A deep dive into Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel architecture, tracing its evolution from Mach and BSD roots to powering macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon. This post explores the hybrid kernel’s design, its adaptation to new hardware and security paradigms, and why XNU remains a uniquely resilient and scalable foundation for Apple’s platforms.

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What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

“Spiders that jump? Will they jump towards me?” The answer is “not likely” since these spiders will jump away using a dragline of silk if you get too close. If …

We are devastated to report that Dave Täht has passed away.Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a better place. Always willing to help, and without him - LibreQoS (and the other QoE solutions out there) wouldn’t exist.Dave was an inspiration, and…

An entertaining read on the biological and evolutionary origins, development, and purposes of sex, in particular the female sex, and the lengths to which the scientific establishment will go to invent evidence to naturalize the patriarchy.

Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type. - lvgl/lvgl: Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.

I was quoted in this article, but Julie omitted the last sentence of my quote: “…ultimately Anubis is the solution that worked. As for CloudFlare, my communities are not enthusiastic about putting even more of the Internet under the control of one big corporation, let alone a corporation that hawks their own AI products with models sourced from less-than-ethical datasets. ‘Protection racket’ comes to mind.”

We’re using this at SourceHut now and, at least for now, it’s working.

I don’t agree with all of Martijn’s picks, but the sentiment is definitely appreciated.

“These are the same people who want to make your car play an advertisement while you’re at a stoplight or have your TV harvest your viewing habits to sell to the highest bidder or make it impossible to own any digital goods so you have to rent them for a monthly fee forever. Just think about what that sort of person would do with the kind of power they’re attempting to take now.”