It's illegal for me to tell you this, but uhhh

13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640

I'm gonna Gnut

Thinking about a pint type. Not, like... an eighth of a gallon, but like a positive integer.

Also, not an unsigned integer, just like.. an int type's positive half. Yeah, it leaves a lot of potential values on the table (e.g. PInt32 going from 0 to 2^31-1 where UInt32 would go from 0 to 2^32), but we find that to be a perfectly acceptable max value for `int`s anyway so that's fine.

And this way you have fewer problems converting back and forth between a pint and an int than you would a uint and an int because it's no longer "is it positive and does it fit within this range?", instead just "is it positive?"

Smaller problem-space at compile time, means fewer bugs at runtime!

Here’s your yearly reminder that GitHub is closed source

Our thoughts so far, trying various desktop OSs this year

"C++ is a great case study in how C devs are incurable"

Oooo 👀

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-metal-with-triple-coppers-heat-conduction-challenges-fundamental-physics/

... iiiiinteresting.
I feel like there's... security implications to this? I don't know what that'd be; it just raises my hackles.

Let's go

So this is actually really fucking bad

The whole infosec community is buzzing about this. Screenshot from: https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft-edge-passwords-cleartext/

Exploit proof of concept:
https://github.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper/tree/main/EdgeSavedPasswordsDumper

Welp.

Its settings app is delightful.

But it refuses to allow me to install anything, so...

🎉 LINUX

Oh, and peazip, the 7zip app for Mint that I was using, corrupted my 20GB home directory backup so I lost all that too, despite having the 7z backup file right here

😓

Dear Dr. CachyOS Arch Linux III,

Why the everloving fuck is this your default terminal's default appearance in your default desktop environment???

Sincerely,
Sometime Who Just Wants To Use Their Computer, Esq.

Finally got it in a place where I can use it as a computer!

We're harsh on Linux because We think it needs improvement. We're rooting for it, but blind support won't help; we as a community need to be clear about why its flaws hold it back, in order for it to succeed its best.

Here's hoping the arguments against are heard by those voting on the bill

https://youtube.com/watch/CsIHD1LDj5M

Very interesting possibility of new tech for mainframes server farms data centers,
using optical fiber instead of copper cables, to allow large banks of GPUs to communicate

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/nvidia-corning-optical-factories-nc-texas-ai.html