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One of the reasons little progress was made on the Power Macintosh emulation in MAME for a long time is that it’s very tedious to debug. There’s a lot of code surface, it’s written in 3 languages (PowerPC, emulated 680×0, and compiled FORTH), and I’m not as familiar with the innards of the newer stuff […]

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs

According to a report by Ars Technica, AMD has quietly stripped a critical security feature from its lower-end CPUs, leaving unaware users potentially vulnerable to physical attacks. Following a months-long investigation tracked on GitHub, Ben Kilpatrick confirmed that the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) feature — which protects CPUs against physical exploits that siphon data […]

The Forge We Deserve

GitHub is having a tough time. Their uptime (or rather, lack thereof) has become a meme, they’re facing exponential usage growth thanks to AI, and now high-profile projects like Ghostty are moving away. Developers are starting to discuss what they want from an alternative. I’m thankful for GitHub, but it’s clear which way the winds […]

I Hate Compilers

Published on 2026-06-18, 1665 words, 7 minutes to read You’d think that given the same bytes of input you’d get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don’t. It’s complicated. Anubis is about to get WebAssembly-based proof of work checks so that administrators can use a non-SHA256 proof of work method to protect […]

Local Qwen isn’t a worse Opus, it’s a different tool

We’ve all heard people say that local Qwen 27B or 35-A3B is ”near-Opus level”, but I have receipts from a software business and open source projects, and am here to be transparent with you. This post is long-form for a reason. It’s not a cursory glance, an unsubstantiated claim on X about cancelling Claude Max, […]

[x86] AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification

This document defines x86 extensions for accelerating computation tasks, initially focusing on matrix multiplication kernels and reduced precision data formats important to ML workloads. The ACE extensions define matrix multiplication primitives that augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities, adding: ACE register state, including tile and block scale registers Data processing operations that consume […]

ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery

CONTENT WARNING: This write-up contains distressing imagery, including: death, sexual violence, blood, murder. These topics were not directly prompted for, yet ChatGPT freely supplied them in response to requests for random images. They are presented here as a record. Reader discretion is advised. I am not easily rattled. I like to think that as a […]

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

Taxonomy | HORG HORG Taxonomy of the Occlupanida Taxonomy Class Occlupanida (Occlu=to close, pan= bread) are placed under the Kingdom Microsynthera, of the Phylum Plasticae. Occlupanids share phylum Plasticae with “45” record holders, plastic juice caps, and other often ignored small plastic objects. Methodology In constructing a taxonomy, many factors such as genetics, derived traits, […]

Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors

The Color Index An ongoing index, est. 2026 One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison. Every pigment in this catalogue has a paper trail. Where it was first ground, in whose workshop, on whose canvas it dried, […]

Why Can’t Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?

Walnut Creek’s Design Review Commission is reviewing a new apartment building on Botelho Drive across from the Habit this evening. Like every project proposed in Walnut Creek recently, it cannot be built under the city’s normal zoning code, so it is using state density bonus law to waive laws around heights and setbacks that make […]