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"Norwegian engineer and electronics designer Runar Tenfjord has released design files and firmware for a permissively-licensed STMicroelectronics STM32C5-based BluePill-inspired development board with a twist: official support for an embedded variant of the Oberon-2 programming language." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260817-smt32.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:35:52

  • "It appears that someone is wrong on the Internet [1], and if Hacker News is anything to go by [2], that person is me! [3] Or rather, it might Justin Prime who wrote that Stack Exchange post [4] about Gmail's possibly buggy support for periods in the local part of an email address." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/17.1    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:36:52

  • Updates - where was I all that time? gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/whisper/updates---where-was-i-all-that-time?.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:38:04

  • creative held gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/creative_held    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:38:43

  • "As expected, the position of the solar panel, on top of the shed, didn't keep the system up for very long. This spot only really gets half a day of direct sunlight, and that's on a sunny day." gemini://theunixzoo.co.uk/gemlog/2026/2026-08-17-not-enough-sun.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:39:49

  • "I, too, was struck by the concept of kipple and what an elegant and broad-reaching framing it was, and find myself thinking about it when encountering these day-to-day tasks." gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-08-17-re-kipple.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:40:38

  • "What is our personal obligation to maximize the extent to which we're part of the solution, and minimize the extent to which we're part of the problem? How do we determine that obligation? Is it really an obligation, or is it something else, something softer and harder to define?" gemini://nullish.smol.pub/catastrophe-ethics    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 05:41:31

  • THE CYBER SHOW: "This Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." – Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 06:02:45

  • The Cyber Show on the News https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/18/the-cyber-show-on-the-news/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 06:07:12

  • Rain! https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/18/rain/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 06:28:44

  • Anon: "Digital Vegan was not possible for me to get in print. ... it's a well-written book on important topics"    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:09:06

  • BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH WE LOSE A TON OF MONEY but "it's OK".... because INVESTMENT (!!) BLAH BLAH BLAH HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI BLAH BLAH BLAH https://www.tradingview.com/news/gurufocus:ec4a0e4f8094b:0-oracle-plans-more-layoffs-as-ai-spending-surges/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:22:27

  • This economy is a JOKE https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:22:55

  • And to become a "BIG" or "SUCCESSFUL" CEO you now need to BE a fraud and PARTICIPATE in illegal economic activities - theft basically    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:23:29

  • It all starts at the top (fish rots from the head down) with a paedophilic Cheeto In Chief and his escort https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/former-associate-alleges-melania-trump-143850792.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:24:25

  • INVESTMENT IN HEY HI!!! SHAME ENRON TOO DID NOT SAY "INVESTING IN HEY HI, BE PATIENT!" https://sea.peoplemattersglobal.com/news/strategic-hr/managers-asked-to-identify-roles-as-oracle-weighs-fresh-layoffs-reports-51461    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:27:05

  • GAFAM CEOs: don't call the president pedo. Oracle CEO: so what if my wife is like 50 years younger!!    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:28:02

  • Xbox Pulls Funding https://www.techjuice.pk/xbox-pulls-funding-for-other-projects-but-kojimas-od-survives/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:32:18

  • "Corretjer died in 1985." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/corretjer-brown-public-domain-boricua-en-la-luna/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:40:06

  • "Cineby, one of the biggest pirate streaming sites on the web, says it will shut its doors on August 26." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-streaming-giant-cineby-announces-surprise-shutdown/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:47:18

  • "Will any writer, of anything, ever want to use any Claude text anywhere now?" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/08/17/you-can-hear-the-squeak-of-sphincters-closing/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:48:07

  • "The regulator says the prompts steer users away from agreeing to let third-party apps use their data" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/980977/apple-app-tracking-transparency-settlement-germany | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:58:14

  • "I like the part where Apple’s expert argues that its normal commission rates are so high" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/17/apple-proposes-15-external-purchase-fee/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:58:23

  • "Look, I understand there are risks when you let people install software from outside an app store's walled garden." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/i-for-one-welcome-our-nanny-state/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:58:30

  • "I’m reminded of the video game Disco Elysium (spoilers ahead)." ☛ https://btao.org/posts/2026-08-17-i-dont-enjoy-the-internet/ | Source: Tao Bojlén    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 07:59:06

  • Suppose Microsoft and IBM call you up and say, call back doors "security". Then NVIDIA tells you to call mass plagiarism and theft "AI"...    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:00:01

  • What does that MAKE you?    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:00:12

  • "gender apartheid" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0817/Afghans-cling-to-education-for-girls | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:00:29

  • "Billionaires already pay much lower tax rates than what working families pay out of every paycheck." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/billionaire-google-co-founder-spends-102m-to-fund-opposition-to-ca-wealth-tax/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:00:43

  • "Earlier this year in Minnesota" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/dhs-ice-minnesota-protests-unions | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:00:56

  • "Cherokee Nation, the largest tribe in the U.S. with more than 475,000 citizens" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/largest-tribe-in-the-us-bans-hyperscale-data-centers-on-its-lands | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:01:10

  • "serious concerns about the construction of hyperscale data" ☛ https://anadisgoi.com/index.php/government-stories/cherokee-nation-issues-data-center-task-force-report-new-policy-actions |    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:01:38

  • "Scott, your analysis is full of shite." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-scott-bessent | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:02:00

  • "imposed within weeks of the Taliban's return to power in August 2021" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/secret-classrooms-afghanistan-women-defy-taliban-education-ban-1814736 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:02:26

  • "Those with Great Goals Make Great Efforts" ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/yazidi-press-association-holds-its-first-conference-in-shengal-86800 | Source: ANF News    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:03:41

  • "journalists are unable to research, publish online, or communicate securely with sources." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/08/drc-shutdown-of-internet-mobile-networks-in-east-extends-for-over-a-month-amid-war/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:04:29

  • "The sentences are the latest handed to Malians critical of the unstable west African country's military government, which came to power following back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260817-prominent-mali-journalist-influencer-jailed-for-seven-years-for-criticising-junta | Source: France24    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:04:59

  • "Nothing less than compassion for the human race, Bruce explained" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-16/comic-lenny-bruce-inspired-generationsl-a-vice-cops-hounded-him | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:05:12

  • "The formal pretexts for prosecuting him were his participation in debates and his repost of a Daily Mirror cover featuring Vladimir Putin." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/17/eleven-years-in-prison-for-illegal-speech-reactions-to-the-verdict-against-russian-opposition-politician-lev-shlosberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:06:03

  • "Almost a month after two prominent Iranian graphic designers were detained by security forces" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-graphic-designers-french-diplomats-arrest/33832095.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:06:21

  • OVER TIME, and it may take Techrights a decade to cover it all, more Brits will recognise that those ARE ‘hired guns’ https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/16/uk-solicitors-warned-not-to-act-as-hired-guns-to-silence-critics-of-super-rich and act accordingly https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/What_I_Explained_to_Police_About_Blackmail_and_Death_Threats_vi.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:16:53

  • This 'article' ITSELF smacks of "Reputation Management" https://fossforce.com/2026/08/bytedances-oin-2-0-deal-patent-non-aggression-meets-reputation-management/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:19:17

  • OIN is a well-connected cabal like LF, it does NOT represent ANY form of populism. It's run by the tennis partner of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Geithner    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:20:05

  • Hank Paulson turned 80 months ago. You can wreck the economy and live long, just never ever criticise financial criminals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:20:59

  • Timothy Franz Geithner is set to retire in 2-3 years    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:21:49

  • OIN: we're run by people who don't use Linux! We just use the "Linux" brand to protect software patents from critics like FFII.    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:22:33

  • "This thing is entirely devoid of any specific anchor in space or time." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/17/john-solomons-propaganda-technique-keeping-the-who-what-when-secret-to-fool-the-rubes/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:22:57

  • "Why did Vodafone send these messages? Earlier in the week, all Internet access was cut off now phones were blasting propaganda to the masses." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:23:05

  • "The chatbot described the former N.B.A. star Yao Ming as the first Chinese woman to play professional basketball in the United States." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/asia/china-ai-data-chatbots.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:23:35

  • "from an operational standpoint" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/17/yandex-digitally-added-forest-to-maps-to-hide-military-sites | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:23:54

  • Cyberattacks ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/08/trump-iran-elections-cyberattacks/688297/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:24:20

  • "It’s aspirational. Google says deployments are internal-only, the components aren’t all built, and more papers are coming." ☛ https://kanenarraway.com/posts/beyond-zero-for-the-rest-of-us/ | Source: Kane Narraway    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:24:35

  • "The company’s pitch is that one integration outlives any single model." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/16/stripe-reportedly-finalizes-deal-to-buy-ai-model-router-openrouter-for-more-than-7b/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:24:58

  • "The solution has been a transition to photonics" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/photonics/ai-data-center-optical-interconnect-market-to-hit-usd144-billion-by-2030-an-over-ten-fold-increase-from-2024-figures-according-to-new-projections-silicon-photonics-expected-to-account-for-nearly-two-thirds-of-revenue-driven-by-co-packaged-optics | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:25:19

  • "American Kakistocracy." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/214258/republicans-medicaid-cuts-kill-people-2027 | Source: New Republic    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:26:06

  • "The deal, just months after OpenRouter raised money at a reported $1.3 billion valuation, underscores the demand from businesses to find the most cost-friendly AI solutions." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/stripe-clinches-over-7-billion-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter/articleshow/133285357.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:26:17

  • GNU/Linux ~5% in Hong Kong https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=HK&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:28:49

  • "The GEK800, now officially known under the name F143, is an 800-pound-thrust (3.56-kilonewton) turbofan engine for long-range missiles and other uncrewed applications." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/new-800-lb-thrust-turbofan-engine-selected-for-us-air-force-jassm-cruise-missile | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:44:55

  • "According to a new analysis of real-world battery-powered EVs, aggressive driving can accelerate the battery's degradation." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/driving-your-ev-like-a-jerk-could-wear-out-the-battery-2-5-times-faster | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:45:32

  • "Ypsilanti Township is considering a six-month pause on massive electricity transmission associated with data centers" ☛ https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/ypsilanti-township-eyes-moratorium-on-power-transmission-to-slow-u-m-data-center/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:46:50

  • "Nvidia’s financing for the data center in Pike County, Ohio, a project that could cost as much as $500 billion, is part of the complex dealmaking behind the A.I. boom." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/technology/nvidia-ohio-data-center-openai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:50:28

  • "Nvidia reached a deal on Monday to provide up to $105 billion to backstop a new OpenAI data center in Ohio, as Big Tech ramped up its debt-fueled AI splurge." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2026/nvidia-to-offer-105-billion-backstop-for-openai-data-center | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:52:15

  • "Rising global temperatures are heating up the ocean and fueling marine heat waves, which kill reefs." ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/497730/coral-reef-climate-change-restoration-palau | Source: Vox    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:53:52

  • "Of course, there’s no use in having billions of dollars if you’re going to stay shuttered away in a gaudy McMansion like some Old Moneyed hermit." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-billionaires-sales-yachts-private-jets-luxury-travel | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:54:03

  • "Clark reached out to Epstein after being introduced to him by John Brockman" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/dario-amodei-wife-jeffrey-epstein | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:55:24

  • "The Democratic Party’s overlords are facing a multifront challenge to their authority" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-fundraising-scam-pac-report/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:55:57

  • Overpopulation ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/subreddit-regretful-parents-dark | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:56:16

  • "endless feed of AI fruitslop videos" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/experts-gnet-ai-fruit-slop-corrupting-violence-extremism | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:56:46

  • "That document is still in force. Russia has never torn it up. And that, say Lithuanian officials and legal experts" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3018124/the-1991-treaty-that-still-haunts-the-kremlin | Source: LRT    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:57:37

  • "The question, then, may no longer simply be whether Russia remains the world's second-most-powerful military." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/war-russia-ukraine-degraded-superpower-struggles/33829865.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:57:50

  • "Meta will head into federal court on Tuesday to fend off accusations from a group of state attorneys" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5930701 | Source: NPR    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:58:09

  • "French President Emmanuel Macron has been the global leader in promoting a ban on social media for kids" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/thanks-for-joining-the-movement-french-constitutional-council-strikes-down-kids-social-media-ban/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:59:11

  • "Just to remember the story: So first we had the big warning that the U.S. military was basically running out of ammunition." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-misery-will-continue-until-morale | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 08:59:20

  • "The cyber operation amplified the impact of kinetic strikes by Ukraine’s Defense Forces on Wildberries warehouses" ☛ https://therecord.media/russia-wildberries-cyberattack-ukraine | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:00:08

  • "The Aussie experiment comes amid a lack of clear evidence that the apps harm most adolescents." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/australias-social-media-ban-for-teens-may-not-be-the-best-solution-but-its-certainly-getting-people-talking-180989355/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:00:58

  • "While the supply chain issue has been slowly mended, for a time it meant a rapid deterioration in living conditions." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-uss-lincoln-crisis/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:01:49

  • "Let’s just say this is the scenario we’re currently not ready for" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/08/nato-nightmare-joint-attack/688295/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:02:02

  • "Furthermore, young kids are not just passive listeners; they are active participants." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/gen-z-alpha-faith-algorithms-ai-chatbots-roblox-digital-religion-138751430.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:02:17

  • "the progress of the VMOS pipeline" ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/tech-magnate-peter-thiel-consolidates-his-presence-in-argentina/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:08:11

  • "Cryptocurrency wallet provider SafePal on Thursday disclosed a data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers' order information" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/crypto-wallet-provider-safepal-discloses-data-breach-affecting-nearly-40000-users-order-information/articleshow/133278729.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:08:52

  • "The round officially closed on June 19th, and the results give us reason to be encouraged" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/funding-internet-freedom-together/ | Source: Tor    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:09:20

  • "But there’s been another persistent, unsanctioned use: officers stalking women." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/17/flock-is-just-the-latest-example-of-using-surveillance-to-stalk-women-partner/ | Source: Salon    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:09:44

  • "Much of the information that Google has acquired relates to the airline’s internal operations" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/17/google-pays-10m-to-get-its-hands-on-spirit-airlines-business-data-for-ai-training/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:09:58

  • "In short, Flock could design its surveillance to be much narrower." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/17/1142200/what-flocks-defenders-are-missing/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:10:09

  • "The stolen information includes contact information like addresses" ☛ https://therecord.media/financial-info-leak-debt-consolidator | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:11:15

  • "computer-generated patterns can successfully prevent surveillance" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/invisible-car-machine-learning-hide-vehicle-flock-cameras | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:12:35

  • "I am baffled that someone thought this was a great idea." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/shop-social-media/ | Source: Ava    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:13:07

  • "Criminals are [cracking] into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/hacking-public-wi-fi-dns-to-steal-credentials.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:13:41

  • Microsoft GitHub ☛ https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/08/17/788a6/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:15:51

  • Privatisation / Privateering ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/public-goods-housing-schools-nursing-homes/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:17:03

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/08/17/theres-a-libcurl-dll-in-my-system32/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:17:21

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/that-hotel-wi-fi-password-does-not-make-the-network-safe/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:17:43

  • "The update follows years of informal industry consensus suggesting users had to watch a standard video for roughly 30 seconds before YouTube registered a single view." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/youtube-updates-view-count-metrics-1814720 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:18:13

  • "YouTube says it’s going to keep its original view-counting method under an “engaged views” metric in its Analytics dashboard." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/streaming/981105/youtube-video-view-counting-update | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:18:33

  • "The media hounding didn’t just continue, it increased." ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-lynching | Source: Carole Cadwalladr    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:20:33

  • "The dual decision is the latest legal blow to the company" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-16/meta-youth-safety-trial-judge-rules-star-witness-evidence | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:20:47

  • "Last week, I wrote somewhat personally about my trial, and I’m going to refer to my own experience again because my practical suggestions are rooted in my lived experience. I went through a pale shadow of what Arday experienced but nevertheless I know many of these names who came for him, these “journalists”, these outlets."    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:22:46

  • "Because it’s same ones who came for me. Brendan O’Neill even used that exact same framing. I was a “tragedy” too." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-lynching    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:23:01

  • "It was utterly absurd. And it had profound consequences. It meant I had to defend the meaning of the words that the judge had come up with at my trial, not the actual words I’d said. And since I couldn’t defend the judge’s words, I had to withdraw my truth defence." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-digital-lynching    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:27:06

  • They spent over a million pounds lawyering up against Carole Cadwalladr    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:27:38

  • "The announcement has caused a meltdown in [slop] circles." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/people-horrified-busted-anthropic-watermark | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:28:38

  • "Anthropic Adds Invisible [slop] Watermark to Claude" ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/anthropic-claude-invisible-ai-watermark-transparency-eu-ai-act-138743081.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:29:00

  • "That’s because there’s practically no oversight on Capitol Hill, as the WP points out." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/congressional-staffers-lazy-using-ai-write-new-laws | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:29:14

  • "But it has personality, and that doesn’t show through nearly as well in the new README.md. The new one is… dry." ☛ https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/don-t-use-an-llm-for-your-readme-md/ | Source: Andrew Quinn    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:29:31

  • "Many prestigious scientific venues have suffered from papers containing hallucinated citations." ☛ https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20260817/ | Source: Diomidis Spinellis    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:30:00

  • "When LLMs work, it can feel like magic, but when they fail, it feels like you are arguing with a confident bullshit artist." ☛ https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-17-llm-workflow.html | Source: Dmitri Sotnikov    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:30:20

  • "The Carlson Lab at the Yale School of Public Health has done some research and held some discussions, and posted The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/llms-damned-if-you-don-t-worse-if-you-do/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:31:30

  • "Our lab has agreed on a blanket ban on the use of generative AI for writing….Using generative AI inherently exposes you to the risk of career-ending accusations of plagiarism."    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:32:20

  • "Even though there’s a lot of pressure on academics to adopt AI or be left behind!!1! this is a lot bigger deal. Especially for this particular research team."    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:32:26

  • "LLMs do not care about the words that they pick because they cannot care about anything" ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/08/llms-arent-writing/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:32:49

  • "large language model could not be further away from those ideals. In the title of his piece, John describes the watermarking system as “a perversion of writing.” That might be the case if AIs were writing. But they are not; they are simply generating text. Those two things are not the same."    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:33:34

  • "As per the premise of John’s piece, writing is about carefully picking the words and crafting the meaning of what you’re saying, things that AI do not—and patently cannot—do."    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:33:39

  • "a hobbyist or amateur doesn’t even have the capability or experience to understand the assumed intent of an LLM until it’s too late and users have been affected." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/oops-shouldve-thought-of-that/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:33:49

  • "Quick strategy huddle. I’m not Sun Tzu over here, but those seem like weak-sauce countermeasures if you mean to help someone “fight back” against a “bombing”." ☛ https://raymyers.org/post/reading-code-considered-helpful/ | Source: Ray Myers    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:34:00

  • "Right now, most people hate generative AI in their art." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/17/authenticating-digital-works/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:34:17

  • "We started talking to Hany regularly in 2017, when Sam first reported on deepfakes." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-future-of-deepfakes-and-the-decline-of-reality-with-hany-farid/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:34:29

  • "human oversight" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/irregular-ai-sandbox-escape-human-oversight/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:34:54

  • "The digital sewage heap has sprawled across tech platforms, cheapening meaningful content and polluting the information ecosystem, as chatbots and video generators continue to advance." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/technology/ai-slop.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:35:04

  • "In an investigation by 404 Media, a bookseller suspected that an order they received for 1,000 books on Biblio, a marketplace where buyers can remain anonymous, was for an AI company." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-destroying-rare-books-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:35:37

  • "We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it" ☛ https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:35:47

  • "But one thing not brought up in the Hacker News thread is that Gmail supports custom domains." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/17.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:48:17

  • "It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/the-secret-to-longevity | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:48:45

  • "Intel will launch its new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in the data center." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-says-it-will-launch-new-core-with-nova-lake-on-desktop-first-not-in-data-center-vp-robert-hallock-hopes-enthusiasts-do-the-math-compared-to-amd | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:49:10

  • "I guess to summarise, with using a dedicated camera more my phone becomes less of an interesting device for me" ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/a-compact-camera-and-a-phone-for-phone-stuff | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:49:25

  • "Have you ever read an autobiographical account about someone?" ☛ https://heyloura.com/2026/08/17/blind-to-the-feeling-of.html | Source: Loura    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:50:03

  • "It has no campus, no accreditation, and no admissions process. Joining the family is enough to get you enrolled. Graduation is another matter" ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1323 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:50:13

  • "more pointed" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/i-received-an-award-from-the-illinois-library-association/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:50:56

  • no need to (by default) attribute malice or rogue party intervention to what can otherwise be excused away as a technical fluke    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:54:38

  • "for positive integers n. This is known as the generalized Sylvester method" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/16/proportion-of-1s-in-a-hadamard-matrix/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:54:47

  • "In a recent Science research article, King et al. report using generative genome models to design complete viral genomes." ☛ https://josephhall.org/blog/sigs-not-enough/ | Source: Joseph Lorenzo Hall    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:54:57

  • Looney Lunduke has chosen NOT to focus on the slop question in Debian but instead obsess over sex, cis, and other side issues. He's peddling crap politics under the guise of "TECH JOURNALISM". Sick.    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:56:25

  • The consequence is - for ALL of us - bad. They will excuse away the "anti-AI" as fanatical right wingers who make it about incest and stuff, not the technical and legal aspects    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:57:45

  • "It is what you observe when walking through a λλ-term with different strategies, and writing down the views as you go." ☛ https://text.marvinborner.de/2026-08-11-17.html | Source: Marvin Borner    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:57:49

  • "But that containment no longer works." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/17/guest-post-when-errors-become-consensus-sciences-self-correction-can-no-longer-keep-up/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:58:02

  • "A new archaeological investigation of a monumental Viking Age ship burial in Norway has uncovered evidence that the grave may have been constructed on top of a much older burial mound." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/viking-ship-burial-in-norway-may-have-been-built-over-bronze-age-grave/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:58:41

  • "As I write this on Monday, August 17th, there’s two more “selfie of the day” posts left for me to do before wrapping up the project." ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2026/08/reaching-the-end-of-my-selfie-a-day-for-a-year-project/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 09:58:56

  • Check out the demo for HYPERDROP an explosive neon-soaked pachinko roguelite | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/check-out-the-demo-for-hyperdrop-an-explosive-neon-soaked-pachinko-roguelite/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:00:21

  • Warcraft 2-inspired incremental auto-battler 'Orc Incremental' arrives September 8 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/warcraft-2-inspired-incremental-auto-battler-orc-incremental-arrives-september-8/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:00:41

  • "By June 1996, after three years of hard work, id Software had completed their next title, Quake." ☛ https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html | Source: Fabian Sanglard    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:00:50

  • Dystopian block-pushing puzzler 'Hazard Pay' arrives September 10 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dystopian-block-pushing-puzzler-hazard-pay-arrives-september-10/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dystopian-block-pushing-puzzler-hazard-pay-arrives-september-10/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:01:08

  • He Who Watches will confuse your eyes and your brain when it releases in September | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/he-who-watches-will-confuse-your-eyes-and-your-brain-when-it-releases-in-september/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:01:35

  • "automation factory" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/standardized-secure-scalable-optus-blueprint-red-hat-enterprise-linux-automation-factory | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:03:06

  • "That’s where Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed steps in." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/simplify-hybrid-cloud-ops-red-hat-openshift-lightspeed-5-sets-prompts-try-today | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:03:19

  • Build cities, worlds and gardens in the Builder Games Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/build-cities-worlds-and-gardens-in-the-builder-games-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:04:02

  • KINGDOM HEARTS IV releases late in 2027 - Steam page is up with a new trailer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/kingdom-hearts-iv-releases-late-in-2027-steam-page-is-up-with-a-new-trailer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:04:35

  • Sloppy slop-slop from IBM Red Hat ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-we-built-ai-agent-field-associates-red-hat-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:05:24

  • Supernatural, post-apocalypse adventure 'Sally Face 2' revealed | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/supernatural-post-apocalypse-adventure-sally-face-2-revealed/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:06:14

  • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands has Easy Anti-Cheat removed | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-wildlands-has-easy-anti-cheat-removed/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:06:21

  • Linux kernel 7.2 is officially out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/linux-kernel-7-2-is-officially-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/linux-kernel-7-2-is-officially-out-now/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:06:34

  • They spent over a million pounds lawyering up against Carole Cadwalladr; the aim was to discredit her, to make it seem like anything she ever wrote was to be presumed false, plus demoralise her with online mobbing, ritual defamation    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:09:09

  • So Dario Amodei is just one or two degrees away from 1) pedophilia. 2) trafficking of women. 3) oligarchs' "young meat" money    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:16:01

  • But go on, carry on using LLM slop (plagiarism).    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:16:32

  • "And - while you were on the PIP, were you receiving any kind of commentary, rating, etc. as to whether or not you were meeting expectations, or need more improvement, etc., etc.?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m05e9zxf    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:19:09

  • "If you want to be safe at IBM, work on your PowerPoint skills and voluntarily lick your boss's a nus at every opportunity. Sc--w the hard skills." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m06e61tm "the little HR Indian bot is back. Are you getting more badges ? How you WatsonX challenge ? Did you learn anything you can share ?"    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:20:55

  • State and Stats of NHS in 2026 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/18/state-and-stats-of-nhs-in-2026/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 10:53:22

  • Shoemaking and Shoe Repair https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/18/shoemaking-and-shoe-repair/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:11:59

  • "Don’t Expect Russians to Protest the War - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/08/russia-ukraine-drone-war-protest/688259/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:12:08

  • "Microsoft Gave BitLocker Keys to FBI" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/microsoft-gave-bitlocker-keys-to-fbi:4    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:12:34

  • "The Technium: Without a theory of intelligence" https://kk.org/thetechnium/without-a-theory-of-intelligence/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:12:44

  • "Början till slutet för åldersgränser online" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/16/borjan-till-slutet-for-aldersgranser-online/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:12:54

  • scapegoating https://cyberscoop.com/irregular-ai-sandbox-escape-human-oversight/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:13:07

  • "German Christian Democrats Are Paralyzed by a Far-Right Surge" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/germany-cdu-afd-merz-coalition    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:13:17

  • "Jeffries Says He Opposes Medicare for All — Which Would Save 114k Lives Yearly | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/jeffries-says-he-opposes-medicare-for-all-which-would-save-114k-lives-yearly/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:13:27

  • "Is America in the Grip of a Foreign Power? | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/israel-lobby-clifton-lustick-middle-east-us-foreign-policy/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:13:42

  • "Why Trump ordered the Pentagon to slash joint exercises with South Korea - CSMonitor.com" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0817/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-south-korea-military    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:13:56

  • "Fact check: Republicans tie Jocelyn Benson to criminal case involving KKK - Bridge Michigan" https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fact-check-republicans-tie-jocelyn-benson-to-criminal-case-involving-kkk/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:14:14

  • "The Incoherence of Trump’s Past Week of Foreign Policy - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/08/trump-foreign-policy-incoherence-iran/688312/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:14:23

  • "Brysseleffekten" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/17/brysseleffekten/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:14:40

  • "Hvorfor Kina vinder | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/hvorfor-kina-vinder    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:14:53

  • "screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/17/almost-nobody-pays-attention-to-web-standards-anymore/5288782 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:15:56

  • "None of these conveniences change FTP’s fundamental problem: ordinary FTP is not secure." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/17/linux-fu-improving-ftp/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:16:11

  • "UUIDs have been part of my Django story since my first contribution to the project" ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2026/08/26/djangocon-us-2026/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:16:51

  • "The same trace is now far more compact and readable." ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/pytorch-profiles-perfetto/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:17:00

  • "Here’s a small excerpt from one of my apps." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/o-is-for-orm-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:17:13

  • "Before we discuss the activities that make up architectural work, let us first briefly revisit the two “laws of architerctural work”." ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/essence_of_architecture_5/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:17:32

  • "Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago." ☛ https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-the-stalk-market/ | Source: Assaf Arkin    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:17:50

  • "A bug comes in, or someone shows me a page doing something surprising, and the question is always the same one." ☛ https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/08/17/tracing-web-specs/ | Source: Andreas Farre    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:18:17

  • "For the majority of people, just checking in the mirror and recognising your eye colour is fairly simple." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/iris-colour-detection-with-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:18:34

  • "In the digital economy, the concept of sovereignty is often associated with data control or infrastructure localization." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/18/time-the-cornerstone-of-digital-sovereignty-and-independence/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:27:25

  • "Open source and digital sovereignty are closely related." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/08/17/creative-commons-to-convene-a-conversation-unga-81/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:28:21

  • "These days open source is everywhere, and frankly, we couldn’t be happier about it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/17/hackaday-europe-2026-open-source-hardware-goes-underground-literally/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:28:38

  • "I provide some feeds for anyone who wishes to get an update on when I've published something." ☛ https://fyr.io/post/feeds-are-critical |    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:29:06

  • "Tramp is a famous and often praised GNU Emacs system for editing remote files; lots of people will call it one of Emacs' compelling features." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EmacsTrampSomeThoughts | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:29:37

  • "We’re particularly taken by the conceit of creating his own packaging for the unit" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/17/one-mans-perfect-retro-style-monitor-takes-all-inputs/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:30:32

  • "In the 1960s, the home computer was barely a twinkle in anyone’s eye." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/17/looking-at-an-old-toy-computer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:30:46

  • "There are a lot of options on the ballot, and they all have a different structure and approach the question in a different way." ☛ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20998.html | Source: Diziet    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:31:06

  • "Running relayd alongside httpd on your OpenBSD web servers is no longer necessary for injecting HTTP security headers" ☛ https://btxx.org/posts/so-long-relayd/ | Source: Brad Taunt    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:31:43

  • "[...] These days there are a lot of command line shells, some with an impressive range of interactive features." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260817 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:32:14

  • "Rating: 90% (can't do the manual checks, as this is now a paid option)" ☛ https://www.robin.is/posts/2026/ratings/ | Source: Robin D Otis    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:33:13

  • "Every element I use for the basic structure of a HTML document, with explanations why." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/html-boilerplate | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 11:33:21

  • this was just let through by the moderators today: "TV station's cloud provider fails, archived data in peril" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00002.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:29:28

  • Michael Meeks: "Worked late until a delicious dinner made by Barney - somehow with a fixed 9 hours work in the day" ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2026-08-12.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:41:28

  • Natalie Vock: VRAM Management Part 2: Beyond the Limits of Physical VRAM ☞ https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:44:14

  • Luckfox Lyra PLC – A Linux-based Rockchip RK3506B industrial controller with RS232, RS422, RS485, CAN bus, and relays ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/17/luckfox-lyra-plc-a-linux-based-rockchip-rk3506b-industrial-controller-with-rs232-rs422-rs485-can-bus-and-relays/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:44:54

  • John Goerzen: Hey Hi (AI) in Debian: The Vote, Proposals, and Nuance ☞ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44740-ai-in-debian-the-vote-proposals-and-nuance    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:45:21

  • Slop boosters (plagiarists) want to tell us there's an anti-plagiarism ("AI") bias. Yes, that's right. Because plagiarism is a bad thing.    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:46:21

  • The Code That Saved the Moon Landing ☞ https://jxself.org/moon.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:47:49

  • OpenAltFinder Connects Users With FOSS Alternatives to Nonfree Apps ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/openaltfinder-connects-users-with-foss-alternatives-to-nonfree-apps/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:49:22

  • Pluralistic: Jennifer Jenkins' 'Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture' (17 Aug 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/17/great-sousas-ghost/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:50:16

  • Ian Jackson: Debian LLM GR - Summary of the options ☞ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/20998.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:51:47

  • After Jason Arday’s Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/jason-arday-cambridge-plagiarism-media.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 12:53:06

  • Excuse for dumping something that does not make money but loses money ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/alibaba-sells-its-gaming-studio-for-at-least-1-5-billion-to-help-fund-ai-buildout    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:01:09

  • Time: The cornerstone of digital sovereignty and independence ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/18/time-the-cornerstone-of-digital-sovereignty-and-independence/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:02:55

  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-destroying-rare-books-ai    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:10:10

  • AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/technology/ai-slop.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:10:33

  • Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for Hey Hi (AI) sandbox escape incidents ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/irregular-ai-sandbox-escape-human-oversight/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:10:46

  • Oops, Should’ve Thought of That ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/oops-shouldve-thought-of-that/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:11:07

  • Vietnam aviation body says passenger plane returned to Munich after tail strike, tyre-pressure warnings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-aviation-body-says-passenger-plane-returned-to-munich-after-tail-strike-tyre-pressure    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:15:36

  • Houthis Claim Strike on Saudi Vessel as Red Sea Violence Escalates ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/middleeast/houthis-saudi-strike.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:15:50

  • How cheap, simple building materials can protect strike drones from lasers ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-cheap-simple-building-materials-can-protect-strike-drones-from-lasers/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:16:22

  • Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs — company responds with guidance, removes malicious package ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/geekom-admits-to-shipping-malware-laced-network-drivers-for-amd-mini-pcs-company-responds-with-guidance-removes-malicious-package    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:16:48

  • Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-wordbook-dictionary-offline    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:22:24

  • DR Congo Ebola outbreak becomes country’s deadliest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/dr-congo-ebola-outbreak-becomes-country-s-deadliest    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:24:17

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Orders Pentagon to Curtail Military Exercises With Ally South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/us/politics/trump-south-korea-military-exercises.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:30:06

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Overture to North Korea Strains Alliance With the South ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/asia/trump-korea-military-kim-jong-un.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:30:31

  • Facing Quagmire in Iran, Convicted Felon Turns to a Familiar Face: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/trump-iran-north-korea-kim-jong-un.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:30:58

  • Why Convicted Felon ordered the Pentagon to slash joint exercises with South Korea ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0817/trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-south-korea-military    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:31:11

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man move to cut drills with South Korea shocks experts, analysts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/trump-move-to-cut-drills-with-south-korea-shocks-experts-analysts    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:31:29

  • South Korea President Lee backs stronger self-defence, says drills not aimed at North Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-backs-stronger-self-defence-says-drills-not-aimed-at-north-korea    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:31:41

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man orders Pentagon to cut back military drills with Seoul hours before start ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260817-trump-orders-pentagon-to-cut-back-military-drills-with-seoul-hours-before-start    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 13:31:51

  • Mandatory drug screening for MAS pilots completed, all results negative, says MAG ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mandatory-drug-screening-for-mas-pilots-completed-all-results-negative-says-mag    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:51:36

  • Proposed US-led tech hub in the Philippines will secure supply chains, create jobs ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/08/18/pax-silica-philippines-us-clark/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:53:05

  • Taiwan’s leader says government to propose record defence spending for 2027 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/17/taiwans-leader-says-government-to-propose-record-defence-spending-for-2027/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:53:29

  • Looking Beyond Tmux and Screen: 8 Terminal Multiplexers Worth Trying ☞ https://itsfoss.com/terminal-multiplexers/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:54:43

  • France enters literary season amid publishing industry crisis ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france-enters-literary-season-amid-publishing-industry-crisis    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:56:27

  • Monday's Microscope Mystery: What Is This Pink And Red Oddity? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mondays-microscope-mystery-what-is-this-pink-and-red-oddity    

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

  • Water Detected Surprisingly Close to Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/especially-exciting-jwst-finds-water-surviving-surprisingly-close-to-our-galaxys-supermassive-black-hole    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:57:15

  • Job With Highest Risk of Radiation Cancer Revealed Out of Over 500 Occupations ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/job-with-highest-risk-of-radiation-cancer-revealed-out-of-over-500-occupations    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:57:33

  • Just One Intense Sunburn Can Change Your Health Forever, Research Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bad-news-just-one-intense-sunburn-really-can-be-life-changing    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:57:58

  • Review of Over 120 Trials Challenges The Advice to Always Finish Antibiotics ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/always-finish-your-antibiotics-is-not-always-best-practice-surprised-youre-not-alone    

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

  • Our Survival Might One Day Rely on Nuking a 'City Killer' Asteroid. Scientists Just Tested Whether It'll Work ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-survival-might-one-day-rely-on-nuking-a-city-killer-asteroid-scientists-just-tested-whether-itll-work    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:58:28

  • Internet-Connected Pet Feeders Go Down, Leaving Kitties Hungry ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/internet-connected-pet-feeders-go-down-cats-hungry    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:59:25

  • The Quantum Internet Just Passed Its Toughest Real-World Test Yet – Over 38 Miles of Ordinary Cable ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-quantum-internet-just-passed-its-toughest-real-world-test-yet-over-38-miles-of-ordinary-cable    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 14:59:56

  • The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economy-ai-generated-value ping bms    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:01:20

  • Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kentucky-middle-school-ai    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:01:40

  • A Convicted Felon Grift Too Far? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/selling-fast-access-to-truth-social-posts-a-trump-grift-too-far    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:02:25

  • Ellie Goulding Sues Former Managers Over Alleged Conflict of Interest — Have Her Claims Already Fueled a Client Exodus? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/ellie-goulding-lawsuit-conflict-of-interest/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:03:13

  • Family Presses for Information About Fatal ICE Shooting in Maine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/biddeford-maine-ice-shooting-hearing.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:04:36

  • With war slowing Saudi food imports, hydroponics provide a homegrown solution ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2026/0817/saudi-arabia-hydroponic-farms-food-security    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:04:53

  • India says it thwarted attacks by Pakistan-backed militants, arrested over 200 operatives ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/india-says-it-thwarted-attacks-by-pakistan-backed-militants-arrested-over-200-operatives    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:05:07

  • Morocco authorities arrest hundreds of migrants trying to reach Spain ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/morocco-authorities-arrest-hundreds-of-migrants-trying-to-reach-spain/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:05:50

  • French taxpayers warned after personal data stolen in major hack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-taxpayers-warned-after-personal-data-stolen-in-major-hack    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:06:13

  • Critical SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Exploited 3 Days After Disclosure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-sap-commerce-cloud-vulnerability-exploited-3-days-after-disclosure/    

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

  • Recent macOS Screen Sharing Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/recent-macos-screen-sharing-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:15:23

  • 40,000 Impacted by SafePal Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/40000-impacted-by-safepal-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:17:08

  • Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let Hey Hi (AI) Models Attack a Real Company ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/irregular-details-how-a-naming-error-let-ai-models-attack-a-real-company/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:23:15

  • 680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/680000-impacted-by-french-tax-authority-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:23:42

  • Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam-ssh-agent ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/17/replacing-security-pam-ssh-agent-auth-with-security-pam-ssh-agent/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:24:22

  • Meta faces mammoth fine in landmark social control media trial ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/17/meta-faces-mammoth-fine-in-landmark-social-media-trial/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:24:50

  • Details emerge on BlackFile’s recent attacks on financial companies ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/blackfile-cyberattacks-financial-sector/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:25:16

  • New Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-chatgpt-feature-collects-every-keystroke-you-make    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:26:13

  • Fortune 500 Companies Hit in Microsoft trap Azure Data Theft Campaign ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortune-500-companies-hit-in-azure-data-theft-campaign/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:26:56

  • Theory: puppy breaker cheated on his spouse, then when things got hot (over this) he threw his spouse in a cell based on false (and also hypocritical) pretexts, then stole the spouse's money to pay the same corrupt lawyers who attacked Roy's life (whom he then tried to also put in a cell)    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:28:59

  • puppy breaker is NOT a friend of the trans community, just like his president is NOT a friend of gays    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:29:04

  • powa-archivist 5.3.0 is out! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/powa-archivist-530-is-out-3366/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:29:40

  • Pi-Ener-lite – A compact 18650 UPS board for Raspberry Pi Zero with RTC and fuel gauge ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/17/pi-ener-lite-a-compact-18650-ups-board-for-raspberry-pi-zero-with-rtc-and-fuel-gauge/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:30:05

  • SONOFF Hydro DUO review – A dual-zone BLE and Zigbee water valve tested with eWeLink and Home Assistant ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/17/sonoff-hydro-duo-review-a-dual-zone-ble-and-zigbee-water-valve-tested-with-ewelink-and-home-assistant/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:30:19

  • Wyoming Woman Files Grok Hey Hi (AI) Lawsuit Over Explicit Photos ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/wyoming-woman-files-grok-ai-lawsuit    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:30:49

  • Doctors Found 4 Autoimmune Diseases in One Woman at One Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/doctors-found-4-autoimmune-diseases-in-one-woman-at-one-time    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:31:09

  • The Premier League’s New Rules (by IFAB) Would Devastate Brett Wilson LLP ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/17/ifab-brett-wilson-llp/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:31:20

  • Anyone out there who facilitated and continues to facilitate puppy breaker is responsible too, as the sinister acts could not be prolonged without enabler and reputation launders, who include Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:32:20

  • The people who attacked RMS (in various ways) are falling mainly into 3 classes: people who tried to replace him by creating a leadership void, people who are just envious and wanted the thrill of cancel culture online, and antisemites (who will never admit it; hard to prove intent) - that last groups being only a minority    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:34:18

  • Apple Screen Sharing Security, (Mon, Aug 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33252    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:34:43

  • Apple Patches iOS and macOS, (Mon, Aug 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33254    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:34:55

  • "Now all I get are Hey Hi (AI) generated shitty emails with no personality whatsoever. Not bashing AI, I'm bashing the lazy marketeers" ☞ https://kevquirk.com/2026-08-17-1129    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:35:25

  • slop is not HEY HI, it is a form of plagiarism more wittily disguised using brute force    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:35:50

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.16.0 and 2.16.1 Released ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-16-0-and-2-16-1-released/149211    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:36:14

  • Rejected, With a Road Map: Allowable Subject Matter in the First Action ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/rejected-with-a-road-map-allowable-subject-matter-in-the-first-action.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:36:53

  • PulseLink networking patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/8/17/pulselink-networking-patent-prior-art-found    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:37:22

  • Call for Applications: Information Controls Research Program 2026 ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/call-for-applications-information-controls-research-program-2026/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:38:20

  • Andreas Farre: Tracing algorithms through web specifications ☞ https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/08/17/tracing-web-specs/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:41:01

  • Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/judge-clears-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-70-years-of-archival-tv-data-court-rules-station-owns-50tb-of-data-in-iron-mountain-servers-after-host-went-under    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:41:36

  • Changing Language for Storage Capacity ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24954    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:42:14

  • GNOME is controlled by (and for) IBM ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/gnome-51-fedora-45-test-day/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/31/IBM_Has_Takes_Control_of_GNOME.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:43:27

  • GNOME communications likewise https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/29/GNOME_Curated_and_Censored_by_IBM_Under_the_Guise_of_Code_of_Co.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:44:24

  • Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/conflicting-test-goals-pushed-claude-agents-to-deploy-self-replicating-malware/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:44:59

  • Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-app-center-something-went-wrong    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:45:39

  • poke @ Savannah: GNU poke 5.0 released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10923    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:46:11

  • GNU poke 5.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089211/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:46:19

  • Linux Kernel 7.2 Released with AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/linux-kernel-7-2-released-with-amdgpu-hdmi-2-1-frl-support/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:46:57

  • How to Install GCC 16 in Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04, or 20.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/install-gcc-16-in-ubuntu-24-04-22-04-or-20-04/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:47:51

  • Radxa Zero 3W Powers Compact IP-KVM with BIOS OCR ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-zero-3w-powers-compact-ip-kvm-with-bios-ocr/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:48:16

  • Canonical is being subsumed by the Vole; it's not competing ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/canonical-wsl-growth/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:49:26

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089205/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:49:43

  • IBM Red Hat is boosting slop plagiarism, as usual ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/18/architecting-the-red-hat-openshift-ai-dashboard-for-models-as-a-service    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:51:05

  • Kubernetes chaos engineering at scale: Krkn Operator Developer Preview in Red Bait Advanced Cluster Management ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/17/krkn-operator-developer-preview-red-hat-acm    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:51:47

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 399 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-399/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:53:17

  • Russia’s Supreme Court upholds ban on anti-war party Yabloko ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260817-russia-supreme-court-upholds-ban-anti-war-party-yabloko    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:53:39

  • GNu/Linux measured at 20% in Chile yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=1d&loc=CL&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:57:24

  • ChromeoS+GNU/Linux sometimes near 10% in Oceania https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=12w&loc=oceania&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 15:58:59

  • 5% GNU/Linux in Armenia https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=12w&loc=AM&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:00:39

  • Russian strike on Kyiv book market: 'An attempt to annihilate Ukrainian identity' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260817-russian-strike-on-kyiv-book-market-an-attempt-to-annihilate-ukrainian-identity    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:00:46

  • US-South Korea drills renew questions over North Korea’s military power ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-south-korea-drills-renew-questions-over-north-korea-s-military-power    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:01:05

  • Ukraine and Russia intensify attacks, several killed in Belgorod border region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260817-ukraine-and-russia-intensify-attacks-several-killed-in-belgorod-border-region    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:01:17

  • Baltic medical teams return from Ukraine after two-week training mission ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3024053/baltic-medical-teams-return-from-ukraine-after-two-week-training-mission    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:01:26

  • Russian Court Rejects Anti-War Party's Appeal Over Election Ban ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-anti-war-party-yabloko-court-appeal-elections/33832027.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:01:37

  • How Ukraine’s Satellites Help Drive Its War Drones ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/europe/from-the-sky-to-the-battlefield.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:01:53

  • Secret services in some countries operate explosive drones via SIM cards. Now the technique hits Germany ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/17/secret-services-in-some-countries-operate-explosive-drones-via-sim-cards-now-the-technique-hits-germany/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:02:28

  • Moscow court sentences Lithuanian man for removing plaques on Soviet burial site ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3024207/moscow-court-sentences-lithuanian-man-for-removing-plaques-on-soviet-burial-site    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:03:59

  • Integration or electioneering? Vilnius’ clampdown on Russian language sparks debate ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3021351/integration-or-electioneering-vilnius-clampdown-on-russian-language-sparks-debate    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:04:27

  • Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing heads to Russia for official visit, state media reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanmars-min-aung-hlaing-heads-to-russia-for-official-visit-state-media-reports    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:05:31

  • Restocking US missile interceptors will take years. China and Russia are watching. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0817/us-missile-shortage-iran-russia-china    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:05:40

  • Barred From Ballot, a Party Becomes a Vessel for Russians’ Discontent ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/world/europe/russia-yabloko-party-election.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:06:08

  • Rinkēvičs: Latvia lacks border guards ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/18.08.2026-rinkevics-latvia-lacks-border-guards.a659250/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:06:35

  • Lithuania’s border guard chief resigns after cover-up claims over migrant attack ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3024347/lithuania-s-border-guard-chief-resigns-after-cover-up-claims-over-migrant-attack    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:06:56

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man orders US-S. Korea military drills trimmed as he seeks to re-engage Pyongyang ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/trump-orders-us-s-korea-military-drills-trimmed-as-he-seeks-to-re-engage-pyongyang    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:07:10

  • IBM staff tries to cancel RMS, gets award from the SFC, which attempted the same and takes GAFAM money ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089208/ LWN = LF = same interests    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:09:32

  • Round Hill Music Fires Off Copyright Suits Against Suno and Anthropic, Says Each Case’s Damages Could ‘Conceivably Exceed $1 Billion’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/round-hill-suno-lawsuit-anthropic/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:09:50

  • Jamendo Abruptly Drops Their Suno Copyright Infringement Lawsuit — With EDM Duo The American Dollar Also Ending Their Litigation ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/14/suno-lawsuit-dismissals-jamendo-american-dollar/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:10:10

  • A Little Venue In Vermont Drags StubHub Into a High-Stakes David vs. Goliath Legal Battle ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/vermont-venue-v-stubhub-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:11:20

  • Oulu Community Member Monday: Aleksi Kallio ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/17/community-member-monday-aleksi-kallio/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:13:06

  • ZimaOS 1.7.1-beta2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:15:12

  • GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-08/msg00002.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:15:53

  • Slimbook OS 26-r3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/slimbookos    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:16:55

  • Mainstream 1.3.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mainstream    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:17:04

  • Build bootable image mode for Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux with image builder ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/17/build-bootable-image-mode-for-rhel-with-image-builder    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:18:59

  • Linux 7.2 released, Bootlin contributions inside ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/linux-7-2-released-bootlin-contributions-inside/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:19:25

  • FOMO by FAKE View Counts ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/youtube-long-form-video-views-changes/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:23:30

  • Ruth Suehle (SAS, proprietary) does not want people to know OSI is run by sponsors, i.e. companies like Microsoft. It's a front group for the oppressor, it even promotes plagiarism. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/osi-governance-survey    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:25:04

  • Gemini Protocol Spreads Further in Spite of Google’s Attempt to Googlebomb It Out of Existence ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/17/gemini-protocol-spreads/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:25:46

  • How to Install Zabbix Agent on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://tecadmin.net/how-to-install-zabbix-agent-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:26:17

  • How To Install n8n on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-n8n-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:26:50

  • Debian Votes on Banning Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-votes-on-banning-ai    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:27:23

  • MPA Strikes Deal with ByteDance for IP Protections in Hey Hi (AI) Models ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/mpa-bytedance-ip-protections-deal/    

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

  • Engagement Team: Engagement team introduction blog post ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2026/08/17/engagement-team-introduction-blog-post/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:28:50

  • Microsoft approached Canonical a decade ago to make "Linux" just an "app" for Windows. Canonical agreed.    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:32:14

  • Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never? https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/17/linux-72-debuts-linus-torvalds-says-new-normal-means-he-had-to-do-it-now-or-never/5288250    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:36:46

  • Linux 7.2 released after a hectic final week https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/143625/linux-7-2-released-after-a-hectic-final-week/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:38:07

  • Linus Torvalds officially releases Linux kernel 7.2 with initial Apple M3 support https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-officially-releases-linux-kernel-72-with-initial-apple-m3-support/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:39:48

  • "Parties are taking place in Bolivia, Brazil, Germany, India, Indonesia, and Turkey." https://9to5linux.com/debian-turns-33-years-old-happy-birthday    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:40:56

  • GNU/Linux measured at 11% today in Bolivia https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=BO&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:41:52

  • These 4 Linux apps deserve to be called the best of all time https://www.howtogeek.com/these-4-linux-apps-deserve-to-be-called-the-best-of-all-time/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:42:43

  • TSC https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-finally-follows-windows-and-makes-a-cpu-feature-requirement-mandatory/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:43:15

  • "One for fans of clever puzzle games, Hazard Pay is releasing with Linux support on September 10th - built with Godot Engine." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dystopian-block-pushing-puzzler-hazard-pay-arrives-september-10/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:43:38

  • Scam, pyramid scheme, plagiarism... piggybacking the brand "LINUX" https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/yarken-joins-linux-foundation-to-build-open-ai-cost-standards/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:44:13

  • "Essentially, Linux 7.2 now requires that x86 CPUs are compatible with the Time Stamp Counter (TSC) before it boots. If it doesn't support TSC, the kernel will refuse to boot." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-is-now-adopting-a-cpu-requirement-windows-already-demands-but-dont-worry-its-not-tpm-20/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:45:05

  • "NVIDIA announced this week that its GeForce NOW native Linux app has officially graduated from beta after being in testing for several months." https://9to5linux.com/nvidias-geforce-now-native-linux-app-now-stable-offers-flatpak-support    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:45:36

  • "The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 7.2 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers." https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-7-2-kernel-is-now-available-for-software-freedom-lovers    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:46:54

  • "Google Chrome web browser is now available for 64-bit Arm Linux, and we quickly tested it with Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 5 2GB SBC." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/17/google-chrome-is-now-available-for-arm-linux-we-tested-it-on-a-raspberry-pi-5/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:47:15

  • Seems like a FORM of DRM. If it's not there, why refuse to boot? What is there to gain from the refusal? This sort of normalises what TiVo did in 2006-ish. https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-is-now-adopting-a-cpu-requirement-windows-already-demands-but-dont-worry-its-not-tpm-20/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:51:05

  • Does it infect via bad passwords? Does not specify. https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/143630/new-linux-botnet-turns-routers-into-proxy-servers/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:52:59

  • Epic Games for Linux confirmed – and what it could mean for Steam Deck and Steam Machine https://www.notebookcheck.net/Epic-Games-for-Linux-confirmed-and-what-it-could-mean-for-Steam-Deck-and-Steam-Machine.1370422.0.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:53:17

  • Epic Games Store Is Coming To Linux With Native Steam Deck Support https://hothardware.com/news/epic-games-store-is-coming-to-linux-with-native-steam-deck-support    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:53:36

  • This says they exploit CVEs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/evooo1bot-linux-botnet-exploits-known.html    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 16:55:33

  • Will Linux have DRM on by default? Now it does, in 7.2. iophk: "Also, as mentioned, California has passed a law requiring DRM _*and*_ surveillance in 3D printers. All of those run Linux (not necessarily GNU) embedded."    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 17:01:56

  • See https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/08/any-user-who-has-a-3d-printer-would-have-this-software-installed-printgos-plan-to-become-the-drm-of-3d-printing/ or "How the Ghost Gun Crackdown Could Affect 3D Printing | FilamentMap" https://filamentmap.com/blog/ghost-gun-crackdown-3d-printing    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 17:02:47

  • "I had a craving for pizza, so I decided to make some. Pizza is not part of my regular diet anymore and if I do eat it, I cannot eat it like I used to." gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260817_matzah    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 17:59:33

  • "I'm interested to find other's opinions on "best practice" when it comes to email in this space. I wouldn't put my email in the open on the web, but I notice many in geminispace who do just that. Others, though, make efforts to obfuscate." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-18-0807    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 18:00:37

  • "As an actual human, and someone that has a little bit of pride in communicating, I don't know why copy and paste parrots exist. What is a copy and paste parrot, you ask? A copy and paste parrot takes information you've supplied" gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-08-18.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 18:01:37

  • California appropriations committee appropriates millions into Paul Powers’ bank account 😠 ⚓ https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/california-appropriations-committee:3 no transcript    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 18:18:20

  • For Microsoft, When It Rains It Pours https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/18/for-microsoft-when-it-rains-it-pours/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 18:40:28

  • A Happy Rainy Day https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/18/a-happy-rainy-day/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 18:45:21

  • "Yesterday I was trying to clean out the `/home` directory of my desktop-turned-homelab. I saw a bunch of .zip files prefixed `drive-download-*` in my Downloads which totalled around 100 GB, which I probably downloaded when Google reduced my storage limits after my graduation." gemini://fwdudu.smol.pub/rip-backups    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 19:05:09

  • Madagascar is 5% GNU/Linux    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 21:03:19

  • 15% in Peru yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=14d&loc=PE&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 21:04:20

  • ""At the moment, waiting for my girlfriend to finish at work and then we are going into Resident Evil 5 to play. I played this game with my friend around the time it came it, and it was a Resident Evil I enjoyed a lot. Must say, the second (and probably third :) time playing this, it still is a pretty good game!" gemini://tilde.club/~steelexodus/posts/2026_08_18-resident-evil-5/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 21:40:11

  • "Internet of Things (IoT) specialist Quectel has announced a pair of new cellular "smart modules," one designed for premium 4G LTE devices and the other for entry-level 5G NR designs: the SH602FA and SE505FE, both compatible with Google's Android 16 operating system." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260818-quec.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 21:40:49

  • "I regularly encounter questions along the lines of *"how do we scale things up?*, in particular around projects related to free knowledge, FLOSS or citizen science. It has basically started from the first citizen science effort and accompanied me through most of my volunteering work." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2026-08-18-scaling-up-and-on-being-the-right-size.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 21:41:41

  • "Hi all, regarding Julian Assange film, you can find it at arte.tv and it is available in several languages." https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/115994-000-A/julian-assange-silenced/    

posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 21:43:19
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