🔑 Omarchy desktop users: no more typing your LUKS passphrase at every boot (or hunting for a wired keyboard)! Omarchy ships with killer default encryption, but that prompt can be a drag on desktops. I turned an old USB into a dedicated key drive for automatic unlock — plug it in and you're straight in. Full step-by-step guide I put together (USB formatting, cryptsetup, limine cmdline tweaks, mkinitcpio hooks — all there): gist.github.com/brontsor/ee1… #Omarchy

Introducing ntpxyz ntpxyz is a lightweight Python tool for parsing and visualizing statistics from NTP servers. It processes standard NTP stats logs—currently loopstats (clock sync), sysstats (network traffic), and usestats (host utilization)—then generates clear, insightful plots using Matplotlib. Designed for both interactive use and automated batch runs, ntpxyz helps monitor NTP server health with minimal fuss. github.com/brontsor/ntpxyz

In 20 years, vibe coders will look at the Linux kernel repo the way we look at the pyramids. In awe, unable to imagine how they managed to drag all those giant stones and pile them up in the middle of the desert.

We live in such a strange timeline.

How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and do lookups? For reference, even gzip -9 cannot compress this file beyond 85kB. In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy at AT&T had the same challenge when implementing the spell checker for Unix. Instead of relying on generic compression techniques, he analyzed the distribution of the data and came up with a compression algorithm which was just 0.03 bits away from the theoretical limit of possible compression. To this day, it remains unbeaten. The story of how he designed this dictionary lookup from the ground up is a lesson in software engineering. How you consider the resource constraints in front of you and design your solution to run within them. In my latest article I take you through each step of the design of this ingenious algorithm right from the scratch. (Check replies for the link)

Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole. In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.

Forever.

VLC is Pretty Cool

I saw an unmarked police car turn its lights on and pull a u-turn in the middle of Ashland Ave. It parks, and out comes Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, walking to Redhot Ranch. Felt very Chicago.

Literally the entire plot of Chinatown (1974) is about the California Water Wars and how corrupt bureaucrats and predatory elites intentionally dumped water into the ocean to create an artificial drought to devalue land so they could buy it up

100% true 95% of the time.

IBM training document from the 1970s:

I miss when you would go to a restaurant in 1997 and they would have some shit like this on the wall

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