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"Fashion is an ever-evolving expression of creativity which ties together innovation, culture, and commerce." ☛ https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2026/07/fashion-and-copyright-what-designers-need-to-know/ | Source: US Library of Congress    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:05:37

  • "Registering a copyright for a group of photos could cost as much as $30 more this fall, as the US Copyright Office has issued plans for an increase in fees." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/the-us-copyright-office-could-drastically-increase-fees-for-photographers-this-fall-but-a-subscription-option-isnt-yet-off-the-table | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:05:46

  • "The Creative Commons (CC) Open Heritage Companion is a practitioner’s guide developed to help cultural heritage institutions navigate the journey from closed to open collections." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/16/cc-open-heritage-companion/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:05:57

  • "The shareholder lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court, seeks to block Paramount’s $111 billion merger with WBD and also seeks unspecified monetary damages." ☛ https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-larry-ellison-sued-paramount-side-deal-trump-warner-bros-1236812034/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:06:36

  • "After the deadline, affected systems will lose OneDrive features, security patches, and bug fixes, creating potential security vulnerabilities." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3192861/microsoft-is-cutting-onedrive-support-on-older-windows-10-pcs.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:06:51

  • "The plaintiffs sued in April, alleging that they had faced price hikes and risked losing viewing options as a result of the transaction." ☛ https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-subscribers-fail-injunction-merger-1236813567/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:07:07

  • "Paramount Skydance has prevailed in its first court move to defend its Warner Bros. Discovery merger — prompting the departure of a judge who initially had been assigned the high-profile antitrust case." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-07-15/paramount-prevails-in-bid-for-new-judge-in-federal-antitrust-case | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:07:25

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-pisses-off-music-industry-attorney-donald-passman/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:07:56

  • "Now that the bill has passed and been signed by Governor Hochul" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/dont-repeat-nys-3d-printing-blunder | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:08:12

  • "I like to think I'm a solid writer, but I completely suck at spelling and grammar. I just do. And no matter how many times I read something I've written, it seems like I can never see the typos and errors until after I've hit "publish"." gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2026-07-16-ai-bulk-proofreading-gemtext.gmi    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:09:16

  • "I've been studying an old NASA book, SP-367, INTRODUCTION TO THE AERODYNAMICS OF FLIGHT, by Talay (Langley Research Center). I am interested in the flight equations, in order to understand aviation physics better, and with the idea of running the calculation or models on my analog computer." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260716-0.gmi    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:10:09

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posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:10:33

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posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:10:39

  • "A person may write poetry to describe grief, paint an image to express fear, play music to release anger, take photographs to preserve memory, or write a play to explore painful relationships. Artistic creation gives shape to experiences that may otherwise remain trapped inside the mind." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-07-16_techo-therapy.gmi    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:11:52

  • pine soap gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/pine_soap    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:12:36

  • "My desk at the new office is located in an interior room with no natural light. Both of my other coworkers like it that way, but as someone who regularly worked from my front porch at my last job, I can't stand it. Now I go on a walk around my neighborhood almost every evening, just so I can get some sunlight." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202607/20260716-sunlight-in-the-clouds.gmi    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:13:12

  • "Among the findings: Traffic stops led to immigration agents using their car to box in people 53 times" ☛ https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-agents-force-aclu-report | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:23:48

  • "When I conduct accessibility audits" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/use-cases-for-aria-expanded/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:24:05

  • "Everybody should be talking about union density. Always." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/union-density-is-the-cause-of-and | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:25:17

  • "The use of force has become a 'default tool' for ICE officers" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5891834 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:25:29

  • "One place it could have a swift impact is on Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC for the way they edited a documentary about Trump’s coup attempt." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/16/to-beeb-adverse-or-not-to-beeb-that-is-the-question/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:25:52

  • "The subpoenas to reporters for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times in recent weeks seeking to identify the sources of important national security stories have received a lot of attention." ☛ https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/those-subpoenas-to-reporters-may | Source: Richard J Tofel    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:26:05

  • "DMCA Copyright ‘strikes’ have become a rapidly growing tactic used by rogue organisations to manipulate Google Search, by corporations to stifle reporting and by repressive regimes to silence criticism." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/us-copyright-law-has-been-weaponised-to-silence-reporting-around-the-world/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:26:19

  • "One of the most criticised images depicts the Khor Virap monastery without its iconic backdrop of Mount Ararat." ☛ https://oc-media.org/armenia-begins-printing-new-biometric-passports-amid-design-and-birthplace-controversy/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:29:22

  • "The cemeteries are full of indispensable people." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/55382/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:29:48

  • Unions File Unfair Labor Complaints Against Microsoft Over Decision To ‘Unlawfully’ Fire Xbox Workers https://aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-cwa-unfair-labor-practice-bethesda/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:31:14

  • Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox layoffs https://gamedev.net/news/4520-unions-take-legal-action-against-microsoft-for-allegedly-mishandling-xbox/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:31:31

  • "Marvel is, intentionally or not, following in DC Comics’ footsteps, who relocated from NYC to Burbank back in 2015 (to also report more closely to their corporate overlords)." ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/07/16/marvel-comics-names-new-editor-in-chief-will-relocate-to-hollywood/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:31:49

  • "The relocation was revealed to staff at a town hall Thursday at Marvel’s New York office in Midtown" ☛ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/marvel-comics-new-york-la-1236650120/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:32:03

  • "During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-foundation-boards-role-in-the-freebsd-ecosystem/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:32:13

  • "Generally, if an animal is alert to your presence, you’re already too close" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/07/16/wild-animals-dont-exist-for-your-social-media-content/ | Source: Salon    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:32:45

  • "Proven Safety Countermeasures" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5893672 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:33:09

  • "As I mentioned on that 3801 post, the R-761 is my favourite locomotive of all time. And the R-766 is the spitting image of her. And now apparently we could book passage, locally!? That’s wild!" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/we-just-saw-the-r766-steam-past/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:33:18

  • "The wooden ship, commissioned by Norwegian entrepreneur Sigurd Aase, is about 115 feet long and 25 feet wide and equipped with square sails and 50 long oars." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thisviking-longship-crossed-the-atlantic-before-starring-in-christopher-nolans-odyssey-as-odysseus-greek-galley-180989137/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:33:26

  • "Why can a project as massive as Microsoft’s planned 3,500-acre expansion avoid Wyoming’s Industrial Siting Council while wind farms and other major industrial facilities usually cannot?" ☛ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/14/why-microsoft-can-skip-state-review-for-3-500-more-data-center-acres-in-cheyenne/ | Source: Cowboy State Daily    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:34:30

  • "We discuss four case studies (Fig. 1): an alpine grassland, a subtropical rainforest, and two eucalypt woodlands." ☛ https://connectsci.au/bt/article/74/5/BT26036/275350/Scenarios-for-ecosystems-in-the-year-2100 |    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:34:39

  • "Under the EU’s Batteries Regulation, portable batteries in products sold in the EU must generally be removable and replaceable by consumers." ☛ https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-adds-exemptions-portable-battery-removal-rules-2026-07-14_en |    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:34:50

  • "So, how do you cool the million miles of metal that holds a country together? Paint." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/white-rails-are-the-infrastructure-hack-we-didnt-know-we-needed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:35:41

  • "It’s not surprising that any attempt to remove plastic from here would catch, and likely kill, many marine organisms, because the waters of this region aren’t a trash-filled biological desert." ☛ https://therevelator.org/why-ocean-cleanup-has-not-solved-plastic-pollution/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:35:51

  • "The documents, which were released on the whitehouse.gov website" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/whitehousegov-website-crashes-as-trump-announces-release-of-declassified-election-integrity-documents-101784251133663.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:36:16

  • "technology’s widespread adoption" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/smartphones-might-be-playing-a-role-in-the-united-states-declining-birth-rate-new-research-suggests-180989129/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:36:36

  • "positive announcements about a new air defence mission in the Baltic region" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2989202/nato-air-defence-pledge-for-baltics-promises-and-reality | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:37:15

  • "Australia does not criminalise extremist beliefs." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/religious-motivation-needs-to-stay-in-our-terrorism-laws/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:37:28

  • "But in both races, super PACs have spent far more money than the candidates" ☛ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/abdul-el-sayed-outraises-haley-stevens-but-super-pacs-dominate-senate-race/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:37:45

  • "cancer" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/miller-labels-leftists-a-cancer-that-world-must-root-out-in-fascistic-speech/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:38:01

  • "decision by the Düsseldorf Six to break their silence appears to have been coordinated" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/15/six-german-antifascists-deny-intent-to-kill-in-budapest-and-speak-out-in-court-also-politically/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:38:35

  • "Suddenly it’s OK to sound the alarm about the political power of billionaires." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/democracy-in-an-age-of-powermaxxing | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:38:49

  • "How do you arrange society so that selfishness produces public benefit? With markets." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/#invisible-hands | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:39:05

  • "the enemy of God." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-william-upham-trump/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:39:23

  • "The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:39:54

  • "Meta tried buying their AI-powered creep glasses a public image with celebrity sponsorships — but the celebrities’ fans hate them. So do the other celebrities." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/15/meta-glasses-celebrity-backlash-the-fans-hate-them/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:40:03

  • "Since, as you know, arguing with robots is something of a hobby of mine, I uploaded my traditional driver's license." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process-6/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:40:12

  • "Everything about this story is wonderful, from the activist group’s name to the surgical vandalism to the not-so-subtle nod to the classic They live" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:43:07

  • "The debate over the government’s proposed social media ban for under 16s has raised several difficult questions, including doubts about whether it will work, which services it will cover" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/why-the-governments-plan-for-a-social-media-ban-in-bill-c-34-is-unconstitutional/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:43:18

  • "The German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to grant secret services new “operative” powers." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/15/new-laws-for-german-spies-governments-wants-more-powers-for-its-secret-services-bringing-them-closer-to-the-police/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:43:28

  • "Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-era.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:43:38

  • "Officials envision Google competitors using the data to enhance the quality of their query results." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/16/eu-orders-google-share-search-data-rivals-broaden-android-feature-access/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:43:48

  • "Ignoring objections from grassroots organizations from diverse communities throughout the state and a litany of lies to the legislature from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/07/16/gov-newsom-signs-law-to-upload-california-data-to-national-id-database/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:44:01

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/qantas-did-everything-right-yet-got-breached/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:44:28

  • Windows TCO: "Well, Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of the dead" ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/anubis-ransomware | Source: Fortra LLC    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:44:36

  • "Tomorrow morning, WhatsApp goes dark, and it’s not just a short downtime, but it is a termination of the service." ☛ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-day-whatsapp-goes-dark/ | Source: マリウス    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:44:57

  • "But how do we wisely accompany a teenager whose self-worth is repeatedly tested by imperfect peers (in her mind at least) and the distortions of online recognition?" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/17/our-sensitive-teen-daughters-self-worth-is-tested-by-social-media-and-peers-what-should-we-do | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:45:09

  • "Personally, slop isn’t annoying per se: it’s okay for personal software, for example, to be slop." ☛ https://blog.yossarian.net/2026/07/16/README-not | Source: Eno Such    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:45:52

  • "I don’t trust arguments this tidy, and neither should you." ☛ https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/ | Source: I Cringely    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:46:01

  • "You can prompt-inject the chatbot by writing your attack like it’s one of the reasoning steps. So the chatbot just follows whatever you say as if it came up with the text itself" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/16/todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:46:08

  • "I recommend David Gerard’s Pivot to AI if you’re still interested in the topic. He still sometimes gets contributes from Amy Castor as well." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/gathering-all-my-thoughts-about-ai/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:46:19

  • "Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:49:50

  • "Education is not the only reason to limit AI use in writing and editing. Many of us believe the technology subtly encourages dishonesty among staffers." ☛ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/07/16/prohibiting-ai-content-at-the-daily/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:49:58

  • "mission-relevant actionable information." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/07/16/navy-develops-strategy-to-weaponize-data-ai/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:50:07

  • "The memory is being put into data centers, which tech firms are expanding at incredible speed." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:50:17

  • "Golden Gate Squircle Jail" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/16/golden-gate-squircle-jail/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:51:30

  • "Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 delivered the company’s largest security update to date" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-july-2026-622-flaws/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:51:40

  • "The country is grappling with a large and fast-spreading outbreak of cyclosporiasis" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/explosive-diarrhea-outbreak-about-to-get-bigger/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:52:12

  • "Twenty minutes later both of us started to feel distinctly "off."" ☛ https://www.cookingwildmushrooms.com/amanita-notes.html |    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:52:19

  • "The processor was extremely successful, being used in many 8 bit microcomputers, including early personal computers, home & hobby computers, as well as many embedded, industrial applications." ☛ https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html |    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:54:22

  • "Honestly though, I’m half tempted! This is clearly designed for industrial applications" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/a-beige-industrial-pc-case/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:54:41

  • "A leading-edge 2nm-class fab module with a capacity of roughly 20,000 wafer starts per month costs roughly $25 billion to $35 billion to build and equip" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-commits-another-100-billion-to-arizona-for-at-least-four-more-2nm-fabs | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:54:53

  • "Aldrin and Armstrong had just finished a three-hour walk on the moon’s Sea of Tranquility when they decided to get some sleep." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/buzz-aldrin-used-this-humble-felt-tip-pen-to-save-the-apollo-ii-astronauts-it-just-sold-for-more-than-850000-180989142/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:55:05

  • "Sure thing, hello! Taanshi! My name is Brennan Kenneth Brown, I'm a Queer Red River Métis writer and web developer." ☛ https://zacharykai.net/notes/pb/brennan | Source: Zachary Kai    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:55:30

  • "A growing body of research and public commentary links the use of social media, smartphones, and algorithmic platforms to declining mental health and attention in young people." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/draft-principles-for-safe-responsible-edtech/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:55:38

  • "FreeBSD Community member and former Core Representative, Dave Cottlehuber, was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board during the Annual Meeting on June 15, 2026." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-board-member-dave-cottlehuber/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:56:05

  • "Academic publishing has long been dominated by commercial players. That fact is well-known, as are many of the problems." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/academic-publishing-as-a-public-good/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:56:47

  • "Well, it's not actually in the background: the nebula is closer than the galaxy." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/astro/ngc7497/ | Source: Maury    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:56:56

  • "Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/even-chemical-bonds-obey-einsteins-relativity/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:57:13

  • "Launched in June of 2024, GOES-19 is one of four operational weather satellites that NOAA operates to provide forecast data and severe weather monitoring for the entire Western Hemisphere." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/goes-19-goes-down-noaa-investigating/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:57:23

  • "This image was captured by the 570-megapixel DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the NSF Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-starry-night-redux-dark-energy.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:57:38

  • "The Internet Archive’s focus for 2026 is: tools for participation. Participation must be earned by building an experience patrons want to return to." ☛ https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/15/google-summer-of-code-contributors-lead-projects-to-improve-open-library-patron-experience/ | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:57:57

  • "Lately it's about what making software feels like now that machines make it too. That's a lot of ground for a first visit, so this page is the map." ☛ https://hugodaniel.com/start-here/ | Source: Hugo Daniel    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 06:58:06

  • "At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term “tag healing” during a discussion about tags." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/07/16/website-superpowers | Source: James G    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:09:00

  • "Good tech support restores that footing without making the person feel foolish for losing it." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/tech-support-is-mostly-trust-support/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:09:09

  • "Writing for the world is something which has ebbed and flowed for me over time. I’ve always liked sharing my thoughts, starting with websites all the way back when I was a kid." ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/what-i-m-changing-after-a-year-of-blogging/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:09:20

  • "It may sound a bit boring, but I think it's a great life motto. I also feel it's one of the most difficult things to master. Finding that magic middle way." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/lagom/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:09:29

  • "Bedrock civil rights milestones are at risk of withering away under the Trump administration—including in the physical sense." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/213128/donald-trump-frying-emancipation-proclamation-13th-amendment | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:09:40

  • "There are a lot more Black producers, writers and directors than they ever were before. They’re all young. But we opened the doors." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/16/hal-williams-dies | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:12:07

  • "Of course, Walsh put a finger on the scale with her initial example, but HEIC stands out as a favorite least favorite." ☛ https://unsung.aresluna.org/if-heic-has-no-haters-im-dead/ | Source: Marcin Wichary    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:12:23

  • "We have a few problem USB hubs ourselves, so it might be worth doing this to any you have lying around. The first clue: most of the connectors on the PCB only have four pins." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-usb-port-by-any-other-color/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:12:32

  • "In our recent work, we proposed AstroTimer, a lightweight framework for sizing Non‑Access Stratum (NAS) timers specifically for LEO Satellite Networks (LSNs)." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/17/rethinking-non-access-stratum-timers-for-leo-satellite-constellations-in-5g-and-beyond/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:12:40

  • "As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V" ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/first-test-of-java-on-banana-pi-arm-and-risc-v-plus-a-blinking-led-with-pi4j/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:12:54

  • "So you’ve built your data pipeline" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/five-pre-flight-checks-for-your-dashboard/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:13:15

  • "This document describes differences between the 5.42.0 release and the 5.44.0 release." ☛ https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/view/pod/perldelta.pod | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:13:33

  • "For the past year and a half, the team building Roc's compiler has been rewriting our 300,000 lines of Rust code into Zig, for reasons I'll recap below." ☛ https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig |    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:16:07

  • "Now, we also know that the tendency of the AIs isn’t to go and clean up code, reduce duplication, or focus on maintainability. Context windows (even the large ones!) can’t hold entire modern repos. They miss things." ☛ https://www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com/2026/04/were-going-to-make-out-like-bandits/ |    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:16:16

  • "A deep dive into queueing theory and auto-scaling for CI/CD build fleets, exploring when and how to optimize build infrastructure for both cost and developer productivity." ☛ https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/autoscaling-build-fleets-queueing-theory/ | Source: Ian Duncan    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:16:26

  • "The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a widely used measure of the prices of goods and services" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/how-much-have-prices-increased/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:16:45

  • "Without that move by Sun, and other attempts at enshittification of Unix" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/paleoenshittification-and-myterms/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:17:26

  • "The French government said this year that it would replace Zoom and other American videoconference software" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:17:40

  • "96% of our funding comes from individuals just like you. Your generosity really matters." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-fundraiser-extended-help-us-reach-our-goal | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:17:48

  • "If the time works for you and you love chatting about websites, I recommend checking out the event." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/07/16/indieweb-asia-pacific | Source: James G    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:18:09

  • "I delivered this talk at EuroPython 2026, I'll update this blog post once the recording is available on EuroPython's YouTube channel." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/europython-2026-security-talk | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:18:20

  • "There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/16/workshop-basel-day-three/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:18:30

  • "Is the future of software that we check-in the AI prompts in the git repository and trust it to generate the correct code? Are specifications the new level of abstraction for source code?" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/15/workshop-basel-day-two/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:18:44

  • "Present in the room were representatives from all the world’s most prominent and used HTTP deployments: clients, browsers, CDNs, proxies and servers" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/14/workshop-basel-day-one/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:18:53

  • "Why am I writing a sequel already? Well, the answer is money. Or more accurately, keeping things free" ☛ https://brennan.day/300-minutes-a-month-cutting-my-eleventy-netlify-build-time-in-half/ | Source: Brennan    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:19:08

  • "I can’t say I know for sure why seemingly every running instance of Chrome is perpetually outdated" ☛ https://catskull.net/is-your-browser-up-to-date.html | Source: Dave DeGraw    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:20:40

  • "I don't read posts in my feed reader to look at styles, I do it to consume content - to read their thoughts." ☛ https://cleberg.net/blog/re-your-rss-reader-is-robbing-you.html | Source: Christian Cleberg    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:21:26

  • "" ☛ https://sals.place/blog/text-editor-objectivity/ | Source: Sal
  • It's hard to find objective advice about text editors

    If someone is an expert in Vim or Emacs, they probably spend a lot of time in it. That’s time they haven’t spent learning other editors. It seems plausible, then, that the more experienced someone is in a specialized editor, the less able they are to give a fully informed opinion of how it compares to some other editor. Especially given just how much time those editors take to master.

    • "" ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/16/simplifying-session-management-in-cider.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov
  • Simplifying Session Management in CIDER

    Session management is one of those areas where the “smart” solution and the good solution turned out to be different things. Seven years of friendly sessions taught me that users don’t actually want their tools to be clever - they want them to be predictable, and fast, and clever only when the cleverness is cheap and explainable in one sentence. “Your project’s files use your project’s REPL” passes that bar; “your buffer matches some session’s classpath” never did.

    • "" ☛ https://tech.marksblogg.com/little-navmap-flight-planning.html | Source: Mark Litwintschik
  • Flight Planning with Little Navmap

    The application reminds me of QGIS, which has a code base that is an order of magnitude larger. Little Navmap only needs 14K lines of C++ for routing; the main UI is ~7K lines; the map display and interaction lean heavily on KDE's Marble, so only 21K lines are needed and weather support only needs 2K lines of code.

    •    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:22:09

  • "Session management is one of those areas where the “smart” solution and the good solution turned out to be different things." ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/16/simplifying-session-management-in-cider.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:22:54

  • "If someone is an expert in Vim or Emacs, they probably spend a lot of time in it." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/text-editor-objectivity/ | Source: Sal    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:23:17

  • "I live in an old building, and I cannot hear the doorbell from my home office, which is a huge pain." ☛ https://marco-nett.de/blog/getting-an-old-doorbell-onto-home-assistant/ | Source: Marco Nett    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:24:05

  • "Almost all of the parts of the machine are identical to what you’d find on a 3D printer" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/16/this-cnc-hot-wire-cutter-was-created-specifically-for-making-airplane-wings/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:24:40

  • "PICO-EVB is our new evaluation board that turns your Pico into a real-world automation controller." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/new-industrial-grade-open-source-hardware-board-pico-evb-enables-your-raspberry-pi-pico-to-drive-relays-and-sense-high-voltage-inputs/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:25:10

  • "In the end, his demo has audio, triple-buffered video, and lyrics at 16.3 FPS." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/bad-apple-on-a-karaoke-machine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:25:44

  • "Today I took a look at the FreeBSD Security Advisory page to check the latest advisory count." ☛ https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/freebsd-released-most-security.html | Source: Tao Security Blog    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:32:06

  • "The OPNsense project develops a FreeBSD-based specialist operating system (and a fork of pfSense) designed for firewalls and routers." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12896 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:32:19

  • "OpenBSD development is an ever ongoing activity, and when the feature set of a new release has been set and the stabilization phase leading up to the release starts, -current becomes $NEXTRELEASE-beta." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716115231 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:32:33

  • "The OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform has been retired. The commit message by Miod Vallat (miod@) explains the reason(s)." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716110034 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:32:45

  • "When you exec() something, you discard your current process's memory and address space to create create a new one for the new program." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EarlyUnixExecArgvSizeLimit | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:39:29

  • "A self-hosted notes app or dashboard usually begins as a process listening on a local port." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-power-user-and-small-team-part-4-light-self-hosting-behind-a-reverse-proxy/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:39:39

  • "A common UI pattern on the web is having one element stick to another. Tooltips need to float above their targets, dropdown menus need to drop down from their triggers." ☛ https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/anchor-positioning/ | Source: Jason W Comeau    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:39:55

  • "Even for those of us that are quite technically minded, we spend precious little time thinking about the cables that carry our signals and do all the important work we need them to do on a daily basis." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/hackaday-europe-2026-build-a-cable-modem-for-your-arduino/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:40:04

  • iophk: shills lose their credibility all the way around and are eventually discarded by those paying them to shill    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:40:25

  • Bruce Byfield was a shill for Microvell, Microsoft, Mono, OOXML and others. He became useless to them. jsullivan (FSF) became totally irrelevant without the FSF giving him air time. Same for Matt Lee.    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:41:38

  • iophk: yes, and now, with their credibility totally shot, no one will listen to them and thus no one will hire them any more    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:48:10

  • iophk: they brought it on themselves    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:48:32

  • Why is everyone freaking out about smart glasses? https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/article/why-is-everyone-freaking-out-about-smart-glasses-150000123.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:51:04

  • Coming up soon in Daily Links: Smart glasses / Cyberattack / US China popularity    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:51:22

  • "a filesystem is a hierarchical organisation of resources" ☛ https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/end-of-line-replacing-mcp-with-standard-filesystem-tools/ | Source: SICP    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:51:41

  • "Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/672 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:52:04

  • "Sorry; was that a problem?" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/07/16/reply-to-deleting-systems-you-dont-understand/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:53:05

  • "Since I didn’t want an AI agent running random shell commands directly on my production server" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/agentos-run-ai-coding-agents-secure-linux-sandbox/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:55:20

  • "Built advanced merge logic combining unique hardware and subscription identifiers, such as MAC addresses" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-red-hat-solves-toughest-challenges-agentless-infrastructure-scanning | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:56:17

  • Interactive labs ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/interactive-labs-enterprise-lab-environments-ready-minutes-no-cost | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:56:26

  • "Navigating this need for operational predictability is challenging for organisations operating in highly sensitive environments" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-operational-resilience-and-digital-sovereignty-top-cio-agenda | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:56:32

  • Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/jagex-launcher-linux-beta-released-for-old-school-runescape/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/jagex-launcher-linux-beta-released-for-old-school-runescape/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:57:31

  • Game on the go with the new Humble Handhelds Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/game-on-the-go-with-the-new-humble-handhelds-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/game-on-the-go-with-the-new-humble-handhelds-bundle/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:58:22

  • Why is everyone freaking out about smart glasses? ⚓ https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/article/why-is-everyone-freaking-out-about-smart-glasses-150000123.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 07:59:09

  • China and Xi are seen more favorably than the U.S. and Trump in many nations, new survey says | The Asahi Shimbun https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16731456    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:00:09

  • Cyberattack at Nichirei leads to food shortages at eateries, stores https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16731347    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:01:07

  • How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly64g5y744o    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:02:20

  • DRM: "Sony locked down the PS5. We're paying $10,000 to unlock it." https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sony-locked-down-the-ps5.-we're-paying:8    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:14:49

  • Now the back doors get some openwashing... useless code... bad company https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:15:18

  • "Here’s How Long Trump Wants to Hide the Reflecting Pool From Americans | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213115/donald-trump-hide-reflecting-pool-renovation-fence    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:15:27

  • "Trump Fires Blue State Attorney After Less Than an Hour | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213113/donald-trump-fires-democratic-attorney-less-hour    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:15:37

  • "Judges seek to appoint U.S. attorney in Seattle as Trump pick’s term nears end | The Seattle Times" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/federal-judges-seek-to-appoint-u-s-attorney-in-seattle/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:15:47

  • "Trump Can’t Admit That He Lost the Iran War | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-war-trump-defeat/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:15:56

  • "Lurade Moderaterna väljarna om Chat Control?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/16/lurade-moderaterna-valjarna-om-chat-control/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:16:05

  • Datamuseum.dk's summer assignment | "Datamuseum.dk's sommeropgave | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/datamuseumdks-sommeropgave    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:17:21

  • "The High Court in London heard Weston used Davies' images to create and run fake accounts between 2022 and 2026, calling herself "Sophie" and "Sophie Kadare"." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8xn9exg8yo    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:19:38

  • Critical Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-adobe-coldfusion-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:28:17

  • CISA Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Mythos to Scan Government Software for Flaws ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-reportedly-using-anthropics-mythos-to-scan-government-software-for-flaws/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:28:29

  • Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-gitea-flaw-under-active-exploitation-researchers-warn/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:29:09

  • County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/county-government-reportedly-paid-1-million-to-cyber-extortion-group/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:29:45

  • Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/choice-notes-from-notes-and-queries    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:30:23

  • KDE Plasma 6.6.6, Bugfix Release for July ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.6/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:31:16

  • KDE Mega Sprint 2026 ☞ https://nolib.dev/posts/mega-sprint-2026/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:31:38

  • India Calls Out Meta Over Reported Child Sexual Abuse Imagery in Ads ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/asia/india-meta-child-abuse-imagery.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:32:55

  • Meta says state AGs seek $1.4T over youth safety claims ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/meta-says-state-ags-seek-1-4t-over-youth-safety-claims/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:33:09

  • ‘GitLost’ vulnerability let Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub ’s Hey Hi (AI) workflows leak private repositories ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/07/gitlost-vulnerability-let-githubs-ai-workflows-leak-private-repositories/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:35:06

  • LOL! Storage Bug on Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/windows-11-cam-bug/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:35:14

  • Viral Hey Hi (AI) fakes flood social control media as Iran mourns Khamenei ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/viral-ai-fakes-flood-social-media-as-iran-mourns-khamenei-1    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:36:40

  • Anon: reddit and hackernews are fraudulent and are microsoft / epstein class propaganda vehicles posing as tech sites.    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:37:25

  • ...sn [soylentnews] is ok but very, very, very, very tiny, but I guess quality over quantity; that small size probably allows them to avoid more shilling and other attacks    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:37:48

  • More Odd DNS Records: NIMLOC, (Tue, Jul 7th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33128    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:38:24

  • Steam Machines with the ‘Red Line of Death’ get a simple, official cure: Clear the CMOS — clearing the CMOS can revive flat(red)-lining cubes ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/steam-machines-with-the-red-line-of-death-get-a-simple-official-cure-clear-the-cmos-clearing-the-cmos-can-revive-flat-red-lining-cubes    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:39:52

  • Proton Experimental brings fixes for Diablo IV, Marvel Rivals, RPGMaker Engine games | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-diablo-iv-marvel-rivals-rpgmaker-engine-games/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:40:16

  • Impressive grand-scale RTS game Beyond All Reason gets a major engine upgrade with ARM64 support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/impressive-grand-scale-rts-game-beyond-all-reason-gets-a-major-engine-upgrade-with-arm64-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:40:33

  • PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets 75% of all games playable on PC | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-gets-75-percent-of-all-games-playable-on-pc/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:41:29

  • Valve announced the themed sale events for the first half of 2027 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-announced-the-themed-sale-events-for-the-first-half-of-2027/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-announced-the-themed-sale-events-for-the-first-half-of-2027/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:43:47

  • SteamOS 3.8.15 brings a performance fix and SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta is out too | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steamos-3-8-15-brings-a-performance-fix-and-steamos-3-8-23-beta-is-out-too/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 08:43:53

  • To techrights this month: "Thank you - terribly sorry it took as long as it did to earn this mark, but we've got it now and it's not going anywhere anytime soon. :-)"    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 09:24:05

  • "You are going to hurt yourself, overthinking about ways to justify the despicable slimy Indian way running IBM to the ground. No excuses will erase failures of the slimy Indian" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 10:59:29

  • "A word of encouragement and prayers to the employees at IBM and the company. Hoping for the best for you and your families." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 10:59:33

  • "Really hoping that some day boards of directors will defer bonuses to executives based on stock and financial performance. Payout should be staged in small increments at first and larger increments not given until performance meets healthy sales and profitability. Do companies outside the US do this?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 10:59:37

  • "I hate Arvind. He completely deserves any hate I can give and frankly deserves far more than I'm able to give. Sadly, I cannot be his retribution so hopefully his shady dealings will put him in a bright orange jumpsuit - though probably not until we have a new president 😥" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 10:59:41

  • "they have much stronger employment laws so its harder to fire or layoff people than it is in the US. Thats not to say that they can't layoff people, but its harder to do, takes longer, and they have to pay out more when doing it" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 10:59:45

  • "Was there really any major benefits to Arvinds RTO policy" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 10:59:49

  • "25% this week, 33% over the last month and a half. That's something to be proud of? Maybe give Arvind another bonus?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:00:12

  • IBM at "$204 Right now. Fully expect $199 after the earnings call next week. Arvind's house of cards is crumbling." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:00:29

  • "I cannot wait to see the stock price completely plummet. Time to die, Ibm!" "This has echos of Enron tbh." "yeah I mean…it’s only lost 25% of its value this week. 🤣. You’re an id-eee-ought and Arvind is a miserable failure and unethical POS."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:01:21

  • "Fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. I would like to see IBM stock decline below $100. That seems a more fair price for what little they still deliver."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:02:14

  • "Wow, did I cause this when I stole the chair, microwave, and refrigerator? I currently have my eyes on a couple of speakers at one of my offices. I found a stereo system that some stupid hipster team stashed away in a back room. I hope I don't cause the company to crumble when I take them. LOL"    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:02:18

  • "this is fun to watch, guess the shady financial gimmicks aren't working anymore"    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:02:23

  • At around $100 the total "worth" of IBM will be eclipsed by its total debt    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:03:01

  • Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account With Son's Baby Photos After Nuking It Due to Hacker https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-restores-players-25-year-old-account-with-sons-baby-photos-after-nuking-it-due-to-hacker    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:31:01

  • Just due to backlash https://www.inkl.com/news/as-xbox-fan-goes-viral-for-losing-account-with-games-worth-thousands-of-euros-and-their-sons-baby-pictures-official-support-says-its-working-to-restore-access    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:31:41

  • GNU/Linux up to 6% https://analytics.usa.gov/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:33:03

  • Modder builds 8,192-core GPU at home out of RISC-V microcontrollers — full "graphics card" draws over 2,000 watts of power, requires a 3D printer to program ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/modder-creates-8-192-core-gpu-at-home-out-of-risc-v-microcontrollers-full-graphics-card-will-draw-over-2-000-watts-of-power-requires-a-3d-printer-to-program    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:58:12

  • Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1081690/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:58:47

  • South Korea Strengthens Law to Curb Spread of Fake News ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/asia/south-korea-law-fake-news.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:59:17

  • Indian court orders government to unblock Cockroach party’s X account ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-court-orders-government-to-unblock-cockroach-partys-x-account    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:59:34

  • Sophie Herold: Accessibility in GNOME ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2026/07/07/accessibility-in-gnome/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 11:59:51

  • Hylke Bons: Icon for Demostage ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/07/07/demostage    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:00:18

  • The power of APIs: The unsung hero of Hey Hi (AI) interface ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/07/07/the-power-of-apis-the-unsung-hero-of-ai-interface/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:00:46

  • Whole or Apportioned: Sunoco Asks the Supreme Court to Rethink Lost Profits ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/whole-or-apportioned-sunoco-asks-the-supreme-court-to-rethink-lost-profits.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:04:55

  • Intel patent monopoly reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM's costly silicon interposer ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-patent-reveals-new-xbm-memory-architecture-that-ditches-hbms-costly-silicon-interposer-backend-transistor-dram-stack-uses-ucie-links-and-built-in-repair-to-ease-ais-memory-bottleneck    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:05:18

  • Munich Regional Court finds Innoscience GaN chips infringe further Infineon patent monopoly ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/munich-regional-court-finds-innoscience-gan-chips-infringe-further-infineon-patent/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:05:34

  • Mewburn Ellis strengthens patent monopoly litigation team with SEP specialist ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/mewburn-ellis-strengthens-patent-litigation-team-with-sep-specialist/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:05:47

  • [CE] [TH] USF Denounces Mounting Pressures on EPO Workforce ☞ https://suepo.org/usf_denounces_mounting_pressures_on_epo_workforce/d-50244    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:05:56

  • ESP32-C5 devkit offers 2.8-inch capacitive touch display, dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, LiPo battery support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/07/esp32-c5-devkit-offers-2-8-inch-capacitive-touch-display-dual-band-wi-fi-6-bluetooth-5-le-lipo-battery-support/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:06:41

  • Why your RBAC linter misses privilege escalation chains (and how to fix it) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/07/why-your-rbac-linter-misses-privilege-escalation-chains-and-how-fix-it    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:07:19

  • Visualize your cluster: Manage observability with Red Bait build of Perses ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/07/manage-observability-red-hat-build-perses    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:07:36

  • Jakub Kadlčík: Fedora Package Review Process reimagined ☞ http://frostyx.cz/posts/fedora-package-review-process-reimagined    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:08:14

  • Prince Harry Loses Privacy Lawsuit Against Daily Mail Publisher ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/europe/prince-harry-lawsuit-daily-mail-uk-associated-newspapers.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:09:23

  • Prince Harry privacy trial judgment: ‘Overwhelming victory’ for Daily Mail ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prince-harry-mail-landmark-privacy-judgment/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:09:31

  • Who will compensate Daily Mail now (costs)? The taxpayers? ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-53-mail-articles-vindicated-by-prince-harry-privacy-judgment/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:10:07

  • Thunderbird Blog: Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/desktopsettings/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:10:38

  • Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-caught-secretly-spying-on-users    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 12:10:59

  • Brett Wilson in trouble again https://caseboard.io/cases/e7b4d310-ab04-4c38-b276-22a670bdde47 new: https://www.law360.com/articles/2490059/reform-uk-s-tice-sues-dale-vince-in-widening-gaza-libel-row recent: http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/13/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_105_Out_of_200_When_Bad_Legal_Advice_Resu.shtml    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 13:06:39

  • System76 Refreshes the Lemur Laptop ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/System76-Refreshes-the-Lemur-Laptop    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 14:50:34

  • flopped ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/dev-ports-linux-to-ataris-notorious-jaguar-console-from-1993-the-first-64-bit-console-features-2mb-of-ram-13-3-mhz-cpu-and-tom-and-jerry-co-processors-the-jag-was-notoriously-difficult-to-program-and-flopped    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 14:51:00

  • Buzzwords, Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/07/ibm-debuts-compact-z17-mainframes-linuxone-servers-premises-enterprise-ai/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 14:51:53

  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1081644/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 14:52:38

  • Markdown Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/markdown/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 14:52:55

  • Linux Matters #85: Clearing the Decks ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/85/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:03:01

  • Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/07/going-global/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:03:13

  • This E-Paper PDA Wants You to Ditch Your Smartphone for a Keyboard and Two Tiny Screens ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/pocketmage-campaign/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:03:36

  • Trademarks http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guest-post-new-guidelines-on-eu.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:04:14

  • alternative facts http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/politicians-might-get-away-with.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:04:37

  • EQE facilitates fraud http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guestpost-through-examiners-lens.html https://techrights.org/o/2020/03/16/doyen-for-a-yen/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:05:35

  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: crates.io: development update ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/13/crates-io-development-update/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:06:23

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1082642/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:07:07

  • Copr: Log Detective MCP server ☞ https://fedora-copr.github.io//posts/log-detective-mcp    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:07:37

  • Every Frame of a Black Hole Movie Is a Time Machine – And Physicists Think We're Oversimplifying ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/every-frame-of-a-black-hole-movie-is-a-time-machine-and-physicists-think-were-oversimplifying    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:06

  • Light Usually Speeds Things Up. Scientists Just Caught It Doing The Opposite in The Nanoworld ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:14

  • Chronic Constipation May Be a Gut-Brain Disorder, Scientists Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/chronic-constipation-may-be-linked-to-your-guts-second-brain    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:21

  • We Finally Know The Name of a Revered Maya Astronomer-Mathematician: Sak Tahn Waax ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-the-name-of-a-revered-maya-astronomer-mathematician-sak-tahn-waax    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:28

  • In Turning to Trade School, Gen Z Confronts an Enduring Stigma ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/gen-z-trade-school-careers-ai-college.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:37

  • How a Teacher Revived Backyard Baseball ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/backyard-baseball-video-game-teacher.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:49

  • A Drug Already Proven Safe in Humans Just Reduced Multiple Signs of Alzheimer's in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-human-safe-drug-reduces-multiple-signs-of-alzheimers-in-mice    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:08:56

  • Every Black Hole Image You've Ever Seen Is a Time Machine – And Physicists Think We're Oversimplifying ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/every-frame-of-a-black-hole-movie-is-a-time-machine-and-physicists-think-were-oversimplifying    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:09:03

  • Light Usually Speeds Things Up. Scientists Just Caught It Doing The Opposite ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:09:10

  • Scientists Think They Know Why Some People Can't Poop – And It Starts in The Gut's 'Second Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/chronic-constipation-may-be-linked-to-your-guts-second-brain    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:09:17

  • IBM down today. "Article is still on the front page of the online version, above-the-fold since it's been from time of publish. Sayonara, AK!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:11:15

  • "The BS machine has started it's spin cycle, trying to create the narrative that Arvind is some kind of hero and respected leader after he was responsible for erasing $70 billion of market value through his incompetence and financial gymnastics. #TOTALJOKE"    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:11:32

  • "Lol, this has nothing to do with AI. The Z17 cycle got off to an earlier start and so logically is seeing an earlier finish. That's all this is. Arvind can bark about AI Quantum Hybrid Cloud all day long, but IBM is just a legacy mainframe company with an Indian bodyshop pretending to do consulting attached to it."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:12:00

  • "The wheels are going to come off next week on the earnings call when they issue Q3/4 guidance assuming they issue guidance at all which if they don't will be even worse."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:12:04

  • WSJ is in the business of "pump" for IBM http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Murdoch_s_Wall_Street_Journal_WSJ_Associates_Dependence_on_a_Po.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Fake_News_From_Rupert_Murdoch_s_WSJ_Could_Not_Keep_IBM_From_Sin.shtml    

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

  • "Arvind need to go, and bring someone else . He need to ask him self what he done till today? Look what Tim Cook do for Apple and what Arvind do for IBM?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnnnqfw    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:13:52

  • "IBM lost about 26% of stock it a lot of money about 60-70 billion. The layoffs will be the same about 25% I’m sure . All happened also regarding the AI ." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxk3gwnw#replies    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:15:37

  • 672: Kitchen Calculator ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/672    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:34:18

  • This CNC hot wire cutter was created specifically for making airplane wings ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/16/this-cnc-hot-wire-cutter-was-created-specifically-for-making-airplane-wings/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:34:56

  • Workshop Basel day three ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/16/workshop-basel-day-three/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:35:41

  • How much have prices increased? ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/how-much-have-prices-increased/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:36:38

  • Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/five-pre-flight-checks-for-your-dashboard/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:36:54

  • Rethinking non‑access stratum timers for LEO satellite constellations in 5G and beyond ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/17/rethinking-non-access-stratum-timers-for-leo-satellite-constellations-in-5g-and-beyond/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:37:14

  • FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-board-member-dave-cottlehuber/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:37:57

  • Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-foundation-boards-role-in-the-freebsd-ecosystem/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:38:15

  • A beige industrial PC case ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/a-beige-industrial-pc-case/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:38:39

  • Someone Used Hey Hi (AI) to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:40:02

  • The Auditor’s Opinion ☞ https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:40:35

  • EU orders Surveillance Giant Google to share search data with rivals, broaden Android feature access ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/16/eu-orders-google-share-search-data-rivals-broaden-android-feature-access/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:40:59

  • Protecting Privacy in an Hey Hi (AI) Era ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-era.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:41:13

  • Why the Government’s Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/why-the-governments-plan-for-a-social-media-ban-in-bill-c-34-is-unconstitutional/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:41:38

  • Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/religious-motivation-needs-to-stay-in-our-terrorism-laws/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:42:03

  • Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:42:21

  • http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/16/UEFI_Secure_Boot_is_Not_Security_Another_Farce_Demonstrated_Thi.shtml   

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:42:58

  • We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/we-documented-1200-actions-by-ice-heres-what-we-found    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:43:56

  • US copyright monopoly law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/us-copyright-law-has-been-weaponised-to-silence-reporting-around-the-world/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:44:55

  • Introducing the CC Open Heritage Companion ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/16/cc-open-heritage-companion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cc-open-heritage-companion    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:45:40

  • PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-19-beta-2-released-3350/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:47:27

  • Announcing Istio 1.30.3 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.30.x/announcing-1.30.3/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:47:39

  • Evaluating the EU Open Source Strategy: Strengths and Weaknesses ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/07/16/evaluating-the-eu-open-source-strategy-strengths-and-weaknesses/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:48:55

  • Hamburg local division imposes penalty payments on Ningbo Blue Pluser in Brita case ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/hamburg-local-division-imposes-penalty-payments-on-ningbo-blue-pluser-in-brita-case/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:49:35

  • Modest Rule, Real Traps: The USPTO’s Foreign-Applicant Representation Requirement Takes Effect July 20 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/modest-rule-real-traps-the-usptos-foreign-applicant-representation-requirement-takes-effect-july-20.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:50:04

  • Announcing Istio 1.29.6 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.29.x/announcing-1.29.6/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 15:50:18

  • Mary-Dell Chilton Dies at 87; Helped Create First Genetically Modified Plant ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/science/mary-dell-chilton-dead.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:01:44

  • Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/science/astronomy-exoplanet-atmosphere.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:01:51

  • Ebola 'spreading faster than any previous outbreak' in DR Congo, WHO warns ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260716-ebola-spreading-faster-than-any-previous-outbreak-dr-congo-who-warns    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:02:17

  • US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces testosterone screening for US troops ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-announces-testosterone-screening-for-us-troops    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:02:22

  • North Korea calls Seoul a ‘puppet’ for its role in US maritime exercise ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-calls-seoul-a-puppet-for-its-role-in-us-maritime-exercise    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:02:41

  • South Korea’s Naver to change ‘no foreigners’ button after discrimination accusations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-naver-to-change-no-foreigners-button-after-discrimination-accusations    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:03:04

  • North Korean buildings near DMZ could be rocket infrastructure, experts say ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2026/07/16/north-korea-rocket-shelter-buildings/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:03:22

  • Global Opinion Shifts Toward Favoring China Over the U.S., Poll Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/pew-opinion-survey-china-united-states.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:03:38

  • Taiwan rejects Papua New Guinea’s decision to shut office in Port Moresby ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-papua-new-guinea-has-closed-taiwans-office-in-the-country    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:03:55

  • China disapproves of British Steel nationalisation decision by UK ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-disapproves-of-british-steel-nationalisation-decision-by-uk    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:04:12

  • Chinese police arrest Uyghur sisters and mother in Urumqi for sending goods to Turkey ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2026/07/17/urumqi-xinjiang-china-police-turkey-arrest-mother-sisters/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:04:30

  • "Z's are going to be a total disaster in 2027" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:11:10

  • "the slide continues, it is at $21. YEAH ... Six Flags fun ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw#replies    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:14:17

  • Mexico in Numbers: How Mexico overtook Canada, Japan and China as top exporter to the US ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-in-numbers-mexico-exports-us-china-canada/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:58:17

  • Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Sherwood News, GB News and News 12 ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:58:37

  • Newsletter platform Beehiiv adds community features and programmatic advertising ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/newsletter-platform-beehiiv-adds-community-features-and-programmatic-advertising/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/12/Beehiiv_and_Substack_Are_Platform_Lock_in_Similar_to_Vendor_Loc.shtml    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:59:00

  • Behold, The World's Oldest Amber – a Record of a World 385 Million Years Ago ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-oldest-amber-comes-from-a-world-150-million-years-before-dinosaurs    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:59:31

  • Entirely New Monkey Species Discovered in The Congo Rainforest, And It Doesn't Look Impressed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-entirely-new-species-of-monkey-has-been-living-in-the-congo-rainforest-this-whole-time    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 17:59:45

  • Nanoparticles Cross Blood-Brain Barrier in Mice to Shrink Deadly Glioblastoma ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-shrink-deadly-brain-tumors-in-mice    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:03

  • Common Sleep Supplement May Also Ease Chronic Pain, Review of 23 Trials Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-sleep-supplement-may-also-help-ease-chronic-pain-study-reveals    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:10

  • Endangered Australian Frog Shimmers Like an Opal (in an Unusual Place) ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/endangered-australian-frog-discovered-to-shimmer-like-an-opal    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:28

  • For The First Time, Astronomers Detect An Atmosphere Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:35

  • Ancient DNA Finally Solves a 16th-Century Murder Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-dna-finally-solves-a-16th-century-murder-mystery    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:40

  • Your Longevity May Be Shaped Before You're Even Born, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-longevity-may-be-shaped-before-youre-even-born-study-reveals    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:52

  • Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Skilled With Powerful Weapons, Lost Remains Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-egyptian-princesses-were-skilled-with-powerful-weapons-lost-remains-reveal    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:00:59

  • A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canada’s universities are buying ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-consulting-firm-is-selling-austerity-canadas-universities-are-buying/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:01:32

  • Bangkok bar fire: Victims died of cyanide poisoning within minutes, autopsies show ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkok-bar-fire-victims-died-of-cyanide-poisoning-within-minutes-autopsies-show    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:02:05

  • New ITU Report Finds Community Networks Are Key to Reaching the Unconnected ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/07/new-itu-report-finds-community-networks-are-key-to-reaching-the-unconnected/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:03:43

  • Australia should welcome Japan’s intelligence restructure ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-should-welcome-japans-intelligence-restructure/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:04:05

  • Australia to Put Environmental Brakes on Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:04:16

  • The Quest for ‘Technological Sovereignty’ in Europe (and Why It’s So Hard) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:04:30

  • MElon’s Hey Hi (AI) Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-startup-disaster    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:05:07

  • Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as Hey Hi (AI) Backlash Grows ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-execs-armed-bodyguards-ai-backlash    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:05:25

  • Short Sellers Are Having a Field Day Betting Against SpaceX as Shares Continue to Slip ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/short-sellers-field-day-spacex    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:05:48

  • "Kathleen Williams' ruling that Convicted Felon is not adverse to the government may soon impact the BBC's efforts to defend against a frivolous lawsuit by Convicted Felon." ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/16/to-beeb-adverse-or-not-to-beeb-that-is-the-question/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:06:50

  • US federal court ends decades-long school desegregation lawsuit in Louisiana ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/us-federal-court-ends-decades-long-school-desegregation-lawsuit-in-louisiana/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:07:21

  • Massachusetts Becomes the Latest State to Propose Strict Ticket Resale Price Caps Under Noah Kahan-Inspired ‘Great Divide Act’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/16/massachusetts-ticketing-law-price-cap/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:08:17

  • "I keep falling further down the rabbit hole, and I wonder if I'll be able to get back to 2026 again." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/JUL2026/entry-3    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:11:36

  • "I think this hits upon a key consequence of coding with AI." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026/07/re-ai-bloat.gmi    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:12:19

  • Shoebox man incapable of distinguishing one person from another; that's why shoebox man ends up attacking relatives to punish people who criticise him. Shoebox man would not behave similarly had his parents and cousins been publicly blasted because he is a shill of GAFAM/Microsoft.    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:13:52

  • "If you've noticed that sava.rocks has been unusually quiet, you're not imagining things. Between work, the usual summer activities, and trying to spend a little less time in front of a screen, I simply haven't had much time to update my gemini capsule and gopher hole." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/SavaRocks/46070    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:15:53

  • "I'd rather publish something I've enjoyed writing than force myself to post just to keep an update schedule. This little corner of the internet has never been about chasing algorithms or engagement metrics. It'll get new posts when there's something worth saying and time to write the post." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/silence-doesnt-mean-abandoned-life-happened/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:16:23

  • "Time to PIP the po-p out of Arvind and company. Where's that f'ing shill? He's got some splaining to do." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrda09x#replies "The dance of the vultures is starting, circling around an almost dead. The sharks are smelling blood too."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:20:44

  • "Lets see if the board members have leftover CHIPS ACT funds to buy more shares. The new admin made a change to the chips act in 2025 to let the semi & tech companies use the money for equity purchases... like stocks. Pshh... no wonder the stock prices went parabolic" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:21:33

  • "Andy Burnham declared new Labour leader on way to being next UK prime minister". Mancunian PM would be good for Techrights - better connections.    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:23:23

  • Hong Kong Police Raid Independent Bookstores and Arrest 5 People ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstore-arrest-china.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:49:57

  • Czech citizen detained in China suspected of endangering national security ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/czech-citizen-detained-in-china-faces-espionage-investigation    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:50:24

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Has Dismantled Election Security Efforts. Here’s How. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-security-cisa.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:50:30

  • After arrests, Hong Kong issues warning to booksellers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/after-arrests-hong-kong-issues-warning-to-booksellers    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:50:46

  • New Lithuanian PM's first calls and meeting go to Baltic neighbours ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992082/new-lithuanian-pm-s-first-calls-and-meeting-go-to-baltic-neighbours    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:50:55

  • ‘Law is clear’: Booksellers must ensure books are lawful, says security chief after arrests – but won’t give list of banned titles ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/17/law-is-clear-booksellers-must-ensure-books-are-lawful-says-security-chief-after-arrests-but-wont-give-list-of-banned-titles/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:51:24

  • Navigating The OpenSSF is as Easy as Floating Down A Lazy River ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/07/16/navigating-the-openssf-is-as-easy-as-floating-down-a-lazy-river/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:51:46

  • Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ backdoored Windows Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nightmare-eclipse-drops-legacyhive-windows-zero-day/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:52:48

  • China’s Top Cybersecurity Firms Hit by Mounting Military Procurement Bans ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinas-top-cybersecurity-firms-hit-by-mounting-military-procurement-bans/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:53:06

  • F5 Patches Multiple NGINX, BIG-IP Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/f5-patches-multiple-nginx-big-ip-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:53:38

  • Splunk, Zoom Patch Critical Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/splunk-zoom-patch-critical-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:53:52

  • Two Scattered Spider Hackers Sentenced to Jail in UK ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/two-scattered-spider-hackers-sentenced-to-jail-in-uk/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:54:28

  • Legacy Systems, Real-World Impacts: The Reality of OT Security ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/legacy-systems-real-world-impacts-the-reality-of-ot-security/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:54:50

  • EU trade relations with developing countries continue to create sustainable economic growth ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1625    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:55:31

  • How to Install Stirling PDF on Raspberry Pi via Docker: A Real-World Performance Guide ☞ https://peppe8o.com/stirling-pdf-raspberry-pi-docker-benchmark/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:56:20

  • Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/chinese-lawyer-wu-shaoping-ice-detention.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:56:35

  • Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/old-uefi-shims-expose-systems-to-secure-boot-bypass/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/15/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Still_Not_Secure_in_2026_New_Holes_or_Bypasses.shtml    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:57:14

  • Server-side Drop Shadows ☞ https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2026/07/16/server-side-drop-shadows/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:57:43

  • Niko Matsakis: Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/?utm_source=atom_feed    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 18:58:41

  • [GSoC 2026] Midterm progress on the Devices application ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/aquamatic123/2026-07-11_gsoc_2026_midterm_progress_on_the_devices_application/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:00:00

  • Wanted: Government to fix the ICO ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/wanted-government-to-fix-the-ico/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:00:55

  • Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-trash-dialog-cancel-button-fix    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:01:33

  • Commission provides guidance to Surveillance Giant Google for Hey Hi (AI) interoperability on Android and sharing of Surveillance Giant Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1634    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:02:29

  • ‘ClickLock Stealer’ Bypasses macOS Security With Social Engineering, Process Killing ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/clicklock-stealer-bypasses-macos-security-with-social-engineering-process-killing/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:03:19

  • The game is up: how MENA’s social control media regulations silence and control ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/mena-social-media-censorship/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:09:14

  • libtool @ Savannah: libtool-2.6.2 released [stable] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10914    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:10:02

  • 7 Best Free and Open Source Crystal Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-crystal-static-site-generators/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:10:25

  • HackRF Pro SDR covers 100kHz to 6GHz with FPGA-based processing ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/hackrf-pro-sdr-covers-100khz-to-6ghz-with-fpga-based-processing/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:11:32

  • Remapping the Useless Hey Hi (AI) Slop Copilot Key in GNU/Linux ☞ https://itsfoss.com/remap-copilot-key-linux/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:23:22

  • FOSS Weekly #26.29: Mint Goes Wayland, OpenBook Reader, Terminal Shortcut Tips, GNU/Linux Handheld Computers and More ☞ https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17381301/foss-weekly-26-29    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:23:42

  • Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/vocalinux-beta-release/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:24:11

  • Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.4.24RC1 and 8.5.9RC1 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/07/17/PHP-version-8.4.24RC1-and-8.5.9RC1    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:24:31

  • What Is stdin, stdout, and stderr in GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/what-is-stdin-stdout-and-stderr-in-linux/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:24:56

  • sha256sum Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/sha256sum/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:25:07

  • pico-usb-wifi firmware converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/16/pico-usb-wifi-converts-the-raspberry-pi-pico-w-into-a-driverless-usb-wifi-adapter/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:25:25

  • Layered sandboxing for Hey Hi (AI) agents: OpenShift and OpenShell ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/16/layered-sandboxing-ai-agents-openshift-and-openshell    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:26:04

  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including A Game about Chopping Trees - 2026-07-15 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-07-15-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:34:07

  • Fix sudo run as another user ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202607/fix-sudo-run-as-another-user.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:34:50

  • End of Line: Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools ☞ https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/end-of-line-replacing-mcp-with-standard-filesystem-tools/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:35:18

  • OPNsense 26.7 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/opnsense    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:35:56

  • AMD driver causing massive performance loss on all major GNU/Linux distros ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/amd-driver-causing-massive-performance-loss-on-all-major-linux-distros/?utm_source=rss    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:37:25

  • How to Install Etherpad on Fedora 44 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-etherpad-on-fedora-linux/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:37:45

  • How To Install OPNsense on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-opnsense-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:38:15

  • Godot Community Poll 2026 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/godot-community-poll-2026/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:38:32

  • Value From the Beginning: The Book of Wisdom’s Limit in 4DD Holdings v. United States ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/value-from-the-beginning-the-book-of-wisdoms-limit-in-4dd-holdings-v-united-states.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:39:02

  • Bad Bunny Legal Team Fires Back Against ‘Frankenstein’ Reggaeton Infringement Suit, Says a Copyright Claim Cannot Be ‘Stitched Together from Three Separate Songs’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/16/bad-bunny-reggaeton-lawsuit-reconsider-motion/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:39:25

  • Right to Repair Fundraiser Goal Reached ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/jul/16/software-right-to-repair-baltobu-fundraiser-succes/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:40:25

  • Sloppy Linus ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-rebukes-anti-ai-stances-in-the-linux-kernel-code-review-process-says-linux-is-not-one-of-those-anti-ai-projects-creator-embraces-ai-as-just-a-tool-and-clearly-a-useful-one    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:41:18

  • 75% of all PS3 games reportedly now run on PC via open-source emulator RPCS3 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/open-source-ps3-emulator-says-its-now-compatible-with-over-75-percent-of-all-ps3-games-on-pc-rpcs3-announcement-comes-weeks-after-sony-announced-the-shuttering-of-the-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita-by-july-2027    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:41:36

  • GNU/Linux Approaching 5% "Market Share" in Oceania, Almost Trebling in 12 Months ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/16/GNU_Linux_Approaching_5_Market_Share_in_Oceania_Almost_Trebling.shtml    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:41:46

  • EU court dismisses final challenge to sanctions on Belarusian transit through Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992211/eu-court-dismisses-final-challenge-to-sanctions-on-belarusian-transit-through-lithuania    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:42:06

  • LRT English Newsletter: Russia planning something? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992334/lrt-english-newsletter-russia-planning-something    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:42:21

  • Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russian-nationals-medialand-mlcloud-indicted-bulletproof-hosting/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:42:33

  • Cyber agencies warn critical industries about Russia-linked hackers ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2026/07/cyber-agencies-warn-critical-industries-about-russia-linked-hackers/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:42:45

  • Turkey detaines two Russian tourists for 'reciting Bible' at Hagia Sophia ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-detaines-two-russian-tourists-for-reciting-bible-at-hagia-sophia-321553    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:42:57

  • What to Know About Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Ousted Defense Minister ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/who-mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-defense-minister.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:43:17

  • Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, a Proponent of Drone Warfare, Is Forced Out ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:43:25

  • Ukraine’s Ousted Defense Minister Attacks the Military’s Old Guard ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-fedorov-protests.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:43:46

  • He Was a Russian Political Survivor, Until the Masked Men Appeared ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/europe/russia-politics-election-nadezhdin.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:43:55

  • Ukraine Was on a Roll. Then a Clash Over War Strategy Exploded Into View. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-defense-minister-drones.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:44:06

  • Why Ukrainians have taken to the streets to protest a cabinet shuffle ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0716/russian-ukraine-war-fedorov-defense-minister-protests    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:44:21

  • Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Fedorov Sparks Protests ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fedorov-sacked-zelenskyy-cabinet-shuffle/33804467.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:44:29

  • 'What A Nightmare': Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Sparks Fury In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-military-fedorov-zelenskyy-firing-ouster-defense-ministry/33804946.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:44:41

  • Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine After Shock Dismissal Of Defense Minister ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fired-protests-controversy-war/33805012.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:44:49

  • US Senate Leadership Throws Weight Behind Renewed Russia Sanctions Push ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/senate-russia-sanctions-legislation-graham-war/33805545.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:45:00

  • Ukraine: Protests erupt after defence minister sacked ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260716-ukraine-protests-erupt-after-defence-minister-sacked    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:45:09

  • How rivalry with a top general brought down Ukraine’s popular defence minister Fedorov ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260716-how-rivalry-with-top-general-syrsky-brought-down-ukraine-popular-defence-minister-fedorov    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:45:15

  • Bitter row splits Ukraine's military leadership after defence minister ousted ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/bitter-row-splits-ukraine-s-military-leadership-after-defence-minister-ousted    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:45:22

  • Zelensky's dismissal of Ukraine's defence chief sparks political crisis ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-s-dismissal-of-ukraine-s-defence-chief-sparks-political-crisis    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:45:31

  • Report reveals extent of Kenyan deaths on Russian frontline ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/report-reveals-extent-of-kenyan-deaths-on-russian-frontline    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:45:38

  • Why the ITC’s Litigation Funding Disclosure Proposal Is Good Policy — and Why It Needs Sharper Teeth ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/16/why-the-itcs-litigation-funding-disclosure-proposal-is-good-policy-and-why-it-needs-sharper-teeth    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:46:11

  • How obs-mcp boosts AI-native OpenShift observability ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/16/how-obs-mcp-boosts-ai-native-openshift-observability    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:46:57

  • Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on “The Great Simplification” ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/podcast-notes-iain-mcgilchrist/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:48:44

  • American Oversight Launches Investigation Into White House Pandemic Preparedness ☞ https://americanoversight.org/pandemic-preparedness-white-house-foia/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:51:19

  • Death at Michigan women’s prison ruled suicide. Autopsy points to aspirin ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/death-at-michigan-womens-prison-ruled-suicide-autopsy-points-to-aspirin/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:51:54

  • OpenInfrared Point is an ESP32-S3 powered universal remote hub with Infrared, BLE, NFC, audio streaming (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/16/openinfrared-point-esp32-s3-universal-remote-hub-infrared-ble-nfc-audio-streaming/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:52:37

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1083201/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:53:26

  • TUXEDO 20260716 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tuxedo    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:55:49

  • ShredOS 2025.11_31 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shredos    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:55:57

  • KLV-Airedale sr21 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/klv    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:56:10

  • Kumander 3.0-rc1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kumander    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:56:22

  • Tomorrow is Another Strike Day at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the Media is Still Deliberately Ignoring It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/16/Tomorrow_is_Another_Strike_Day_at_Europe_s_Second_Largest_Insti.shtml    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:56:49

  • Fears for Indian activist’s life after 18 days of hunger strike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/fears-for-indian-activists-life-after-18-days-of-hunger-strike    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:57:07

  • A 59-Year-Old Hunger Striker Joins a Gen Z Protest Movement in India ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/india-sonam-wangchuk-cockroach-janata-party-hunger-strike.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:57:22

  • #PrivacyCamp26: Call for sessions ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/privacycamp26-call-for-sessions/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 19:57:59

  • The Digital Omnibus is going on summer break. Your rights are not. ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-omnibus-is-going-on-summer-break-your-rights-are-not/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:01:15

  • Proposed Europol reform dangerously erodes privacy, automates surveillance, and sidelines oversight ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/proposed-europol-reform-dangerously-erodes-privacy-automates-surveillance-and-sidelines-oversight/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:01:30

  • How insurance organizations balance strict compliance with data agility ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-insurance-organizations-balance-strict-compliance-data-agility    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:03:49

  • The digital rulebook is fit for purpose: better enforcement is needed, not simplification ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-rulebook-is-fit-for-purpose-better-enforcement-is-needed-not-simplification/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:04:34

  • EDRi-gram, 16 July 2026 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-16-july-2026/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:04:43

  • Hadopi law (2009–2026) ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/hadopi-law-2009-2026/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:04:54

  • Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/redditors-flock-surveillance-alpr-vandalism-memes    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:05:28

  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.97.1 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/16/Rust-1.97.1/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:06:24

  • Olimex PICO-EVB automation board adds high-voltage terminals to Raspberry Pi Pico family ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/17/olimex-pico-evb-automation-board-adds-high-voltage-terminals-to-raspberry-pi-pico-family/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:06:45

  • 121: Possibilities Multiply ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24901    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:07:26

  • China asks Thailand to deport Chinese journalist, rights groups warn of persecution ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/rights-groups-urge-thailand-not-to-deport-chinese-journalist-to-china    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:07:41

  • Michigan poised to close ‘revolving door’ for lawmaker lobbyists ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-poised-to-close-revolving-door-for-lawmaker-lobbyists/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:10:04

  • Ewwww.... slop https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/16/using-ai-to-build-your-own-software/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:12:28

  • Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/x11-vs-wayland-input-latency/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:14:38

  • Don’t Go Paperless ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/16/dont-go-paperless/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:21:00

  • "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, confirmed that its web infrastructure was hit by a sustained, cross-border distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, disrupting services used across the Ubuntu ecosystem." https://securityboulevard.com/2026/07/ubuntu-ddos-attack-what-canonicals-outage-reveals-about-ddos-disruption/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:33:34

  • Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag performance with Linux hypervisor is on par with Windows ⚓ https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/proizvoditelnost-assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-s-gipervizorom-na-linux-sravnyalas-s-windows    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:34:40

  • How to Install Arch Linux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WW8I4Fpes    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:34:59

  • Losing credibility because of bribes to LF https://www.techradar.com/pro/linus-torvalds-says-linux-is-not-anti-ai-tells-haters-to-fork-it-and-just-walk-away    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:35:50

  • More slop bribes to LF, so in turn Torvalds needs to play along with slop https://aithority.com/machine-learning/opaque-joins-the-linux-foundations-appia-foundation-and-agentic-ai-foundations-to-advance-open/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:36:45

  • 10ZiG and Cendio Partner to Deliver Secure, High-Performance Linux Server-Based Computing https://www.prweb.com/releases/10zig-and-cendio-partner-to-deliver-secure-high-performance-linux-server-based-computing-302826160.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:37:12

  • Linux doesn't force me to use the terminal—these 3 tools prove it https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-doesnt-force-you-to-use-the-terminalthese-graphical-tools-prove-it/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:37:33

  • The Linux Tax is real—and it's holding desktop Linux back https://www.howtogeek.com/the-linux-tax-is-real-and-its-holding-back-open-source-desktops-more-than-anything-else/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:37:51

  • The desktop environment every Linux distro wants just got a sleek frosted glass theme https://www.xda-developers.com/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:38:29

  • Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out https://www.howtogeek.com/does-linux-run-faster-than-windows-i-tested-both/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:40:33

  • This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine https://www.makeuseof.com/this-one-tweak-made-my-linux-pc-closer-to-a-steam-machine/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:44:21

  • The release of a Denuvo workaround for Linux has sparked a massive shift among gamers to SteamOS. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/reliz-obkhoda-denuvo-dlya-linux-sprovotsiroval-massovyj-perekhod-gejmerov-na-steamos    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:47:30

  • RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5080 Performance Comparison Windows 11 and Linux in 2026 https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/sravnenie-proizvoditelnosti-rx-9070-xt-i-rtx-5080-v-windows-11-i-linux-v-2026-godu    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:48:42

  • Slop grifters milking the pyramid scheme https://inc42.com/buzz/logcat-ai-bags-2-5-mn-to-build-ai-platform-for-android-linux-engineering/    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:49:32

  • Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS https://www.techpowerup.com/350791/windows-11-vs-linux-gaming-test-reveals-theres-more-to-it-than-fps?amp    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 20:52:16

  • Selling slop, going with a pyramid scheme's flow https://www.infoworld.com/article/4197008/red-hat-openshift-4-22-tackles-cloud-costs-ai-workloads.html    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 21:48:08

  • Chris Wright sold out and sold his soul to slop boosters at IBM https://www.redhat.com/en/technically-speaking/defining-sovereign-AI    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 21:48:57

  • "I used to be a colorguard director. I used to be a very good colorguard director. I've taken kids to Indy and Dayton (iykyk). I've won awards. I've trained champions." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-07-17    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 21:56:30

  • "The BS machine is in spin cycle again, trying to defend a mo--n CEO who is responsible for 25% of the company's market value disappearing in a day. Let's just try and sweep $70 Billion under the carpet and try spin it as Arvind, the clown CEO, was being transparent and accountable when his financial gymnastics blew up in his face." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:21:19

  • "alk about some spin. If AK and his cronies in the C-Suite forgo their bonuses for the rest of their undoubtedly extremely short tenures and take a significant pay cut, then that'll show accountability. And doesn't AK attend the WEF in Davos every year? What advice did he receive from all those geniuses? Somewhere out there one can hear the echoes of Ginni's hysterical laughter."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:22:04

  • "The money to keep buying is running out. Debt keeps climbing. Buybacks have been frozen for years because the company is still “digesting” its last purchase. Cash meant for growth is quietly being redirected to service the last deal, not fund the next one." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrtyhvs    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:22:57

  • "There’s massive changes going on everywhere. Several new roles have been created and need volunteers literally by EOD. The little indian AI HR rep will be here soon to tell us he read a book once." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrtyhvs    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:24:36

  • ":That’s the pattern worth naming out loud: a company that has run out of things to buy, running out of ways to reshuffle what it already sold, paying for both by quietly shifting the bill onto the people closest to the customer. Another reorg won’t fix that. Only shipping what was already sold will."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:24:51

  • "Another reorg. Sold as agility, felt as whiplash. Leadership didn’t even wait for the planned date — they tore up a structure barely a year old and rebuilt it mid-year, with zero regard for what that costs the people living through it. The stated reason: “boost software deployment.” The real reason is simpler and darker."    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:25:36

  • "dropped again today. Lost almost 30% of its wealth in one week. Arvind is a failure. He’ll take his $100M golden parachute back to India while IBMers and their families are made to suffer for his incompetence. What a joke that guy is." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw#replies    

posted Friday, July 17, 2026 at 22:27:09
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