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posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:55:17

  • "The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of nearly 400 pirate streaming domain names that offered access to FIFA World Cup matches" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-domain-names-of-nearly-400-pirate-sports-streaming-sites/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:56:50

  • "DNS4EU is a relatively young DNS provider that launched last year with European Commission funding." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/eu-backed-dns-resolver-collects-pirate-site-blocklist-which-it-doesnt-use/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:57:13

  • "On the other hand, high-contrast themes can be fatiguing because you’re staring at brighter lights on the screen." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/high-contrast-vs-muted-color-themes/ | Source: Sal    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:58:14

  • "International football fans arriving in America for the World Cup say they are growing frustrated with US tipping culture, as requests for tips appear on even the most basic purchases." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/world-cup-tourists-us-tipping-culture-1805343 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:58:24

  • "repetition of American history." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/japanese-internment-survivors-gather-to-demand-closure-of-texas-ice-jail/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:58:47

  • "Something happened this morning which will have been unnoticed by many, but which for a certain breed of radio enthusiast marks the end of an era." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/requiem-for-long-wave-as-the-bbc-goes-silent/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:59:11

  • "The product of journalism, for decades, has enjoyed substantial protection under the First Amendment. The courts almost never uphold prior restraints on publication or distribution of news." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/opinion/trump-first-amendment-journalists.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:59:27

  • "Birjo Kiik, head of TV and entertainment at Telia, said the decision reflects low demand and a broader shift in how viewers are consuming content." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610064154/telia-cuts-tv-channels-but-keeps-prices-unchanged-as-viewer-habits-shift | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 04:59:45

  • "It is not illegal to play Darth Vader's theme tune, even if it upsets the goons." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/06/26/man-arrested-for-playing-imperial-march-to-troops-occupying-d-c-wins-substantial-settlement.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:00:05

  • "Eight other defendants who did attend the protest received 50 to 100 years each — including two people who left when guards asked them to." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/06/26/a-man-got-30-years-for-moving-boxes-of-left-wing-zines.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:00:17

  • "They tried to scare me into signing it while I was working" ☛ https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/federal-agents-track-down-syracuse-woman-demand-she-remove-instagram-post-about-ice.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:00:55

  • "Where is the address?" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5871369 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:01:08

  • "Lukashenka took the bait. And took it. And took it. In the years that followed, protesters would be arrested for smiling, clapping, and just standing silently: [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/#autodisparagement | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:01:46

  • "Sarah Wynn-Williams served as director of global public policy at Facebook, now operating under parent company Meta Platforms Inc., from 2011 until her firing in 2017." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-06-26/former-executive-sues-meta-over-attempts-to-silence-her-memoir-careless-people | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:02:00

  • "The data goes back to 1995, and May was the worst month for hardware unit sales for Sony in 26 years, and Microsoft ever." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/may-2026-was-the-worst-sales-month-for-xbox-consoles-ever/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:02:34

  • "Smart home reporter Jennifer Pattison Tuohy at The Verge reports that parent company Assa Abloy has folded Level, which it acquired in 2024, into its Kwikset brand and removed the company’s founders: [...]" ☛ https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/06/level-lock-founders-and-engineers-kicked-by-parent-company/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:02:46

  • "the company agreed to a £554,000 ($750,000) settlement over allegations of deceptive marketing and misleading investment materials." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/controversial-student-loan-firm-campus-access-1805340 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:03:07

  • "His focus will include building partnerships and supporting India's wider AI ecosystem, while helping more consumers, businesses, institutions and government bodies benefit from AI" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/uber-india-head-prabhjeet-singh-quits-after-11-years-at-ride-hailing-company/articleshow/132016898.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:03:23

  • "[Of Human and Nature] heeded concerns from commenters and actually tested his hypothesis with a simple set of thermocouples" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/do-metal-roofs-turn-a-bird-house-into-an-oven/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:04:06

  • "Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has announced that it's analyzed sperm whales' pattern of vocalizations" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/06/11/decoding-whale-language-could-unlock-new-legal-rights-for-them.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:04:13

  • "Even Germany’s famous highway, the Autobahn, was overwhelmed." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/german-highways-are-buckling-under-extreme-heat-as-central-europe-sizzles/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:04:54

  • "Made world-famous by the film “Roman Holiday” in 1953, when Gregory Peck gave Audrey Hepburn a romantic lift through Rome’s center" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0627/vespa-rome-motor-scooter-moped-piaggio-italy | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:05:03

  • "My strategies for keeping cool have been to air out everything at night, and if possible draw in and circulate air via a fan during some of it." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/germany-heat/ | Source: Ava    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:05:27

  • "Little relief is on the horizon for California and the Desert Southwest" ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/06/27/drought-monitor-report-heat-and-fire-grip-colorado-river-basin/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:05:47

  • "Lead levels were highest in the structural ash from a fraction of homes built before the 1970s, likely from lead-based paints used at the time, according to the team." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-home-soils-uneven-arsenic-contamination.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:06:29

  • "Given those climate realities, the most successful, influential and forward-thinking universities won't be measuring excellence using status rankings and H-factors." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-local-universities-vital-role-play.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:07:04

  • "Danish Meteorological Institute reports new record of 37 C in Ødum — warmest day since records began in 1874" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-heatwave-2026-temperature-records-broken-9.7251458 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:07:23

  • "as humans continue to burn oil, gas and coal, releasing the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, Europe is becoming the fastest-warming continent." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/heres-what-southern-europeans-know-about-surviving-heat-waves/a-77713479 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:07:36

  • "Tens of millions are braving a weekend of extreme temperatures in Europe as a deadly heatwave moves eastwards, with some countries announcing rising death tolls and health services warning of saturation." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/records-tumble-as-european-heatwave-moves-east-9700523 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:09:12

  • "The Po River's flow has collapsed in a matter of days, dropping below 300 cubic meters per second, compared with an average of around 1,500 in June, according to Aipo, the interregional river agency." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/farmers-fear-drought-as-italys-longest-river-runs-dry-731422946 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:09:27

  • "Yet despite repeated warnings and rising awareness, heatwaves still bring large parts of the continent to its knees." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/27/decades-climate-warnings-why-europe-so-unprepared-rising-heat | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:09:48

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1694.jpg    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:11:53

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2050.jpg    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:11:58

  • The sight of my life gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2838    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:13:18

  • 2026 Week 12-26: Photos gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202606/20260627-2026-week-12-26-photos.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:13:57

  • the wanting gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_wanting    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:15:10

  • "What I want to touch on here, rather briefly, is the cult of neolibralism and how it's come to completely hijack all of the systems we have in the United States." gemini://bouteloua.fyi/misc/neoliberal.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:15:51

  • "What is it that makes us human, that separates us from other creatures? Some may say that we have a soul and spirit. Those are difficult things to operationalise, so less religiously inclined people may point to emotions or intelligence." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-06-28.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:16:29

  • "House Oversight's Epstein probe took a turn Friday when Chairman James Comer issued two subpoenas to billionaire Leon Black during questioning" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/06/26/leon-blacks-epstein-testimony-ends-with-congress-demanding-receipts.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:18:07

  • "But thanks to the Wonders of the Internet" ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/06/27/#andor | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:18:27

  • "Yet the mainstream media refuse to call him out on his Iran lies." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-wont-the-media-call-this-for | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:18:45

  • "Outdoor recreation generates $1.2 trillion in economic output annually, supports 5 million jobs" ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/06/26/federal-land-and-water-agencies-count-visitors-in-pilot-projects/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:19:27

  • "divert the water to green up the properties of about 7,500 landowners" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/deschutes-river-oregon-solutions | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:19:34

  • "eSafety Commissioner" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/australia-toughens-kids-social-media-ban-doubles-potential-penalties-for-tech-firms/articleshow/132037633.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:20:19

  • "good Muslims" ☛ https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/i-do-not-want-australia-like-great-britain-one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-says-some-muslim-immigration-should-be-banned/news-story/e269b265d6f97ba566c4b4ccbdfb1c92 |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:20:34

  • "The thoughtful thieves who'd been under our house to steal the copper water lines, that's who did that." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/catch-a-break/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:20:57

  • "At National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0627/ukraine-university-russian-studies-know-your-enemy | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:21:10

  • "On June 19, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that Lukashenko remove relay stations along the Belarus-Ukraine border" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/06/26/putin-welcomes-lukashenko-to-his-private-valdai-retreat-just-after-kyiv-claimed-the-border-relay-stations-helping-direct-russian-strikes-on-ukraine-had-stopped-working | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:21:18

  • "'Mean Girls' meme as a cover slide saying 'Get in, loser, we're upgrading the internet' On June 24th" ☛ https://www.netmeister.org/blog/pqc-certs.html | Source: Jan Schaumann    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:21:55

  • "Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawless threats from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/06/27/california-legislature-agrees-to-upload-drivers-licenses-to-national-database/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:22:21

  • "That’s a problem for anyone other than Google and Meta." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/total-independence/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:22:32

  • [Old] "Poettering to slowly but steadily infiltrate, control and eventually crush the Linux ecosystem" ☛ https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20260621.132524.4c0f261e.en.html | Source: Dyne    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:23:20

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/day-to-day-cyber-incidents-driving-losses-smes-report-eir-microsoft-university-limerick | Source: Silcon Republic    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:23:43

  • "But it’s worth remembering that these AI models are black boxes that respond to information queries in opaque ways." ☛ https://werd.io/are-frontier-models-really-too-dangerous/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:24:32

  • "Investors are now in that dangerous situation of being hardened to anything that gets in the way of pumping more cash into stock markets." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/27/ai-bubble-crash-tech-firms-stock-markets | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:25:03

  • "Of course, SoftBank is not the goose that lays the golden eggs. ARM Holdings is the goose." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:25:19

  • "If you look at Apple's business model, it is essentially a 50-year bet that it can maximize profit by owning as much of its production process as possible." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/06/27/apple-micron-ram-shortage-vertical-integration/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:26:01

  • "If you submitted your talk via Papercall (when it was working), we have recovered your submissions and there is no need to resubmit." ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2026/06/urgent-ppc-summer-2026-update.html | Source: Perl    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:26:12

  • "Rachel pointed out that one can buy packets of pectin designed to confer success on small batches." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/small-batch-artisanal-fruit-preserve | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:26:32

  • "Last Thursday I talked about retiring my RTX 3070 for a new AMD RX 9060 XT. This garnered a few questions from you fine people, which I’ve aggregated here." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/faqs-on-my-amd-rx-9060-xt/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:26:54

  • "My faves are the ones with thermoelectric coolers in the middle of the fan: a small plate that is so cold that it is covered with icy condensation." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2026/06/27/filtered | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:27:04

  • "What is this?" ☛ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/22/ultra-wide-05x-lenses-have-utility-beyond-photography | Source: John Gruber    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:27:16

  • "Two years after the last Synthesised event, I was back again with a revised History of PC Audio exhibit." ☛ https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2026-06-27/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:27:27

  • "For this angular imitation machine it would have been nice to use a blower-style GPU, to exhaust the hot air rather than dump it all into the case." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/cramming-a-mini-itx-gaming-pc-into-a-3d-printed-steam-machine-sized-case/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:27:39

  • "This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Anne Lee Steele, whose blog can be found at aleesteele.com." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/anne-lee-steele | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:27:59

  • "The large-scale digitization of analogue archives, the emerging diverse forms of born-digital archive, and the new ways in which researchers across disciplines" ☛ https://ai-collaboratory.net/ieee-big-data-2026-cas-11/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:28:16

  • "I share the call for proposals below for the 11th Computational Archival Science Workshop (part of the 2026 IEEE Big Data Conference), on behalf of program committee members Richard Marciano and Jane Greenberg." ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/cfp-11th-computational-archival-science-cas-workshop-nov-9-2026 | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:28:30

  • "To stay afloat, some municipally owned bookstores are expanding beyond books, stocking everything from handbags and scarves to household and cosmetic products." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2971157/number-of-bookstores-in-lithuania-falls-nearly-40-in-a-decade | Source: LRT    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:28:44

  • "Lately, I came to realize that the present is worse than our recent past. This realization is corroborated by a number of facts and is not a nostalgic aberration. Humanity is entering a treacherous era with unprecedented existential risks in science and technology." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/humanity-must-become-interstellar-the-sooner-the-better-7434f96237b1 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:29:23

  • "Understanding this process is more valuable than memorizing isolated facts, because it equips people to evaluate new claims, recognize weak evidence, and distinguish genuine scientific consensus from speculation or misinformation." ☛ https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/06/27/260627-not-an-information-problem/ | Source: Panagiotis Vryonis    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:29:42

  • "The previous post looked at how many digits are in the reduced fraction for the nth harmonic number. I was curious about how long the cycle of digits in a harmonic number might be." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/27/decimal-period/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:29:56

  • "The previous post looked at writing the harmonic numbers as reduced fractions and estimating the number of digits in the numerator and denominator based on asymptotics." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/27/height-of-harmonic-numbers/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:30:05

  • "The nth harmonic number is the sum of the reciprocals of the first n positive integers." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/26/writing-down-harmonic-numbers/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:30:17

  • "By briefly subjecting a copper-oxide superconductor to extreme pressure and then rapidly releasing it, they achieved superconductivity at 151 kelvin (minus 190 degrees Fahrenheit) under ordinary pressure." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/superconductivity-at-normal-pressure | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:30:29

  • "You all know the reasons why it is like that. I don’t have to talk about it." ☛ https://ludditus.com/2026/06/27/furious-german-youtuber-packs-his-bags-japan-via-cyprus/ | Source: Homo Ludditus    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:32:23

  • "It reminded me that having a blog also means knowing when to stay silent and when to speak — whenever you actually have something to say, whatever that may be. And today, I felt like writing." ☛ https://contino.com/blog/where-the-f-did-you-go | Source: Andrea Contino    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:32:36

  • "While the attempts to collectively gaslight the entire world into believing this technology is anything more than an elaborate pyramid scheme branded in warm orange and transitional serifs continue unabated, there is a world of opportunities away from the noise and clamour." ☛ https://mindfuldesign.xyz/by-humans/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:32:52

  • "So what is important when taking notes?" ☛ https://www.ssp.sh/blog/process-smart-note-taking/ | Source: Simon Späti    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:35:10

  • "get it written down while you can! And don’t avoid writing something down because you think it’s dangerous to say and everyone already knows it" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/saying-the-obvious-thing/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:35:37

  • "Are you sitting on drafts or mockups waiting to go live, "just need a little polish"? Put them out there!" ☛ https://robertbirming.com/your-blog-wont-explode/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:36:06

  • "Life’s still difficult, past’s still painful, but I’m in a different place mentally and physically." ☛ https://www.michalzelazny.com/blog/perseverance | Source: Michal Zelazny    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:36:15

  • "Om Malik and I had this back and forth on Jan 8, 2024. He’d just written something about how Wired, the publication where I’d made my home for most of the previous 20 years, had lost its way." ☛ https://crazystupidtech.com/2026/06/27/how-an-argument-with-om-spawned-this-newsletter-rip-brother/ | Source: Crazy Stupid Tech    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:36:38

  • "What was surprising was not only that two major earthquakes occurred but that the second struck just 39 seconds after the first." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-venezuelas-second-earthquake-so-damaging-to-buildings/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:36:53

  • "He founded GigaOm in 2001, a technology news and analysis publication that became one of the most influential voices in tech media before being sold to Knowingly in 2015. He subsequently joined venture capital firm True Ventures as a partner." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/om-malik-silicon-valley-tech-journalist-gigaom-founder-dies/articleshow/132006926.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:37:25

  • "I built the same in-memory string → string cache six ways, using nothing but the Go standard library, and benchmarked them under read-heavy, balanced, and write-heavy load across 1 to 8 cores." ☛ https://strebkov.dev/posts/shard-your-locks/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:42:34

  • "Let’s talk about nil pointer checks in Go. You want to prevent panics in production, but that doesn’t start with a deferred recover. It starts with defensive programming." ☛ https://konradreiche.com/blog/excessive-nil-pointer-checks-in-go/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:42:45

  • "Let’s talk about nil pointer checks in Go. You want to prevent panics in production, but that doesn’t start with a deferred recover. It starts with defensive programming." ☛ https://konradreiche.com/blog/excessive-nil-pointer-checks-in-go/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:43:07

  • "A common pattern in Python is to store the data in an extra attribute directly on the object, like module._all_used_names = ...." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/06/27/python-weak-key-dict-pattern/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:43:31

  • "The Exploratory Data Analysis techniques for time series fit the package quite well, although I don’t have many of those yet." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/06/stick-function-for-the-eda-in-time-series/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:43:52

  • "The modules are available on MetaCPAN" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/06/announce-perlwiki-v-149-etc.html | Source: Perl    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:44:09

  • "Given an array of data, what is the slowest way to sum up the integers? Is it adding the numbers from left to right, adding them randomly, or doing something else?" ☛ https://blog.weineng.me/posts/slowest_add/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:44:28

  • "This behaviour is often surprising for a lot of Elixir developers, as it seemingly breaks commutative property of boolean operators. However, to be honest, these never were commutative because of short circuiting." ☛ https://hauleth.dev/post/guards-guards/ | Source: Łukasz Niemier    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:44:37

  • "Therefore, we will start looking at the purpose of architectural work in this post." ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/essence_of_architecture_3/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:44:46

  • "A fast/slow merge that rejoins after a call forces callee-saved spills onto the hot path, and shrink-wrapping can't remove them." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2026-06-27-a-deep-dive-into-smallvector-push-back | Source: MaskRay    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:45:05

  • "Week six of the roundup, built from the package manager OPML feed collection and whatever I’ve posted or boosted on Mastodon." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/27/this-week-in-package-management.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:45:15

  • "clean bell curve" ☛ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2026/06/27/greatest-goat-of-all-time/ | Source: Allen Downey    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:46:34

  • "Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site, which lies out of bounds of familiar logging tracks." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/deep-in-the-mexican-jungle-archaeologists-discovered-a-lost-maya-city-that-may-yield-clues-about-the-civilization-just-before-it-collapsed-180989030/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:46:50

  • "Researchers hacked through more than three miles of vegetation to get to the site" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/deep-in-the-mexican-jungle-archaeologists-discovered-a-lost-maya-city-that-may-yield-clues-about-the-civilization-just-before-it-collapsed-180989030/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:47:06

  • "In its purest form, a relationship in a database consists of a single foreign key on one table that points to the primary key of another table." ☛ https://waymondo.com/posts/are-exclusive-arcs-evil/ |    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:47:42

  • "A few weeks ago I learned about a new project called bubbles.town that aims to collect and “bubble up” the best of the best of personal blogs." ☛ https://www.readwriterachel.com/housekeeping/2026/06/27/now-on-bubbles-town.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:48:02

  • "Then you migrate to Jellyfin. Tautulli stops working because it only speaks Plex. Jellyfin doesn't have a built-in equivalent. You're suddenly flying blind." ☛ https://jasontucker.blog/from-plex-to-jellyfin-part-7-tautulli-to-streamystats/ | Source: Jason Tucker    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:48:25

  • "Take this example robot from October 2008. Link-rot hasn’t been kind to the original project" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/hacking-routers-like-its-2008/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:50:00

  • "The concept is simple enough" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/a-quantum-magic-8-ball/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:50:07

  • "At some point between 24.04 and 26.04, Canonical switched from booting servers using initramfs-tools" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2604ServerSoftwareRaidBoot | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:55:45

  • "We have a laptop with a broken arrow key. It's quite annoying! I wondered how easy it would be to remap a different key to be the right arrow key?" ☛ https://www.jamesleighton.com/how-to-remap-keyboard-buttons-in-linux/ | Source: James Leighton    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:56:41

  • "For me, though, it tends to create more frustration than fun." ☛ https://contino.com/blog/on-completionism | Source: Andrea Contino    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:57:07

  • "Have you ever needed to make a program use a proxy, but the program simply doesn't support proxy settings?" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/install-configure-proxychains-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:57:36

  • "Heading offset is a long-awaited feature, and I hope it will soon make its way into other browsers as well." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/content-aware-headings | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 05:57:44

  • When people perish at a young age, like Om Malik, there are many tributes, not just because they die "too early" but because many of the people who know them are still alive and lucid, and moreover they can remember what they did, as it was recent enough. That does not apply to people who die at 90+.    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 06:01:46

  • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: end of june 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/06/27/misc-fedora-bits-end-of-june-2026/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:06:21

  • FAQs on my AMD RX 9060 XT ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/faqs-on-my-amd-rx-9060-xt/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:09:39

  • At Ukrainian university, Russian studies program has new appeal: Know thy enemy ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0627/ukraine-university-russian-studies-know-your-enemy    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:10:44

  • Pluralistic: Kapo-berg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:12:12

  • "Olimex recently featured the WCH CH32V006EVT, a low-cost evaluation board for the RISC-V-based CH32V006K8U6 microcontroller." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/wch-ch32v006evt-board-supports-zephyr-for-low-cost-risc-v-development/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:13:05

  • "Revelation on Used Computers! They’re Not Slow!" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/used-2026-x:9    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:13:26

  • iophk: EEE, decommodification a la The Halloween Documents, openwashing (of systemd) https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20260621.132524.4c0f261e.en.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:13:41

  • ""How to Think About AI": Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More - YouTube" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBUzl_IaWIw    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:13:51

  • Heat and heatwave across Europe | "Varme og hedebølge over Europa | Vejret | DR" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/varme-og-hedeboelge-over-europa?focusId=11952149    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:14:11

  • "'He's Such a Fraud': Trump Cakes Bruised Hands in Makeup as Solon Demands Answers Over 'Terminal Illness' Rumours | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hes-such-fraud-trump-cakes-bruised-hands-makeup-solon-demands-answers-over-terminal-1805389    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:14:29

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posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:14:44

  • "Pauline Hanson denounced Islam. Where are the religious leaders?" https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/hanson-denounced-islam-where-are-the-religious-leaders-20260626-p60adk.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:14:57

  • XDG Desktop Portal Location API for KDE applications ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/06/27/kde-xdg-portal-location-api.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:17:12

  • openmamba 20260627 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmamba    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:22:28

  • Drauger 7.8 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/drauger    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:22:35

  • South Korea, Japan reaffirm pledge to denuclearise Korean peninsula ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-japan-reaffirm-pledge-to-denuclearise-korean-peninsula    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:28:22

  • Malaysia civil servants to get hybrid working days twice a week ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-civil-servants-to-get-hybrid-working-days-twice-a-week    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:28:49

  • French hospitals struggle in heatwave: Emergency services strained by increased call volume ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-hospitals-struggle-in-heatwave-emergency-services-strained-by-increased-call-volume    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:29:21

  • Margine – immutable GNU/Linux desktop distribution built for creators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/margine-immutable-linux-desktop-distribution/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:29:46

  • Margine – immutable GNU/Linux desktop distribution built for creators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/margine-immutable-linux-desktop-distribution/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:29:54

  • Three stable kernel updates ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1079852/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:32:36

  • Premature boasting ☞ https://blog.einval.com/2026/06/27#its_dead_jim    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:34:57

  • Premature boasting ☞ https://blog.einval.com/2026/06/27#its_dead_jim    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:35:32

  • I had to fix the Slackware 15.0 git repository ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/i-had-to-fix-the-slackware-15-0-git-repository/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:36:09

  • 3D Printers are actually very useful ☞ https://kevquirk.com/3d-printers-are-actually-very-useful    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:36:34

  • Chinese Framework Powers 200,000 Scam Sites ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-framework-powers-200000-scam-sites/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:37:55

  • John Bolton pleads guilty to retaining classified information ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/john-bolton-pleads-guilty-to-retaining-classified-information/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:38:33

  • Voting begins in delayed New Caledonia provincial elections ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/voting-begins-in-delayed-new-caledonia-provincial-elections    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:39:20

  • Katie Phang Just Made Jeffrey Epstein Central to Todd Blanche’s Bid for Confirmation ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/06/27/katie-phang-just-made-jeffrey-epstein-central-to-todd-blanches-bid-for-confirmation/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:47:28

  • AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding Hey Hi (AI) Slop Into Them ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-contractors-slop-data-training    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:50:21

  • Tom Hanks Frets Hey Hi (AI) Could Voice Woody in Even More “Toy Story” Movies ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tom-hanks-ai-woody-toy-story-forever    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:50:41

  • Australian plan to partly reserve gas for residents causes jitters in Asia; experts say exports are safe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-plan-to-reserve-gas-for-residents-causes-jitters-in-asia-experts-say-exports-are-safe    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:51:18

  • We Crunched the Data: There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/opinion/grocery-prices-inflation.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:51:40

  • Apple reportedly lobbies Uncle Sam for access to Chinese memory chips — tech giant allegedly wants to buy from blacklisted CXMT ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-reportedly-lobbies-uncle-sam-for-access-to-chinese-memory-chips-tech-giant-allegedly-wants-to-buy-from-blacklisted-cxmt    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:52:08

  • Arduino launches Modulino Hub and Extender modules to support up to 64 I2C devices, 30-meter range ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/28/arduino-modulino-hub-extender-modules-64-i2c-devices-30-meter-range/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 10:52:33

  • parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20260622 ('Rape Gang Inquiry') released [stable] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10908    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:00:52

  • EasySR screen recorder fix audio cutoff ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202606/easysr-screen-recorder-fix-audio-cutoff.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:01:21

  • GEEKOM A7 2026 Edition Review – Part 3: Ubuntu 26.04 on an AMD Ryzen 5 7545U mini PC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/27/geekom-a7-2026-edition-review-part-3-ubuntu-26-04-on-an-amd-ryzen-5-7545u-mini-pc/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:01:53

  • Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2026/25 & 26 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/06/tumbleweed-review-of-the-weeks-2026-25-26/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:02:36

  • Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/korean-workers-strike-robots-replace    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:10:01

  • US strikes Iran again as Tehran hits Bahrain and Kuwait ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260628-us-strikes-more-targets-in-iran-as-fragile-ceasefire-comes-under-renewed-strain    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:15:30

  • US-Iran ceasefire threatened by renewed strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-iran-ceasefire-threatened-by-renewed-strikes    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:15:48

  • Mideast Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Trade More Strikes, Testing Truce ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/27/world/us-iran-strikes-hormuz    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:16:05

  • US federal judge blocks DOJ from seizing medical records of transgender minors at NYC hospitals ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/us-federal-judge-blocks-doj-from-seizing-medical-records-of-transgender-minors-at-nyc-hospitals/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:17:36

  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Cozy Cleaner - 2026-06-24 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-06-24-edition/index.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:18:24

  • Jonathan McDowell: onak 0.6.5 released ☞ https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2026/06/onak-0.6.5.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:19:49

  • YouTube video Part-7 version update ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202606/youtube-video-part-7-version-update.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:24:15

  • John Bolton pleads guilty: Former US national security advisor misused classified information ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/john-bolton-pleads-guilty-former-us-national-security-advisor-misused-classified-information    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:25:09

  • 13 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-graphical-bittorrent-clients/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:26:16

  • Tewi – text-based interface for managing BitTorrent clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tewi-text-based-interface-managing-bittorrent-clients/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:26:24

  • TorrentTUI – terminal-based BitTorrent client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/torrenttui-terminal-based-bittorrent-client/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:26:36

  • Gopher (Protocol) Turns 35, Gemini is 28 Years Younger ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/27/Gopher_Protocol_Turns_35_Gemini_is_28_Years_Younger.shtml    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:26:46

  • How to Install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-nvidia-cuda-toolkit-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:27:36

  • Sony PlayStation Deleting Purchased Movies ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/sony-playstation-deleting-purchased    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:27:58

  • Seoul says Chinese, Russian military aircraft enter its air defence zone ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-says-chinese-russian-military-aircraft-enter-its-air-defence-zone    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:29:04

  • Russian Drone Barrage Kills 2 In Ukraine As Kyiv Says It Hit Russian Arms Plant ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-hits-russian-arms-plant-volgograd-drone-barrage/33790070.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:29:30

  • blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum blah blah blah quantum https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0627/quantum-computing-research-cybersecurity    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:30:00

  • TIGER COMPUTING LTD Sent Us Threats Half a Decade Ago (Because of Criticism of Their In-House Debian Developer), Now the Company's Debt is Deepening ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/27/TIGER_COMPUTING_LTD_Sent_Us_Threats_Half_a_Decade_Ago_Because_o.shtml    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:30:12

  • This Week in Linux 349: Steam Machine Prices Revealed, Akrites for FOSS Security, GIMP from 1996, & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-349/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:31:55

  • Steam Machine scalping hits $3,000 on eBay as sellers list preorder reservations — scalpers already flipping queues for 2X the MSRP of the 2TB model ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/steam-machine-scalping-hits-usd3-000-on-ebay-as-sellers-list-preorder-reservations-scalpers-already-flipping-queues-for-2x-the-msrp-of-the-2tb-model    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:33:24

  • FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 26, 2026 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/06/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-june-26-2026/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:34:10

  • VLC manages to pull some album track titles for some old CDs, e.g. Titanic soundtrack. Does that mean that some alternative online database showed up online after some classic ones went offline?    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:35:54

  • Linux based https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/commodore-drops-callback-flip-ohine-to-399-by-defaulting-to-recycled-memory-chips    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:37:56

  • New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Fish and Dimhaven The lost Source - 2026-06-27 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-06-27-edition/index.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:38:27

  • Modded Steam Controller can automatically charge itself like a robot vacuum ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/modded-steam-controller-can-automatically-charge-itself-like-a-robot-vacuum-enthusiast-creates-github-program-that-uses-the-vibration-motor-to-walk-it-back-to-its-docking-station    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:39:03

  • How to Build a Raspberry Pi Stock Market Dashboard with Dash and Plotly ☞ https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-stock-market-monitoring-and-analysis/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:39:58

  • Deranged Stalker Uses Hey Hi (AI) to Edit Her Imaginary Baby Into Man’s Photos ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/stalker-ai-imaginary-baby    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:40:46

  • The Best Diet For Brain Health Is Probably Not What You Think ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-best-diet-for-brain-health-is-probably-not-what-you-think    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:42:09

  • This Week in Science: An Earthquake Shift, a Black Hole First, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-an-earthquake-shift-a-black-hole-first-and-more    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:42:19

  • Small aircraft crashes in Beijing over past 20 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/small-aircraft-crashes-in-beijing-over-past-20-years    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:43:00

  • ‘Vespa is a way of life’: Thousands ride through Rome as Italy’s iconic scooter turns 80 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260627-vespa-is-a-way-of-life-thousands-ride-through-rome-as-italy-s-iconic-scooter-turns-80    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:43:22

  • Chinese Dissident Who Fled by Sea to South Korea Lands in Canada ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/world/americas/china-dissident-dong-guangping-canada.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:43:41

  • Giant Fire Tornadoes Could Help Clean Oil Spills, Scientists Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-fire-tornadoes-could-help-clean-oil-spills-scientists-say    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:44:07

  • Are Frozen or Canned Fruit & Veg as Healthy as Fresh? An Expert Explains. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/are-frozen-or-canned-fruit-veg-as-healthy-as-fresh-an-expert-explains    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:44:21

  • There Is a Universal Law in The Shape of All Poop, Physicists Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/there-is-a-universal-law-in-the-shape-of-all-poop-physicists-reveal    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:44:38

  • The Most Iconic Aussie Food Ever Just Got a Controversial Recipe Change ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-most-iconic-aussie-food-ever-just-got-a-controversial-recipe-change    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:44:49

  • Hong Kong Originals: From oolong tea to scorpionfish soup, 3 millennials’ quest to brew a new wave of local flavours ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/06/28/hong-kong-originals-from-oolong-tea-to-scorpionfish-soup-3-millennials-quest-to-brew-a-new-wave-of-local-flavours/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:45:03

  • Where can you find a taste of Colombia in Mexico City? ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/food/colombian-food-in-mexico-city/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:45:26

  • "Linux servers and desktop distros are essentially the same thing. Am I wrong? A minimalist distro serves the same job as one designed as a server. Ignoring convenience for a second, they're entirely configurable to suit any need. Understanding that changes how you use and see Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/my-linux-desktop-made-more-sense-after-i-started-treating-it-like-a-server/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:47:33

  • Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008 https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/hacking-routers-like-its-2008/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:50:16

  • Microsoft made a Linux distro, and it's not what you'd expect https://www.howtogeek.com/microsoft-made-a-linux-distro-and-its-nothing-like-what-youd-expect-from-them/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:50:55

  • "If you fancy a Windows 11 layout, but want to use Linux, you're in luck." https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-made-linux-look-like-windows-11-for-free-simple-tweaks-to-zorin-os/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:51:35

  • They are feeding a slopfarm https://boingboing.net/2026/06/27/reviving-old-pcs-with-linux-now-that-new-ones-cost-an-arm-and-a-leg.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:52:04

  • "Linux kernel 7.1 is making its way into the stable repositories of popular distros, including Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-0-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-1    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:52:25

  • "So, I have an old PC. I think its motherboard celebrated its 10th birthday the other day. It's on old hardware, but it can still go on the web and stream media just fine. Gaming is way out of the question, but I don't use it to play games anyway, so it's fine." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-refuse-to-upgrade-to-windows-11-heres-what-im-doing-instead/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:52:50

  • DirtyClone: Fourth Linux Kernel Flaw in Six Weeks Escalates to Root https://securityaffairs.com/194338/uncategorized/dirtyclone-fourth-linux-kernel-flaw-in-six-weeks-escalates-to-root.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:53:13

  • "These two user-friendly distributions take different routes to the 'best Linux' crown. In the end, it all comes down to the desktop." https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-vs-refreshos-best-distro-for-new-users/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:53:41

  • 3 must-have Linux terminal apps to try this weekend (Jun 26-28) https://www.howtogeek.com/must-have-linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-jun-26-28/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:56:00

  • 2 Linux kernel flaw PoCs published, enabling local privilege escalation https://www.scworld.com/news/2-linux-kernel-flaw-pocs-published-enabling-local-privilege-escalation    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:56:25

  • "Shotcut 26.6 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software that introduces new features and improvements." https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-26-6-open-source-video-editor-released-with-vulkan-on-linux-support    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 11:56:46

  • "Don' t take life so serious, it ain't nohow permanent. "-- Walt Kelly    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 13:39:32

  • he died at 60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 13:40:31

  • "Again, for some reason that I'm not currently understanding, one of my replies went to the originator, and not to the list. Sorry again :( Obviously something stupid that I'm doing (probably something to do with the heatwave . . . )" https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20260628.103433.f6e68b7c.en.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 15:34:00

  • Older tech workers are retiring at 55. But claiming Social Security early offers smaller checks for life. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/older-tech-workers-retiring-55-104500266.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 15:59:48

  • Hype turns into sheet hatred https://boingboing.net/2026/06/27/americans-increasingly-hate-ai-but-love-chatting-with-it.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:00:46

  • [sheer] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-and-ai-methodology/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:03:58

  • s/men arrested for strangling women/men who went to prison for strangling women/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_121_Out_of_200_One_Day_We_ll_Discover_Wha.shtml    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:20:52

  • Remark on https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Whistleblowers_Improve_the_World.shtml "Bill Binney was more a warning to Snowden than an inspiration. Ed knew from Binney's experience what would happen if he tried to stay within the official channels."    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:21:30

  • "That was the biggest single factor in his decision to shop the story around to the media. Only the one took him up on it, oddly."    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:21:35

  • The rage-posting mania from shoebox man has stopped and he now openly admits he cannot distinguish between orders, judgements, and hearings. Does not even know what a judge is. He is no LIP, so he only pretends to be Mr.-know-it-all.    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:25:32

  • Now at 41 https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_10?view=theater#page/n198/mode/2up https://www.gnu.org/gnu/byte-interview.en.html    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:26:06

  • not much has changed since https://web.archive.org/web/20211125104054/https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/ms-security.shtml    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 16:38:27

  • Meanwhile, shoebox man advertises his stupidity/ignorance, failing to distinguish hearing/argument ("Hearing) from "Judgement". Maybe he'll sober up and spot his own mistake some day. Some day...    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 17:21:35

  • "This is something of a follow-up to my post from a few weeks back, about the impending closure of the Canadian shortwave time station CHU and BBC 4 on its historic 198 kHz longwave frequency. I'm writing it, for the record, while listening to a jazz program on Radio Romania International on 15130 kHz." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/chu-bbc-antarctic-midwinter-broadcast-fireflies-and-bbc4-on-lw.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 17:55:48

  • "and quite a big one: a not very efficient, but a very meditative way of journaling. one letter per square, then color in the spaces between words. that way i still express something, but it really doesn't have to be a lot to fill up the whole page. carefully color things in, arrive at a pattern." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260628    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 17:56:31

  • "Most people who talk about simulation theory are having the wrong argument. One side insists we're living inside a cosmic computer, usually with the confidence of someone who just watched a YouTube documentary. The other side rolls their eyes, calls it unfalsifiable philosophy, and moves on. Both camps miss the part that's actually interesting." gemini://soulthreader.njb1966.com/articles/2026-06-27-blog.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 17:57:09

  • "This resonates with me, too. I feel like life is passing too fast, and I know it's because I live by a strict routine. I rarely do anything new, and when I do, I sometimes feel like it's not as impactful as I wish it were, maybe because I have high expectations." gemini://limpatzk.gemcities.com/gemlog/novelty.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 17:57:41

  • Ha! "SECURITY!!" https://old.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ui252y/no_longer_able_to_boot_to_windows_with_secure/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 18:32:09

  • These are Microsoft layoffs: "The layoffs come one year after We Communications laid off 2% of its global workforce. The agency also previously had layoffs in its Singapore office in 2025." https://www.campaignasia.com/article/we-communications-hit-with-layoffs/43xrcf9k3rgb27mft6ja6e65ce    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 18:59:03

  • We. Communications hit with layoffs https://www.prweek.co.uk/article/1962919/we-communications-hit-layoffs    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 19:00:33

  • GNU/Linux 3% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/kenya/#monthly-200902-202606    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 19:18:40

  • Slop pivot from debugpoint.com? COSMIC 1.1.0 Desktop Environment Released: Big Update with Tons of New Features https://www.debugpoint.com/cosmic-1-1-0-desktop-environment-released/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 19:26:19

  • "More likely Microsoft is garbage and all the bug prone software cr-p they push out the door. Life would be so much better if Microsoft laid everyone off in Redmond and had zero employees in Washington state" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw5q091j#replies    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 19:55:22

  • private equity protesters https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-summit-brings-out-private-equity-protesters/a-77590273    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 19:59:33

  • eco wins https://www.dw.com/en/women-tackling-coal-dust-and-other-eco-wins-this-week/a-77627984    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:00:04

  • underpayment https://www.dw.com/en/us-probes-germany-s-persistent-underpayment-for-drugs/a-77620250    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:03:05

  • 'world order' https://www.dw.com/en/the-collapse-of-world-order-as-an-opportunity-for-asia/a-77625031    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:05:01

  • warming world https://www.dw.com/en/how-cities-are-adapting-to-a-warming-world/a-77504229    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:06:33

  • BPA chemical https://www.dw.com/en/eu-ban-on-bpa-chemical-in-food-packaging-takes-effect/a-77630680    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:07:32

  • Trade Unionists https://truthout.org/articles/minnesota-trade-unionists-are-among-the-federally-indicted-ice-observers/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:11:14

  • Turkey's state broadcaster suspends commentator for confusing teams during World Cup match https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-state-broadcaster-suspends-commentator-for-confusing-teams-during-world-cup-match-320569    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:18:40

  • blocks https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-blocks-access-to-queer-dating-app-hornet-320616    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:19:01

  • sanctions on Turkey’s justice minister https://bianet.org/haber/european-parliament-adopts-resolution-seeking-sanctions-on-turkeys-justice-minister-32063    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:19:37

  • German journalist detained in Syria back home, lawyer says https://www.dw.com/en/german-journalist-detained-in-syria-back-home-lawyer-says/a-77631412    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:23:24

  • SerpApi https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/eff-thanks-serpapi-helping-us-protect-free-speech-online https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/new-bill-takes-aim-government-pressure-silence-lawful-online-speech    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:24:11

  • If the US Government Won’t Respect Freedom of Speech, AI Firms Should Move https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/22/if-the-us-government-wont-respect-freedom-of-speech-ai-firms-should-move/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:24:40

  • EasyOS 7.4 is out https://distrowatch.com/12874    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:25:33

  • UCS 5.2-6 Released https://www.univention.com/blog-en/2026/06/ucs-5-2-6-released/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:26:14

  • FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Announcement https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/announce/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:28:28

  • Home Assistant OS 18.0 is out but outsourced to Microsoft proprietary prison https://distrowatch.com/12877    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:29:15

  • Same for PorteuX 2.7 Latest... oursourced to ---Hub https://distrowatch.com/1287    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:29:55

  • One threat actor demanded $50 million from Novo Nordisk. Another one demanded $25 million. Neither got paid. https://databreaches.net/2026/06/16/one-threat-actor-demanded-50-million-from-novo-nordisk-another-one-demanded-25-million-neither-got-paid/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:34:48

  • More than one year later, HCRG is first notifying patients of ransomware attack https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv34kmvp27o    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:35:55

  • Active FortiBleed Campaign Impacting Fortinet Devices Across 194 Countries https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/active-fortibleed-campaign-impacting-fortinet-devices-across-194-countries/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:38:15

  • "I understand your dilemma - why not join the group that has been put on PIP because of low utilization? Rather than competing with each other for positions that would never close, work in collaboration, and use your one month bench time to hack Watson so that every time a person is placed on PIP, US Labor Dept. is notified." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kvy2p3bg    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:40:06

  • "BS ! Indian H1Bs survive at IBM but everyone else is shown the door. Why doesn't IBM HR provide the numbers, eh ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kvp15esj    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:40:26

  • "What is the most useless product from IBM that you had to deal with? IBM is well know for creating things that don't work but look very good in the power point slides so let's build an inventory of such offerings here."    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:41:07

  • "Cognos Analytics - total hodgepodge of analytics, the AI is fake, and the whole thing is designed by people who hate humans. There are far better BI products out there." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw79z6k3    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:41:12

  • "Red Hat LINUX - it is overrated and customers are overcharged for a mediocre product." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw79z6k3    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:41:26

  • Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/texas-government-data-breach-allowed-hackers-to-steal-3-million-drivers-licenses-and-passports/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:48:49

  • Canadian hacker pleads guilty to charges for cyberattack on Texas Republican website https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-canadian-hacker-pleads-guilty-cyberattack-texas-republican-website/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:53:23

  • Nigeria's sugar tax https://www.dw.com/en/how-inflation-undermines-nigeria-s-sugar-tax/a-77655043    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 20:59:27

  • Slop scandal https://www.dw.com/en/ai-scandal-rocks-the-german-media/a-77606407    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:00:32

  • law banning insults against politicians https://www.dw.com/en/germany-could-scrap-law-banning-insults-against-politicians/a-77630055    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:00:57

  • E-scooter injuries https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-children-increasingly-getting-injured-on-e-scooters-9.7236345    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:01:57

  • food supply chain https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/competition-bureau-canada-food-supply-chain-grocery-prices-9.7237172    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:02:19

  • XBox dying https://www.dhakatribune.com/amp/feature/tech/413822/the-green-light-fades    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:08:47

  • "By simultaneously lowering Game Pass subscription prices to win back frustrated users while porting former exclusives like Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush, and Indiana Jones to competing platforms like the PS5, Microsoft has further eroded the core reason to own an actual Xbox console."    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:09:45

  • Suicide? https://egw.news/gaming/news/35782/xbox-wants-elder-scrolls-and-fallout-faster-bethes-89-eGPpgP    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:17:16

  • Canada Delivers a Blow to Corporate Accountability https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/18/canada-delivers-a-blow-to-corporate-accountability    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:26:54

  • Blue Fish Pediatrics notifies 41,485 Texans about data breach last year https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/data-hack-blue-fish-pediatrics-22311796.php    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:27:49

  • Amazon-Owned One Medical Faces Alleged 8.8TB Data Breach https://nationalcioreview.com/articles-insights/extra-bytes/amazon-owned-one-medical-faces-alleged-8-8tb-data-breach/    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:28:48

  • EV sales https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ev-sales-increasing-canada-9.7241391    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:29:14

  • Why does Gemini prefer self-signed certificates? gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/45367    

posted Sunday, June 28, 2026 at 21:35:45

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1695.jpg    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:11:38

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2051.jpg    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:11:43

  • "gh0stb0ners' observation highlights a fundamental shift in the function of online services that has occurred the past two decades. Most Web sites and apps these days serve as access points for other content, goods and services, not as providers themselves" gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202606/20260628-tls-and-identity.gmi    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:12:22

  • "Last week I started reporting on the flowering of our Dracaena. At the same time, the Sansieviera had flower stalks, too." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-06-21-bogenhanf    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:13:00

  • "It's Sunday just past noon. I have been up since 3am. Tired as hell, but yet, have spent the last 8 hours mostly in front of my computer working out a bunch of projects that have popped into my head the past couple weeks." gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/when-you-have-a-brain-that-just-wont-shut-off.gmi    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:13:57

  • more real gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/more_real    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:14:33

  • GOING HIFI gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-06-29Going_HiFi.txt    

posted Monday, June 29, 2026 at 05:15:35
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