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ABOUT ME: I'm a command line geek with an interest in Arch, Windows, Sixels, ZFS and KVM!

I like new things, even those you may believe are "against the natural of things":

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against t...

  1. Phi Silica, small but mighty on-device SL (blogs.windows.com)
    6 points 1
  2. The dark side of census collections (abc.net.au)
    2 points 0
  3. Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan (goughlui.com)
    177 points 82
  4. Show HN: A programmatic partition editor in Perl (github.com)

    First, I wanted to check how bootable media was made, so I started by writing something to read the MBR and check for El Torito records: that's mbr-read.pl Then I wanted to look at the GPT, so I did the same for the…

    1 points 0
  5. Geeking Out with UEFI (oofhours.com)
    2 points 0
  6. Transmitting Power over WiFi [pdf] (modernmobile.cs.washington.edu)
    1 points 1
  7. Yesterday's Technology, Tomorrow (2004) (itre.cis.upenn.edu)
    2 points 0
  8. Show HN: CuteVim – Portable Vim with a cute vimrc (github.com)
    95 points 73
  9. My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s (2019) (gwern.net)
    82 points 67
  10. All about Sixels (1990) (digiater.nl)
    3 points 1
  11. ZFS silent corruption bug found: replaces chunks inside copied files by zeroes (github.com)
    101 points 40
  12. PinePhone Modem SDK (github.com)
    199 points 59
  13. IEEE 1667 and TPM security issues on Windows UEFI bootloaders (github.com)
    3 points 0
  14. Vim graphical preview of LaTex equations and pictures (github.com)
    4 points 0
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  16. Kaleido 3: 3rd gen Linfinity color eInk device with wacom pen (youtube.com)
    3 points 0
  17. Is Morse code binary, ternary or quinary? (cs.stackexchange.com)
    3 points 2
  18. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS beta with Linux 5.15 released weeks before general availability (neowin.net)
    2 points 0
  19. Joe Rogan Shouldn't Be Silenced (Sal Rodriguez, Los Angeles Daily News) (dailynews.com)
    2 points 5
  20. Australia has decided to let Covid rip (nbcnews.com)
    3 points 0
  21. A small notebook for a system administrator (habr.com)
    2 points 2
  22. 1FB00: Unicode block for legacy computing [pdf] (unicode.org)
    4 points 0
  23. Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support (github.com)
    161 points 87
  24. Show HN: Automate ZFS snapshots creation and removal using SQLite (github.com)
    2 points 1
  25. Show HN: Sixel-tmux, display graphics because it does not eat escape sequences (github.com)
    3 points 6