Roy Schestowitz

• "While I was entering I noticed the padlock fell from the navbar and broke. I recall talking with someone here about how things may vanish someday without making a noise, and how that would be so sad." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2821    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:48:16

• "I borrowed the game Homeworlds from my sister, and I am really liking it so far." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260514-0.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:50:21

• "Last time I started writing a post with the title "What I've been up to", and ended up ranting about western imperialism. Hardly surprising, for it's been bothering me for a while. I was meaning to make a post about it, in fact. I also ended up saying I should also write more constructively." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1778788083    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:51:29

• black lace hugging hips gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/shabby_chic    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:52:28

• Le tengo más miedo al teléfono inteligente que al hantavirus gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/miedoaltelefono.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:53:10

• "I don't know why. But my YouTube, Twitter (I still refuse to call the thing X) and Facebook account has been simultaneously infested with AI slop. Absolutely low effort, low quality, hype or fear mongoring (I think the AI risk is real, both economy and human existence. But that needs real adult conversation)." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/05-15-i-had-enough-with-slops.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:54:32

• Gemini on I2P gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/gemini-on-i2p.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:55:38

• "Chazz Martin was a former New York City ad man, twice divorced, who’d spent his entire adult life living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side." gemini://foofaraw.smol.pub/no-solicitors    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:56:55

• Sherry Turkle gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/resenas/endefensadelaconversacion.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:57:29

• "AI has been spreading _very_ fast lately. And I feel conflated.. one hand it's literarly my job writing code that runs said AI and on ther other hand with pratical use, I feel that I learn nothing while using LLMs for tasks." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/05-10-llm-usage-policy-on-this-blog.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 03:58:44

• Slop with "human touch" is still slop; editing of slop by a human does not change the fast it all started with slop.    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 04:00:03

• "The 1st of may we did our first real day-trip of this year to the Edersee (perhaps known from its "Dambusters" fame)." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/120526.txt    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 04:02:16

• "On Tuesday, a federal Los Angeles jury found Kanye West (who now goes by Ye), as well as his business entities" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/12/jury-kanye-copyright-infringement-donda-listening-party/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:24:02

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/netflixs-astonishing-r2-2-trillion-content-bill/281274/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:26:07

• "The table below shows traffic on this website for the last few days: [...]" ☛ https://vic.demuzere.be/articles/bots-crawlers-and-geoblocks/ | Source: Vic Demuzere    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:28:17

• [Old] "For the better part of a generation, low-income and minority US communities have struggled to gain access to affordable broadband." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/23983055/fcc-broadband-access-digital-discrimination-redlining-rules-enforcement?ref=karlbode.com | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:30:27

• "It’s one thing for an activist group to say that, or even a local equity champion" ☛ https://karlbode.com/u-s-broadband-is-racist/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:30:50

• "A new report from Worth Rises, a nonprofit that advocates in opposition to the prison industry" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/13/repub/free-prison-jail-calls-linked-to-lower-costs-better-outcomes-in-new-report/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:31:11

• "One of the most interesting stories in the news business these days is what’s going on at the Baltimore Banner." ☛ https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-baltimore-banner-ceo-on-progress | Source: Richard J Tofel    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:32:27

• "Karl Bode has called this “CEO Said a Thing! journalism”, and it is all over the place." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/rich-guy-quote-journalism/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:32:57

• "press freedom" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/journalists-covering-ice-operations/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:33:20

• "Other news outlets, including Axios and the Washington Post, published similar stories that day. Trump launched the war five days later, on Feb. 28." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/trump-administration-issues-subpoenas-to-stifle-reporting-on-war-against-iran/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:36:49

• "An editor at a Tehran publishing house, an online yoga instructor" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-internet-blackout-women-brunt-labor-market/33755949.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:37:19

• "The ban exempts information published by Russia’s Defense Ministry, the city’s mayor on his official website and channels, and the Moscow city government." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/05/13/moscow-orders-media-blackout-on-drone-strike-and-attack-aftermath-photos | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:37:35

• "Trump reposted comments that Obama should be "arrested" and "prosecuted" for allegedly wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/trump-shares-fake-quotes-falsely-accuses-obama-of-treason-in-late-night-rant | Source: France24    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:46:41

• "You have tracked Iranian influence operations closely. How sophisticated has Iran become online? Are we watching the world's first real AI war unfolding around Iran right now?" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/lego-hip-hop-deepfakes-iran-ai-propaganda/33756098.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:46:59

• "On April 30th Google Cloud’s DORA team released its latest “report”." ☛ https://makemeacto.cc/p/what-should-one-think-of-the-2026 |    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:47:13

• "This news has the potential to boost the impending SpaceX IPO to infinity and beyond." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-reportedly-in-talks-with-spacex-to-launch-its-orbital-data-centers-partnership-could-mark-a-historic-turning-point-and-boost-upcoming-ipo | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:48:12

• "Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang were just 3 of 17 tech executives who joined Trump at the summit." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-arrives-in-china-with-entourage-of-tech-ceos/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:48:28

• "The new course teaches Marines about the use of AI in today’s operating environment and how AI can improve the decision-making process and overall mission effectiveness" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-course-2026/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 10:48:50

• "The group, formed in 1970 to oppose Vatican II modernizations, has quietly become a parallel church operating globally with 733 priests, 264 seminarians and 50 nationalities despite decades of schism." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-05-13/vatican-issues-final-warning-to-breakaway-traditionalist-group-attached-to-old-latin-mass | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:02:57

• "I worked with David Pennock and Yiling Chen to create an interactive map that colored every state based on how likely it was to go Democratic or Republican for both the presidential, gubernatorial and Senate races." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/05/prediction-markets-redux.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:03:17

• "It's not even optimistic to say we have to try, it's just necessary. To give up, to stop trying, is to accept that things can't change." ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-05-14-trying-redux/ | Source: Dan Sinker    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:04:18

• "the fact that such an accusation could even creep into Andreesen’s misshapen brain is an illustration of why such arguments are so alluring." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/who-is-out-of-touch | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:04:38

• "The Center for Biological Diversity, along with other conservation groups, escalated the fight by suing the city in October 2024." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oak-tree-california-old-saved-developers-b2976228.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:05:13

• "Honda revealed prototypes of two new hybrid models, an Accord sedan and the Acura RDX SUV" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/transportation/931044/honda-hybrid-prototypes-accord-acura-rdx | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:19:19

• "Virginia has become the center of the U.S. data center industry, with more than 660 facilities already operating and hundreds more planned." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/data-center-opponents-claim-victory-in-va/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:19:56

• "But the data center is now facing its first major wave of organized resistance." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-massive-ai-data-center-transforms-rural-utah-into-a-national-flashpoint/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:20:13

• "Despite citing data standards consistent with the OPEN Government Data Act" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/omb-plans-make-it-contract-data-collection-public-federal-cio/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:20:38

• "The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is associated with measurable increases in Africa" ☛ https://www.404media.co/doge-cuts-unleashed-a-deadly-wave-of-violence-across-africa-study-finds/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:21:18

• "Yet this is the opposite of the truth. As a result of Trump’s petulant, self-destructive policies" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-failing-flailing-president-supplicates | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:22:23

• "When I tell someone in a comment thread that I’m a coherentist, that I’m working from outside the rationalist tradition" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-what-a-moral-concept-is | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:22:57

• "Rasmussen was speaking at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Tuesday." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-free-world-without-america | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:23:43

• "Iran war has cost the U.S. approximately $29 billion so far, according to the Pentagon’s acting comptroller, Jules Hurst III" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2026/05/13/us-navy-could-run-out-of-money-by-july-top-officer-warns/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:24:05

• "Before discussing the strengths and failures of the last major anti-war movement, we need to step back and look at US history." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/anti-war-movement-history/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:24:25

• "This is where I ask you, dear reader, has texting people gotten more complicated for you since RCS rolled out?" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/the-war-on-green-bubbles-rages-on/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:24:54

• "The answer, unsurprisingly, is no. Ida Tarbell’s generation offers an alternative roadmap." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/05/surveillance-consumer-worker-protection-levine | Source: Jacobin Magazi   

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:25:43

• "Privacy is a human right because it gives you a fundamental measure of security and freedom" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/online-tracking-isnt-just-unethical-its-dangerous | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:26:07

• "Speaking during a high level panel discussion on Digital IDs, Mr Chinyama explained that while Zambia has experimented with various identity interventions over the years" ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/05/14/zambias-digital-id-ecosystem-takes-centre-stage-at-id4africa-2026-conference/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:27:07

• "Secure messaging service Signal yesterday became the latest company to warn that Bill C-22, the lawful access bill" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/bill-c-22s-groundhog-day-why-the-governments-dismissal-of-signal-apple-and-the-u-s-congress-concerns-runs-back-the-disastrous-online-news-act-playbook/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:27:46

• "Are lawmakers capable of learning from their peers elsewhere? Do we have to do this kind of thing every year, country-by-country?" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/signal-bill-c-22/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:28:10

• "His persistence paid off." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/930573/age-verification-bills-linux-open-source | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:28:34

• Windows TCO: "The package delivered to his home in the US was a warning from the ransomware group he had been having to talk to." ☛ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr71d8vyjv0o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:30:00

• Windows TCO: "In the United States that figure rose to 46%." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ransomware-physical-threats-violence | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:30:12

• Windows TCO: "YellowKey can be triggered simply by merely copying some files to a USB stick and rebooting to the Windows Recovery Environment." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-bitlocker-protected-drives-can-now-be-opened-with-just-some-files-on-a-usb-stick-yellowkey-zero-day-exploit-demonstrates-an-apparent-backdoor | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:30:27

• "The evidence that Latifi collects in Like, Follow, Subscribe could easily support the conclusion that family influencing is unethical, full stop." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/influencer-family-kids-latifi-review/687156/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:32:43

• "The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-treating-workers-poorly | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:33:00

• "Criminal networks are exploiting children in Sweden. Here we explain what warning signs to look out for as a parent and how the Police work to stop the exploitation." ☛ https://polisen.se/en/victims-of-crime/are-you-worried-that-your-child-will-be-lured-into-crime/ |    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:33:44

• "Together, they have written over 1,000 articles for more than 30 different news outlets." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prolific-finance-journalists-facing-questions-over-identities/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:34:19

• "Together, they have written over 1,000 articles for more than 30 different news outlets." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prolific-finance-journalists-facing-questions-over-identities/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:34:33

• "But it turns out that embrace of AI by programmers may come at a steep price." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/engineers-losing-coding-ability-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:34:45

• "supervising, reviewing, and coordinating machine-generated code rather than writing every line themselves" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/gitlab-ai-agents-jevons-paradox/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:35:01

• "My next book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, will be out in about a month – and (once again) Amazon's monopoly audiobook platform refuses to carry it" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/#who-it-does-it-to | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:36:34

• "Anthropic has really been pushing their managed agents product hard lately." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/managed-agents-are-the-new-lambda/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:37:26

• "I don't know why. But my YouTube, Twitter (I still refuse to call the thing X) and Facebook account has been simultaneously infested with AI slop." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/05-15-i-had-enough-with-slops.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:37:51

• "At the same time, Anthropic’s refusal to publicly release its new model makes a virtue out of necessity." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/how-dangerous-is-anthropics-mythos-ai.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:38:09

• "Yes, Googlebook. Not Chromebook. This is a whole new thing. Google is merging Android and ChromeOS into a new laptop platform with Gemini AI baked in from the ground up." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/05/google-just-announced-the-googlebook/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:39:09

• "billionaire entourage for Beijing as MElon and Tim Crook join President on China trip" ☛ https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-tim-cook-trump-china-tech-ceo-b2975568.html | Source: The Independent US    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:39:45

• "(No I'm not linking to it.) Ok first, how in the everloving fuck did you allow a password manager to reach multiple millions of lines??" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/i-see-1password-is-stepping-on-the-rake-again/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:40:06

• "considering what happened with the Pixel and Google’s penchant for unveiling “category defining” devices they never actually sell worldwide, My first reaction was “meh”." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/05/14/1145 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:40:36

• "Besides serving as a place where Microsoft Outlook places suspected spam, the Outlook Junk folder has one additional function that can be quite helpful when it comes to identifying malicious messages." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32990 | Source: SANS    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:41:04

• "I often see newer calculators from HP, like the Prime G2, or “new” HP-like calculators like the ones from SwissMicros, and think I should pick one up." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/ask-hackaday-do-we-need-a-21st-century-calculator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:42:13

• "USB charging has become completely normalized. And sometimes we don’t realize that what we’re plugging into is another computer." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/never-plug-in-raw-again | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:42:29

• "I felt the pain of this, over and over again. Then I finally figured out a solution that’s worked wonderfully for years." ☛ https://sive.rs/n0 | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:43:02

• "Like most of Gen X, I didn’t get any training before I got my first roles that involved managing other people." ☛ https://loudpoet.com/2026/05/14/five-things-may-14-2026/ | Source: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:43:18

• "I think these teachers go by other names—frugality, integrity, humility, and solidarity, to name a few." ☛ https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/freedom-from-unreal-loyalties | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:43:36

• "The bookshelf has many layers of organization: first, where books will fit on the shelves; then, my system of classification, which is unique to my understanding of my own library" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/05/14/bookshelves-as-mental-constructs/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:43:54

• "My BSc thesis is titled “On the algebraicity of GKZ-hypergeometric functions defined by a (hyper)cuboid” and was written under the supervision of Frits Beukers" ☛ https://www.joachimschipper.nl/publications/BSc%20thesis.html | Source: Joachim Hendrik Schipper    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:44:37

• "I came across a post recently by a machine learning engineer who made the bold claim that logistic regression is the worst name for an algorithm ever, or something along those lines." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/05/is-logistic-regression-regression/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:44:55

• "CoCoRaHS is, as the name implies, a community volunteer effort to measure rain, hail, and snow amounts across the member nations. It's also fun as hell." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-05-14 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:45:12

• "A year ago this week, I published the very first post of this newsletter." ☛ https://pointc.co/the-first-year/?ref=the-idea-bucket-newsletter | Source: The Point C Collective LLC    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:47:40

• "Simon Späti’s web is one you’ll enjoy being caught in. You might enter via a blog post – likely on data engineering – then get hooked." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-spati-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:48:46

• "In this edition, I’m trying something a bit more ambitious." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-6-megatrends-of-2026 | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 11:49:24

• Techrights articles are becoming one law firm's best-selling book, with it printing like 100KG of copies of it :)    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:11:29

• "Noah and Steve are at Red Hat Summit 2026! We talk to Stefanie Chiras to talk about her new role as Senior Vice President of the AI Innovation Hub." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/491 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:14:31

• "It's not uncommon that people using filesystems want to map from an internal object number" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSObjectIdToPath | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:15:30

• "Definition: The noscript element provides alternate content when JavaScript is entirely toggled off or entirely unsupported." ☛ https://hacktivis.me/articles/no-noscript-element |    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:16:45

• "And here was where I made my first mistake. Instead of taking one apart and working on it until I either fixed it or broke it beyond repair, I opened them both." ☛ https://cobb.land/posts/game-boy-pocket-repair-failure/ |    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:17:25

• "Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/rs-485-sprinkler-control-scaling-irrigation-across-the-farm/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:17:38

• "The robot which [Namaskar] built was based on an ESP-01F microcontroller, which let it be remote-controlled over Wi-Fi." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/controlling-a-vibrobot-with-only-one-motor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:17:50

• "For a while, one of my little irritations with my Emacs environment was that sometimes, when I fired up Emacs to edit some code and then quit out of it" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsTextModeHooksGotcha | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:21:19

• "I was thinking about how else I could play with the API and decided to do something a bit risky" ☛ https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/05/14/send-me-a-message-in-a-panel | Source: Raymond Camden    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:21:48

• Open Data ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/14/british-street-addresses-when-licenses-collide/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:22:24

• "To celebrate the site’s 25th birthday this year" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/05/14/wp25-wesley-merritt/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:23:26

• "Dependency graphs are the strongest structure available for mapping how open source ecosystems actually connect and intertwine" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/14/centrality-is-not-vitality.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:25:13

• "Productivity over the long haul, he argues, isn't bounded by how fast you can produce code — it's bounded by maintenance cost, which compounds." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/difficulty-scores.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:25:28

• "This is where requirements are born. The goal is to move fast, reduce uncertainty, and get feedback. Here, code is just a means to an end." ☛ https://lorbic.com/why-explaining-technical-difficulty-is-hard/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:25:44

• "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #373." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/list-list.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:31:01

• "Then here is a reminder that you will want to update your account to use a different email address." ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/meta/2026/05/at-cpan-dot-org-on-bpo.html | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:31:53

• [Old] "When I moved the code powering this site from my 64-bit laptop to my 32-bit server, it failed with the message SystemError: new style getargs format but argument is not a tuple." ☛ https://www.joachimschipper.nl/SystemError%20when%20using%20PIL.html | Source: Joachim Hendrik Schipper    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:32:25

• "I started the project with uv init, and added dependencies with uv add and uv add --dev." ☛ https://www.mostlypython.com/profiling-a-uv-based-project/ | Source: Eric Matthes    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:32:40

• "In particle or high energy physics (HEP), by the time you draw a plot the data are almost always already binned." ☛ https://blog.scientific-python.org/introducing-mplhep/ | Source: Scientific Python Blog    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:33:11

• "DWiki is the pile of code that underlies Wandering Thoughts." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/DWikiPython3Now | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:33:27

• "I’ve been running Oh My Zsh (OMZ) on every workstation I’ve ever owned." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/moving-away-from-oh-my-zsh/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:34:16

• "Well this is a fun (and frustrating!) game." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/05/14/css-or-bs/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:34:55

• "A Failing, Flailing President Supplicates Xi" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-failing-flailing-president-supplicates    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:36:50

• "Why Did Trump Take Elon Musk to China? - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-did-trump-take-elon-musk-to-china    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:37:06

• "What Trump’s “Whenever Wars” Reveal About US Empire" https://organizingmythoughts.org/what-trumps-whenever-wars-reveal-about-us-empire/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:37:24

• "Among the first was this list of Trump’s tweets from Harry Sisson, who commonly tracks Trump’s meltdowns." https://emptywheel.net/2026/05/14/gatekeeper-to-narcissistic-meltdown/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:38:08

• "Hyvästi Windows? Näin Linux Mint asentui tavallisen käyttäjän pelikoneeksi - Ilta-Sanomat" https://www.is.fi/digitoday/art-2000011993704.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:38:25

• "It’s 10pm, do you know where Donald Trump is? | US news | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/its-1015-do-you-know-where-your-president-is    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:38:44

• "Both Fedora and Ubuntu Will Get AI Support – Soon - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/05/14/0258245    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:39:23

• iophk: with privatized prisons, recidivism is desired because it is proftitable https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/13/repub/free-prison-jail-calls-linked-to-lower-costs-better-outcomes-in-new-report/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:42:18

• "State Laws Are ‘Leveraging Criminalization as a Tactic Against Trans People’" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/state-laws-are-leveraging-criminalization-as-a-tactic-against-trans-people/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:42:37

• Simple bypass of the link preview function in Outlook Junk folder, (Thu, May 14th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32990    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 12:48:23

• Building Tyr in Rust: CSF architecture and booting the MCU ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/05/14/building-tyr-in-rust-csf-architecture-and-booting-the-mcu/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:00:18

• KDE Gear 26.08 release schedule ☞ https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/05/kde-gear-2608-release-schedule.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:04:48

• KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Release ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.90/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:05:17

• KLV-Airedale – lightweight Void Linux-based distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/klv-airedale-lightweight-void-linux-based-distribution/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:05:42

• Three stable kernels for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1072849/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:06:14

• Yocto Project 6.0 “Wrynose” released with GNU/Linux 6.18 LTS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/14/yocto-project-6-0-wrynose-released-with-linux-6-18-lts/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:07:15

• Container-Based Fedora Hummingbird Designed for Agent-First Builders ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Container-Based-Fedora-Hummingbird-Designed-for-Agent-First-Builders    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:12:29

• "Kickstarter recently featured the IDO Claw campaign, a compact ARM-based system from Wireless-Tag designed for local OpenClaw deployment." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/wireless-tag-previews-ido-claw-arm-platform-with-openclaw-pre-installed/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:15:52

• "The vulnerability does not have CVSS scores assigned in the CVE List or NVD, but Canonical’s assessment indicates a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.8" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/fragnesia-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:16:50

• IBM Red Hat peddling slop again ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/agentic-ai-demands-new-infrastructure-stack-amd-and-red-hat-deliver | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:18:20

• Red Hat participates in LLM hype; this will backfire ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/solving-economics-llm-inference-speculative-decoding | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:18:50

• Red Hat rebrands its products after widely-loathed and misleading misnomers (buzzwords) ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-auto-ml-and-auto-rag-guided-experience-ai-engineers-red-hat-openshift-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:19:27

• Another slopfest or will the bubble be a fad by then? ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/save-date-red-hat-summit-2027-coming-boston | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:20:00

• Renaming one's brands after reviled slop will only discreted the brands ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/scaling-enterprise-ai-delivering-models-service-openshift-ai-34 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:20:35

• "Getting uptime and query statistics from a live MySQL server once meant manually digging through SHOW STATUS output" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/mysql-performance-monitoring/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:24:26

• Eswatini https://www.dw.com/en/taiwan-s-lai-returns-from-eswatini-trip-amid-china-objection/a-77046190    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:25:02

• BSD Now 663: Proxhyve ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/663    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:38:04

• Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/el-nino-killed-50-million    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:43:33

• Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/town-power-data-centers    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:43:54

• Wes Streeting Resigns and Calls for Leadership Contest to Replace Starmer ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/europe/wes-streeting-resigns-starmer-uk-prime-minister.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:44:25

• Another Convicted Felon Appointee Learns It’s Easier to Be a Critic Than a Leader ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/opinion/public-health-leaders-fda-cdc-surgeon-general.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:44:41

• Lithuania's health system is locking out its own doctors ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2926156/lithuania-s-health-system-is-locking-out-its-own-doctors    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:45:01

• Supreme Court preserves telehealth access to abortion pill mifepristone pending appeal ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/supreme-court-preserves-telehealth-access-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone-pending-appeal/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:50:05

• Blood urgently needed in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/14.05.2026-blood-urgently-needed-in-latvia.a647061/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:50:28

• QSB-114: defective chip maker Intel CPU data exposure vulnerability ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/05/14/qsb-114/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:51:48

• Christian Hergert: Limiters in libdex ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/14/limiters-in-libdex/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:52:12

• Malaysia to seek legal action, compensation in row with Norway over scrapped defence deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/update-2-malaysia-to-seek-legal-action-compensation-in-row-with-norway-over-scrapped-defence-deal    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:54:09

• Malaysian singer Namewee acquitted of drug-related charges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-singer-namewee-acquitted-of-drug-related-charges    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 13:54:23

• Slop is like NFTs; a more "successful" derivative of the "crypto" ponzi scheme.    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:10:38

• China urges caution over British Steel nationalisation plan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-urges-caution-over-british-steel-nationalisation-plan    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:21:11

• Taiwan thanks US for support ahead of further Convicted Felon-Xi talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-thanks-us-for-support-ahead-of-further-trump-xi-talks    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:22:00

• Solomon Islands elects former China critic Wale as prime minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/solomon-islands-elects-former-china-critic-wale-as-prime-minister    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:22:17

• Nobel winner Mukwege warns of predatory US deal for DR Congo ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nobel-winner-mukwege-warns-of-predatory-us-deal-for-dr-congo    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:22:57

• Cuba runs out of fuel, diesel amid US blockade ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/cuba-runs-out-of-fuel-diesel-amid-us-blockade    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:23:20

• This New Terminal is Absurd (But Totally Fun) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ratty-terminal/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:24:36

• One Habit May Protect You From Work Stress More Than Exercise, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-habit-may-protect-you-from-work-stress-more-than-exercise-study-says    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 14:25:11

• iophk: The concept of Finlandization is relevant in other EU countries and could be revisited sometime in that context. https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/15/For_Effective_Finlandisation_Digital_Sovereignty_Finland_Needs_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 15:16:50

• Firefox down again to 1.8% https://analytics.usa.gov/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 15:18:54

• nearly all-time low for Windows https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/new-caledonia/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 15:21:18

• Morocco also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/morocco/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 15:22:06

• gulagboy's masto shat itself to death. again. what a genius this man is. https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/07/Microsofters_SLAPP_Censorship_Part_5_Out_of_200_Clearly_Not_a_S.shtml    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 15:33:13

• Anon: How many admins of other mastodon instance understand what crazy matt is, how he works, and the harm that restricted boot code did to the FOSS community? https://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 15:33:44

• Using Weight Loss Drugs May Come With a Downside We Don't Talk About ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/using-weight-loss-drugs-may-come-with-a-downside-we-dont-talk-about    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 16:57:47

• A Common Nutrient Could Give Your Workout a Surprising Boost ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-common-nutrient-could-give-your-workout-a-surprising-boost    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 16:58:51

• Your Eyes Could Reveal Your Risk of Osteoporosis, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-eyes-could-reveal-your-risk-of-osteoporosis-study-finds    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 16:59:07

• Roots of Many Miscarriages Could Trace Back To Before The Mother Is Even Born ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/roots-of-many-miscarriages-could-trace-back-to-before-the-mother-is-even-born    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 16:59:23

• Speaking Two Languages May Affect Dementia Risk in an Unexpected Way ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/speaking-two-languages-may-affect-dementia-risk-in-an-unexpecte   

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 16:59:37

• NASA's Psyche Is About to Use Mars as a Slingshot to a Rare Metal Asteroid ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasas-psyche-is-about-to-use-mars-as-a-slingshot-to-a-rare-metal-asteroid    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 16:59:56

• Affordability crunch also spurs creativity, generosity around the globe ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2026/0514/cost-of-living-inflation-solutions-consumers    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:00:54

• Why Modimir wants Indians to stop buying gold ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/why-modi-wants-indians-to-stop-buying-gold    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:01:10

• Iran’s small businesses collapse under war, inflation and internet blackout ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260514-iran-economy-collapse-internet-blackout-small-businesses-war-inflation    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:01:33

• 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could be left powerless as Hey Hi (AI) data centers inhale electricity supply ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/49-000-lake-tahoe-residents-could-be-left-powerless-as-ai-data-centers-inhale-electricity-supply-power-company-looking-to-redirect-power-to-12-data-centers-high-demand-plus-a-regulatory-limbo-equals-a-dim-situation    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:02:28

• DistroKid Is Now Asking Creators If Their Music Is AI-Generated as ‘Self-Disclosure’ Moves Out of Beta ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/14/distrokid-ai-credit-disclosure-what-it-looks-like/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:03:34

• A Deranged New Wikipedia Clone Is Made Entirely of Surreal Hey Hi (AI) Hallucinations ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deranged-wikipedia-clone-made-entirely-of-ai-hallucinations    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:05:29

• Scam Altman Accuses MElon of Laughing at Memes During Important Proprietary Chaffbot Company Meetings ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/altman-accuses-musk-laughing-at-memes-during-meetings    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:28:45

• Scam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-cross-examination    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:29:09

• MElon Flees Proprietary Chaffbot Company Trial as Tide Turns Against Him ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-flees-trial    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:29:31

• Australian judge criticises Tesla for ‘gobsmacking’ slow progress in class action lawsuit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-judge-criticises-tesla-for-gobsmacking-slow-progress-in-class-action-lawsuit    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:30:17

• Is MElon Running an Illegal Power Plant? The D.O.J. Says It Might Weigh In. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/climate/elon-musk-xai-data-center-doj.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:30:58

• UCF Commencement Speaker Draws Boos After Hey Hi (AI) Remarks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/style/ucf-commencement-ai-booed-gloria-caulfield.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:31:21

• CoC ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/14/cuhk-proposes-new-grounds-to-remove-leaders-replace-alumni-body/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:32:09

• Live Nation/Ticketmaster Ticket-Fee Class Action Rolls Forward Ahead of Scheduled July 2027 Trial ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/14/live-nation-ticket-lawsuit-class-action/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:32:42

• Daily Mail editor known to ‘disrespect women’ drove subordinates to smear poop on restroom walls in protest: suit ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/media/daily-mail-editor-known-to-disrespect-women-drove-subordinates-to-smear-poop-on-restroom-walls-in-protest-suit/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:33:29

• AMD GPU owners take to Reddit to report fan problem with driver update — Zero RPM feature could cause GPU temperatures to rise unexpectedly ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/amd-gpu-owners-take-to-reddit-to-report-fan-problem-with-driver-update-zero-rpm-feature-could-cause-gpu-temperatures-to-rise-unexpectedly    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:34:14

• Saudi Arabia and U.A.E. Carried Out Secret Attacks in Iran, U.S. Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-uae-iran-attacks.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:35:22

• Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, Says £5 Million Gift Was ‘Reward’ for Brexit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/europe/nigel-farage-reform-uk-gift-brexit.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:35:42

• Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New ‘Removal Apparatus’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/green-cards-immigration-deportation-trump.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:36:01

• OT pen test findings that plant teams can actually use ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/ot-pen-test-findings-that-plant-teams-can-actually-use/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:36:30

• Haiti gang clashes kill at least 78 in Port-au-Prince suburbs, UN says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260514-haiti-gang-clashes-port-au-prince-suburbs-78-dead-un   

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:37:10

• Paid-for spam by and for Red Hat to sell slop; this site is not journalism, it's paid to relay PR ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/red-hat-outlines-sovereign-ai-strategy-amid-growing-regulation-control-concerns/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:44:13

• Researcher Drops YellowKey, GreenPlasma backdoored Windows Zero-Days ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/researcher-drops-yellowkey-greenplasma-windows-zero-days/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:44:48

• High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in VMware Fusion ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerability-patched-in-vmware-fusion/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:45:15

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1072838/   

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:46:31

• Yet more paid-for spam of Red Hat, herein openwashing slop; this is what IBM turned the media into ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/building-durable-ai-ecosystem-open-innovation-rhsummit/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:47:47

• Daniel Baumann: Debian: Linux Vulnerability Mitigation (ssh-keysign-pwn) ☞ https://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/posts/20260515-1.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:49:21

• Germany Awards €1.3 Million to KDE for Plasma Desktop Improvements and GNU/Linux Sovereignty Work ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/05/14/germany-awards-e1-3-million-to-kde-for-plasma-desktop-improvements-and-linux-sovereignty-work/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:50:19

• 888 soon: $ uptime - 17:52:30 up 883 days, 9:04, 3 users, load average: 7.22, 7.19, 7.18    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:52:53

• Germany Invests €1M in KDE as Big Tech Alternative ☞ https://linuxstans.com/germany-invests-e1m-in-kde-as-big-tech-alternative/   

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:53:35

• SmartOS 20260514 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:54:26

• Essora 20260514 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/essora    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:54:42

• Mageia 10-rc1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mageia    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:54:57

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS upgrade now open for Ubuntu 25.10 users ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-2604-lts-upgrade-now-available    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:55:29

• BleachBit’s new TUI makes it perfect for headless servers ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/bleachbit-tui    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:56:28

• Rat in Terminal, KDE Dolphine Tweaks and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-20/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:57:38

• systemctl Command in Linux: Start, Stop, and Manage Services ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/systemctl-command-in-linux/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 17:58:37

• I Stopped Using VMs for Demos, and I Run GNU/Linux in the Browser Now ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/blog/webtop-instead-of-vms/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:00:07

• New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-linux-kernel-vulnerability-fragnesia-allows-root-privilege-escalation/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:01:25

• Scrcpy Released 4.0 with Resizable Android Virtual Display ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/05/scrcpy-4-0-resizable-virtual-display/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:03:30

• Reset the ICO ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/reset-the-ico/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:04:59

• The ICO isn’t doing its job – why the data watchdog needs an overhaul ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-ico-isnt-doing-its-job-why-the-data-watchdog-needs-an-overhaul/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:05:19

• Hackers Targeted PraisonAI Vulnerability Hours After Disclosure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-targeted-praisonai-vulnerability-hours-after-disclosure/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:06:04

• F5 Patches Over 50 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/f5-patches-over-50-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:06:22

• 2007: stop talking down the economy!! 2026: stop being a Luddite!! "Hey hi" is de fyucher!!!    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:07:23

• Chinese APTs Expand Targets, Update Backdoors in Recent Campaigns ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apts-expand-targets-update-backdoors-in-recent-campaigns/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:07:48

• iophk: Even if LLMs created quality output like their boosters lie that they do, there is the problem of intellectual atrophy. If you don't code for a while you lose the ability to do so. Same with other skills like writing.    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:09:16

• Food security expert Bülent Şık sentenced to pay damages for health warnings on herbal products ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/food-security-expert-bulent-sik-sentenced-to-pay-damages-for-health-warnings-on-herbal-products-319634    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 18:09:45

• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:37:03

• "Relying on Hey Hi (AI) in the workplace? You may be about to discover a drastic problem" ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-ai-researchers-workslop    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:38:55

• OpenAI Considers Legal Action Against Fashion Company Apple in Strained Relationship ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/technology/openai-apple-legal-action.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:39:28

• OpenAI reportedly mulls taking Fashion Company Apple to court over ChatGPT’s Siri integration ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/14/openai-reportedly-mulls-taking-apple-court-chatgpts-siri-integration/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:39:55

• Get Your WordCamp US 2026 Tickets ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wcus-2026-get-tickets/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:42:31

• WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 4 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wordpress-7-0-release-candidate-4/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:42:54

• Your Cup of Tea Could Contain Billions of Microplastics From One Source ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-cup-of-tea-could-contain-billions-of-microplastics-from-one-source    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:43:20

• Clawdmeter – A DIY ESP32-S3 desk dashboard for Slop Code token usage monitoring ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/14/clawdmeter-a-diy-esp32-s3-desk-dashboard-for-claude-code-token-usage-monitoring/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:44:06

• Scammer speaks for a scam https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/14/technology/openai-trial-sam-altman-elon-musk/microsofts-ceo-testified-about-the-companys-openai-investments    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:45:57

• The syslog-ng Insider 2026-05: OTEL; central log collection; old Mac ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-insider-2026-05-otel-compliance-mac/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:47:34

• More civility on campus – and perhaps beyond ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0514/More-civility-on-campus-and-perhaps-beyond    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:48:13

• UK: Keir Starmer is fighting for his political survival ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/uk-keir-starmer-is-fighting-for-his-political-survival    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:48:35

• After LKQ: The Boilerplate Changed; The Rejection Rate Did Not ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/after-lkq-the-boilerplate-changed-the-rejection-rate-did-not.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:49:03

• ITC Funding Disclosure Proposal Could Reshape Patent Litigation Strategy ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/5/14/itc-funding-disclosure-proposal-could-reshape-patent-litigation-strategy    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:49:32

• Game over: Subsonic prevails against Sony in infringement case over PlayStation controllers ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/game-over-subsonic-prevails-against-sony-in-infringement-case-over-playstation-controllers/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:49:53

• Technology transfer as lousy cover for patent monopolies ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-main/2026/05/technology-transfer-is-getting-a-credential-meant-to-sustain-expertise-and-credibility-over-time/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:50:39

• Signal Warns It Would Pull Out of Canada if Made to Comply with Lawful Access Bill ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful-access-bill/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:51:23

• Nirbheek Chauhan: An Esoteric Type of Memory "Leak" ☞ https://blog.nirbheek.in/2026/05/an-esoteric-type-of-memory-leak.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:53:25

• Site funded by Red Hat ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-expands-openshift-application-development-environment/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:54:43

• Slop kills. Health coverage is getting killed by Surveillance Giant Google Hey Hi (AI) Overviews ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/ai-overviews-publisher-traffic/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:55:39

• Future reveals it is still heavily reliant on Surveillance Giant Google as profit falls 67% ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/future-reveals-it-is-still-heavily-reliant-on-google-as-profit-falls-67/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:56:07

• OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-personal-information-meta-google    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:56:38

• A Top U.S. Commander Dismisses Reports of Civilian Deaths in Iran ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/civilian-deaths-strikes-iran.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:57:08

• India condemns sinking of cargo vessel off Oman after suspected attack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/india-says-attack-that-sank-indian-flagged-ship-off-omans-coast-unacceptable    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:57:55

• From Bahrain to the UAE: Gulf States Expand Anti-Shia Crackdowns During Direct Strikes on Iran ☞ https://www.mintpressnews.com/from-bahrain-to-the-uae-gulf-states-expand-anti-shia-crackdowns-during-direct-strikes-on-iran/290934/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:58:39

• FSF Advertises the Father of Software Freedom Giving a Talk in Germany (a Digital Sovereignty Interest Hub, Sponsor of Free Software) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/14/FSF_Advertises_the_Father_of_Software_Freedom_Giving_a_Talk_in_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:59:03

• PDFview Chromium PDF viewer ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/pdfview-chromium-pdf-viewer.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 21:59:48

• Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-taunts-bambu-lab-by-hosting-banned-3d-printer-firmware-fork-dares-usd1-billion-company-to-sue-him-more-creators-pledge-support-and-boycotts-snapmaker-donates-equipment-to-embattled-developer    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:01:13

• PortaRF single board SDR mixes HackRF One and PortaPack H4M hardware, adds Hey Hi (AI) voice control ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/14/portarf-single-board-sdr-mixes-hackrf-one-and-portapack-h4m-hardware-adds-ai-voice-control/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:01:44

• How To Install PeaZip on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-peazip-fedora-44/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:02:26

• Operating System Age Verification Pushed by Canadian Porn Company ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/operating-system-age-verification    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:02:44

• Lithuania under pressure from US to renew Belarusian fertiliser transit, says FM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2928232/lithuania-under-pressure-from-us-to-renew-belarusian-fertiliser-transit-says-fm    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:03:22

• Lithuania denies airspace use for drone strikes, calls claims Russian disinformation ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2928116/lithuania-denies-airspace-use-for-drone-strikes-calls-claims-russian-disinformation    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:03:36

• Russia pummels Kyiv, killing at least 10 as advance in the east slows ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-pummels-kyiv-killing-at-least-10-as-advance-in-the-east-slows    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:03:52

• Kyiv Court Orders Former Zelenskyy Adviser Yermak Jailed On $3 Million Bail ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-yermak-corruption-trial-bail/33756626.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:04:06

• US Pledges Fresh $1.8 Billion For UN Aid Operations, Including Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-un-aid-global-ukraine/33757137.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:04:22

• Ukraine Death Toll Rises In Russia's 2-Day Air Assault On Kyiv, Other Cities ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-apartment-building-russia-strike/33757413.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:04:38

• Lithuanian president says no point engaging Russia until it ends Ukraine war ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2928308/lithuanian-president-says-no-point-engaging-russia-until-it-ends-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:04:58

• Lithuanian, Finnish presidents call for stronger air defences after drone incidents ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2928311/lithuanian-finnish-presidents-call-for-stronger-air-defences-after-drone-incidents    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:05:16

• Russia Pummels Kyiv in the Largest Drone Attack of the War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/world/europe/ukraine-strike-kyiv-russia-putin.html    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:08:22

• Christian Hergert: A Small Update from France ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/05/14/a-small-update-from-france/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:09:34

• Fun in the RUN instruction: Why container builds with distroless images can surprise you ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/05/14/understanding-distroless-images-red-hat-hardened-images    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:12:28

• Every layer counts: Defense in depth for Hey Hi (AI) agents with Red Bait Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/05/14/every-layer-counts-defense-depth-ai-agents-red-hat-ai    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:13:15

• All about slop this year https://www.redhat.com/en/about/red-hat-summit-newsroom    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:16:04

• 50% slop https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbMP1JcGBmSG1F0kPUCSFuKaQEfJd71TT    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:16:29

• Loaded title, it need not be slop https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/red-hat-ais-foundation-must-be-open-sourcep;  

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:17:28

• VM focus for a change https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2026/05/11/red-hat-positions-openshift-virtualization-as-a-broader-platform-play.aspx    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:18:12

• Vadzo Imaging Expands USB Camera SDK Support with VISPA ARC for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Linux Kernel 6.x https://www.accessnewswire.com/newsroom/en/electronics-and-engineering/vadzo-imaging-expands-usb-camera-sdk-support-with-vispa-arc-for-ubuntu-1166124    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:19:23

• 20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build that steals passwords for coding and cloud credentials https://www.xda-developers.com/20000-linux-users-grabbed-malicious-cemu-build-steals-passwords-coding-cloud-credentials/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:23:29

• Steam Beta brings Big Picture Mode tweaks, Linux improvements and Steam Controller fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steam-beta-brings-big-picture-mode-tweaks-linux-improvements-and-steam-controller-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:26:04

• Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/developers-of-party-animals-announce-an-ai-video-contest-game-gets-a-review-bomb/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:27:03

• Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you're not ready https://www.makeuseof.com/know-these-things-before-switching-to-linux/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:28:23

• "The Yocto Project 6.0, codenamed “Wrynose”, has just been released with Linux 6.18 LTS, about two years after Yocto Project 5.0 “Scarthgap” release with Linux 6.6 LTS." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/14/yocto-project-6-0-wrynose-released-with-linux-6-18-lts/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:29:18

• This Pink Toy Laptop Is Actually a Fully Functional Arch Linux Machine https://www.hackster.io/news/this-pink-toy-laptop-is-actually-a-fully-functional-arch-linux-machine-53caac3c2b39    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:35:15

• "One of my favorite parts of being a Linux user is the lively community. A big part of that community is the Linux content creators who've guided me in the Linux realm. So I'm sharing some of the YouTube channels that have changed my perspective on Linux the most." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-became-better-linux-user-watching-these-youtube-channels/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:36:41

• Brodie Robertson ?? Ouch. https://www.howtogeek.com/i-became-better-linux-user-watching-these-youtube-channels/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:36:50

• AMD announce FSR Upscaling 4.1 officially coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/amd-announce-fsr-upscaling-4-1-officially-coming-to-rdna-3-and-rdna-2/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/amd-announce-fsr-upscaling-4-1-officially-coming-to-rdna-3-and-rdna-2/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:41:12

• The original Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light Complete Edition enter the GOG Preservation Program | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-original-metro-2033-and-metro-last-light-complete-edition-enter-the-gog-preservation-program/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:44:42

• Get some quality classics in the Humble 15th Anniversary Indie Icons Showcase Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/get-some-quality-classics-in-the-humble-15th-anniversary-indie-icons-showcase-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:45:13

• The Talos Principle 3 revealed to be "coming soon" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-talos-principle-3-revealed-to-be-coming-soon/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:45:39

• Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II set for launch on May 21 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/warhammer-40-000-mechanicus-ii-set-for-launch-on-may-21/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/warhammer-40-000-mechanicus-ii-set-for-launch-on-may-21/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 22:46:07

• Build a star-system wide factory in the incremental game Starvester | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/build-a-star-system-wide-factory-in-the-incremental-game-starvester/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:05:01

• ARC Raiders moves to slower larger updates as it crosses over 16 million sales | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/arc-raiders-moves-to-slower-larger-updates-as-it-crosses-over-16-million-sales/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:05:51

• Space colony building sim Space Haven 1.0 is finally here | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/space-colony-building-sim-space-haven-1-0-is-finally-here/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/space-colony-building-sim-space-haven-1-0-is-finally-here/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:07:47

• "I heard there was a TV remake of The ‘Burbs so I called the kids in and told them they were in for a treat. We watched the 1989 original. It must have been 25 years since I last saw this, which is long enough for a rewatch to be a new experience. It was even better than I remembered." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/05/15/burbs/    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:44:53

• "There are way too many cases of conservation projects failing in spectacular manners that environmentalists still fail to call out for various reasons." gemini://magda.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-05-15.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:45:43

• "I went through high school in the mid-late 1990s. It was the era of "Zero Tolerance" - the bonkers theory that if you punish the crap out of the tiniest infractions, nobody will commit larger ones." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-05-15    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:46:30

• The Click Farm Not Taken gemini://thehans255.com/gemlog/2026/05/the-click-farm-not-taken.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:50:28

• "One of SSH's most prominent features is that in addition to getting a login shell on a destination server, it can also forward ports and sockets across the secure channel and open them on the other side." gemini://thehans255.com/gemlog/2026/05/udp-game-forwarding-over-ssh.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:51:46

• Alhena 5.5.9 gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Alhena/43336    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:52:40

• "I have noticed an interesting phenomenon with LLMs. There is something I have never quite understood. From what I have gathered from people talking about LLMs in comments, and blog posts, and chat rooms, and Youtube videos, etc. One of the most common uses for them is looking up information. And I don't get it." gemini://axxuy.com/blog/2026/the-tool-for-the-job.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:53:34

• "I do try to avoid using LLMs where I can, but this particular case is not aversion or resistance for me. It is categorization. I simply that I don't associate them with finding information. When I want to look something up, I go to Wikipedia[*], or Youtube[*]. I go to a search engine and look for blogs and forums."    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:53:50

• The Terminal of Freedom gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-05-15_The_Terminal_of_Freedom.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:55:13

• "For years the state tightened its grip around the internet. Independent news disappeared first. Then discussion forums vanished. Social media became monitored territory filled with informants, bots, and fear. People learned to speak carefully even in private messages. Certain words alone could bring interrogation. Sometimes prison."    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:55:23

• "It's a dangerous world out there and today I got blocked by my own cairn running this page because my publishing frontend didn't correctly close its titan sockets running into a per ip connection limit I implemented." gemini://nthcdr.eu/blog/2026-05-15-feel-good-security-with-bubblewrap.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:56:31

• "Keep in mind that at the moment, none of this is running any code. It's just static gemtext and me, checking my mailbox for requests." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/announcing-phobos.gmi    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:57:54

• pastanza gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/pastanza    

posted Friday, May 15, 2026 at 23:58:37

• &nbs d-way