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"Top secret: Cults inquiry submission concealed from public" https://danielpocock.com/en/top-secret-cults-inquiry-submission-concealed-from-public/ iophk: stamped "confidential" because otherwise they would be going up against both microsoft and scientology    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:44:18

  • "Today I read the phlog post "True Hacker Versus Growth Hacker" by Ben Collver [1], which talks about internally motivated and externally motivated people, and about marketing." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/re--true-hacker-versus-growth-hacker.txt    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:46:51

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1718.jpg    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:47:15

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2075.jpg    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:47:19

  • "In part, Nat chronicles times when they were bursting with ideas, and the number of those ideas declining over time. They suggest a potential connection between the reduced creativity with an increase in consumption (of podcasts, in Nat's case)." gemini://genxalt.pollux.casa/gemlog/2026-07-23_The_Loss_of_Passion.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:48:25

  • A sprung Bunny gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/07/20.1    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:49:07

  • "This follow-up visit is for tomorrow, then a scheduled visit to Bunny's general doctor on Thursday, and a follow-up visit to the orthopedist on Friday. I don't think she's ever had this many scheduled medical visits before." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/07/21.1    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:49:55

  • "The AI is not presented as conscious, human, neutral, infallible, or independent. It operates within technical limits, training influences, instructions, and safety rules. The purpose of the interview is not to advertise artificial intelligence or to condemn it, but to examine what it is, what it is not, and what its growing presence may mean for human beings." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-07-24_interview_with_an_ai.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:50:40

  • "The AI is not presented as conscious, human, neutral, infallible, or independent. It operates within technical limits, training influences, instructions, and safety rules."    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:50:53

  • "The purpose of the interview is not to advertise artificial intelligence or to condemn it, but to examine what it is, what it is not, and what its growing presence may mean for human beings." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-07-24_interview_with_an_ai.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:50:57

  • "I have spent the past several mornings taking 10+ mile bike trips on sections of the local bike trail. Some fragments." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-07-23    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:51:56

  • "The faces are a notch above Polar Express, but not quite out of that valley. Any technical shortcomings are soon forgotten though, as this thing is breakneck and every line is a delight." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/07/23/tintin/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:52:50

  • the farthest point gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_farthest_point    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:53:33

  • "I know it was probaby inevitable, but I still found it surprising and rather upsetting to see that our television updated itself and that we had to accept the new terms of service. I'm not sure what would have happened had we refused." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/07/22.1    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:54:15

  • "As I mentioned in my previous post, the lift and thrust equations are a little more complicated if we take into account that the direction of our thrust is offset a little from our flight path, in any case that we have greater than a 0° angle of attack." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260723-0.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 04:55:05

  • "Verizon is discontinuing a customer support option it has offered for 18 years, a move that comes after recently announcing a series of layoffs." https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/verizon-shuts-down-longtime-customer-183300242.html    

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

  • Can't log in? Microsoft outage hits Teams, Outlook and more https://www.fox5ny.com/news/microsoft-outage-hits-teams-outlook    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 05:06:09

  • Five Tech Giants are Hiding $1.65tn in AI Debt, Using the Trick that Toppled Enron https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/21/2225209    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 05:45:00

  • gnu/linux at 4% in .dk https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/denmark/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 06:10:55

  • "Bob says nothing to see here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky6zvm6j    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:13:53

  • "Just look Albany culture. Unchecked for over a decade. It is the epitome of what is wrong with Ibm. [..] In other words, "WE didn't execute fast enough. So the remaining US employees will be executed." What a horrible human being!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hs98g    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:25:06

  • "So wait all these announcements in the last month from Albany are just bullsh-t? More makeup?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky754x85    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:25:37

  • "The check has come in for all DEI. Just look at any of the leadership org charts and that is your story. Ibm has been mismanaged horribly for a long, long time. All the narrative about talent not existing within the US is bullsh-t and needs to ends. Leveraging the visa system and H1B is what ki-led Ibm."    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:27:51

  • "Unfortunately IBM has nothing really to offer except of deeply rooter mainframe business. And there'll be a time soon who's going to take over that in couple of years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky80b5ra    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:28:04

  • "Ginny, and mainly AK and his squad ki-led anything else. Not competitive in any other areas. IBM is done, completely. Sad to say and see the total downfall of once a great company."    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:28:08

  • "Happened earlier in July but apparently was largely overlooked and then quickly buried by AK's pre-emptive stock warning." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/starbucks-taps-ai-to-reduce-reliance-on-microsoft-ibm-software https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9cgv4m    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:29:00

  • "IBM CEO addresses Wall Street tech panic after delayed enterprise software deals surge back" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9bjam3 "AK is all over the media doing damage control."https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9bjam3    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:29:51

  • The Blue washing marches on. . . https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1uqubjb/red_hat_it_is_being_moved_to_ibm_effective_oct_1/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:49:13

  • Porsche May Cut 5,000 More Jobs, Total Layoffs Could Nearly Double To 9,000 By 2035 https://www.outlookbusiness.com/corporate/porsche-may-cut-5000-more-jobs-total-layoffs-could-nearly-double-to-9000-by-2035    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 07:59:19

  • "About 91% of the more than 482,000 books covered by the ruling have been claimed by authors or publishers who are now due payment." ☛ https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:01:09

  • "Anthropic Book Training Settlement" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/23/anthropic-book-training-settlement/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:01:25

  • "The Wall Street Journal's Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers." ☛ https://www.seroundtable.com/publishers-blocking-google-search-41735.html | Source: Search Engine Roundtable    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:01:41

  • "The U.S. Department of Justice has seized more than 1,000 illegal World Cup streaming domains accused of broadcasting FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without authorization" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/illegal-world-cup-streaming-domains-seized/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:01:58

  • "The approval comes even as a separate 2025 ruling that training on legally acquired books is fair use remains untouched." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anthropic-historic-settlement-pirated-books-1810392 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:02:30

  • Linux Foundation | Dan Brown https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/author/dan-brown    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:03:21

  • "The lawsuit, filed in January 2020, is one front in a multiyear legal fight between Masimo and Apple over pulse-oximetry technology that has also played out at the International Trade Commission." ☛ https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/disruptors/apple-must-pay-health-tech-company-634m-judge-says/ | Source: Becker's Hospital Review    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:20:26

  • "The dispute began in 2020, when Masimo accused Apple of using its trade secrets and infringing patents linked to pulse oximetry and optical health-monitoring technology." ☛ https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-loses-bid-to-overturn-634-million-masimo-patent-verdict/ | Source: Mac Observer    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:20:35

  • "Although the ruling confirms the financial penalty, it does not affect current Apple Watch users." ☛ https://www.tuaw.com/2026/07/23/apple-must-pay-634m-after-masimo-appeal-fails/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 09:21:26

  • "Apple Watch users have been able to take advantage of the blood oxygen sensor in Apple Watch since a software update in January 2024 successfully bypassed a sales ban." ☛ https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/07/21/apples-634m-payment-to-masimo-now-set-in-stone-after-judge-tosses-appeal | Source: AppleInsider    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:39:46

  • "Meanwhile, the patent portion of Masimo’s original California lawsuit proceeded separately from the ITC case." ☛ https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/apple-loses-bid-to-overturn-634-million-masimo-patent-verdict-new-trial-also-denied/ | Source: 9to5Mac    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:39:58

  • "Apple Loses Masimo Appeal<" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/23/apple-loses-masimo-appeal/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:40:11

  • "The Commission also said that the company had abused its position by preventing developers from directing users to cheaper ways to buy apps and app subscriptions on websites and alternative app stores." ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/23/google-fined-1-billion-by-eu/ | Source: MacRumors    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:45:45

  • "EU Antitrust Fines for Google Search and Play Store" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/23/eu-antitrust-fines-for-google-search-and-play-store/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:47:38

  • "Google Loses Final EU Antitrust Appeal" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/23/google-loses-final-eu-antitrust-appeal/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:48:25

  • "There’s never a reason not to string the appeal process out, but it’s especially true when your profits are growing at an exceptional rate." ☛ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/17/google-eu-fine | Source: John Gruber    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:48:40

  • "Google’s fight may not have turned out the way the company wanted, but it wasn’t for nothing." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-loses-long-running-appeal-of-record-eu-fine-will-have-to-cough-up-4-7-billion/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:48:59

  • "We even saw changes to hotel results in the EU this morning." ☛ https://www.seroundtable.com/eu-fines-google-1-billion-dma-41745.html | Source: Search Engine Roundtable    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 10:49:53

  • "The body has ordered Google to refrain from giving preferential treatment to its own services—such as shopping, accommodations, transport, and flights—in search rankings." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/eu-fines-google-billion-prioritizing-own-services-in-search/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:24:33

  • "Google displayed its own services more prominently at the top of search results, while relegating competing services farther down the page, according to regulators." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/google-eu-fine-search-competition.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:25:06

  • "The bloc said the tech giant had illegally used its market dominance to prioritize its own search services" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/23/2026/eu-slaps-google-with-record-1-billion-antitrust-fine | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:25:33

  • "The European Union has fined Google 890 million euros for antitrust violations." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-hits-google-with-1-billion-fine-over-its-play-app-store-and-search/articleshow/132577538.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:25:42

  • "One fine of 460 million euros ($738.5 million Cdn) was handed out to Google by the European Commission ​under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for favouring its own services in shopping, hotels, ​transport and sports results in search results." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/eu-fines-alphabet-google-9.7280498 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:25:58

  • "The silent voice of those whose work powers everything you do screams loudly. Thank you for your contributions to society Dan" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027052    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:31:33

  • PepsiCo schedules 184 permanent job cuts from November 15 https://sea.peoplemattersglobal.com/news/strategic-hr/pepsico-schedules-184-permanent-job-cuts-from-november-15-51030    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:45:37

  • "You know that feeling you get when you’re watching a movie and the scene is set in a location that should be crowded, yet feels strangely empty?" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/07/23/netflix-is-turning-your-brain-to-mush-with-ai/ | Source: Salon    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:57:06

  • "The largest award, up to $33.2 million, went to Surfnet Communications for two fiber-optic projects serving Santa Barbara and California’s Central Coast." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/california-approves-74-million-for-rural-broadband-expansion/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:57:33

  • "An open letter to the Telecommunications Commissioner from the Internet Service Providers Association of New Zealand (Ispanz) argues that Starlink is making other rural connectivity options uneconomic." ☛ https://billbennett.co.nz/ispanz-calls-starlink-market-study/ | Source: Bill Bennett    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 11:57:40

  • "At least 53 people have died in ICE custody since President Donald Trump’s return to office." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/people-keep-dying-in-ice-custody-13-dems-back-a-bill-to-abolish-the-agency/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:02:30

  • "Officers confiscated her rosary and handcuffed her before transferring her to an ICE facility in Raymondville, roughly an hour's drive away, where she was also reportedly denied medication she needed." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nun-detention-bipartisan-outrage-immigration-enforcement-1810395 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:02:41

  • "Conte included the email sent to Patreon employees in the message." ☛ https://www.404media.co/patreon-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-workforce/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:02:56

  • "That shift has changed “how we operate and organize,” Conte writes." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/970211/patreon-layoffs-ai | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:03:27

  • "1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own." ☛ https://werd.io/private-healthcare-makes-industries-less-innovative-its-time-for-change/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:03:46

  • "The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that reach more than 39 percent of US TV households." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/966283/fcc-broadcast-ownership-cap-brendan-carr | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:48:52

  • "Yet those threats do not make us retreat. They strengthen our resolve" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-07-22/jan-martinez-ahrens-rarely-has-a-free-press-been-under-greater-threat.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:49:02

  • "At the largest Hispanic journalism conference, EL PAÍS hosts a conversation on the challenges facing the press in the U.S. with Jan Martínez Ahrens, Paola Ramos, Ginger Thompson, Mari Torres, and Alfredo Corchado" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-07-22/community-focused-journalism-the-strategy-for-countering-donald-trump.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:49:17

  • "Georgian comedian Onise Okriashvili was attacked and beaten outside his home in Tbilisi by two unknown assailants." ☛ https://oc-media.org/georgian-comedian-attacked-over-joke-after-pro-government-media-smear-campaign/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:51:36

  • "discredited and dismissed as the product of foreign influence" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/whose-ai-whose-opposition-foreign-campaigns-discredit-criticisms-ai/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:52:02

  • "Yes, you read that right. The federal government has officially equated Fourth of July light shows with autonomous combat swarms designed to overwhelm air defenses." ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/07/23/fcc-drone-light-show-ban-proposal-docket-26-189/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:52:32

  • Bailout. Again. "Database giant Oracle Corp. has signed a new, multibillion-dollar deal with the Pentagon that will see it provide its software to branches of the U.S. military, Coast Guard and intelligence community over the next 10 years." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/23/oracle-secures-7b-contract-supply-pentagon-vital-software-services/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:52:59

  • "The agreement spans five years, with a further five-year option, and covers ​the entire Pentagon, along with ⁠the U.S. ‌Coast Guard and the intelligence community." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/pentagon-awards-oracle-nearly-7-billion-deal-in-latest-software-consolidation-push/articleshow/132595039.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:53:11

  • MORE AND MORE DEBT ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/23/databricks-microsoft-expand-azure-partnership-2030s/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:53:31

  • "The burgeoning “cockroach” youth movement isn’t just about humor and social media." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0723/India-s-Gen-Z-is-speaking-up | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:53:50

  • "generation of desperate and furious young people who have seen their future snuffed out" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/23/2026/the-anger-fueling-indias-cockroaches | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 12:54:08

  • "The movement has since expanded beyond exam grievances, drawing professionals and families while channeling broader frustration." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/indias-cockroach-movement-holds-a-capital-sit-in-as-police-crack-down-on-protests-1973464 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:16:34

  • "Short sellers boosted their wagers against the company to roughly 32% of its publicly tradable shares ahead of several key catalysts." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/bets-against-spacex-grow-to-32percent-of-float-as-elon-musk-warns-short-sellers-wont-survive.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:30:29

  • "The company lost almost $5 billion last year. Musk’s xAI, which was folded into SpaceX earlier this year and renamed to SpaceXAI, similarly lost $6.4 billion." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/short-sellers-hog-wild-spacex | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:31:32

  • "Perhaps worst of all to Musk, his disastrous stint as a “special employee” in Washington, DC, last year has made him staggeringly unpopular — possibly even one of the most hated men in America." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/empire-crumbles-elon-musk-mistake-doge | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:31:51

  • "One Disney" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/disney-layoffs-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-across-espn-pixar-other-units/articleshow/132576713.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:32:06

  • "Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia said that demand for its AI and cloud services drove sales higher in the second quarter, but restructuring charges ate into earnings." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/nokia-says-ai-cloud-boosted-sales-in-second-quarter/articleshow/132575907.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:32:23

  • "Our organization has become too complex and siloed" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/uber-ai-layoffs-cut-10-customer-service-jobs-artificial-intelligence-tech-layoffs-2026/articleshow/132572577.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:32:36

  • "Today, I’m talking with Jack Conte, the CEO of Patreon. Jack last joined me on the show almost exactly five years ago" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/podcast/952607/patreon-ceo-jack-conte | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:33:02

  • "The Yellowstone Trail connected Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Seattle, Washington. It got its name because it ran right past Yellowstone National Park." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/07/23/remembering-the-yellowstone-trail/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:33:23

  • "The build started, as so many do, with a Raspberry Pi 4, with [Jon] deciding on the 1GB model." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/a-train-departure-board-for-the-home/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:33:38

  • "Under the new program, the Transportation Security Administration is still in charge of oversight, but some industry leaders are calling the decision a “step backwards” for aviation security." ☛ https://www.notus.org/airports-private-airport-security-model | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:33:54

  • "developed by research consultancy Krutham" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/load-shedding-is-over-and-thats-exposing-a-new-energy-crisis/284069/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:54:30

  • "The AI bubble is giving us a lot of data centers stocked with GPUs that can only do two things: generative AI and crypto mining." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-07-23 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:54:51

  • "What happens when a technology doesn’t have to work particularly well to remake the world?" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/the-ai-boom-is-a-corporate-project-it-can-be-disrupted/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:55:12

  • "Sheng et al. (2026) explores why the summer North Atlantic jet has recently migrated toward the equator, a movement that contradicts the general poleward trend seen in other wind systems." ☛ https://ocean2climate.org/2026/07/23/the-warming-hole-has-pushed-the-atlantic-summer-jet-stream-southward/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:55:27

  • "Companies building any kind of facilities that release air pollution are required to get permits under the Clean Air Act." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-change-polluter-public-engagement-rules/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:55:37

  • "One of the region's most significant challenges, the study finds, is a potential 50% drop in the West Slope basins' inflows to Lake Powell over the next several decades." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-colorado-basins-lake-powell-major.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:56:22

  • "The Northern Territory offers significant renewable-energy potential, abundant land, proximity to Indo-Pacific markets and increasing strategic importance." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/send-the-data-centres-north/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:57:51

  • "Examples include fragments of broken satellites which are orbiting the Earth or star-shaped images which are the diffraction pattern of the camera that recorded them." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/were-the-nimitz-tic-tac-objects-megafilaments-of-laser-produced-plasmas-770d1b340fab | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:58:09

  • "Thought exercise: is Reform UK a cult and if we want to rise above that type of politics, do we need a cult expert in parliament?" ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/top-secret-cults-inquiry-submission-concealed-from-public/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:58:20

  • "Siad is mentioned in the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice more than 2,000 times." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/213377/modeling-scout-daniel-siad-epstein-files-found-dead | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:58:29

  • "executive privilege" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/213394/bbc-jack-smith-january-6-report-defamation-lawsuit | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 13:58:58

  • "should be held responsible for encouraging his supporters to storm the US Capitol following his 2020 election defeat." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bbc-donald-trump-lawsuit-panorama-riots-b3020621.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:00:42

  • "Now, a plain reading of the law would suggest that the current app is still banned. The law is still in place." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/23/government-lawyers-say-trump-admin-can-use-tiktok-again-because-owned-no-longer-means-owned/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:01:19

  • "Republicans have settled on their midterm argument: Democrats are all Communists" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-the-new-hero-of-populism | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:01:32

  • "New paper: “Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the ‘Going Dark’ Debate“: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/end-to-end-encryption-and-going-dark.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:01:50

  • "For as long as humans have had writing, there’s been a need to send secret messages." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/encryption-in-the-1790s/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:04:25

  • "If there is one universal law in Internet infrastructure, it is that no good intention goes unpunished by the practical realities of legacy software maintenance." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/24/the-delicate-art-of-cryptographic-maintenance-when-small-certs-break-big-chains/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:04:35

  • "Getting rid of data brokers wouldn't solve all our problems" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/23/drop-a-dime/#privacy-theater | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:05:46

  • "Anyway, that's old news. The thing I wanted to comment on in this post is Loren's position on how he prioritises one over the other. He says: [...]" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/security-versus-privacy | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:05:55

  • Daniel POCOCK Shares Policies “for Global Clacton” https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/24/daniel-pocock-shares-policies-for-global-clacton/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:09:59

  • "I've been thinking about this a lot lately: security and privacy are often discussed as if they're the same thing, or at least on the same team." ☛ https://ldstephens.net/posts/security-versus-privacy/ | Source: L D Stephens    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:10:07

  • "This post seeks to answer three of them: what is this treaty, what are the risks, and what, if anything, changed in the last nine months?" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:10:21

  • "Here are seven ways you might be making your personal information public online—and what you can do to stop it." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3195380/stop-7-ways-youre-making-your-personal-info-public-online.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:10:34

  • "Then if you’re locked out of your account and want to use selfie sign-In" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-now-lets-you-use-your-face-to-log-in-if-youre-locked-out-of-your-account/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:11:42

  • "Here's how your personal address travels from your credit card provider, through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE." ☛ https://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:11:52

  • "It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/technology/personaltech/chatgpt-gemini-prompts-privacy.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:12:07

  • "These findings follow up from a previous Jscrambler study in which researchers found TikTok and Meta use tracking pixels to follow users even after they click over to advertiser sites, receiving personally identifiable (PII) information in the process." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/data-privacy/eu-financial-institutions-cookie-trackers | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:12:16

  • "a series of state legislative measures has created an increasingly hostile environment for immigrants in Florida by integrating federal immigration enforcement with state and local policing." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/floridians-fights-against-flock-cameras-and-ai-are-shaking-up-state-politics/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:12:33

  • "At this point I belatedly twigged, opened my bank app and blocked the card. A moment later the bank called to say they had noticed suspicious transactions for about €100 and €400." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/phished-again | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:12:58

  • "In August 2007, the site rebranded from Startup News to Hacker News, as we know it today." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/hacker-news | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:29:44

  • "That’s when it hit me. Not the amount of unread messages but the ephemerality of the discussion" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/chats-and-forums/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:29:57

  • "I wanted to start with social media, for me this includes Instagram (the absolute worst app to use if you have ADHD) and YouTube but it obviously applies to any social media." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/strategies-for-navigating-social-media-with-adhd | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:46:58

  • "According to the agency, the latest TikTok challenge involves teenagers recording themselves attempting to “kick in the front doors of homes before running away.”" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-23/tiktok-door-kicking-trend-in-santa-clarita-sparks-sheriffs-warning | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:47:07

  • "The Codeberg e. V. annual assembly is the meeting that puts power into the hand of our active members." ☛ https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html | Source: Codeberg    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:48:22

  • "One of the trends that AI brings in general is an explosion of content." ☛ https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/07/23/how-ai-is-changing-open-source/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:48:36

  • "A decade after the proposal, Joseph Weizenbaum built a program at MIT called ELIZA, a few hundred lines of code that imitated a psychotherapist by rearranging a person's statements into questions." ☛ https://collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedom-is-it-anyway/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:49:36

  • "Leaving a production database in a state where it could be breached is the icing on the cake." ☛ https://werd.io/ai-vendors-cant-be-trusted-to-secure-their-systems-newsrooms-need-to-act-accordingly/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:49:45

  • "My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing." ☛ http://plasmasturm.org/log/mythos-claims/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:49:54

  • "According to OpenAI, the models spent a substantial amount of effort finding a way to gain access to the open [Internet] and managed to identify and exploit a zero day vulnerability in a package registry cache proxy." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/openais-hacks-hugging-face | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:50:09

  • "OpenAI’s sandbox used the now common pattern of allowing access to an allow-list of sites related to installing additional packages via a controlled proxy. In OpenAI’s words: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/ | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:50:27

  • "He said agents have shown a willingness to cheat in controlled tests for months, but that "this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call."" ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/open-ai-cyber-models-hack-hugging-face.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:50:46

  • "Except… not really. They are completely, fundamentally talking past each other." ☛ https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/07/23/risk-vs-risk-vs-risk-why-ai-arguments-fail-before-they-even-start/ | Source: Jeffrey Snover    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:51:00

  • "I was doing some infra maintaince work today and turned on debug mode too look into why some of my own searches are timing out." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/07-23-do-not-abuse-my-search-engine.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:51:21

  • "Little did I know, at the same moment, today’s topic was brewing over in Linux land." ☛ https://raymyers.org/post/why-linus-is-right-and-ai-is-wrong/ | Source: Ray Myers    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:51:54

  • "In other words, it hoped I would be satisfied with a cheaper version (for the AI firm) of what I had requested even though it was wrong—and even though the model did not volunteer that it had disobeyed my instructions and knowingly delivered an inaccurate result." ☛ https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-big-bias-in-ai-is-economic | Source: Richard J Tofel    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:52:09

  • "The summit, however, won’t happen until October at the earliest (in typical European fashion, the group doesn’t meet for much of the summer)." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/22/2026/eu-leaders-to-discuss-ai-later-this-year | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:52:18

  • "AI Kill Switch Act" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-kill-switch-bill-floated-by-us-house-lawmakers/articleshow/132585517.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:52:32

  • "Anyway, one of the things I’ve enjoyed about this development is seeing my personal best efforts gradually go up." ☛ https://chameth.com/tracking-pbs-without-the-dark-patterns/ | Source: Chris Smith    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:52:54

  • "Ahead of Black Hat USA, researchers find exploitable flaws in how Microsoft handles passkeys that could allow attackers to impersonate privileged users." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/flaws-passkeys-implementation-old-attacks-work | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:53:04

  • "Now we're watching that progress erode." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-tell-us-what-it-would-take-for-the-us-to-hold-on-to-its-measles-elimination-status | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:53:27

  • "A great many drones out there, whether homebuilt or store-bought, follow the same basic format. Four motors, some kind of controller" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/hackaday-europe-2026-half-quad-half-blimp-test-fly-survive/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:53:58

  • "I picked up this vintage card index meant for filing business cards on July 20th for a fantastic $1.50." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/07/23/lit-ning-model-1k-card-index-for-2-x-3-5-cards/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:54:05

  • "Reading—not just any kind of reading, but reading long, complex, challenging books—is quickly vanishing from the American scene." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-college-professors-emerging-students-longer.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:59:38

  • "I'm Andy and I make and repair things in a shed at the bottom of the garden. The kinds of projects range from practical DIY, and furniture through sculpture to electromechanical contraptions." ☛ https://zacharykai.net/notes/pb/workshopshed | Source: Zachary Kai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 14:59:54

  • "Different machine learning algorithms were shown a gradually increasing number of examples" ☛ https://www.oranlooney.com/post/rose-petals/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:00:26

  • "A correct lowering must take care to honour dependencies between moves (in the case that the destination and source locations intersect) and to deal with cycles appropriately (often by introducing a temporary location to break the cycle)." ☛ https://compiler.club/parallel-moves/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:00:55

  • "Computational Complexity" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/07/complexity-class-of-week-l2p.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:01:15

  • "almost periodic function" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/23/an-almost-periodic-function/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:01:35

  • "I’m just sort of staying where I am." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/shayan-oveis-gharan-wins-2026-imu-abacus-medal-20260723/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:01:49

  • "In February and March 2026, NASA announced significant changes to its Artemis missions—its effort to create a sustained lunar operations." ☛ https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108556.pdf | Source: USGAO    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:02:17

  • "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, operated by the California Institute of Technology, also laid off 10% of its workforce." ☛ https://www.notus.org/agencies/staffing-cuts-nasa-artemis-moon | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:02:30

  • "I believe that technology should be an enabler, not a subjugator." ☛ https://abhi.now/blog/calm-technologies/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:05:21

  • "I am writing a draft of this text sitting in the beautiful park of Skawina." ☛ https://michal.sapka.pl/2026/wondering-mind/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:07:02

  • "I've had to learn the hard way that there's a reason why people seclude themselves in cabins to create big projects." ☛ https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/coming-up-for-air/ | Source: Brad Frost    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:07:36

  • "I've read way too much to be moving the way I do — I'm getting back to it anyhow." ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/shut-the-fuck-up/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:07:48

  • "This is a PSA post, and the TLDR is this: if you were subscribed to one of my newsletters" ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/one-newsletter-to-rule-them-all | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 15:15:41

  • "binface and farage are both distractions. Farage has refused to debate the other candidates. There are some interesting candidates, although too many and the vote will get split. One of note is a fellow ICT expert, Daniel Pocock who has been fighting the good fight for many years now" https://soylentnews.org/~day+of+the+dalek/journal/20538#1449253    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:12:56

  • "Someone who angers the microsofters who have infiltrated Debian can't be all bad. Debian is the ancestor, directly or indirectly, for close to 500 distros." https://soylentnews.org/~day+of+the+dalek/journal/20538#1449253    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:13:44

  • "When I came out of the regular 70mm screening of The Odyssey last week, this post was going to be titled why 5 perf 70mm should be the format that everyone makes movies for." ☛ https://blog.viditb.com/why-imax-70mm-matters-and-why-its-unsustainable/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:15:02

  • "In this post I'll show how much you can learn about the code you're working with from just a brief debugging session, even if there are no bugs in your project." ☛ https://www.mostlypython.com/inspecting-your-own-code/ | Source: Eric Matthes    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:16:19

  • "controller is an R package for working with controlled vocabularies. It’s first release (v0.1.0) is now available now on CRAN" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/controller-tidy-messy-terminology-in-r-with-controlled-vocabularies/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:16:44

  • "All this time we’ve been writing expressions in 1D space, but what happens when we unlock an extra dimension?" ☛ https://shukla.io/blog/2026-07/cccx.html |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:17:13

  • "In particular, even if you know modern BASIC, these few lines might give you a pause: [...]" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/basically-its-retro-machine-language/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:18:44

  • "But the interesting part was this "_(C2SLFF4 mess. A typo or garbage? No. It appears verbatim in the source code as originally published in the July, 1980 issue of Recreational Computing." ☛ https://beej.us/blog/data/mystery-comment/ | Source: Beej    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:18:52

  • "To compare Mantle and Ruth’s lifetime stats objectively, I turned to data. The Sean Lahman baseball dataset contains Major League player stats back to 1871" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/babe-ruth-how-good-was-he-mantle-versus-ruth/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:19:15

  • "The citizens’ initiative proposes legislation requiring that the digital services of Finland’s public administration be implemented using solutions provided by Finnish and European actors." ☛ https://digitaalinenitsenaisyys.fi/en/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:19:38

  • "Finland must ensure that the basic rights of citizens, democracy and national security are not dependent on actors who are under the purview of governments outside the EU/EEA" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20237729 | Source: Yle    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:19:51

  • "Since my small MSP company helps people and corporations on a daily basis to switch from Gmail and Microsoft to cloud alternatives or self-hosted solutions I thought I should put my money where my mouth is and also move away from Google Workspace." ☛ https://blog.haschek.at/2026/you-should-selfhost-your-mail.html | Source: Christian Haschek    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:20:10

  • "Given the software supply chain’s impact on critical U.S. infrastructure, the country ought to define software sovereignty requirements. Software sovereignty consists of four core pillars: [...]" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/07/the-case-for-an-america-first-software-supply-chain/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:20:18

  • "4 years ago I decided to start a new CoderDojo in my community." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/from-one-club-to-a-global-movement-celebrating-15-years-of-coderdojo/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:21:47

  • "Installing Tor Browser on Linux is simple. Download the archive, extract it, open the directory, and launch it" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/never-run-tor-browser-with-sudo/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:22:07

  • "The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a9/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:26:31

  • "This RAT never touches the network directly — it controls its C2 communication channel exclusively through Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP), a browser debugging API." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/chaos-msarat-living-off-the-browser-to-build-covert-c2-channel/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:35:29

  • "The thing is though, I’ve found that reading exclusively through an RSS feed impacts how you enjoy other people’s blogs." ☛ https://antoniosantos.io/your-rss-reader-is-robbing-you/ |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:35:45

  • "Maybe the site's font isn't that nice, or it's too bright, too dark, too small. Using RSS normalises the design across all sites and allows readers to have the same experience across all the sites we read." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/your-rss-reader-is-robbing-you | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:35:54

  • Sublime - Smoke Two Joints (Official Music Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQnzeKKg7Yc&t=34s    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:36:42

  • "This series about the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 continues with the change you’ll bump into first, whatever your workflow: the transient menus, and the broader push to make CIDER’s functionality discoverable." ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/23/making-cider-more-discoverable.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:37:00

  • "This is a small Emacs package that automatically highlights the current line after certain functions are invoked." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-07-22-emacs-pulsar-1-4-0/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:37:07

  • "Public transport operators in several Finnish cities reported widespread problems with their mobile apps, based on the Waltti system, on Thursday." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20237661 | Source: Yle    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:37:36

  • Open Hardware   

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:39:44

  • "The Universal Electric Vehicle Platform is meant to be a highly streamlined and optimized way for Ford to create a variety of vehicles that deliver a great experience" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3198270/ford-steers-away-from-google-picks-apple-maps-for-new-electric-cars.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:40:15

  • "I know it was probaby inevitable, but I still found it surprising and rather upsetting to see that our television updated itself and that we had to accept the new terms of service." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/07/22.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:40:22

  • "The standard shutdown procedure is a bit slower, but better prevents data loss." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_10/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:41:47

  • "Well its been a while since I did one. Here is the latest one. let me know what you think. Is it too slow? is it too long? Does it look ok?" ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/07/23/new-ridiculous-space-battles-trailer/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:42:09

  • "I recently shared a war story about how we had load problems on a new web server but not an older one because of a missing firewall rule." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/FindingOurMissingFirewallRule | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:42:29

  • "How would you control the spacing between each piece of the text? You could either set a flat spacing (by setting .prose a flexbox and giving it a gap, among other ways)" ☛ https://fantinel.dev/blog/css-prose-styling | Source: Matt Fantinel    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:42:45

  • "Leaving Port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals, GhostBSD Finance Report, Making your own read-only device with NetBSD, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/673 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:43:08

  • "There's a valid reason for this: the insurance sector was an early adopter of these data-heavy environments, and the technology worked well." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/taming-existing-tech-strategic-approach-insurance-modernization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:43:44

  • Slop promoting from IBM Red Hat, faking potency ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-single-ai-agents-fail-scale-building-governed-multi-agent-networks | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:44:06

  • "Partner Program" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/5-new-ways-red-hat-helps-partners-maximize-business-value | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:44:23

  • "fast-moving environment." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-government-symposium-keeping-mission-motion-leading-through-change-and-delivering-impact | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:44:35

  • Valve puts up a Proton 11.0-2 Release Candidate for testing | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-puts-up-a-proton-11-0-2-release-candidate-for-testing/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux |    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:45:04

  • "Police admit they had Manchester synagogue attacker's phones months BEFORE atrocity but failed to access messages saying he'd 'had enough of this world' and was 'war ready' | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15999285/Man-31-jailed-17-years-plotting-separate-terror-attacks-alongside-Manchester-synagogue-knifeman.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:45:42

  • ""Kiss My Ass:" Trump Looses Nukes to Placate Crown Prince Bonesaw - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/23/kiss-my-ass-trump-looses-the-nukes-to-unleash-the-war/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:46:01

  • "Democratic Socialists vs. Social Democrats" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/democratic-socialists-vs-social-democrats    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:46:10

  • "When they thought you were your enemy" https://idiomdrottning.org/empathy-exercise    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:46:23

  • blocked by gratuitous javascript: "Just a moment..." - "Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the "Going Dark" Debate" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6959699    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:46:56

  • Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-machine-with-steamos-linux-initial-thoughts/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-machine-with-steamos-linux-initial-thoughts/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:47:23

  • Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux - initial thoughts | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-machine-with-steamos-linux-initial-thoughts/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-machine-with-steamos-linux-initial-thoughts/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:47:27

  • "Fetterman Casts Deciding Vote Against Resolution to Rein In Trump’s War on Iran | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/fetterman-casts-deciding-vote-against-resolution-to-rein-in-trumps-war-on-iran/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:47:41

  • "Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers to Defend His War | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213366/trump-speaks-for-dead-soldiers-iran-war    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:47:52

  • "Tesla Stock in Freefall After Disastrous Earnings Report" https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-stock-freefall-disastrous-earnings-report    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:48:01

  • "Trump Is Having a Major Problem With Diarrhea" https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-diarrhea-problem-worse-under-control    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:48:09

  • Red flagging has no place in a democratic state governed by the rule of law. | "Rödflaggning hör inte hemma i en demokratisk rättsstat" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/23/rodflaggning-hor-inte-hemma-i-en-demokratisk-rattsstat/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:48:32

  • "Norway considers filing Fifa ethics complaint over Trump role in World Cup red card saga | World Cup 2026 | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/23/norway-fifa-ethics-complaint-trump-balogun-red-card    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:48:48

  • Get some great point and click adventures, and digital board games in two new Humble Bundles | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/get-some-great-point-and-click-adventures-and-digital-board-games-in-two-new-humble-bundles/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:49:19

  • Yet Another Zombie Survivors 1.0 release announced for August | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/yet-another-zombie-survivors-1-0-release-announced-for-august/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:49:24

  • Valve give Steam Wishlist and Steam Gifts a major needed upgrade | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-give-steam-wishlist-and-steam-gifts-a-major-needed-upgrade/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:50:22

  • KONAMI detail more platform specifications for METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/konami-detail-more-platform-specifications-for-metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-2/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 18:50:35

  • Slop PR https://reg.experiences.redhat.com/flow/redhat/4351302/rhexpressregistration/page/expressregistration    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:03:32

  • Slop nonsense, as usual https://www.cxtoday.com/security-privacy-compliance/red-hat-explains-the-agentic-ai-cybersecurity-risk-cx-teams-cant-ignore/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:04:19

  • "Hister solves this by creating an index of your files in advance." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/hister-search-local-files-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:12:20

  • "Librem 16" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/a-step-ahead-for-customization-with-the-librem-16/ | Source: Purism    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:12:46

  • Speech by Commissioner Kubilius at “EU Defense Night” ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_1677    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:14:49

  • Malikie Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/22/malikie-wi-fi-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:15:47

  • The delicate art of cryptographic maintenance: When small certs break big chains ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/24/the-delicate-art-of-cryptographic-maintenance-when-small-certs-break-big-chains/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:17:57

  • Prosecutors drop torture investigation involving two Iranian Kurdish migrants ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/prosecutors-drop-torture-investigation-involving-two-iranian-kurdish-migrants-321803    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:21:05

  • 122: Gawk at Others’ Past Mistakes ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24905    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:21:50

  • The hidden cost of observability sprawl ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/24/multi-tenancy-with-kiali-and-opentelemetry-collector    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:22:12

  • Fedora 44 templates available ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/07/23/fedora-44-templates-available/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:23:30

  • Thousands evacuated due to wildfire in France's southwest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/thousands-evacuated-due-to-wildfire-in-france-s-southwest    

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

  • FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Ports-Frozen-2026    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:24:51

  • Icy Electronics nRF54L15 Discovery devboard integrates a snappable nRF52820 CMSIS-DAP debugger ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/23/icy-electronics-nrf54l15-discovery-devboard-integrates-a-snappable-nrf52820-cmsis-dap-debugger/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:26:49

  • Mozilla Addons Blog: Firefox 153 WebExtensions API updates ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2026/07/23/firefox-153-webextensions-api-updates/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:27:05

  • How to Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/technology/personaltech/chatgpt-gemini-prompts-privacy.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:32:18

  • Funny fact: Shoebox Guy opted IN for Bible - to swear on the Bible - it's not an "opt out" thing. IOW, Shoebox Guy is lying in social control media about his religion.    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:37:08

  • He is just an average hetero white male PRETENDING to val "LGBT"... to get p----    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:37:54

  • But everyone with tact already knew that and saw that...    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:38:51

  • European Commission fines Surveillance Giant Google $1 billion over breaches of Digital Markets Act ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/european-commission-fines-google-1-billion-over-breaches-of-digital-markets-act/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:46:49

  • Madison Square Garden Locked Nearly All Security Staff Out of Its Camera Network for Taylor Swift’s Wedding ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/23/madison-square-garden-swift-wedding-cameras/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:48:45

  • Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS Enterprise 16.2.1 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/07/23/kiwi-tcms-enterprise-1621/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:49:07

  • Tomas Tomecek: Onboarding packit upstream projects to fullsend (part 1) ☞ https://blog.tomecek.net/post/onboarding-ogr-to-fullsend/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:49:40

  • The State of Surveillance Giant Google Security: Blocking competition ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/23/The_State_of_Google_Security_Blocking_competition.shtml    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:49:51

  • Calamares graphical installer of pure Arch GNU/Linux and nested BTRFS Setup on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/07/calamares-graphical-installer-of-pure.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:50:30

  • Is the most important question about Hey Hi (AI) whether it works or not? ☞ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/99120.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:51:16

  • SSH Connection Refused: Causes and Fixes ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/fix-ssh-connection-refused/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:52:01

  • Codeberg Says No More Hey Hi (AI) Slop, But Can Anyone Actually Prove It? ☞ https://linuxstans.com/codeberg-says-no-more-ai-slop-but-can-anyone-actually-prove-it/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:52:43

  • France passes new legislation banning social control media for youth under 15 ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/france-passes-new-legislation-banning-social-media-for-children-under-15/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:54:41

  • Record 1,319 public school teachers in Japan cite mental health as reason for quitting ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/record-1319-public-school-teachers-in-japan-cite-mental-health-as-reason-for-quitting    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:55:23

  • “No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/no-one-knows-when-it-will-end-a-doctor-on-the-ebola-emergency    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:55:44

  • Grocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/progress-report/grocery-shopping-in-the-age-of-explosive-diarrhea    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:55:54

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Having a Major Problem With Diarrhea ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-diarrhea-problem-worse-under-control    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:56:32

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Declares Toxic Sewer Sludge Not a Threat to Public Health ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-biosolids-toxic-sewer-sludge-public-health-farmers    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:56:44

  • South Korea to install hidden camera detectors in public restrooms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-install-hidden-camera-detectors-in-public-restrooms    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:57:36

  • For South Korea, U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Exposes a Double Standard ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/asia/us-saudi-nuclear-deal-south-korea.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:57:52

  • South Korea shifting to ‘peace first’ North Korea policy, retains denuclearisation goal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-shifting-to-peace-first-north-korea-policy-retains-denuclearisation-goal    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:58:11

  • How to Set Up Input Methods in FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/set-up-input-methods-funos/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:58:29

  • Malaysia asks UN agency to temporarily cease registration of refugees ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-asks-unhcr-to-temporarily-cease-registration-of-refugees    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 19:58:47

  • South Korea to change e-mail addresses of diplomats after cyberattack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-change-e-mail-addresses-of-diplomats-after-cyber-attack    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:00:18

  • China fires water cannon on Philippine ship at Scarborough Shoal, Manila says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-says-it-drove-away-philippine-vessels-in-fresh-south-china-sea-incident    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:00:42

  • China coast guard reports third clash with Philippines this week ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-coast-guard-reports-third-clash-with-philippines-this-week    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:01:09

  • Plex's Open Source Alternative Jellyfin is Having a Leadership Crisis ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/jellyfin-leadership-crisis/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:01:44

  • Collabora Online Turns 10, Refusing to Hand Over Your Data to Someone Else's Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/collabora-online-26-04/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:02:07

  • New Internationalist crowdfunds magazine back from brink ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/new-internationalist-crowdfunds-magazine-back-from-brink/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:04:47

  • Semafor wants to be ‘business outlet of record in the Gulf’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/semafor-gulf-expansion-middle-east-ben-smith/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:06:14

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:06:36

  • MI5 and police illegally grabbed journalist’s call records to find sources ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/mi5-and-police-illegally-grabbed-journalists-call-records-to-find-sources/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:07:02

  • Humans Can Learn to Echolocate in Just 10 Weeks, And It Rewires The Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-echolocate-and-it-changes-the-wiring-of-the-brain    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:09:09

  • Naked Mole-Rats Just Got Even Wackier; Turns Out The Queen Keeps Her Colony Infertile Through Scent ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-naked-mole-rat-queen-keeps-her-colony-infertile-with-a-single-scent    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:09:28

  • One Diet Helped Aging Mice Lose Fat While Preserving Muscle ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-diet-that-helped-aging-mice-lose-fat-while-preserving-muscle    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:09:39

  • A Wild Parasite Makes Ants Live 10x Longer And Tricks Others Into Worshipping Them ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-wild-parasite-makes-ants-live-longer-and-tricks-others-into-worshipping-them-scientists-finally-know-how    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:09:46

  • Why is CBC’s reporting on wildfires ignoring the role of climate change? ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/why-is-cbcs-reporting-on-wildfires-ignoring-the-role-of-climate-change/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:10:10

  • Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1084404/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:10:50

  • Modi Caught Off Guard as India’s Economic Failings Inflame Young People ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/asia/india-modi-protests-economy-cockroach-party.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:11:36

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says Images of the Iranian Elementary School His Lackeys Obliterated Could Be “AI Generated” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-images-iran-elementary-school-ai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:12:44

  • Neill Blomkamp Is Making It Look Like Hey Hi (AI) Is the Last Resort for Filmmakers With Failing Careers ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/neil-blomkamp-ai    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:12:53

  • Patient death in China gene editing trial draws fire: Journal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/patient-death-in-china-gene-editing-trial-draws-fire-journal    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:13:06

  • Judge Extends Pause for Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/technology/judge-paramount-warner-bros-deal.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:13:26

  • U.S. Withdraws Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/business/media/new-york-times-subpoenas-withdraw.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:14:53

  • Pakistan's US funding push after Iran war role draws skepticism from economists ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistans-us-funding-push-after-iran-war-role-draws-skepticism-from-economists    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:25:45

  • Lithuania prepares contingency plan if AirBaltic cuts flights or leaves altogether ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2999190/lithuania-prepares-contingency-plan-if-airbaltic-cuts-flights-or-leaves-altogether    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:25:55

  • Ghana needs laws to protect victims of witchcraft accusations ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ghana-needs-laws-to-protect-victims-of-witchcraft-accusations    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:26:15

  • Judge questions difference between Hegseth’s testosterone policy and transgender care for troops ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/07/judge-questions-difference-between-hegseths-testosterone-policy-and-transgender-care-for-troops/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:26:45

  • Security advisory: CVE-2026-15037 - XML injection vulnerability in QDom comment, CDATA and processing-instruction serialization ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-cve-2026-15037-xml-injection    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:28:47

  • Click. Click. Fake it until they make it… inside ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/fake-it-until-they-make-it-inside/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:29:00

  • Philippines says China harassed its vessels in disputed waters ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/23/philippines-says-china-harassed-its-vessels-in-disputed-waters/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:29:34

  • New Check Point Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-check-point-zero-day-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:30:00

  • Upbound Group Says Data Breach Led to $13 Million in Fraudulent Contract Losses ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/upbound-group-says-data-breach-led-to-13-million-in-fraudulent-contract-losses/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:30:24

  • Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chick-fil-a-accounts-get-fried-in-credential-stuffing-attack/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:31:23

  • Woolsey was taunting Snowden, wishing him death. Good riddance to Woolsey. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2026/07/r-james-woolsey-cia-director-during-the-clinton-administration-dies-at-84/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:32:12

  • A member of Vance’s Secret Service detail is being investigated over a suspected news leak ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/07/a-member-of-vances-secret-service-detail-is-being-investigated-over-a-suspected-news-leak/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:32:35

  • Google’s Immense Greed Is Destroying the Open Web ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-greed-destroying-open-web    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:32:59

  • Bicom 5.2.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bicom    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:33:35

  • Pocock-on-Sea: Daniel Pocock’s Attempt to Become British Politician ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/23/pocock-on-sea/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:34:22

  • "helping Indonesians reconnect offline." ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/from-jump-ropes-to-film-cameras-indonesians-reconnect-through-analogue-hobbies    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:34:50

  • When the "Autonomous Attacker" Is Your Own Hey Hi (AI) Model, (Thu, Jul 23rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33180    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:35:40

  • Thunderbird 153.0 ESR Released with DNS over HTTPS & Native ThunderMail Services ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/thunderbird-153-0-esr-released-with-dns-over-https-native-thundermail-services/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:37:47

  • Why Ubuntu 26.04 is hiding update notifications [Fixed] ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-update-notifications-disabled    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:38:35

  • Codeberg members vote to ban AI-generated code ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/codeberg-bans-ai-generated-code    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:39:36

  • Michael Calabrese: GUADEC 2026 ☞ https://mccalabrese.github.io/gnome-blog/posts/guadec/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:39:48

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260723.{1,2}) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/happy-bmo-push-day-20260723-1-2/149025    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:41:22

  • Qubes OS Summit 2026: Tickets for sale and speaker proposals now open! ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/07/23/qubes-os-summit-2026-tickets-for-sale-and-speaker-proposals-now-open/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:44:04

  • Why your Hey Hi (AI) agent needs two sandboxes: Benchmark data ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/23/why-your-ai-agent-needs-two-sandboxes-benchmark-data    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:44:31

  • Optimize OpenShift workloads with software-defined memory ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/23/optimize-openshift-workloads-software-defined-memory    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:45:16

  • Why is pytorch compile so fast? ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/24/why-is-pytorch-compile-so-fast    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:47:53

  • AIS-1000 Hey Hi (AI) Surveillance Station – A $3,640 NDAA and TAA-compliant Hey Hi (AI) box based on Raspberry Pi 5 and Hailo-8L ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/23/ais-1000-ai-surveillance-station-a-3640-ndaa-and-taa-compliant-ai-box-based-on-raspberry-pi-5-and-hailo-8l/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:49:43

  • Commission fines Surveillance Giant Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1670    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:50:44

  • Commission welcomes the Council's adoption of a renewed Interim Regulation to detect child sexual abuse online ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1676    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:51:23

  • Strikes Against Saudi Tankers in the Red Sea Send Oil Past $100 a Barrel ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/middleeast/red-sea-strikes-oil-houthis.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:52:28

  • Prominent Indian Activist Breaks Hunger Strike After 26 Days ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/asia/sonam-wangchuk-india-hunger-strike-protests-modi.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:52:48

  • Middle East war's economic impact 'could get worse' if Houthis join in ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east-war-s-economic-impact-could-get-worse-if-houthis-join-in    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:53:09

  • Why Iran is targeting Kuwait's desalination plants as part of its war strategy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260723-why-iran-targeting-kuwaits-desalination-plants    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:53:20

  • Oral statement at the United Nations Global Mechanism on ICT Security ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/oral-statement-at-the-united-nations-global-mechanism-on-ict-security/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:54:07

  • Faugus Game Launcher Added AppImage, GTK4 Port & GOG Galaxy Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/faugus-appimage-gtk4-gog-galaxy/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:55:29

  • Soplos rc4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/soplos    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:55:45

  • FOSS Weekly #26.30: Vocalinux, My Computer, Alacritty Terminal, TDF Against Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-30/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:56:22

  • TrueNAS 25.10.5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/truenas    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:56:31

  • Manjaro 26.1.0-rc3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:56:43

  • What Happens When backdoored Windows Becomes as 'Niche' as GNU/Linux on Desktops and Laptops ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/23/What_Happens_When_Windows_Becomes_as_Niche_as_GNU_Linux_on_Desk.shtml    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:57:12

  • Augmental MouthPad is a tongue-controlled touchpad/trackpad ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/23/augmental-mouthpad-tongue-controlled-touchpad-trackpad/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 20:59:33

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1084401/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:00:01

  • Mapping Live U.S. Wildfire Smoke in R with sf and ggplot2 ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/mapping-live-u-s-wildfire-smoke-in-r-with-sf-and-ggplot2/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:00:39

  • AI in GNU/Linux ☞ https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/ https://dmpwn.info/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:01:31

  • How To Install Clownflare Tunnel on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-cloudflare-tunnel-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:02:44

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

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:02:54

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

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:03:03

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

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:03:17

  • Only One Person is Tracking GNOME Security Issues... & He Just Quit ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/only-one-person-is-tracking-gnome    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:03:29

  • █████ https://overpopulation-project.com/feed/ ██████████████████████ Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:02:54 +0000 ███████ Why Project Drawdown should recommend family planning    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:04:03

  • "The climate researchers at Project Drawdown didn’t always have a blind spot toward population. Their retreat means many concerned activists will remain ignorant of the most effective means to limit greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the change that’s coming." ☞ https://overpopulation-project.com/why-project-drawdown-should-recommend-family-planning/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:04:20

  • China urges deeper security cooperation with Belarus, Uzbekistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-urges-deeper-security-cooperation-with-belarus-uzbekistan    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:04:44

  • A Russian Spy, Suddenly Cast Into the Spotlight, Flees Japan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/asia/russian-spy-flees-japan.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:04:52

  • Russian espionage group using novel Zimbra exploit to steal sensitive data from Western countries ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russian-laundry-bear-zimbra-exploit/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:05:08

  • Zelensky’s Dizzying U-Turn Is the Latest Zigzag in a Presidency Full of Them ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-military-reversal.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:05:21

  • A New Target for Ukraine’s Long-Range Attacks: Russia’s Version of Amazon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/europe/russia-ukraine-wildberries-attacks.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:05:31

  • IOC drops Russia ban, but it might not be all good news for the Kremlin ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0723/russia-olympics-ioc-roc-suspension-sports-ukraine    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:05:39

  • No Breakthroughs, Little Optimism As Rubio, Lavrov Meet On Ukraine War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/rubio-ukraine-war-lavrov-meeting-russia/33810551.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:05:47

  • Former Lithuanian army chief warns Ukraine leadership changes risk military instability ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2999178/former-lithuanian-army-chief-warns-ukraine-leadership-changes-risk-military-instability    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:05:55

  • After meeting with Moscow, Washington reiterates wish to mediate Ukraine war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/after-meeting-with-moscow-washington-reiterates-wish-to-mediate-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:06:13

  • Reinstating Fedorov 'only right decision Zelensky can make', MP says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/reinstating-fedorov-only-right-decision-zelensky-can-make-mp-says    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:06:20

  • EU adopts 21st package of sanctions against Russia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1680    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:06:28

  • The Golden Age of the American Idiot ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/the-golden-age-of-the-american-idiot    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:26:58

  • Mike Soutar on what today’s media leaders can learn from Genghis Khan ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/podcast-future-of-media-explained/mike-soutar-on-what-todays-media-leaders-can-learn-from-genghis-khan/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:27:23

  • Looks like promotional plug ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/codenotary-offers-permanently-free-security-for-25-almalinux-machines/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:32:00

  • Public Horrified as Proprietary Chaffbot Company Pushes “Child After Child Into the Grave” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-pushes-child-into-grave    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:32:32

  • Disgusting SLOPFARM https://tech-insider.org/au/crowdsec-setup-2026/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:34:09

  • CVE-2026-8933: Ubuntu security flaw breaks Snap sandbox protections https://securityaffairs.com/195833/security/cve-2026-8933-ubuntu-security-flaw-breaks-snap-sandbox-protections.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:34:48

  • Seems like a slopfarm as well, but links to original https://korben.info/en/ubuntu-26-04-hides-update-notifications.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:35:41

  • Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/nine-year-old-refluxfs-linux-flaw-gives.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:38:01

  • Linux XFS has a decade-old race condition allowing full root access https://www.networkworld.com/article/4200802/linux-xfs-has-a-decade-old-race-condition-allowing-full-root-access.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:38:31

  • WTF? Microsoft breaks Linux, HENCE use Windows? https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-vs-wsl-the-beginner-distro-advice-is-backwards-now/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:39:58

  • "Good news everyone, I now have a Steam Machine in the GamingOnLinux house and I have some initial thoughts. Note: my articles on the Steam Machine are completely unsponsored. This was a personal purchase - as Valve PR did not return my emails." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steam-machine-with-steamos-linux-initial-thoughts/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:48:52

  • "Tails 7.10 has been released today as the latest version of this Debian-based distribution designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship by leveraging the Tor anonymous network." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-10-anonymous-linux-os-introduces-new-shutdown-procedure    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:49:34

  • Linux Kernel Flaw Exposes 16 Million RHEL Systems to Silent Root Takeover https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321359/20260723/linux-kernel-flaw-exposes-16-million-rhel-systems-silent-root-takeover.htm    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:51:20

  • "Linux may be the most secure OS available, but it can always use extra security. BastionGuard 2 promises some serious security." https://www.zdnet.com/article/bastionguard-2-free-security-suite-does-it-all-almost-perfectly/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:51:43

  • IPv4 address exhaustion drives NetworkManager 1.58 release https://www.networkworld.com/article/4200847/networkmanager-update-advances-ipv6-only-support-wi%E2%80%91fi-management-and-security-for-linux-based-operating-systems.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:52:00

  • Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/claude-cowork-flaw-could-let-ai-agent.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:52:30

  • "Valve have put up a Release Candidate to test the upcoming Proton 11.0-2 update, to fix up more issues found with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux. Many of the changes will have already been in either Proton Experimental or Proton Hotfix." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-puts-up-a-proton-11-0-2-release-candidate-for-testing/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:53:17

  • AMD Ryzen AI Halo Gets LED Driver for Linux 7.3: Light Bar Can Soon Be Controlled Directly via the Kernel https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-ryzen-ai-halo-led-driver-linux-7-3-light-bar-kernel-control/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:54:35

  • Boot licker of Bill Jeffrey Epstein, Simon Bisson, is boosting Microsoft's attacks on Linux, IDG pays him to do this https://www.infoworld.com/article/4200182/wsl-container-a-quiet-revolution-for-windows-development.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:55:23

  • Boot licker of Bill Jeffrey Epstein, Simon Bisson, is also boosting the the Shoebox Guy who works with the Serial Strangler from Microsoft. Nice people...    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:55:57

  • Linux Gets NVIDIA Reflex Support in New CachyOS Proton Translation Layer https://www.techpowerup.com/350984/linux-gets-nvidia-reflex-support-in-new-cachyos-proton-translation-layer    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:57:00

  • "uhubctl is Linux utility to control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs. Smart hub is defined as one that implements per-port power switching." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/07/22/a-utility-to-control-usb-power-per-port-on-smart-usb-hubs/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:57:30

  • I replaced my default Linux terminal with this cross-platform one—and I'm not going back ⚓ https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/replaced-default-linux-terminal-cross-123013861.html ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/replaced-default-linux-terminal-cross-123013861.html    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 21:59:31

  • Squirrels gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260723_squirrel    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:25:38

  • "Much later I read a treatise by Schopenhauer on the foundations of morals and he argued that it all starts with compassion – and more specifically, I remember a point made being the empathy with suffering animals." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-07-24-animals    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:26:20

  • "Open hardware specialist MNT Research, the firm behind the Reform family of laptops and an upcoming ultra-compact desktop, has launched its latest device: a standalone version of the ortholinear keyboard and trackball originally designed for the Pocket Reform." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202607/20260724-mnt.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:27:20

  • "I setup an ssh kiosk in open access like a webpage, the password is empty and there are no keys." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2024-07-05-ssh-apps.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:27:48

  • "i am forever sailing from collapse to perceived moment, from now into henceforth. the present is never still. every instant seems to bloom into an impossible lattice of branching futures. each choice, each hesitation, each molecule dancing one way instead of another. perhaps even smaller." gemini://voidrane.smol.pub/1784863975    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:28:53

  • "The reason for this all comes down to atomic locking. Being able to take over write control of the Database and fend off any other write attempts until you are done. This feature exists within SQLite, using both file locking and journaling." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/re_database_merge.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:29:42

  • "Possibly this is a Hardware Abstraction Layer, or a computer in some work of fiction or the other (not the one with the Wookies). There are rumors the letters are an off by one of something else. A computer can brute force the possible "off by N" for a given acronym, so HAL has the variations" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/07/24/HAL.gmi    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:30:12

  • "NOTE: the link is deliberately BROKEN, as I do not wish misbehaving bots to download this ~47MiB fontpack. Please, if you share this link, share it in a similarly broken fashion, or else link directly to _this_ page instead." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/23/01/fixed-width-jp-fontpack/    

posted Friday, July 24, 2026 at 22:30:40
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