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Hearthstone Game Director Leaves Blizzard https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/07/20/geimdirektor-hearthstone-usel-iz-blizzard.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 04:08:48

  • Many Xbox studio managers hate Game Pass, and Microsoft may stop adding games to the subscription on release - insider https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/07/19/mnogie-menedzery-xbox-nenavidiat-game-pass-i-mogut-otkazatsia-ot-dobavleniia-igr-na-relize-insaid.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 04:10:05

  • SJVN pushing SLOP because LF pays him to https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 04:11:23

  • On IBM: "How the mighty have fallen" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 04:59:30

  • "So I understand, what could IBM / Arvind be found liable about this situation? For example, I could see catching IBM executives unloading their shares prior to the announcement. What else?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrda09x "hopefully the uncover many other things we all know go down."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:00:12

  • On IBM: "Exactly this. As a company, we’re remarkably unaware and lack self awareness of how we’re perceived by everyone else. We very much like the smell of our own farts" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxt353tj    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:00:41

  • "Why would it drop 30% in a few days? I could understand a 10% drop at most. 700 Million is a large miss but what else are they hiding that would make the company lose 70 billion in a few days? If Krabanaugh is cooking the books and Alvind knew too. Both of them need to be held accountable"    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:01:42

  • "Wall Street was spooked last week because they don’t know if IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy is for real (justifying a 300 dollar stock price) or just a story IBM can’t stand behind (justifying a much lower price). Wall Street was buying the hybrid cloud story until IBM’s preannounce last week, and now it’s pricing the stock as a legacy mainframe company instead. (Eg the hybrid cloud premium went poof)"    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:01:46

  • "Sarah E. Needleman sold her journalistic soul...for IBM's Arvind? Girl, have some professional self respect." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/19/Journalists_Who_Help_IBM_Cover_Up_Fraud.shtml    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:06:26

  • not carried together gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/not_carried_together    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:30:32

  • "Last night at a music festival, during the set for Matchbox 20 Rob Thomas made a comment about how he started the band not thinking that one day their music would become nostalgia for a generation." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/the-era-of-nostalgia    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:31:10

  • "I took lack of such crossover in my own hands and this is a result. I hope to write more soon, in meantime please leave as much criticism as you can. I hope to be mostly follow mechanics of both universes, so if I have forgot something or you simply disagree please write." gemini://namno.duckdns.org/blog/2026-07-20.gmi    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:31:53

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Dark Web and Beyond gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-07-20_the_guide_to_the_web.gmi    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 05:32:28

  • Aral Balkan hasn't posted at all since last year. We would rather not speculate as to why. https://ar.al/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 06:02:43

  • "...though two of the possibilities remain health and aftermath of censorship"    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 06:03:12

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posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 06:15:57

  • "USA had no option except to peak after the Reagan administration cut the education budget by IIRC 60% and then ensured that it has been cut a little more each year since. Without education, there is no future, and that's what it was about. "    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 06:16:03

  • "I recall even in 1985 I considered that it was highly probable that the Reagan administration was working more on behalf of Russia's goals against the US than for the US itself."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 06:16:46

  • "...By 1987 the junk being passed off as military equipment made it into deployment and it was clear that the goal was to skim government money out of the military in the form of contracts. Defense as it were was not on the table. That continues to this day with those M$ goggles and with heavy, flying junk like the F-35 (which I suspect is also M$ infected)"    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 06:18:35

  • Evil Won’t Exist Without Collaborators and Enablers https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/collaborators-and-enablers/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 08:48:20

  • "The Supreme Court justices are on summer recess, but a stack of copyright briefs will be waiting for them when they get back." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/bmg-vetter-cert-amicus-briefs/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:55:40

  • "During the FIFA World Cup, law enforcement and private partners across multiple continents have seized or blocked well over a thousand pirate streaming domains" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/fifa-world-cup-triggers-a-global-anti-piracy-crackdown/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:55:55

  • "IPv6 address planning is not fundamentally a resource allocation problem." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/20/ipv6-address-planning-from-bit-conservation-to-elegant-alignment/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:56:40

  • "The network reiterated that the ICC, created by the 2002 Rome Statute" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/international-civil-liberties-coalition-defends-icc-amid-us-dismantling-efforts/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:57:05

  • "In theory the Rust coreutils aim for 100% compatibility with GNU Coreutils and anything to the contrary is a bug." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2604BuildEssentialAndUutils | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:57:58

  • "The United States currently has no political movement adequate to that role." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/in-defense-of-liberal-conservatism | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:58:15

  • "Apple was last valued at $4.88-trillion as its shares held steady, while Nvidia was roughly at $4.86-trillion" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/apple-knocks-nvidia-off-its-perch/283896/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:58:28

  • "Forest department flags 23 Google Maps listings inside reserve forests in Kozhikode as misleading" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/geo-tagging-of-forest-locations-raises-concerns-over-trespassing/article71241685.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:59:00

  • re https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/collaborators-and-enablers/ c.f. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yuppie-nuremberg+defense    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:59:20

  • "Signalbox plots every train moving across Britain in real time (or close to it)" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/16/live-map-of-britains-trains.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:59:42

  • "We come at this from different directions" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/crypto-corruption-trump-clarity-act-1235595388/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 12:59:54

  • "But conveniently… I happened to have such a cable in my bag." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/07/19/you-saved-my-life/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:00:04

  • "According to AT5, helmets are increasingly common among cyclists in Amsterdam." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/19/helmet-use-rising-among-dutch-cyclists-driven-older-riders-e-bike-users | Source: NL Times    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:00:27

  • "Of the 335,497 known flowering plant species included in the analysis, 9,945 qualified as EDGE species" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-studying-earths-flowering-plants-issue-a-stark-warning-to-humanity | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:00:50

  • "It is well known that the AMOC is a big player in the world's climate system, and that it is slowing down" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-major-ocean-current-is-weakening-scientists-say-the-effects-may-reach-california | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:00:59

  • "This acidic mixture attacks concrete, and the hydrogen peroxide causes steel to rust faster" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/climate-activists-microsoft-ai-data-center-acid-balloons | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:01:34

  • "Then on Restoration of Independence Day (Taasiseseisvumispäev) itself on Thursday, August 20, events start with the flag-raising ceremony in the Governor's Garden on Toompea." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610080936/35th-anniversary-of-restoration-of-estonian-independence-to-see-extensive-events | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:02:01

  • "GPS jamming is also a common occurrence in Ukrainian airspace. This means that drone operators could potentially get lost on their way to their targets" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/russian-drones-spotted-using-screwed-on-magnetic-compasses-as-navigation-aids-the-on-board-camera-can-occasionally-tilt-down-to-check-bearings-if-satellite-comms-are-lost | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:02:24

  • "America is becoming increasingly oligarchic." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/against-oligarchy-part-i-progressive | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:02:43

  • "This will be a handy change — less apps to maintain on some of my machines." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/07/connect-built-into-screens/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:03:19

  • "The entire financial system is a surveillance hellscape." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/most-of-you-wont-need-this-a-few | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:03:33

  • "Those who cut down Flock surveillance devices are regarded as folk heroes" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-surveillance-backlash-audio-distress-screaming-police | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:03:56

  • "It’s safe to say that Meta executives were furious after Wired published its investigation." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-exec-describes-facial-recognition-feature | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:04:07

  • "Here is the breakdown of how it works." ☛ https://sec.okta.com/articles/2026/06/openssl-hollowbtye-a-dos-hiding-in-11-bytes/ |    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:07:23

  • "The Tates are being held in federal detention following their arrest on Saturday." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/miami-influencer-united-kingdom-romania-england-b3017888.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:07:55

  • Social Control Media ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/opinion/ai-attention-social-media-attachment.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:08:05

  • "I am a skeptic of the utility of LLM in software development." ☛ https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/reviewing-ai-code | Source: Thomas Depierre    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:08:37

  • "Many of these companies are unimaginably deep in the red when it comes to “AI”" ☛ https://www.osnews.com/story/145548/follow-the-money-especially-in-open-source/ | Source: OS News    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:08:55

  • "But let’s double check those numbers." ☛ https://www.dgriffinjones.com/extraordinary/electrek.html | Source: D Griffin Jones    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:09:07

  • "A one day task turned into a two day task because I'm not buying $7 SD cards for $45, out of principle." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/sd/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:09:19

  • "Prompt injections" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/prompt-injection-attacks-are-thwarting-ai-hacking-agents/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:10:05

  • "Prices for memory chips have skyrocketed in recent months" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/19/2026/ai-memory-shortage-puts-pressure-on-governments-to-act | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:10:25

  • "It may seem odd for the guy who created Hinge to disparage algorithmic feeds and swiping" ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/14/the-founder-of-hinge-raised-18m-to-build-a-new-ai-dating-service-overtone/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:10:43

  • "not a dating app" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-mcleod-ceo-online-dating-overtone-app | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:11:36

  • "Artificial intelligence is no longer merely a science-fiction scenario – it is reshaping how we work" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2990445/things-could-drift-toward-black-mirror-lithuania-s-ai-pioneer-on-digital-twins | Source: LRT    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:11:53

  • EPO Series: "A Tale of Two Antónios" - Good news. Part 29 is finally on the way. Please note that there are two video clips associated with this part which will be sent by separate mails. In other words: a total of three "Chunks" relating to this part.    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:15:00

  • Danish MEP Karin Melchior has read techrights for a long time and even talked to us a few times.    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:17:17

  • "We have been following issues with Hikvision cameras for a long, long time." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33164 | Source: SANS    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:26:37

  • "Finland is Preparing to Hide an Entire City Underground" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/19/034232 unfortunately there is more than just the one city in Finland ...    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:27:00

  • "In a new paper published in Behavioral Sciences" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/modern-life-may-be-pushing-human-minds-beyond-their-limits-reflecting-an-evolutionary-mismatch | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:28:29

  • "The researchers identified the six most common mutant KRAS (mKRAS) variations in PDAC tumors" ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/a-pancreatic-cancer-vaccine-shows-promise-in-a-phase-1-clinical-trial-74762 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:28:41

  • "Other notable entrants include actor-turned-activist Lawrence Fox, known for his anti-woke positions, alongside various independents and minor party hopefuls. Among the more unusual is Australian-born Daniel Pocock, a software engineer and self-described expert in cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies, who has thrown his hat into the ring." https://eualive.net/farage-pushes-for-public-judgement-over-deepening-financial-scandal/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:30:09

  • "So I bought the cheapest desktop video projector I could find ($30)" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/the-eye-of-pizza-is-no-longer-upon-you/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:32:10

  • iophk: Linus should have followed that advice, but in revers. He should take is trademark and walk, leaving the M$ LF out in the cold. He'd have no trouble raising money if he were to ask the public, if that is a concern. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/17/151212    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:33:14

  • "First released in July of 1976" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/remembering-the-zilog-z80-as-it-turns-fifty-years-old/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:33:33

  • "With Linus' employer, the Linux Foundation, spending less than 3% (and decreasing) of the Linux Foundation budget on Linux [techrights.org], and with him having been previously both cancelled and sent of for unneeded psychological treatment" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/17/151212#1448664    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:34:10

  • "and with him having been moved out of the way of these people and let back on more or less as a mascot, he is acutely aware of what he can and cannot say [goodreads.com], especially in regards to allowing AI slop into the kernel."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:34:54

  • "Anyway, a large chunk of the funding the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvald’s employer, receives is coming from increasingly desperate companies frantically trying to convince a populace deeply skeptical and often downright hostile towards “AI” [futurism.com] to spend money on “AI” before the bubble bursts." https://www.osnews.com/story/145548/follow-the-money-especially-in-open-source/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:35:26

  • "So, yes, peddling slop actually is a growing part of the LF business model now, if you follow the money." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/17/151212#1448664    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:35:45

  • "The Z80 powered many retro favorites like the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX, Game Boy, Master System, Pac-Man arcade" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/zilog-z80-turns-50-as-open-source-replacement-heads-for-drop-in-dip40-silicon | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:35:54

  • "This isn’t a problem at the moment as there is more than enough demand to go around for incumbent memory" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/policy/memory-chip-boss-admits-ram-prices-are-abnormally-high-sk-group-chairman-considering-building-a-semiconductor-plant-in-the-us-to-expand-supply-calm-chipflation | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:36:05

  • "Well, I stand by my AI scepticism. I'll leave it to others to do the hard work (lose their shirts, make a pig's ear of things) and I'll eat my popcorn."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:36:38

  • "It's time to replace Linux. It's time for a microkernel architecture with a Linux personality layer on top. Start from scratch without the cruft."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:37:10

  • "Goodbye, and thanks for all the Bikesheds! - Please make my predictions come out wrong [acm.org] is somehow related, as Poul-Henning Kamp (phk), a long time FreeBSD developer, does write about LLM and the FOSS future." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/17/151212#1448664    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:37:49

  • phk is right http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/20/In_His_Departure_Post_Poul_Henning_Kamp_phk_Explains_Why_Linus_.shtml    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:38:11

  • "Thanks for that link. I have now discovered many interesting articles to read."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:39:35

  • "You're welcome. I am glad you like it and that you found some more interesting content on https://queue.acm.org/. [acm.org] Kode Vicious who is also mention in the article, is written from George V. Neville-Neil, who is also long time FreeBSD developer. If you like his writings as well, then it is just a matter of time until you find your path to the Free Beautifully Source Distribution. 🙃"    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:39:39

  • "The OpenBSD project has stated that is an explict, unsurmountable problem. Straight from the horse's mouth [marc.info]: Lacking Copyright (or similarily a Public Domain declaration by a human), we don't receive sufficient rights grants which would permit us to include it into the aggregate body of source code, without that aggregate body becoming less free than it is now." https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=67599&page=1&cid=1448606#1448606    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:41:38

  • "Slop generators inflict an unreasonable burden in causing the spending time, wasting it really, on sorting slop from actual content. Slopsters consider it an externality but it has real world costs so the slop should be labelled properly or just banned."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:42:19

  • "That is because the time wasted on sorting the slop and other chaff out is valuable as it is a thought-intensive process and that is capability is quite finite. Thus efforts should instead be focused on real content, and the only way to do that is a ban on slop or, to get it at the source, slop generators and the proprietors of slop generators.    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:42:29

  • "Let’s say you had to select which higher education (depending on where you live in the world, sometimes known as college, university, or tertiary education) you would attend" ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/what-if-different-college/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:43:16

  • "I studied “automation and robotics” at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Białystok University of Technology. And specialised in the “Information Systems”: [...]" ☛ https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/07/19/half-my-life-ago/ | Source: Marcin Juszkiewicz    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:43:51

  • "To understand the nature of that bottleneck, observe how the grade-school algorithm handles growth" ☛ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-still-dont-know-the-fastest-way-to-multiply-numbers/ | Source: Scientific American    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:44:13

  • "We will assume that the reader is an undergraduate student in CS (i.e., the reader knows basics of discrete mathematics, linear algebra, and algorithm design)." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/bipartite-perfect-matching-in.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:44:38

  • "has a solution. The traditional name for these numbers is “quadratic residues” but we can just say “squares” if the context is clear. So, for example, the numbers 1, 2, and 4 are squares mod 7, and the numbers 3, 5, and 6 are not." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/19/sum-of-low-squares/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:44:50

  • "For centuries, the people invoking mind, soul, purpose, or God in explanations often were trying to stop the inquiry." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-moon-does-not-prove-physicalism | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:45:04

  • "Also, LLMs fuck with your head [softwarecrisis.dev] in precise, exact ways that make you think they're not fuckin with you. How has Torvalds fallen into this trap? People who haven't escaped cults have a harder time seeing it, I guess." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/17/151212#1448664    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:47:16

  • "But here’s the catch: Portuguese is home" ☛ https://afranca.com.br/between-two-languages/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:49:35

  • "Time to think gives you time to think" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/experiments-with-media/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:50:20

  • "What I mean is that a person exclusively becomes convinced of their own accord." ☛ https://blog.toast.cafe/convincing | Source: Chloé Vulquin    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:50:30

  • "The human kind is a quality, like empathy, anger, or contentment." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/07/18/intelliday/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:51:22

  • "On a basic-training chapel pew, proof, and the kind of comfort that arrives when the body is least free" ☛ https://lospino.so/blog/sunday-field-notes/the-pew-does-not-argue-back/ | Source: Josh Lospinoso    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:51:32

  • "As the ball bounced off the sidewalk and into traffic" ☛ https://sals.place/blog/so-long-ball/ | Source: Sal    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:51:55

  • "I wonder how many minds would be changed if you took existing ideas and gave them more effective names." ☛ https://notes.zachmanson.com/nomenclature/ | Source: Zach Manson    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:52:40

  • "I've been keeping at least two or three fish tanks going for about six years, and found myself with some losses this spring that made me cool on the hobby for a bit." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/fishkeepingpost/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:53:00

  • "What Fish is trying to save isn’t just military history." ☛ https://www.reformer.com/news/state/if-we-don-t-write-it-down-it-disappears-independent-historian-gathers-vermont-veterans-stories/article_40ff5dca-eedb-45b7-9706-76edc9ec0066.html | Source: Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:53:24

  • "Today I drew a map that highlights the locations that are more than 7.5 degrees from the central longitude of their time zone." ☛ https://nathangrigg.com/2026/07/us-time-zone-alignment/ | Source: Nathan Grigg    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:54:07

  • "This form of email has a clearer heritage, to Ray Tomlinson, who came up with the core idea that addresses could identify both a user and a host" ☛ https://computer.rip/2026-07-19-email-encryption.html | Source: J B Crawford    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 13:54:20

  • Coming soon https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=Melchior&set1=any    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:06:03

  • "almost no progress" => https://system76.com/blog/post/say-hello-to-lemur-pro-2026 iophk: finally, just think what a lower specced system could do with that amount of battery    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:12:29

  • "A President's Moral Collapse | Andre Franca" https://afranca.com.br/a-presidents-moral-collapse/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:15:11

  • "The Kingdom of Property - by Mike Brock" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-kingdom-of-property    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:15:23

  • "Donald Trump Booed At World Cup Final: Second Time Fans Have Jeered Him At A Major Sporting Event In A Year | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-booed-world-cup-final-1809422    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:15:34

  • "Even Donald Trump Couldn’t Ruin the World Cup" https://jacobin.com/2026/07/trump-infantino-world-cup-football    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:15:45

  • "How the Michigan Senate primary became a battle for Democrats’ soul | Vox" https://www.vox.com/podcasts/496052/abdul-el-sayed-electability-michigan    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:15:56

  • "Mike Cox ends his campaign for Michigan governor" https://www.michigandaily.com/news/government/mike-cox-ends-his-campaign-for-michigan-governor/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:16:09

  • "Progressives rally for Abdul El-Sayed: 4 takeaways from Bernie Sanders, AOC - Bridge Michigan" https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/progressives-rally-for-abdul-el-sayed-4-takeaways-from-bernie-sanders-aoc/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:16:22

  • "Trump Booed at World Cup Final" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-booed-world-cup-final-2026-1235595418/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:16:32

  • "President Donald Trump Met With Boos at FIFA World Cup Final" https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/19/donald-trump-booed-world-cup-final/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:16:44

  • "The device combines a single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor running at up to 240MHz with 384KB of SRAM and 4MB of flash storage." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/m5stack-broadens-embedded-lineup-with-wireless-industrial-and-handheld-devices/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:17:29

  • "Distributed Java systems that load remote code are vulnerable to supply chain compromise: an attacker can replace a legitimate JAR with one containing malicious bytecode" ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/security-baked-into-jvm/2/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:17:53

  • "But while we were laughing, Perl kept running the [Internet]." ☛ https://medium.com/@harishsingh8529/perl-was-a-meme-now-its-powering-critical-legacy-systems-e36c68026ebf | Source: Medium    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:18:15

  • [Old] "It is sometimes credited with bringing regular expressions and other forms of text processing to the masses." ☛ https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/introperl/ | Source: Loyola Marymount University    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:18:43

  • [Old] "Perl is a general purpose, high level interpreted and dynamic programming language. Perl supports both the procedural and Object-Oriented programming." ☛ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/perl/perl-programming-language/ | Source: Geeks For Geeks    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:18:51

  • "Review git patches from email inside Thunderbird" ☛ https://mccd.space/git/thunderbird-patch-review/file/README.html.html |    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:19:13

  • "using enum for bitflags is poor, but it’s what we’re likely to end up with." ☛ https://www.elbeno.com/blog/?p=1836 |    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:19:25

  • "I’d like to point out one cool thing that some Lisp compilers, like SBCL, do. SBCL compiles functions and expressions directly to assembly." ☛ https://chrisdone.com/posts/lisp-compilers/ | Source: Chris Done    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:19:44

  • "don’t need no stinkin’ git cloud." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/switched-to-wrangler/ | Source: Sal    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:20:43

  • "This version of BASIC is based on KidBASIC, which was aimed at the educational market." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/qt6-brings-basic-to-the-web-browser-or-your-computer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:20:56

  • "In many ways—no, actually, in every way—Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new" ☛ https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb | Source: Adam Newbold    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:21:41

  • "Yesterday I have pulled the plug on Wordpress and moved to Ghost." ☛ https://pawel.orzech.me/2026/07/19/i-moved-my-blog/ | Source: Paweł Orzech    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:22:09

  • "There's a new WordPress exploit out there but I will show you how I vaccinated myself against it 6+ years ago: [..." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/wp-pro-tips/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:22:20

  • "Here is a summary of my current understanding and intuition about SQLite." ☛ https://blakewatson.com/journal/the-slap-stack-is-the-last-server-stack-youll-ever-need/ | Source: Blake Watson    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:22:42

  • "This hypothetical becomes concrete due to the existence of discrete-release OSs, like Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE Leap, and Linux Mint." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/19/whos-responsible-for-bug-reports-on-old-software-versions/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:23:39

  • "In this ~22-minute video I explain how Emacs performs completion in a buffer." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-07-19-emacs-completion-at-point-functions/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:23:49

  • "Samsung makes great hardware and then ruins the experience with software." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/disappointment-with-samsung/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:24:11

  • "Long story short, though, he’s flagging recycled laptop components as both good value for money and a fun rabbit hole to go down researching parts." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/recycling-laptops-and-imacs-makes-pc-building-fun-and-affordable-again/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:24:43

  • "A major complication with extrusion in FDM printers is that the flow rate has to fit the printing speed." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/19/automated-pressure-advance-using-a-bed-leveling-sensor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:24:57

  • "He also noted that this effort is supported by the NLNet Foundaton (as noted in an earlier article)." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260719093851 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:25:22

  • "[...] For our Opinion Poll this week we respond to Linus Torvalds suggesting people who do not like LLM tools can fork the kernel." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260720 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:26:10

  • "If someone gives you a Nim position where all the piles contain beans, you can say ahead of time how long the game might last." ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/07/19/#02-wellfoundedness | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:27:28

  • "" ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/how-will-the-soccer-worlds-cup-look-like-once-humans-settle-on-mars-1032b8c21c3d | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:27:39

  • "In that case, the local Martian population could hold their local soccer matches. Even though these Martians originated from Earth, their physiology may evolve as a result of the surface gravity being 38% of Earth’s value."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:27:57

  • "Suppose you want to search for a list of words." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/19/fitting-a-regex/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:28:48

  • "I mentioned recently that we'd moved a very popular data set from our main web server to a new one that only handled that data set." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SurpriseChangesAreASignal | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 14:29:03

  • Two thirds of remaining Doom (2016) devs laid off during latest round of Xbox cuts https://www.gamedeveloper.com/production/two-thirds-of-doom-2016-development-team-laid-off-during-latest-round-of-xbox-cuts    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:21:58

  • Two thirds of remaining Doom (2016) devs laid off during latest round of Xbox cuts https://gamedev.net/news/two-thirds-of-remaining-doom-2016-devs-laid-off-during-latest-round-of-xbox-cuts-r4553/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:22:36

  • "Last semester, I took Parallel Computer Architectures at UIUC." ☛ https://pradyun.net/blog/metrics_matter.html |    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:34:41

  • "I opened Tremotesf on my phone to check whether I already had it on the Pi, but the torrent list wouldn't load. The SMB mount wouldn't mount. I couldn't SSH into it either." ☛ https://sgt.hootr.club/blog/home-server-rebirth/ |    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:35:56

  • "IBM stands for "International Business Machines". It does not stand for "International General-Purpose Machines", "International Consumer Machines", or even "International Gaming Machines". That sounds rather silly, but the bottom line is that IBM makes really big adding machines for companies that require big adding machines." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxvrexrj    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:42:34

  • "Take a look at everything in IBM's portfolio. Mainframes are made for high throughput with high degrees of accuracy...running credit card bills, managing bank accounts, keeping track of airline reservations. Just like semi trucks, IBM products have a purpose. But they are of limited purposes, and are limited to select customers."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:42:57

  • "Just like "most customers" will have little or no need to buy stuff from Mack, Freightliner and Peterbilt, most customers have little or no need to buy stuff from IBM. The business analysts are slowly coming to accept that fact, and are pricing the company accordingly."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:43:01

  • "It's obviously just a story. IBM's revenue is 100% tied to the mainframe cycle - jumping up when a new Z is released and then falling down after a (shortening) period of time until the next Z series. Meanwhile, AWS/Azure/GCP revenue grows quarter after quarter year after year, there is no cloud "cycle" just growth."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:43:06

  • "Most of IBM's goodwill is from acquisitions. It is purely an accounting generated entry being the difference between acquistion price paid and the fair market value of the assets acquired. It is rarely recoverable. Whenever I do analyst of companies I always strip out goodwill because there is no cash, tangible or even intangible asset (like software license rights - that is on the balance seperately) sitting behind it that can be sold. If you strip out goodwill IBM is technical insolvent." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:43:51

  • "Most of IBM's goodwill is from acquisitions. It is purely an accounting generated entry being the difference between acquistion price paid and the fair market value of the assets acquired. It is rarely recoverable. Whenever I do analyst of companies I always strip out goodwill because there is no cash, tangible or even intangible asset (like software license rights - that is on the balance seperately) sitting behind it that can be sold."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:44:03

  • "Most of IBM's goodwill is from acquisitions. It is purely an accounting generated entry being the difference between acquistion price paid and the fair market value of the assets acquired."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:44:17

  • "It is rarely recoverable. Whenever I do analyst of companies I always strip out goodwill because there is no cash, tangible or even intangible asset (like software license rights - that is on the balance seperately) sitting behind it that can be sold."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:44:21

  • "If you strip out goodwill IBM is technical insolvent." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:44:25

  • "it's financial bookings" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:44:40

  • Who’s responsible for bug reports on old software versions? ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/19/whos-responsible-for-bug-reports-on-old-software-versions/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:49:54

  • Russian drones spotted using screwed-on magnetic compasses as navigation aids — the on-board camera can occasionally tilt down to check bearings if satellite comms are lost ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/russian-drones-spotted-using-screwed-on-magnetic-compasses-as-navigation-aids-the-on-board-camera-can-occasionally-tilt-down-to-check-bearings-if-satellite-comms-are-lost    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:53:12

  • Climate Activists Pelt Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/climate-activists-microsoft-ai-data-center-acid-balloons    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:53:29

  • Scientists Studying Earth's Flowering Plants Issue a Stark Warning to Humanity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-studying-earths-flowering-plants-issue-a-stark-warning-to-humanity    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:53:42

  • "Noted software freedom advocate Richard Stallman has said that it was difficult to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking. “The hacking community developed at MIT and some other universities in the 1960s and 1970s,” Stallman explained." https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/658286-one-threat-that-infiltrated-the-anc-anglo-american-mediclinic-south-african-airways-and-pick-n-pay.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:56:39

  • Before Lettuce Felled Thousands, a Cilantro-Linked Cyclospora Outbreak Sickened New Yorkers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/nyregion/cyclosporiasis-outbreak-nyc-testing.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:57:57

  • El Jalapeño: In a historic first, Mexico warns its citizens against US travel due to explosive diarrhea risks ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/el-jalapeno/el-jalapeno-in-a-historic-first-mexico-warns-its-citizens-against-us-travel-due-to-explosive-diarrhea-risks/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:58:11

  • RFK Jr Wants to Waste $5 Billion in the Worst Way Imaginable ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/rfk-jr-billion-hhs-government-autism-vaccines    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:58:22

  • ‘Daigou’ queue-jumping prompts safety measures at South Korea’s Incheon Airport ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/daigou-queue-jumping-prompts-safety-measures-at-south-koreas-incheon-airport    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:58:47

  • Starbucks Korea staff form union after ‘Tank Day’ campaign fiasco ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/starbucks-korea-staff-form-union-after-tank-day-campaign-fiasco    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:58:57

  • Southern China braces itself for more rain, Chongqing landslide search continues ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/southern-china-braces-for-more-rain-chongqing-landslide-search-continues    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:59:22

  • Democratic Taiwan must not become ‘China’s Taiwan’, says President Lai ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/democratic-taiwan-must-not-become-chinas-taiwan-president-says    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 15:59:50

  • Cute but endangered: The dwarf raccoons of Cozumel ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/cute-but-endangered-the-dwarf-raccoons-of-cozumel/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 16:00:22

  • The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of Gold ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-room-temperature-quantum-material-of-its-kind-is-spun-from-atoms-of-gold    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 16:00:44

  • Scientists Finally Worked Out Why Some Hair Is Curly – And It Starts Beneath The Skin ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/curly-hair-starts-forming-even-before-it-leaves-the-scalp-scientists-explain    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 16:00:50

  • China Is Cracking Down on Hey Hi (AI) Companions Because Not Enough Babies Are Being Born ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-cracking-down-ai-boyfriends    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 16:03:45

  • “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” Will Use Hey Hi (AI) to De-Age Actors ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/lord-of-the-rings-ai-de-age    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 16:03:51

  • Spotify Doubles Down on Hey Hi (AI) Slop As It’s Being Flooded With It ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/spotify-ai-slop-lorde    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 16:04:01

  • 20 states urge federal court to dismiss Convicted Felon administration suit over Jeffrey Clark bar discipline ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/20-states-urge-federal-court-to-dismiss-trump-administration-suit-over-jeffrey-clark-bar-discipline/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:08:23

  • Rights group warns of increasing food insecurity in Afghanistan ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/rights-group-warns-of-increasing-food-insecurity-in-afghanistan/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:09:03

  • ‘We are treated as if we are not human beings’ ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/we-are-treated-as-if-we-are-not-human-beings-321612    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:09:19

  • Small Icons, Big Problems ☞ https://nuno-icons.com/2026/07/19/small-icons-big-problems/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:09:52

  • KDE snaps hotfix release and what's keeping me busy ☞ https://scarlettgatelymoore.dev/blog/kde-snaps-hotfix-update/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:10:12

  • Amazon’s Robotaxi Company Recalls Its Fleet After One of its Cars Got Confused by Heavy Smoke ☞ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/amazon-robotaxi-confused-smoke-recall    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:10:48

  • Efinix Titanium Edge FPGA family targets low-power edge Hey Hi (AI) and vision systems ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/20/efinix-titanium-edge-fpga-family-targets-low-power-edge-ai-and-vision-systems/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:11:14

  • Manchester's Status in UK Politics is Improving https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/20/uk-politics-is-improving/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:30:57

  • MS Loon: "The Ubuntu team at Canonical appears to be doing everything they can to force the broken Rust Coreutils clones (known as “uutils”) onto your Ubuntu installation… even if you try to keep using the (working, well tested, non-Rust) GNU Coreutils."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:43:40

  • "Another morning with a dodgy internet connection, so I'll briefly write up yesterday's dam adventures instead of doing my morning browsing." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-07-20More_Dams.txt    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:57:33

  • "And so I looked around for a simple to host alternative for my contacts as that was the main thing worrying me, and after checking a few decided upon Radicale." gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20260719-radicale/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:58:42

  • "I am here to say I hate scope creep / feature creep. The original spec is what appealed to me. It is simple and minimal while still doing enough for a text-centric protocol." gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20260719-gemini-plus/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 17:59:33

  • "I think the existing gemtext preformatted blocks offers a lot of possibilities for use in enhanced rendering." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/44572    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:00:34

  • "Like jecxjo’s own post, I’m not necessarily speaking “at” the person to whom I’m responding; but instead responding to “the thread as a whole”, chiming in with related thoughts that the topic has teased out from me." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/19/re-inefficient-use-of-awk/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:02:00

  • "So far, he's only being picky and a little reluctant in the morning, lying down away from the food bowl for a while before going to eat. However, he's being careful to leave the veggies he deems too big and the rice in the bowl." gemini://kaijudogs.gemcities.com/gemlog/260720.gmi    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:02:37

  • "I love all the discussions and ideas about extending and changing Gemini which come up again and again and again! I also have a really good idea for an extension: [...]" gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2026-07-20-Re_Gemini_plus.gmi    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:03:14

  • "An automotive podcast popped up on youtube this morning while I was zoning out having my Saturday morning coffee. I was like "sweet, I'll add them in AntennaPod" and then proceeded to not find them anywhere." gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20260718-its-not-a-podcast-if-there-is-no-rss-feed/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:04:40

  • New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck: Awesome week with The Mermaid Mask and Denshattack! - 2026-07-18 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-07-18-edition/index.html    

POSTED mONDAY, jULY 20, 2026 AT 18:11:39

  • Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a tiny $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle — firmware uses only around 50KB of RAM and can answer blocked lookups in 10 milliseconds ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/clever-hacker-fits-537-000-domains-in-a-tiny-usd5-esp32-ad-blocking-dongle-firmware-uses-only-around-50kb-of-ram-and-can-answer-blocked-lookups-in-10-milliseconds    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:12:02

  • HKFP Lens: Hong Kong holds annual book fair as independent booksellers face exclusion, legal woes ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/19/hkfp-lens-hong-kong-holds-annual-book-fair-as-independent-booksellers-face-exclusion-legal-woes/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:12:27

  • Hylke Bons: Icon Set for Crosswords ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/07/19/icon-set-crosswords    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:13:02

  • Kernel prepatch 7.2-4c4 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1083543/ too drunk on slop to do the subject line right?    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:14:30

  • The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:15:09

  • Not With a Bang, But a Whimper ☞ https://jxself.org/whimper.shtml    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:15:41

  • Debian 12 Is the Last Full Debian 32-Bit Release With LTS Security Updates Until 2028 ☞ https://ostechnix.com/debian-12-last-full-32-bit-release/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:16:14

  • Best Kiwix ZIM Files to Download for Your Offline Knowledge Library ☞ https://ostechnix.com/best-kiwix-zim-files/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:16:40

  • Profunctor Optics ☞ https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/07/19/profunctor-optics/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:17:18

  • Why I Would Choose a Different Higher Education If I Were Graduating from Secondary School Today ☞ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/what-if-different-college/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:18:17

  • What 429 chaos experiments taught us about Kubernetes operator resilience ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/what-429-chaos-experiments-taught-us-about-Kubernetes-operator-resilience    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:18:44

  • PyTorch distributed is changing and TorchComms is why ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/20/pytorch-distributed-is-changing-and-torchcomms-is-why    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:20:02

  • How I Reclaimed 10GB of Android Storage Using a Raspberry Pi and ADB ☞ https://peppe8o.com/reclaim-android-storage-raspberry-pi-adb/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:22:27

  • GNOME Adwaita Re-coloring Tool ‘Rewaita’ 1.1.4 added GDM Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/gnome-adwaita-re-coloring-tool-rewaita-1-1-4-added-gdm/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:22:48

  • Ubuntu’s desktop icons extension completes its GTK4 port ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-desktop-icons-extension-gtk4-port    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:23:09

  • Why Fedora Creates /boot and /boot/efi (But Ubuntu Doesn’t) ☞ https://ostechnix.com/why-fedora-creates-boot-and-boot-efi/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:23:24

  • Arcris 2026.07.19 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/arcris    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:23:41

  • Frame: The First Linux X Server Written Entirely in Assembly Language ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/frame-x-server-assembly-linux/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:25:14

  • Crazed enthusiast runs PC on 192 AA batteries, successfully boots into Hannah Montana GNU/Linux — System is stable during stress testing and even plays FreeDoom ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/crazed-enthusiast-runs-pc-on-192-aa-batteries-successfully-boots-into-hannah-montana-linux-system-is-stable-during-stress-testing-and-even-plays-freedoom    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:25:44

  • Linux 7.2-rc4 drops with critical fixes for gaming handhelds, Wi-Fi, and car systems ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-72-rc4-drops-with-critical-fixes-for-gaming-handhelds-wi-fi-and-car-systems/?utm_source=rss    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:26:27

  • Beelink EQi 304 review – Part 3: Ubuntu 26.04 on a Wildcat Lake mini PC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/19/beelink-eqi-304-review-part-3-ubuntu-26-04-on-a-wildcat-lake-mini-pc/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:28:09

  • More emulation goodness, an defective chip maker Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows! ☞ https://raymii.org/s/blog/Intel_Itanium_IA-64-Emulator_that_boots_Windows.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:29:05

  • Linux Desktop Startup Recovery: A Beginner’s Guide ☞ https://ostechnix.com/linux-desktop-startup-recovery-guide/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:29:59

  • What Is an Inode in GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/what-is-an-inode-in-linux/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:45:12

  • Misleading Coverage in Slashdot Promotes and Openwashes Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/19/Misleading_Coverage_in_Slashdot_Promotes_and_Openwashes_Slop.shtml    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:45:29

  • Archaeologists Unearth Pre-Aztec Altar in Mexico That Hints at Human Sacrifice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-pre-aztec-altar-and-human-skulls    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:46:08

  • Entrapment ☞ https://kevquirk.com/ive-moved-back-to-github    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:47:09

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

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:47:32

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

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:47:52

  • Russell Coker: ECC and DDR5 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/07/19/ecc-ddr5/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:48:53

  • Faith v therapy: Inside the Philippine school for exorcists ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/faith-vs-therapy-inside-the-philippine-school-for-exorcists    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:49:45

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

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:50:01

  • Russia Batters Kyiv in One of the Largest Missile Assaults of the War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-strikes.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:50:15

  • Russia Launches Major Missile, Drone Attack On Kyiv As Ukraine Hits Black Sea Tankers ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-russia-zelenskyy-ballistic-missile-attacks/33806851.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:50:25

  • Russia hits Kyiv with ballistic missiles ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-hits-kyiv-with-ballistic-missiles    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:50:34

  • Valtux OS – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/valtux-os-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:51:43

  • Going Linux #479 · Asking your opinion on the future ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-479-asking-your-opinion-on-the-future/index.html    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:52:19

  • This Week in Linux 352: Linus Torvalds talks Hey Hi (AI) in kernel, COSMIC Frosted Glass, AppManager for AppImages & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-352/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:52:57

  • Microsoft’s Formats Are the Real Cancer Redmond Blamed on FOSS ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/microsofts-formats-are-the-real-cancer-redmond-blamed-on-foss/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:53:25

  • "With the launch of the COSMIC desktop for Linux, though, things finally changed. This desktop incorporates tiling by default, and it makes it easily accessible to anyone without the (often unnecessary) configuration rabbit holes tiling window managers tend to carry." https://www.xda-developers.com/found-linux-desktop-finally-gives-me-tiling-windows-without-config-file-rabbit-hole/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:55:54

  • These Linux networking command-line tools are outdated. Here's what you should use instead. https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-networking-tools-are-outdated-heres-what-you-should-use-instead/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:56:16

  • Microsoft's own mistakes are pushing users toward Linux faster than anyone expected https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-mistakes-pushing-users-toward-linux-faster-than-expected/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:56:31

  • Proton got so good I keep forgetting which of my games were even built for Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/proton-got-so-good-keep-forgetting-which-games-built-windows/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:57:03

  • Linus Torvalds broadcasting ignorance https://www.xda-developers.com/linus-torvalds-will-loudly-ignore-anyone-criticising-ai-code-in-linux-fork-it-or-just-walk-away/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 18:59:40

  • "Following Double Fine Productions and Compulsion Games' examples, Mighty DOOM and Wraithbone creator Alpha Dog Games has announced it's broken off from Xbox and is now independent again." https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/it-seems-another-studio-has-broken-free-of-xbox-and-gone-independent-following-double-fine-and-other-cuts    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 19:29:03

  • After Doom director Hugo Martin denied reports that id Software had been gutted, "current and former employees" are disagreeing with his optimism https://www.eurogamer.net/id-software-developers-comments-hugo-martin-layoffs    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 19:29:24

  • Junior gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/junior    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 20:36:38

  • SRA series will resume soon. Instead of tackling SLAPPs the SRA was interfering or acting as obstacle not just against LIPs. SRA is a proponent of the corruption. It should be dismantled.    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 20:50:26

  • "Of his own initiative, Pocock actively contributes to a range of open source projects with a focus on VoIP and real-time communications, in particular, Lumicall, dynalogin, reSIProcate, Ganglia and flactag." https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/speaker/daniel_pocock/    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 21:22:33

  • "The company will break up under his and our leaderships watch. They will be the ones forever known as the leaders who ki-led a 115 year old Big Blue! Never let anyone forgot." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 21:51:25

  • "Shame on her. As a journalist, she most definitely knows what accountability means and what Arvind put out was definitely not that. He doesn’t deserve any accolades or praise for the message he put out last week." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/19/Journalists_Who_Help_IBM_Cover_Up_Fraud.shtml    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 21:51:59

  • "True accountability would be for Arvind to give up his unearned $25 million bonus since it was predicated on false accounting. That's accountability – come clean. Instead, they will just double down on layoffs in the United States and Europe: "the beatings will continue until morale improves"."    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 21:52:32

  • "The pre-announcement was staged to initiate a chain reaction. It was intentional. The goal, as I suspected, is to have the crowd accept a possible break up of IBM into smaller entities. Some will be acquired by others. I did read an article in one the finance outlets calling for IBM break-up, or at least, force IBM to sell some business." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxvrexrj    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 21:53:21

  • "Bob says goodwill drop offs are out back by the dumpster." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxxkyye5 http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/16/IBM_Shares_Down_30_Mass_Layoffs_IBM_Says_Goodwill_Grew_by_10_to.shtml    

posted Monday, July 20, 2026 at 21:53:58
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