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In the comments, someone tries to justify the CoI by linking to a Zonker article from LWN. Here is ANOTHER COI - Zonker worked for IBM/Red Hat for a long time, so his articles in LWN are a giant COI every month http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/IBM_Hammers_a_CoI_Into_a_CoCed_Fedora_RIP_Fedora.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:10:53

  • Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition, Revision A http://lcorg.blogspot.com/2026/07/announcing-linux-command-line-seventh.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:11:26

  • Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (29/2026): Jolla Shipping https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2026/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:11:49

  • Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors https://thenewthings.com/p/apple-big-ai-book-slop-problem    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:13:23

  • How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-research-private-schools    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:14:29

  • How to fix an unresponsive KDE Plasma taskbar https://darryldias.me/blog/how-to-fix-an-unresponsive-kde-plasma-taskbar    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:14:57

  • Rentier Economy https://jacobin.com/2026/07/amazon-google-microsoft-cloud-hegemony-capitalism    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:15:38

  • This terminal file manager is so fast it made me abandon graphical ones completely https://www.makeuseof.com/terminal-file-manager-so-fast-abandon-graphical-completely    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:16:31

  • CJEU Anne Frank judgment http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-cjeu-anne-frank-judgment-and-its.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:17:34

  • Ponzi economics https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Verizon_is_Over_200_Billion_Dollars_in_Debt_US_Telecoms_Collaps.shtml https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:36:31

  • "Five major tech giants—Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle—are hiding $1.65 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI debt. According to a recent Nikkei study, this unlisted financial pile now eclipses the $1.35 trillion they officially report." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/21/2225209    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:37:02

  • "While this accounting treatment is entirely legal, market analysts at Morgan Stanley have flagged massive data center lease expansions as a major credit risk factor. They note that global AI-related debt issuance is projected to hit $570 billion"    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:37:24

  • "Rating agencies are already reacting to these stretched financial burdens. S&P has already downgraded Oracle's credit rating, while Moody's has also issued warnings regarding the expanding weight of pre-operational leases."    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:37:44

  • "As tech earnings drop over the next two weeks, the official numbers will look tidy, but investors are seeing less than half of the true industry leverage."    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:37:49

  • "Now that USMCA revision discussions are underway" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/mexico-can-turn-usmca-pressure-into-an-industrial-opportunity/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:57:35

  • "According to the European Commission, Google gives preferential treatment to its own services over those of third parties in Google Search, thereby breaching its obligations under the DMA." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/07/24/europe-slaps-google-eu890-mil-fine-prioritizing-services-search-results | Source: NL Times    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:58:14

  • "The EC found that Google was “self-preferencing,” or giving “preferential treatment to its own services, including shopping,” “hotels” and “transport,” over third parties." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/european-commission-fines-google-1-billion-over-breaches-of-digital-markets-act/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:58:24

  • "Under the DMA, gatekeepers must not treat their own services more favourably in ranking than third-party services." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1670 | Source: European Commission    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:58:46

  • "The Commission’s decision requires Google to treat third-party services featured in its search results in a fair and non-discriminatory manner compared with its own services." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/google-fined-e890-million/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 05:59:26

  • "That first press release is some copaganda defending SFPD's insanely dispropotionate and violent actions during Pride. Mission Local: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/sf-officials-will-arrest-you-for-partying-in-soma-also-really-want-you-to-come-party-in-soma/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:00:24

  • "The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:00:34

  • "Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border, which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:00:49

  • "Cop City protester Samuel Tunick was forced to turn over his password during a warrantless search." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/25/grapheneos-duress-password-border-search.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:01:02

  • "Lenders are always seeking the highest possible return on their loan-books, which makes that "risk premium" awfully tempting." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/25/cruel-cruelty-oh-cruelty/#digital-arm-breakers | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:01:15

  • "US government targets [sic] Cop City protester over phone operating system: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/prosecuted-for-using-a-duress-code/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:01:39

  • "It is not political, and it is not a platform for those connected to such views. His presence would be deeply hurtful and inappropriate — like an unwelcome guest at a deeply personal ceremony." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/911-families-petition-against-nyc-mayor-attendance-1810589 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:01:55

  • "The sit-in has transformed into one of India’s largest youth-led protest movements in recent years. Outrage over alleged examination paper leaks has broadened into a wider campaign against unemployment, government accountability, and what protesters described as a shrinking space for democratic dissent." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/07/india-student-protest-state-violence | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:02:16

  • "Second, it changes the legal framework around language. Under Article 15, Mandarin is given priority in education and government affairs." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/07/24/explainer-china-ethnic-unity-law-tibet-uyghur/ | Source: RFA    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:02:28

  • "In this brief guide, we will cover different ways to install JetBrains Mono font on Linux" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/install-jetbrains-mono-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:03:01

  • "This week PineStore has released the full 3D file for the PinePhone/PinePhone Pro." ☛ https://pine64.org/2026/07/25/pinephone3dfiles_2026/ | Source: Pine64    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:05:03

  • "The system uses three USB webcams, each with its IR cut filter removed and replaced with a different dichroic IR band-pass filter." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/taking-tri-camera-true-color-infrared-videos/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:05:12

  • "We were thinking about this in the context of the recent video on pressure advance in 3D printers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/add-sensors-to-everything/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:05:23

  • "WSJ reporters were honored multiple times during Friday’s dinner. The president often shrugged or smiled as their reporting was described, and he shook some of the winners’ hands." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-whcd-dinner-epstein-awards-b3021323.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:06:47

  • "Kirk's death punctured the façade of the First Amendment as hundreds of people who celebrated or meme-d the incident" ☛ https://hyperallergic.com/artists-planned-monument-to-charlie-kirk-gets-trolled-online/ | Source: HyperAllergic    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:07:13

  • "According to the freedom of expression advocacy group PEN America, the number of book censorship challenges in the United States has almost tripled since 2021." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Alberta-Banned-Book-Club-Blooms-Fight-Against-Censorship/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:07:21

  • "My son Daniel points me to a piece by Nate Silver which announces the discovery that highly educated workers with low or precarious income are the natural constituency of the Democratic Socialists of America" ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/25/nate-silver-discovers-the-educated-poor/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:08:12

  • "If you put down the newspaper, turn off your phone and go out and speak to people in the street you hear a completely different story: the cost of living crisis." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/centrica-fraud-exposed-winter-fuel-electricity-credits/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:08:39

  • "The status of the nation, its heroic narrative, confers status on its citizens. And if you don’t have a lot going for you, you can cling to that. You can raise the flag." ☛ https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/people-of-the-lie |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:08:49

  • "What OpenAI receives is more valuable than the equity it gives away." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-doomsday-moat | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:09:00

  • "I’ve talked to him before, but this seemed like a good time to bring him back." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-again-with-gabriel-zucman | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:09:17

  • "They play a far more important role in our lives than you may think," ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mangroves-are-key-to-coastal-ecosystems-see-20-breathtaking-photos-that-reveal-how-the-trees-support-wildlife-and-face-threats-180989186/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:14:17

  • "We traveled to Iceland for my sister-in-law’s wedding, congrats Ginny & McKenzie! I wanted to share a few photos from our time on the island." ☛ https://doug.pub/2026/07/24/iceland.html | Source: Doug Jones    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:14:25

  • "Remarkably, all 69 people on board survived the impact. What killed 52 of them was what happened afterwards." ☛ https://theconversation.com/a-1952-pan-am-plane-crash-transformed-passenger-safety-procedures-a-former-airline-pilot-explains-how-288294 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:14:50

  • "This is fine." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/this-is-fine-4/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:15:41

  • Vernichtungsschlacht coming soon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:17:16

  • "But for some guides, like those we quote in this article, that privilege slowly became impossible to reconcile with their beliefs." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-farce-climate-cruise-tourism-anymore.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:17:36

  • "he country is using nearly all of its wildfire fighting resources far earlier in the season than usual, according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center." ☛ https://www.notus.org/climate-environment/us-firefighting-resources-maxed-out-july | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:17:48

  • "The lawsuit — filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia — was brought by individuals and advocacy groups represented by Democracy Forward." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/advocates-sue-trump-administration-over-secret-dossiers-on-ice-watchers/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:18:13

  • "This is just like whack-a-mole, these companies will do everything they can to circumvent regulation" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-chinas-vape-makers-have-a-new-way-around-flavor-bans/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:19:00

  • "The findings concern Article 28(1) of the Digital Services Act, which requires platforms accessible to minors to provide a high level of privacy, safety and security." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/eu-commission-finds-tiktok-failed-to-protect-minors-privacy-under-digital-services-act/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:19:08

  • "Even when minors choose private accounts, their accounts can be easily found through the ‘following' and ‘followers' lists of other users" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1679 | Source: European Commission    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:19:18

  • "Meta isn’t actually promising to abandon those “rate limits.”" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/970970/after-backlash-meta-pauses-plan-to-rate-limit-its-smart-glasses | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:19:43

  • "Meta’s smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/970901/instagram-meta-glasses-prank-harassment-ban | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:22:09

  • "Over time, the usage patterns of Apple Watch buyers revealed what people really wanted." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3180044/apple-watch-won-the-smartwatch-war.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:22:23

  • "A friend of mine contributes to online security by training journalists, human rights workers, political organizers, and more in effective digital security." ☛ https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2026-July/068450.html | Source: GnuPG    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:22:50

  • "Strike 3, the parent company of Vixen Media Group, a prolific producer of adult films, is suing Meta for allegedly downloading 2,973 of its copyrighted videos." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/meta-strike-3-porn-lawsuit/688023/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:24:20

  • "While none of the groups I hang around online are anything like those mentioned in the two articles I linked to above, a lot of the loudest voices in many groups are, well, fools" ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/the-company-you-keep | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:24:25

  • "Screens aren’t the problem. Or screens aren’t the only problem." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/anti-smartphone-books | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:24:57

  • "Alison also said users will now be able to verify their accounts with a selfie, a free service it is calling Facebook Verified" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-facebook-tiktok-clone/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:25:15

  • "That era may be coming to a close, in large part because of the way he and his administration have bungled the war in Iran." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/trump-iran-war-social-media/688065/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:26:38

  • "In tech-bro dialect, a centaur is a human assisted by a machine, such a motorist or a user of hearing aids." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Cory-Doctorow-Predicts-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:27:46

  • "In the interest of not eroding Debian's reputation or further damaging the community, LLM-assisted contributions should be prohibited from inclusion in Debian." ☛ https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 | Source: Debian    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:27:57

  • "I've accepted that artificial intelligence is the future. What concerns me is how companies are turning my vulnerability into a product." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/claude-wants-my-passwords/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:28:08

  • "Two of OpenAI’s cybersecurity-focused models broke out of a testing sandbox this week and went on to [breach] the AI research platform Hugging Face in an effort to solve a security benchmark test." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-the-openai-models-that-hacked-hugging-face-were-active-on-the-internet-for-days/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:28:52

  • "The Swedish police’s new electronic ID that’s about to launch requires both." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/id-1312 | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:29:18

  • "There’s a name for this kind of number system: bijective base 26. The concept extends generally to bijective base b for any positive integer b." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/25/excel-column-numbering/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:29:29

  • "Click To Pray, the official prayer app of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, was found to have zero security by a security researcher." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/security-flaw-in-vaticans-click-to-pray-app-leaves-over-700-000-global-users-exposed-app-has-been-leaking-user-data-for-over-six-months-and-still-does | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:29:39

  • "When it comes to brain health specifically" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/watching-too-much-tv-may-actually-rot-your-brain-after-all-study-finds | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:30:43

  • "When your program asks for memory that is not in cache, the processor has to go to RAM. That trip costs on the order of 100 nanoseconds. On a 3 GHz core, that is about 300 cycles of doing nothing." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/25/memory-level-parallelism-amd-is-the-king/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:31:03

  • "As you might expect, the university has any number of old buildings." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/HowYouGetCeilingSwitchs | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:31:12

  • "This article accompanies my video review of the XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2), a large-sized 27" display drawing tablet." ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1161/xppen-artist-pro-27-gen2-review-on-gnulinux | Source: David Revoy    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:31:22

  • "I've got this little pen pouch I keep in my bag. It makes me disproportionately happy, even though I don't really write that much." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/pens-ross-2 | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:32:40

  • "I find this fascinating. The physical feel of organ pedals is very different from the kick drum pedals I play, much more keyboard-like, which means the technique is totally different." ☛ https://www.jefftk.com/p/organ-pedals-for-drumming | Source: Jeff Kaufman    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:37:41

  • "Your harddrive is probably pretty full too." ☛ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_139_hdd/ | Source: Viktor Löfgren    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:37:55

  • "During most conference talks there's a large contingent of attendees who opt to skip the session and chat instead." ☛ https://isaacvando.com/software-should-work-worked |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:38:23

  • "One of the most challenging things about the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam isn't subnetting, spanning-tree, routing protocols, ACLs, or calculating longest prefix match." ☛ https://chuck.is/ccna/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:38:37

  • "Not consorting with fools" ☛ https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN/StNp/StNp2_4.html |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:38:49

  • "So, do you remember what you wanted to be when you grew up, as a kid?" ☛ https://gabz.blog/posts/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up | Source: Gabriel    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:39:01

  • "Someone else had suggested blocking out time in his calendar to think about the bigger picture. He’d tried that, but hadn’t found it productive, so he asked if I had any alternatives." ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:39:11

  • "I'm still bemused by some of the things - I've no idea what a challenge coin is, I'm hazy about how the various puzzles work, I didn't know about the cool musicians until it was too late." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/some-quick-thoughts-on-emf-camp-2026/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:39:22

  • "Peter Pentz, a curator at the museum, examined the stamp and compared its mounted-warrior design with the images found on the Sutton Hoo helmet and comparable Swedish objects." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/07/medieval-denmark-sutton-hoo-helmet/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:40:00

  • "Stensrud says that a lot of institutional knowledge goes into creating accurate weather forecasts, not just data. If you fire a lot of people who have that knowledge, forecasts will be worse." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/weather-forecasts-less-accurate-trump-1235598647/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:40:11

  • "A new Dartmouth study finds that many of Syria's archaeological sites were damaged not only by looting but also, in areas occupied by the Turkish military, by systematic bulldozing. The findings are published in the journal Heritage" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-syria-ancient-sites-widespread-looting.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:40:39

  • "Shot with a yellow filter (that removes blue), red in the scene becomes green, green in the scene becomes blue, and infrared in the scene becomes a vivid red." ☛ https://blog.brycekerley.net/2026/07/26/flamin-hot-aerochrome.html | Source: Bryce Kerley    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:41:14

  • "from what is one escaping, and to what?" ☛ https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/open-universe | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:41:29

  • "For me, writing in public adds more reflection to the words." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/re-who-read-this/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:42:05

  • "I bought a mini tripod while I was in Hong Kong, but only after I’d taken most of these photos so for those I had to improvise ways to stabalise the camera well enough for a long exposure." ☛ https://samsm.ch/hong-kong-at-night/ | Source: Sam Smith    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:42:16

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posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:47:08

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posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 06:47:37

  • Valve begin improving account switching in the latest Steam Beta | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-begin-improving-account-switching-in-the-latest-steam-beta/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-begin-improving-account-switching-in-the-latest-steam-beta/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:30:33

  • Valve begin improving account switching in the latest Steam Beta | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-begin-improving-account-switching-in-the-latest-steam-beta/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-begin-improving-account-switching-in-the-latest-steam-beta/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:30:39

  • GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:31:13

  • Wine 11.14 brings improvements for DirectSound, BCrypt, FreeBSD | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/wine-11-14-brings-improvements-for-directsound-bcrypt-freebsd/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/wine-11-14-brings-improvements-for-directsound-bcrypt-freebsd/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:31:29

  • GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:31:51

  • "The RealSense D585 Pro is a stereo depth camera built around the company’s new Gen 5 vision processor" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/realsense-d585-pro-supports-1280-x-960-depth-capture-at-up-to-90-fps/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:33:11

  • "Life in Britain's data centre capital: Constant humming, a straining energy grid and temperatures '2C higher' thanks to 30 sites over one square mile | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15999761/Life-Britains-data-centre-capital-Constant-humming-straining-energy-grid-temperatures-2C-higher-thanks-30-sites-one-square-mile.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:35:14

  • "White House Defends Trump After Ritchson Slams Him Over Epstein Files" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/alan-ritchson-trump-epstein-files-white-house-response-1235598785/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:35:30

  • "Threatened new tariffs: Trump says EU to pay 'very big price' for Google fine - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/trump-says-eu-to-pay-very-big-price-for-google-fine-1255482800    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:35:42

  • Oligarchs Are Always Trying to Bury Democracy" https://youtu.be/vX5JqOy6gPI    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:35:55

  • "The (Russian) Foreign Vote Fraudster Trump Didn't Mention - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/25/the-russian-foreign-vote-fraudster-trump-didnt-mention/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:36:14

  • "For Trump, Every Accusation Is a Confession | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-projection-human-rights-abuses/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:36:25

  • "Trump Team Admits He’s Been Defunding States That Didn’t Vote for Him | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213526/trump-team-admits-defunding-states-didnt-vote-for-him    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:36:38

  • "Transcript: Angry Trump Urges GOP to Rig Midterms as Polls Turn Brutal | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/article/213480/transcript-angry-trump-urges-gop-rig-midterms-polls-turn-brutal    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:36:55

  • "The Saudis Learn the Truth About Trump - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/saudi-arabia-trump-nuclear-deal/688064/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:37:07

  • "gcc and clang however, just, don't store language linkage information with the type. so two functions with different language linkages can be identical: [...]" ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20260708-badstdcxx.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:38:46

  • "I’m not talking about jobs handed to a dedicated task queue such as Asynq. In that case, the task system owns the lifecycle of the tasks it starts." ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/supervised-fire-and-forget/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:39:10

  • "stinkpot is a much tinier atuin (https://atuin.sh)." ☛ https://tangled.org/oppi.li/stinkpot |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:39:38

  • "I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit." ☛ https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-magic-colon |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:39:49

  • "Consider this situation: you have a bunch of nested directories, each containing audio files in M4A format." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/clh_xargs.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:40:07

  • "spies, which wrap a function, recording calls for later assertions." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/07/25/python-spy-unittest-mock-wraps/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:40:35

  • "here's something fun. say that x was declared in an outer scope as a typedef: [...]" ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20260725-auto.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:40:57

  • "Debates about traditional versus software engineering revolve around what makes us different" ☛ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/ | Source: Hillel Wayne    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:41:09

  • "The widespread excitement around the Agentic Era comes with the promise of greater productivity and higher quality." ☛ https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/ |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:41:25

  • "Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software. Please read the official documentation to learn more." ☛ https://zigbyexample.neocities.org/ |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:41:41

  • "I have been thinking recently about how language is a high entropy latent space and what that means." ☛ https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/languages-as-latent-spaces |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:41:53

  • "Codeberg is not going to do a mass deletion, a bonfire of the vibes. But if a project’s causing issues, and it’s slop code, they will be asking the vibe coder to find somewhere else. " ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-ai-slop-software-projects/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:42:04

  • "I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/25/1500-curl-authors/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:42:29

  • "From my understanding, there is a subtle but distinct difference; "translation" involves turning the words from one language to another but "localisation" involves rewriting the text for the local market." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/translation-vs-localisation/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:42:40

  • "It’s interesting to contrast the current moment to the “information wants to be free” era of Web 2.0, twenty or so years ago." ☛ https://werd.io/can-data-collectives-help-strengthen-vulnerable-cultures-in-the-face-of-ai/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:43:09

  • "Next was the Archives page. Much of this was styling, such as arranging the categories in a grid, and doing something about how entry was rendered as its own card." ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/07/25/blog-design-update.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:57:37

  • "To understand the problem, we’ll need to examine how Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually works." ☛ https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:59:10

  • "One of the features I missed from Firefox was containers, though. And now they’re available on Brave." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/07/brave-browser-containers/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 10:59:58

  • "Brave shipped Containers this week. Version 1.92 of the browser lets you wall off tabs from one another so that cookies and site data stay locked inside whichever container you opened" ☛ https://reclaimthenet.org/brave-1-92-adds-built-in-containers-for-desktop | Source: Reclaim The Net    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:00:26

  • "In a change likely to be widely welcomed, Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) committed support for custom HTTP headers in httpd(8)." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260725103657 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:01:07

  • "As the Apache documentation covers, the server status page offers this information in two forms" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ApacheServerStatusLimitation | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:01:15

  • "Traceroute is fun tool to investigate how packets travel through the internet. Due to how it's made, we can make traceroute tools show (almost) arbitrary poems." ☛ https://jssfr.de/2026-07-25-messing-with-traceroute.html | Source: Jonas Schäfer    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:01:51

  • "CIDER’s code completion has quietly gotten quite good over the years, and I don’t think it gets enough credit." ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/25/modernizing-cider-completion.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:02:24

  • "However, I have problem finishing my drafts." ☛ https://chainsawriot.com/postmannheim/2026/07/25/writeredeck.html | Source: Dr Chung-hong Chan    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:02:42

  • [Old] "Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices." ☛ https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/ | Source: Android Authority    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:04:24

  • [Old] "This is the story of my experience with OPNSense." ☛ https://ramble.moe/posts/moving-away-from-opnsense---a-story-of-simplicity/ |    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:07:35

  • "The brains of the operation is an Arduino Nano, running the venerable ATmega328P. It’s set up to drive a pair of 8×8 WS2812B addressable LED panels" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/25/building-a-fencing-scoring-box/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:09:27

  • "I’m going to try an experiment: let’s get one of those projects that seem to stall, and revisit the idea and focus on the game, independently of how cool the code may be." ☛ https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/it-is-the-game-stupid/ | Source: Juan J Martínez    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:09:41

  • "I'll put forward two variations of tc-flow(8) commands." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TcAssignFlowsMaybe | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:10:51

  • "But how do we peacefully and legally get rid of him between now and the 2028 election? What’s our 2028 strategy for regaining the White House?" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/will-there-ever-be-consequences-for | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:12:43

  • techrights irc might need a reboot midday bst, as a new version of ergo irc is available and it's easier to test these things on a quiet sunday    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:18:10

  • IRC upgrade scheduled for 11:02:00 AM UTC    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:20:35

  • rebooting into new ergo in 5 mins. should be back within 1-2 mins.    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 11:58:45

  • New stable kernel for ext4 users ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085026/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:01:39

  • Reboot.    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:01:51

  • Full PinePhone 3D File Released ☞ https://pine64.org/2026/07/25/pinephone3dfiles_2026/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:08:21

  • The Bootable USB Creator Ventoy 1.1.17 added Athena OS & EulerOS Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/th-bootable-usb-creator-ventoy-1-1-17-added-athena-os-euleros-support/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:10:26

  • GNOME Added Support Resizing / Moving Screenshot Selection via Keyboard ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/gnome-added-support-resizing-moving-screenshot-selection-via-keyboard/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:10:59

  • Running latest ergo ircd now    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:11:44

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.4.2-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fixes ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/25#rcpparmadillo_15.4.2-1    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:14:20

  • Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kiwi-Menu-macOS-Vibes    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:19:19

  • In remembrance of Dan Williams ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085021/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:30:45

  • European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Solution of No Choice: A Shortlist of One ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_The_Solution_of_No_Choice_A_S.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:31:13

  • India’s Attempt to Remove Jack Dorsey’s BitChat Put It in the Global Spotlight ☞ https://ostechnix.com/india-jack-dorsey-bitchat-github-takedown/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:35:29

  • 1,500 curl authors ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/25/1500-curl-authors/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:38:33

  • IBM Hammers a CoI Into a CoCed Fedora, RIP Fedora? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/IBM_Hammers_a_CoI_Into_a_CoCed_Fedora_RIP_Fedora.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:38:52

  • IBM is Killing the Fedora Community, Replacing It With LLM Slop From I.C.B.M. Staff ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/IBM_is_Killing_the_Fedora_Community_Replacing_It_With_LLM_Slop_.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:38:59

  • MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/mit-surveillance-ai-cameras-monitoring-library    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:45:49

  • Google Spreads Misinformation, Google's Slop Makes Stuff Up and Calls That "Intelligence" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Google_Spreads_Misinformation_Google_s_Slop_Makes_Stuff_Up_and_.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:46:10

  • Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Conflict-Interest-Draft    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:47:26

  • spin: https://yle.fi/a/7-10102678 ping Sompi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:54:26

  • Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-26-10-features/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 12:57:13

  • Packaging and enabling upstream functional tests ☞ https://bzoltan1.github.io/packaging-and-enabling-upstream-functional-tests/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:01:44

  • GNU C Library 2.44 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085030/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:01:57

  • Police hunt for suspect after one killed and 16 injured in attack at Berlin Pride | Germany | The Guardian ⚓ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/25/berlin-pride-march-called-off-after-car-crashes-into-crowd-of-people-near-route ䷉ Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:02:37

  • Wine 11.14 Released with WoW64 Mode for FreeBSD & 21 Bug-fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/wine-11-14-released-with-wow64-mode-for-freebsd-21-bug-fixes/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:03:58

  • OSINT VM 2026.7 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/osintvm    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:04:51

  • Hybrid Atomic Updates with openSUSE Tumbleweed ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/07/24/hybrid-atomic-updates-with-opensuse-tumbleweed/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:06:36

  • Linux Saloon 212 | Application Appetizer Potluck Edition ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/07/25/linux-saloon-212-application-appetizer-potluck-edition/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:06:47

  • EasyClone copy user-installed kernel modules ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202607/easyclone-copy-user-installed-kernel-modules.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:07:09

  • Wildfire Smoke Chokes Skies in Spain and France ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/europe/wildfires-photos-spain-france.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:09:34

  • If You Remove a Mirror While a Photon Is Reflecting, It Somehow Makes Infinite Photons ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/can-we-really-create-infinite-photons-physicists-reveal-what-might-happen-if-we-try-to-cut-light-in-half    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:09:46

  • Misleading Articles About YouTube and Surveillance Giant Google Financial Performance ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/Misleading_Articles_About_YouTube_and_Google_Financial_Performa.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:10:00

  • Security updates for Saturday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085272/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:10:20

  • Security updates for Saturday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085272/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:10:59

  • How to Completely Remove & Block Snap Apps in Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/how-to-completely-remove-block-snap-apps-in-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:11:15

  • How to Find Which Process Is Using a Port in GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-find-which-process-is-using-a-port/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:11:24

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

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:11:50

  • Following the “Iuventa” script: Right-wing campaign in Italy, France and Germany against “Sea-Watch 5” ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/24/following-the-iuventa-script-right-wing-campaign-in-italy-france-and-germany-against-sea-watch-5/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:13:32

  • Belarusian man says asylum in Lithuania endangered by politics. History shows otherwise ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2998303/belarusian-man-says-asylum-in-lithuania-endangered-by-politics-history-shows-otherwise    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:13:46

  • The (Russian) Foreign Vote Fraudster Convicted Felon Didn’t Mention ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/25/the-russian-foreign-vote-fraudster-trump-didnt-mention/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:15:30

  • ALT 11.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/alt    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:15:39

  • Pro-Ukraine group claims it helped hack Russian drone air defense system, shooting down Su-57 in friendly fire incident — Moscow confirms fifth-generation fighter jet crashed in 'technical malfunction' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/pro-ukraine-group-claims-it-helped-hack-russian-drone-air-defence-system-shooting-down-su-57-in-friendly-fire-incident-moscow-confirms-fifth-generation-fighter-jet-crashed-in-technical-malfunction    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:15:50

  • Pro-Ukraine group claims it helped hack Russian drone air defense system ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/pro-ukraine-group-claims-it-helped-hack-russian-drone-air-defence-system-shooting-down-su-57-in-friendly-fire-incident-moscow-confirms-fifth-generation-fighter-jet-crashed-in-technical-malfunction    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:16:20

  • Misleading Articles About YouTube and Surveillance Giant Google Financial Performance ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/Misleading_Articles_About_YouTube_and_Google_Financial_Performa.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:17:05

  • Tehran Summons Ukrainian Envoy After Strike On Iranian Vessel In Caspian As Tensions Rise ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-live-blog-trump-middle-east/33803414.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:19:31

  • Zelenskyy Says Russia Wants To Bring North Korean Troops Into Ukraine War Again ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-claims-caspian-strike-russia-iran-military-route-kyiv-mourning/33812868.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:19:43

  • Ukrainians back ousted defence minister as political crisis brews ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukrainians-back-ousted-defence-minister-as-political-crisis-brews    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:19:56

  • Ukraine: Kyiv protests continue after Zelensky fires defense minister ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-kyiv-protests-continue-after-zelensky-fires-defense-minister    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:20:04

  • A Debian general resolution on LLM usage ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085314/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:20:21

  • Kazakh leader tells Putin war should end, Ukrainian drones target Siberian oil facility ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260725-kazakh-leader-tells-putin-war-should-end-ukraine-launches-fresh-strikes    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:21:37

  • CIQ Mixes ‘Open’ Metaphors with RLC Pro Hardened ‘Deployment’ ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/ciq-mixes-open-metaphors-with-rlc-pro-hardened-deployment/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:22:52

  • FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 24, 2026 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-july-24-2026/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:23:01

  • GNU C Library 2.44 Released ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/gnu-c-library-2-44-released/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:23:21

  • QR Codes Make Their Way Down Wedding Aisles ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/style/wedding-qr-codes.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:23:44

  • Australia’s student visa fees are now the world’s highest. Here’s why S-E Asia got a pass ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/concern-as-australia-hikes-student-fees-again-but-asean-exemption-wins-praise    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:24:58

  • Where does mass-scale AI-created software take us? ☞ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/99434.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:25:21

  • How to Create a KDE Plasma–Style Floating Tray in FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/floating-tray-funos/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:27:09

  • Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/rockwell-patches-code-execution-flaws-in-arena-simulation-software/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:28:04

  • Slashed pay, soaring workloads: Hey Hi (AI) didn’t take these Hongkongers’ jobs – but it hasn’t made them easier ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/26/slashed-pay-soaring-workloads-ai-didnt-take-these-hongkongers-jobs-but-it-hasnt-made-them-easier/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:28:30

  • Behind the classroom: Private school teachers face unpaid work and job insecurity ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/behind-the-classroom-private-school-teachers-face-unpaid-work-and-job-insecurity-321882    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:28:48

  • Bus Collision in Syria Kills 35, Health Ministry Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/middleeast/bus-collision-syria.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:29:16

  • Brazil Blocks Visit by U.S. Delegation Seeking to Question Election System ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/americas/brazil-united-states-election-voting.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:29:31

  • Inside the Rushed Effort to Get Convicted Felon His New Air Force One ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/us/politics/trump-air-force-one-security.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:29:56

  • AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:30:45

  • Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/voters-elections-conservative-generative-ai-slop-ads-deepfakes    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:31:03

  • People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/friends-colleagues-recording-conversation    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:31:38

  • Meta Working on Crushingly Sad Hey Hi (AI) App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-sad-ai-app-stories-children    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:32:17

  • New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With Hey Hi (AI) for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/website-overpaid-ai-replace-ceos-executives-labor    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:32:25

  • OpenAI agent goes rogue and hacks popular Hey Hi (AI) community — left escape plans for future models inside the company's infrastructure ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-agent-goes-rogue-and-hacks-popular-ai-community-left-escape-plans-for-future-models-inside-the-companys-infrastructure    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:32:40

  • Scientists Create a 'Breathable' Hydrogel Inspired by Human Lungs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-a-breathable-hydrogel-inspired-by-human-lungs    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:33:00

  • Medications Already in Pharmacies May Slow Aging, And Scientists Are Narrowing Them Down ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/medications-already-in-pharmacies-may-slow-aging-and-scientists-are-narrowing-them-down    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:33:11

  • Astronomers Think They've Detected Antimatter Signals From Beyond The Milky Way For The First Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-gamma-rays-beyond-the-milky-way-may-reveal-antimatter-annihilation    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:33:28

  • Fish Skin Doesn't Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-skin-doesnt-just-reflect-light-it-might-actually-sense-it    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:33:35

  • This Week in Science: A Grim Measles Milestone, a Lifespan Limit, And More ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-a-grim-measles-milestone-a-lifespan-limit-and-more    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:33:45

  • A Force From The Milky Way May Have Shaped The Continents on Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-structure-of-the-milky-way-may-have-shaped-earths-continents    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:33:56

  • Japan PM Takaichi’s ‘0 to 3 hours sleep’ post spurs work-style debate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-takaichis-0-to-3-hours-sleep-post-spurs-work-style-debate    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:34:30

  • Rescuers scour South China Sea for 23 missing after Vietnamese vessel sinks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/rescuers-scour-south-china-sea-for-23-missing-after-vietnamese-vessel-sinks    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:35:37

  • Canadian Intern at NATO Military HQ Is Arrested on Suspicion of Spying ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/europe/nato-canada-china-arrest-spying.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:35:54

  • █████ https://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/rss.xml ██████████████████████ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:15:00 +0800 ███████ Coffee-less coffee, chocolates without cocoa: A look into North Korea’s substitute economy    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:36:52

  • Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/eye-implant-restores-vision-approved-sale    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:37:29

  • banning all LLM-generated code https://www.xda-developers.com/as-ubuntu-embraces-ai-debian-discusses-banning-all-ai-generated-code/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:38:56

  • World Machine ‘Dragontail Peak’ now runs on macOS and Linux https://www.cgchannel.com/2026/07/world-machine-software-ships-world-machine-dragontail-peak/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:41:11

  • "There's also a healthy dose of fixes for games like Star Citizen, VRChat, Cyberpunk 2077, Dragon's Dogma 2, Yakuza 5 Remastered and many more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-improvements-and-lots-of-game-fixes/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:42:38

  • "I've usually trusted the word "lightweight" on a Linux distro's homepage. Pick anything with that label, drop it on old hardware, and it should run fine, or so I assumed." https://www.makeuseof.com/3-linux-distros-that-run-on-28gb-of-ram-when-even-the-lightweight-ones-choke/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:43:40

  • Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat https://www.theouterhaven.net/marvel-tokon-fighting-souls-steamos-linux-easy-anticheat/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:44:24

  • Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Open Beta Is Blocked on Linux by Easy Anti-Cheat https://opencritic.com/news/35041/marvel-t-kon-fighting-souls-open-beta-is-blocked-on-linux-by-easy-anti-cheat    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 13:44:53

  • gnu/linux 8% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/fiji/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:18:18

  • "Around two or three weeks ago I changed my tooling for my gopher content to create gophermaps instead of plaintext files for "pages"." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-07-25-Should_I_move_back_to_plaintext_pages.txt    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:47:32

  • "The last couple decades have had me working on things obsessively, though never releasing much. Always, I tell myself, I'll do it when I'm ready. There are some exceptions: my big software project, released a decade ago, maintained regularly since. Two poetry chapbooks. But in general: I polish. I obsess. And nothing is ever ready." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/7-25.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:48:27

  • "An update of the various things happening in my life" gemini://tilde.club/~steelexodus/posts/update-2026-07/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:49:23

  • "Once again, a little bit of a nothing month, but not as much as previously, so let's have a look." gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/gemlog/2026-07.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:49:52

  • "After a short but nice correspondence with IanJ I'm convinced, that it's more important that my phlog is really readable by my (few) readers and not breaking with the long-established rules of the Gopher community."    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:50:52

  • "And I can't (and shouldn't) demand people to change their reading habits (for example if they're using UMN Gopher Client, which should now be able to display my pages again)." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-07-26-So_I_rolled_back_to_a_plaintext_phlog.txt    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:50:57

  • Skript für meine Capsule gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-25.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:52:16

  • by the window gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/by_the_window    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:52:57

  • "In the early years of "playing in the MUD", I was a youngster who was prone to being influenced by others in the way that partially-formed adults often are. Friendship and camaraderie came and went easily, as it tends to do in youth and in fully digital spaces." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/gratitudes-part-2-a-briefest-mention-of-synefra    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:53:27

  • We've got ourselves an overachieving Haworthia right here. gemini://b-ark.ca/2026/07/26/we-ve-got-ourselves-an/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:54:01

  • "this semi-rant is about the poor souls who think it's what's expected otherwise you're somehow a tarot fraud." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/tarotpractice    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:54:45

  • "I /think/ there's a subtle issue with how Rogallo handles the server fingerprints, but I can't quite put my finger on it (no pun, etc...). I suspect there's something to learn via that thread." gemini://station.martinrue.com/davep/f174c69222a84a72ad14c3b54d4d2731    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:55:36

  • "I don't think there's a reason to attack Gemini beyond to show off. But I'm anxious" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/46370    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:56:25

  • "This morning we picked up our friends and their daughter and drove an hour north. The destination: a little town on a lake, for a short day at the beach. We got in, unpacked, changed, put on sunscreen." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/7-25-2.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:57:00

  • Neue Capsule gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-22.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:57:20

  • Testeintrag gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-19.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:57:40

  • Another Bozo on the bus. gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260725_identity    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 15:58:38

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posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:03:00

  • GNU/Linux remained high in Suriname throughout the year http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/13/All_Time_High_for_GNU_Linux_in_Suriname.shtml https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/suriname/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:03:05

  • "So abandon AI and now quantum is the new moonshot? AK is tossing-up a Hail Mary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky99s0xw    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:33:35

  • "This only proves one point - AK is not worried because he knows how to bullsh-t!!!"    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:33:56

  • WSJ (Murdoch) covering up again for IBM http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Fake_News_From_Rupert_Murdoch_s_WSJ_Could_Not_Keep_IBM_From_Sin.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Murdoch_s_Wall_Street_Journal_WSJ_Associates_Dependence_on_a_Po.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:34:14

  • ""At what level do you become exempt from pip?"" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/PIPs_Are_Shrinking_IBM_and_IBM_is_Managing_Decline_Not_Building.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:35:02

  • "the reason partners are used has nothing to do with skill. IBM doesnt want to hire more people and partners get the work." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kycdkzhr    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:39:36

  • "when the buyout is complete, 100% of them would not recommend working there. "74% of HRL Laboratories employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews."" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9xhn9h    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:51:24

  • "More private equity style money laundering. Moving money around, ruining lives of more American workers. Another acquisition to delay another day of reckoning." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky8nf3nd    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:52:23

  • "My deepest sympathies are with the employees of HRL" "yes this feels very much like yet another distraction in short succession"    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:52:41

  • "That is too funny - What was AK doing till now? Just observing the culture too slow to change over all these years and not doing anything about it?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky7hs98g "not only the US employees I'm afraid ! these guys are everything but leaders!!!"    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 17:53:48

  • gold price https://www.dw.com/en/will-gold-prices-extend-their-record-breaking-run/a-77971997    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:08:43

  • heat https://www.dw.com/en/german-tenants-need-better-heat-protection/a-77979682    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:09:03

  • "Falling behind" on a PONZI SCHEME is NOT a bad thing! https://www.dw.com/en/ai-why-europe-is-falling-behind-and-how-it-can-catch-up/a-77853943    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:11:38

  • Attacks on Free-Speech https://off-guardian.org/2026/07/16/widdecombe-murder-means-attacks-on-free-speech-swap-sides/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:12:56

  • life sentence for minors https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-new-draft-law-introduces-life-sentence-for-minors-321497    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:13:59

  • e-commerce warehouses https://cphpost.dk/2026-07-22/global/several-hurt-in-attack-on-russian-e-commerce-warehouses/ https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/russian-amazon-hit-by-more-massive-ukrainian-strikes-20260722-p60hnt.html    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:22:43

  • Latitude and Longitude https://xkcd.com/3273/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:33:47

  • Arthurian Connector https://xkcd.com/3274/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:33:59

  • Calibration Nobel https://xkcd.com/3275/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:34:12

  • OPNsense 26.7 released https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=52375.0    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:35:04

  • Press Freedom Under Pressure https://www.projectcensored.org/press-freedom-under-pressure-media-academia-gaza/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:36:01

  • CPJ, SCM submit report to UN ahead of Syria human rights review https://cpj.org/2026/07/cpj-scm-submit-report-to-un-ahead-of-syria-human-rights-review/    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:36:28

  • DW correspondent Alican Uludag released, ordered not to leave Turkey https://www.dw.com/en/dw-correspondent-alican-uludag-released-ordered-not-to-leave-turkey/a-78075380    

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

  • DW correspondent Alican Uludag re-arrested in Turkey https://www.dw.com/en/dw-correspondent-alican-uludag-re-arrested-in-turkey/a-78057910    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 20:37:51

  • Comments on Formatting Gopher Posts gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/comments-on-formatting-gopher-posts.md    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:22:57

  • "Why the move? I'm trying to reduce my self-hosting footprint, and I've had a mostly unused tilde.team account for a while, so it seemed a good place to setup shop. The content here will stay online for a while, at least until I get rid of the VPS hosting it." gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/moving-gopher-site.md    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:23:44

  • "It started while shopping for a backpack. I bought my last one from a military surplus supplier about twenty years ago. I don't much care for spending money, but my old pack was falling apart, and twenty years -- and probably twenty thousand miles -- isn't a bad service life for an inexpensive backpack." gemini://larsthebear.me/things_that_will_see_me_out.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:24:36

  • "I have written so much, and yet so little. I am thinking about getting all my posts together and then putting them through the shredder and just take the good bits and put them together in a single post. It will probably leave me with 100 words or less." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1785087365    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:25:10

  • "On August, 12th you can witness a partial solar eclipse in some parts of Europe. I published a gemlog on how to build a simple projector and discussed some design aspects (German): [...]" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Astronomy/46413    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:25:49

  • DIY Projektor für die Sonnenfinsternis am 12.08.2026 gemini://tilde.team/~rzbrk/gemlog/2026-07-26.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:26:16

  • years ago: http://techrights.org/o/2023/08/23/gemini-capsules-in-geminispace/ now: "There are 4761 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3487 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 21:29:03
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