in 2020.
snvzz··on OpenSSL 4.1.0
Mandatory reminder libressl[0] exists.

0. https://www.libressl.org/

snvzz··on SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
Medium vs xhigh is interesting, but I can't help but feel annoyed about the highlighting of medium vs xhigh alongside the omission of high and max.
snvzz··on Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
I got hit by this reversing an Amiga virus that the same Opus found in one of my disk images.

Extremely annoying.

snvzz··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
> admitting you're using AI is socially risky.

Not anymore[0]. The Linux kernel has created a permission structure around using AI.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhHHeohgxhw

snvzz··on NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS
Every project is AI free, until it's not.

NetBSD will soon realize there's very limited value, to put it nicely, in shipping code full of bugs that an LLM would quickly find.

Either that, or a fork that anybody sensible within NetBSD will embrace.

snvzz··on Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
As a reminder re: aging, SENS Foundation, as well as LEVF (and its ongoing RMR2 experiment) exist.
snvzz··on Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe
I suspect these appliances weren't running seL4.
snvzz··on Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
opnsense or openwrt, sure.
snvzz··on What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe
Pouring what would be adobe subscription $$$ into inference instead.

While we speak, these new apps only get better.

Clever.

snvzz··on Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Ships with a RISC-V build. This is much appreciated!
snvzz··on PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
This is great news, both for preservation and for current PS5 owners to be able to use their PS5 for all sorts of tasks during the ongoing ram/storage scarcity.
snvzz··on Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Mandatory reminder SENS foundation as well as LEVF (and its ongoing RMR2) exist.
snvzz··on Apple's Smart Home Push Includes Doorbell, Lock, Thermostat Codeveloped with LG
But what if your neighbor gives LG access to his internet?

An LG device in your home could potentially hop through it for snooping and fw updates.

snvzz··on Account bans on Reddit
Every ban after the first one was likely handed for ban evasion.
snvzz··on Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)
At some point in time, prom programmers were very proprietary and expensive.

Today, it's mostly a solved problem for the old chips (TL866 family + minipro[0]), but now chips tend to be soldered rather than socketed, without even some thought in the form of a nearby header.

So you'd need a clip for SOP8/WSON/whatever package used (they are cheap on aliexpress). Tigard[1] is a lovely, cheap, useful board for the interfacing.

0. https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/minipro

1. https://github.com/tigard-tools/tigard

snvzz··on Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
Very quickly they'll find themselves with most packages frozen to old versions, including the kernel itself.

Shipping them full of bugs which LLMs already fixed upstream.

Fortunately, as it is an open source project, if anyone actually cares about the distribution, they'll fork it and continue advancing it using modern tools.

snvzz··on Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux
Does the RISC-V code run natively when game is run on a RISC-V host?

(which is gonna be most hosts in a few years)

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