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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

They disabled Spanning Tree.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 5h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Need a bigger boat.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 1d

girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy

Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
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Hacker News Top Stories @hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 7h

Wireguard FPGA | Discussion

GitHub - chili-chips-ba/wireguard-fpga: Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN, using low-cost Artix7 FPGA with opensource toolchain. If you seek security and privacy, nothing is private in our codebase. Our door is wide open for backdoor scrutiny, be it related to RTL, embedded, build, bitstream or any other aspect of design and delivery package. Bujrum!

Full-throttle, wire-speed hardware implementation of Wireguard VPN, using low-cost Artix7 FPGA with opensource toolchain. If you seek security and privacy, nothing is private in our codebase. Our d...

github.com

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 5h

How to win friends ans influence people.

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 8h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 9h

bitch what

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 6h

Next steps: build a rotor, and wire up the stator to the brushless controller

Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 6h

Fun finding, which before measuring never even occurred to me: the neodymium magnets are all different strengths. 🙈

Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 6h

The first totally unscientific experiment is successful - a CR2032 is enough to kick off a small neodymium magnet off the coil. 🎉🎉😂

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 6h

actually, neither 😂 gonna post a teaser shortly !

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 7h

The PCBs have arrived, look pretty neat :)

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AapoAlas @aapoalas.trynova.dev · 12h

Well that was a very interesting #Rustlang pre-RFC text! Effectively arguing that Rust is painting itself into a substructural type system corner, and should recognise this as a fact and take the theoretical framework into focus when applying the paint.

As a logician by training, I'm all for it!

[Pre-RFC] Substructural Type System

Feature Name: substructural_traits Start Date: 10-11-2025 RFC PR: rust-lang/rfcs#0000 Rust Issue: rust-lang/rust#0000 Summary Rust has parts of a substructural type system, but it is incomplete. A su...

internals.rust-lang.org

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 11h

“Let them eat cake” or something along those lines? 🤔😂

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 7d

Every one of you: post at least once a day about some small thing that makes you happy that has nothing to do with politics. This is a hard and fast rule. I won’t be keeping a spreadsheet or anything but if you don’t do it, I’ll know.

Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 7d

I think, for those of us on the political left, we need to address morale as a real and pressing issue that will fuck up our ability to fight if left unaddressed. We *need* to figure out a way to keep people feeling at least minimally good about things even in shitty situations.

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Andrew Lamb @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social · 2d

Our new thrift parser in the Rust Apache Parquet implementation is a 🎁 that keeps on giving performance wise 🚀 github.com/apache/arrow...

We are also working on a blog post that has a deeper explanation

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2d

standards folks!

if you are in to this sort of thing, we now have an IETF mailing list to discuss AT protocol bits.

mailman3.ietf.org/mailman3/lis...

if you want to jump in, I recommend setting up an overall IETF datatracker account and reviewing IETF IP policies ("note well") first

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Edera @edera.dev · 2d

The future of security isn’t better detection — it’s no detection needed.
Prevention-first platforms eliminate vulnerabilities by design, making attacks architecturally impossible.
The detection era is ending. Prevention is the revolution.
From @jsalazar.co for @thenewstack.io

Is the End of Detection-Based Security Here?

Companies dominating the next security decade are building computing platforms where attacks are prevented by design, not detected after the fact.

thenewstack.io

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s go! :)

Code des sciences et industries, getting ready !

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 4d

In Paris until weekend for @eurorust.eu - looking forward to a few days of awesome! :)

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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 6d

Check out at://work, a job board built on #ATProtocol. It's not just another platform, it's professional networking where you actually own your data. Sign in with your ATProtocol handle and your profile lives on your PDS. 🧵

Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 6d

we can just do things

Introducing at://work: A Job Board That Puts You in Control - Nick's Blog

at://work is a modern job board built on ATProtocol where your profile and job listings are stored on your own Personal Data Server, giving you true ownership of your professional data. As a full AppV...

ngerakines.leaflet.pub

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Rudy wants revolution. (did:web edition) @ruuuuu.de · 9d

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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 7d

German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) held an exercise where they inadvertently published simulated radiation data to the live surveillance system.

This led to false high readings.

Point sensational posters to this post.

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 7d

But they don’t come with an option of BrusselsWhiteMinivanDrivingStyle(tm), so ain’t gonna happen :)

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Belgium @brussels.bsky.social · 7d

450 kg. could replace most of the white vans clogging bxl.

Dutch Cycling Embassy @dutchcycling.nl · 7d

Cargo Cycling’s Doer model is redefining the role of cargo bikes in urban logistics.

With a 450kg capacity, four-wheel stability, and a cabin-style design, the Doer is winning over drivers and businesses alike.

Read the story on Zag Daily: buff.ly/Lo8aiVO

#DCEnetwork

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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 7d

In case you find it useful, 6lab-stats.com/6lab-stats/ has a mirror of 8.5 years worth of stats from 6lab.cisco.com.