Colin Ian King
@colinianking.bsky.social
kernel bug fixer, Open Source advocate, C64 and Lego fanatic, hobbyist artist. Author of stress-ng.
I think Trump knows he's dying and wants to take the whole world with him.
January 5, 2026 at 12:49 AM
I think Trump knows he's dying and wants to take the whole world with him.
Time to sanction the US for Trump's actions in Venezuela?
January 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Time to sanction the US for Trump's actions in Venezuela?
stress-ng V0.20.00 "versatile vma vexer" has been released! contains a new variable load stressor and support for Openrisc and NetBSD VAX. Happy 2026! github.com/ColinIanKing...
Comparing V0.19.06...V0.20.00 · ColinIanKing/stress-ng
This is the stress-ng upstream project git repository. stress-ng will stress test a computer system in various selectable ways. It was designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a compute...
github.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
stress-ng V0.20.00 "versatile vma vexer" has been released! contains a new variable load stressor and support for Openrisc and NetBSD VAX. Happy 2026! github.com/ColinIanKing...
2025 was quite a year. Got over long COVID (yay), Intel made me redundant (boo), Got hired by NVIDIA (yay), Got shingles in my face and right side (boo).
December 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
2025 was quite a year. Got over long COVID (yay), Intel made me redundant (boo), Got hired by NVIDIA (yay), Got shingles in my face and right side (boo).
0!+1+2^(3+4+5+6−7)−(8 × sqrt(9)) = 2026
December 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
0!+1+2^(3+4+5+6−7)−(8 × sqrt(9)) = 2026
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Intel announced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980. Now I have a blog post that explains a small part of the microcode in this chip.
www.righto.com/2025/12/8087...
www.righto.com/2025/12/8087...
Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode
In the 1980s, if you wanted your computer to do floating-point calculations faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor ...
www.righto.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Intel announced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980. Now I have a blog post that explains a small part of the microcode in this chip.
www.righto.com/2025/12/8087...
www.righto.com/2025/12/8087...
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loong64 is now an official architecture on Debian Linux. lists.debian.org/debian-devel...
loong64 is now an official architecture
lists.debian.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
loong64 is now an official architecture on Debian Linux. lists.debian.org/debian-devel...
The first kernel bug I found was in BSD 4.2 UNIX on a HLH Orion Clipper where I messed up on a socket fd and crashed the machine. That was back in 1988.
December 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The first kernel bug I found was in BSD 4.2 UNIX on a HLH Orion Clipper where I messed up on a socket fd and crashed the machine. That was back in 1988.
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Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
My first real computing job was where I was told an overlay manager needed to be altered for some F77 code that got too large to run on a 64K PDP-11 running RSX-11M+. That was fun.
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My first real computing job was where I was told an overlay manager needed to be altered for some F77 code that got too large to run on a 64K PDP-11 running RSX-11M+. That was fun.
Just assume all the redactions in the Epstein files are referring to Trump otherwise show the proof it's not.
December 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Just assume all the redactions in the Epstein files are referring to Trump otherwise show the proof it's not.
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From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
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This is what Trump calls transparency.
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This is what Trump calls transparency.
One of the redacted Epstein files. Literally all redacted. www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%... - pretty sure the DOJ is covering up something
www.justice.gov
December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
One of the redacted Epstein files. Literally all redacted. www.justice.gov/.../DataSet%... - pretty sure the DOJ is covering up something
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Video of my opening talk at the sched_ext microconference (LPC 2025), discussing open issues and future directions for sched_ext: deadline server, hierarchical schedulers, and built-in scheduler improvements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26...
sched_ext: current status and future plans - Andrea Righi (NVIDIA)
YouTube video by Linux Plumbers Conference
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Video of my opening talk at the sched_ext microconference (LPC 2025), discussing open issues and future directions for sched_ext: deadline server, hierarchical schedulers, and built-in scheduler improvements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ26...
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Would you like to see something both cute and Christmassy?
My friend Claire Tomlinson has made a short film about the local Wagtail roost: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfP...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social
My friend Claire Tomlinson has made a short film about the local Wagtail roost: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfP...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social
A Hundred Tails A-wagging
YouTube video by CTWildlife
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Would you like to see something both cute and Christmassy?
My friend Claire Tomlinson has made a short film about the local Wagtail roost: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfP...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social
My friend Claire Tomlinson has made a short film about the local Wagtail roost: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfP...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Was there a FIFA prize for physics? Did I miss anything?
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Was there a FIFA prize for physics? Did I miss anything?
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Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-sched-ext
Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers
The Linux kernel's innovative sched_ext code for being able to easily write extensible task schedulers using eBPF programs has some nice enhancements merged for Linux 6.19...
www.phoronix.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Sched_EXT With Linux 6.19 Improves Recovering For Misbehaving eBPF Schedulers - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-sched-ext
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If you heard the sound of a million nerds crying out in anguish, it's because I installed Linux on an old computer and then setup Microsoft Edge as the default browser.
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If you heard the sound of a million nerds crying out in anguish, it's because I installed Linux on an old computer and then setup Microsoft Edge as the default browser.
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The most noticeable feature is MCP server support, enabling AI agents such as Claude, Cursor, etc. to automate kernel development workflows, from quickly running commands/scripts inside rebuilt kernels to even performing automated bug bisection.
github.com/arighi/virtm...
github.com/arighi/virtm...
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The most noticeable feature is MCP server support, enabling AI agents such as Claude, Cursor, etc. to automate kernel development workflows, from quickly running commands/scripts inside rebuilt kernels to even performing automated bug bisection.
github.com/arighi/virtm...
github.com/arighi/virtm...
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A couple of days ago, I went to Ebernoe Common to see what I could hear:
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Listening to Winter Woods
It’s been a weird November – this week felt like the first proper bit of Winter this side of the calendar year. With near-freezing temperat...
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A couple of days ago, I went to Ebernoe Common to see what I could hear:
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
amykingwildlife.blogspot.com/2025/11/list...
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social