Here’s an interesting article on the probable pointlessness of Anubis and other hash-based captcha replacements.
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Inside the UK’s Amateur Robot Wars Scene
A interesting look at the UK’s amateur Robot Wars scene.
Do I already have too many interests? Yes.
Do I wish I could carve out some time for this? Also yes.
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Apparently someone has ported OSX 10.0 to the Nintendo Wii!
The Apple 1 at Retro Computer Adverts.
Retro Computer Adverts has a rather special post to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apple’s founding; a look at their first – and probably most important product – the Apple 1.
Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History
The Computer History Museum has a really nice video on how they extracted the data from the University of Utah’s UNIX V4 tape and recovered the first C version of UNIX.
They appear to have uploaded the recovered data to the Internet Archive here.
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
This capability comes for free…
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
ArXiv has an interesting paper on mechanising online deanonymization attacks on large datasets. Even if you’re not interested in LLMs it’s still worth understanding what they’re capable of and how they may be deployed against you in the future.
Continue reading “Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs”…explore infinitely diverse worlds
This Project Genie stuff is really rather impressive – I’m less interested in the gaming aspects (60 seconds? Pah!), but it’s going to be interesting to watch how it’s adopted for cheap stock shots and special effects.
The thing is, though, there are a couple of articles kicking around and no-one seems to have done the next logical thing – create 60 seconds of footage, grab the last frame, and then try and create more footage based on that last frame. It’s likely to degrade across generations, but how it degrades will be interesting in itself.
Tahoe and Window Resizing
Here’s an entirely sensible take on the failures around MacOS Tahoe window resizing. Honestly, OSX worked – there was no need for anyone to prat about with it!
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements is a lovely online compendium of Henry T. Brown’s classic technical reference Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements. The classic illustrations (taken from a 1906 edition of the text) are just wonderful – as are the modern animated sequences that show the motions in question. My current favourite is No. 92 – better known to most as the mechanism used to drive a steam locomotive!
Retrieving the Time Machine Estimated Full Backup Size for MacOS Tahoe
Well, it’s been a little while since I last looked at sizing Time Machine backups on MacOS and, with MacOS 26 (‘Tahoe’), the magic incantation needed to pull that information out has changed.
Open up a terminal and enter the following…
log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine"' --info | grep "will be in backup of all sources" …and this will print out a number of records from previous Time Machine sessions thus…
2025-11-17 08:59:01.989807+0000 0xdd79ec Info 0x0 27411 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated a total of 3112764 files (13.52 TB) will be in backup of all sources
2025-11-17 09:54:37.554473+0000 0xde7d23 Info 0x0 27411 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated a total of 3113582 files (13.51 TB) will be in backup of all sources
2025-11-17 10:54:38.754477+0000 0xdfb366 Info 0x0 27411 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated a total of 3119251 files (13.51 TB) will be in backup of all sources
2025-11-17 11:54:25.417194+0000 0xe0dd3f Info 0x0 27411 0 backupd: (TimeMachine) [com.apple.TimeMachine:SizingProgress] Estimated a total of 3123208 files (13.51 TB) will be in backup of all sources