I've just published netwatcher v0.8.0 with a long list of bugfixes #rustlang

If I called it a "CLI harness around a world model" I wonder if I could get investment funding for my MUD

There’s a bonkers bug in iOS Calendar where recurring events spontaneously email no-op updates to invitees. It’s driving my contacts nuts, going to have to switch to Outlook

Dwarf Fortress bug and/or the hit country song of summer 2026

dwarf fortress bugs@dwarffortressbugs.bsky.social · last wk.

[0003547] Cannot see the sky while on a dirt road

In community orchestra news, our current conductor is using words like "shred" and "chopped" to describe musical expression and I'm having to translate for my desk partner

not to be confused with quesadilla

I have the HaLow dongles up and running. The good news is that iPhones can both supply power and get bridged ethernet connectivity over a single USB connection. The bad news is that Android appears to lack the required driver. More notes: octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

re: "how is vibed shit more secure to run than random github repo": bsky.app/profile/fast... agents will leave vulns in by mistake/omission, not malice randos on github, in this climate, however... different story. yes the game has changed 🤷 adapt.

amos@fasterthanli.me · 2w ago

diff threats: - rando-written software (any lang) running privileged in two of my systems: it's a risk! gotta spend lots of time reviewing it! - vibe coded anything running priv on two of my systems: less bad with safe lang, bugs are probably stupid omissions, not exfilt I know how you feel though!

Turn off phone without taking a screenshot challenge (impossible)

Exciting HaLow delivery today - very interested to see what these can do

Some notes on using OpenCode and DS4 for local inference with Xcode Coding Assistant: octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

If @tangled.org had set up as tngled.org most of Bluesky would be like “yeah my code’s on tingled, check it out”

It's disappointing how little development the iOS/Android Bluetooth APIs get. Androids can emit periodic advertisements but not receive them. iOS can receive extended advertisements but not emit them, and doesn't offer Coded PHY at all. These have been around for years now.

Seeing a lot of discourse about the Sydney Games Festival. Wait until they see my plan for the New Sydney Games Festival, held at the pub, in Hobart.

need to start using the dutch word for "party animal"

Very much enjoying justif - a great new lib for text rendering on the web. github.com/lyallcooper/...

GitHub - lyallcooper/justif: Publication-grade text justification for the web

Publication-grade text justification for the web. Contribute to lyallcooper/justif development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

me: "who the hell is playing alarm bells through my macbook speakers..." *runs `printf "\a"`* me: "mhh no that sounds different..." *hears 4x 440Hz beeps at 1s interval* me: "THERE IT IS AGAIN WHAT THE F—" the agent working on my NLE: "hey so I've solved the AV sync issue" me: "oooohhhh neat"

Blog: I noticed the Matrix Rust SDK using some pretty wild techniques on Android to avoid the developer having to provide JNI context. I'm… not quite prepared to use them but it's pretty impressive.

It’s interesting seeing people get angry at Codeberg for banning predominantly LLM projects from being hosted there when they’ve clearly outlined the costs problem of hosting it 99.99% of these people would rather give 200$ to Anthropic than donate even half that to Codeberg for hosting their shit

TIL the mesh networking support in the XO-1 laptops was designed specially so it could still forward packets for other devices even while the laptop (at least the main CPU) was fully suspended. Super cool.

Blog: I'm getting excited about WiFi HaLow mesh networks and a bit meh about MeshCore octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

Now if qwen3.6 autonomously hacks someone you have a problem because the computer it hacked can probably run the model too

It's going to be an interesting day the first time a cloud inference provider gets hacked and malware tool calls get sent to all the clients

Having fun and learning Polish with some local models. (Not pictured: Siri voice speaking the tutor lines)

Blog: Getting ready for local inference

🦀 first basic prototype for the diff viewer on crates.io seems to work as planned 😍 and the regular code viewer is now publicly released :) #rustlang

Tobias Bieniek@tobias.bieniek.cloud · 2mo ago

🦀 I did another thing... what do you think? 😄 Code viewer right inside of crates.io that shows the uploaded files ✨ It's still a prototype, but once I've cleaned it up I'll open a PR. Diff viewer next? 🙀 #rustlang

Old Mac owners 🤝 Recent Mac owners "it's worth more than when it was new!"

I’ve been playing with an open source tool that’s coded with heavy AI assistance (dirge) and it’s an interesting dynamic. Usually if I found a bug I’d try to make a PR. Here it’s better if I just write a good issue and the maintainer can quickly generate a fix in exactly the way that suits them.

Blog: No more Standard Search for standard.site octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...