Marko Karppinen

Sure it's bad that every other child is dying of measles, but on the positive side bathtub gin is now legal https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/us-appeals-court-declares-158-year-old-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional/

One of the things you learn when working on your own routing stack is how resilient TCP/IP really is. Your code can be just completely fucked and things still mostly work.

Interesting to see what comes of Taalas. It seems like a completely realistic path to 1000x efficiency in LLMs.

I've argued before that the AI boom requires a specific goldilocks level of efficiency improvement to avoid a crash: too small and AI firms can't break even, too big and the bottom falls off of datacenter investments.

In that framing, 1000x might be too good? Nvidia hitmen will finish them off?

At the destination after the first trial run of my new (to me) boat. In other words…

…I’M THE CAPTAIN NOW

First proper end-to-end tests of my artisanal CGNAT router done. Did not _expect_ to nail it on the first try but it's hard to avoid the success when I’m this awesome

Are the productive conversations in the room with us right now

you will definitely not regret writing your own router from scratch

Pretty wild investigative reporting from FT here (paywall).

Iran paid a Chinese company $36M for in-orbit delivery of a new spy sat and the use of the Chinese ground station network (so they can operate it even though the in-country ground stations have largely been destroyed).

FT analyzed public US Space Force tracking data of the satellite to determine that it was in the right place at the right time to image the U.S. bases that got hit shortly after each pass.

https://www.ft.com/content/1fddd2cd-1294-4e9c-a17d-5ea06b399355?syn-25a6b1a6=1

code optimization is an ecological imperative

No bracket? No problem!

Slightly miffed about how Minisforum decided to spend their PCIe lanes on the N5 Pro.

It has two USB4 ports *and* an Oculink port *and* a PCIe 4.0 x4 slot. So that's where all the lanes went.

It also has three M.2 slots. Two of those are x1 and one is x2.

Maybe I'm a unique snowflake but NVMes are what I would've used the lanes on.

Anyone here use Valokuitunen / Telia Avoin Kuitu for home internet?

Round trip completed! Boat seems fine except for a battery on its last legs (12.1V after left overnight) and one screw missing on the control panel, causing it to resonate with certain engine rpms.

RE: @tomshardware@mastodon.online

An all new version of the noisy neighbour problem just dropped: on shared infrastructure, your neighbour might attract ballistic missiles

Hypothetically speaking what would be a cool name for an isp

RE: @asymco@mastodon.social

One of these is not like the others

FT: “Forties Blend, a North Sea grade, soared close to $149 a barrel on Monday, above the highs reached on the eve of the 2008 financial crisis, according to LSEG data. This is an uncommonly large premium over the price of Brent crude futures, which are trading at about $100 a barrel, and reflects refiners’ desperation to secure supplies."

Can't say I understand how commodity futures work but if they're this detached from the ground truth I would imagine defaults are incoming