Ross Nelson @rnelson@bsd.network

I found this post quite insightful

https://www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious-drama-at-bluesky

Microsoft Windows Install CD's/DVD's for workstations over the past 30 years. Wondering if 11 be the last one on physical media?

Idea, a treadmill desk that moves your newsfeeds at a slow sustainable pace.

Doom strolling.

I used this simple example, which shows how to copy the VGA font to RAM, then reprogram it using BIOS calls. When compiled with Turbo C 2.01, the font uploaded to the VGA card will be trashed.

VGA INT 10H call expects a far pointer to the new font set in register pair ES:BP.

See the screenshots for further information.

#msdos #retrocomputing

I involuntarily (cheers @root42!) spent my Saturday on tracing down an ancient Turbo C bug. 😅

The intr() function, used to call DOS/BIOS interrupts will pass the wrong BP register value to the interrupt. BP is heavily used in stack handling, so intr() generates a BP-reload-and-INT-trampoline on the stack, but the BP reload offset it creates is off-by-four.

Fix: Look for the sequence C6 46 F4 E2 in affected binaries, and change E2 to DE.

More details in reply. 🧵

#msdos #retrocomputing

I don't know what it is about companies of a certain size, but do you ever get the feeling that Microsoft and Google would be happier if no one used their products?

A horror story in 8 words

Login:

Pride Beam ⁠

Internet of Shit.

AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops: The post was advertising exactly what it sounds like: A database of poop images, collected from an AI poop analyzing app that he had launched several years ago....
https://jwz.org/b/yk7R

My personal experience is that at minimum AI usage leads to skills regression, and for lack of better word, codependency.

The thing to be terrified about with AI is not supposed super intelligence, it’s your labor being sold back to you.

www.404media.co/software-dev...
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

There is a new, thoughtful comment on my "Inclusivity in Amateur Radio" post on the @kb6nu blog

https://www.kb6nu.com/inclusivity-in-amateur-radio/#comment-1045058

Thanks, K0BMM.

#hamradio
#amateurradio

I will never understand how right-wingers think Star Wars is a movie that aligns with their politics.

The most right-wing aspect of Star Wars is when Leia kisses her brother.

Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius

they're blaming millennials for the ISRG outage. smh can't get a break

@foone the prejudice against Pictochat is ridiculous

This was too tempting to resist.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/road-bike-11380

#biketooter #lego

"If Linux can be maintained by sending patches to an email mailing list, 'doesn’t work at scale' arguments are skill issues."
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:

“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”