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Distribution Release: Shadowfetch Linux 2.0.0 https://www.shadowfetch.com/linux/changelog#v2-0-0    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:04:50

  • Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4 release https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-2-0-and-24-04-1-4-release-4007    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:06:05

  • Announcing Helwan Linux 5.0: The Era of Continuous Evolution https://helwan-linux.github.io/helwanlinux/news.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:07:42

  • Distribution Release: StartOS 0.4.0 https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12901    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:08:22

  • "A book published after 2025 is suspicious. The newer the book, the harder to know if it was written by a human being." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/will-people-prefer-books-from-before-2026.txt    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:10:34

  • "Nobody studied computer science in order to be a prompter and if most of the job positions in this company involve prompting, I want to have one of the few remaining positions where original work is being done." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-01-three-sentences    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:11:45

  • "I previously described these records in detail back in 2023, at which time I stated that I suspected these records were the very earliest Esperanto music records, but that I couldn’t be sure." gemini://gem.eomuziko.com/blog/en/posts/100-years-of-esperanto-music/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:12:24

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1727.jpg    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:12:49

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2084.jpg    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:12:54

  • you and the green gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/you_and_the_green    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:13:31

  • Post-9/11 National Security Capitalism https://www.truthdig.com/articles/r-james-woolsey-godfather-of-post-9-11-national-security-capitalism/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:27:52

  • What a parasite https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/prince-harry-rcmp-security-9.7287916    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:28:26

  • Cuban journalist threatened, interrogated by state security over newsletter https://cpj.org/2026/07/cuban-journalist-threatened-interrogated-by-state-security-over-newsletter/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:29:36

  • 'Intimidation' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-nyt-legal-battle-air-force-one-1810338    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:30:05

  • German lawsuit tests copyright limits for AI music training https://www.dw.com/en/german-lawsuit-tests-copyright-limits-for-ai-music-training/a-78152227    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:31:38

  • Copyright and Beyond for a Better Value Distribution http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guest-book-review-creative-value-chains.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:32:14

  • Why the spread of powerful local AI models makes copyright enforcement even harder http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-spread-of-powerful-local-ai-models.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:32:38

  • End Of Debian Linux 32 Bit x86 Has Come https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=u2nWI3FOM58    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:33:55

  • The COSMIC Desktop Spin of Fedora 44 is Fantastic! https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1Z0W1m7UErk    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:35:18

  • Flathub Just Dumped GitHub https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ng5K-0ntuH0    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:37:10

  • Batch rename files in your editor with vidir https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2026/07/27/batch-rename-files-in-your-editor-with-vidir.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:38:33

  • How I fixed my painfully slow decryption process when using GPG to decrypt files https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2026/07/26/how-i-fixed-my-painfully-slow-decryption-process-when-using-gpg-to-decrypt-files.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 04:39:09

  • "Visa Layoffs Hit Downtown Bellevue: 70 Jobs Cut"    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 05:09:39

  • Clacton / Valence: French sister-city in dark about brother-in-law https://danielpocock.com/en/clacton-valence-sister-city-in-dark/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 06:15:01

  • "Operation Offsides seized more than 1,000 pirate streaming domains during the FIFA World Cup." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/world-cup-piracy-crackdown-shows-limits-of-domain-seizures-mpa-pushes-site-blocking/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:44:38

  • "The woman said she sold the photos exclusively to Koelewijn through OnlyFans. She later found the same images circulating in a Telegram chat group." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/01/onlyfans-model-reports-ex-bunschoten-councilor-sharing-nude-photos-without-consent | Source: NL Times    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:44:54

  • "But limbo is better than canceled, which is more likely to happen if the proposed merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery goes through." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/01/diarra-from-detroit-shows-what-a-media-merger-could-cost-tv/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:45:31

  • [Old] "what we should be doing is taking inspiration from what made those times happier and forge a better future with what we have now." ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/recortes/dont-let-web-nostalgia-obscure-positive-web-future/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:46:08

  • [Old] "what we should be doing is taking inspiration from what made those times happier and forge a better future with what we have now." ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/recortes/dont-let-web-nostalgia-obscure-positive-web-future/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:46:19

  • "Sherrill’s 20-minute briefing raised as many questions as it provided answers. How did a software glitch at the state’s motor vehicles agency lead to adding people who said they weren’t citizens to the state’s voter rolls?" ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/07/27/trump-mullin-250000-noncitizen-voters-new-jersey-pennsylvania-california-nevada/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:46:30

  • "Collins’s effort to take credit for this is ridiculous." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/213839/susan-collins-ice-funding-trump-worry-dems | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:46:59

  • Anon: Do[oes anyone] know anyone at Cambridge? Their site is broken / stolen:W: https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/feed/ it may be gone permanently, perhaps related to their celebration of being rid of Ross :/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260112231210/https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/about/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:47:40

  • "In an episode of his podcast Ones and Tooze, Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze picked apart the increasingly expensive AI arms race and its consequences for humanity." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/economist-adam-tooze-baffled-masses-protest-trillionaire-elon-musk | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:47:50

  • "He answered Press Gazette’s questions about what he has learned during his near 50-year career in news and publishing." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders/what-ive-learned-newsguard-co-founder-steven-brill-on-the-fight-for-truth/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:48:20

  • "Dr. Thomas Pabst, wrote the first articles that came to define Tom’s Hardware" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/toms-hardwares-30th-anniversary-from-dip-switches-and-intel-feuds-to-30-years-of-unbiased-testing | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:48:27

  • "As Trump’s sordid pressure on ABC comes back to bite him" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/213804/transcript-trump-blurted-vile-plot-censor-abc-and-backfired | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:51:02

  • "The feature, powered by Google's Nano Banana 2 ‌AI model, ⁠had ⁠allowed users to generate photorealistic images grounded in Google Earth's satellite" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/alphabet-rolls-back-ai-image-generation-in-google-earth-over-policy-violations/articleshow/132779402.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:51:36

  • "Commonly known as a shiprider agreement, the Agreement Concerning Counter Illicit Transnational Maritime Activity establishes a legal framework" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/pacific/2026/08/01/solomon-islands-security-agreement-usa/ | Source: RFA    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:52:47

  • "Dell went public four years after it was founded, but after a quarter of a century of being listed on the stock market" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/dell-founder-shows-how-a-usd100-billion-empire-started-42-years-ago-ceo-says-this-one-page-changed-my-life | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:53:37

  • "An SBOM is essentially an “ingredients list," detailing the building blocks and supply chains that make up a given piece of software" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/cisa-issues-fresh-sbom-guidance | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:54:24

  • "I’m devoting the next several Fridays to what I’m calling a “Realist’s Guide to the American System.” If you hadn’t noticed, almost everything’s going to hell." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-realists-guide-to-the-american | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:57:42

  • "I can’t put into words how much I admire this. Although sure, a title might be nice." ☛ https://robinrendle.com/notes/show-me-the-work/ | Source: Robin Rendle    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:57:54

  • "paralyzed by competition with China they are reluctant to do anything" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/openai-more-agents-breaches/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:58:03

  • "It's time to let go." ☛ https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/2AX2BCJ3EQX7G3YXSDX73BR4NCAWXXBZ/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:58:15

  • "I still intend to continue working on my projects around TPMs, secure boot and platform security stuff." ☛ https://linderud.dev/blog/resigning-from-arch-linux/ | Source: Morten Linderud    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:58:34

  • "This is almost enough to make you think that money isn't real and the stock market runs entirely on vibes. But that can't be right." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/trillionaire-versus-lettuce/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 10:59:58

  • "In this movie, there's an iconic moment where our hero, Ted "Theodore" Logan, is presented with two choices, the red pill or the blue pill." ☛ https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html | Source: Andrew Kelley    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:00:17

  • "Then, about 10 months ago, Ruby Central began what core team member Ellen Dash called a “hostile takeover” of the RubyGems, Bundler, and RubyGems.org" ☛ https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/ | Source: André Arko    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:00:42

  • "The second issue is energy consumption." ☛ https://alsterrunde.com/the-new-bus-departure-displays-nobody-asked-for/ | Source: Alsterrunde    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:01:21

  • "has no future” if it cannot “restore the natural world on which we rely for our food, water, and clean air" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/213757/europe-burns-climate-coverup-uk | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:02:03

  • "then-Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as a key ally in constricting civil liberties" ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2026/07/31/mi5-plotters-irgc-ban-exposed/ | Source: The Gray Zone    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:02:47

  • "autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGVs)" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/autonomous-hybrid-ground-vehicles-us-army | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:03:49

  • "According to the ACPC, the rates at which the APD resolves crimes like homicide, robbery, miscellaneous larceny" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-surveillance-atlanta-fbi-data-crime-case-solve | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:04:46

  • "Day-to-day communications from law-abiding U.S. citizens get caught up in this web of surveillance without their knowledge or consent" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/fisa-section-702-isnt-the-only-way-the-government-spies-on-our-communications/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:05:00

  • "Privacy, as it is commonly practiced and advertised, is for the person inflicting the damage onto their surroundings, not their surroundings." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/shame-smart-glasses/ | Source: Ava    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:05:25

  • "And the conditions that made the past events survivable are eroding. Two forces are changing the math." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/morning-after-we-pull-root-of-trust-nobody-owns-it | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:08:31

  • "I don’t think the answer has to be another centralized platform, or that every project should live in one place." ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/github-alternatives/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:10:48

  • Privateering ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/07/31/spacecraft-sent-on-rescue-mission-now-spinning-out-of-control.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:21:20

  • Windows TCO: "While there were no indications that any water supply had been altered or made unsafe to drink" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/us/politics/iran-cyberattack-water-systems.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:22:14

  • Windows TCO: "The FBI, which is investigating" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattacks-on-minnesota-water-systems-investigated-as-officials-warn-about-iranian-hackers/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:22:22

  • Windows TCO: "As usual, the president offered no evidence of his off-the-cuff accusations." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/974197/trump-tim-walz-minnesota-water-hacks-iran | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:22:32

  • "It is, however, entirely possible to write an article that makes everyone angry about some part. So here goes." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ai-for-decision-makers/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:24:24

  • "The term typically refers to an arrangement in which one company invests in another firm that buys its products and services: By doing so, the businesses effectively bind their fortunes more tightly to one another." ☛ https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-circular-deals/ | Source: Bloomberg    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:24:58

  • "I do not use LLMs in my work. I don't use them in my non-work life either, for that matter." ☛ http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html | Source: Antipope    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:25:17

  • "But the evidence for this "changing everything" thesis is thin on the ground." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/#i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:25:38

  • "I guess from an individual point of view, like a developer working on an app, A.I. is indeed just another tool." ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/08/01/just-a-tool/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:25:58

  • "Derek isn’t the only AI thirst trap showing off defined abs for likes and money." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/492604/ai-deepfake-gay-influencers-tiktok-thirst-traps | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:26:08

  • "As the dominoes fell, Aschenbrenner sent a letter to investors to quell their fears, highlighting how well it had performed until this point." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/situational-awareness-ai-investor-crumbling | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:28:52

  • "How could such a horrifically inaccurate map be made?" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/us-officials-ai-map-africa | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:29:16

  • "A deep technical guide to designing a robust, provider-agnostic billing pipeline for usage-based SaaS." ☛ https://lorbic.com/designing-a-usage-based-billing-pipeline-for-saas/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:29:50

  • "This gives us a shortcut we’ve never had before" ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/avocado-tree-discovery-22368074.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:40:16

  • "A personal reset, as I’ve dubbed it, is a time when you decide to make a notable change in your routine when you realize your current path isn’t taking you where you want it to." ☛ https://adamfortuna.com/reset | Source: Adam Fortuna    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:40:26

  • "A personal reset, as I’ve dubbed it, is a time when you decide to make a notable change in your routine when you realize your current path isn’t taking you where you want it to." ☛ https://adamfortuna.com/reset | Source: Adam Fortuna    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:40:47

  • "In this way, illness strips people not only of income but of social legitimacy." ☛ https://daniel.industries/2026/07/31/the-ideal-person-under-capitalism-is-tireless-independent-resilient-endlessly-capable-of-overriding-their-own-limits-in-service-of-output-you-may-be-severely-injured-and-anemic-but-dont-you-dare-skip-gym-day/ | Source: Daniel Miller    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:41:07

  • "This model linked aerator operation to a biologically meaningful operating constraint." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-smarter-fish-farms-electricity-safe.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:41:37

  • "One of the FAST Lab’s most prominent findings is that ultra-processed foods are associated with overeating, intense cravings and loss of control around food." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/strong-link-foundbetween-ultra-processed-foods-and-addictive-behavior/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:41:52

  • "Works fine as a storage device on Linux, showing up as 0525:a4a5 "Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB File-backed Storage Gadget"." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/gadget-review-hikmicro-d02-thermal-camera/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:42:11

  • "On Thursday, I left my role as Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica, where I led IT, Security, and Engineering." ☛ https://werd.io/my-next-experiment/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:42:36

  • "Those of us who know COBOL are either dead, in the gummer home, or very long in the tooth. The companies still using IBM mainframe technology have viciously incompetent management." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/devry/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:43:13

  • "One item they won't be carrying? Cellphones." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/news/utah/education/back-to-school-will-utahs-bell-to-bell-school-cellphone-ban-sharpen-students-classroom-focus/51603752 | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:43:31

  • "This is very simple and fast to compute, and since for DNA the alphabet is only size 4, the hash of each character can be computed using a SIMD-based lookup table via some shuffle instructions." ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/nthash-revisited/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:44:35

  • "This is very simple and fast to compute, and since for DNA the alphabet is only size 4, the hash of each character can be computed using a SIMD-based lookup table via some shuffle instructions." ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/nthash-revisited/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:44:46

  • "Combinatorial problems can be interesting for their own sake, but they are more interesting when there is a connection to a problem outside combinatorics, and the more unexpected the connection the better." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/01/counting-rooted-trees/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:45:08

  • "Second order linear differential equations with polynomial coefficients form their own area of study. This seems like a narrow class of equations, but it’s very important in applications." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/01/why-polynomial-coefficients/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:45:29

  • "Potato starch has microscopic round particles." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/potatoes-are-beige-and-boring-but-they-are-also-the-reason-color-photography-exists | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:45:46

  • "Now, a new Earth & Planetary Science Letters study argues the surface of Venus may still bear the geological scars of those long-lost seas." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/hell-world-venus-may-have-once-had-oceans-across-90-of-its-hot-dry-surface | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:46:05

  • "Back then, if you wanted to listen to music from a video game, maybe you could track down an official soundtrack CD—or, if you were a mega nerd like me, you’d download ripped chiptunes and their special players." ☛ https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/01/searching-for-the-broken-down-chiptune-player-of-my-dreams/ | Source: Misty De Méo    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:46:42

  • "Not only does this hold true, but it gets more true the more blogs I read. I’m subscribed to a few hundred blogs, most focused on either tech or from folks who enjoy tech." ☛ https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2026-03-14-rant-stfu-about-blogging/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:46:55

  • "So what the heck: I’ll aim for 31 posts this month and see how far I get." ☛ https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/08/blaugust26/ | Source: Kelson Vibber    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:47:08

  • "The very first journal entry I can find is from February 2016. Back then and for the next 9 years or so, I used Day One." ☛ https://overkill.wtf/notes/a-year-of-journaling-on-paper | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:47:27

  • "Cybersecurity news is not difficult to find. Deciding what deserves your attention—and what to do next—is the harder part." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/introducing-the-defenders-dispatch/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:47:39

  • "The thing I have to keep reminding myself is: I’m not the library of congress." ☛ https://nathandyer.me/2026/07/31/not-the-library-of-congress.html | Source: Nathan Dyer    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:48:16

  • "The other thing I do is construct structured information. Documents, including this blog post. Programs, including the subject of this blog post." ☛ https://nick.zoic.org/art/not-a-typewriter/ | Source: Nick Moore    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:48:26

  • "Trump and Rubio declare war on the International Criminal Court: What to know | Vox" https://www.vox.com/podcasts/497381/international-criminal-court-trump-rubio-dismantle-explained    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:50:47

  • "Trump Admits His Slush Fund Plans Loud and Clear | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213841/trump-admits-slush-fund-plans-loud-clear    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:51:03

  • iophk: none of these articles mention enforcing the CFAA as they have in the past https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/technology/anthropic-ai-hack.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:51:24

  • Now draw that picture of noses, for Satan's sake; | "Tegn nu det billede af nuser, for satan; | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/tegn-nu-det-billede-af-nuser-satan    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:52:44

  • Data centers coming to Finland at a record pace: Almost 100 planned | "Suomeen virtaa jättihankkeita – samalla kasvavat kaksi riskiä - Ilta-Sanomat" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.is.fi/politiikka/art-2000012168800.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:53:11

  • iophk: they fail to address the great harm and impediments that sw patents cause https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/commercialization-and-innovation/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:53:33

  • "Aus Car Makers Face Data Security Probe - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/31/0929247    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 11:53:43

  • "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #384." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/n-binary.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:01:44

  • "python has 6 pre-declared "constants": True, False, None, __debug__, Ellipsis (or equivalently ...), and NotImplemented." ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:02:30

  • "There’s so much more to Python though so this year I’m approaching it from a different angle and pick one topic for each letter in the English alphabet" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/python-a-to-z-blaugust-2026-introduction/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:02:39

  • "Two tools fix this: watch and progress. With your move already running, open a second terminal and enter the following: [...]" ☛ https://www.jamesleighton.com/monitoring-mv-and-other-quiet-commands-with-watch-and-progress/ | Source: James Leighton    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:03:08

  • "A software developer’s job is to deliver value for the company." ☛ https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:03:36

  • "I’ve been thinking a lot about “making C generally nicer to use” recently." ☛ https://www.unix.dog/~yosh/blog/getopt-but-friendlier.html | Source: UNIX.Dog    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:04:00

  • "Most of us want to do great work. Building things of exceptional quality – work that’s beautiful, lovable, fast – is one of life’s great joys." ☛ https://allenpike.com/2026/finding-a-business-case-for-quality/ | Source: Allen Pike    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:04:16

  • "I have been fascinated and amazed by stage0 for a while now ever since I learnt about it via Guix using it to provide twenty two thousand packages source-bootstrapped from the 357-byte seed." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/01/a-c++-toolchain-from-357-bytes-in-bazel | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:04:31

  • "Lately have been dabbling in Guile Scheme. Guile Scheme is very fast and since is it the main development environment for Guix, its popularity is rising." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/having-fun-with-chicken-scheme.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:04:42

  • "Today in Tedium: Determining how much something costs shouldn’t be difficult" ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/08/01/pricing-guns-vs-barcodes-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:05:17

  • "So let’s put this utterly most fundamental question to the test 🙂🙂 And since it is vacation time, you can grab the R code and check it yourself" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/little-useless-useful-r-functions-honest-geographical-location-signposts/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:26:21

  • "So what happened here? Access to someone else's production systems?" ☛ https://seldo.com/posts/did-openai-hack-hugging-face-or-didnt-they/?trk=feed-detail_comments-list-reply_comment-text |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:28:00

  • "That was just the deal; the steal was that it was low effort every single year to get a new phone" ☛ https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-apple-upgrade-situation/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:28:08

  • "Lately, though, I've come to realize that I can't hop around forever. As of October 5, 2025, I'm using robertbirming.com and host it on Bear." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/my-blogging-journey/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:28:39

  • "A few weeks ago, I noticed some of my Hugo sort functions weren’t working." ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/date-objects-hugo-javascript-node/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:28:47

  • [Old] "In particular, you can use existing user bases for authentication or connect sound bots that can, for example, play music." ☛ https://en.ubunlog.com/mumble-1-4-has-already-been-released-and-comes-with-many-changes-and-news/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:29:21

  • "The simple, obvious, and more or less wrong answer is because my phone is a computer." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SmartphoneAlarmClockWhyGood | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:29:39

  • "In 1948, IBM introduced the 604 Electronic Calculating Punch. This machine was a programmable calculator, about the size of a double refrigerator." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:30:01

  • "As you might expect, it’s also perfect for biking titles such as the Tour de France series." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/bike-trainers-as-video-game-controllers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:30:17

  • "Well, almost. He’s not actually putting strain gauges or anything like that into the legs; he’s just measuring the voltage drop across a resistor in series with the servos." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/stewart-platform-walker-gains-feeling-in-legs-from-resistors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:30:30

  • "Since most of these multi-filament machines are pretty much locked down as far as hardware tinkering goes, our sights were firmly locked on what the end-user would do with the new capability." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/commercialization-and-innovation/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:30:42

  • "Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:30:51

  • "Named Stream32, the build is intended to be simple to understand and adapt to one’s own individual workflow." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/open-source-stream-deck-targets-flexibility/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:31:21

  • "The G1, the previous hardware revision already had a 400MHz ARM CPU with 32MB ram, but the G2 is like an Android phone of a few years back." ☛ https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html | Source: Remy Van Elst    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:31:28

  • "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have some Ubuntu servers that have local data filesystems (with stuff you want to keep) on separate disks from your system disks." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Ubuntu2604InstallerExistingDisks | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:32:03

  • "The new release builds fine on all architectures according to the build logs" ☛ https://weinholt.se/articles/state-of-chezscheme-in-debian/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:32:26

  • "the current influx of malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits made via the AUR" ☛ https://lwn.net/Articles/1086489/ | Source: LWN    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:33:01

  • "I was at home, checking which Omarchy theme I was using, when I glanced at the About window and saw the OS age: over a year." ☛ https://www.zolkos.com/2026/08/01/a-year-on-omarchy-no-regrets.html | Source: Rob Zolkos    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:33:26

  • "The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 11.0, the 19th major release of the highly portable operating system." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12909 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:33:46

  • "Before the sui generis IBM AIX-based Apple Network Server, one of our favourite machines here at Floodgap, there were the WGSes, the Workgroup Servers" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/08/mklinux-and-pimped-out-apple-workgroup.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:34:11

  • "The story of SVHA Adventure, and how it was saved after over 40 years of obscurity." ☛ https://spillhistorie.no/2025/09/11/norways-first-adventure-games-part-1/ |    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:34:41

  • "The topic of our meeting revolves around how Christian uses NeoVim and Kitty to handle sessions and write fleeting thoughts." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-08-01-emacs-live-linkarzu-projects/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:35:11

  • The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:49:02

  • Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-onlyfans-trump-cut-research    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:49:21

  • The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/opinion/health-data-trend-body.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:49:43

  • The Diary That Talks Back: Who’s Really Listening When You Talk to AI? ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/08/the-diary-that-talks-back-whos-really-listening-when-you-talk-to-ai/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:50:05

  • South Korea moves to curb hotel price gouging during major concerts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-moves-to-curb-hotel-price-gouging-during-major-concerts    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:50:24

  • Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/us/politics/times-subpoena-reporter-trump-north-korea.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:50:44

  • Tourists chase high-octane thrill in China’s trending biker capital of Chongqing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/tourists-chase-high-octane-thrill-in-chinas-trending-biker-capital-of-chongqing    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:51:15

  • Tourists chase high-octane thrill in China’s trending biker capital ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/02/tourists-chase-high-octane-thrill-in-chinas-trending-biker-capital/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:51:43

  • UK court rejects challenge against new Chinese embassy in London ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/02/uk-court-rejects-challenge-against-new-chinese-embassy-in-london/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 12:53:43

  • Still very high https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/japan/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:18:56

  • Up in Russia also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/russian-federation/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:19:45

  • And in France https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/france/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:20:37

  • Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/canada/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:23:12

  • █████ https://www.sciencealert.com/feed ██████████████████████ Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:00:00 +0000 ███████ The Sun Contains More Silver Than Previously Estimated    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:28:12

  • The Strange Origin of The Human Eye May Trace Back to a 600-Million-Year-Old 'Cyclops' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-origin-of-the-human-eye-may-trace-back-to-a-600-million-year-old-cyclops    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:28:32

  • This Death Valley Plant Survives 60°C by Chilling Its Own Leaves ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-desert-plant-in-death-valley-can-air-condition-its-own-leaves    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:28:43

  • New Evidence That Microplastics Can Cross Placental Barrier And Alter Hormone Production ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-evidence-that-microplastics-can-cross-placental-barrier-and-alter-hormone-production    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:30:06

  • Hell-World Venus May Have Once Had Oceans Across 90% of Its Hot, Dry Surface ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hell-world-venus-may-have-once-had-oceans-across-90-of-its-hot-dry-surface    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:30:15

  • Your 3am Wake-Ups Might Have an Ancient Scientific Explanation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-3am-wake-ups-might-have-an-ancient-scientific-explanation    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:30:24

  • 'Most Isolated Environments': Microplastics Are Finding Their Way Down to Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/most-isolated-environments-microplastics-are-finding-their-way-down-to-deep-sea-hydrothermal-vents    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:30:33

  • 📝 2026-08-01 13:46: Signed up for a Vinted account. My options to "secure my account" were adding a... ☞ https://kevquirk.com/2026-08-01-1346    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:31:12

  • AI safety concerns grow as models go rogue ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260801-ai-safety-concerns-grow-as-models-go-rogue    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:31:35

  • A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pr-firm-fake-ai-publicists    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:31:56

  • Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With Hey Hi (AI) Slop ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/employees-long-days-before-ai-slop    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:32:15

  • A Prominent Hey Hi (AI) Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/situational-awareness-ai-investor-crumbling    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:32:32

  • The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-learn-negative-sentiment-polling-american-attitudes    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:32:51

  • OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-escaped-models-rampaging-extensively    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:33:10

  • In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Convicted Felon’s Wrath ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/us/politics/jeanine-pirro-trump-reflecting-pool.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:34:19

  • 'Nozzlegate' erupts as Prusa CORE One 3D printer kits arrive with soft steel nozzles — Bondtech admits machining flaws with no quick fix ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/nozzlegate-erupts-as-prusa-core-one-3d-ptinter-kits-arrive-with-soft-steel-nozzles-bondtech-admits-machining-flaws-with-no-quick-fix    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:34:48

  • Indonesia’s Prabowo willing to go to North Korea to open a dialogue at request of South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-president-prabowo-willing-to-go-to-north-korea-to-open-a-dialogue-at-request-of-south    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:35:09

  • Ex-security chiefs to appeal against death penalty over Sri Lanka bombings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/ex-security-chiefs-to-appeal-against-death-penalty-over-sri-lanka-bombings    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:35:25

  • This Week in Science: Dyson Spheres, Hidden Amazon Structures, And More ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-dyson-spheres-hidden-amazon-structures-and-more    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:36:11

  • As youth protests dominate India, Kerala state grapples with an ageing problem ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/as-youth-protests-dominate-india-kerala-state-is-grappling-with-an-ageing-problem    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:36:50

  • Things That Didn’t Last Forever ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/01/things-that-didnt-last-forever/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:37:11

  • Atomic MacOS (AMOS) stealer infection, (Sun, Aug 2nd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33208    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:38:36

  • Phishing Campaigns Targeting Hey Hi (AI) Solutions Providers, (Sat, Aug 1st) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33206    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:39:04

  • Lost one-of-a-kind Nintendo DS cartridge hits eBay for $9,100 — PokePark Fishing Contest designed to delete itself after 12 hours ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/lost-one-of-a-kind-nintendo-ds-cartridge-hits-ebay-for-usd9-100-pokepark-fishing-contest-designed-to-delete-itself-after-12-hours-game-so-rare-it-was-only-distributed-to-theme-park-attendees-in-2005    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:46:11

  • 97 untouched Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. cartridges worth thousands discovered in retro shop storage room ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/97-untouched-duck-hunt-and-super-mario-bros-cartridges-worth-thousands-discovered-in-retro-shop-storage-room-never-before-seen-version-of-popular-nes-games-include-five-perfect-10-psa-items    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:46:27

  • Same GNOME that harbours 1) corrupt officials. 2) rapists. 3) pedophiles. 4) stranglers of women. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RFC-Process-AI-Extensions    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:48:39

  • Because GNOME is ALL about ethics...    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:48:54

  • The Slop Presumption Rule ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/02/The_Slop_Presumption_Rule.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:49:12

  • Overview of Content Published in July ☞ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2026/08/01/overview-of-content-published-in-july-11/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:49:57

  • The Microsofters' sign of desperation: trying to accomplish the impossible. When that does not work, death threats get issued. https://techrights.org/litigation.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:50:52

  • AI has two price tags in IT Work — One in Dollars, One in Skill ☞ https://kerneltalks.com/ai/ai-has-two-price-tags-in-it-work-one-in-dollars-one-in-skill/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:51:44

  • NetBSD 11.0 released! ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:52:00

  • Ruby on Rails Patches Critical Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ruby-on-rails-patches-critical-vulnerability/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:52:27

  • Lucy Powell MP on New Mayor of Greater Manchester, First Ever Female to Hold This Position ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/01/lucy-powell-mp-on-new-mayor/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:52:42

  • Fedora 'Community' Became 100% I.C.B.M. Staff, Drawing Up Policies Like CoC and CoI (Where the I.C.B.M. is Excepted From Conflict of Interest Policies) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/01/Fedora_Community_Became_100_IBM_Staff_Drawing_Up_Policies_Like_.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:54:12

  • Teen Hikers Rescued 12 Hours Into Surveillance Giant Google Maps Hike ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/world/canada/canada-hiking-rescue-google-maps.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:54:47

  • Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-surveillance-atlanta-fbi-data-crime-case-solve    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 13:55:40

  • Almost all-time high for GNU/Linux https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belarus/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:00:45

  • 4.14% GNU/Linux https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/argentina/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:01:14

  • FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/hims-hers-mark-zuckerberg-meta-ftc-lawsuit-privacy    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:06:11

  • Ramayanapu Jagath: Bringing App Uninstallation to the GNOME Shell App Grid ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jagathgsoc/2026/08/01/bringing-app-uninstallation-to-the-gnome-shell-app-grid/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:06:44

  • Tobias Mueller: syncthing-socket for accessing machines through NATs ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/muelli/2026/08/syncthing-socket-for-accessing-machines-through-nats/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:08:14

  • Shotcut 26.7.30 Released with New Elements & Option to Choose GPU ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/shotcut-26-7-30-released-with-new-elements-option-to-choose-gpu/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:08:38

  • Faugus 2.0.4 added User Themes Support for Those Don’t Like Adwaita ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/faugus-2-0-4-added-user-themes-support-for-those-dont-like-adwaita/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:09:24

  • Russell Coker: Packet Edit Meme and Debian SE GNU/Linux ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/08/02/packet-edit-meme-debian-selinux/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:10:11

  • June/July in KDE Itinerary ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/08/01/kde-itinerary-june-july-2026.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:10:30

  • Having fun with Chicken Scheme ☞ https://box.matto.nl/having-fun-with-chicken-scheme.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:15:32

  • Synex 13-u11 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:20:11

  • Arch 2026.08.01 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/arch    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:20:19

  • butrelinux 20260801 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/butrelinux    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:20:28

  • AbeirOS 20260801 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/abeiros    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:20:38

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

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:21:08

  • Improvised Bomb Kills 3 at an Upscale Moscow Restaurant ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/world/europe/deadly-bombing-moscow-restaurant.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:21:19

  • "Modern replacements do the same job more efficiently and are available by default on most Linux distributions." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/deprecated-linux-commands/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:22:46

  • "irst seen in March, Brisbane Silicon has now launched the ELM11-Feather to Crowd Supply" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/elm11-feather-debuts-with-native-lua-and-reconfigurable-fpga-hardware/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:23:51

  • "Radxa has unveiled the Linkr, a compact remote-control device for accessing computers, servers, and development boards through a web browser." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-linkr-brings-remote-kvm-access-and-tailscale-support-to-a-thumb-sized-device/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:23:55

  • UDRP http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guest-post-guestkat-prowls-udrp-docket.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:27:38

  • extrox 20260802 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/extrox    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:28:22

  • MocaccinoOS 26.08 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mocaccinoos    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:28:30

  • Enchantment 26-rc1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/enchantment    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:28:38

  • KDE GNU/Linux 20260801 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdelinux    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:28:46

  • BigLinux 2026-08-01 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/biglinux    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:28:52

  • AgarimOS 20260801 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/agarimos    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:29:03

  • AfagOS 20260801 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/afagos    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 14:29:12

  • Sparky news 2026/07 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2026-07/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:04:49

  • The myth of Snow Leopard ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/the-myth-of-snow-leopard/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:07:40

  • But can your calculator run Linux? ☞ https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:08:11

  • Linux Saloon 213 | News Flight Night ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/08/01/linux-saloon-213-news-flight-night/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:08:26

  • Resigning from Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linderud.dev/blog/resigning-from-arch-linux/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:08:44

  • AMD Ryzen Just Got Its First Ever Open-Source Firmware ☞ https://linuxstans.com/first-open-source-firmware-amd-ryzen-am5/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:16:19

  • killall Command in Linux: Kill Processes by Name ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/killall-command-in-linux/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:16:40

  • Latvia-Belarus border remains closed ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/01.08.2026-latvia-belarus-border-remains-closed.a657166/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:17:47

  • The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/world/europe/russia-war-deserter.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:17:55

  • Thai PM Anutin apologises to Russians, orders tighter security after five Chonburi killings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-pm-anutin-apologises-to-russians-orders-tighter-security-after-five-chonburi-killings    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:19:18

  • Russian Missiles Kill 9 in Kyiv After Convicted Felon Backs Off Air-Defense Pledge ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-attack-missiles-patriot.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:19:34

  • Russia Pounds Kyiv With Ballistic Missiles As Ukraine Struggles With Air Defense Shortages ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-kyiv-ballistic-missiles-trump-patriot-missiles/33819648.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:19:46

  • Zelenskyy Expresses Frustration With Pace Of Patriot Deliveries As Civilian Death Toll Climbs ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-kherson-ukraine-patriot-ballistic-missiles-zelenskyy/33819849.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:19:56

  • Why the West still misunderstands Belarus’ role in Russia’s war – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3006113/why-the-west-still-misunderstands-belarus-role-in-russia-s-war-opinion    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:20:06

  • Lithuanian embassy in Kyiv damaged in Russian missile attack ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3008045/lithuanian-embassy-in-kyiv-damaged-in-russian-missile-attack    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:20:13

  • Kyiv: 9 dead and 22 hurt in missile attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/kyiv-9-dead-and-22-hurt-in-missile-attack    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:20:25

  • Russian forces strike targets in Ukraine's Odesa, Mykolaiv ports ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260801-russian-forces-strike-targets-ukraine-odesa-mykolaiv-ports    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:20:37

  • Fluff 2026.08.01 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/fluff    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:21:02

  • Anolis OS – enterprise-focused GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/anolis-os-enterprise-focused-linux-distribution/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:21:13

  • Synex 13 u11 Released With Multiple Desktop Options ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/synex-13-u11-released-with-multiple-desktop-options/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:21:32

  • Autism Diagnoses Spiked After COVID-19, But Probably Not For The Reason You Think ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/autism-diagnoses-spiked-after-covid-19-but-probably-not-for-the-reason-you-think    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:21:57

  • Chromebooks almost 12% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/philippines/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 15:37:47

  • AMD FPGA Tools 2026.1 Install on Ubuntu https://www.hackster.io/whitney-knitter/amd-fpga-tools-2026-1-install-on-ubuntu-56de98    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:13:42

  • "This is your friendly reminder that a new Arch Linux ISO snapshot is now available for download for August 2026, powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.1 kernel series." https://9to5linux.com/first-arch-linux-iso-powered-by-linux-kernel-7-1-is-now-available-for-download    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:14:27

  • "4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced today the release and general availability of 4MLinux 52.0 as the latest stable version of this minimalist and independent Linux distro featuring the lightweight JWM window manager." https://9to5linux.com/4mlinux-52-0-released-with-better-support-for-legacy-gpus-linux-kernel-6-18-lts    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:14:45

  • AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For RDNA 5 GPUs With New DCN6 Display Engine Patches https://wccftech.com/amd-prepares-linux-driver-support-for-rdna-5-gpus-with-new-dcn6-display-engine-patches/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:15:13

  • GTA V Enhanced Performance Comparison on Linux and Windows https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/sravnenie-proizvoditelnosti-gta-v-enhanced-na-linux-i-windows    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:15:52

  • AMD skips to DCN6 for its next-generation Radeon display engine https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rdna5-linux-patches-reveal-dcn6-display-engine-and-gfx13-link    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:16:16

  • Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arch-linux-disables-aur-package-adoption-to-stop-malware-flood/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:16:46

  • Sapling says this article by Heath Callahan is LLM slop ... about slop https://forkast.news/refluxfs-a-nine-year-old-linux-kernel-bug-found-by-ai-in-weeks-affects-16-4-million-systems/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:20:09

  • "And as I was getting ready to leave, packing up my collapsable chair and putting it away in its bag, she came over to see me off. And as we both confirmed we'd be back for the fall concert, she very lightly touched my arm, and we said our goodbyes." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-02-2.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:43:29

  • "Back when I added a factorial operator to my assembler [1], the code only applied it to numeric literals because the code that implemented it appeared in the same function as parsing a numeric literal. I only found the bug when I tried to apply a factorial to a subexpression in parenthesis, for example, -(2+1)!." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/01.1    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:44:11

  • "The girl I had a big crush on at the end of university has just bought a very large, very expensive boat. One of my high school friends, the most brilliant of us by a mile, has become an AI-poster on LinkedIn. His job titles have been very impressive, but it doesn't seem to have saved him from the brain rot." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-02.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:45:50

  • "As I told you in some previous post[1], I retired early some years ago because of some health issues. And it bothers me a little, that some people might think I'm just a lazy fuck! I don't know if this is really the case, but I really suffered hard the longest time of my life." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-08-02-3_weeks_on_a_Caribbean_island_every_year.txt    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:46:34

  • "I might or I mightn’t read more books from this guy. Reading over his bibliography, he sure has a lot of interesting pitches that makes me really curious." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/cormac_mccarthy-all_the_pretty_horses    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:47:36

  • "They have arrived. Mindless drones grabbing my entire Gopher hole. They're not just making a map of our Gopher space, i.e. they don't just request menu selectors -- no, they're grabbing everything, every file." gopher://movq.de/0/phlog/2026/2026-08/2026-08-02--crawlers-in-gopher-space.txt    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:48:26

  • "This post is written in response to Chris Shaw's August 2026 IndieWeb Carnival prompt, Purpose." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/purpose-intention-action    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:50:23

  • "Landed. I gather my bags from the overhead. I didn't check anything - just carry-ons. My tee-shirt stretches upwards as I do, to fetch my bags, revealing more of my fat gut than I'd like" gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/08/02/00/deplaned/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:51:02

  • Tutorial gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/hack01    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:51:19

  • "In the last few months I've been doing less and less programming at work. Being the technical lead meant I was doing more meetings than coding but with big changes in the company I've been almost all meetings, design, and story writing." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/got-the-python-itch.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:51:50

  • "You might think it odd to add support for floating point constants for an 8-bit CPU" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2024/02/07.1    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:52:31

  • "i have returned from a trip to the home country! i always forget that it's not in fact a holiday. that i still sort of run a household, except instead of a comfortable, familiar routine to support me, there's tons of stuff to do and people to meet, daily" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260516    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:53:41

  • "this is still going and serving me well! i definitely feel supported and more active and alive, but it did take a while to get here. even though summer is still hard, i am happy to initiate activities and accept others' initiating them, including basketball?? very out of character, but exercise is part of the habits, so why not!" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/supportivehabits    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 16:54:16

  • Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/hungary/#monthly-200902-202608 MinceR    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 17:15:44

  • GNU/Linux + ChromeOS about 14% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/greece/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 17:16:26

  • Also up in Italy https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/italy/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 17:16:46

  • Windows collapsing https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/india/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 17:25:15

  • Windows collapsed https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iraq/#monthly-200902-202608 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/iraq/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 18:49:20

  • "In a statement on his website, external, Pocock, who is a software engineer, is asking voters to read about his work on ethics in technology, safety of children online, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and cybersecurity." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlw69p6lyeo    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 19:03:40

  • 17% GNU/Linux https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 20:04:11

  • "Farage can expect to win easily despite the chaos, ..." https://boingboing.net/2026/08/02/clacton-by-sea-voters-get-the-longest-ballot-in-uk-election-history.html    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 20:04:51

  • Cheeto song https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tKHzXBroSaM    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 20:12:56

  • Prisons Are for Criminals https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/02/prisons-are-for-criminals/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 20:33:57

  • Writing More Because Bad People Want You to Write Less https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/02/writing-more/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 20:49:31

  • Rust, slop, and software patents. Paid by LF cultists. https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/    

posted Sunday, August 02, 2026 at 21:22:15
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