Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
GitLab project "白一百 / pico-usb-wifi" with 10 commits, 1 branch, 2 tags, and 2 releases; includes README, MIT License, and CHANGELOG; created June 21, 2026.
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Brian Raiter revisits making an ELF executable as tiny as possible. Starting from a 91-byte version, he micro-optimizes by overlapping the ELF header and program header, then discovers the p_paddr field can hold code since its contents are unspecified. He sequences a tiny program (mov bl,42; xor eax,eax; int 0x80) and reshuffles header fields to squeeze more bytes, even using a five-byte instruction (cmp eax, imm32) to skip over p_filesz and extend p_memsz. The result is a 76-byte, standards-conforming ELF that still challenges strict ABI expectations, with dynamic linking to be tackled in the next essay.
GitLab project "白一百 / pico-usb-wifi" with 10 commits, 1 branch, 2 tags, and 2 releases; includes README, MIT License, and CHANGELOG; created June 21, 2026.
glyphcss renders textured 3D meshes in the DOM using ASCII, with no WebGL or canvas. Each scene is a single <pre> element. It supports OBJ, glTF/GLB, STL, and VOX (including UV textures and colors) and works with vanilla JS, React, and Vue. The renderer projects polygons onto a cols×rows grid and outputs one string per render; no per-polygon DOM nodes. Interactivity is opt-in via GlyphHotspot overlays. It ships custom elements (glyph-scene, glyph-mesh, glyph-camera, glyph-hotspot), an imperative API, and React/Vue bindings; MIT-licensed; GitHub repo.
HALO is a Hierarchal Agent Loop Optimizer that builds recursively self-improving agent harnesses using a specialized HALO-RLM engine. It collects execution traces from your agent harnesses (OpenTelemetry), analyzes them to identify systemic failure modes, and generates reports used to prompt coding agents (e.g., Claude Code) to produce fixes applied to the harness in a loop. The repo includes a HALO Desktop App, a Python package, demos, and benchmarks (AppWorld). It's designed to improve harness quality and stability, with demonstrated gains on Gemini 3 Flash and Sonnet 4.6 benchmarks. Installation and CLI described.
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An eclectic mashup: a Lana quote about teaching paired with a practical note that Mastodon’s web app requires JavaScript, with a fallback recommendation to use native Mastodon apps.
Diffusion-bench is a unified codebase for DiffusionBench, a holistic benchmark for Generative Diffusion Transformers. It enables training and evaluation across generation tasks (ImageNet and text-to-image) through a single interface. The README covers setup (uv, data prep), a two-stage reproduction flow (Stage 1: train RAE tokenizer; Stage 2: train diffusion model on VAE/RAE/Pixel space) and online/offline evaluation (FID, IS, GenEval, DPGBench). It includes stage1/stage2 configs, supports multiple methods, wandb integration, and welcomes community contributions.
QSOE project v0.1 release: two kernel variants plus common userspace. QSOE/N v0.17 (Skimmer kernel) and QSOE/L v0.14 (seL4 v15) come with mr-bml v0.5.1 boot loader, quser v0.5 shell, and libc v0.6. The two variants share the same userspace (quser, qsh, libc), differing only in taskman and libc.so, delivering a single QNX-compatible environment over two microkernels. On the FU740 SiFive Unmatched, QSOE/L now boots from NVMe to an interactive login; fixes remove Taskman from wake-path via kernel-direct Sync paths. QSOE/N v0.17 already spawns to qsh. Source: GitLab (Apache-2.0) at gitlab.com/qsoe; binaries/docs on GitHub; install at qsoe.net.
Fast Ubu is an ultra-fast mirror of the UbuWeb film archive, hosting 3,205 avant-garde films and videos free to stream. It re-hosts UbuWeb’s collection for faster loading and search, with works owned by the artists and the project independent of UbuWeb. The page notes the origin of the "Ubu" name and credits creator Luke Igel, with Kino powering the site and acknowledgments to Cheng Lou, Gray Crawford, Gaborator, Kenneth Goldsmith, and the Ubu team.
Meta has paused its Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI), an employee-tracking tool that collects mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screen content, after an internal security lapse exposed MCI data to more colleagues. Meta says there’s no evidence data was accessed externally and privacy safeguards are in place, but the company is investigating. Some workers had protested the program, and a few still saw it active during the pause. VP Stephane Kasriel said the issue was found June 18 and quickly contained, but data access was widened and will only be re-enabled if protections are ensured; Meta will reassess MCI’s value.
y is a self-modifying desktop coding-agent app that lets you reshape its own UI live while a protected Kernel keeps trust boundaries. It pairs a chat-first interface with local coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) via official CLIs, enabling parallel, isolated workspaces. UI changes are diff-gated, renderable, and rollback-safe, with known-good snapshots for recovery. The app orchestrates agents locally instead of proxying to hosted accounts and emphasizes privacy. It targets macOS Apple Silicon, is MIT-licensed, and provides development commands and build instructions in the repo.
This tongue-in-cheek post defines “selfish” LLM use as AI-assisted tasks that waste others’ time and proposes covert shaming rather than blunt calling-out. The author suggests signaling disapproval through dog‑whistle and passive‑aggressive emojis to mark ‘slop’ without confrontation, while offering a menu of emoji meanings and when to deploy them. It also advocates positive reinforcement, empathetic engagement, and establishing social norms (e.g., a PR checklist) to curb AI clutter, plus practical tools like a guard script. Copyright note follows.
Vulnerability reports were once treated as special, demanding quick responsiveness and attribution to protect users. But by 2026 LLMs enable widespread bug discovery and attackers can use them too; secrecy and embargoes matter less. The focus now is triage, rapid remediation, prevention, and integrating LLM analysis into CI.
Tech blogger explores shrinking NixOS ISO images from about 458MB to around 180MB by trimming Nix usage, removing unnecessary components, and customizing the ISO building process. They generate a minimal VM image, then create ISO images via nixpkgs iso-image, and iteratively remove or replace elements: disable Nix, drop documentation, hack ssh options, prune kernel modules, replace squashfs with host store via nix why-depends, and use an overlay and userborn to slim /etc and users. The result is a much smaller, bootable ISO, but not suitable for regular desktop use; final thoughts and homework suggestions included.
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Quaise Energy achieved 100 meters of drilling with millimeter-wave technology at a Central Texas site, a milestone toward accessing deeper, hotter geothermal resources. The system uses a gyrotron to ablate rock without downhole bits, enabling access to hard rock around 752°F (≈400°C). Building on earlier lab demos and a Nabors rig test, Quaise plans a higher-power gyrotron and aims for a pilot power plant in the Western U.S. as early as 2028.
Academic life, as I know it, is broken by AI. The incentive structure rewards volume—grants, papers, students, awards—and AI now makes volume effectively infinite. AI-generated or AI-refined assignments are already common; sophisticated students using multiple AI tools can produce undetectable, high-grade work. In research, mass-produced, review-like content can be generated quickly, giving an edge to those who leverage AI, potentially eclipsing genuine scholarship. Grant submissions can be proliferated and improved via AI. Universities are slow to respond; teaching adaptations are evolving, but research metrics remain outdated. The old system’s death is imminent; reforms are needed.
Dirty Little Zine is a free, browser-based tool that creates an eight-page zine from a single sheet of US Letter or A4. It exports print-ready 300-dpi JPG or PDF, runs entirely offline after first load with no server uploads, and supports drag-and-drop panel reordering, photo uploads, and custom captions. It’s aimed at photographers, illustrators, writers, and DIY zine makers, built by Filmrick in Mexico City. Folding instructions: one sheet, one cut, six steps to form a booklet (long fold, short fold, inward folds, cut, pop open, collapse).
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