Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.

Monitor vendors are playing with fire.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ads-and-tracking-infiltrated-tvs-now-theyre-coming-for-monitors/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@anEXPer @passenger @mxchara i read it to the end myself after all

Happy 35th anniversary to Ukraine, a country I first visited when it was still part of the Soviet Union. In a single generation Ukraine has transformed itself into a symbol of bravery, resilience and independence. Ukrainians should be proud.

@mattblaze everyone you track is lucky to have you. What a joy that must be.

*shlorp shlorp shlorp*

seen in NYC

shhh everybody be peaceful now

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ilmbc32kos5zwmkqh2nxamwc/post/3mtt7gp4c732i

@ramsey I went all in on barefoot shoes: https://www.vivobarefoot.com/us/

@passenger @mxchara the other part that's of critical importance to Yudkowskian rationalism:

get the acolyte to think that impossible or horrifying situations are real day to day issues

this bends their brains such that they will believe everything else you say

e.g. treating dust specks vs torture as a real problem, treating Newcomb's problem as a real problem

this leaves a certain litter of broken brains and murderous offshoot cults (Ziz is just one), but that's a small price for becoming the most rational beings on earth

@slightlyoff so is it supposed to be a pacifier or a penis?

Perhaps the bulk of SdFat.h's implementation of Microsoft's FAT filesystem is in the appropriate Volume superclass, which for FAT32 is split between deferring to a FatFile class & its FatPartition superclass.

That FatPartition superclass has a method for allocating new runs of blocks within a preconfigured range, by wrap-around iterating over all free blocks in the allocation table until it finds a free one. It may update the lower-bound of the range to save time next time.

1/4?

There's a variant of the allocator which attempts to supply contiguous runs, thus making reads of the file faster. As well as a method for zeroing out each entry of a linkedlist within that File Allocation Table.

There's a method which wraps a cache-class in the appropriate bittwiddling depending on whether we've got a FAT32, FAT16, or FAT12 filesystem.

Then there's methods for counting up how much space is free, & another to init that cache & read in various properties.

2/4?

That caching class is shared between the backends, with methods to read a new sector whilst updating (via another method) the last one as-needed, read/write a sector with that caching, flush the cache if needed invalidating in-RAM data, & some accessers. The Partition caller dereferences offsets from within the read sector.

And... There's no much more to comment on regarding partitioning! So...

3/3 Fin for today! Tomorrow: Files/directories!

WhereAbouts is always very easy (with a few exceptions when it decides to place pins a few kms from the border).

🗺️ August 25, 2026
5/5 countries in 5/13 guesses
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