NVIDIA’s RTX 5090 will supposedly have a monstrous 575W TDP
The RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 are receiving their final updates. According to two highly reliable leakers, the RTX 5090 is officially a 575W TDP model, confirming that the new SKU requires significantly...
View ArticleApple Vision Pro may now be out of production
Apple’s first-generation Vision Pro headset may have now ceased production, following reports of reduced demand and production cuts earlier in the year. ↫ Hartley Charlton at MacRumors I think we’ll...
View ArticleThe Mac OS X dock turns 25
James Thomson, developer of, originally, DragThing and now PCalc, also happens to be the developer of the very first publicly shown version of the Mac OS dock. Now that it was shown to the world by...
View ArticleOne dog v. the Windows 3.1 graphics stack
I’d like to write a full-fledged blog post about these adventures at some point, but for now I’m going to focus on one particular side quest: getting acceptable video output out of the 1000H when it’s...
View ArticleWhy Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again
The more than two decades since Half-Life 2‘s release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the official–ish to the thin to the downright misleading. As we...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s tone-deaf advice to Windows 10 users: just buy a new PC, you’re...
Over 60% of Windows users are still using Windows 10, with only about 35% or so – and falling! – of them opting to use Windows 11. As we’ve talked about many times before, this is a major issue going...
View ArticleDell rebrands its entire product line: XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, etc. are...
Dell has announced it’s rebranding literally its entire product line, so mainstays like XPS, Latitude, and Inspiron are going away. They’re replacing all of these old brands with Dell, Dell Pro, and...
View ArticleOpoLua: a compiled-OPL interpreter for iOS written in Lua
An OPO (compiled OPL) interpreter written in Lua and Swift, based on the Psion Series 5 era format (ie ER5, prior to the Quartz 6.x changes). It lets you run Psion 5 programs written in OPL on any iOS...
View ArticleNESFab: a new programming language for creating NES games
NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It’s easy...
View ArticleHDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content
We’ve all had a good seven years to figure out why our interconnected devices refused to work properly with the HDMI 2.1 specification. The HDMI Forum announced at CES today that it’s time to start...
View ArticleAn operating system in 1000 lines
Hey there! In this book, we’re going to build a small operating system from scratch, step by step. You might get intimidated when you hear OS or kernel development, the basic functions of an OS...
View ArticlePairs not taken
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port video, because they often fail to address...
View ArticleNvidia CEO says company has plans for desktop chip designed with MediaTek
On Monday at CES 2025, Nvidia unveiled a desktop computer called Project DIGITS. The machine uses Nvidia’s latest “Blackwell” AI chip and will cost $3,000. It contains a new central processor, or CPU,...
View ArticleVLC gets caught in “AI” hype, adds “AI” subtitles and translations
VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. The new feature automatically...
View ArticleGoogle launches Chromium development fund to ward off antitrust concerns
Don’t you just love it when companies get together under the thin guise of open source to promote their own interests? Today Google is pleased to announce our partnership with The Linux Foundation and...
View ArticleBringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time
Many moons ago, around the time when Andreas formally resigned from being Serenity’s BDFL, I decided that I want to get involved in the project more seriously. Looking at it from a perspective of...
View ArticleThe history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes
One of the innovations that the V7 Bourne shell introduced was built in shell wildcard globbing, which is to say expanding things like *, ?, and so on. Of course Unix had shell wildcards well before...
View ArticleWordPress is in trouble
It’s hard to see how to move forward from here. I think the best bet would be for people to rally around a new community-driven infrastructure. This would likely require a fork of WordPress, though,...
View Article“The people should own the town square”
Mastodon, the only remaining social network that isn’t a fascist hellhole like Twitter or Facebook, is changing its legal and operational foundation to a proper European non-profit. Simply, we are...
View ArticleCan you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: a...
Two years ago, Twitch streamer albrot discovered a bug in the code for crossing rivers. One of the options is to “wait to see if conditions improve”; waiting a day will consume food but not...
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