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It is not even "voluntary layoffs"; if you say no, you will be culled later. This is abuse. They work around laws to pretend layoffs are not layoffs. https://www.briefs.co/news/tech-s-softer-side-voluntary-programs-help-companies-downsiz/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:14:53

  • Metaphor for state of Microsoft https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-executive-explains-outage-vows-to-do-better    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:15:27

  • "Silent layoffs" https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/the-new-layoff-playbook-why-google-and-microsoft-are-betting-on-voluntary-exits/4304004/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:16:02

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1722.jpg    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:29:20

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2079.jpg    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:29:25

  • If your own spouse calls you a rapist, would it help to project and try to associate others with rape (who have nothing to do with it)? Are you you sober at that point?    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:32:50

  • "The nine-second video, posted Thursday on the White House account, used part of her song Firework as the soundtrack to a series of explosions" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/katy-perry-firework-white-house-tiktok-9.7285686 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:33:52

  • "Scammers are allegedly exploiting a flaw in Facebook's 'Edit Post' feature to backdate stolen videos and hijack copyright claims through Meta's Rights Manager." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-scammers-weaponized-metas-rights-manager-with-backdating-exploit/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:34:01

  • "With America and the EU on the same side of the tech fight, the world had a fighting chance." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/27/eucd-6/#and-the-wisdom-to-know-the-difference | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:34:23

  • "After Paramount agreed Friday to delay its proposed merger with Warner Bros." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-07-27/paramount-ceo-david-ellison-says-warner-merger-is-still-on-track | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:34:32

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:34:50

  • "The DOJ is trying to prosecute Sam Tunick for allegedly using a duress passcode. It's a lesson in why your best protection is having nothing to protect." ☛ https://werd.io/dont-bring-sensitive-data-to-a-border-crossing/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:36:03

  • "I’m thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-official-resigns-citing-war-on-immigrants/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:36:18

  • "A group of more than 1,100 Wikipedia editors have also signed a letter of support for the union." ☛ https://www.404media.co/wikimedia-waits-until-after-its-massive-conference-to-say-it-wont-voluntarily-recognize-union/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:36:36

  • "Regan, who has been elected to five consecutive terms as union president since 2011, has a record of launching ballot initiatives at the state and local level to use as leverage for union expansion and to thwart his political opponents." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-26/powerful-union-billionaire-tax-alleged-bargaining-chip | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:36:56

  • "At the same time, the government faced growing concern that the confrontation would dominate the monsoon session of parliament and hand the opposition a powerful political issue." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/how-indias-gen-z-protesters-shifted-the-political-debate/a-78130194 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:37:18

  • "To be sure, the event has always been tawdry and cringe-worthy, even under presidents much less brazenly criminal than Trump." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-whcd-speech-media-humiliation/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:37:43

  • "If found guilty, Rupa and Babu could face the death penalty because the tribunal does not have sentencing guidelines for specific offenses." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/07/bangladesh-charges-journalists-farzana-rupa-mozammel-babu-with-crimes-against-humanity/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:37:52

  • "He and his partner at the radio station, Rogério Wenceslau, also reported in their program that a high-ranking state government official had threatened them with arrest following the publication." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/07/brazilian-journalist-is-assaulted-threatened-after-alleged-public-funds-embezzlement-expose/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:38:16

  • "Those affected will be entered into a special register maintained by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/lawmakers-approve-bill-effectively-stripping-exiled-russians-of-key-citizenship-rights/454491 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:39:11

  • "In the other two cases—against the Central Library of Ukhta and the Usinsk Centralised Library System—the prosecutor’s office was also the initiating party." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/prosecutors-search-libraries-for-forbidden-books/454640 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 05:39:26

  • "CEO of Qwoted Dan Simon said fake AI-generated content is booming and weeding it out is complicated." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalist-response-platform-plays-whack-a-mole-against-ai-deluge-of-pr-content/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:09:42

  • "It was really just about providing tools to be more successful on the platform, and when they’re more successful on Reddit, we all win" ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/07/27/reddit-pro-for-publishers-dallas-morning-news-KQED/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:09:51

  • "Just before that, late on Thursday night, PM Modi posted a video on Instagram talking about reforms to check paper leaks." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/gen-z-turns-social-media-instagram-into-a-new-political-public-squares/articleshow/132666455.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:10:00

  • "I live in Michigan, where our Democratic Senate primary is a hot mess garnering national attention/meddling right now." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-07-27 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:18:18

  • "That is how deep their programming goes." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/walking-on-the-sun | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:18:29

  • "The other day, I ran into a Mastodon discussion about open source software and how blaming your userbase isn't a great strategy for growth." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/not-seeking-growth-is-a-perfectly-valid-strategy/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:18:39

  • "The impact-level stratification and the classified enclave architecture above them turned the federal cloud landscape into a marketplace of certified isolation." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/federal-government-cloud-modernization-nasa/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:18:50

  • "Musk smugly denied that his USAID cuts have caused the deaths of any children, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-all-time-meltdown | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:19:01

  • "It's impossible to take it all in. You want to preserve it, but you can't." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/trying-actually-be-here/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:28:28

  • "In other words, an astronaut with a mass of 100 kilograms would need the energy equivalent of 4 gigaton of TNT to approach the speed of light." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/how-to-propel-astronauts-to-the-speed-of-light-at-1g-8132853ac435 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:29:05

  • "Despite the accusations, there has been no proven quid pro quo or untoward dealings involving the Morouns and the Trump administration." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/the-gordie-howe-bridge-is-what-american-betrayal-looks-like/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:29:21

  • [Old] "Data Centers are large facilities containing computer servers used for data storage, data analytics, generative AI, and streaming services." ☛ https://www.environmentalhealthproject.org/post/the-dangers-of-data-centers |    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:29:43

  • "And they just kind of hate the idea of scientists, they hate the idea of objective research of any kind." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:33:38

  • "OpenAI is close to leasing a $500 billion data center in southern Ohio that could be among the largest of the artificial intelligence boom [sic], according to three people familiar with the project." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/openai-data-center-nvidia.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:33:51

  • "Climate.us has been built by former members of the team behind the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate.gov website, which was effectively shut down in 2025." ☛ https://www.climate.us/news-features/feed/climateus-named-ncse-friend-planet-2026 | Source: Climate.us    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:34:05

  • "For decades it was common knowledge in academia and government that supersize farms and livestock operations are the largest water polluters in Iowa, and almost every other state." ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/07/in-a-toxic-iowas-farm-pollution-problem/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:34:17

  • Another Decision https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/28/another-decision/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:36:38

  • "Someone kept yelling “pedophile protector” while Trump was extolling the benefits of his tariffs on foreign automakers." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/213581/trump-rally-protester-pedophile-protector | Source: New Republic    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:50:21

  • "Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, the president can take military action but must inform Congress" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/07/iran-war-trump-hiding-american-soldiers-death/688085/ | Source: The Atlantic    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:51:08

  • "The suspect was shot and killed by the police on Sunday." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/world/europe/berlin-pride-attack-suspect-isis.html | Source: New York Times    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:51:25

  • "We are closing schools and hospitals in this country so we can bomb schools and hospitals in other countries" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/you-sirs-are-the-duplicitous-murderous-failures | Source: Common Dreams    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:51:43

  • "why it’s a huge problem" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-wealth-inequality-spiraled-out | Source: Robert Reich    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:52:00

  • "Which raises a question: Why did the war continue for another seven years?" ☛ https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/the-vietnam-war-as-neurotic-failure | Source: Richard Beck    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:52:17

  • "Google briefly indexed an unknown number of publicly shared Claude conversations over the weekend, allowing anyone to find them through simple search queries." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/claude-google-search-chat-exposure | Source: Interesting Engineering    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:55:19

  • "Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats could be easily found via web search." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/private-claude-chats-exposed-in-google-and-bing-search-results/ | Source: Wired    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:55:40

  • "There is a video by Gamers Nexus making the rounds that makes me really angry." ☛ https://beko.famkos.net/2026/07/27/id-not-buy-a-lg-monitor/ | Source: Bernd “beko” Kosmahl    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:55:46

  • "These repositories have been around for two years. GitHub has billions of dollars, a security team, and artificial intelligence. Why haven’t they solved this problem in two years?" ☛ https://orchidfiles.com/github-security-team/ | Source: Orchid    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:56:13

  • "The Anubis ransomware group listed Coca-Cola and Fairlife on its leak website on July 20" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/coca-cola-confirms-data-breach-after-fairlife-ransomware-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:56:44

  • Social Control Media ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/07/27/facebook-home-row-keyboard-trick/ | Source: Tedium    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:57:32

  • "I thought about writing a complete commentary on the encyclical, but about midway through I figured that it might not actually be that good an idea" ☛ https://zanlib.dev/blog/a-voice-from-nowhere/ |    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:58:09

  • "Anthropic does not want open-weight AI models banned." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-wants-tests-not-bans-as-openai-and-google-back-open-weights/ | Source: The New Stack    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:58:21

  • "I am unhappy with the hysteria around some LLMs, but also with LMDE and Ubuntu. Rants follow." ☛ https://ludditus.com/2026/07/26/random-links/ | Source: Homo Ludditus    

POSTED tUESDAY, jULY 28, 2026 AT 06:58:35

  • "I recently added “Your LLM was trained on my blog” to the intro on my home page." ☛ https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/07/em-dashes-and-wordpress/ | Source: Kelson Vibber    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:59:45

  • "But I don't want to talk about how much OpenAI sucks. I want to talk about our fascination with dangerous things." ☛ https://taggart-tech.com/sharp-objects/ | Source: Michael Taggart    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 06:59:55

  • "The backlash to AI imagery is growing across a certain part of the culture." ☛ https://www.eater.com/trends/975087/restaurants-lean-into-bespoke-handmade-elements-during-ai-flyer-backlash |    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:00:06

  • "pinkwashing that has been going on for months, companies have invested in communication campaigns involving businesswomen, fashion and beauty influencers, well-known actresses" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-07-27/ai-gets-pinkwashed-as-female-users-are-targeted.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:00:26

  • "So I’m going to take a break, well all aside from the phone which I need to actually get around and pay for things ( I lost my bank cards!)." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/its-ok-to-take-a-break-when-youre-overwhelmed | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:01:38

  • "The US is currently experiencing its largest ever recorded outbreak of cyclosporiasis. The Trump administration’s attacks on farmworkers and federal workers are largely to blame." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/07/cyclospora-lettuce-outbreak-doge-farmworkers | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:04:20

  • "The findings suggest that current pesticide testing and regulation are not fully capturing how pesticides may harm people." ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/07/pesticides-glyphosate-dna-damage-cancer/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:04:40

  • "Research last year found that, by 2030, DOGE [sic] cuts could kill 14 million, including 4.5 million children under 5." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/musk-says-he-got-carried-away-with-doge-cuts-which-are-set-to-kill-millions/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:04:57

  • "Excuses aside, this one is denser than usual, and I think it matters." ☛ https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/a-semi-theory-of-almost-everything | Source: Michael Green    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:05:46

  • "Electromagnetic Field is a non-profit camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, artists, geeks, crafters, scientists, and engineers" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/c/emf2026 | Source: CCC    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:06:32

  • "Although the robot is a gimmick, this does raise important issues about handing potions of the school day over to AI." ☛ https://criticaledtech.com/2026/07/27/robots-in-the-classroom-again/ | Source: Neil Selwyn    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:06:37

  • "School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-kids-cellphones-poorer-comprehension-scores.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:06:42

  • on the verge gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/on_the_verge    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:07:57

  • "GIMP has a built-in lisp scripting language, called Script-Fu, which is built on TinyScheme. This is meant for creating your own plugins but, in lisp style, you also get an interactive interpreter, available through the Script-Fu console." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260727-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:08:28

  • "I spent a large chunk of time this weekend reading about SMTP and the evolution of modern e-mail. E-mail has very much been a "black box" technology to me: I use it all the time, often several times a day, but I never really had a solid understanding of how it works." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202607/20260727-smtp-versus-gemini.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:09:18

  • Proposal for better TOFU gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/proposal_for_better_tofu.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:09:56

  • "The Long Game means leaving short bursts of dopamine behind" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/07/i-guess-im-playing-the-long-game-now/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:11:40

  • "John Backus explored a sequence of applicative, functional and function-level languages starting before 1969 and continuing until he retired in 1991." ☛ https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/FP/ | Source: Computer History Museum    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:12:25

  • "An off-line backup of your cryptographic key using playing cards." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/27/hiding-data-in-permutations/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:13:07

  • "I wanted to say more about this, and look at implementing the same code in SymPy." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/27/counting-permutations-with-roots/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:25:03

  • "It’s well known that you can convert the base 16 (hex) representation of an integer to the base 2 (binary) representation by simply converting each digit from hex to binary." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/27/float-binary/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:25:17

  • "The observations also showed that filaments—formed from condensed gas—flow directly into the edge of the disk." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/its-becoming-clear-why-black-holes-never-run-out-of-fuel/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:25:42

  • "Together, these records reveal a dominant periodicity of approximately 27.5 million years, alongside a weaker cycle of around 8.9 million years." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-biggest-disasters-strike-in-a-hidden-pattern-every-27-million-years | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:25:53

  • "A spacetime crystal is one where the structure repeats not only in space but also in time. The oscillations of the atoms form a repeating, stable rhythm that cycles over and over." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-built-a-spacetime-crystal-and-then-watched-it-melt | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:26:01

  • Anon: also down here, due to the geography the sun shines until the same time during the summer down here. now it will be dark at night until next year https://yle.fi/a/74-20238257    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:00:18

  • "This post is going to be very rambly. TOFU has been a major point of discussion since I started my journey in the Geminispace." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/07-27-it-seems-i-restarted-the-tofu-war-again-and-my-throughts-on-it.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:01:01

  • "When you use a unittest.mock mock, you often make assertions on the calls it received, such as through the mock_calls list." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/07/27/python-mock-attach-mock/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:01:24

  • Rianne's barrister against GAFAM https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/graham-norton-wins-us-court-case-meta-deepfake-facebook-posts-b1286619.html https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/graham-norton-meta-facebook-b2998367.html https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/06/18/graham-norton-secures-court-order-compelling-facebook-to-disclose-those-behind-deeply-distressing-account/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:05:08

  • "Four hundred twelve new packages were submitted to CRAN in June." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/june-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:06:13

  • "I’m having more fun than ever before." ☛ https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-must-be-fun-or-it-will-die/ | Source: Mike McQuaid    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:06:46

  • "Sixteen years ago, during a functional programming course, I wrote a small OCaml program that draws fractals with iterated function systems (IFS)" ☛ https://www.cedricbonhomme.org/2026/07/27/challenging-claude-with-ifs-fractals/ | Source: Cédric Bonhomme    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:06:53

  • "In a previous post, I documented how I hit simple performance bottlenecks that made me believe that the code-model is largely theoretical in practice." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/26/seriously-what-is-the-large-code-model-even-for | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:08:42

  • "A practical, opinionated guide to designing backend APIs." ☛ https://lorbic.com/api-design-for-backend-systems/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:08:50

  • "The vulnerabilities included an unchecked nesting-stack write in Oj::Parser.usual.parse and an unsafe 16-bit key-length narrowing issue that leaked a heap pointer." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/gitlab-vulnerability-oj-parser-rce/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:09:04

  • "I contacted my old horrible managers new employer and told them exactly who they hired. Everyone else should too. Hold them accountable" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9qar1x    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:13:05

  • "If you’ve used Valkey for very long you’re probably aware of the different primary data types in the core: strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, and streams." ☛ https://valkey.io/blog/secret-life-of-data/ |    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:26:59

  • "The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes over components of an HTTP message." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/27/http-message-signatures-with-curl/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:27:20

  • Youth crime: new Saints could be magic formula https://danielpocock.com/en/youth-crime-new-saints-could-be-magic-formula/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:29:02

  • [Old] "it was an error. I ended up writing a thing I like, now I have to maintain it!" ☛ https://www.omarpolo.com/post/amused.html | Source: Omar Polo    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:45:07

  • "Suppose, not entirely hypothetically, that you think you've found a bug in a package and that you have a complicated Emacs environment." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsMinimalEnvForPackage | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:45:16

  • "Recently, we’ve seen mobile brands hiking the pricing of their mobile offerings after being impacted by the memory crunch from the AI boom [sic]" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/dear-google-i-dont-need-16gb-ram-on-my-pixel-11/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:45:54

  • "Luckily, thanks to an bug in Intel Management Engine, we can flash Libreboot instead of the stock firmware. This removes the whitelist for wireless cards and lets us choose our own modem. [...]" ☛ https://grego.site/blog/thinkphone |    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:46:06

  • "This design is far and away better than its existing chassis, but launching a laptop based on repairability when parts for it are extremely expensive puts the Laptop 13 Pro out of reach for many." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/framework-laptop-13-pro-review | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:46:35

  • "After using a Logitech M570 trackball for a while I switched to their MX Ergo model while the pandemic was going on." ☛ https://www.xythobuz.de/2026_07_27_mx_ergo_switch.html | Source: Thomas Buck    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:46:43

  • "It worked fine for years. But TrueNAS Core's future isn't exactly bright. iXsystems keeps pushing everyone toward TrueNAS SCALE, which is Debian-based. Linux." ☛ https://aumont.fr/posts/TrueNAS-to-FreeBSD/ | Source: Mathieu Aumont    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:47:08

  • "This website is being served to you from my HP T630 thin client, running OpenBSD and httpd1. Pretty cool, right? And best of all you can do the same!" ☛ https://btxx.org/posts/self-hosted-openbsd/ | Source: Brad Taunt    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:47:33

  • "The output of tcplife, short for TCP lifespan, shows not just the duration (MS == milliseconds) but also throughput statistics: TX_KB for Kbytes transmitted, and RX_KB for Kbytes received." ☛ https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-11-30/linux-bcc-tcplife.html | Source: Brendan Gregg    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:47:41

  • "In the post I linked above, I had demonstrated how to inject fake hops into traceroute output." ☛ https://jssfr.de/2026-07-27-bad-apple-but-traceroute.html | Source: Jonas Schäfer    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:48:32

  • "The Canadian government’s surprise decision to sign the UN Cybercrime Convention has sparked many questions about the convention, its risks" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/episode-277-kate-robertson-on-the-risks-that-lie-behind-canadas-unexpected-signing-of-the-un-cybercrime-convention/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 08:48:59

  • NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cloudflare, The Linux Foundation and more launch the "Open Secure AI Alliance" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/nvidia-red-hat-cloudflare-the-linux-foundation-and-more-launch-the-open-secure-ai-alliance/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:34:26

  • Peddling scams by openwashing while piggybacking the brand Linux for credibility    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:34:57

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope DLC releases in August along with a big free upgrade | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/stalker-2-cost-of-hope-dlc-releases-in-august-big-free-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/stalker-2-cost-of-hope-dlc-releases-in-august-big-free-update/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:35:24

  • Skate 3 Recomp 2.0 brings native rendering to the PC port of the Xbox classic Skate 3 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/skate-3-recomp-2-0-brings-native-rendering-to-the-pc-port-of-the-xbox-classic-skate-3/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:35:46

  • Crack open planets in the idle incremental game Swarmslam | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/crack-open-planets-in-the-idle-incremental-game-swarmslam/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:36:13

  • "When Your Vehicle Outlives its Cloud: What Happens Next? - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/26/1934211    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:37:36

  • "'Mentally Ill': Trump Has Untreated 'Severe Mental Illness,' Rosie O'Donnell Claims | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rosie-odonnell-trump-untreated-mental-illness-feud-1810936    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:37:55

  • Is it time to scrap the hate speech legislation? | "Är det dags att skrota hetslagstiftningen?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/27/ar-det-dags-att-skrota-hetslagstiftningen/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:38:21

  • EmuDeck announce they are now ready for the Steam Machine | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/emudeck-announce-they-are-now-ready-for-the-steam-machine/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:39:19

  • Qualcomm announce a big price rise - bad news for Valve's Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/qualcomm-announce-a-big-price-rise-bad-news-for-valves-steam-frame/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/qualcomm-announce-a-big-price-rise-bad-news-for-valves-steam-frame/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:39:50

  • The awesome crime noir FPS 'Fallen Aces' has episode 2 out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/the-awesome-crime-noir-fps-fallen-aces-has-episode-2-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:40:03

  • "open-source firmware." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/pinevoice-brings-local-voice-control-to-home-assistant/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:56:33

  • Slop boosting: "One agent might skip running tests, another might make changes you didn’t ask for, and it can be difficult to track who approved what." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/safe-agentic-workflow-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:57:23

  • More slop propaganda from IBM Red Hat. They abandoned Linux to participate in a pyramid scheme. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-future-core-concepts-red-hats-agentic-software-development-life-cycle | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:58:41

  • 100% slop in Red Hat's blog this day ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-leading-companies-are-turning-ai-vision-business-value | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:59:02

  • Misusing terms like "Linux" and "open" to give more oxygen to a pyramid scheme already several trillions of dollars in deficits ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strengthening-open-source-defense-layer-red-hat-joins-nvidias-open-secure-ai-alliance | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 12:59:52

  • "The foundation is already here: AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX have made it possible to run confidential virtual machines (VMs) with stronger protection for data in use." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-virtualization-hwe-stack-confidential-computing | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:02:38

  • This is not security, it is surveillance and back doors falsely marketed and erroneously sold as "Confidentiality"    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:16:54

  • Again clear misuse of "Linux" brand to sell pyramid scheme (fraud) https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/27/tech-industry-leaders-join-form-open-secure-ai-alliance-promote-safety-security/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:22:09

  • Jetway SMC-ARK1 – A Rockchip RK3588 SMARC 2.1 compliant system-on-module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/27/jetway-smc-ark1-a-rockchip-rk3588-smarc-2-1-compliant-system-on-module/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:22:44

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says He Will Ask Putin If Russia Supplied Satellite Images To Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-live-blog-trump-middle-east/33803414.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:22:59

  • Journalist response platform plays ‘whack-a-mole’ against Hey Hi (AI) deluge of PR content ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalist-response-platform-plays-whack-a-mole-against-ai-deluge-of-pr-content/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:29:07

  • Pluralistic: How the EU can punish Surveillance Giant Google (despite Convicted Felon) (27 Jul 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/27/eucd-6/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:29:41

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Blames Affordability Problems on Biden in Michigan Speech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/us/politics/trump-michigan-speech-tariffs.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:50:51

  • Explosion, second suspected bomb found in Philippine capital before Marcos speech ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/explosion-suspected-bomb-in-philippine-capital-before-marcos-speech    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:51:07

  • Jonathan Carter: DebConf26 – Santa Fe, Argentina ☞ https://jonathancarter.org/2026/07/27/debconf26-santa-fe-argentina/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:51:36

  • Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-07-24) ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/07/27/tiny-wins//    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:52:43

  • Firefox Nightly: Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/07/27/new-firefox-design/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:53:23

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.15.4 Released ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-15-4-released/149050    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:53:35

  • Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #538 - New: 10" Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and ‘AI Projects with Raspberry Pi’ ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/PxEevVjwz763LX46AM1KuqkQ    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:54:07

  • Disgruntled gamer builds booby-trapped Steam Deck with 3D-printed spikes and a built-in taser — Raspberry Pi powers speaker, camera, and alarm to stop family members draining his battery ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/disgruntled-gamer-builds-booby-trapped-steam-deck-with-3d-printed-spikes-and-a-built-in-taser-raspberry-pi-powers-speaker-camera-and-alarm-to-stop-family-members-draining-his-battery    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:54:39

  • Should We Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/science/daylight-saving-time-health-safety.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:56:59

  • "The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health." https://kevquirk.com/2026-07-27-1754    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:58:00

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posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:58:55

  • South Korea court gives ex-President Yoon suspended jail term for violating election law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-court-gives-ex-president-yoon-suspended-jail-term-for-violating-election-law    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:59:10

  • North Korea’s Kim Jong Un marks war anniversary with daughter by his side ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-marks-war-anniversary-with-daughter-by-his-side    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:59:36

  • Malaysia detains over 100 Rohingya refugees seeking shelter at UNHCR ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/malaysia-pm-orders-action-against-rohingya-muslims-gathered-in-front-of-un-refugee-agency    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 13:59:50

  • What is CXMT, and how did it become China’s DRAM champion? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/what-is-cxmt-and-how-did-it-become-chinas-dram-champion    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:00:40

  • libc @ Savannah: The GNU C Library version 2.44 is now available ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10919    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:01:43

  • Making KIO copy many files fast ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/28/making-kio-copy-many-files-fast/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:02:37

  • ThingPulse Icon256 is a WLED-based word clock with 256 RGB LEDs ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/thingpulse-icon256-is-a-wled-based-word-clock-with-256-rgb-leds/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:03:38

  • EDATEC ED-IPC1200 and ED-IPC1220 add DIN-rail I/O around Raspberry Pi CM0 ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/edatec-ed-ipc1200-and-ed-ipc1220-add-din-rail-i-o-around-raspberry-pi-cm0/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:03:48

  • Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2026 (by Thorsten Alteholz) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-06/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:05:04

  • Best Open Source Tools to Build a Production-Ready Document Processing Pipeline on GNU/Linux ☞ https://ostechnix.com/linux-document-processing-pipeline/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:05:35

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085554/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:05:54

  • "While other candidates in the Clacton-on-sea by-election rush to create manifestos, my ideas on various topics are already well documented in previous posts on my blog. I'm ready to begin the process of implementing them immediately if the people of Clacton-on-sea want me to do so." https://danielpocock.com/en/uk-eu-australia-sovereignty-needs-independent-app-stores/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:08:20

  • update-alternatives Command on Ubuntu and Debian ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/update-alternatives-command/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:13:49

  • Google Chrome is now available for Arm64 GNU/Linux distros ☞ https://betanews.com/article/google-chrome-is-now-available-for-arm64-linux-distros/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:14:29

  • Roxette Has Racked Up Billions of Streams, But Hitting the Road Has Proven Difficult ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/26/roxette-north-american-tour-canceled/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:15:27

  • Felipe Borges: GUADEC 2026 Trip Report ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/guadec-2026-trip-report/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:16:05

  • YouTube video icon-free desktop ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202607/youtube-video-icon-free-desktop.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:17:13

  • China begins mass production of homegrown immersion chipmaking machines in major breakthrough, report claims — first DUV lithography units will be delivered this year to SMIC, Hua Hong, and CXMT ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-begins-mass-production-of-domestic-immersion-duv-lithography-machines    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:41:02

  • China supports Brazil in opposing ‘interference’: Pooh-tin to Lula ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/27/china-supports-brazil-in-opposing-interference-xi-to-lula/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:42:09

  • Chinese memory maker CXMT jumps 460%+ in first day of trading ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/27/chinese-memory-maker-cxmt-jumps-460-first-day-trading/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:42:30

  • FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/firedragon-v13-release/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:42:45

  • A Son of Wealth Finds His Calling in a High-End Grocery Store ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/style/meadow-lane-sammy-nussdorf.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:44:23

  • 'Forever Chemicals': Scientists Find a Genius (And Cheaper) Way to Remove PFAS From Soil ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-genius-way-to-remove-forever-chemicals-from-soil    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:45:33

  • Mathematicians Reveal Why Humans Keep Becoming Cannibals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematics-reveals-why-human-cannibalism-keeps-reappearing    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:46:44

  • Giant Concentric Rings Discovered in The Atmosphere of Venus ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-concentric-rings-discovered-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:46:56

  • Test Your Eyes: What Is This Week's Microscope Mystery? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/test-your-eyes-what-is-this-weeks-microscope-mystery    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:48:14

  • Where You Carry Your Body Fat Is Directly Linked to Brain Aging in First-of-Its-Kind Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/where-you-carry-your-body-fat-is-directly-linked-to-brain-aging-in-first-of-its-kind-study    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:48:23

  • There's a Scientific Reason Regular Cannabis Users Wake Up More Stressed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-cannabis-habit-may-be-quietly-raising-your-stress-levels-every-morning    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:48:32

  • The Iran War Is Making Asia’s Street Food More Expensive ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/world/asia/iran-war-price-inflation-street-food-asia.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 14:48:59

  • How youth in South-east Asia get hooked on illegal online gambling ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/how-youth-in-south-east-asia-get-hooked-on-illegal-online-gambling    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:18:46

  • Lithuanian politicians divided over new probe into alleged CIA black site ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3003163/lithuanian-politicians-divided-over-new-probe-into-alleged-cia-black-site    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:19:26

  • A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-chats-publicly-accessible    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:38:30

  • High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/high-school-teacher-arrested-clapping-data-center-activist    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:38:57

  • This Teen Took on a $10 Trillion Industry. We Might All Be Healthier Because of Him. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/opinion/ultraprocessed-food-lawsuit.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:40:51

  • Japan mulls over GPS tracking of stalkers to prevent further harm ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-mulls-over-gps-tracking-of-stalkers-to-prevent-further-harm    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:41:16

  • American Federation of Musicians Fires Off Amended Hey Hi (AI) Licensing Lawsuit Against Universal Music and Warner Music; Majors Just Want This Thing to Go Away ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/27/afm-warner-music-amended-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:41:53

  • Legacy technology is a national security threat hiding in plain sight ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/legacy-technology-is-a-national-security-threat-hiding-in-plain-sight/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:45:13

  • Lithuania’s new government promises to be tough on migration – but are concerns justified? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2998314/lithuania-s-new-government-promises-to-be-tough-on-migration-but-are-concerns-justified    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:45:29

  • Amnesty International condemns India’s invocation of police powers under National Security Act ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/amnesty-international-condemns-indias-invocation-of-police-powers-under-national-security-act/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:45:51

  • Haiti schedules December presidential election despite security concerns ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260727-haiti-sets-december-presidential-election-despite-security-concerns    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:46:01

  • Coca-Cola Confirms Data Breach After Fairlife Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/coca-cola-confirms-data-breach-after-fairlife-ransomware-attack/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:51:48

  • PTC Windchill Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Campaign ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ptc-windchill-vulnerability-exploited-in-ransomware-campaign/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:52:26

  • For Some, So-Called ‘Skynet Day’ Came too Close to Sci-Fi After a Rogue Agent Hacked Into a Startup ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/for-some-so-called-skynet-day-came-too-close-to-sci-fi-after-a-rogue-agent-hacked-into-a-startup/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:52:42

  • Pironman 5 Pro Max Review: SunFounder's Most Capable Pi 5 Case Doubles as an Hey Hi (AI) Desktop ☞ https://itsfoss.com/pironman-5-pro-max-review/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:53:39

  • One Common Sweetener May Increase Stroke Risk by Damaging The Brain's Protective Barrier ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-common-sweetener-may-increase-stroke-risk-by-damaging-the-brains-protective-barrier    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:53:53

  • 31 Colleges Recently Became ‘Black-Serving Institutions.’ What Does That Mean? ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/31-colleges-recently-became-black-serving-institutions-what-does-that-mean    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:55:05

  • Slackware Forge is being abused by Chinese computer infrastructure ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/slackware-forge-is-being-abused-by-chinese-computer-infrastructure/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:55:44

  • Google’s solution to hacker name confusion? Yet another naming system ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/google-threat-actor-naming-system/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:56:16

  • Hacked Public Wi-Fi Gateways Used to Harvest Corporate Credentials ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hacked-public-wi-fi-gateways-used-to-harvest-corporate-credentials/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:56:46

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: #057: Conditionally Quieten Compilers ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/27#057_conditionally_quieten_compilers    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:57:35

  • Rakudo Weekly 2026.28/29/30 Thank you! ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/07/27/2026-28-29-30-thank-you/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:58:45

  • Open RC Spotter is an open-source ESP32 telemetry and data logger for RC cars and toys ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/27/open-rc-spotter-is-an-open-source-esp32-telemetry-and-data-logger-for-rc-cars-and-toys/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 15:59:44

  • _SO_ much news has been rendered skippable, for one thing "hey hi" in headline typically misnomer, hence indicative of ignorant author or paid spam    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:01:10

  • iophk: slop and many blogs too, "I asked Claude and ..."    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:01:53

  • The upside is, there is a growing vacuum and provided there is still thirst for BS debunking(s) there is room for new voices    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:02:43

  • Javad Rahmatzadeh: An Open Letter to Hey Hi (AI) for Generating GNOME Shell Extensions ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2026/07/27/ego-ai-reference/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:03:15

  • Java Spring Boot "heapdump" scans, (Mon, Jul 27th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33188    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:03:43

  • iophk: mostly they are ignorant or engaged in overly wishful thinking, seeing usefulness in the output of an LLM is not that far off from pareidolia or maybe even an actual hallucination in the user/victim of the LLM UI    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:05:27

  • chatbots by design are made to affirm what their "master" and "user" both want to say and hear. That is also a huge danger.    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:05:35

  • iophk: However, there are very influential, monied interests pushing the narrative that 1) LLMs are useful and 2) will improve with more money+electricity+cpu. Whether they actually believe that or not is mostly irrelevant.    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:06:06

  • LILYGO T-Display C5 board features 1.9-inch IPS color LCD, battery support, Qwiic expansion connectors ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/28/lilygo-t-display-c5-board-features-1-9-inch-ips-color-lcd-battery-support-qwiic-expansion-connectors/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:06:46

  • Secure by default: How ‘HSTS-Enforced’ could finally close the web’s oldest backdoor ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/27/secure-by-default-how-hsts-enforced-could-finally-close-the-webs-oldest-backdoor/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:07:12

  • Hooray for the sockets interface ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/hooray-for-the-sockets-interface/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:07:25

  • How we designed customizable dashboards in OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/27/how-we-designed-customizable-dashboards-openshift    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:07:56

  • Tomorrow’s Judgment https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/28/tomorrow-judgment/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:13:18

  • Background: https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:14:04

  • "Mythos" hardly mentioned anymore because 1) it is hype. 2) marketing budget (PR in media) exhausted?    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:15:39

  • Modi faces challenge from activists over surveillance at India youth protest ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/modi-faces-challenge-from-activists-over-surveillance-at-india-youth-protest    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:17:06

  • Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/cognyte-sells-a-mobile-cell-surveillance-van.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:17:22

  • Wilus Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/27/wilus-wi-fi-patent-challenged    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:18:33

  • UK Supreme Court hands Tesla landmark win in Avanci 5G pool licence dispute ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/uk-supreme-court-hands-tesla-landmark-win-in-avanci-5g-pool-licence-dispute/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:18:43

  • $2,000 for Rothschild entity Electronic Edison Qi-related wireless charging patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/27/2000-for-rothschild-entity-electronic-edison-qi-related-wireless-charging-patent-prior-art    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:18:56

  • Two Pages of Testimony: JMOL of Anticipation in Board of Regents v. Boston Scientific ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/two-pages-of-testimony-jmol-of-anticipation-in-board-of-regents-v-boston-scientific.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:19:43

  • FRAND at the Pool Level ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/frand-at-the-pool-level.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:19:54

  • AI developer runs 28.9-million-parameter model on $10 ESP32-S3 microcontroller — uses Google's Per-Layer Embeddings technique, stores table on 16MB Flash memory ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-developer-runs-28-9-million-parameter-model-on-usd10-esp32-s3-microcontroller-uses-googles-per-layer-embeddings-technique-stores-table-on-16mb-flash-memory    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:20:06

  • Windows TCO: "covert remote access to compromised backdoored Windows systems" ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/medusahvnc-malware-uses-hidden-windows-desktops-to-evade-detection/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:20:54

  • Tobias Mueller: Installing a “full” disk encrypted Ubuntu 26.04 Hetzner server ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/muelli/2026/07/9715/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:21:37

  • Being Pro-Slop is Death Knell to One's Credibility ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/26/Being_Pro_Slop_is_Death_Knell_to_One_s_Credibility.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:21:46

  • Orange Pi 5B SBC gets Ubuntu Desktop and Audio Production OS images with Bluetooth/Wi-Fi fix missed for 8 years ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/27/orange-pi-5b-sbc-gets-ubuntu-desktop-and-audio-production-os-images-with-bluetooth-wi-fi-fix-missed-for-8-years/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:22:04

  • AusAlert fired off yesterday ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/ausalert-fired-off-yesterday/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:22:48

  • My GSoC Journey: Hacking on KDE's Network Manager ☞ https://tushar2005.bearblog.dev/my-gsoc-journey-hacking-on-kdes-network-manager/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:23:25

  • GNU Binutils 2.47 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085566/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:24:21

  • Ariana Grande Files Lawsuit Against Shadowy Hacker Group Targeting the Singer ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/27/ariana-grande-lawsuit-hacker-group/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:25:07

  • D4vd’s Fashion Company Apple Music Account Hacked With a Darkly-Reworked Track ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/27/d4vd-apple-music-hack-murder-song-posted/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:26:39

  • Nvidia or Nonvidia? Company bubble inflated a bit too much? Now deflated? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/apple-valuation.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:27:13

  • Nonvidia: WE PAY "open" "hey hi" to pay us (back) to make a white elephant DC and fake business transactions    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:27:54

  • Charli XCX Releases a Bunch of Album B-Sides—”On iTunes” ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/27/charli-xcx-album-b-side-releases/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:29:01

  • Mission Center 1.2.0 Released with Battery Monitoring ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/mission-center-1-2-0-released-with-battery-monitoring/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:30:28

  • The FFmpeg GUI Frame 0.32.0 Released with UI Scaling Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/the-ffmpeg-gui-frame-0-32-0-released-with-ui-scaling-support/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:31:03

  • Mission Center adds battery, partition and power draw info ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/mission-center-battery-power-draw-reporting    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:31:32

  • Emmabuntüs DE6-1.02 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/emmabuntus    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:31:47

  • Abora 4.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/abora    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:31:55

  • ArchEZ 2026.07.27 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/archez    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:32:04

  • Ubuntu 26.10 to Include Ubuntu Certified Hardware Check ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Ubuntu-26.10-to-Include-Ubuntu-Certified-Hardware-Check    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:32:44

  • Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Yet-Another-Linux-Kernel-Vulnerability-Discovered    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:33:27

  • Linux 7.2-rc5 lands with patches for HP EliteBook 830 G8 and Alienware x16 R2 ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-72-rc5-lands-with-patches-for-hp-elitebook-830-g8-and-alienware-x16-r2/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:34:05

  • New research reveals Hey Hi (AI) answers only as trusted as the newsbrands they cite ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/new-research-reveals-ai-answers-only-as-trusted-as-the-newsbrands-they-cite/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:35:03

  • Standardize project context with AGENTS.md and Agent Skills ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/27/standardize-project-context-agentsmd-and-agent-skills    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:35:31

  • How to dull the lure of sports gambling ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0727/How-to-dull-the-lure-of-sports-gambling    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:36:42

  • How to Install Incus on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-incus-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:38:02

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

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:38:09

  • Adam Young: Teaching Python using a Caesar Cipher ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2026/07/teaching-python-using-a-ceasar-cipher/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:38:36

  • Lithuanian border guards find tunnel from Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3003336/lithuanian-border-guards-find-tunnel-from-belarus    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:39:06

  • Intellect, inquiry, and inspiration: Kyle Wilson, 1950–2026 ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/intellect-inquiry-and-inspiration-kyle-wilson-1950-2026/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:39:36

  • Ukrainian Attacks in Crimea Deprive Towns of Power and Water ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/world/europe/ukraine-drones-crimea-blackouts.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:39:49

  • Zelensky and Convicted Felon Will Meet at the White House. Has Their Relationship Thawed? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/world/europe/zelensky-trump-meeting-ukraine-war-russia.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:39:59

  • Zelenskyy Becomes First Foreign Visitor For New British PM Burnham ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-ukraine-burnham-britain-russia-trump/33813436.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:40:07

  •    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:40:16

  • DESERT 5.5.1_26.04 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/desert    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:40:20

  • Lithuania considers more national sanctions on Russian, Belarusian citizens ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3003064/lithuania-considers-more-national-sanctions-on-russian-belarusian-citizens    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:40:30

  • US walks out of UN Security Council meeting as France condemns rights vote ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260727-us-walks-out-of-un-security-council-meeting-as-france-condemns-rights-vote    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:40:46

  • GNOME Internationalization & Localization: Back from GUADEC 2026: an opportunity for internationalization! ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/i18n/2026/07/27/back-from-guadec-2026-an-opportunity-for-internationalization/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:41:24

  • Nima Done Right https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/28/nima-done-right/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:47:49

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 396 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-396/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:48:35

  • This Week in Linux 353: Codeberg Bans AI, 432 GNU/Linux CVEs, Valve wants Arch on ARM, Jellyfin Leaders Left & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-353/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:49:28

  • LibreOffice 26.2.5 Demotes Skia Rendering for Mac and backdoored Windows ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/07/libreoffice-26-2-4-demotes-skia-rendering-for-mac-and-windows/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:49:49

  • SpaceX Stock Hammered After Starship Booster Fails in First Launch Since IPO ☞ https://futurism.com/space/spacex-stock-hammered-starship-booster-failure    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:50:11

  • Surveillance pretexts and slop hype ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ai-cameras-spot-suicide-attempts-in-south-koreas-capital    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:50:56

  • "Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today a HWE (Hardware Enablement) stack for virtualization shipping shortly with the next point release of the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) operating system series." https://9to5linux.com/canonical-introduces-virtualization-hwe-stack-for-ubuntu-26-04-lts    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:53:05

  • "But Ubuntu 24.04-2.0 Beta is a fairly big update that brings a number of major improvements including better support for a common feature on modern smartphones, and better support for recent websites and web apps." https://liliputing.com/ubuntu-touch-update-brings-better-support-for-modern-smartphones-web-apps/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:53:24

  • "When you’re busy gaming, creating a presentation, or compiling your codebase, it’s easy to forget about the kernel that’s at the heart of everything your computer does. You might not even think it gets updated all that often, and you probably don’t pay much attention to it when it does." https://www.howtogeek.com/your-linux-kernel-updates-itself-more-than-you-think-heres-whats-changed-in-2026/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:53:52

  • "Not a main PC replacement, but perfect for travel, writing, or a headless server—Linux no longer scary." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-lightweight-linux-distro-brought-my-old-laptop-back-to-life/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:54:27

  • "Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.1.7 today as a new stable update in the fwupd 2.1 series of this open-source project for updating and managing the firmware of various hardware on your Linux distribution." https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-7-linux-firmware-updater-released-with-new-features-and-improvements    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:54:44

  • "Mozilla updated the Firefox Nightly builds today to the new design it teased earlier a couple of months ago, so we’re taking a closer look at Firefox’s brand-new look out of curiosity." https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-firefoxs-brand-new-design-in-firefox-nightly    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:55:01

  • Desperado is once again promoting Microsoft Pluton! https://techrights.org/o/2022/01/09/ppp-traitors/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:55:23

  • "The 302nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending July 26th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world. If you missed last week’s 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup, catch up with everything GNU/Linux/Open Source here." https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-july-26th-2026    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:55:47

  • DRM https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/chrome-arm64-linux-available    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:58:59

  • Chrome arm64 Linux builds now downloadable, but Google hasn't officially announced them yet https://www.neowin.net/news/chrome-arm64-linux-builds-now-downloadable-but-google-hasnt-officially-announced-them-yet/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 16:59:40

  • FreeBSD Builds BSD-Native NTSYNC Driver, Launches AMD ROCm Compute Port ⚓ https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321677/20260727/freebsd-builds-bsd-native-ntsync-driver-launches-amd-rocm-compute-port.htm ䷉ Source: Tech Times    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:00:59

  • Ready-to-use Proton LinUwUx builds for Linux with Denuvo hypervisor bypass are now available. ⚓ https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/poyavilis-gotovye-sborki-proton-linuwux-dlya-linux-s-obkhodom-gipervizora-denuvo | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/poyavilis-gotovye-sborki-proton-linuwux-dlya-linux-s-obkhodom-gipervizora-denuvo    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:02:45

  • He did NOT say THIS https://www.businessinsider.com/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-ai-holdouts-fork-off-2026-7 see https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Slop_s_Latest_Casualty_The_Credibility_of_Linus_Torvalds.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:03:36

  • After a decade on Windows, I finally understand why Linux users never go back https://www.makeuseof.com/why-linux-users-never-go-back-to-windows/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:03:50

  • He is paid to promote the slop agenda https://startupfortune.com/linus-torvalds-tells-ai-critics-to-fork-linux-or-walk-away-and-the-software-industry-should-listen/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:04:37

  • "Linux 7.2-rc5 has just been released. This update seems pretty normal, despite being quite big, pointing to an undelayed Linux 7.2." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-72-rc5-lands-with-patches-for-hp-elitebook-830-g8-and-alienware-x16-r2/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:05:06

  • I tried Framework's premium 'Linux-first' laptop: consider the bar raised https://www.zdnet.com/article/framework-laptop-13-pro-review/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:05:46

  • Tomorrow’s Judgment https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/28/tomorrow-judgment/ tomorrow morning a judgment will be issued. They sent threats to me to try to scare me into capitulation. This is a crime.    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:10:16

  • Qualys identifies Linux kernel vulnerability affecting millions of systems https://www.intelligentciso.com/2026/07/27/qualys-identifies-linux-kernel-vulnerability-affecting-millions-of-systems/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:14:57

  • Slopian https://www.zdnet.com/article/shadowfetch-debian-linux-with-local-ai/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:15:28

  • "Most people who step outside of Windows and macOS assume Linux is the only alternative worth taking seriously" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-isnt-your-only-escape-from-windows-and-macoshere-are-4-alternatives/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:15:52

  • Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/patches/2026/07/27/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint-leaves-some-linux-boxes-defenseless-after-update/5278914    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 17:16:21

  • Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/28/bank-for-charities-pulls-online-services-over-security-fears/5279615 ䷉ Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 19:16:08

  • Signals are grim for Jodrell Bank Observatory after UK science funding decision ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/28/signals-are-grim-for-jodrell-bank-observatory-after-uk-science-funding-decision/5279451 ䷉ Source: The Register UK |    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 19:16:58

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM): Xbox Swings Into Damage Control Mode And Calls Extended Outage That Locked Players Out Of Their Games ‘Unacceptable’ https://kotaku.com/xbox-swings-into-damage-control-mode-and-calls-extended-outage-that-locked-players-out-of-their-games-unacceptable-2000719748    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 19:18:34

  • NOTHING to do with chatbots/slop https://www.ibtimes.com/visa-reportedly-planning-cut-thousands-jobs-ai-played-role-decision-3805811    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 19:19:00

  • Xbox Outage Raises an Uncomfortable Question: Do You Really Own Your Games? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/xbox-outage-digital-game-ownership-1810925    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 19:20:28

  • OEM Production 2550L2D-MxPC gopher://gopher.zcrayfish.soy:70/1/phlog/20260727-oem-production-2550l2d-mxpc    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:24:06

  • "short and sweet. i paid for astrill vpn while traveling. it was easy to setup on my phone, but not my arch linux computer." gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2026-07-28    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:26:48

  • "Away from the screen, with the screen off or out of view, I look at my “to do” list on paper, I look through the whole thing (things I want to do onscreen or IRL), and I write down things I want to do." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/screenitem    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:27:32

  • "I just found out about this project a musician did this year, whereby he would personally send you a USB with his music on it. It doesn'tm exist anywhere online, and he rightfully assumed he would have a similar amount of listeners to his music anyway. Although, it seems he probably had to send out more than anticipated, from the sounds of the update on his site." gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20260728-strategies-against-algorithms/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:28:45

  • "DIY is a major industry, even a kind of leisure activity, in the UK. Everybody has one or two "DIYers" in the family but, when I first became a homeowner back in the 90s, I'd never even changed a lightbulb." gemini://larsthebear.me/ondiy.gmi    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:29:28

  • Still about 10% "Linux" https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/netherlands/#monthly-200902-202607 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/02/statCounter_Sees_The_Netherlands_Leading_the_Way_in_GNU_Linux_G.shtml psydroid    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:55:37

  • GNU/Linux 6% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/palestinian-territory/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:56:20

  • Also 6% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/somalia/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 20:57:15

  • On IBM: "they all deserve to be laid off" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky9xhn9h    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 21:43:28

  • Comedy legend https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/fawlty-towers-star-john-cleese-102900000.html    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 22:13:29

  • Total trash from social control media https://www.thepoke.com/2026/07/28/count-binface-released-his-clacton-manifesto/2/    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 22:14:24

  • Press rewarding the nuts    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 22:14:40

  • Some changes here https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/argentina/#monthly-200902-202607 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/02/Windows_Falls_to_All_Time_Low_in_Argentina_GNU_Linux_Rises_Abov.shtml    

posted Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 22:18:00
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