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kamila @iczelia.net · 25/09/2026

I wish that train companies in Europe were good at the type of railing that would get me quicker between places, instead of the type that makes me regret going on a trip.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 21/09/2026

Thoughts on recent NIST post-quantum crypto attacks: Crypto people will bend over backwards instead of adopting Classical McEliece. It has Bernstein's blessing, it has been unbroken for decades, but the copium about long keys is artificially blocking its adoption. It's all bad.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 12/09/2026

sponsored by Gibson's Finest (tm)

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Ragnar {Groot Koerkamp} @curiouscoding.nl · 11/09/2026

Amazing paper by Crick et al., in which they postulate that there are 20 common amino acids because the maximum size of a "comma-free code" on triples of ACTG is 20. I get to cite it because it turns out these codes give rise to optimal sampling (minimizer) schemes :D www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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kamila @iczelia.net · 12/09/2026

My website is currently caving in under the galore of LLM bots. I receive 250 million junk requests a day, that's about 3000 requests per second. I am about to get very, very upset.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 09/09/2026

github.com/iczelia/bzip... Why do I hate being a CS researcher and programmer? Because of people like this. They end up being coddled as if they were geniuses; when in reality, the underling reality should be much different.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 06/09/2026

I think that the worst part about LLMs is that people, who otherwise have no idea about the specific field that i work in, start arguing with me like a meat proxy and wasting my time.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 03/09/2026

github.com/iczelia/balr... balrogg losslessly recompresses Ogg Vorbis and Opus files. Archives are typically 8-12% smaller than .ogg files and 3-8% smaller than .opus files.

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GitHub - iczelia/balrogg: Demonically compacting Vorbis/Opus recompressor.

Demonically compacting Vorbis/Opus recompressor. Contribute to iczelia/balrogg development by creating an account on GitHub.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 29/08/2026

Deutsche Bahn set me up like Erwin Rommel today

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kamila @iczelia.net · 27/08/2026

I have a new 88x31 button! iczelia.net/webring/

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kamila @iczelia.net · 27/08/2026

700 followers ! Welcome.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 26/08/2026

I help out with autoconf also now!

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Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech · 26/08/2026

State of SaaS

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kamila @iczelia.net · 23/08/2026

I am thrilled to announce that our most recent paper has been rejected from the best journal in the field thanks to low effort, small context window, and completely nonsensical AI slop of Reviewer #2.

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gabby @fullmoon.id · 22/08/2026

any messaging app that asks me to restart my app to update every single time i use it is a very unserious app

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kamila @iczelia.net · 21/08/2026

75/25 chance of me leaving academia after a M.Sc degree.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 12/08/2026

i maintain automake now

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Sean Chiplock 🟡 🔜 Animate! Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) @sonicmega.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

GOOGLE DOCS USES AI THAT TRAINS ON ANYTHING YOU WRITE IN IT, EVEN IF ITS A “PRIVATE” DOCUMENT. It’s now possible for users to get Google Docs’ AI to share information that is otherwise not publicly accessible, if it was written in Google Docs at some point. You CANNOT trust it w/ confidential info

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kamila @iczelia.net · 12/08/2026

completely re-did the vxd in github.com/iczelia/fdchk and fixed it up to be closer to my personal code style. i should probably write a style guide on my own C preferences at some point

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GitHub - iczelia/fdchk: floppy disk checker for Windows 9x

floppy disk checker for Windows 9x. Contribute to iczelia/fdchk development by creating an account on GitHub.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 10/08/2026

i still don't know how you're supposed to take mirror selfies

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kamila @iczelia.net · 10/08/2026

i have been working for a few weeks on vorbis and opus recompression (to pretty big success, -10% on many files at a negligible time investment). i will be able to release it hopefully later this week.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 05/08/2026

i accidentally found a date today again (was found by a date??)

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kamila @iczelia.net · 05/08/2026

GNU megatip: when submitting a patch to *-patches@, never mention "bug" in the subject line; otherwise the e-mail is re-routed to bugs-*@. lists.gnu.org/archive/html...

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Hannah Höch, German (1889-1978), Aus dem blühenden Tal, 1937, oil on canvas, 75.5 x 70.5 cm, private collection

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prefetcher @prefetcher.miku.place · 03/08/2026

you go to a date for "human connection", i go because i see a new potential investment opportunity i always open by pitching my AI startup and giving her my linkedin. being high worth means finding other high worth individuals. the lock-in never stops. i am currently single and $200K in debt

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kamila @iczelia.net · 31/07/2026

UFO crashed in Saarland today.

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mary🐇 @mary.my.id · 25/07/2026

they coulda trained opus 5 to learn that typescript 7 is stable now because it simply refuses to believe oxlint with type checking enabled only takes 28ms to run

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kamila @iczelia.net · 20/07/2026

one-click Denial of Service bug in Firefox ESR (download+open a RSS feed); it keeps opening new tabs ad infinitum, destroying your session and forcing you to `kill -9` the process.

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kamila @iczelia.net · 18/07/2026

The fact that your computer boots (i.e., you see the login screen after pressing the power button) is nothing but a mere coincidence.

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karpad @karpad.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"If a bird is within 50 feet of a coop, it probably belongs to the owner of that coop, so don't fuck with it. birds further out are probably wild birds, and thus open to be collected." "what if a bird has one leg within range and one leg out?" "what if you shut the fuck up?" Bava Batra.23b7

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kamila @iczelia.net · 13/07/2026

i accidentally found another job today again

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kamila @iczelia.net · 13/07/2026

Why are explanations of QMC and K-Maps as given by lecturers to execute on paper always so obscure? All you have to do is to repeatedly massage the expression and apply the identity x0 ^ x1 v ~x0 ^ x1 <=> (x0 v ~x0) ^ x1 <=> x1.

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arXiv cs.IT Information Theory @csit-bot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Kamila Szewczyk: A Gallager-Type Redundancy Bound for Binary Shannon-Fano Coding arxiv.org/abs/2607.04192 arxiv.org/pdf/2607.04192 arxiv.org/html/2607.04192

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kamila @iczelia.net · 05/07/2026

big things coming up on arXiv this monday evening

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kamila @iczelia.net · 02/07/2026

the adrenaline rush of having a result and having a proof you doubletriplequadruple checked is correct but only having to write it up in a presentable form is so crazy

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kamila @iczelia.net · 24/06/2026

More people die of heat stroke in Europe (161 daily; [1]) than in school shootings in America (12 daily; [2]). Maybe it's time to stop laughing at them and install AC units in residential buildings. [1] - www.nature.com/articles/s41... [2] - www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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