Lobster Roll

Stories by pointlessone

Rust in Android: move fast and fix things (security.googleblog.com)
L 75 pts 5 comments by pointlessone Nov 13, 2025 c++rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
New EU Rules: Smartphones and Tablets will follow new ecodesign requirements by June 2025 (repair.eu)
L 73 pts 108 comments by pointlessone Sep 5, 2023 law thread
Welcome to Thunderbird 128 "Nebula" (blog.thunderbird.net)
L 53 pts 23 comments by pointlessone Jul 12, 2024 emailrelease Internet / Digital Culture thread
Bluesky is a scam (fiatjaf.com)
L 50 pts 45 comments by pointlessone May 8, 2023 distributedrant Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Introducing Ruvy (shopify.engineering)
L 34 pts 5 comments by pointlessone Oct 18, 2023 rubywasm Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
MNT Pocket Reform Campaign is Now Live on Crowd Supply (crowdsupply.com)
L 33 pts 3 comments by pointlessone Mar 14, 2023 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
MNT Pocket Reform (crowdsupply.com)
L 30 pts 10 comments by pointlessone Aug 25, 2022 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t (erinkissane.com)
L 26 pts 24 comments by pointlessone Sep 3, 2023 culture Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The end of tt-rss.org (community.tt-rss.org)
L 25 pts 25 comments by pointlessone Oct 3, 2025 release thread
tt-rss is discontinued and all related infrastructure is shutting down on November 1st.
xdg-ninja: A shell script which checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories (github.com)
L 23 pts 5 comments by pointlessone Mar 6, 2025 practicesunix Systems / Low-Level / OSProductivity / Career / Business thread
Can I …? tools (status.pointless.one)
L 23 pts 2 comments by pointlessone Jul 17, 2024 web Web Development thread
So this guy is now S3. All of S3 (chaos.social)
L 23 pts 15 comments by pointlessone May 4, 2023 security Security / Privacy thread
Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities (pebblebed.com)
L 20 pts 5 comments by pointlessone Mar 4, 2026 linux Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
An MIR-based JIT prototype for Ruby (developers.redhat.com)
L 19 pts 2 comments by pointlessone Oct 9, 2023 compilersruby Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Flux Keyboard (kickstarter.com)
L 19 pts 43 comments by pointlessone Mar 22, 2023 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked (bleepingcomputer.com)
L 18 pts 5 comments by pointlessone Dec 21, 2022 security Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread
Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2 (gettalong.org)
L 11 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Dec 26, 2022 performanceruby Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters (arxiv.org)
L 6 pts 1 comments by pointlessone Jul 14, 2024 mathsatire Science / Math / Physics thread
The 16-billion-record data breach that no one’s ever heard of (cybernews.com)
L 5 pts 2 comments by pointlessone Jun 19, 2025 security Security / Privacy thread
Low-Poly Image Generation using Evolutionary Algorithms in Ruby (thomascountz.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Nov 5, 2024 compscigraphicsruby Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
git-imerge: Incremental merge for git (github.com)
L 5 pts 3 comments by pointlessone May 24, 2022 vcs Programming (General) thread
On the Biology of a Large Language Model (transformer-circuits.pub)
L 4 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Mar 29, 2025 vibecoding AI / Machine LearningScience / Math / Physics thread
Digital Markets Act (digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu)
L 4 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Sep 6, 2023 law Internet / Digital Culture thread
nougat: Neural Optical Understanding for Academic Documents (facebookresearch.github.io)
L 2 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Aug 31, 2023 airelease AI / Machine Learning thread
Akamai’s Cloud Computing Services: Pricing Update (linode.com)
L -2 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Mar 1, 2023 release thread
Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again) (antipope.org)
L -5 pts 0 comments by pointlessone Jun 2, 2023 satire thread