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The double extortion of a Russian ransomware threatens the medical records that Diater has kept for 10 years. https://www.apdnoticies.com/en/data-protection/the-double-extortion-of-a-russian-ransomware-threatens-the-medical-records-that-diater-has-kept-for-10-years_21644_102.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 05:58:00

  • disinformation https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-russian-disinformation-targets-german-elections/a-78193305    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 05:58:37

  • Fake 'FSF' turns 25 https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260803-01.en.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:00:10

  • Antiques Roadshow https://xkcd.com/3281/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:00:56

  • Maze https://xkcd.com/3280/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:01:07

  • Id Software Dev Says Xbox Doesn’t ‘Understand Art’ And That After Layoffs It Is ‘Impossible’ To Make Big Games Like Doom: The Dark Ages https://kotaku.com/id-software-dev-says-xbox-doesnt-understand-art-and-that-after-layoffs-it-is-impossible-to-make-big-games-like-doom-the-dark-ages-2000722563    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:11:48

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1733.jpg    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:15:05

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2090.jpg    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:15:10

  • heirlooms gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/heirlooms    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:16:23

  • "The art of bike shedding is to argue about something that is suitable to be argued about; this includes the term bike shedding itself." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/08/07/bike-shedding.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:16:56

  • "To be honest, this was the closest I've come to going to one of these reunions. A few weeks prior, I had pulled out my old senior yearbook and spent an afternoon looking through it." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/reunion    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:17:33

  • "In the happier days of the 1990s, shopping malls were still seen as the core of a community. At the time, malls had everything, and lots more were built around them. Malls were destinations, not just places to get in and out." gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2026-08-07-tribute-to-lloyd-center    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:18:23

  • "They most likely used their radios as it was becoming illegal to use your phone in your vehicle in some cases. Amateur radio was exempt from all those rules." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/re_radio_amateurism.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:18:59

  • "It was the dept of commerce and some congressmen visiting dum--ss" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzed80jf    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:54:19

  • LOOPHOLE: "contractors are working based on a 3/6 months renewable periods. So, when IBM is not renewing the contracts, it is NOT RA's." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 06:56:27

  • "The day has finally arrived. Soplos Linux 2026.08 is now available as a stable version. After months of betas and release candidates, the project takes the final leap." https://soploslinux.com/soplos-linux-2026-08-ya-es-estable-todas-las-novedades/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:46:51

  • "But that’s not what happened at all. Godier proceeded through a series of escalations up to the App Review Board and the Review Board responded that they determined the original rejection was valid" ☛ https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours | Source: John Gruber    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:50:13

  • "It occurs to me that the browser has standards and the App Store has judgment." ☛ https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/07/browsers-have-standards-the-app.html |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:50:29

  • "If libraries are restricted from keeping working copies of digital media due to software restrictions, prohibitive costs, and legal concerns" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/digital-only-media-libraries/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:51:20

  • "This year, one of my aspirations is to rely less on the big streaming services for my entertainment." ☛ https://kedara.eu/owning-media-again/ | Source: Ruben Verweij    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:51:29

  • "UPDATE The FCC wants to see if direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity can work in unlicensed spectrum as well as it does using licensed bands." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-proposes-expanding-d2d-to-unlicensed-wireless-devices/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:52:36

  • "Today, both state-owned industries (like the DMV) and private companies can hire (“hire”) prisoners. And they get tax credits for doing so." ☛ https://www.rogue.site/editorials/taylor-farms-cyclospora-prison-labor-exploitation/ |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:52:52

  • "When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good — but not entirely." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:53:02

  • "Two University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:53:15

  • "I mean...you had to see this coming right? I will rue the day they finally absorb all the functions into IBM but...its coming. It's inevitable." https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1uqubjb/red_hat_it_is_being_moved_to_ibm_effective_oct_1/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:54:20

  • "Expect your free wheeling days are over once you get blue washed"    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:55:04

  • "What to expect? Look at historical records from previous IBM acquisitions like Louts Software, all redundant orgs will be dissolved and either wholly replaced with IBM existing ones (and the RH staff made redundant) or parts of it will be merged .. or replaced with staff from lower cost GEOS like India .. This is no mystery its IBMs way and you can just google for it to see their playbook on such things."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:55:13

  • "All software engineering will eventually go to India. Then IBM will be shocked and stunned when you try to explain to them that Foreign Nationals are not allow to work on US Government service."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:55:43

  • "IBM tried to get our US Federal government acquisition to help them build a tool for the US Air Force that would run in FedRamp High and higher environments and IBM wanted to do development out of Saudi Arabia. Again they were shocked when we told them to go pound sand, literally."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:55:48

  • "You should expect Joanne Wright to butcher your budget starting 10/2."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:56:24

  • "IBM has learnt how to integrate by smashing HashiCorp apart. Good luck."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:56:29

  • "Rip redhat"    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:57:48

  • "The worst part is Redhat is having 1 month of notice period and IBM is having 3 month of notice period"    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:57:53

  • "Compromised…. This subreddit is heavily comprised…most likely leadership from IBM go involved. They are regulating every single post that gets posted. If you want unfiltered IBM comm then move to the other subreddit." https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1vh5h6q/compromised/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 07:59:08

  • In essence, the people who attack Techrights are the "voices of the corrupt", the footsoldiers of criminals in corporate boardrooms    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:18:15

  • "Many people have a vague sense that there is less professional journalism than there used to be." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/paying-for-news-is-cheaper-than-not | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:18:41

  • "Journalists and civil society are increasingly being silenced by accusations of copyright infringement, says senior researcher Alberto Fittarelli in a report by the OCCRP." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/inside-the-fake-copyright-racket-silencing-news-outlets/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:18:49

  • "Until recently, identifying malicious accounts was often quite straightforward." ☛ https://theconversation.com/ai-is-making-disinformation-harder-to-spot-but-weve-found-a-new-way-to-catch-it-288671 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:19:12

  • "We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things" ☛ https://chuck.is/preposterous/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:19:24

  • "Many people conclude from this that the answer is digital elections, but with a different system." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/07/why-a-perfect-digital-election-still-wouldnt-be-viable/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:19:39

  • "The open source model is a natural fit for modern Europe. Across the continent, individuals, experts, and public officials join forces to advance technology for the common good." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/informatics/newsletter-archives/66308 | Source: European Commission    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:20:23

  • "Plenty of hotels on bypassed US highways fell into disuse and disrepair. Many were ultimately demolished. But the Walker’s owners found a way forward, and turned their rooms into apartments." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/08/07/changes-at-the-walker-motel/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:24:33

  • "But because Verrus submitted its application before the moratorium announcement, the city is still processing its proposed data center project." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/protesters-haul-a-guillotine-to-city-council-meeting-about-a-potential-ai-data-center-company-rep-cornered-by-protestors-it-no-longer-felt-safe-to-stay-developer-escorted-out-by-police | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:25:30

  • "Data centers are becoming “a big driver for both power and gas demand in the US,” says Ashish Sethia, the global head of commodities and energy at BloombergNEF." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/chevron-williams-driving-data-center-boom/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:26:07

  • "A large data center can directly consume as much water each day as about 2,600 households." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/08/07/data-centers-and-water-what-congress-found/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:26:26

  • "It comes down to the stealing of everything that is and the taking of everything that is" ☛ https://truthout.org/audio/you-cant-drink-data-native-communities-are-resisting-the-ai-death-cycle/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:26:39

  • "What the marketing gets right is that the fast fashion problem is real." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/497499/wardrobe-digital-closet-catalog-app-indyx-environment | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:26:50

  • "That’s why the public needs to know who is doing what when important decisions are made inside these buildings and departments." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-responsible | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:34:09

  • "Or maybe Peter Thiel, for hating democracy? You’re getting closer. But no." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-the-worlds-worst-billionaire | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:34:41

  • Peter Thiel is bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker "Or maybe Peter Thiel, for hating democracy? You’re getting closer. But no." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-the-worlds-worst-billionaire | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:35:16

  • Peter Thiel is bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/billionaire-peter-thiel-is-reportedly-bankrolling-hulk-hogan-s-lawsuit-against-gawker-a7048901.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:35:25

  • "Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-enshittification-of-everything | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:35:37

  • "Authorities already use police surveillance cameras in dozens of Finnish municipalities." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20239924 | Source: Yle    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:38:47

  • "You need to remember this. Any AI prompts you enter via this service travel first to Poison Claude's servers, which then are forwarded to the real Claude, and then the answer is passed back." ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/beware-cut-price-ai-services-read-your-every-word | Source: Fortra LLC    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:45:33

  • "Through data brokers, ICE is buying the information you provided to open a credit card." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ice-is-buying-access-to-credit-card-records.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:45:58

  • "At no point did the watch show any sign that it was listening, taking photos, or otherwise being hacked" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:46:15

  • "examines how Palantir is capturing ever-larger government contracts while paying no US federal corporate income tax and shifting much of its foreign profits back to the US, avoiding taxes in Europe." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-paid-no-federal-income-tax-its-global-tax-rate-is-just-1-4-percent/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:46:37

  • "Several months ago, as part of my internal move to the “IdP” team at Nextcloud" ☛ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/08/07/whats-new-with-saml-support-in-nextcloud/ | Source: Carl Schwan    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:47:02

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/exposed-rockwell-controllers-water-system-attacks/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:51:10

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/498156/cyberattack-iran-water-hackers-cybersecurity | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:51:14

  • "In the second phase, prosecutors asked the judge to impose fundamental changes at Meta aimed at reining in addictive features, improving age verification and preventing child sexual exploitation through default privacy settings and closer oversight." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5924581 | Source: NPR    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:52:09

  • "An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta" ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696 | Source: ABC    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:52:23

  • "And when this type of person reads my posts, it feels like they do so with tunnel vision" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/behind-the-piece/ | Source: Ava    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:52:34

  • "in conjunction with YouTube" ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/youtubes-new-programs-to-encourage-binge-watching/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:52:47

  • "But the reasons Knight gives for shutting it down are completely understandable." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/echofeed-sunset/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:53:04

  • "What can I learn from the demise of EchoFeed? Earlier this year, when I heard about this service" ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/08/06/any-lessons-from-echofeeds-closure.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:53:23

  • "Sato interviewed Mike Moschella, director of analytics at marketing firm DKC, about the wisdom of the crowds at Reddit and Wikipedia: [...]" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/reddit-generative-engine-optimization/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:53:32

  • "The ruling, issued late Thursday, was in addition to $375 million that Meta was ordered to pay in the same case in March" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/technology/meta-new-mexico-child-safety.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:53:47

  • "The twin forces of cellphone footage and instantaneous social posting have long cultivated what is now understood to be a society-wide problem" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/06/the-end-of-looking-away-from-violence-on-social-media/ | Source: Salon    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:53:56

  • "We studied what happens when Large Language Models (LLMs) generate vulnerability patches for recently disclosed, complex vulnerabilities." ☛ https://1password.com/blog/why-ai-generated-patches-still-require-human-review |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:54:21

  • "You see, my student enthusiastically launched his spatial analysis project with a heap of vibe coding in R." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/the-gis-research-assistant-job-has-transformed/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:54:36

  • "All this is not just one lone weirdo running tryouts for her cult in some way that’s nothing to do with the rest of the subculture." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/06/the-ai-doomsday-cult-recruits-social-media-influencers/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:54:52

  • "Despite these two limitations, git already provides the solution for agents: git is distributed and you can have a master repo for your company" ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/a-new-model-for-source-control/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:55:04

  • "That possibility deeply alarmed researchers, who often use Google Earth to help verify images and videos of locations at a time when AI-generated misinformation and disinformation have become rampant online." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/google-earth-releases-swiftly-retracts-ai-feature-to-make-fake-satellite-images/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:55:23

  • "All of that could take an Apple engineer hours of time, configuring test environments, attempting to replicate flaws, only to ultimately verify that a flaw may not actually exist." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/apple-bug-bounty-ai-missing-exploits | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:55:34

  • "And then, at the darkest end of the spectrum, you have deals with devils, or movies like Curry Barker’s 2025 horror film Obsession." ☛ https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-08-07-getting-freaky-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Ian Duncan    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:55:45

  • "In the meantime, people are scared as scientists used AI to create 16 new viruses from scratch, not found in nature." ☛ https://smist08.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/international-competition-in-the-ai-space/ | Source: Stephen Smith    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:55:56

  • "I just have not heard a single person outside of the tech community talk about an agent that they use" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-normal-people-arent-using-ai-agents/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:56:08

  • "It’s severing the intergenerational chains along which film crafts are passed down" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/hollywood-film-tv-production-intergenerational | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:56:42

  • "Today I find iPadOS 26 is even worse than I thought" ☛ https://probably.co.uk/posts/is-apples-privacy-line-bullshit/ | Source: Mark Phillips    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:57:09

  • "Walking in to the room was an overwhelming experience." ☛ https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/2026-08-07-the-waiting-room/ | Source: But she's a girl...    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:57:39

  • "People sometimes point to individual consumption to argue that the US is better off than Western Europe." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/western-europe-us-consumption-health | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 08:57:57

  • "Linux support is specifically not advertised, but I was able to get all hardware functionality working in Fedora 44" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/excited-for-intel-efficiency/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:48:25

  • "GitHub developer Daniel Lemire" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/scientist-says-ram-pricing-has-reverted-to-normalized-2007-levels-memory-prices-have-been-falling-exponentially-for-decades-but-the-ai-shortage-undid-20-years-of-progress-in-a-matter-of-months | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:48:48

  • "When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/07/chernobyls-robots-or-the-hackathon-from-hell/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:48:58

  • "Anyone who was working in publishing or working with readers in any way in 2012 understood what happened." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/08/nyt-ranks-50-best-thrillers-of-century.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:50:17

  • "Most of what I do online comes back to the same few interests: making useful things, learning in public, and trying to keep some version of the old, weird, personal web alive." ☛ https://zacharykai.net/notes/pb/christian | Source: Zachary Kai    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:51:13

  • "The likely thinking of cultural institutions is that to remain financially resilient they have to spend more on money-making attractions, like artwork and exhibitions." ☛ https://theconversation.com/museums-face-growing-cyber-threats-but-security-remains-an-afterthought-286488 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:51:40

  • "The key thing that makes this possible is that the least significant digits of n only affect the least significant digits of log(n)." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/07/cos200/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:52:07

  • "Power series are an excellent way to calculate functions near the center of the series, such as computing sine for small angles." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/07/how-not-to-calculate-cos/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:52:31

  • "The prover can convince the verifier of this without sharing the actual solution to the problem." ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:52:46

  • [Old] "At his observatory, Brahe kept meticulous observations of the heavens." ☛ https://www.space.com/19623-tycho-brahe-biography.html | Source: Space    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:53:07

  • "Just like we don’t need to think about those small, almost invisible important things. That is, until something stops working or doesn’t feel right." ☛ https://antoniosantos.io/the-small-almost-invisible-really-important-things/ | Source: Antonio Santos    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:53:40

  • "I’ve followed a few different rabbit trails of links into communities and I thought it’d be interesting to post some of the trails here for future navigators of the world wide web." ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2026/08/following-a-link/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:53:54

  • "Why are socialism, marijuana, and original blockbusters ascendant? Where do "Western values" come from? Why do modern people torture ourselves with comparison and guilt?" ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-9-questions-im-obsessed-with | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:54:09

  • "Still, I don’t want to think about that, it just came up on its own." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/about-books-and-their-translations/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:54:34

  • "Why is that? What is he doing that makes him such a perfect emblem for our time? I don’t think it’s about his themes, which are hazy, lightly held and rarely discussed." ☛ https://iandunt.substack.com/p/nostalgia-is-a-terrible-drug-9e2 |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:54:50

  • "Apparently the phone turns the apostrophe (U+0027) into a right single quote (U+2019)" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/07/corrupted-apostrophes/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:55:14

  • "To search across the history, the shell user can use the “reverse-i-search” feature available in Bash" ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33226 | Source: SANS    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:56:00

  • "Zsh glob qualifiers can select files by many built-in attributes: type, size, modification time, and more." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/08/07/zsh-e-glob-qualifiers/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:56:27

  • "It’s another day, another new package day here." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/08/07/introducing-django-msgspec/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:58:12

  • "Programming languages have many ways to combine literal strings and variables." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/f-is-for-f-strings-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:58:26

  • "The code that a program runs is provided by the developer of the program." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/e-is-for-environment-variables-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:58:40

  • "I’m a fan of “micro” implementations like microkanren. They are more adaptable and easier to explain." ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/kd_intu/ | Source: Philip Zucker    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:59:04

  • "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #385." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/outermost-uncommon.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 12:59:28

  • "As a system administrator, I spend a certain amount of time spelunking through the history of some particular file in Git because I'm trying to understand how it evolved" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsGitBlameOverTime | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:00:08

  • "To list all files in your repository as they were at a given commit, use git ls-tree with its -r and --name-only options: [...]" ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/08/07/git-list-files-at-commit/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:00:20

  • ""git stash -p" has been optimized by reusing cached index entries in its temporary index, avoiding unnecessary lstat() calls on unchanged files." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/08/07/git-stash-p-optimization-story/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:00:36

  • "This particular post comes out of left field a bit." ☛ https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/08/executable-emoji.html | Source: Adventures in PC Emulation    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:00:55

  • "The FSF worked quickly with Hacktron to address this vulnerability and other security issues, which are now resolved." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-publishes-incident-report-on-gnu-savannah-vulnerabilities | Source: FSF    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:01:14

  • "Participants will choose one of two tracks: developing AI agents on the Defense Department’s GenAI.mil platform or advanced AI development using the service and school’s resources." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/07/marine-corps-hackathon-announced-for-fall/ | Source: USMC    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:01:27

  • Open Data ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/the-journey-of-nycopendata-from-classroom-to-community/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:02:04

  • "HTML Energy has 3 goals right now: [...]" ☛ https://html.energy/goals.html | Source: HTML Energy    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:02:44

  • "Hand write, raw Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and make a webpage during the worldwide event, held in early August each year. Read HTML Energy’s Goals page to learn more." ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/html-day/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:02:53

  • "But if your website mostly serves the same pages to everyone, you’ll probably be fine with pre-generated HTML. The trouble comes in when people need to edit it." ☛ https://davidyat.es/2026/08/07/static-websites/ | Source: David Yates    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:04:03

  • "Everything else works fine, as far as I can tell. Of course, if it isn’t for you, I’d appreciate being told." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/site-update | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:04:15

  • "I recently completed importing a backup of some of my old blog posts." ☛ https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/05/how-i-make-my-blog-posts-more-resilient/ |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:04:36

  • "I can’t know for sure, but here’s what I suspect happened." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/fixing-my-published-drafts/ | Source: Sal    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:04:54

  • "lets say you want to make a web thing that you intend other people to host on their own servers." ☛ https://w.on-t.work/web-deployment-model |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:05:45

  • "While mobile networks cover roughly 98 percent of New Zealand's population, they only reach about 50 percent of the landmass." ☛ https://billbennett.co.nz/nz-direct-to-cell-satellite-revolution-gartner/ | Source: Bill Bennett    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:06:13

  • "It all starts with a SIM card." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-everyday-use.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:06:30

  • "We’re not going back to a world where app development is scarce (if such a world ever existed). App development is just going to get easier from here on out." ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/08/08/native-apps-are-not-the.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:06:41

  • "We previously covered the journey in getting the vending machine back into a state where it’d actually reliably produce cotton candy again" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/07/hacking-a-6000-cotton-candy-machine-to-fully-control-it/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:07:17

  • "Given that the no doubt totally sustainable build-out of data centers has sent both solid state and magnetic hard drive prices soaring, though" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/07/music-is-back-on-optical-disk-in-this-plex-server/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:07:34

  • "After nearly being hit by a tornado that NEXRAD didn't see coming, Koakno decided to build his own DIY self-contained mobile weather radar built from a $5 salvaged RV satellite dome" ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/building-a-homemade-weather-radar-with-a-hackrf-or-plutosdr-and-salvaged-automatic-rv-dish/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:07:47

  • "The main difference is that it has 27 holes around its perimeter, each surrounded by a copper oval: these are capacitive touch pads. It also features a USB-C port, a reset button, and an RP2040 microcontroller chip." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/spoke-an-rp2040-powered-touch-controller/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:08:00

  • "The Water Watch Center (WWC) will provide direct support to smaller water utilities to mitigate attacks" ☛ https://therecord.media/water-watch-center-utilities-def-con-franklin-nrwa | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:08:32

  • [Old] "Debian, though, has more remixes and respins and derivatives, and via them more users, than any other Linux distro" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/software/2023/08/17/debian-turns-30-and-important-to-linux-world-as-ever/1138503 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:09:08

  • "Fast forward to 2016 and we now know just how prescient Murdock’s words were [...]" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/the-birth-of-debian-in-the-words-of-ian-murdock-himself/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:09:25

  • "Linux distribution timeline." ☛ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg |    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:09:41

  • "During my allocated time I uploaded or worked on: [...]" ☛ https://blog.alteholz.eu/2026/08/my-debian-activities-in-july-2026/ | Source: Thorsten Alteholz    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:09:53

  • "I tracked it down to a missing line in /etc/pam.d/sshd." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/07/freebsd-etc-pam-d-sshd-was-updated-overwritten-no-merge-attempt/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:10:19

  • "A sure sign that a new OpenBSD will soon be ready is that a new OpenBGPD release appears. On August 6th, 2026, the project released OpenBGPD version 9.2." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260807061435 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:10:32

  • "Package managers have had a significant impact on how we build, distribute, and consume software." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/11/15/package-manager-timeline.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:10:55

  • "That’s why I compiled my own Battle Box keyword reference guide" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/my-custom-keyword-reference-guide-for-magic-the-gathering-battle-box/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:11:22

  • "Highlighting in CSS has been beneficial for applying a highlight on specific text or text fragments during user selection, emphasizing a piece of information on a website" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/working-with-highlight-using-progressive-enhancement/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:12:01

  • "Accessing services via raw IP addresses isn’t that swell; I’m no Rain Man." ☛ https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2026/08/06/domains_certificates_and_dns/ | Source: Jonas Hietala    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:12:22

  • "Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have" ☛ https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/ | Source: Lea Verou    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:12:36

  • "I’d expected this to be a long post, but it turns out, DSL is pretty simple (at least above the physical layer)." ☛ https://nickvsnetworking.com/adventures-with-dsl/ | Source: Nick    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:12:49

  • "How does your satnav find your way home? How do networks decide which way to send data packets?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-a-raspberry-pi-pico-route-finder-using-dijkstras-algorithm/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:13:06

  • "Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/07/this-filesystem-is-born-to-fail/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:13:26

  • "The integration of NVIDIA Infra Controller (NICo), a software component of DSX OS, enables operators to ease and simplify lifecycle management by leveraging automated bare-metal provisioning, and to quickly establish secure, multi-tenant revenue streams" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/deploying-red-hat-ai-nvidia-dsxtm-platform-scalable-ai-clouds | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:16:02

  • "Alan Cowles presents during the OpenShift Spotlight at Red Hat Summit 2026." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/managing-virtual-machines-red-hat-openshift-service-mesh | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:16:19

  • "Companies are responding by capping external AI budgets and pulling licenses. Fair enough." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stop-burning-your-ai-budget-optimize-gpu-usage-and-model-deployment-workflow-navigator | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:16:34

  • IBM Red Hat promoting slop    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:17:11

  • "I’ve put together 20 networking interview questions that are commonly asked for Linux System Administrator, DevOps, and technical support roles." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/networking-interview-questions/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:18:00

  • "Desktop Linux Just Cracked 10% Market Share - and Windows 11 is Mostly the Reason - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/06/1421244    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:18:22

  • The EU's plan: Break free from US tech dominance | old: "EU:s plan: Frigöra sig från USA:s techdominans | SVT Nyheter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/eus-plan-frigora-sig-fran-usas-techdominans    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:19:31

  • old: "Analys: ”Europa vill bryta digitala beroendet” | SVT Nyheter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/ekonomi/europa-vill-bryta-digitala-beroendet iophk: so of course they focus on publishing GAFAM's point of view on sovereignty    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:19:55

  • "Receipts! DOGE [sic] Fails an Audit - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/07/receipts-doge-fails-an-audit/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:20:08

  • "Lindsey Graham, Man of Our Times - by Jay Nordlinger" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/lindsey-graham-man-of-our-times    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:20:22

  • "The Good News Trump Won’t Mention - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-good-news-trump-wont-mention    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:20:35

  • "The Exorcism of the Gerasene Demoniac" https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/the-exorcism-of-the-gerasene-demoniac    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:20:50

  • blocked by gratuitous javascript https://cpo.noaa.gov/global-analysis-reveals-wildland-urban-interface-fires-carry-higher-health-burden/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:21:03

  • "Ruling-Class Disarray Let the GOP Go Off the Rails" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/republican-party-trump-business-class    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:21:15

  • "Bernie Sanders: El-Sayed’s Win the Most ‘Extraordinary Victory in Modern American Politics’" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-el-sayeds-win-the-most-extraordinary-victory-in-modern-american-politics/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:21:27

  • Autobase 2.10 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/autobase-210-released-3357/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:31:34

  • Hylke Bons: Icon for Stencil ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/08/07/stencil    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:32:21

  • Michael Calabrese: Pitivi Timeline Ruler | Widget Finalization ☞ https://mccalabrese.github.io/gnome-blog/posts/fourth-post/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:33:11

  • The drone age demands a new theory of military protection ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-drone-age-demands-a-new-theory-of-military-protection/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:35:32

  • The real Thucydides trap is inside Western tech ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-real-thucydides-trap-is-inside-western-tech/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:35:42

  • Stable kernel releases for Friday with a single bug fix ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1087743/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:36:19

  • Tax and social security offices keep serving in Russian, as Vilnius scales back its use ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3013323/tax-and-social-security-offices-keep-serving-in-russian-as-vilnius-scales-back-its-use    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:37:20

  • US Senate Passes Russia Sanctions Bill Targeting Moscow's Energy Revenues ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-senate-trump-graham-sanctions/33824412.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:37:36

  • She Is Russia’s Richest Woman. Her Business Empire Is Going Up in Flames. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/europe/russia-wildberries-tatyana-kim.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:37:50

  • What to Know About Wildberries, the Company in Ukraine’s Cross Hairs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/world/europe/wildberries-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:37:59

  • Jokes and art or racism: blurred lines in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/07.08.2026-jokes-and-art-or-racism-blurred-lines-in-latvia.a657949/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:38:18

  • Lithuania, Latvia see Kremlin-linked retailer close – but a lookalike raises questions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3011087/lithuania-latvia-see-kremlin-linked-retailer-close-but-a-lookalike-raises-questions    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:38:32

  • Lithuanian man detained after driving through closed border checkpoint into Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3014218/lithuanian-man-detained-after-driving-through-closed-border-checkpoint-into-russia    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:38:43

  • Family of Former U.S. Marine Detained in Russia Says He Is in Serious Condition ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/us/robert-gilman-russia-torture.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:38:53

  • Lithuania freezes assets of Mere operator after EU sanctions on Russian owner ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3014161/lithuania-freezes-assets-of-mere-operator-after-eu-sanctions-on-russian-owner    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:39:26

  • More Mass Layoffs Coming IBM's Way (Ones I.C.B.M. Cannot Hide, Cannot Convince Enough People to Leave or Unjustifiably PIP Them When They Say No) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/08/More_Mass_Layoffs_Coming_IBM_s_Way_Ones_IBM_Cannot_Hide_Cannot_.shtml    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:40:01

  • Boy Kills Grandparents and Then Five Teachers, Thai Authorities Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/asia/thailand-school-shooting.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:40:29

  • Retirement doesn’t make your health benefits simpler. It makes them more complicated ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/fed-thread/2026/08/retirement-doesnt-make-your-health-benefits-simpler-it-makes-them-more-complicated/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:40:59

  • Andrew Weissmann Thinks The Insurrectionist Can Be Held to Account ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/andrew-weissmann-thinks-donald-trump-can-be-held-to-account    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:41:34

  • Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #539 - Hey Hi (AI) at the edge and a celebrity 3D print ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/KUHbHYrDVcsSyL41RdIq3w    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:42:01

  • GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Bugs Fixed ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/gcc-16-2-released-with-more-than-100-bugs-fixed/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:42:49

  • No Human, No Copyright: The Legal Risk of Vibe‑Coded Software ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/no-human-no-copyright-the-legal-risk-of-vibe-coded-software/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:43:17

  • Inside the Fake Copyright Racket Silencing News Outlets ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/inside-the-fake-copyright-racket-silencing-news-outlets/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:45:09

  • Federal Judge Partially Tosses Designer Shoe Warehouse’s Declaratory Judgment Complaint Against Sony Music — Wider Social Media Infringement Battle Rages On ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/07/dsw-sony-music-copyright-lawsuit/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:45:59

  • Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 dev 3 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-8-dev-3/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:46:26

  • Why and how the Austrian Military moved to LibreOffice (Part 1) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/07/why-and-how-the-austrian-military-moved-to-libreoffice-part-1/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:46:53

  • How To Install Fail2Ban on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fail2ban-fedora-44/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:47:30

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

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:47:47

  • How To Install Jupyter Notebook on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jupyter-notebook-fedora-44/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:48:08

  • Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1087742/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:50:07

  • Storms batter southern Lithuania, toppling trees and damaging buildings ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3014064/storms-batter-southern-lithuania-toppling-trees-and-damaging-buildings    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:50:22

  • Canada Declares War Against YouTube Stream-Rippers—This Time with the Help of IFPI ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/07/canada-war-on-youtube-stream-rippers/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:51:15

  • Remi Collet: 🚫 No Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/08/07/No-AI    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:56:35

  • FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/07/freebsd-etc-pam-d-sshd-was-updated-overwritten-no-merge-attempt/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:57:20

  • Nigerian artist transforms ordinary clay into intricate works of art ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nigerian-artist-transforms-ordinary-clay-into-intricate-works-of-art    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 13:58:22

  • Getting serious with /e/OS - Hurdles and obstacles ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-everyday-use.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:05:53

  • Some Malware is Legal Because It's Made and Distributed by Politically-Connected GAFAM ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Some_Malware_is_Legal_Because_It_s_Made_and_Distributed_by_Poli.shtml    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:06:32

  • Exclusive: WFP to extend Palantir contract despite concerns raised in leaked audit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260807-never-speak-about-palantir-leaked-audit-reveals-the-un-s-palantir-problem-united-nations-ai-tech-wfp-iaea-ethics    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:21:29

  • Video Captures Chaos as Earthquake Strikes Japan Hospital Mid-Surgery ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/asia/hospital-video-earthquake-surgery.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:21:53

  • Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-data-center-fort-wayne-indiana-wetlands    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:22:24

  • Taiwan President oversees coastal strike drill during annual war games ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-president-oversees-coastal-strike-drill-during-annual-war-games    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:22:38

  • The Journey of {nycOpenData}: From Classroom to Community ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/the-journey-of-nycopendata-from-classroom-to-community/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:23:39

  • FSF News: FSF publishes incident report on GNU Savannah vulnerabilities ☞ http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-publishes-incident-report-on-gnu-savannah-vulnerabilities    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:24:10

  • Bits from Debian: DebConf26 closes in Santa Fe and DebConf27 announced ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/08/debconf26-closes.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:24:55

  • ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ice-is-buying-access-to-credit-card-records.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:27:52

  • Postgres Summit US 2026 Schedule is now live! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgres-summit-us-2026-schedule-is-now-live-3359/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:29:17

  • In Other News: Hey Hi (AI) Slop Limits Fashion Company Apple Bounties, North Carolina Port Attacks, Hackers Target Wall Street ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-ai-slop-limits-apple-bounties-north-carolina-port-attacks-hackers-target-wall-street/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:29:58

  • Microsoft, Fashion Company Apple Release Fresh Security Updates ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-apple-release-fresh-security-updates/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:30:10

  • "Daniel Pocock (Independent)" in The Independent today https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/clacton-by-election-poll-nigel-farage-count-binface-b3029745.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:31:50

  • USA: Democratic party's progressive wing 'can win primaries', but can they win in swing states? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/usa-democrats-progressive-wing-can-win-primaries-can-they-win-a-general-election    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:53:29

  • Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign defense pact ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/turkey-saudi-arabia-and-pakistan-sign-defense-pact    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:53:51

  • Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Outcomes of Clinical Trials ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kalshi-defends-bet-drug-trials    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:54:36

  • Authorities Alarmed When Person With Measles Spends Entire Day Frolicking Around Universal Studios ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/authorities-alarmed-measles-universal-studios    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:55:11

  • 33 Students Treated for Deadly Bacteria Exposure When Classroom Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/students-exposed-deadly-bacteria    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:55:22

  • Red Hat encourages slop while at the same time banning it (in Flathub), very schizophrenic hype-driven lunacy/acid trip ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/07/upgrade-openshift-ai-faster-using-ai-coding-assistant    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:56:51

  • Frank Ch. Eigler: browsing custom metrics with pcp web applications ☞ http://web.elastic.org/~fche/blog4/posts/browsing_custom_metrics_with_pcp_web_applications/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:57:25

  • Indonesia battles Mount Bromo wildfire on Java island as El Nino takes root ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-battles-mount-bromo-wildfire-on-java-island-as-el-nino-takes-root    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:58:01

  • The Software Stewardship Lab launches ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1087812/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:58:22

  • Token Monitor – An ESP32-S3 desktop display that tracks Hey Hi (AI) coding assistant usage (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/07/token-monitor-an-esp32-s3-desktop-display-that-tracks-ai-coding-assistant-usage/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:59:16

  • In pictures: Drought exposes World War II ships, strands boats as Europe’s river levels plunge ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260807-in-pictures-drought-exposes-word-war-ii-ships-grounds-boats-europe-river-levels-plunge    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 14:59:53

  • Zola 0.23 and Tera 2 ☞ https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/zola-0-23-tera-2/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:00:35

  • This Week in Plasma: UI Improvements Galore ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/08/this-week-in-plasma-ui-improvements-galore/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:01:33

  • KDE Goals - Last Call For Submissions ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/07/kde-goals-last-call-for-submissions/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:02:05

  • Sophie Herold: GNOME Fellowship July 2026 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2026/08/07/gnome-fellowship-july-2026/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:02:30

  • South Korea recovers landmines washed from North by floods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-recovers-landmines-washed-from-north-by-floods    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:04:32

  • South Korea ministers clash publicly over North Korea policy as President Lee pushes engagement ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-ministers-clash-publicly-over-north-korea-policy-as-lee-pushes-engagement    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:05:00

  • South Korea vows truth over forced overseas adoptions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/south-korea-vows-truth-over-forced-overseas-adoptions    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:05:17

  • South Korean seniors are choosing airports to stay cool amid record-breaking heatwave ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-seniors-are-choosing-airports-to-stay-cool-amid-record-breaking-heatwave    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:05:56

  • North Koreans encouraged to eat ‘nutritious’ dog-meat soup during sweltering summer heat ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/08/07/world-news/north-koreans-encouraged-to-eat-nutritious-dog-meat-soup-during-sweltering-summer-heat/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:06:28

  • 3 arrested in Malaysian checkpoint for creating fake immigration movement records ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/3-arrested-in-malaysian-checkpoint-for-creating-fake-immigration-movement-records    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:07:01

  • Taipei says China’s traffic control order for Taiwan Strait during typhoon is ‘ridiculous’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taipei-says-chinas-traffic-control-order-for-taiwan-strait-during-typhoon-is-ridiculous    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:07:40

  • Pacific nations fail to agree on statement condemning China missile test ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/07/pacific-nations-fail-to-agree-on-statement-condemning-china-missile-test/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:08:15

  • Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:08:52

  • OpenSearch Is Done Being Called "the Elasticsearch Fork" ☞ https://itsfoss.com/open-search-bianca-lewis/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:09:44

  • Blue Whales Shouldn't Be Able to Hunt The Way They Do. Scientists Have Finally Discovered How They Pull It Off ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-starting-to-understand-the-largest-biomechanical-event-on-earth-whales-hunting-for-food-on-a-single-breath    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:11:29

  • Massive Study of 10 Million Siblings Links Birth Order To Risk of ADHD, Autism ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-study-of-10-million-siblings-links-birth-order-to-risk-of-adhd-autism    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:11:43

  • As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/as-ice-melts-antarctica-is-leaking-mercury-into-the-ocean    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:11:53

  • Week 9 & 10: Speed Ramp Implementation, MR Opened ☞ https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-9-10-speed-ramp-implementation-mr-opened/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:14:00

  • Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:14:33

  • Week 8 + Week 9: Reviews and subsetting form fields ☞ https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-8-week-9-reviews-and-subsetting-form-fields    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:15:08

  • Rise of Proprietary Chaffbot Company in the Patent System ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/rise-of-openai-in-the-patent-system.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:17:10

  • SCOTUS: Patent Owner Joins the Section 314(d) Cert Queue ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/scotus-patent-owner-joins-the-section-314d-cert-queue.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:17:25

  • Mesa 26.2.0 Released with OpenCL 3.1 Capability ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/mesa-26-2-0-released-with-opencl-3-1-capability/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:18:07

  • World's Biggest Glowing Vertebrate May Be Using Its Own Light as a Hunting Tool ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/biological-searchlight-worlds-largest-glowing-vertebrate-may-use-its-light-to-hunt-prey    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:21:52

  • The Opposite of Déjà Vu Exists And It's Even Stranger ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dj-vu-has-a-stranger-lesser-known-opposite-and-scientists-may-have-just-found-where-it-starts    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:22:01

  • A Biological Mechanism Linking Childhood Trauma to Future Health Has Been Discovered ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physical-scar-early-trauma-can-fundamentally-change-brain-cells-study-shows    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:22:12

  • The Real Reason Group Decisions Beat Solo Ones (Hint: It's Not Averaging) ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/groups-really-do-make-better-decisions-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:22:23

  • Wild Boars in Brazil Are Spreading Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-boars-in-brazil-are-spreading-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-scientists-warn    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:22:33

  • Malaria's Drug Resistance Is Becoming Alarmingly Sophisticated, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/malarias-drug-resistance-is-becoming-alarmingly-sophisticated-study-finds    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:22:44

  • How One Alum Helped Build a Community of Internet Leaders ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/08/how-one-alumni-helped-build-a-community-of-internet-leaders/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:23:24

  • 📝 2026-08-07 09:22: Follow up from this post - I just signed into my Vinted account (to delete it) and it didn't send me an MFA SMS so how the fuck is me giving them my number securing my account in any way? ☞ https://kevquirk.com/2026-08-07-0922    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:23:48

  • opensuse   

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:24:16

  • Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/32 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/08/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-32/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:24:31

  • Proxmox Virtual Environment Officially Runs on ARM64, But Your Raspberry Pi Isn't Supported Yet ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/proxmox-virtual-environment-arm64-support/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:25:03

  • Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Surpasses-Double-Digit-Market-Share    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:26:24

  • Calibre 9.13 fixes broken ebook search in the content server ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/calibre-9-13-bug-fix-update    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:34:58

  • Manjaro 26.1.0-rc4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:35:14

  • HackerOS 4.9 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/hackeros    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:35:21

  • TitalcruiseOS 5.4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/titalcruiseos    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:35:30

  • LightDM lives: version 1.33.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1087759/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:39:09

  • It is not a controversial thing to say (widely known among media people) that many "followers" or "likes" in social control media re fake, paid for, not organic. It's a whole industry or fakes and cheats who try to look important and/or popular.    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:40:35

  • How to Install OpenMetadata on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Docker Compose: Complete Step-by-Step Guide ☞ https://ostechnix.com/install-openmetadata-ubuntu-docker-compose/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:40:42

  • Dynamic Music Pill adds word-by-word lyrics highlighting ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/dynamic-music-pill-update-lyrics    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:45:33

  • How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Convicted Felon policy ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1141105/how-ideas-of-a-vast-censorship-network-moved-from-the-online-fringe-to-trump-policy/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:46:02

  • ArchBANG 070826 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/archbang    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:46:43

  • CaramOS 1.0.16 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/caramos    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:46:56

  • Oreon 10-2608 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/oreon    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:47:08

  • Neko-Void 20260805 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nekovoid    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:47:25

  • In 2026, GNU/Linux is No ‘Underdog’ ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/07/in-2026-gnulinux-is-no-underdog/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:47:49

  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Fields of Mistria - 2026-08-05 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-05-edition/index.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:48:17

  • This Week in GNOME: #261 Sushi Boxes ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/08/twig-261/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:49:39

  • Harmeet Dhillon’s Goons Spied on Megyn Kelly to Get to Don Lemon ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/07/harmeet-dhillons-goons-spied-on-megyn-kelly-to-get-to-don-lemon/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:50:12

  • Lawmakers seek to expand Space Force training, wargaming to strengthen readiness ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2026/08/lawmakers-seek-to-expand-space-force-training-wargaming-to-strengthen-readiness/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:51:15

  • Concerts of pro-Assad singers cancelled after protests in Syria ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260807-concerts-pro-assad-singers-cancelled-syrian-public-protests    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:52:11

  • Claude Opus 5 mistakenly deletes dev’s entire profile directory during routine backup ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-opus-5-mistakenly-deletes-devs-entire-profile-directory-ai-tool-mistakes-users-home-directory-as-temporary-backup-proceeds-to-wipe-everything-to-undo-error    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:54:21

  • I'm such a "valued customer" that they couldn't even be arsed to put my name in the email.☞ https://kevquirk.com/2026-08-07-0910    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:54:49

  • Better Hope You Don’t Need an Ambulance in New Orleans, Because the City’s 911 Operators Are Now Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-dispatch-911-new-orleans-emergency-automation    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:55:34

  • Roku Unleashes 24/7 Hey Hi (AI) Slop Channel ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/roku-unleashes-24-7-ai-slop-channel    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:55:50

  • Prosecutor Sues Justice Dept. Over Dismissal After Right-Wing Influencer’s Claim ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/us/politics/prosecutor-fired-lawsuit-justice-department.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:56:21

  • Michigan prisons paid millions over inmate deaths, disability discrimination ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-prisons-paid-millions-over-inmate-deaths-disability-discrimination/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:56:34

  • Man Sues Bank for Being Stupid Enough to Give Him a Mortgage Even When Experts Were Warning Him It Was About to Fall Into the Ocean ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/jpmorgan-chase-lawsuit-sues-sand-erosion-mortgage    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:57:27

  • Mamdani Faces Lawsuit Over Rollout of Second-Home Tax ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/nyregion/mamdani-lawsuit-home-tax-pied-a-terre.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:57:47

  • Pellet guns, sticks and tear gas: How India’s police halted a youth march ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pellet-guns-sticks-and-tear-gas-how-indias-police-halted-a-youth-march    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:58:33

  • Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey Sign Joint Defense Pact Amid US-Iran Tensions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/saudi-turkey-pakistan-defense-agreement-iran-war/33824220.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:58:48

  • Breaking the attack chain created by exposed cloud secrets ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/breaking-the-attack-chain-created-by-exposed-cloud-secrets/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 15:59:56

  • Germany invites Baltics, Poland for security talks over explosive drone at Leipzig airport ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3014148/germany-invites-baltics-poland-for-security-talks-over-explosive-drone-at-leipzig-airport    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:00:11

  • 5 years after arrests, passports returned to 8 figures not charged in Hong Kong 47 subversion case ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/07/5-years-after-arrests-passports-returned-to-8-figures-not-charged-in-hong-kong-47-subversion-case/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:00:43

  • Turkey, Saudi, Pakistan: Attack on one nation deemed an attack on all ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/turkey-saudi-pakistan-attack-on-one-nation-deemed-an-attack-on-all    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:01:42

  • More than half of AI-generated patches are broken ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-code-patching-security-risks/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:02:11

  • 3.8 Million Impacted by Unlimited Technology Systems Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-8-million-impacted-by-unlimited-technology-systems-data-breach/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:03:02

  • Unlimited access to crackers    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:03:19

  • Truck Brake Controller’s Safety Recall Doubled as Hidden Security Fix ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/truck-brake-controllers-safety-recall-doubled-as-hidden-security-fix/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:03:33

  • Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vishing-extortion-group-unc6671-rebrands-after-making-millions/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:03:49

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 327 released ☞ https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-327-released/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:04:54

  • Meta fined in child safety case ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/meta-fined-in-child-safety-case    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:05:10

  • Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers as agentic Hey Hi (AI) crunch intensifies ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amazon-cracks-down-on-cpu-waste-among-engineers-as-agentic-ai-crunch-intensifies-cpu-demand-makes-low-utilization-ec2-instances-a-hot-commodity    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:05:41

  • Critical Vulnerabilities Patched With Chrome 151 Update ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerabilities-patched-with-chrome-151-update/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:06:03

  • Daniel Pocock on Social Control Media ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/07/daniel-pocock-on-social-control-media/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:11:01

  • Last Day ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/07/last-day/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:11:13

  • Photos Show England Turning Brown in Drought ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/europe/england-drought-dry-weather-photos.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:11:42

  • Philippines says it does not condone threats of violence after anti-China caskets found in Manila ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-says-it-does-not-condone-threats-of-violence-after-anti-china-caskets-found-in-manila    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:12:05

  • HRW warns Israel’s delays of West Bank ambulances endanger the lives of Palestinian women and children ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/hrw-warns-israeli-ambulance-delays-in-west-bank-endanger-women-in-labor-and-children/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:12:40

  • How to check your Ubuntu version (3 simple methods) ⚓ https://www.hostinger.com/ca/tutorials/how-to-check-ubuntu-version/ ䷉ Source: hostinger | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.hostinger.com/ca/tutorials/how-to-check-ubuntu-version/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:23:37

  • Linux gaming got so big that even GOG couldn't ignore it anymore https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-so-big-gog-couldnt-ignore/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:24:38

  • Slop is NOT productivity! https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-old-moxa-driver-removal/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:25:04

  • NOBODY wants or needs this. https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-copilot/linux-users-finally-get-a-real-copilot-app-and-microsoft-didnt-even-make-it    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:25:23

  • "That’s essentially the idea behind FailFS, a tiny pseudo-filesystem expected to land in Linux 7.3. As the name suggests, it doesn’t do very much. In fact, that’s the point: every operation that reaches FailFS returns EOPNOTSUPP, meaning “operation not supported.”" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/07/this-filesystem-is-born-to-fail/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:25:54

  • It is not sudo, it is Microsoft stealing and misusing the name "sudo" https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-added-feature-linux-users-have-had-most-still-dont-know-there/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:26:42

  • 18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/18-year-old-linux-sctp-flaw-could-let.html    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:27:08

  • tech-insider.org is a slopfarm and shame on Google for STILL not detecting something so obvious    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:29:43

  • Launch day performance issues and forced logins take another victim: Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls sees mixed Steam rating, especially among Linux users https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/launch-day-performance-issues-and-forced-logins-take-another-victim-marvel-tokon-fighting-souls-sees-mixed-steam-rating-especially-among-linux-users/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:30:07

  • "The VPN provider is making it easier than ever to protect your Linux device while introducing a new tool for simpler troubleshooting" https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nordvpn-gives-linux-users-a-major-upgrade-with-automatic-gui-app-installation    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:30:45

  • "The Debian Project released a new kernel security update for Debian 13 “Trixie” users on August 6th, 2026, just a week after the previous kernel update, addressing new flaws in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel." https://9to5linux.com/new-debian-13-kernel-security-update-fixes-zapscape-and-sctphantom    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:31:02

  • Moving away from Windows is getting a little easier, as Linux will soon support more SteelSeries gaming headsets https://www.gamesradar.com/hardware/headsets-headphones/moving-away-from-windows-is-getting-a-little-easier-as-linux-will-soon-support-more-steelseries-gaming-headsets/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:31:39

  • opensourceforu.com is also a slopfarm these days    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 16:32:10

  • Nyt se alkaa – Eppu Normaalin 50-vuotinen ura päättyy tänään | Uutiset | Yle ⚓ https://yle.fi/a/74-20240026 ䷉ Source: YLE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//yle.fi/a/74-20240026 Sompi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 17:03:18

  • Mayfield Birds https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/08/mayfield-birds/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 17:45:36

  • "Just keep any eye out for the WARN notifications. It will appear 60 days before. That is if we follow the rules ……." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzfrptd2    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:54:37

  • "Not only is offshoring being sized for both the USA and Northern Europe, but outsourcing of internal jobs is also in scope as the decision to restructure the back office and automation efforts has been made."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:54:55

  • "How many more old and experienced people does IBM want to get rid of? The new (young) people hired are not doing the job, not to mentioned they never last more than 2 years. Again, just another stupid action by the Execs to save their as--s and hope that the next few quarters are going to be OK."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:55:33

  • "My prediction is that Q3 is also going to be a disaster... this is based on what I have seen in the first month of Q3. July was a total disaster. The whole Sales organization is being re-organized again as we speak, it is total panic. Most sales guys are getting new customers. Great job RT, you are really a genius!"    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:55:37

  • "IBM became INCOMPETENT BY MCKINSEY when the G Man Gerstner came in 4-1-93 and after he was a BMOC big man on campus at McKinsey. He knew nothing about IBM or tech so people like that bring in consultants for "plausible deniability" where they can take all the credit (he saved IBM and make elephants dance!) if it works out and blame the consultants if it does not."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:56:07

  • "Ever since then IBM likely has had a $50M or $100M annual contract with McKinsey. IBM has been like Ron Burgundy for a very long time."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:56:13

  • "Big Blue stands tall in the digital night, Chasing the metrics and guiding the light, Yet deep in the boardroom where data is clean, The M stands proudly for old McKinsey. Whatever they whisper, the giant obeys, Following the plans through the corporate maze."    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 18:56:33

  • In 2025 Brett Wilson LLP Breached Rules Pertaining to Respecting Holidays https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/08/in-2025-brett-wilson-llp-breached-rules-pertaining-to-respecting-holidays/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:02:13

  • raven party gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/ravenChicken    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:38:10

  • "I have a penchant for niche smartphones and UMPCs. In the realm of smartphones, I particularly like keyboard phones and phones with e-paper. Naturally, when I heard that the Minimal Phone MP01 would combine both, I was extremely interested in it." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202608/20260807-shared-passion.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:38:58

  • "These are my personal book notes of Emil Stolarsky's and Jaime Woo's "97 Things Every SRE Should Know". They are for myself, but I hope they might be useful to you too." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-08-07-97-things-every-sre-should-know-book-notes.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:39:34

  • "Second of four summer gigs today - we're playing at a gaming convention this afternoon. Other than that, I don't have a lot on the docket for the weekend. I need to do some proofreading for the summer issue of the little magazine I edit, send the proofs to the contributors." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-08.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:40:51

  • Moss (poe/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/moss    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:41:35

  • "I think... I feel ready enough." gemini://danchium.smol.pub/halfway    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:42:12

  • Change (poe/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/change    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 19:43:12

  • "Deputy High Court Judge Guy Vassall-Adams KC ruled that the description of a journalist as an “alt-right agitator” in a Guardian music review bore the natural and ordinary meaning that he actively promotes far right beliefs" https://cms.law/en/gbr/legal-updates/Alt-Right-Agitator-Does-the-Label-Allude-to-Racist-Beliefs-The-High-Court-s-Meaning-Ruling-in-Ngo-v-Guardian-News-Media-Ltd    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:02:41

  • https://thepostmillennial.com/author/andyngo?utm_campaign=64470   

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:03:09

  • Addis Standard editor https://cpj.org/2026/08/ethiopian-security-detain-addis-standard-editor-raid-newsroom-seize-equipment/    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:13:04

  • tap water https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/498156/cyberattack-iran-water-hackers-cybersecurity    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:14:01

  • Lump https://youtube.com/shorts/lbKwQ54qiHc    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:30:19

  • The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBjPAqmnvGA    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:30:44

  • Georgia Tech Moment https://youtu.be/y4r9G1Jter0    

posted Saturday, August 08, 2026 at 20:32:08
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