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Seattle posts nation's steepest decline in pending home sales    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:17:57

  • "This is the way - Bethesda developers protest Xbox layoffs with giant inflatable rat at Maryland office - Bethesda developers used giant inflatable rat and 800 red flags to protest Xbox layoffs during Microsoft CEO visit" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kztwjmz4    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:19:12

  • "it was a surreal eye-rolling experience, these shysters trying to tell everyone the sky is green even though everyone sees a blue sky....." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzxtr15b    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:21:56

  • "The stock implosion is a hoax. $70B was never lost. This is a made-up conspiracy by bitter ex-IBMers. The company is doing better now than it ever has. Keep up the great work, guys." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzxtr15b    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:22:00

  • "Lol, we just underwent yet another large major reorganization today. If memory serves, this is approximately the fifth or sixth restructuring in the past three years. At this point, one has to wonder whether the strategy is simply to keep rearranging the organizational architecture until, by sheer statistical probability, they inadvertently stumble upon a configuration that actually works. One day these guys will get it right."    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:23:08

  • "Sorry but track record speaks for itself. Big promises big promises……" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:23:32

  • "Consulting’s parent company actively pulled the plug on its own model development activities a good while ago and now chooses to rebundle or sell services around other companies’ agentic AI and truly large LLMs. IBM’s remaining niche play is smaller, “good enough” models that cost less to run in production. You can’t come out on top in every revolution, and this is IBM’s way of making lemonade."    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:24:34

  • "Many of IBM’s better known people in these areas are no longer at IBM. Some were practically driven out by d-mb business folks who listen only to their cell phones and spreadsheets, often after first being placed on id--tic death marches to do the simultaneously impossible and undesirable." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzxj9nds    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:24:38

  • "25+years in IBM management here. Things do vary, but usually 1st and often 2nd line find out a half day to three days before it happens. We have suspicions and talk to other managers who are also busy reading the tea leaves. But we have no actual knowledge most of the time."    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:25:55

  • "The most advance knowledge I ever had in all those years was 3 weeks and that was because of a delicate legal issue with the employee’s long term mental health status (long ago in 20th century)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzw3zjs2    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:25:59

  • "44yrs 11month career. Mainframe engineering band 9 in poughkeepsie. Unexpected PIP for 30days to july 8th. I choose the forced retirement path. Last day Aug 31. Cash balance PPA plan." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzeyk83r    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:26:38

  • "Another heatwave. Another firestorm. Another cloud storage bill. Ah, the things we do for love… " https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:29:33

  • The next Witcher game in trouble as CD Projekt Red announces layoffs https://www.gamingbible.com/news/the-witcher-project-sirius-layoffs-379694-20260813    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:30:41

  • New report details sluggish Seattle housing market    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:31:12

  • Seattle posts nation's steepest decline in pending home sales    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:31:26

  • It’s Officially the End of an Era for Netflix After 2 Studio Closures https://www.cbr.com/netflix-games-studio-closures-night-school-moonloot/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:32:07

  • Red Hat has temps. "Today was my last day as a the community and marketing intern for the Open Source and AI Program Office at Red Hat.🥹"    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:36:36

  • Mary gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/mary    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:37:57

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

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:38:33

  • "Yesterday at the office, my team was tasked to clear out the cubicle of someone who had recently left the company." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202608/20260813-blackberry.gmi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 04:39:11

  • bans opposition anti-war party https://www.dw.com/en/russia-top-court-bans-opposition-anti-war-party-from-vote/a-78313252    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 05:47:39

  • The option to not have a war is illegal? https://www.dw.com/en/russia-why-is-the-yabloko-party-barred-from-the-elections/a-78341971    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 05:48:19

  • Pocock https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/20/tony-abbott-karl-stefanovic-donald-trump-fifa-world-cup-nigel-farage/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 05:57:20

  • Trick Play https://xkcd.com/3282/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:01:47

  • Size and Lifespan https://xkcd.com/3283/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:01:58

  • EU tells Meta, TikTok to boost monitoring, fact-checking https://www.thelocal.dk/20260808/eu-tells-meta-tiktok-to-boost-monitoring-fact-checking    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:02:32

  • 'I Thought Cheeto Mussolini Hated Bad Bunny?': White House Deletes Hypocritical TikTok After Internet Backlash https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-removes-bad-bunny-music-tiktok-1813131    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:03:50

  • Taylor Swift Silences Cheeto Mussolini on TikTok as President's Team Uses 'Red' to Claim Album Is About the GOP https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/taylor-swift-silences-trump-tiktok-1813104    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:04:16

  • 'I Hate Taylor Swift': How Pop Star Blocked Cheeto Mussolini's Campaign From Using Her Hits on TikTok Again https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/taylor-swift-music-removed-trump-tiktok-feud-1813322    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:04:42

  • Fake TikTok housing ads drive fraud reports up more than 700% https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/10/fake-tiktok-housing-ads-drive-fraud-reports-700    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:05:01

  • AI Broke Linux Security - And Nobody Is Coming to Fix It! https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=slBVjGd-_bA https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/04/Growing_Proportion_of_Linux_Commits_Being_Made_by_LLMs_Not_a_Si.shtml    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:15:22

  • Before Valve bet on Linux gaming, one company risked everything on it https://www.makeuseof.com/before-valve-bet-on-linux-gaming-one-company-risked-everything-on-it/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:16:46

  • The Bartz/Anthropic Settlement is still a hot mess but at least it is the largest known copyright recovery of all time (for piracy)? http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-bartzanthropic-settlement-is-still.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:21:10

  • "Titalcruise E.A. has announced the release of TitalcruiseOS 5.4, a major update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for system administrators, developers and power users." https://distrowatch.com/12915    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 06:34:55

  • Troll, as no such data is available: "shoutout to the 16 people (0.05%) who voted for Daniel Pocock, who is listed on the ballot with "address in Australia"" https://x.com/Leo_Puglisi6/status/2088143836711444763    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 07:12:14

  • Daniel Pocock Has Beaten 7 Candidates in the Election https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/14/daniel-pocock-has-beaten-7-candidates-in-the-election/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 07:19:01

  • When Your Town Elects a Bigot It Becomes a Circus https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/14/when-your-town-elects-a-bigot-it-becomes-a-circus/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 07:24:09

  • 3,000 Blog Posts https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/14/3000-blog-posts/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 07:28:15

  • Be prepared for big feelings when you take something away https://duckalignment.academy/be-prepared-big-feelings/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 07:35:29

  • Less Shopping Centres, More Parks https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/14/less-shopping-centres-more-parks/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:37:22

  • "We want to thank everyone who submitted a proposal for an event" ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/08/12/announcing-four-regional-events-for-ccs-25th-anniversary/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:51:13

  • "There is not enough competition in the fibre wholesale market to justify deregulation. Government to sell Chorus debt. CDC plans major Taranaki datacentre." ☛ https://billbennett.co.nz/fibre-competition-deregulation/ | Source: Bill Bennett    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:51:34

  • "(The Supreme Court has also said it will hear arguments about whether Apple willfully violated the April 2025 ruling.)" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/979967/apple-epic-games-external-links-fees-filing | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:51:43

  • "Ultimately, the problem is that insurance doesn’t get regulated at the national level." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/214218/enshittification-private-insurance-pat-mccarren | Source: New Republic    

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

  • "In cities across Taiwan, these kinds of drills are a fact of life every year, amid the growing threat posed by China across the strait" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/taiwan-taipei-internet-blackout-air-raid-drill-china-threat | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:52:17

  • "In the Minnesota Antifa 15 case, defendant Ian Sant has a blockbuster filing revealing details of the broad spying HSI did after they killed Alex Pretti" ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/13/trumps-government-responded-to-murdering-alex-pretty-by-spying-on-the-entire-anti-ice-community-in-minnesota/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:54:43

  • "The devices look like a normal pair of work gloves and are described by the company as an “invisible partner” and “force multiplier” for law enforcement." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-buying-up-to-20-million-worth-of-electric-shock-gloves/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:55:40

  • "The bureau has a current use case tally totalling 100-plus, according to FBI Chief AI Officer Katie Noyes. In its AI inventory posted in January, the Department of Justice unit identified just 50 use cases." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/fbi-ai-use-case-disclosure-caio-katie-noyes/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:55:57

  • "One end result of this is something I affectionately call “CEO said a thing!” journalism" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/trump-said-a-thing-journalism-must-stop/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:56:26

  • "Paramount Skydance owner David Ellison is holding California hostage as his $110 billion Warner Bros." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/hollywood-california-ellison-skydance-merger | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:57:14

  • "The district has over half a million students and 1,500 schools and centers." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/censorship-in-la-school-district-could-become-national-norm-educators-warn/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 08:59:54

  • "Criticizing ICE online is not a crime. It’s protected speech under the First Amendment." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/the-fake-free-speech-president-has-unleashed-ice-on-its-critics/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:00:04

  • "The Internationale" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/13/the-song-that-stopped-being-the-ussr-s-anthem-in-1944-is-now-landing-russian-activists-in-prison-for-terrorism | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:00:19

  • "The case is the latest in a series in which people have faced treason charges for recording images of Russian military graves" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-war-graves-treasonfsb/33829646.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:00:39

  • "Darana Hybrid claims they were stiffed for $137 million on the Colossus I and II data centres in Memphis, Tennessee, and $431 million on facilities in nearby Southhaven." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/12/xai-data-centre-contractors-file-liens-for-non-payment/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:01:27

  • "Due: 5 business days from receipt" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/13/supplier-security-questionnaire.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:01:45

  • "Is there a model for a politics or a society that is real and existing in this world that you would like to see the United States copy?" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-answer-to-fascism-cant-be-marxism | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:02:07

  • Slop hype ☛ https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/2026-08-13/ty-article/anthropic-reportedly-in-talks-to-buy-israeli-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billion/0000019f-f9f7-d569-a5ff-f9f7b6110000 | Source: Haaretz    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:02:41

  • "Contracts may require a $1 million bond, which will be forfeited if a company fails to comply with operational requirements." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-mobilizes-security-firms-for-operations-against-foreign-cybercrime-gangs/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:02:53

  • "undergo rigorous vetting." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/trump-memo-private-sector-offensive-hacking/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:03:11

  • "Gen Z is often dismissed as apathetic." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/generation-z-precarity-inequality-class-capitalism | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:03:30

  • "Now major airlines have started rolling out Wi-Fi that is both free and usable. In June, United announced that by the end of this year" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/08/airplane-wifi-travel/688260/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:04:02

  • "the world’s refining capacity is either trapped inside the Strait or offline" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-price-of-oil-even-higher | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:04:10

  • "Lately, I have been more concerned about bad batteries making devices unusable and electronic garbage." ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/lg-will-start-using-user-replaceable-batteries/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:05:18

  • "The Pima County board of supervisors is asking its staff to draft policies intended to provide more transparency and accountability over large development projects in the county, like data centers." ☛ https://azluminaria.org/2026/08/12/pima-county-moves-toward-data-center-moratorium-tighter-transparency/ | Source: Arizona Luminaria    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:05:27

  • "Dutch cloud company Nebius' Tallinn AI factory will begin operating at Greenergy Data Centers' data center this year." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610109073/baltics-first-ai-factory-to-open-in-estonia | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:05:42

  • "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/today-in-clown-storage-pbs/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:06:25

  • "Three years ago this month I published an exposé for HuffPost about a guy named Richard Hanania." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/christopher-mathias-richard-hanania-huffpost-expose | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:06:42

  • "The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced on Tuesday that it is ending the regulation that requires companies to disclose beneficial ownership." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-ends-anti-corruption-rule-requiring-shell-companies-report-ownership/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:08:12

  • "Universities have taken latitude with a 1999 court decision that they don’t have to follow the Open Meetings Act, some say" ☛ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-universities-make-secret-decisions-some-lawmakers-want-change/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:08:30

  • "The damaged cables are two of just 16 undersea infrastructure that carries 99% of Australian [Internet] traffic." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/two-undersea-cables-reportedly-damaged-off-the-coast-of-perth-following-suspicious-vessel-activity-company-ceo-says-faults-happened-straight-after-each-other-and-in-close-proximity | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:08:54

  • "Some 30,000 German soldiers fought for the British during the war. Contrary to popular belief, they weren’t mercenaries, and not all were actually Hessians" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-hessians-were-supposed-to-quickly-end-the-american-revolution-instead-they-endured-years-of-battles-and-suffered-thousands-of-casualties-180989252/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:09:13

  • "Marines engaged simulated enemy drones" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/08/13/marines-train-to-shoot-down-combat-drones-with-standard-weapons/ | Source: USMC    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:09:44

  • "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/watergate-schlesinger-nixon-presidential-scandals/688282/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:10:01

  • "If you plan on running canonicalize multiple times, you may end up generating many constant instructions in your IR." ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/more-partial-ssi/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:10:32

  • "Today, I'll be writing about the aegraph, or acyclic egraph, the data structure at the heart of Cranelift's mid-end optimizer." ☛ https://cfallin.org/blog/2026/04/09/aegraph/ |    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:10:48

  • "What was I debugging yesterday?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openai-chatgpt-computer-history/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:11:26

  • "Training includes all your chat comments and the games the streamers are streaming." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:12:27

  • "Xcode's MCP server lets a coding agent create files, build, render previews, and drive the simulator. Until now, those tools disappeared when you quit Xcode" ☛ https://artemnovichkov.com/blog/headless-xcode-from-prompt-to-simulator-with-mcp | Source: Artem Novichkov    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:12:39

  • "Most people think an image is just a single document. It’s a picture, right?" ☛ https://chrismaiorana.com/your-metadata-and-you/ | Source: Chris Maiorana    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:13:07

  • "In OpenTelemetry's defense this was never what they were going for as a project." ☛ https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/ | Source: Mat Duggan    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:13:23

  • "This may be the age of AI, but it's also the age of verification. Age verification sounds good on paper, but in reality is a terrible, horrible, no good idea. And Apple clearly agrees." ☛ https://phunky.cafe/apples-parental-controls-are-a-big-deal/ | Source: Phillip    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:13:37

  • "Flock Safety, the embattled vendor of mass surveillance technology" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/too-little-too-late-flock-admits-their-technology-needs-reforms | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:13:51

  • "The other way you can tell Flock doesn’t care about anything but future profitability is this: when cities pull the plug on Flock systems due to local backlash" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/flock-again-activates-a-camera-system-a-town-had-voted-to-shut-down/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:14:07

  • [Old] "These multi-trillion dollar tech companies have the staff, time, and budget to conduct all the research they could ever want." ☛ https://phunky.cafe/social-media-is-a-cigarette-and-engagement-is-code-for-addiction/ | Source: Phillip    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:14:52

  • "Chicago Public Media is already the parent nonprofit of two existing news sites, WBEZ and, since 2022, the Chicago Sun-Times." ☛ https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/can-public-media-build-its-own-social-media-chicago-public-media-teams-up-with-new_public-to-try/ | Source: Nieman Lab    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:15:04

  • "I’ve been more excited about this announcement than any other development in either social media or news technology this year." ☛ https://werd.io/chicagos-social-network-is-a-huge-bet-for-news-i-think-its-the-future/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:15:26

  • "I saw Dave Lee's post quoting James Ball's post about fears around Bluesky's lack of user growth, and therefore profitability and sustainability." ☛ https://phunky.cafe/bluesky-is-not-trustworthy-or-sustainable-mastodon-is/ | Source: Phillip    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:15:40

  • "The FBI said personally identifiable information, including a victim’s name, date of birth, email address, phone number and social media username" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/sexual-exploitation-actors-stealing-content/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:15:55

  • "The ban came at the request of the prosecutor’s office, which said the chatbot had no mechanism to verify users’ ages and that minors’ use of the platform led to crimes being committed" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/13/a-dating-bot-with-no-age-verification-just-got-banned-in-kazakhstan-and-it-s-the-same-one-russia-used-to-brand-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-a-terrorist | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:16:08

  • [Old] "Crucially though, there is a missing category here: foundation models. Go ahead and click through their models and look for the word "foundation"." ☛ https://phunky.cafe/chatgpt-health-is-worse-thank-you-think/ | Source: Phillip    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:18:09

  • Two More Days https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/14/two-more-days/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:20:06

  • "I've been programming for 20 years. It started as a hobby as a teen, making fansites and little video games. Then it turned into a career." ☛ https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/ |    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:20:55

  • "If you lack the judgment required to evaluate the LLM's recommendation, asking for more judgment doesn't solve the problem." ☛ https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html |    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:21:06

  • "Even if you don’t use LLMs to write your prose, you’re eventually going to start talking like Claude anyway just because that style will be so universally employed" ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/08/12/slopocalypse-now/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:21:23

  • "A statistical text watermark is a bias in token selection — a quiet preference for certain word sequences over others — detectable only as a deviation from chance across enough text." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/ghost-theory | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:21:41

  • "Today’s AI is mired in political and economic systems developed generations ago that were never designed to manage widespread computation, let alone automated cognition." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/separating-ais-technological-problems-from-its-capitalism-problems.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:21:50

  • "It’s easy to write off Godier’s misadventures here as a one-off mess he got himself into, but the implications of said misadventure are far-reaching." ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/case-of-robot-thief/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:22:00

  • "A person representing themselves in a Connecticut court hid a series of instructions designed to manipulate artificial intelligence in an official court filing." ☛ https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:22:20

  • "Interviews have been edited for length and clarity." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141410/how-kids-feel-about-ai-own-words/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:22:36

  • "Germany’s Publishers and Booksellers’ Association has described mass scan-and-pulp practices as destructive and illegal." ☛ https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/10/a-mysterious-buying-spree-is-unsettling-europes-booksellers/ | Source: Irish Times    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:23:22

  • "In this example, the former is a history book that covers a region in western Ireland while the latter is about the Special Savings Incentive Account unique to the country." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/independent-bookstores-in-europe-receive-suspicious-orders-for-thousands-of-books-prompting-fears-theyll-be-destroyed-to-train-ai-sellers-believe-acquisitions-are-part-of-ai-tech-companies-push-to-get-more-data | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:23:42

  • "In this example, the former is a history book that covers a region" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/independent-bookstores-in-europe-receive-suspicious-orders-for-thousands-of-books-prompting-fears-theyll-be-destroyed-to-train-ai-sellers-believe-acquisitions-are-part-of-ai-tech-companies-push-to-get-more-data | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:23:56

  • "In this guide, our friends from Google walk you through how to install LiteRT and run high-performance on-device AI models using the LiteRT CLI tool." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/get-started-with-litert-on-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:24:04

  • "Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/music/ng-interactive/2026/aug/13/ai-music | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:24:16

  • "Cisco confirmed this week that attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-20349 to reboot its firewalls" ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/cisco-firewall-vpn-flaw-exploited-patch/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:24:41

  • "The consequences for this will be the result of the actions of two different groups of people." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/doctors-medical-associations-already-giving-a-giant-middle-finger-to-trumps-vaccine-eo/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:25:25

  • "[Bone stress injuries] are a major challenge to military readiness" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/12/urine-test-could-predict-stress-fractures-in-boot-camp/ | Source: USMC    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:25:36

  • "A large number of schoolchildren in Kerala are taking an early morbid fascination towards cosmetics, which experts term Cosmeticorexia." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/messy-make-up-cosmetics-addiction-takes-the-sheen-out-of-childhood/article71333474.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 09:25:46

  • "The cheat is simple: instead of waiting to erase blocks when they’re required for writing, they’re erased in advance and left in a free pool ready for use." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/08/13/why-and-how-to-check-your-ssds-trim-correctly/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:30:02

  • "As someone who likes mechanical keyboards but always ends up back on a Magic Keyboard, I was intrigued." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/mechanical-magic-keyboard/ | Source: Sal    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:30:14

  • "Astrophotography to me has always seemed like a mix between planning, technique – and sheer luck" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/i-photographed-the-northern-lights-and-a-perseid-meteor-in-the-same-frame-and-i-used-one-of-the-cheapest-lenses-in-my-bag | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:30:25

  • "Paulo successfully defended his PhD thesis this Monday, wrapping up his dual PhD degree between Lisbon and Carnegie Mellon." ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/just-graduated-paulo-canelas/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:30:52

  • "The days of the jacks-of-all-trades didn’t last. Roles became more specialized and visual design of websites became the role of experience designers using specialized design tools." ☛ https://abouthalf.com/writing/this-is-the-end-isn-t-it/ |    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:31:18

  • "Same job, totally different outcome. No magic, no special skills required." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/bad-communication/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:31:33

  • "My name is Rusty. I am just a regular guy who lives in the western United States." ☛ https://zacharykai.net/notes/pb/rusty | Source: Zachary Kai    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:32:01

  • "Our two keynote speakers will present talks on Biophilia Architecture in Libraries and the Future of Libraries and the Obama Presidential Center Chicago Public Library" ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/designing-libraries-early-bird-registration-ends-aug-17 | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:32:21

  • "Even more importantly is the mental and social issues which come from cell [sic] phones." ☛ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-cell-phones-are-the-distraction-in-student-pockets/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:32:37

  • "This approach is simple, which I like. It’s not going to surface as many links as I probably would like, but loads of people contribute to Music Brainz, so it’ll get better with time, probably." ☛ https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/9/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:33:10

  • "It feels like something I should pay at least some attention to." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ActuallyInvestigateIdeas | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:33:38

  • "How paranoid should you be? If you get rekt, you haven’t been paranoid enough." ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/08/13/betrayal/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:33:51

  • "George Gessert describes ornamental plants as a form of domestication." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/13/does-kitsch-discard-the-interesting/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:34:11

  • "Well, Michael Stapelberg not only found the bug I was experiencing" ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/someone-found-the-zsh-bug-i-was-experiencing/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:37:42

  • "I have enjoyed the minimalism of the man pages, and it is also cool to have the blog accessible via SSH." ☛ https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-08-13-read-my-blog-over-ssh/ | Source: Naveen Srinivasan    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:37:52

  • "Here’s a cool fish trick: [...]" ☛ https://sals.place/blog/fish-shell-set-cursor/ | Source: Sal    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:39:26

  • "For today’s entry to Python A-Z, I’ll share different resources that I’ve found good for learning more about Python." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/l-is-for-learning-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:39:54

  • "The whole debugging process is quite interesting, using flame graphs, scale plots and the world-famous good-diagram-technique." ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/multithreading-bug-in-numpy/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:40:05

  • ""Mindful coding" sounds a bit provocative, maybe even a little clickbaity, I know." ☛ https://var0.xyz/posts/mindful-coding-purpose-and-intention.html |    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:40:29

  • "David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges." ☛ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cheri-memory-safety-compartmentalization/ | Source: InfoQ    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:40:39

  • "A few months ago I wrote about one of my methods for dealing with "technical debt" and I had to cut a huge throat-clearing section from the opening about how I don't really like the term "tech debt" as a metaphor" ☛ https://www.simplermachines.com/lets-not-call-it-tech-debt-its-just-mess/ | Source: Nat Bennett    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:40:53

  • "Now we're going to take a sidetrack into one of my favorite topics, computation with infinite lists." ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/13/#05-shortlex | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:42:20

  • "Something I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the [Internet]." ☛ https://vickiboykis.com/2026/08/12/write-for-people/ | Source: Vicki Boykis    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:42:25

  • "so let’s say you’re making a web backend, and you happen to know you’re going to have a lot of dynamically generated sql queries." ☛ https://w.on-t.work/convention-over-configuration/ | Source: Kopper    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:42:35

  • Open Data ☛ https://seancoates.com/blogs/yulbbs | Source: Sean Coates    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:42:52

  • "The following piece on the latest changes to the Part 107 test was written by Ritsuko Abrams" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/08/13/part-107-changes/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:43:13

  • "Have you ever wondered how raw patient data from a clinical trial transforms into the actual evidence used to approve new medicines?" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/from-raw-data-to-regulatory-results-clinical-trial-programming-in-r-using-the-pharmaverse-workshop/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:43:41

  • "APNIC 62 will feature two keynote speakers who approach the future of the Internet from different but complementary perspectives." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/13/apnic-62-keynotes-explore-automation-trust-and-the-future-of-the-internet/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:44:24

  • "When faced with a programming problem, computing educators often start solving it without a second thought." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/how-to-improve-students-problem-solving-skills-using-subgoal-labels/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:46:17

  • "the issue affects only installations that use Imagick and Ghostscript" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/wordpress-7-0-4-patches-remote-code-execution-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:46:37

  • "Our support for uBlock Origin isn’t going anywhere." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-origin.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:47:12

  • "You’ve probably noticed, Emacs users tend to be a different breed than other computer users." ☛ https://chrismaiorana.com/emacs-pastoral/ | Source: Chris Maiorana    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:47:58

  • "Lord knows I have trouble finding files sometimes." ☛ https://chrismaiorana.com/emacs-ffap/ | Source: Chris Maiorana    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:48:16

  • "Not that long ago I wrote an entry on my views on Flymake and Flycheck in GNU Emacs" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsFlymakeFlycheckII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:48:48

  • "Projectile 3.4 is out! After the four releases that preceded it this summer, this one is polish rather than ambition." ☛ https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/08/13/projectile-3-4.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:49:01

  • "Dropbox, in contrast, has a pretty good Linux client that has been reliable throughout my time with the service. But Dropbox was always going to be a temporary solution." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/08/dropbox-to-nextcloud/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:49:12

  • "Google began rolling out a tap-to-share mode for Quick Share on August 12, 2026, letting two Android phones swap contacts, photos and videos" ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/google-adds-tap-to-share-android-quick-share/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:49:44

  • With a few more votes (handful) Pocock will have beaten 10 candidates https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3989/election/559    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:51:22

  • "Our analysis reveals that under certain circumstances, the ‘uncertain’ data originates from the L1 data cache" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/13/chinese-loongson-processors-have-leaky-caches-researchers-find/5287137 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:51:32

  • "Philip Müller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 26" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12920 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:51:53

  • "I made a funny mistake in one of my clients when installing FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE on their server … I have chosen wrong disk for the installation." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/move-freebsd-between-zfs-disks/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:57:43

  • "This post documents my attempt to reproduce the problem outlined in FreeBSD – /etc/pam.d/sshd was updated/overwritten – no merge attempt" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/12/attempting-to-reproduce-the-missing-etcmerge-from-15-0-to-15-1-upgrade/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:57:58

  • "I’ll say it upfront: just like the previous two attempts, the penguin’s operating system didn’t last long. A few days, to be exact." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/another-week-linux/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 15:58:29

  • "As a consolation prize for canceling the Plasma LTS product" ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:02:09

  • "The earlier home logging guide starts with investigation questions." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-blue-team-fundamentals-part-6-siem-lite-with-a-few-useful-alerts/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:06:22

  • "A busy week of building out my Jellyfin server, releasing new media tools, working from home, cooling off at the city poo" ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/notes/2026/week-32-2026/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:06:28

  • Our First Week of Domestic Vacation https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/14/our-first-week-of-domestic-vacation/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:10:44

  • Scottish prosecutors cast eye over leaky supplier after staff data exposed ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/14/scottish-prosecutors-cast-eye-over-leaky-supplier-after-staff-data-exposed/5287479 ䷉ Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:11:39

  • Crypto wallet maker Trezor confirms 13,000 customers' details exposed in logistics breach ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/14/crypto-wallet-maker-trezor-confirms-13000-customers-details-exposed-in-logistics-breach/5287734 ䷉ Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:12:01

  • International Motors Cuts 1,341 Jobs in Springfield in One of Ohio's Largest Layoffs in Five Years https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/international-motors-cuts-1341-jobs-springfield-one-ohios-largest-layoffs-five-years-1814320    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:13:26

  • "The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/676 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:14:23

  • "SLOP has started killing itself" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/me-on-tech-report-ai-has-started-killing-itself/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:14:38

  • "Colonisation of the industry by ideas that are incompatible with proper engineering. How did it happen?" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/content/episodes/cbw/cbw.html | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:15:02

  • Make sure your Flatpak is up to date due to security issues | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/make-sure-your-flatpak-is-up-to-date-due-to-security-issues/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:16:39

  • Grand-scale FPS 'WARDOGS' should work on Linux / SteamOS, devs confirm working on Proton support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/grand-scale-fps-wardogs-should-work-on-linux-steamos-devs-confirm-working-on-proton-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:17:17

  • NVIDIA GeForce NOW cloud gaming for Linux levels up and leaves Beta | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-cloud-gaming-for-linux-levels-up-and-leaves-beta/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-cloud-gaming-for-linux-levels-up-and-leaves-beta/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:17:45

  • "This machine kills fascists - Wikipedia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_machine_kills_fascists    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:18:47

  • "If this passes, I give up" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/if-this-passes,-i-give-up:0    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:18:57

  • old: "Nigel Farage's unusual UK by-election now has an Australian candidate | SBS News" https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australian-daniel-pocock-nigel-farage-clacton-by-election/hdlqy0x79    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:19:08

  • They will receive the longest ballot paper in British electoral history at 90cm - about 3ft long - to choose their candidate and cast their vote. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp308xpwv34o    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:19:27

  • "Independent candidate Daniel Pocock is concerned about media issues." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clacton-by-election-candidates-policies-b3032254.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:19:48

  • iophk: however, mathematically, there is no result possible than the one winner since all the others are basically splitting the opposition vote    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:20:03

  • "Is Todd Blanche Criminalizing Bad Break-Ups to Help Neo-Nazis? - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/13/is-todd-blanche-criminalizing-bad-break-ups-to-help-neo-nazis/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:20:15

  • iophk: he could have a bright career at microsoft https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chris-watts-prison-marriage-1814141    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:20:48

  • "The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/gaping-hole-el-sayeds-agenda/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:20:59

  • "New aircraft carrier heads toward Mideast after reports of issues on long-deployed USS Lincoln - Los Angeles Times" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-08-13/new-aircraft-carrier-heads-toward-mideast-after-reports-of-issues-on-long-deployed-uss-lincoln    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:21:16

  • "More and more wealthy Californians are seeking 'golden visa' residency outside the U.S. - Los Angeles Times" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-13/more-more-wealthy-californians-are-seeking-golden-visa-residency-outside-u-s    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:21:31

  • microsoft https://pro.ing.dk/digitech/artikel/universiteter-laegger-it-projekt-til-330-millioner-i-graven-situationen-er-alvorlig    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:22:03

  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV delayed until December | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-iv-delayed-until-december/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/warhammer-40-000-dawn-of-war-iv-delayed-until-december/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:22:33

  • Open-source re-implementation of The Elder Scrolls: Arena adds major new features like enemy combat AI | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/open-source-re-implementation-of-the-elder-scrolls-arena-adds-major-new-features-like-enemy-combat-ai/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:22:54

  • Cellular roguelike shooter 'Pathogenic' is a body-infecting good time | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/cellular-roguelike-shooter-pathogenic-is-a-body-infecting-good-time/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/cellular-roguelike-shooter-pathogenic-is-a-body-infecting-good-time/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:23:07

  • "Before OpenShift 4.22, Cluster Baremetal Operator in OpenShift provided centralized management for servers with Redfish support with containerized and virtualized workloads." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/manage-bare-metal-cloud-red-hat-bare-metal-service-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:23:50

  • Slop promotion, i.e. the usual ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-metal-agents-navigating-architecture-enterprise-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:24:15

  • "Order yours here!" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/refurbished-librem-16-laptops/ | Source: Purism    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:26:35

  • Slop GARBAGE ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/makerskills-claude-code-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:26:55

  • "With full certification for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, developers utilizing Advantech’s powerful Open Standard Module (OSM) AOM-2721 can now deploy a seamless, securely designed" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/advantech-aom-2721-ubuntu-certified | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:27:20

  • Chamelio: A chameleonic network stack that adapts to every tenant ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/14/chamelio-a-chameleonic-network-stack-that-adapts-to-every-tenant/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:33:14

  • Programs that scan text and emit something similar but full of errors is not innovation. Pretending that this boils down to innovation is pure hype.    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:36:31

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 664 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/08/12/this-week-in-rust-664/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:38:27

  • Philipp Sauberzweig: Fellowship Update, 2026-08-13 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/psauberz/2026/08/13/fellowship-update-2026-08-13/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 16:38:43

  • Torvalds: I administer bots now, my baby is now botspam and I'm paid by LF to say "THIS IS FINE." https://betanews.com/article/linux-7-2-rc7-ai-review-new-normal/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:00:08

  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Sovereign Tower - 2026-08-12 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-08-12-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:00:30

  • Software Freedom is the Goal ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/13/software-freedom-is-the-goal/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:00:38

  • Typomagical is a typing spell-building bullet heaven that will make you panic | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/typomagical-is-a-spell-building-typing-bullet-heaven-that-will-make-you-panic/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:01:22

  • Out in Early Access - Sandustry has you explore, mine and automate in fully destructible pixel worlds | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/out-in-early-access-sandustry-has-you-explore-mine-and-automate-in-fully-destructible-pixel-worlds/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:01:29

  • PAYDAY 2 dropped the Native Linux version so you'll need to use Proton | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/payday-2-dropped-the-native-linux-version-so-youll-need-to-use-proton/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/payday-2-dropped-the-native-linux-version-so-youll-need-to-use-proton/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:01:33

  • lsblk Command in Linux: List Block Devices ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/lsblk-command-in-linux/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:48:32

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1088715/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:48:52

  • Omarchy Bets Its Future on Hey Hi (AI) Agents While the GNU/Linux World Stays Cautious ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/omarchy-ai-agent-focus/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:49:18

  • OSI lobbying for Microsoft and slop, as usual ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/eu-ai-act-and-cra-timelines-and-resources    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:50:58

  • Nick Vidal (Microsoft) pretends to speak for the thing Microsoft is attacking ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/why-openness-matters-more-than-ever    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:51:44

  • Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: DebConf 26 organization, d-i VLAN support and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-07-2026/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:52:23

  • PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24 and 19 Beta 3 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-186-1711-1615-1519-1424-and-19-beta-3-released-3365/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:53:12

  • Peter Eisenmann: Fellowship Report July 2026 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/p3732/fellowship-report-july-2026/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:54:11

  • IBM Red Hat promotes slop plagiarism and GAFAM ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/13/how-llm-d-routes-model-inference-traffic-amazon-eks    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:55:20

  • Introducing the Red Bait OpenShift Virtualization incident must-gather ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/14/introducing-openshift-virtualization-incident-must-gather    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:56:13

  • 124: Clones Can Grow ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24951    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:57:30

  • Gunnar Wolf: File recovery in process... ☞ https://gwolf.org/2026/08/file-recovery-in-process.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:58:20

  • PS5 emulation arrives on Steam Deck, Astro Playroom showcased running at 0.6 FPS — milestone SharpEmu development shows promise, despite unplayable performance ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/ps5-emulation-arrives-on-steam-deck-astro-playroom-showcased-running-at-0-6-fps-milestone-sharpemu-development-shows-promise-despite-unplayable-performance    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 17:59:44

  • Mozilla Localization (L10N): L10n Report: August Edition 2026 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/08/13/l10n-report-august-edition-2026/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:00:34

  • ASCII Chart ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/44355/ascii-chart    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:01:42

  • Vita Activa & the Digital Security Helpline join forces to support mental health and digital safety for activists ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/mental-health-digital-safety-for-activists/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:02:32

  • The Mystery of Dark Oxygen ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mystery-of-dark-oxygen    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:14:31

  • Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserve, Spills Nonstop for Weeks ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/giant-oil-tanker-leaking-oil-oman-nature-preserve    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:16:22

  • Lousy media says "Nvidia $500 billion deal", the reality is LOANS... i.e. money that does not exist!    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:28:34

  • NVIDIA moves from one pyramid scheme ('crypto') to the next...    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:29:02

  • A City Mobilizes Against a Stubborn Health Threat: Mosquitoes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/health/mosquitoes-brazil-health-threat.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:33:23

  • What to Know About Luigi Mangione’s Court Cases and Potential Plea Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/nyregion/luigi-mangione-court-plea-deal-trial.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:35:49

  • Deaths of 3 ICE Detainees Prompt Questions About Medical Care ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/nyregion/delaney-hall-detainee-health-ice.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:36:12

  • Organisms Living Inside Psychopaths Could Be Driving Bad Behavior, Scientists Claim ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/psychopaths-microbiome This might explain Matlex and more https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/psychosis/psychosis.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:37:51

  • Latvian car registry website suffers cyber attack ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/13.08.2026-latvian-car-registry-website-suffers-cyber-attack.a658687/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:38:13

  • North Korea warns of new ‘deterrent’ ahead of US-South Korea drills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-denounces-us-south-korea-drills-kcna-says    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:38:34

  • South Korea's Lee favours four-year presidency with re-election permitted, Yonhap says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-lee-favours-four-year-presidency-with-re-election-permitted-yonhap-says    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:38:45

  • Australia is not ready for an economic blockade of Taiwan ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-is-not-ready-for-an-economic-blockade-of-taiwan/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:38:58

  • Penang ready to step up measures as air quality hits unhealthy level ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/penang-ready-to-step-up-measures-as-air-quality-hits-unhealthy-level    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:39:21

  • Shipyard explosion in southeastern China kills fire and rescue worker ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/shipyard-explosion-in-southeastern-china-kills-fire-and-rescue-worker    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:41:42

  • Charlie Kirk Suspect Fights Death Penalty, Says No Others Were in Danger ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-death-penalty.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:42:32

  • First-of-Its-Kind Trial Against Food Allergies Yields 'Exciting' Results ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-human-trial-of-poop-transplant-to-treat-food-allergies-shows-promising-results    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:43:14

  • Pinot Noir Might Be Doomed as Droughts Become More Frequent ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-pinpoint-when-wine-varieties-will-break-down-with-climate-change-and-its-bad-news-for-red-wine-drinkers    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:43:28

  • Scientists Just Found a Hidden Fault Under New Jersey, And It Caused The 2024 Earthquake ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-found-a-hidden-fault-under-new-jersey-and-it-caused-the-2024-earthquake    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:43:56

  • After 50 Years, Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/after-50-years-physicists-find-strong-evidence-for-what-really-holds-matter-together    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:44:04

  • More Young People Than Ever Before Are Getting One Type of Cancer, And It's Mystifying Scientists ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/more-young-people-than-ever-before-are-getting-one-type-of-cancer-and-its-mystifying-scientists    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:44:15

  • Scientists Overfed a Tiny Worm… And It Started Growing a Chain of Clones ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-overfed-a-tiny-worm-and-it-started-growing-a-chain-of-clones    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:44:26

  • Cutting Meat And Dairy For Just a Few Weeks Can Alter Your Body's Chemistry ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cutting-meat-and-dairy-for-just-a-few-weeks-can-alter-your-bodys-chemistry    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:44:47

  • Swarming Jellyfish Just Shut Down a Nuclear Reactor For The Second Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/swarming-jellyfish-just-shut-down-a-nuclear-reactor-for-the-second-time    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:45:05

  • Taiwan throttles mobile internet speeds in defence drill ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-throttles-mobile-internet-speeds-in-defence-drill    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:45:41

  • Taiwan chokes mobile internet speeds in drill for Chinese attack ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/13/taiwan-chokes-mobile-internet-speeds-in-drill-for-chinese-attack/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:45:52

  • Brazilians weigh the benefits of Hey Hi (AI) facial recognition against the costs ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/0813/brazil-facial-recognition-artificial-intelligence    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:46:19

  • Slop as a scam ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/cerebras-shares-plunge-nearly-20-percent-after-missing-earnings-expectations-hardware-sales-drop-but-ai-cloud-revenue-climbs-281-percent    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:47:16

  • "MElon says" ... [REPEAT HIS LIES]. Fake numbers. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-says-xai-will-increase-data-center-capacity-7x-by-2027-targeting-10-gigawatts-of-compute-up-to-usd500-billion-in-revenue-by-the-end-of-next-year    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:48:07

  • College Kids Are Using Hey Hi (AI) Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/college-kids-ai-agents-cheat-online-courses    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:48:45

  • Insane Dad Boasts About Using Hey Hi (AI) to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dad-uses-ai-fake-reality-kid-play-in    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:50:12

  • Game Dev CEO Accused of Replacing Writers With Hey Hi (AI) is Now Completely Crashing Out ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/game-developer-accused-firing-writer-ai    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:50:32

  • Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an Hey Hi (AI) Company ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sports-illustrated-the-arena-group-paradium-ai    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:50:58

  • Alabama residents left powerless to stop massive Bitcoin mining data center despite county and town moratoriums — hole in state zoning laws lets facility through ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/alabama-residents-left-powerless-to-stop-massive-bitcoin-mining-data-center-despite-county-and-town-moratoriums-hole-in-state-zoning-laws-lets-facility-through    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:51:32

  • China rejects New Zealand spy allegations as false ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-rejects-new-zealand-spy-allegations-as-false    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:52:10

  • Critical 'Zoomsday' flaw enables total device takeover during Zoom calls ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/zoomsday-vulnerability-let-anyone-in-a-zoom-meeting-take-over-anybody-else-ai-assisted-research-only-used-20-prompts-to-find-an-exploit-to-hack-hundred-of-millions-of-people    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:52:28

  • Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737’s Flight Management Computer, mess with takeoff weights, or even divert an aircraft ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/coin-sized-device-can-hack-a-boeing-737s-flight-management-computer-mess-with-takeoff-weights-or-even-divert-an-aircraft-gadget-connects-to-an-easily-accessible-port-that-overrides-commands-from-the-pilots-uses-in-flight-wi-fi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:52:49

  • Advancing the Safer Internet Initiative for Everyone ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/08/advancing-the-safer-internet-initiative-for-everyone/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:53:42

  • The Insurrectionist imposes tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260814-donald-trump-imposes-tariffs-of-up-to-100-on-imported-drones    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:54:00

  • rsync 3.5.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1088759/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:56:30

  • Nightmare Eclipse Drops backdoored Windows Zero-Day Exploit ‘ShieldBreak’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nightmare-eclipse-drops-windows-zero-day-exploit-shieldbreak/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:56:57

  • Critical VMware vCenter Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vmware-vcenter-vulnerability-in-attackers-crosshairs/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:57:18

  • Fortinet Patches Authentication Flaws in FortiWeb and FortiManager ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortinet-patches-authentication-flaws-in-fortiweb-and-fortimanager/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:57:38

  • Adobe Commerce Bug Targeted Immediately After Disclosure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-commerce-bug-targeted-immediately-after-disclosure/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:58:14

  • Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-silver-foxes-facebook    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:58:51

  • Amazon Exec Openly Admits That Voluntary Hey Hi (AI) Opt-Ins Don’t Work: ‘Nobody Would Opt In’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/13/future-of-ai-licensing-opt-in-or-opt-out/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:59:22

  • Microsoft's nemesis drops new zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability — attack grants system-level privileges, but it could already be patched ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-nemesis-drops-new-zero-day-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-attack-grants-system-level-privileges-but-it-could-already-be-patched    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 18:59:58

  • Raul Castro makes rare public appearance at Fidel centenary event ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260813-raul-castro-makes-rare-public-appearance-at-fidel-centenary-event    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:00:43

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon C Arm SoC outperforms an defective chip maker Intel N250 CPU by up to 67 percent in “unplugged” benchmarks ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/13/qualcomm-snapdragon-c-arm-soc-outperforms-an-intel-n250-cpu-by-up-to-67-percent-in-unplugged-benchmarks/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:01:24

  • AAEON PICO-ADN2 – A low-profile Alder Lake-N Pico-ITX SBC for space-constrained applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/13/aaeon-pico-adn2-a-low-profile-alder-lake-n-pico-itx-sbc-for-space-constrained-applications/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:01:44

  • Partial solar eclipse over Lithuania – photos ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3020074/partial-solar-eclipse-over-lithuania-photos    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:02:26

  • Photos: Latvia observes partial solar eclipse ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/13.08.2026-photos-latvia-observes-partial-solar-eclipse.a658629/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:02:59

  • Domas: Bypassing memory protection with AMD's memory controllers ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1088778/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:04:13

  • NovaCloud Licensing streaming patent monopoly challenge granted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/8/12/novacloud-licensing-streaming-patent-challenge-granted    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:06:29

  • Bird & Bird brings back former associate Huw Edwards as London partner from Nokia ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/bird-bird-brings-back-former-associate-huw-edwards-as-london-partner-from-nokia/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:07:49

  • Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141904/flock-is-tightening-its-rules-in-response-to-a-growing-surveillance-backlash/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:14:35

  • Introducing the WordPress Browser Extension ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/browser-extension/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:14:57

  • Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/despite-new-updates-flocks-creepy-cameras-remain-major-civil-liberties-threat    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:15:25

  • Twitch Faces Backlash as Amazon Turns Streams into Hey Hi (AI) Data ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/twitch-faces-backlash    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:18:13

  • Jonathan Almeida: Regenerate the BuildConfig file without assembling the whole module ☞ https://jonalmeida.com/til/regenerate-build-config/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:18:37

  • Hidden Phone Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now (Android & iOS) ☞ https://ostechnix.com/hidden-phone-privacy-settings-you-should-change-right-now/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:23:39

  • LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn't in Charge Anymore ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/lightdm-is-back/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:24:34

  • FFmpeg 9.0.1 Released with Large Amount of Fixes & Improvements ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/ffmpeg-9-0-1-released/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:24:52

  • FOSS Weekly #26.33: Mint Kernel, PDF Editing, VLC Drama, Omarchy Quattro and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-33/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:25:42

  • GeForce NOW’s GNU/Linux app exits beta, gets official Flatpak repo ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-linux-stable    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:33:16

  • BOSS 10.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/boss    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:33:26

  • SolydXK 13-202608 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/solydxk    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:33:35

  • Flatcar 4593.2.5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/flatcar    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:33:43

  • GeForce NOW On GNU/Linux Native App Exits Beta ☞    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:34:29

  • GNU/Linux Reaches 10% "Market Share" in statCounter (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/13/GNU_Linux_Reaches_10_Market_Share_in_statCounter.shtml    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:34:45

  • NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds native GNU/Linux app and DLSS upgrades ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/nvidia-geforce-now-adds-native-linux-app-and-dlss-upgrades/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:35:30

  • How to Set Up CachyOS for Gaming: A Beginner Guide (2026) https://www.fosslinux.com/160185/how-to-set-up-cachyos-for-gaming.htm    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:37:25

  • There is definitely LLM slop contaminating this article. Not 100% slopfarms, but still worrying. https://www.fosslinux.com/160202/stream-playstation-games-linux-chiaki-asobi.htm    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:38:11

  • Wresting dunce trying to run US schools. Tragedy ensues. https://www.chronicle.com/article/linda-mcmahon-wants-higher-ed-to-reform-itself-heres-how-to-respond    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:39:06

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

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:39:29

  • Despite PKK self-dissolution and peace process in Turkey: Germany set to keep pursuing Kurds hard ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/13/despite-pkk-self-dissolution-and-peace-process-in-turkey-germany-set-to-keep-pursuing-kurds-hard/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:39:57

  • 'Operation Werewolf' causes minor inconvenience to locals near Belarus border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/14.08.2026-operation-werewolf-causes-minor-inconvenience-to-locals-near-belarus-border.a658772/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:40:21

  • Russia’s Pacific submarine fleet could tip the scales in China’s favour ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/russias-pacific-submarine-fleet-could-tip-the-scales-in-chinas-favour/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:48:13

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/politics/trump-private-companies-hacking-cybercriminals.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:48:28

  • Why former Soviet states now challenge Russia over Ukraine war ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0813/Kazakhstan-Asia-Soviet-Russia-Ukraine    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:48:45

  • Ukrainian defence company DEMZ to invest in ammunition plant in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3020185/ukrainian-defence-company-demz-to-invest-in-ammunition-plant-in-lithuania    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:48:55

  • Russian detained over plot to 'execute' Ukrainian-American in Warsaw, Tusk says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260813-poland-detains-russian-for-execution-plot-in-warsaw-tusk-says    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:49:03

  • Russian strike on Ukraine passenger train kills 2 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260813-russian-strike-on-ukraine-passenger-train-kills-2    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:49:10

  • Russia-Ukraine war: Grain hub attacks raise fears over global food prices ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260813-russia-ukraine-war-grain-hub-attacks-raise-fears-over-global-food-prices    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:51:07

  • Latvian and Ukrainian police team up to catch crypto fraudsters ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/13.08.2026-latvian-and-ukrainian-police-team-up-to-catch-crypto-fraudsters.a658650/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:51:17

  • Another group of Ukrainian soldiers arrives at Rīga Eastern Hospital ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/13.08.2026-another-group-of-ukrainian-soldiers-arrives-at-riga-eastern-hospital.a658667/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:51:27

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Plane Switch Ruse Pales in Comparison With Putin’s Secrecy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/world/europe/trump-flight-putin-security.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:52:36

  • Putin Visits Islands Seized From Japan in World War II, Angering Tokyo ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/world/asia/putin-visit-islands-japan-russia.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:52:45

  • Putin visits disputed Kuril Islands ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260813-putin-visits-disputed-kuril-islands-1    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:52:56

  • Japan protests Putin's first visit to disputed islands ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260813-japan-protests-putin-s-first-visit-to-disputed-islands    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:53:05

  • IBM Red Hat selling slop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/13/replace-llm-infrastructure-guesswork-data-driven-planning    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:53:48

  • "Dr Schestowitz has written about similar phenomena on Techrights" ☞ https://danielpocock.com/en/swiss-army-attack-2900-domain-name-holders-cult-eth-zurich-debian/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:54:56

  • CPC as gatekeeper = recipe for cultural censorship https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/13/tiktok-music-on-stage-returns-2026/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:55:44

  • https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-find-your-phone-when-its-on-silent-aZvlj7h2IvkR   

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:56:14

  • GenZ = cannot find gadgets https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-find-your-phone-when-its-on-silent-aZvlj7h2IvkR    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:56:20

  • quantum quantum quantum ... more BS https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141041/building-a-practical-path-to-post-quantum-cryptography/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:57:26

  • "An interesting conundrum for patents and IP generally, but also somewhat concerning for wider LLM use for any confidential material. I wonder how many companies assume that their confidentiality agreements with LLM providers cover all use cases?" ☞ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-in-patent-industry-beware-mcp-trojan.html?showComment=1786632743195#c2797502116563404986    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 19:59:27

  • Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1141399/roundtables-inside-the-censorship-industrial-complex-idea-shaping-us-policy/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:00:11

  • A bold new strategy or a dangerous Linuxprecedent? Experts are divided on Convicted Felon’s memo. ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/private-sector-hacking-presidential-memo-cybersecurity/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:10:14

  • I stripped the smarts out of my old TV, and it finally got good again https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stripped-the-smarts-out-of-my-old-tv-and-it-finally-got-good-again/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:15:14

  • "When you level up you can boost your existing minions, and sometimes pick a new minion to board the Snek to make you more powerful." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/snekromancy-is-a-clever-reinvention-of-snake-with-a-survivor-like-tower-escape-style/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:15:48

  • LACT Brings More NVIDIA OC Controls and GPU Sensors to Linux https://www.techpowerup.com/351566/lact-brings-more-nvidia-oc-controls-and-gpu-sensors-to-linux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:17:49

  • NVIDIA GPU tuning on Linux gets voltage boost and new sensors with LACT https://videocardz.com/newz/lact-0-10-0-adds-nvidia-voltage-boost-and-per-chip-gddr7-temperature-monitoring-on-linux    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:18:15

  • "After literally decades, I'm frankly sick of reading (and writing!) about the "year of the Linux desktop" where the world's most popular server and embedded OS finally makes a dent in the desktop OS market." https://www.howtogeek.com/desktop-linux-is-boring-now-but-thats-exactly-what-it-needs-to-succeed/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:19:29

  • Flipper Devices' Pavel Zhovner Details Flipper OS, the Modular Platform Driving the Flipper One https://www.hackster.io/news/flipper-devices-pavel-zhovner-details-flipper-os-the-modular-platform-driving-the-flipper-one-5080ee075698    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:19:58

  • "Forlinx is introducing a new alternative to the Raspberry Pi. The single-board computer (SBC) is tailored to specific application scenarios, allowing sensors and actuators to be connected as usual." https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Forlinx-SBC-A-Raspberry-Pi-alternative-with-dual-core-A53-and-Linux-support.1367374.0.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:21:10

  • The Agony Of Packaging Linux Apps https://hackaday.com/2026/08/12/the-agony-of-packaging-linux-apps/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:21:48

  • NVIDIA GeForce NOW Linux App Exits Beta With Great New Perks https://hothardware.com/news/nvidia-geforce-now-linux-app-exits-beta-new-perks https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-now-native-linux-app-leaves-beta-frame-generation-gets-lower-latency    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:23:25

  • Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday-linux-native-app/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:23:48

  • Red Hat selling slop plagiarism, not Linux, because of IBM's rogue leadership https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/applications/142740/red-hat-tames-the-open-source-ai-chaos/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:46:05

  • Red Hat selling scams and pyramid schemes now, RHEL is a side "perk" https://www.infoworld.com/article/4204055/three-ai-security-mistakes-that-will-haunt-enterprises.html    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:47:03

  • Red Hat helps Microsoft sell a Ponzi scheme that benefits Nvidia, which digests lots of debt https://www.itbrew.com/stories/red-hat-launches-asago-open-source-community    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:48:04

  • Red Hat is 100% about slop now, forget about Linux https://se-radio.net/2026/07/se-radio-729-garth-mollett-on-ai-supply-chain-security/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:48:50

  • (No)? Hard Feelings (2023) gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/08/14/hard/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:57:03

  • "Your sex and your gender are a gift given to you by the Creator, to be enjoyed and to be utilized for good. Trying to pretend that you are the opposite gender, or to mutilate yourself, will only lead to suffering for yourself and for others." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260813-0.gmi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:58:17

  • "It has allowed biological males, even those with known history of abuse against women, to be housed in the cells of female inmates, just by claiming they identify as a woman or feel uncomfortable with male prisoners." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/essays/trans-predators.gmi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 20:59:27

  • "Most code written today is much, much more sterile than some of the code of yore (especially, hobbyist/indie code). I'd like more humanity in my everything, please, and code is a great place for it to be." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/08/13/00/human-code/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:00:58

  • "Making this a daily practice generally does seem to scope my mindset to the last 24 hours, and that's what shows up on the page. That's expected. It makes sense. The results are as varied as the daily lived experience." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/slow-writing    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:01:29

  • "i've also allotted an hour of "screwing around" per day but i haven't really used it? not sure what other screwing around i'd do that's not messages/blogs and video. maybe i should just cancel that in general? or wind it down to half an hour?" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/limitinginternetobservations    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:02:05

  • "I'm not sure why that is. Is it the lack of tabs? Lagrange has tabs and it keeps me longer. Rogallo requires me to work within one window and only that one, going back and forth from antennas to gemlog and back to antenna to gemlog. Actually remember to check Station and BBS instead of going from tab to tab and just refreshing." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260814Logoff.gmi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:03:04

  • "Beans have unexpectedly become one of my favourite garden treats and these Dragon Tongue bush beans, which I planted for the first time this year, are absolutely delightful!" gemini://b-ark.ca/2026/08/14/beans-have-unexpectedly/    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:03:39

  • "i never thought i'd get to even play this game in my life. maybe once or twice if i happened to go to japan but that was it." gemini://mortis.smol.pub/entry-4    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:04:21

  • "After looking into the Evercade and contemplating, (still contemplating) and jumping into Pokémon fan games (I need to grind so hard for badge two now. T_T) I now have dipped my toes into emulation." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260811Emu.gmi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:05:19

  • "There's still the second window to be covered, though. But after measuring, cutting and attaching the first foil, complete with big long bubble that refused to be disappeared completely, it was evening and we declared our work done for the day." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260809poke.gmi    

posted Friday, August 14, 2026 at 21:05:55
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