Links June 2026

This is amusing, a flaw in the crypto-currency Zcash allowed generating Zcash from nothing and there’s no way to know if anyone did that [1].Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful article for Locus Magazine about corporate valuations and why companies claim SciFi technologies [2].Charles Stross wrote an interesting retcon of James Bond [3].Trakkr.ai has an intresting post comparing political bias in LLM models, the site has lots of other comparisons of models too [4].Wouter Verhelst wrote a blog post about his tested usage of LLMs for code generation and the conclusions about what it will do to the FOSS development process, not a lot of new material but he put a lot of good ideas together in one place [5].Here is the git repository for the programs used for the ssh-audit.com site, really good setup for checking ssh configuration [6].The isaiprofitable.com site is periodically updated with the profit/loss totals for AI companies, no surprise that every company is losing money apart from NVidia and NVidia are investing in the other companies [7].Elvira Bary wrote an informative article about Russia’s inability to build or design anything good [8]. Looks like we are at risk of another Chernobyl…Lev Lafayette wrote an interesting blog post about the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer with over 10,000,000 cores [9].Point Free wrote an interesting blog post about running the Gemma 4 LLM which is 25G of data at a usable speed on a Xeon system with DDR3 RAM and no GPU [10].

[1] schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/crit...ash-vulnerability-found-and-fixed.html

[2] locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-the-age-of-vapor

[3] antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/06/rule-by-bond-villains.html

[4] trakkr.ai/bias

[5] grep.be/blog//en/computer/Agentic_coding_and_Free_Software

[6] github.com/jtesta/ssh-audit

[7] isaiprofitable.com

[8] freedium-mirror.cfd/https://medium.com/...nside-putin-s-failed-tech-e63e27ee40b0

[9] levlafayette.com/node/808

[10] point.free/blog/gemma-4-on-a-2016-xeon

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