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Ricardo B�nffy

@rbanffy.bsky.social
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Writer of executable poetry, maker of a font. Opinions are mine. Also @rbanffy@mastodon.social and @0xDEADBEEFCAFE on Twitter.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work · Sujith Jay Nair sujithjay.com/inventing-work
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities \ Anthropic www.anthropic.com/research/glm...
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine - by Brian Potter www.construction-physics.com/p/how-spacex...
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How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine
If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
How algorithms are making our environments bland theconversation.com/how-algorith...
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How algorithms are making our environments bland
Griege is dominating our landscape along with cookie-cutter design.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Fucking brilliant
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Andreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future - Model Republic www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16...
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Andreessen Horowitz is shaping AI policy — while investing in a bleak vision of the future - Model Republic
The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How a Brazilian Governor Turned Rare Earths Into a Campaign—and Washington Into a Partner | TechPolicy.Press www.techpolicy.press/how-a-brazil...
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
That’s about 20PB per 4u, about 200PB in a sigle rack. 160-bay NVMe SSD 4U Server Shown at FMS 2026 Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R - ServeTheHome www.servethehome.com/160-bay-nvme...
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160-bay NVMe SSD 4U Server Shown at FMS 2026 Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R
On the FMS 2026 show floor, we saw a massive 160-bay NVMe storage server (Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R) that can deliver crazy storage density
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Repeat with me: “Boring is good. Boring is the goal. I’ll always optimise for boring.” Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology mcfunley.com/choose-borin...
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Choose Boring Technology
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Letícia Cesarino @letcesar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Quem tá chorando porque o Discord pode sair do ar se não demonstrar ao Estado brasileiro que cumpre a lei, parabéns, você acaba de descobrir a pauta da soberania digital!
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Spongebob's Rainbow Imagination
ALT: Spongebob's Rainbow Imagination
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A photo of HR Giger looking at the camera and holding a Facehugger egg on the egg chamber set from Alien. Along the bottom of the image I have added text of Danny Devito's line from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?"
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
USS Abraham Lincoln crew facing food shortages, low morale. The crew lacks food, soap, toothpaste and other necessities.. www.snopes.com/news/2026/08...
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USS Abraham Lincoln crew reportedly faces food shortages, low morale. Here's what we know
The claim stemmed from an MS NOW report that says the crew lacks food, soap, toothpaste and other necessities.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
.:: Phrack Magazine ::. phrack.org/issues/72/19...
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The Hacker's Renaissance - A Manifesto Reborn
Click to read the article on phrack
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It is a well known fact that the machine that inspired the band to name itself “Rage against the Machine” was a printer.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Today, after I don’t know how long, with a rebuilt battery pack, the mighty TI-59 is alive again.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/08/2026
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications. www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...
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DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Arm’s Cortex A55 - by Chester Lam - Chips and Cheese chipsandcheese.com/p/arms-corte...
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Arm’s Cortex A55
Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/08/2026
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed. www.wired.com/story/securi...
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7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing. werd.io/american-ai-...
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American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Where does one buy a parasol? Asking for a vampire
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Paulo Candido @paulocandido.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Aprendi hoje que a Maga Patalógica se chama Magica De Spell no original! (No Alt da imagem)
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves - by Aurora Nockert chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-th...
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Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves
In just a few short days, AMD will be showing off their brand new MI400 series of Datacenter Accelerators at their Advancing AI event but before that event comes, we thought it would be fun to attempt...
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Would any of my friends here recommend a good phone-based #3D scanning software that works well with #Blender? My kid is planning to make a #cosplay costume for me and I’d like to scan my head to help.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What Makes Humans Stupid nautil.us/what-makes-h...
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What Makes Humans Stupid
What Makes Humans Stupid: It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong. An essay on our undoing.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is a new level of institutional corruption. Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump Media to sell fast feed of 'market-moving' posts to Wall Street
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Russ Vought is a Nazi - plain and simply a Nazi!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
TINA SMITH: Researchers in MN made a breakthrough in childhood cancer in Black kids with a grant. But it seems that according to your proposed rule, this type of research wouldn't allowed bc it's 'DEI.' VOUGHT: We are against DEI policies. We have intended to rid of them whenever we possibly can.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If the conservative PM opposes it, I’m for it.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/07/2026
A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes it. n.pr/45cTHju
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Japan revises law to ensure supply of (male) heirs to the imperial throne
A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes it.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bros don’t let bros doomscroll. 💖
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching | PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges befo...
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Some software has bugs even before the first line of code is written. C is one such case. C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake - by Trần Thành Long longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-...
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C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake
Why C strings suck—and why length-based strings are the right design.
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine www.quantamagazine.org/will-we-ever...
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Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations? | Quanta Magazine
Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it...
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Ricardo B�nffy @rbanffy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
How Technical Should an Engineering Manager Be? newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-techni...
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How Technical Should an Engineering Manager Be?
Is being a highly technical engineering manager the best way to go these days? I am answering this question in this article.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/07/2026
AI is top of mind for many of us. What's different for EFF? We're fighting to keep your privacy and free speech front and center. You can help us when you join EFF today: eff.org/summer
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EFF Summer Membership Drive
Let's cut through AI hype and fight for the people. Join EFF for the future of privacy & free expression.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026
“If any Americans have information related to the operation of a Lenovo laptop running Windows—at least I think it’s Windows, anyway—we encourage them to very slowly talk me through it by reaching out to our tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI,” said Kash Patel
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Kash Patel Calls For Public’s Help Using Computer
WASHINGTON—Urging anyone with knowledge of the electronic device to come forward, FBI Director Kash Patel issued a statement Tuesday asking for the public’s help using the computer. “If any Americans ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/07/2026
Lack of transparency around how AI tools might be used in creating or changing policy is particularly worrisome, “so having access to the prompts is really the best way to be able to tell what officials are using these tools for and how harmful those uses might be,” EFF’s Tori Noble told @WIRED.com.
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DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How
In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”
A Highly Unusual Move
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked promotions for seven senior Navy officers, mostly women or people of color.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
From 20 deaths a day to just 2: Ebola mortality rate drop in Ituri province thanks to awareness campaigns: www.radiomoto.net/2026/07/14/e...
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Ebola en Ituri : le taux de mortalité en baisse à Djugu
Le taux de mortalité des personnes souffrant de la maladie à virus Ebola est à la baisse en territoire de Djugu. C’est le résultat de la sensibilisation qu’effectuent les leaders communautaires dans c...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026
“Oh my God, I can’t believe it remembers me,” said the University of Idaho professor
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Geologist Reunited With Beloved Rock He Studied 20 Years Ago
SPOKANE VALLEY, WA—Experiencing a range of emotions from excitement to joy to nostalgia, 49-year-old geologist Alan Hargroder was reportedly reunited Tuesday with a beloved rock that he had studied ov...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026
An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Tried to warn u www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team Trump sees Georgia as ‘a road map’ for putting Trump’s heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of elections into practice
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers
A yellow Backmarket poster in the subway showing a pink Game Boy with the caption “AB > AI”
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