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[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1723.jpg    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:30:51


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2080.jpg    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:30:56


  • "Have you voted yet?" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/whatIF    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:31:45


  • spill out gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/spill_out    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:32:28


  • "I am excited to see that the smol.pub directory is now available on the Panic Playdate application Constellation Browser. This program joins the Gemini/Gopher reader space alongside Hopper, a similar application built for the small yellow handheld with a crank." gemini://dhepworth.smol.pub/smol-pub-constellation-browser    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:33:46


  • "A rather lazy day today. Spent a lot of time with my neighbor and didn't have much to do at work. I'm in the part of any relationship where I'm excited about the new friend, hanging out together, and getting to learn a lot about someone in a short time, and just reveling in that while it lasts." gemini://flares-space.me/gemlog/2026-07-28-A-Tired-Tuesday.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:34:25


  • "If you want a pretty spectacular train ride that is not too far from Zürich you could go to Chur and from there up to Arosa. The train slowly climbs up a narrow valley – along the valley side." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-07-19-arosa    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:35:02


  • "We went to visit a friend who has an apple tree in her garden and collected two bags full of apples. A lot of rotten ones, with worms and what not. Peeling them and cutting off the good parts took a very long time. We stopped after a while and watched an episode of Silo, then we went back to doing apples." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-07-25-apples    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:35:53


  • https://rachelbythebay.com accessible atm e.g. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/23/readers/ was it down for some due to aggressive filtering?    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:50:37


  • Steady upward trend for GNU/Linux https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/honduras/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:53:47


  • Same in Iran https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iran/#monthly-200902-202607    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:56:32


  • Psychonauts studio Double Fine hit with layoffs after split with Xbox https://www.neowin.net/amp/psychonauts-studio-double-fine-hit-with-layoffs-after-split-with-xbox/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 04:57:44


  • Psychonauts 2 Studio Double Fine Hit With Layoffs Amid Divestiture From Xbox https://kotaku.com/double-fine-lays-off-employees-amid-xbox-separation-2000719885    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 05:00:08


  • After gaining independence from Xbox, Double Fine are laying off a quarter of their staff https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/after-gaining-independence-from-xbox-double-fine-are-laying-off-a-quarter-of-their-staff    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 05:00:34


  • "I am getting closer to 60 day by day. I can see the target on my back getting larger for a layoff campaign anytime soon. I will gladly retire from IBM tomorrow, if IBM provides a bridge to 65 for the family healthcare coverage." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyhby5xg    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 05:09:16


  • "and that same HR turns a blind to blatant harassment claims or other really egregious violations. Even when there is indisputable evidence, all of a sudden their systems and protocols seem to stop working." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyczappy    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 05:11:18


  • Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Inaction and Incompetence - Part II - 77 Messages Sent, Did Not Even Investigate or Examine Any of the Actual Evidence (British Taxpayers' Money Wasted) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/29/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Inaction_and_Incompetence_P.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 08:31:09


  • "And perhaps more importantly, the case could be seen as more of a win for the AI companies than it is for the publishing industry." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5904606 | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:09:13


  • "Ms. Grande initiates this action to uncover the identities of these currently unknown and unscrupulous individuals in order to hold them accountable for their invasive and reprehensible conduct" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ariana-grande-sues-hackers-unreleased-music-leak-1235599473/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:09:22


  • "The lawsuit accuses the unidentified [crackers] of selling the content, as well as publishing it on social media platforms like X, TikTok, and YouTube." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/972233/ariana-grande-hacking-lawsuit | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:10:00


  • "Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in the state." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/spacexs-xai-sues-minnesota-over-law-to-ban-nudify-apps-.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:11:45


  • "By investigating the platform's most widely used Hugging Face Spaces and creating our own, we found: [...]" ☛ https://aiforensics.org/work/hugging-face-ncii |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:12:03


  • "The open-source AI platform Hugging Face—a repository of AI models and datasets" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/hugging-face-has-a-nonconsensual-deepfakes-problem/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:12:22


  • "The European non-profit organisation tested nine image-editing Spaces on Hugging Face and found seven produced altered nude images after receiving a basic request to remove clothing." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-image-tools-hugging-face-non-consensual-nude-images-1811149 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:12:31


  • "One of those policy themes is the availability of rival app stores for smartphones." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/uk-eu-australia-sovereignty-needs-independent-app-stores/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:13:00


  • "And that is just how it begins. If you work in a creative industry and have the option of not using something from Adobe, know that you are very lucky." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/i-hate-adobe/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:13:09


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/breaking-the-parental-lock-on-an-xbox-360-is-very-much-an-inconvenience/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:13:28


  • "Beata Siemionkowicz had lived legally in the United States for decades when ICE agents grabbed her from a backyard garden and shoved her into a car." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/27/ice-arrested-a-green-card-holder-while-she-was-gardening-and-kept-her-for-a-year.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:14:12


  • "State police said the men were dressed in green long-sleeve shirts and tactical vests labeled “POLICE” and carried fake police badges." ☛ https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2026/07/armed-men-posing-as-ice-agents-detained-assaulted-woman-after-fake-traffic-stop-police-say.html | Source: The Oregonian    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:14:30


  • "After masked agents fired on his truck, Francisco Longoria was ambushed, charged and jailed – only for the case against him to fall apart." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/ice-california-shooting-lawsuit | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:21:21


  • "But what if there is no mass unemployment? After all, we’ve spent two hundred years automating one job after another, and every advanced economy is de facto at full employment." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/when-the-future-doesnt-need-us | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:21:35


  • "Now FEMA is shelling out grant money to state and local authorities to build up capacity to carry out pre-crime operations against “organized political violence,” as one FEMA information bulletin I obtained says." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/femas-new-mission-domestic-terrorism | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:21:51


  • "The violence and scale of the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and the communities they live in can be disorienting." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/the-fight-against-ice-has-entered-a-new-phase/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:22:08


  • "The classic advice of turning off your devices when passing through a border or, on an iPhone, entering the “Power Off” mode to suspend biometric features seems insufficient." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/data-privacy-border-zone/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:22:23


  • "While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts, they have already proven that not to be the case behind the scenes" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/972182/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-union-editor-strike | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:22:41


  • "Investigators say the posters were not limited to fake images." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-misuse-queensland-fake-sex-work-posters-1811175 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:22:52


  • "Sulzberger, who took on the publisher role about a decade ago and has been an influential leader in the Times’ much-lauded push into digital innovation, has no shortage of defending to do lately." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-a-g-sulzberger-new-york-times/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:34:41


  • "Commissioned by the Farm Security Administration, she documented the lives of migrant workers, Dust Bowl refugees and rural poor with an unflinching but deeply empathetic eye." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/galleries-and-exhibitions/from-the-great-depression-to-japanese-american-internment-dorothea-langes-camera-bore-witness-to-some-of-the-darkest-moments-in-us-history | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:34:50


  • "could interfere with ongoing investigative efforts." ☛ https://www.404media.co/person-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-clapping-at-city-meeting/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:35:24


  • "This is precisely the moment when Europe faces a strategic choice." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/07/27/europe-can-learn-from-ukraine-how-to-break-russian-myths/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:35:58


  • "Maybe Microsoft did want interns to solve riddles as part of their job. Or maybe I screwed up something else. I’m afraid I’ll never know!" ☛ https://ochagavia.nl/blog/that-time-when-i-failed-the-microsoft-interview/ | Source: Adolfo Ochagavía    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:36:34


  • "In this case, the price of freedom is local campaigning in every by-election" ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/uk-tech-sector-missing-democratic-process/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:36:51


  • "I’ve not put much thought into each of these. They range from ‘probably easy’ to ‘requires a fundamental rethink of Rust’s security model’, so take them with a pinch of salt." ☛ https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/crates-io-security | Source: Joshua Barretto    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:36:59


  • "Where religion meets opulence corruption arises. Such is a consequence of human’s frail character: its base desires are amplified by riches." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-07-27-beyond-the-temple/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:37:21


  • "I am not surprised that the company would back away from previously made promises,1 nor am I surprised that my local leaders would be naive enough not to see this coming." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/07/spacexai-promised-school-money/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:37:32


  • "locomotion, obstacle avoidance, navigation, or movement on the ground" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/972259/us-foreign-robots-power-inverter-ban | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:37:46


  • "If I come across something I like or want in the future instead of impulse buying I’ll stop for 24 hours and put it in a list." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/stop-buying-things-by-using-a-simple-rule-and-a-list | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:38:18


  • "There is no easily quantifiable answer to that question. And that is the problem." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittification-relies-on-broken | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:47:00


  • "It’s a sharp increase from the same quarter in 2025, when fewer than 100 companies and groups reported lobbying on data center matters." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/data-center-boom-sparks-lobbying-surge-01010295 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:47:27


  • "No. They're worse." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/are-ai-data-centers-really-that-bad | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:47:58


  • "For some, datacenter opposition may feel like the only tangible mechanism for registering their concern, disapproval, or even anger about AI." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/09/ai-datacenter-company-politics | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:48:12


  • "The judge had already indicated her ruling at a hearing last week. Per Politico, the judge also limited the scope of information that could be sought by the BBC into January 6th." ☛ https://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-bbc-financial-records-defamation-lawsuit-1237005006/ | Source: Deadline    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:48:42


  • "The filing also follows a Supreme Court ruling in late June that let states keep counting mail ballots that arrive after Election Day if postmarked on time." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/trump-supreme-court-mail-in-voting/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:49:23


  • "All of this is taking place under martial law, which grants governments expanded emergency powers needed to confront a declared threat." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/ukraines-protesters-remind-us-why | Source: The Next Move    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:49:52


  • "He stood trial in Berlin on charges of preparing a serious act of violence. Prosecutors sought a prison sentence of two years and ten months." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/germany-islamist-terror-attack-on-berlin-pride-parade-triggers-political-debate/a-78130195 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:49:59


  • "Granted, U.S. forces haven’t suffered any conventional defeats at Iranian hands either." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-putinization-of-the-american | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:50:06


  • "Google doesn’t have the same control over desktop computers. But in MacOS on the Apple Macintosh, any application can set a keyboard shortcut that works globally — in any other app." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/27/chrome-forces-gemini-global-shortcut-onto-your-mac/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:50:31


  • "Search engines do not automatically discover new URLs as they are created." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/claude-indexed-by-google/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:50:44


  • "Employment scams are increasingly being used to target job seekers, with the FBI and LinkedIn joining forces to educate applicants about fraudulent job opportunities and the warning signs of potential exploitation." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/employment-scams-target-job-seekers/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:50:58


  • "For all these reasons, I would allow the appeal." ☛ https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0152_judgment_a1ae6cd3a5.pdf |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:51:11


  • "The men now live in the U.K., where they filed a lawsuit contending that they are owed damages from Bahrain for the mental harm they suffered." ☛ https://therecord.media/uk-court-rejects-bahrain-immunity-claim-spyware-case | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:51:21


  • "Statements made via its social media channels went on to say that no exceptions will be made for those using the devices with prescription lenses." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/28/def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses/5279763 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:51:30


  • "As the New York Times points out in a fresh report, Google results are directing more and more people to…Google, and that’s it." ☛ https://gizmodo.com/if-youre-reading-this-youre-probably-an-ai-bot-2000788073 | Source: Gizmodo    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:52:13


  • "Koo lost the case initially but won an appeal this month, with the Court of Appeal finding that 95 per cent of Chan’s judgement was plagiarised." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/27/hong-kong-judge-who-committed-serial-plagiarism-to-take-early-retirement-at-chief-justices-request/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:52:22


  • "Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/al-qaida-and-isis-are-using-ai-very-differently-heres-how-11829535#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:52:49


  • "You’ll get better and more coherent predictions from a 1-900 telephone psychic." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/28/sam-altman-guys-were-in-the-singularity-now/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:53:00


  • "As many skilled programmers can attest, chatbots can produce very useful output – but as even the most ardent AI-assisted coder will admit, chatbot-written code is also full of baffling, obvious errors (and subtle, hard-to-spot ones): [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/28/hitl-ers/#ai-ai-oh | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:53:17


  • "I am so tired of every company feeling the need to shoehorn in an AI helper. To be honest I've found zero use for any of them, and they are all a bit shit." ☛ https://davidjohnmead.com/posts/2026-07-28-so-tired-of-shit-ai-helpers/ | Source: David Mead    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:53:32


  • "Treating that capability as “the new SEO” still shrinks a fundamental shift in marketing into another optimisation discipline." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/seo-vs-geo/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:53:41


  • "I see a clear trend in my use of AI for programming, and that trend ultimately is to use it less." ☛ https://lzon.ca/posts/other/llm-fantasy/ | Source: Lzon    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:53:51


  • "[...] What worries me, actually, is the impact of this crisis on my finances. [...]" ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/07/28/about-a-potential-ai-bubble.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:54:00


  • "Other platforms, like YouTube, already do this." ☛ https://www.404media.co/spotifys-ai-problem-is-so-bad-random-people-are-stepping-in-to-track-the-slop/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 09:54:12


  • "Companies: 478" ☛ https://companiesmarketcap.com/software/largest-software-companies-by-market-cap/ |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:10:56


  • "SmartThings was originally a 2012 Kickstarter campaign that ended up becoming successful enough that the company was bought by Samsung in 2014." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/samsungs-smartthings-api-terminates-free-access/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:11:05


  • "Researchers at Lava discovered the flaw when researching Internet-exposed Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) for vulnerabilities and said it found evidence of attackers having exploited the issue in the wild" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/flaw-exposes-data-centers-server-takeover | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:11:20


  • "The senator cited “multiple recent and devastating hacking campaigns” targeting VPNs and remote-access systems, including products from Cisco, Fortinet, Ivanti and Check Point." ☛ https://therecord.media/federal-purge-outdated-vpns-wyden-letter | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:11:31


  • "My war against Screen and against Online is over and this is the peace treaty: No screen without a matching TODO item." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/screenitem | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:14:16


  • "Key to the gut-brain connection is the vagus nerve, an essential part of the autonomic nervous system that wires the brain into the body’s organs, including the gastrointestinal (GI) tract." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/how-the-vagus-nerve-promotes-healthy-cognition-via-acetylcholine-signaling/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:14:56


  • "Sadly, the main drawbacks of film for me were the things most people love about it (development time, inflexibility w.r.t ISO and white balance)." ☛ https://pradyun.net/blog/new_camera.html | Source: Pradyun Narkadamilli    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:15:54


  • "What an awesome approach to life. Being yourself and doing your thing, no matter if others consider it to be trash or treasure." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/guess-im-trash/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:16:57


  • "What skill do these smart engineers lack? I think it’s the ability to think slowly and clearly. Smart engineers can think clearly, but they can only think clearly at high speed." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-dont-have-to-be-smart-if-you-think-clearly/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:17:14


  • "They’re the departments of Defense, Energy and Transportation, and the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Humanities." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-28/here-are-all-ways-that-trump-has-tried-to-kill-u-s-science-research | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:17:35


  • "If we want to store bigger keys, we’re going to need a bigger deck of cards." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/07/28/keys-and-cards/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:18:53


  • "This is the economic story: friction has become a class experience. Wealth has always helped smooth over bumps - but when the physical world is such a mess and the digital world is so easy" ☛ https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:19:36


  • "Maybe you’ve been putting off organizing a basement or a closet." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/07/28/a-surge-a-disaster-a-reminder/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:19:47


  • "Abstract for the forthcoming paper 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'. Pre-print coming soon." ☛ https://www.danmcquillan.org/beyond_ai_abstract.html | Source: Dan McQuillan    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:19:58


  • "My objective is still simple: leave a net positive impact. Some days are negative, some days are positive. But the direction still matters." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-07-28-we-are-a-blip | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:20:11


  • "Why do I go on and on about typing? Because it’s one of the ways I like to express myself, that’s why." ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/07/28/typing/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:20:22


  • "A talk from the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK caught our eye, in which [Amy Jeskins] looked at the overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/why-is-textile-work-not-taught-to-engineers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:20:32


  • Anon: nokia has one or two legitimate divisions remaining, for now they got into pushing sw patents just before Microsoft Elop so there may be another major Board of Directors scandal hidden below the surface there    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10:52:07


  • "Chat Control: Motståndet fortsätter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/28/chat-control-motstandet-fortsatter/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:10:10


  • iophk: unfounded smear https://json.blog/2026/07/28/dhh-showed-who-he-was    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:10:52


  • "judaism | aethrvmn" https://aethrvmn.gr/theses/metaphysical/religious/judaism/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:11:09


  • Revenue-backed espionage | "Indtægtsdækket spionage | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/indtaegtsdaekket-spionage    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:13:22


  • "China Advances Plans For National Single-Stack IPv6 Network, And Its Surveillance-Friendly Version - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/26/1939241    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:13:29


  • "It's time the LGBT activists obsessed with Palestine took off their keffiyehs and faced down an Islamist ideology that wants them dead: JULIE BINDEL | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16008995/Its-time-LGBT-activists-obsessed-Palestine-took-keffiyehs-faced-Islamist-ideology-wants-dead-JULIE-BINDEL.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:13:38


  • "Go’s proposal to allow examples with any signature was accepted on July 8. Today, an example must look like func ExampleXxx()." ☛ https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/07/go-example-any-signature/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:15:44


  • "NotImplemented isn’t False, None, or empty, so like most objects, it’s truthy by default." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/07/28/python-fix-typeerror-notimplemented-boolean-context/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:18:36


  • "In this article series, we will focus on that last group – functional programming languages: their purpose, design, and how they are different from other kinds of languages." ☛ https://www.endoflineblog.com/functional-programming-from-first-principles-part-1-motivation |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:18:59


  • "Every major release of Rails sets off a wave of releases across the rest of the gem ecosystem." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/28/why-npm-dependency-trees-are-so-big.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:19:05


  • "A few of them are presented below. Most of them are for the Amiga, but several other platforms are represented as well." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/ | Source: Carl Svensson    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:19:17


  • "Memory leaks are a constant battle for backend teams." ☛ https://denodell.com/blog/your-spa-is-leaking-memory-soak-test-it | Source: Den Odell    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:19:26


  • "I’ll start off with a refresher on how blocks work in the Ruby interpreter, then show you how ZJIT understands and optimizes that bytecode, and then show you the impact of the inliner." ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zjit-inliner-invokeblock/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:19:38


  • "Nowadays, safety is in the focus of C++. Whether it’s at committee meetings, conference talks, or hallway discussions, the topic keeps coming up. C++26 made some big steps forward in this area" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/07/29/cpp26-reduces-undefined-behaviour | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:19:46


  • "start by creating a memory-backed file descriptor and mmaping it (error handling omitted): [...]" ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20260728-cow.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:19:54


  • "They didn't change a licence. The members of the association that operates Codeberg changed the terms under which Codeberg is willing to host your code." ☛ https://tarakiyee.com/open-source-is-indefensible/ | Source: Tara Tarakiyee    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:21:07


  • "It demonstrates three scenarios by running many processes in parallel with a read-only open-query-close loop each: [...]" ☛ https://hynek.me/til/sqlite-read-only-wal-locked/ |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:21:49


  • "This past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly." ☛ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/07/27/new-firefox-design/ |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:22:49


  • "Recently on the Fediverse, someone wondered if an out of the box build of Apache (with minimal tuning) could handle 10,000 simultaneous HTTP requests (the old famous 'C10K' target" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/Apache10KNoAnswerYet | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:23:11


  • "Yesterday, I published the last planned release of File Browser. It includes a few security fixes and a notice about the wind-down of the project." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/07/28/filebrowser/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:23:42


  • "At Lysk, we process and analyse military voice communications. In other words: we plug radios into computers." ☛ https://www.lysk.ai/post/wiring-radios-to-laptops-the-hard-way |    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:24:07


  • "So I decided upon using the ATtiny85." ☛ https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/opensourcedimmer/ | Source: Tymscar    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:24:16


  • "Pimoroni began back in 2012 with the aim of selling laser cut acrylic cases for the Raspberry Pi. Yes, in 2012 our Pibow cases were our first and only product." ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/its-our-birthday-save-up-to-40/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:24:26


  • "So then I ordered the cheapest fisheye camera lens I could find (49mm wide angle macro, $30) whose smaller lens was just slightly larger than the output lens of the projector. Success! It worked the first time." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/the-eye-of-pizza-is-once-again-upon-you/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:24:35


  • "The C-based driver applies the fixed, ordered list of find-and-replace rules to this string, which after more than ten-thousand of such substitutions later results in a single frame of the game." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/doom-using-regular-expressions/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:25:10


  • "I was like okay, that should be easy, I can just use yt-dlp." ☛ https://roytang.net/2026/07/youtube-playlist-export-mp3/ | Source: Roy Tang    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:25:47


  • "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you're doing something inside a systemd service; for example, it runs a script with some environment variables set" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdPrivateTmpWhere | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:26:08


  • "Join us next week for the recording of episode of 500." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/499 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:26:29


  • QSB-116: Multiple Xen issues (XSA-500, XSA-505, XSA-506, XSA-507) ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/07/28/qsb-116/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:34:54


  • XSAs released on 2026-07-28 ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/07/28/xsas-released-on-2026-07-28/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:35:00


  • Openwashing of PONZI scheme and Enronism, misusing the "Linux" brand https://cloudnativenow.com/features/nvidia-is-putting-real-skin-in-the-open-ai-game/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:41:07


  • Performance analysis of storage live migration feature in Red Bait OpenShift Virtualization ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/29/storage-live-migration-performance-on-openshift-virtualization    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:43:58


  • OSFT explained: Prevent catastrophic forgetting in LLM fine-tuning ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/28/osft-explained-prevent-catastrophic-forgetting-llm-fine-tuning    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:46:06


  • Enrich OpenShift compliance results with custom metadata ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/28/enrich-openshift-compliance-results-custom-metadata    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:47:55


  • "Usage tracking, showback, request prioritization, and autoscaling help operators tune cost and human oversight against real load—not theoretical ratios." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mastering-ai-era-integrating-frontier-operations-your-technology-operating-model | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:48:51


  • "The result is that teams delay platform upgrades to avoid the OS migration, missing capabilities they actually need. The OS upgrade has been a cliff, not a ramp." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-coreos-10-coming-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:49:02


  • "We believe it is time to provide enhanced, identity-based mechanisms to satisfy these requirements and to address use cases that have seen their development limited by current practices." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/substituting-ip-address-evaluation-hardware-rooted-sovereign-zero-trust | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 11:49:21


  • STAR OCEAN series arrives on GOG | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/star-ocean-series-arrives-on-gog/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/star-ocean-series-arrives-on-gog/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:00:27


  • Not only do we have an update for Proton Experimental with plenty of improvements, but Valve also gave Proton 10 and Proton 11 updates too.   

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:00:45


  • Proton 10 and Proton 11 get Steamworks SDK 1.65 for Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-10-and-proton-11-get-steamworks-sdk-1-65-for-steam-machine-steam-frame-and-steam-deck/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:00:52


  • GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:02:57


  • There's now over 40 games ready for the Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/theres-now-over-40-games-ready-for-the-steam-frame/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/theres-now-over-40-games-ready-for-the-steam-frame/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:03:14


  • Proton Experimental brings fixes for Far Cry New Dawn, Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, controller hotplugging and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-far-cry-new-dawn-binding-of-isaac-rebirth-controller-hotplugging-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:04:38


  • Mission Center is a slick app to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, GPU and more on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/mission-center-is-a-slick-app-to-monitor-cpu-memory-disk-network-gpu-and-more-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:05:03


  • Allogloom is a gorgeous looking point and click adventure launching in October | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/allogloom-is-a-gorgeous-looking-point-and-click-adventure-launching-in-october/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:05:40


  • 007 First Light is now Steam Deck / Steam Machine Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/007-first-light-is-now-steam-deck-steam-machine-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/007-first-light-is-now-steam-deck-steam-machine-verified/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:05:46


  • "NetBird makes this much easier by connecting each device to a coordination service, automatically exchanging WireGuard keys, and establishing secure peer-to-peer connections" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/securely-connect-linux-machines-netbird/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:08:53


  • "Radxa has published specifications for two upcoming compute modules based on Qualcomm Dragonwing processors." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-previews-qualcomm-based-cm-q64-and-vmarc-q9075-compute-modules/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:09:02


  • "EDATEC has expanded its family of Raspberry Pi Compute Module 0-based DIN-rail industrial computers with the ED-IPC1200 and ED-IPC1220." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/edatec-ed-ipc1200-and-ed-ipc1220-add-din-rail-i-o-around-raspberry-pi-cm0/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:09:11


  • "The ThingPulse Icon256 is a Wi-Fi-connected word clock that displays the time as illuminated phrases across a 16 × 16 RGB LED matrix." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/thingpulse-icon256-is-a-wled-based-word-clock-with-256-rgb-leds/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:09:25


  • Espressif begins mass production of ESP32-S31 wireless RISC-V SoC ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/espressif-begins-mass-production-of-esp32-s31-wireless-risc-v-soc/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:16:54


  • Mount virtual media on Supermicro IPMI with less java ☞ https://major.io/p/supermicro-ipmi-mount-iso/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:17:16


  • FSF Events: Learn email self-defense: Hands-on GPG with GNU/Linux with Greg Farough and Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/afk/2026-08-14-new-york-city-new-york-united-states-farough-de-silva-weeramuni    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:21:46


  • Fooyin Music Player 0.12.0 Added PulseAudio Output & New Visualizer Plugins ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/fooyin-0-12-0-pulseaudio-viz-plugins/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:22:25


  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppDate 0.0.7: New Upstream ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/07/28#rcppdate_0.0.7    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:23:14


  • South Africa president urges cooperation among African states to address migration challenges ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/south-africa-president-urges-cooperation-among-african-states-to-address-migration-challenges/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:25:39


  • The Neo Geo AES+ retro console is now available to pre-order starting from $249 — game cartridges cost $90 each; the Ultimate Edition with all games and accessories will run you $1,000 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/the-neo-geo-aes-retro-console-is-now-available-to-pre-order-starting-from-usd249-game-cartridges-cost-usd90-each-the-ultimate-edition-with-all-games-and-accessories-will-run-you-usd1-000    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:26:39


  • The Pre-Dawn USPTO Filing Window ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/the-pre-dawn-uspto-filing-window.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:27:19


  • "Social Dialogue" With the Man Who Never Faced Real Competition at the European Patent Office (EPO), He Buys the Voters and Eliminates Rivals (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/Social_Dialogue_With_the_Man_Who_Never_Faced_Real_Competition_a.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:27:45


  • Zack Polanski joins calls for banks making ‘eye watering’ profits  to help families with cost of living ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/07/28/zack-polanski-joins-calls-for-banks-making-eye-watering-profits-to-help-families-with-cost-of-living/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:28:37


  • Cracking backdoored Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32 ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/cracking-windows-open-porting-radv-to-win32.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:29:01


  • What Is a Dependency Firewall? ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-a-dependency-firewall/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:29:18


  • SensWear – An open-source modular Nordic nRF54L15 development platform for wearables ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/29/senswear-an-open-source-modular-nordic-nrf54l15-development-platform-for-wearables/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:29:51


  • How we use /goal to find bugs in Patch the Planet ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/07/28/how-we-use-goal-to-find-bugs-in-patch-the-planet/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:30:22


  • How to Tell if a Giant Manta Is Pregnant? Give Her an Ultrasound. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/science/giant-mantas-pregnant-ultrasound.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:34:44


posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:37:13


  • French police discover remains of five babies in a home in southeastern France ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260728-french-police-discover-remains-of-five-babies-in-a-home-in-southeastern-france    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:37:33


  • Latvia is an EU hepatitis blackspot ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/28.07.2026-latvia-is-an-eu-hepatitis-blackspot.a656682/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:37:47


  • South Korean stocks tumble a second day, sparking trading suspension ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-stocks-tumble-a-second-day-sparking-trading-suspension    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:38:41


  • South Korea to write nuclear non-proliferation into submarine law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-write-nuclear-nonproliferation-into-submarine-law    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:38:56


  • White phosphorus leaks at US air base in South Korea, Seoul says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/white-phosphorus-leaks-in-us-air-base-in-south-korea-seoul-says    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:39:34


  • Malaysia police bust two scam centres in Forest City; at least 194 foreigners to be charged ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-police-bust-two-scam-centres-in-forest-city-at-least-194-foreigners-to-be-charged    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:40:50


  • Iranian oil hoard swells off Malaysia on weak Chinese demand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/iranian-oil-hoard-swells-off-malaysia-on-weak-chinese-demand    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:42:04


  • China starts production of home-grown immersion deep-ultraviolet chipmaking tools, source says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-starts-production-of-home-grown-immersion-deep-ultraviolet-chipmaking-tools-source-says    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:43:34


  • "Why the board chose Arvind over former RedHat CEO, Jim Whitehurst, is mind boggling. They should share blame here and reap what they sowed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyj0tr4b    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:44:04


  • Jim AllowHURST came AFTER Arvind, so the issue is, Arvind Krishna REFUSED to step aside/down    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:44:35


  • "Employee salaries." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kycdkzhr    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:45:10


  • "Anderon does have a fab…. So….???" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky8nf3nd No, it does not even exist! http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/27/Anderon_Like_Kyndryl_Could_be_Far_Deeper_in_Debt_Than_Its_Alleg.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:45:52


  • Clinical Trials Aren’t Optional https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/29/clinical-trials-arent-optional/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 13:59:33


  • 10 euros https://apina.biz/215512    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 14:13:23


  • Capital of Europe https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belgium/#monthly-200902-202607 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/21/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_5_in_Belgium_This_Month.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 14:54:46


  • China’s BYD takes on Japanese rivals with small ‘kei’ car ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-byd-takes-on-japanese-rivals-with-small-kei-car    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:16:03


  • Flight MH370 families want ‘facts’ as China court hears appeal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/flight-mh370-families-want-facts-as-china-court-hears-appeal    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:16:18


  • Taiwan detains Nvidia worker in chip smuggling probe: source familiar with case ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/28/taiwan-detains-nvidia-worker-in-chip-smuggling-probe-source-familiar-with-case/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:16:42


  • I Really Want to Love This Markdown Editor, But One Thing Holds It Back ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ferrite-editor/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:17:25


  • Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Buzzfeed, National Geographic, and ESPN ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:18:09


  • Your Brain Can Rewire Itself to Allow True Multitasking ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-really-can-learn-to-multitask-and-scientists-just-revealed-how    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:27:48


  • JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here's What It Found… ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-just-examined-two-stars-suspected-of-harboring-dyson-spheres-heres-what-it-found    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:28:08


  • Cockroaches Have a 'Collective Memory' That Emerges From Their Social Networks ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-cockroach-collective-memory-emerges-from-their-social-networks-study-suggests    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:28:25


  • Microsoft Lacks Growth. Ahead of 'Results' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Finds Merit in Allegations Slop is Microsoft's Excuse for Price Hikes (Piggybacking Vendor Lock-in). http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/29/Microsoft_Lacks_Growth_Ahead_of_Results_The_UK_s_Competition_an.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:53:17


  • 'The Money Is the Easy Part': Byron Allen Cuts 35% of BuzzFeed Workforce to Save $32M https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/buzzfeed-major-layoffs-restructuring-1811181    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:56:07


  • It's our birthday — Save up to 40%! ☞ https://blog.pimoroni.com/its-our-birthday-save-up-to-40/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:59:35


  • Mission 44 students at Silverstone go from zero to AI-powered racing telemetry in 90 minutes! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/28/mission-44-students-at-silverstone-go-from-zero-to-ai-powered-racing-telemetry-in-90-minutes/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:59:42


  • “The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 15:59:53


  • Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/unpatched-fastjson-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:01:13


  • Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-arista-velocloud-orchestrator-vulnerability-exploited-as-zero-day/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:01:31


  • "There are a number of technical tasks underway and maybe some testing (this coming weekend or later)" https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/29/WordPress_is_Technical_Debt.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:02:33


  • Dracula Orchid: The Gothic-Looking Flower That Poachers Can't Get Enough of ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-dracula-orchid-that-wildlife-traders-just-wont-leave-alone    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:12:10


  • Thousands of Human Languages May Have Been Erased – Even Before Colonialism ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-forgotten-wave-of-extinction-may-have-erased-thousands-of-human-languages    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:14:32


  • Scientists Reveal The Simple Change That Could Save Millions of Insects ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-simple-lighting-swap-could-save-millions-of-insects    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:14:44


  • Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-year-old-quantum-entanglement-theory-has-finally-been-confirmed-in-experiments    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:15:10


  • Something to chew on ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Readers-Respond/2026/0728/Something-to-chew-on    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:15:26


  • El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/el-nino-world-economy-inflation-developing-countries    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:15:42


  • A 'Second Brain' in The Gut Could Be Driving Constipation And Pain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-neurons-in-the-gut-that-could-be-driving-constipation-and-pain    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:16:00


  • Latvia's farms are mostly plugged into the internet ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/28.07.2026-latvias-farms-are-mostly-plugged-into-the-internet.a656574/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:16:37


  • "Did Arvind love the blockchain? Praised it as the next big thing?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyq547cs    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:59:13


  • Circle Acquired IBM Blockchain patents: Will Circle have more success with blockchain than IBM did? See https://www.circle.com/pressroom/circle-acquires-ibm-blockchain-patent-portfolio    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:59:21


  • "Wasn't it Gin 'n Tonic who first championed Blockchain ? Alvind came much later."    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 16:59:27


  • IBM selling SOFTWARE patents again!    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:00:12


  • "I think you meant DOES NOT have a fab. It’s a quantum wafer foundry with NO foundry! I am suprised the general public and news outlets haven’t picked up on this very very key point." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ky8nf3nd http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/04/Journalists_Should_be_Ashamed_for_Parroting_False_Claims_From_I.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:02:16


  • sometimes we look for info regarding IBM and what comes up on the Web is... our own articles    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:12:37


  • Visa's debt increased a lot, hence layoffs https://finbox.com/NYSE:V/explorer/total_debt    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:29:47


  • AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train Hey Hi (AI) models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-are-reportedly-shredding-millions-of-books-to-train-models-tech-giants-outsource-to-middlemen-to-secretly-buy-up-books-for-training-material    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:55:59


  • It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dead-internet-theory-come-true    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:56:58


  • You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-noise-pollution-dowagiac-michigan-blasts-homes    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:57:24


  • Is Mark Kapo-berg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta? ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-meta-capex-ai    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:57:35


  • Scam Altman Says Even the Power of Hey Hi (AI) Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-power-ai-shorter-work-week    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:57:53


  • BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to LLM slop / Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-layoffs-pivot-ai    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:58:21


  • Writers Guild Withdraws Support From Film Festival Over Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/movies/urbanworld-writers-guild-ai.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:58:36


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-carroll.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:58:52


  • RBX Fires Off Expanded Class Action Against Spotify for Allegedly ‘Ignoring Obvious Wide-Scale Fraud,’ Says the DSP Has ‘Diverted At Least $600 Million in Royalties’ from Indies ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/28/spotify-streaming-fraud-lawsuit-rbx/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 17:59:23


  • Afroman Files Malicious Prosecution Lawsuit Against Deputy Who Raided His Home in 2022 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/28/afroman-malicious-prosecution-lawsuit/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:00:40


posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:01:19


  • Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56 Million ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/ebay-settles-stalking-case.html "Two Massachusetts journalists were harassed by a Silicon Valley security team in a case that raised questions about when executives should be held responsible."    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:01:52


  • Indians demand more info than ever and govt finds new ways to say no ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indians-demand-more-info-than-ever-govt-finds-new-ways-to-say-no    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:02:18


  • Suno Slapped with Class Action Litigation Following Massive, Unreported Data Breach ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/28/suno-slapped-with-class-action-litigation-following-massive-unreported-data-breach/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:02:41


  • Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:03:28


  • Air India turnaround could take up to a decade, owner Tata Sons says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/air-india-turnaround-could-take-up-to-a-decade-owner-tata-sons-says    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:04:08


  • Peru's Fujimori vows military-led crackdown on crime after taking office ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260728-peru-s-fujimori-vows-military-led-crackdown-on-crime-after-taking-office    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:04:33


  • Apple Patches 87 Vulnerabilities in iOS, 155 in macOS Tahoe ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-patches-87-vulnerabilities-in-ios-155-in-macos-tahoe/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:04:56


  • Wayfire 0.11 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085894/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:05:52


  • DFI X6X-ORN – An IP67-rated, rugged Jetson Orin NX/Nano edge Hey Hi (AI) computer with GMSL2 camera support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/28/dfi-x6x-orn-an-ip67-rated-rugged-jetson-orin-nx-nano-edge-ai-computer-with-gmsl2-camera-support/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:09:45


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

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:10:07


  • A master piece on masterpieces ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Readers-Respond/2026/0728/A-master-piece-on-masterpieces    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:45:46


  • 16-hour Xbox outage even stopped physical games from working — company blames licensing issue for incident that prohibited gaming across three generations of console ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-blames-a-licensing-service-outside-xbox-for-the-16-hour-outage-that-blocked-disc-games    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:46:18


  • Before the Sensor: Filter Ordering and Self-Collision in Amsted Rail v. Squires ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/before-the-sensor-filter-ordering-and-self-collision-in-amsted-rail-v-squires.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:48:53


  • Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/daring-coder-gets-doom-running-with-regular-expressions-at-180-seconds-per-frame-like-playing-correspondence-chess-with-a-shotgun-nearly-14-million-substitutions-to-render-a-frame-at-80-000-substitutions-per-second    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:49:17


  • Waveshare RP2350-POE-ETH – A Raspberry Pi RP2350 MCU board with PoE ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/28/waveshare-rp2350-poe-eth-a-raspberry-pi-rp2350-mcu-board-with-poe/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:50:02


  • ASO AC delivers Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document to NRO EC ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/aso-ac-delivers-recommended-draft-rir-governance-document-to-nro-ec/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:50:45


  • India’s top court orders no coercive action against youth protesters and release of minors: Reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indias-top-court-orders-no-coercive-action-against-youth-protesters-and-release-of-minors-media    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:51:05


  • Google Hey Hi (AI) Search Default Leads to Fewer Website Clicks ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/google-ai-search-default    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:51:44


  • Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-adopts-new-threat-actor-naming-system/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:52:15


  • A Small Victory For Dignity ☞ https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/dignity/dignity.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:52:23


  • Plasma Vault Advisory: You should probably switch to gocryptfs ☞ https://cukic.co/2026/07/28/switch-to-gocryptfs    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:52:58


  • A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/grapheneos-duress-password-indictment/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:53:24


  • Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/axon-is-another-license-plate-surveillance-company.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:53:47


  • Houthis Claim Strike on Another Saudi Oil Tanker ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/world/middleeast/houthis-strike-saudi-tanker.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:54:25


  • The Name on the Window Was Enough: The Attacks on Kiva’s and the Normalization of Antisemitic Violence in Canada ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/the-name-on-the-window-was-enough-the-attacks-on-kivas-and-the-normalization-of-antisemitic-violence-in-canada/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:55:00


  • AutoIT Payload Injector , (Tue, Jul 28th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33192    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:55:42


  • Co-Founder of Controversial Spyware Firm Had Israeli Diplomatic Passport ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/co-founder-of-controversial-spyware-firm-had-israeli-diplomatic-passport/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:56:21


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) and Microsoft: What Kills XBox Will Kill backdoored Windows Next ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/Digital_Restrictions_DRM_and_Microsoft_What_Kills_XBox_Will_Kil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:56:52


  • Xdialog displays date incorrectly ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202607/xdialog-displays-date-incorrectly.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:57:43


  • Enable/Disable The New Virtualization HWE stack in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/07/enable-disable-the-new-virtualization-hwe-stack-in-ubuntu-26-04-lts/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:58:32


  • Ubuntu 26.04 virtualization HWE stack offers newer QEMU & libvirt ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-virtualization-hwe-stack    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 18:58:55


  • FSF Events: Reverse engineering binary blobs on mobile with Rob Savoye ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/afk/2026-08-06-vancouver-british-colombia-canada-savoye    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:00:05


  • FSF Events: Can we route around the app stores? With Sean O'Brien ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/afk/2026-08-16-new-york-city-new-york-united-states-birukou-obrien    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:00:13


  • FSF Events: Too many eyeballs? Free software security in the LLM era with Sean O'Brien ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/afk/2026-08-06-vancouver-british-colombia-canada-obrien    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:00:22


  • FSF Events: Evaluating a program’s free software licensing with Craig Topham ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/afk/2026-08-15-new-york-city-new-york-united-states-topham    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:00:52


  • We finally revived our Firefox add-on (10 years late) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/omgubuntu-firefox-addon-notifier    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:01:45


  • LinuxHub 2026.07.27 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxhub    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:02:54


  • Pearl 14-2026.07.27 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/pearl    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:03:04


  • Univention 5.3-0-alpha ☞ https://distrowatch.com/univention    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:03:13


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posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:04:42


  • LazyLinux 20260728 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/lazylinux    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:04:46


  • Evernight Vista 44.0.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/evernight    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:04:54


  • ZimaOS 1.7.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:05:12


  • GNU/Linux in Afghanistan Reaches 7% ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/GNU_Linux_in_Afghanistan_Reaches_7.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:05:36


  • GOG Galaxy launcher is finally headed to GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/gog-galaxy-launcher-is-finally-headed-to-linux/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:06:27


  • Linux Kernel 7.2 RC5 is Released: A Massive Update Hits the Tree ☞ https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc5-released/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:11:26


  • OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/british-flavored-linux-foundation-proposal/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:12:22


  • New desktop icon sets ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202607/new-desktop-icon-sets.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:18:20


  • YouTube-inspired ‘Yatcha’ fights spread in South Korean schools, spark concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/youtube-inspired-yatcha-fights-spread-in-south-korean-schools-spark-concerns    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:19:02


  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1085855/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:19:26


  • ‘First tremors’ of Hey Hi (AI) earthquake showing in digital revenue hit ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/first-tremors-of-ai-earthquake-showing-in-digital-revenue-hit/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:19:50


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

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:26:06


  • How to Install Clownflare Tunnel on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-cloudflare-tunnel-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:26:27


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

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:27:20


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

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:27:29


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

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:28:14


  • DOOM for Commodore 64 ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/doom-for-commodore-64    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:28:24


  • What is Digital Sovereignty ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/28/what-is-digital-sovereignty/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:28:42


  • German TKMS expands submarine business with new vessels also for Israel – Netanyahu soon to be questioned over the deal ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/28/thyssenkrupp-expands-submarine-business-with-new-models-also-for-israel-and-netanyahu-soon-to-be-questioned-over-the-deal/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:30:20


  • Lithuania detecting attempts to smuggle migrants via tunnels from Belarus – official ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3004064/lithuania-detecting-attempts-to-smuggle-migrants-via-tunnels-from-belarus-official    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:30:37


  • German firm supplying NATO base in Lithuania linked to Russia, Belarus trade ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3004081/german-firm-supplying-nato-base-in-lithuania-linked-to-russia-belarus-trade    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:30:58


  • Mbatha visits Russia and agrees to strengthen defence ties ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence-sa-defence/mbatha-visits-russia-and-agrees-to-strengthen-defence-ties/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:31:08


  • Senate advances Lindsey Graham’s long-stalled Russia sanctions bill just hours after his funeral ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/07/28/us-news/senate-advances-lindsey-grahams-russia-sanctions-bill-shortly-after-his-funeral/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:31:19


  • Mere no more: discount chain falls foul of sanctions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/28.07.2026-mere-no-more-discount-chain-falls-foul-of-sanctions.a656610/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:31:33


  • Ukraine’s Strike on an Iranian Ship Could Bring Two Wars Closer ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/world/middleeast/iran-ukraine-ship-strikes-caspian.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:31:55


  • Zelensky and Convicted Felon 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 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:32:04


  • Behind Closed Doors, Convicted Felon Huddles With Netanyahu and Zelensky ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/trump-zelensky-netanyahu-wars.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:32:14


  • Iran Considered Retaliatory Strike on Ukrainian Seaport ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/politics/iran-ukraine-tensions.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:33:00


  • How Ukraine’s long-range drones are changing what’s possible in war with Russia ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0728/ukraine-zelenskyy-trump-drone-warfare-russia    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:34:00


  • Why North Korea will keep backing Russia in the Ukraine war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-north-korea-will-keep-backing-russia-in-the-ukraine-war    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:34:10


  • Zelenskyy, Convicted Felon Meet At White House At Crucial Moment In US-Ukraine Relations ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskyy-trump-talks-washigton/33816609.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:34:19


  • Ukrainian Court Jails Man Behind Kyiv Defense Exhibition Hit By Russian Missiles ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-missile-strike-conference-jailed/33816608.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:35:50


  • Zelensky visit White House in test to Maga's 'significant shift towards' Kyiv ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-visit-white-house-in-test-to-maga-s-significant-shift-towards-kyiv    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:36:02


  • Two EU naval forces now tasked with tracking Russia’s shadow fleet off Africa ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/two-eu-naval-forces-now-tasked-with-tracking-russias-shadow-fleet-off-africa/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:36:26


  • Military leaders are drawing new lessons from conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and beyond ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/07/military-leaders-are-drawing-new-lessons-from-conflicts-in-ukraine-the-middle-east-and-beyond/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:36:35


  • Donations sought to support work of Latvia's destroyed consulate in Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/28.07.2026-donations-sought-to-support-work-of-latvias-destroyed-consulate-in-ukraine.a656569/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:37:26


  • Introduction to Anthony, the voice-driven desktop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/29/anthony-voice-driven-desktop    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:38:45


  • Build a distributed RAG pipeline with Ray Data on OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/28/build-distributed-rag-pipeline-ray-data-openshift-ai    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:38:54


  • OpenAI CEO Scam Altman says Hey Hi (AI) has entered the singularity — two weeks after Proprietary Chaffbot Company models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-ai-has-entered-the-singularity    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:39:32


  • What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #66 – S3E18 Turning Hey Hi (AI) into the Ultimate Open Source Maintainer Power Tool with Michael Winser ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/07/28/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-66-s3e18-turning-ai-into-the-ultimate-open-source-maintainer-power-tool-with-michael-winser/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:40:01


  • LLM Slop + ‘Secure’ Boot Controlled by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft + I.C.B.M. (TPM Booster) = Chaos for GNU/Linux ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/28/chaos-for-gnu-linux/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:40:15


  • If you're peeping in IRC 24/7 for _YEARS_ and then call the person you 'stalk' "obsessed", maybe you need to walk away from the mirror    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:40:58


  • A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/duress-password-phone-wipe-charge.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:41:28


  • Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 updates Morph browser, adds notch and printing support, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/28/ubuntu-touch-24-04-2-0-updates-morph-browser-adds-notch-and-printing-support-and-more/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:41:53


  • Daniel Pocock: UK, EU & Australia: sovereignty requires independent rival app stores ☞ https://danielpocock.com/en/uk-eu-australia-sovereignty-needs-independent-app-stores/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:42:03


  • "While GOG do support Linux from the web store, as they offer Linux downloads for games that support Linux, GOG Galaxy itself has been missing since the initial release. Eventually, that should change as we have some positive news to share on that." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/gog-confirm-they-are-working-towards-gog-galaxy-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:46:04


  • tech-insider.org is also a very terrible slopfarm that Google News keeps feeding    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:47:29


  • Amanda Brock's crock https://itsfoss.com/news/british-flavored-linux-foundation-proposal/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:47:46


  • All the people who hug and obsess over slop just show they don't understand what they are talking about. They get carried away...    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:48:18


  • RefluXFS: A Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation to Root in XFS (CVE-2026-64600) https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-research/refluxfs-a-linux-kernel-local-privilege-escalation-to-root-in-xfs-cve-2026-64600    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:48:37


  • Windows TCO https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/28/microsoft-defender-update-could-disable-linux-protection-xcxwbn/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:49:08


  • Plagiarism by slop https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/07/firmware-updater-improves-linux-device-security/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:49:31


  • 2 Star Ocean games go DRM-free on GOG as the storefront promises it's working on embracing the Linux faithful https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/2-star-ocean-games-go-drm-free-on-gog-as-the-storefront-promises-its-working-on-embracing-the-linux-faithful/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:49:48


  • Tarnishing the term "Linux" to sell a Ponzi scheme. Horrid. Corruption. Saddening. https://www.pcguide.com/pro/news-pro/nvidia-unites-with-microsoft-linux-and-many-more-on-ai-security-after-openai-bot-goes-rogue-with-cyberattack/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:50:30


  • Dusk Audio Sunset Circuits: six synthesizers in one free plugin (mac, linux, win) https://synthanatomy.com/2026/07/dusk-audio-sunset-circuits-six-synthesizers-in-one-free-plugin-mac-linux-win.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:50:46


  • Star Ocean hits GOG DRM-free as the storefront eyes Linux support https://games.gg/news/star-ocean-gog-drm-free-linux/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:51:08


  • Microsoft and security are opposites https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/microsoft-defender-update-could-disable-protection-gzfge/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:51:49


  • GOG Galaxy for Linux is officially in the works https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/gog-galaxy-for-linux-is-officially-in-the-works/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:52:11


  • Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/tengu-botnet-reboots-compromised-linux.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:52:42


  • GOG Reiterates Support for Bringing its Galaxy Client to Linux https://steamdeckhq.com/news/gog-galaxy-linux-still-coming/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:53:05


  • The goal was always control (by Microsoft), not security https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/143220/update-may-disable-microsoft-defender-on-linux-after-a-restart/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:53:46


  • Fuzzing by another name (hype)? https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-linux-kernel-zero-day-net-sched/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:54:29


  • I broke my PC and learned why Linux's boring features are actually genius https://www.howtogeek.com/i-broke-my-pc-and-learned-why-linuxs-boring-features-are-actually-genius/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:54:54


  • Openwashing https://adtmag.com/articles/2026/07/27/linux-foundation-launches-akrites-to-coordinate-open-source-vulnerability-fixes.aspx    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:55:51


  • GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist" https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/gog-announces-galaxy-app-is-coming-to-linux-after-hiring-a-specialist    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:56:20


  • "human judgement remained necessary throughout the work." https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/researcher-says-ai-helped-develop-linux.html    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 19:58:35


  • I'm retired and it feels so good! gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-07-29-Im_retired_and_it_feels_so_good.txt    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:15:48


  • "So we watch. Jean-Luc and Geordi and Data and Dianna. Star Trek isn’t boring. Star Trek is never boring." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/07/29/00/star-trek/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:16:41


  • "I found a lovely coffee shop near where we were staying, Ri Changxuming Cafe. Actually, this is just how my phone translated the name, I'm not sure how to actually write the name in English. They had the name "County Road Cafe" also printed, so we will go with that as their name." gemini://spool-five.com/gemlog/2026-07-29-country_road_coffee_anshan.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:17:59


  • "but for whenever i do feel like it - i've already prepared all the templates with the titles in place. just need a pencil drawing per card, then i'll scan it all in and do the carving, that's the fun part. then some stenciled colors - easy." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/currentcrafts    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:18:38


  • "In short, after learning a few basic interface details, you can use Octave to get a numerical solution for any system of non-linear ODEs. The interface can only work with first-order ODEs, so that any higher order ODE must first be broken down into a set of first-order ODEs." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260728-0.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:19:29


  • DOSBlood gemini://caleb.subnet.city/gemlog/dosbloodactualizado.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:20:01


  • Masters del Universo (2026) gemini://caleb.subnet.city/gemlog/analisisheman2026.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:20:26


  • Primer PC gemini://caleb.subnet.city/gemlog/miprimerpc_lhdk.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:20:51


  • Door-Knocking Abated https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/29/door-knocking-abated/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 20:59:54


  • 22 Years of "Blogging" or 30 Years? https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/29/blogging-30-years/    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 21:30:35


  • "Microsoft layoffs: Most will get LITE and no severance 🫡" https://www.teamblind.com/post/microsoft-layoffs-most-will-get-lite-and-no-severance-ke36uy5n http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/At_Microsoft_PIPs_Are_Sometimes_Known_as_LITE_a_Silent_Layoffs_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 22:39:08


  • "The 2.5% layoff the article discusses will get severance. The ~5% or so with low perf ratings this year won’t get severance. Though a lot of them will be offered a choice of PiP or a voluntary buyout package that is similar to severance but not as good."    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 22:39:42


  • "Lower Impact Than Expected. It is the lowest performance rating and typically moves you to a PIP."    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 22:40:05


  • "It’s in addition to a voluntary retirement package and aggressive performance management. I’d guess ~8% total similar to last year but less layoffs more firing."    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 22:40:56


  • "Such spin for Wall Street. Microsoft wants to show they are trimming the less desirable employees and it will cost them nothing."    

posted Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 22:41:02



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