<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/rust.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-09-20T17:20:55+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/rust.xml</id><title type="html">PGMac . Net . AU</title><subtitle>Where I think about things and make the internet listen. Because it&apos;s important.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Some things I found interesting between 2026-09-13 and 2026-09-20</title><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/09/20/interesting-last-week.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Some things I found interesting between 2026-09-13 and 2026-09-20" /><published>2026-09-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-09-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/09/20/interesting-last-week</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/09/20/interesting-last-week.html"><![CDATA[<p>Internet Discoveries between 13 and 20 September</p>

<ul>
  <li>Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator, Free Online</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scratchpad</li>
  <li>Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Balance</li>
  <li>Home</li>
  <li>The 250-year-old company that survived by refusing to lay people off - Big Think</li>
  <li>Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu</li>
  <li>I can’t stop thinking about Papua New Guinea</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gates</li>
  <li>Motorists Realise They’ve Entered Rural Queensland When The Servo Hotbox Does Not Muck Around</li>
  <li>Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure</li>
  <li>Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing</li>
  <li>Introducing System One Models and Jev</li>
  <li>Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lake</li>
  <li>Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waste</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Citation</li>
  <li>Cloudflare Quick Tunnels</li>
  <li>OpenJev</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Roach</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Civilization</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="interesting-details">Interesting details</h2>

<p><a name="Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator, Free Online"></a><a href="https://defrag98.com/">Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator, Free Online</a> - Free online defrag simulator: the Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter in your browser. Real HDD sounds, four drives, no install, and it works offline.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/computing" class="tag-pill">computing</a> <a href="/tag/retro" class="tag-pill">retro</a> <a href="/tag/storage" class="tag-pill">storage</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scratchpad"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/scratchpad">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scratchpad</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)"></a><a href="https://spaceships.treybastian.com/">Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)</a> - Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638510">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/games" class="tag-pill">games</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Balance"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/balance">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Balance</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Home"></a><a href="https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/">Home</a> -  </p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/technology" class="tag-pill">technology</a></div>

<p><a name="The 250-year-old company that survived by refusing to lay people off - Big Think"></a><a href="https://bigthink.com/the-long-game/the-250-year-old-company-that-survived-by-refusing-to-lay-people-off/">The 250-year-old company that survived by refusing to lay people off - Big Think</a> - In 1978, Garbellotto S.p.A lost all its customers. Instead of laying off its expert employees, the company kept every worker on the payroll.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/business" class="tag-pill">business</a> <a href="/tag/people" class="tag-pill">people</a></div>

<p><a name="Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu"></a><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete">Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu</a> - Ubuntu 26.10 completes the distro’s move to Rust-based core utilities, with the commands previously held back due to security issues now migrated to</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/linux" class="tag-pill">linux</a> <a href="/tag/rust" class="tag-pill">rust</a> <a href="/tag/ubuntu" class="tag-pill">ubuntu</a></div>

<p><a name="I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"></a><a href="https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua">I can’t stop thinking about Papua New Guinea</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708431">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/geography" class="tag-pill">geography</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a> <a href="/tag/history" class="tag-pill">history</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gates"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gates</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Motorists Realise They've Entered Rural Queensland When The Servo Hotbox Does Not Muck Around"></a><a href="https://www.betootaadvocate.com/motorists-realise-theyve-entered-rural-queensland-when-the-servo-hotbox-does-not-muck-around/">Motorists Realise They’ve Entered Rural Queensland When The Servo Hotbox Does Not Muck Around</a> - CLANCY OVERELL - Editor - CONTACT</p>

<p>A fully stacked bain marie has been identified as the universal indicator that the road trip has suddenly crossed over into ‘rural Queensland’ - it can be confirmed.</p>

<p>Also known as the hotbox, the bain marie is the heated glass case used to store food that gently</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/australia" class="tag-pill">australia</a> <a href="/tag/funny" class="tag-pill">funny</a> <a href="/tag/travel" class="tag-pill">travel</a></div>

<p><a name="Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure"></a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jdp38z4jgo">Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure</a> -  </p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689062">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a> <a href="/tag/history" class="tag-pill">history</a> <a href="/tag/tv" class="tag-pill">tv</a></div>

<p><a name="Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"></a><a href="https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/">Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing</a> - Open, private and multilingual AI is coming to your web browser. Mistral and Mozilla team up to put powerful, trustworthy AI where you already browse.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723408">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/browser" class="tag-pill">browser</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a> <a href="/tag/privacy" class="tag-pill">privacy</a></div>

<p><a name="Introducing System One Models and Jev"></a><a href="https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev">Introducing System One Models and Jev</a> - TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49717558">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a></div>

<p><a name="Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"></a><a href="https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme">Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations</a> - E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations. - arnegiacomo/fugleramme</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49711544">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/maker" class="tag-pill">maker</a> <a href="/tag/nature" class="tag-pill">nature</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lake"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lake">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Lake</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill"></a><a href="https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill">Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill</a> - A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings - cloudflare/security-audit-skill</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736466">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/cloudflare" class="tag-pill">cloudflare</a> <a href="/tag/cyber" class="tag-pill">cyber</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/security" class="tag-pill">security</a> <a href="/tag/skills" class="tag-pill">skills</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waste"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Waste</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Citation"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/citation-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Citation</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"></a><a href="https://try.cloudflare.com/">Cloudflare Quick Tunnels</a> - Localhost, meet the Internet. Turn the server on your laptop into a public, encrypted URL on Cloudflare’s edge with one command.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754785">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/cloudflare" class="tag-pill">cloudflare</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a></div>

<p><a name="OpenJev"></a><a href="https://openjev.com/">OpenJev</a> - Run typed option logits and autoregressive JSON locally with open models and WebGPU.</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752041">Found @ YCombinator Hacker News</a></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/hackernews" class="tag-pill">hackernews</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Roach"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/roach-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Roach</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Civilization"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/civilization-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Civilization</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

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