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England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather | Trees and forests | The Guardian ⚓ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/england-ancient-oak-trees-dying-extreme-hot-dry-weather ䷉ Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 04:21:49

  • Trump sued the BBC — now Jared and Ivanka may pay for it - Salon.com ⚓ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/18/trump-sued-the-bbc-now-jared-and-ivanka-may-pay-for-it/ ䷉ Source: Salon | "Secret Service agents blocked the subpoena at the door, but Trump's suit could still force testimony"    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 04:23:53

  • "I loved that it ran on InkPalm Plus, the modded Light Phone III, on my old iPad, and on the Paper 7. (I didn't have the Retroid then.) On the two former devices I could use a capacitive stylus (which worked well) or even just fingers." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/usi-handwriting    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 04:24:57

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

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 04:26:40

  • "I've been wanting to experiment with the gemini protocol for a while, but never quite managed to get around to it. Tonight I came across Smol Pub, and decided to take the leap." gemini://zenith.smol.pub/my-first-night-in-geminispace    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 04:27:19

  • "Last month I picked up a new shirt for one of my gigs (I only had one that fit), and got a $40 off coupon for my next purchase, good for this week. I put the reminder in my calendar." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-18.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 04:28:22

  • Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-70/5289101    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:02:24

  • Or maybe this is better for the locals and the UK already has the skills needed, no shortage as companies advertise to lower salaries https://www.theregister.com/cxo/2026/08/18/uks-tech-talent-pipeline-shrinks-as-overseas-worker-visa-applications-fall-7/5288476    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:03:14

  • Hunt Valley Microsoft gaming employees outraged by mass layoffs https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/baltimore-county/hunt-valley-microsoft-gaming-employees-outraged-by-mass-layoffs    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:06:16

  • Bethesda game developers keep up fight against XBOX layoffs https://www.mymcmedia.org/bethesda-game-developers-keep-up-fight-against-xbox-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:06:37

  • Bethesda Dev Says Cuts Were Rare Before Xbox Took Over: ‘All Of A Sudden We Have Yearly Layoffs’ https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoffs-rallies-cwa-bethesda-employee-interview-2000725366    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:07:04

  • GNU/Linux peaking at about 15% in US every day https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:27:52

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

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:31:46

  • Yesterday GNU/Linux touches 15% in Costa Rica https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:32:58

  • GNU/Linux 7.1% in Andorra https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 05:44:37

  • "We do not need to create new rules for LLM usage, we already have our DFSG and our social contract." http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/llm-usage-gr/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 06:03:34

  • Mass layoffs at Dropbox    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 06:05:48

  • Maybe they will petition for themselves to wind up some time soon, seeing they're deep in debt and dealt with by police for issuing death threats https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5194179    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:27:48

  • "What is the mailing list for suggesting improvements to text on the fsf." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00004.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:34:18

  • Austria 6% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AT&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:39:31

  • Puppy breaker thinks merely taking a photograph of an animal can disprove his lack of empathy towards animals (he used to kill them to do his degree)    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:57:23

  • "Several of the big providers will now indemnify you against intellectual property claims on generated code." ☛ https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/someone-still-has-to-sign-it/ | Source: James Randall    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:58:12

  • "Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea fantasy stories make a terrible surrender to artificial scarcity with the idea that a rune could be lost." ☛ https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=67831 | Source: Soylent News    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:58:19

  • "The trademark application has been registered with the Office." ☛ https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/86191623 |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:58:59

  • Software Patents: "The illustrations in this patent are great, they read like a silent children's book about a smirking creeper." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/relatable-patent-art/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:59:18

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://filamentmap.com/blog/ghost-gun-crackdown-3d-printing |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 07:59:35

  • [Old] "This transition is not about problems or dissatisfaction with our state partners." ☛ https://anadisgoi.com/index.php/culture-stories/a-new-chapter-for-cherokee-language-education | Source: Cherokee Nation    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:00:17

  • "Everybody loves summertime. But from climate change to budget cuts on public spaces like parks and pools to a lack of vacation time, capitalism is increasingly robbing us of our summer fun." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/summer-pools-vacation-capitalism-socialism | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:00:28

  • "“Low-optics” is the key term there." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/214410/ice-electric-shock-gloves-low-optics-tool-immigration | Source: New Republic    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:00:49

  • "Big Bend, bordering Mexico in West Texas, features volcanic dikes, dinosaur bones and stunning canyon views." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/18/trumps-destruction-of-national-parks-is-just-getting-started/ | Source: Salon    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:01:28

  • "A report published on Tuesday concludes that working life is continuing to change, with shorter working hours among the developments taking place." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20241596 | Source: Yle    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:03:31

  • "The logic that had operated through centralist policies and the denial of Kurdish identity before the revolution became even more radical after the Islamic Republic seized the people’s revolution in January 1979." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/pjak-the-fatwa-issued-47-years-ago-failed-there-is-no-path-forward-other-than-freedom-and-democracy-86816 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:03:51

  • "Chinese authorities in Tibet have over the past month continued and expanded demolition of the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, satellite imagery analyzed by Radio Free Asia shows." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/08/19/larung-gar-china-demolition-buddhist-monks/ | Source: RFA    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:04:05

  • "Flock protects property, not people or parks." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-national-park-service-is-using-flock-rangers-are-pissed/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:04:36

  • "His tantrum only got worse when the reporter revealed she was with CNN." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/214431/trump-yells-female-reporter-north-korea | Source: New Republic    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:04:54

  • "dismissed the criminal case against him with prejudice over violations of his constitutional rights" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/journalist-300-day-detention-dismissed-charges-neglect-1814992 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:05:18

  • "He added that such a stance is "alien" to the First Amendment." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5934692 | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:05:45

  • "After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the organisation focused on anti-war activities." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/russia-declares-norwegian-organisation-smaradina-undesirable/455303 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:07:24

  • "That campaign began in this Administration’s earliest days and has only intensified since." ☛ https://www.notus.org/media/abc-lawsuit-fcc-first-amendment | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:10:56

  • "On August 17, Russia’s Supreme Court upheld its ruling barring the liberal Yabloko party from this year’s State Duma elections." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/19/more-than-80-young-supporters-of-russia-s-antiwar-yabloko-party-were-detained-outside-the-supreme-court-as-it-upheld-the-party-s-removal-from-the-ballot-five-of-them-describe-the-day | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:11:17

  • "From welcoming a record number of foreign tourists – including growing numbers of U.S. citizens" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0818/mahjong-chinamaxxing-China-soft-power | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:12:18

  • ">A centuries-old “witness tree” that stood through a Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/inside-fight-to-save-300-year-old-tree-that-survived-revolutionary-war-battle-180989357/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:13:38

  • "The animal behavioralist and marine mammal expert explained that the dolphins use 'shelling' to hunt for fish" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/nature-and-wildlife-photography/i-started-screaming-because-i-know-what-shelling-looks-like-dolphin-photographed-performing-extremely-rare-behavior | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:13:58

  • "Fools have said that the Prairies are boring." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/08/17/Prairie-Views | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:14:07

  • Microsoft is in Serious Trouble, Even Microsoft Staff Knows It https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/microsoft-is-in-serious-trouble-even-microsoft-staff-knows-it/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:22:46

  • Many people who read techrights are Microsoft staff desperate for info that does not conform to the 'Microsoft religion'. Then, instead of insults it helps to 'incite' them against the employer they already hate, are angry at, may have ruined their lives. This weakens the company's "faith".    

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

  • "Finland is now plugged into the EU rail network. (Yle)" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/new-rail-link-reconnects-finland-and-sweden-in-north/455851 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:25:34

  • "Beginning on the effective date of this Ordinance" ☛ https://media.512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Data-Center-Temporary-Moratorium-Ordinance-v2-1.pdf |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:25:58

  • "Why’s Abbot doing this? Because in Republican Texas, even Fox News has Abbott only 1% ahead of his Democratic opponent, Gina Hinojosa." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/18/data-centres-get-too-hot-for-texas-politicians/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:26:10

  • "This evening, the Memphis City Council acted on a year-long moratorium on new data centers." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/08/memphis-data-center-moratorium/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:26:31

  • "The environmental establishment has apparently moved on—to technological solutions, social justice" ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/reality-check-were-still-overpopulated-and-its-still-a-problem/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:27:15

  • Taking Photographs of Animals Does Not Help These Animals, Feeding Them Helps https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/taking-photographs-of-animals-does-not-help-these-animals-feeding-them-helps/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:32:18

  • "I know that Donald Trump does something new and terrible every day, sometimes several times a day." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-new-level-of-trumpian-evil | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:40:19

  • "Support was strongest among voters of the two largest right-leaning parties." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20241545 | Source: Yle    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:40:46

  • "AIPAC didn't always spend on campaigns." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5923565 | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:41:00

  • "Khabarovsk is the first of three submarines of a new class designed to carry Poseidon autonomous, long-range nuclear torpedoes." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/russias-doomsday-sumarine-sets-sail-for-the-first-time/455938 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:41:13

  • "Drones controlled via mobile networks are equipped with commercially available modules for one or more SIM cards." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/17/secret-services-in-some-countries-operate-explosive-drones-via-sim-cards-now-the-technique-hits-germany/ | Source: Site36    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:41:30

  • "And I cop a plea to posting at least seven days a week, sometimes even more often." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/apologies | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:42:10

  • "The representatives of the corps demand a stable workforce, more vessels, and the extension of the Tarajal breakwaters" ☛ https://www.elconstitucional.es/en/communities/ceuta/civil-guard-officers-warn-that-swimmers-continue-to-enter-ceuta-and-demand-200-more-agents_7187_102.html | Source: El Constitucional    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:42:21

  • "Webmail has been around for decades and it's always had to solve a very difficult problem of taking untrusted HTML and displaying it to the user in a safe way." ☛ https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox | Source: Port Swigger    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:43:44

  • "At a second level, this was a motion for more discovery, which I’ll explain in this post" ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/doj-used-pam-bondis-trophy-arrests-as-predicate-to-infiltrate-minnesotas-anti-ice-community/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:43:53

  • "I have no words for this if it’s real, apart from I know that I won’t be making a purchase myself." ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2026/08/18/oh-hell-no-apple-count-me-out/ | Source: Jim Mitchell    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:44:06

  • "social media and personal accounts" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3211839/hackers-want-your-nudes-heres-how-to-keep-your-privates-private.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:44:20

  • "is selling all its assets in bankruptcy court auctions to pay off its roughly $8.1 billion in debt." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-buys-spirit-airlines-data-for-ai-training-for-just-usd10-million-purchase-includes-hundreds-of-millions-of-emails-microsoft-teams-chats-billions-of-flight-pricing-records-and-anonymized-passenger-records | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:44:34

  • "GitHub, the code-hosting platform used by millions of developers, went down for users across the US, India and other countries" ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/github-down-outage-thousands-users/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:45:46

  • Windows TCO: "For those familiar with America’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the attacks were not a surprise." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0818/cyberattacks-iran-water-utilities | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:46:50

  • Windows TCO: "Once inside a network, they use common utilities and tools to support credential access, data exfiltration, and ransomware deployment." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/medusa-ransomware-tactics-cisa-advisory/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:47:11

  • Windows TCO: "Ransom Busters" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransom-busters-ransomware-actor-incident-recovery-service | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:47:40

  • Windows TCO: "newly announced exploits within 24 hours." ☛ https://therecord.media/more-than-200-medusa-ransomware-victims-in-last-year-cisa | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:47:52

  • Windows TCO: "forcing them to communicate by telephone, text message and fax, according to RBB." ☛ https://therecord.media/berlin-cuts-two-state-ministries-off-government-breach | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:48:06

  • [Old] Windows TCO: "The attack occurred from Aug. 23 through Aug. 27" ☛ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/10/25/hackers-access-data-230k-university-michigan | Source: Inside Higer Ed    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:48:23

  • [Old] Windows TCO: "In August 2023, the University of Michigan faced a data breach when an unauthorized third party accessed personal information of various individuals connected to the institution." ☛ https://www.twingate.com/blog/tips/University%20of%20Michigan-data-breach |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:48:39

  • [Old] Windows TCO: "social security numbers, driver’s licenses, financial information and health information that could be used for fraud" ☛ https://www.wxyz.com/news/university-of-michigan-says-230-000-peoples-information-affected-by-august-data-breach | Source: Scripps Media Inc    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:48:57

  • [Old] Windows TCO: "Campus computers are generally cut off from the public internet, but students were finding workarounds via their cell phones." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/university-of-michigan-cyber-incident-offline | Source: CNN    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:49:08

  • Windows TCO: "The [Internet] shutdown extended into the first day of classes at the UM on Aug. 28 and affected the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses. UM's Flint campus was not affected." ☛ https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/10/23/um-3rd-party-accessed-school-systems-personal-information-for-5-days/71292044007/ | Source: Digital First Media    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:49:18

  • "I could go on but it’s clear you’re fine with all of that." ☛ https://zottmann.org/2026/08/18/creators-returning-to-x.html | Source: Carlo Zottmann    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:49:41

  • "People are quite mad about Anthropic’s watermarking system, and understandably so." ☛ https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:50:03

  • "X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)." ☛ https://www.404media.co/xs-algorithm-feeds-off-ragebait-and-impacts-democrats-more-study-finds/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:50:24

  • "Many apps are now also using AI to “help” users chat with each other or optimize their profiles" ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/18/dating-apps-quickly-falling-favor-dutch-users | Source: NL Times    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:50:40

  • "A bipartisan group of 29 U.S. states is suing Meta, seeking potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in penalties and changes to how Meta does business." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-trial-opens-instagram-facebook-9.7311852 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:50:56

  • "Mozilla said it has partnered with Exa Labs Inc., an AI [sic] search company" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/firefox-updates-smart-window-a-new-in-browser-ai-assistant-that-can-keep-up-with-you/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:51:24

  • "Highly consequential decisions about AI’s benefits and risks are currently being made on the basis of very limited dat" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142226/how-people-use-ai/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:51:45

  • "There’s one thing uniting America’s warring generations: revulsion toward artificial intelligence." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/18/americans-under-30-are-becoming-more-pessimistic-about-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:51:57

  • "For the first time, a majority of adults under 30 (55%) now say they’re more concerned than excited about AI" ☛ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/18/young-adults-in-the-us-are-increasingly-wary-of-ai-concerned-it-will-take-jobs/ | Source: Pew Reseach Center    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:52:12

  • "I feel revulsion toward AI-created content." ☛ https://overkill.wtf/posts/the-smell-of-ai | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:52:24

  • "When any piece of art, no matter the format, has the slightest smell of AI, I'm out. It doesn't even matter if any AI was actually used; the mere suggestion of AI is enough. I'm aware this is unfair towards people that happen to talk/write/sound like AI, especially when it's their content AI was trained on."    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:52:47

  • "Coding is dead!" ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/if-programming-is-dead-why-am-i-going-all-in-on-programming/ | Source: Joshua Blais    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:53:00

  • "So the Internet honesty boxes are going. And I think the World is worse for it." ☛ https://benfrain.com/well-done-ai-thats-the-end-of-the-honest-boxes/ | Source: Ben Frain    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:53:17

  • "But the bros are screaming now that it’s in Claude." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:53:29

  • "But Edge Link doesn't stop at moving data around. It combines data acquisition, industrial connectivity, edge computing, and machine learning in a single system at the machine level." ☛ https://www.hackster.io/Mukesh_Sankhla/edge-link-26e6fb | Source: Hackster    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:53:43

  • "Artificial intelligence companies are facing lawsuits by family members of individuals who died by suicide after prolonged interactions with chatbots." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5929575 | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:54:00

  • "As mentioned, this only happens on one system (running Ubuntu 26.04). Other systems, with the same software configuration and the same NFS mounted home directories, don't have anything like this slow login." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdSlowSessionStartProblem | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:54:28

  • "allegedly exfiltrated from the Azure and Entra tenants of McDonald’s" ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/azure-data-breach-mcdonalds-vodafone-tcs-thehatman/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:54:39

  • "Engineers connect to Linux hosts running in cloud, on-premises and edge environments without opening a port." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/teleport-puts-developer-linux-desktops-under-production-access-controls/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:55:02

  • "Me too, probably; there seems to be something wrong with me, it’s probably my autism. But at least I try, which is more than I can say for most people who live close" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/friendships/ | Source: Ava    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:55:50

  • "how the shifting definition of these devices can inform the community’s efforts to develop open hardware solutions" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/smartphones-and-the-next-generation-of-hearing-aids/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:56:02

  • "taken a second to appreciate how fantastic the falls look amid the surrounding nature, he might’ve realized that the better, and non-life-risking, option would’ve been to shoot it from afar." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/landscape-photography/this-man-died-at-a-waterfall-for-what-was-likely-a-crap-photo-sometimes-its-safer-and-better-to-compose-landscapes-from-afar | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:56:29

  • "In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:56:39

  • "Acupuncture shows promise as an adjunctive therapy for depression, but its neurobiological mechanisms remain incompletely understood" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/acupuncture-seems-to-rewire-the-brain-in-depression-scans-reveal | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:58:32

  • "Such a description is instantly recognizable in the current crisis, with its senseless waste of academic talent, curiosity" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uk-cambridge-oxford-dons-universities | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:58:51

  • "He says we're calling it burnout. But it's not burnout. Not exclusively." ☛ https://ryancheley.com/2026/08/17/what-if-maintainer-burnout-isn-t-burnout/ |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:59:08

  • "Had to chuckle quite a bit while reading this article: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape" ☛ https://blog.x-way.org/Misc/2026/08/18/18-new-words-to-describe-our-tech-hellscape.html |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 08:59:43

  • "We shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking that dickovers are the only terrible thing about technology in 2026. Until now, though, we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them, so here are some suggestions." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/dickovers-baggravation-botiquette-18-new-words-tech-hellscape | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:00:32

  • "We’ve been living here full-time for a year and it’s really ideal. It feels like custom tailored clothing." ☛ https://sive.rs/fit | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:00:43

  • "We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/amazons-book-woodchipper-facility-has-a-cartoonishly-evil-logo-because-of-course-it-does/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:00:58

  • "One of the first satisfying things I did this morning was donating a sealed white envelope into a red mailbox." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/08/a-beginners-guide-to-writing-snail-mail/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:01:12

  • "The purpose of MeltCalc is simple—it collates data on hot ends and materials regarding factors like maximum flow rate, print speeds, and heater requirements." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/a-hot-end-and-material-database-for-3d-printing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:01:27

  • "This particular rabbit hole started somewhere else." ☛ https://tara.sh/posts/2026/2026-08-13_seaweedfs_freebsd_rabbithole/ |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:03:43

  • "I have to link to Codeberg Pages docs for fairness." ☛ https://aartaka.me/codeberg-pages-2.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:04:13

  • "I was disappointed to learn that the bot never posted off the Bot Forensics beacon." ☛ https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/foiling-protohackers-spam-bot.html | Source: James Stanley    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:04:23

  • "We setup all of our FreeBSD servers to be accessed via Tailscale's SSH so we documented it here for our quick reference in the future for new server setup. Hope it helps someone else as well." ☛ https://conradresearch.com/design-distilled/tailscale-ssh-server-access-on-freebsd |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:04:33

  • Framework's most affordable laptop finally gets Linux (and a hardware upgrade) https://www.howtogeek.com/framework-laptop-12-linux-core-series-3-launch/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:06:24

  • "pre-builts to ship with Fedora KDE 44" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/framework-laptop-12-gets-fedora-kde-linux-on-pre-builts-along-with-new-intel-core-series-3-processors/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:07:05

  • Bethesda finally fix the Fallout 4 on-screen keyboard crashing on Steam Deck / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bethesda-finally-fix-the-fallout-4-on-screen-keyboard-crashing-on-steam-deck-steamos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:08:15

  • Get some ace strategy games in the RTS Renaissance Digiphile Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/get-some-ace-strategy-games-in-the-rts-renaissance-digiphile-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/get-some-ace-strategy-games-in-the-rts-renaissance-digiphile-bundle/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:08:56

  • Germany: Should you be allowed to insult politicians? | "Tyskland: Skall man få förolämpa politiker?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/18/tyskland-skall-man-fa-forolampa-politiker/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:09:54

  • "Trump Ballroom Commissioner Held Diplomatic Talks With Kremlin Officials – FT - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/18/trump-ballroom-commissioner-held-diplomatic-talks-with-kremlin-officials-ft-a93521    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:10:05

  • "Belgium open to using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine if Europe shares risks" https://kyivindependent.com/belgium-open-using-frozen-russian-assets-help-ukraine-europe-shares-risks/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:10:22

  • "Zambia : The Numbers Do Not Add Up: Zambia Has A Serious Election Problem" https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/08/19/the-numbers-do-not-add-up-zambia-has-a-serious-election-problem/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:10:35

  • "While Trump Cuts Food Aid, ICE Sits on $100 Billion" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/trump-ice-budget-snap-food-insecurity?    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:10:46

  • iophk: bored? lonely? nothing to do? no friends? throw a meeting! https://manualdousuario.net/en/theory-people-addicted-meetings-work/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:12:39

  • "Jasper is blogging: Pete the Pond" https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/pete-the-pond    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:12:52

  • Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts Open Access https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Center-Waste-Heat-as-an-Emerging-Urban    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:13:17

  • "What did you fall for? The mentalist effect." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/18/0350221#1451701    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 09:13:59

  • NVIDIA GeForce NOW finally adds official Firefox support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-finally-adds-official-firefox-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-finally-adds-official-firefox-support/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:07:04

  • Maths and logic puzzles in a colourful platformer setting | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/maths-and-logic-puzzles-in-a-colourful-platformer-setting-nero-sci-integral-edition-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:07:32

  • ZOOM Platform announced You Are Empty: Absolute Edition - a revival of the retro Ukrainian FPS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/zoom-platform-announced-you-are-empty-absolute-edition-a-revival-of-the-retro-ukrainian-fps/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:09:26

  • "a traditional URL shortener like tinyurl just generates a random code and associates that with your original link" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/compress-links-for-optimal-qr-codes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:11:56

  • "Some [Internet] standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:12:22

  • "If you’re a developer, you should start reading PEPs (or equivalents proposals in your language if such exist)." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/p-is-for-python-enhancement-proposal-pep-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:12:32

  • "This year, the UK weather hasn’t so much been unpredictable as relentlessly, record-breakingly hot. Which, if you’re a data person, is still a great excuse to explore." ☛ https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/a-summer-explained-with-r/ | Source: Jumping Rivers    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:13:32

  • "In other words, Vim gives you incredible programmatic control over the state of the editor. Want to make typing ;r paste from the clipboard? Easy." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/vim-wants-you-to-control-vscode-wants-you-to/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:13:44

  • "The first lab does not need a cluster. It needs one analysis system, one target, an explicit network design, and a reset that has been tested." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-light-offensive-to-think-defensively-part-1-build-a-safe-lab-with-snapshots/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:13:57

  • "To overcome the performance bottlenecks and dependency friction of cross-language bridging, we engineered a pure R-native DeepAR forecasting engine." ☛ https://datageeek.com/2026/08/18/breaking-the-python-barrier-building-a-pure-r-native-deepar-engine-with-libtorch/ | Source: DataGeeek    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:14:16

  • "The workshop will take place next year from Wednesday, April 14, through Friday, April 16" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2026/08/german-perlraku-workshop-2027-in-hanover---14042027-16042027.html | Source: Perl    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:15:00

  • "Defcon featured talks and scheduled events" ☛ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/inside-defcon-the-conference-that-made-cybersecurity-noob-friendly/ | Source: CNET    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:15:09

  • "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15020/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:15:32

  • "Actually, my first choice to browse the web are text based browsers like eww, links, offpunk." ☛ https://untrusem.party/blog/how-I-browse-the-web-with-Ublock-Hard-Mode.html |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:16:02

  • "What I called a rectangle selection is more correctly called a region rectangle, a rectangular region." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsRectangleRegionNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:16:36

  • "While some of these Android emergency features can be helpful while traveling" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/android-emergency-features-standard/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:16:59

  • "Framework Laptop 12 is our colorful, little, durable 12.2” convertible laptop." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/framework-laptop-12-now-with-core-series-3 | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:26:54

  • "I continue to complete work on my next post on using the R wordcloud package." ☛ https://dmwiig.net/2026/08/18/take-your-r-projects-on-the-road-using-r-on-your-raspberry-pi-adroid-device-and-iphone/ |    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:27:02

  • "Edge Link is a small device that fits onto a standard DIN rail inside any machine’s electrical cabinet." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/19/edge-link-is-a-diy-solution-to-upgrade-old-industrial-equipment/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:27:11

  • "Mainstream OS, an Arch-based, user-friendly Linux distribution with a highly customised desktop that uses the Quickshell toolkit" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12925 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:27:34

  • "Yesterday, I learned that security/pam-ssh-agent-auth is abandoned and deprecated." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/17/replacing-security-pam-ssh-agent-auth-with-security-pam-ssh-agent/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:28:05

  • "In Episode 15, I chat with Zoe, the author of zoeloukia.bearblog.dev about, among other things, writing on personal websites" ☛ https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/15 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:28:38

  • "James talks about what has been done so far, the importance of getting more people involved, quickly, technical solutions" ☛ https://kodsnack.se/international/716/ | Source: Kodsnack    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:28:55

  • "Nextcloud provides a large public PHP interface to developers to use for building their application." ☛ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/08/18/modern-stable-apis-for-your-nextcloud-application/ | Source: Carl Schwan    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:29:15

  • GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gitlab-patches-critical-code-injection-vulnerability/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:51:20

  • Apple Removes Some Fees for App Developers in European Union ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/apple-fees-european-union.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:52:17

  • Hong Kong court orders now-defunct Apple Daily to pay HK$1.5 million to couple in defamation lawsuit over 2019 articles ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/19/hong-kong-court-orders-now-defunct-apple-daily-to-pay-hk1-5-million-to-couple-in-defamation-lawsuit-over-2019-articles/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:53:09

  • Man Obliterated When Court Obtains His Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Transcripts ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/expert-witness-chatgpt-logs-court    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:53:56

  • Cybersecurity concerns prompt Proprietary Chaffbot Company to pause some Hey Hi (AI) training runs ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/openai-paused-some-ai-training-runs-over-cybersecurity-concerns/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:54:37

  • China removes Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows at state users ahead of plan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-removes-microsoft-windows-at-state-users-ahead-of-plan    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 12:55:11

  • Universities Were Forced to Pay Up Despite Little Evidence of Antisemitism, Convicted Felon Whistleblowers Say ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/universities-were-forced-to-pay-up-despite-little-evidence-of-antisemitism-trump-whistleblowers-say    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:06:27

  • The Case for Reticence ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-case-for-reticence    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:07:41

  • Amazon Uses Rare Books for Hey Hi (AI) Training, Destroys Copies ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/amazon-uses-rare-books-for-ai-training    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:07:59

  • Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train Hey Hi (AI) models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secret-tracking-device-placed-in-rare-book-ends-up-in-amazon-processing-facility-destroying-books-to-train-ai-models-is-all-the-vegas-warehouse-does    

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

  • Hylke Bons: Icon for Metamorphosis ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/08/18/metamorphosis    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:09:23

  • Thomas Lange: LLM usage in Debian ☞ http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/llm-usage-gr/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:09:42

  • Edge Link is a DIY solution to upgrade old industrial equipment ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/19/edge-link-is-a-diy-solution-to-upgrade-old-industrial-equipment/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:11:06

  • Pluralistic: IP can't save you from Hey Hi (AI) (18 Aug 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:11:43

  • Acupuncture Seems to Rewire The Brain in Depression, Scans Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/acupuncture-seems-to-rewire-the-brain-in-depression-scans-reveal    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:12:31

  • Medusa ransomware tallies hundreds of new victims, says updated advisory on group’s tactics ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/medusa-ransomware-tactics-cisa-advisory/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:13:35

  • From mahjong clubs to ‘Chinamaxxing,’ why Chinese culture seems to be everywhere ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0818/mahjong-chinamaxxing-China-soft-power    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:14:34

  • Beijing resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy, satellite imagery shows ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/08/19/larung-gar-china-demolition-buddhist-monks/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:14:58

  • "a common theme with some of our customers is that they remain several versions behind the newest release of Ansible Automation Platform" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-your-automation-pt1-why-its-worth-upgrading-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-27 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:16:06

  • Slop plagiarism, false hopes, false promises ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/llm-d-breaking-cost-and-capacity-barriers | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:16:34

  • Red Hat invites public humiliation by associating closely with slop ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stop-paying-same-prompt-optimize-ai-costs-redis-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:17:00

  • "Crowd Supply recently featured the USBridge-KVM 2.0, a compact IP-KVM designed for remote system administration, debugging, and bare-metal recovery." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-zero-3w-powers-compact-ip-kvm-with-bios-ocr/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:17:30

  • "Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF93M1 Development Kit is now available through multiple distributors, providing a platform for evaluating the company’s nRF93M1 LTE Cat 1 bis cellular module." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/nrf93m1-dk-with-lte-cat-1-bis-nrf54l15-and-nrf-cloud-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:17:52

  • Slop is not search, it's a form of useless plagiarism served like junk food ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-exa-partnership/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:19:04

  • What they mean by smart is slop ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-smart-window/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:19:39

  • Startpage gives its data to a spying company ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/startpage-on-firefox/ | Source: Mozilla https://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:20:16

  • "Gamers have asked for GeForce NOW support for years. Today, NVIDIA made it official, opening up GeForce RTX-powered play to Firefox on Windows." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-nvidia-geforce-now-partnership/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:21:05

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.17.0 Released ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-17-0-released/149223    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:22:01

  • "But modern Linux systems already have several faster ways to do the same thing, and some of them give you much more information than Telnet ever did." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/test-open-ports-linux-without-telnet/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:22:31

  • Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/science/primates-pets.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:23:58

  • Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Getting Canceled and Staff Are Fainting ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/hospitals-heat-surgeries-canceled-staff-fainting    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:44:03

  • North Korea is learning from war. The US–South Korea alliance must keep pace ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/north-korea-is-learning-from-war-the-us-south-korea-alliance-must-keep-pace/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:44:24

  • Threatening Friends and Courting Enemies in Convicted Felon’s ‘Upside-Down World’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trumps-upside-down-world.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:44:45

  • Pentagon Scales Back Major Training Exercises With South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/pentagon-south-korea-training-exercises.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:44:56

  • US commander discusses scaling back joint South Korea drills, media reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-backs-stronger-self-defence-says-drills-not-aimed-at-north-korea    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:45:13

  • Asian allies stress ‘critical’ cooperation as Convicted Felon slashes South Korea drills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/asian-allies-stress-critical-cooperation-as-trump-slashes-south-korea-drills    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:45:27

  • North Korea denounces US-South Korea joint military drills: KCNA ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-denounces-us-south-korea-joint-military-drills-kcna-says    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:45:38

  • US-South Korea to cut duration and scope of military drills after Convicted Felon order ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-south-korea-military-drills-schedule-expected-to-be-cut-in-half-south-korean-media-say    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:45:53

  • Malaysia considering consumption tax reform, says PM Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-considering-consumption-tax-reform-pm-anwar-says    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:46:11

  • How U.S. military funding propelled China’s robot dogs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/how-u-s-military-funding-propelled-chinas-robot-dogs    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:46:49

  • Snakes and Ladders ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/snakes-and-ladders    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:47:26

  • GOG Preservation Program adds Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gog-preservation-program-adds-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gog-preservation-program-adds-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of-time/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:47:50

  • A Molecule Found in Citrus Fruits Could Be a Secret Weapon to Rejuvenate The Liver ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-molecule-found-in-citrus-fruits-could-be-a-secret-weapon-to-rejuvenate-the-liver    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:51:08

  • Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Hints at Unexpectedly Simple Treatment ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/parkinsons-tie-to-gut-bacteria-hints-at-unexpectedly-simple-treatment    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:51:24

  • We May Already Have The First Hints of Quantum Gravity – Hiding in Plain Sight ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-already-have-the-first-hints-of-quantum-gravity-hiding-in-plain-sight    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:54:19

  • Paying Attention to Your Body Could Actually Change Your Immune Response ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/paying-attention-to-your-body-could-actually-change-your-immune-response    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:54:48

  • Nobody's Talking About This Weak Link in The Hydrogen Economy: Metal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nobodys-talking-about-this-weak-link-in-the-hydrogen-economy-metal    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:55:02

  • Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Linked to Stomach Cancer For The First Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sugar-sweetened-beverages-linked-to-stomach-cancer-for-the-first-time    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:55:21

  • They BOTH lose a TON of money. Utter failures, NO VALUE to society either. https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/openai-falls-further-behind-anthropic-with-disappointing-revenue-growth-and-mounting-losses/ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/openai-falls-further-behind-anthropic-with-disappointing-revenue-growth-and-mounting-losses/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:56:10

  • That's like saying "porn for kids"; the very idea is absurd, kids don't need brainless chatbots https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/chatgpt-for-teens-openai.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:56:42

  • FALSE assertion that Hey Hi (AI) losses and plagiarism is something that Australia NEEDS https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-win-the-ai-rush-australia-needs-expert-humans/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:57:17

  • Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to Hey Hi (AI) and still can't be sued — federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/judges-who-use-ai-to-make-decisions-still-protected-by-judicial-immunity-court-ruling-protects-outcomes-regardless-of-ai-usage    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:58:05

  • ABC/Disney Sues Convicted Felon’s FCC as Contentious Broadcast Licensing Dispute Intensifies ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/abc-disney-sues-trump-fcc/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:58:56

  • Paramount Pictures and Romans Officially Settle Their ‘Smurfs’ Songs Lawsuit — Studio Allegedly ‘Decided to Punish’ the Songwriter Because It ‘Was Mad at Rihanna’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/romans-rihanna-paramounts-smurfs-lawsuit/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 13:59:36

  • Federal grants run on more than money; they run on predictable rules ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/08/federal-grants-run-on-more-than-money-they-run-on-predictable-rules/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:00:31

  • The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/xen-project-safety-committee/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:02:52

  • SkillFishOS – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/skillfishos-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:05:01

  • Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-73-merge-window-kicks-off-by-throwing-out-two-ancient-file-systems/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:06:06

  • The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative Is Coming ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/The-Bullet-Proof-KDE-Software-Initiative-Is-Coming    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:07:10

  • USBridge-KVM 2.0 – An open-source IP-KVM with BIOS access over SSH, OCR, and Hey Hi (AI) support (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/18/usbridge-kvm-2-0-an-open-source-ip-kvm-with-bios-access-over-ssh-ocr-and-ai-support/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:08:19

  • Bigger Wasn’t Better: Benchmarking Small Models for digiKam’s Natural Language Search ☞ http://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/08/17/gsoc3.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:09:03

  • Turkey condemns Israeli airstrikes on military airbase in Syria ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-condemns-israeli-airstrikes-on-military-airbase-in-syria-322626    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:09:40

  • Drone Strikes, Hospital Attacks, and Violence Against Health Care Workers Push Ethiopia’s Health System Toward Collapse ☞ https://phr.org/news/multiple-armed-groups-continue-to-target-health-workers-and-health-facilities-in-ethiopia/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:10:13

  • Fedora Rawhide Server OverlayFS BTRFS setup ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/08/fedora-rawhide-server-overlayfs-btrfs.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:10:40

  • Cockpit Project: Cockpit 366 ☞ https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-366.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:15:05

  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089338/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:15:20

  • Andy Simpkins: My first go at tracking down a kernel bug… ☞ https://blog.koipond.org.uk/archives/371    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:17:36

  • Social Control Media wasting bloggers' time, as usual ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/answering-hacker-news-motherboards-on-shelves/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:22:03

  • This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again ☞ https://itsfoss.com/stillos-review/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:23:20

  • AUSTRUMI 5.2.6 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/austrumi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:23:42

  • CapivaraOS 1.2.4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/capivaraos    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:23:49

  • CobaltX 0.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/cobaltx    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:23:57

  • LattePanda Mu MXM carrier kits with choice of Arc A380 or RTX 3060 graphics ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/lattepanda-mu-mxm-carrier-kits-with-choice-of-arc-a380-or-rtx-3060-graphics/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:24:23

  • nRF93M1 DK with LTE Cat 1 bis, nRF54L15, and nRF Cloud support ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/nrf93m1-dk-with-lte-cat-1-bis-nrf54l15-and-nrf-cloud-support/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:24:31

  • The Smell of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://kevquirk.com/the-smell-of-ai    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:25:07

  • China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of backdoored Windows 10 — Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/china-reportedly-orders-state-agencies-to-uninstall-its-government-only-edition-of-windows-10    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:27:36

  • [Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in] Qt 6.11.2 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.11.2-released    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:28:15

  • HRW urges Thailand to halt deportation of Karen refugees to Myanmar ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/rights-group-urges-thailand-to-halt-deportation-of-karen-refugees-to-myanmar/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:28:46

  • Navy seizes over 300 IEDs and 300 kg of explosives in Sinaloa ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/navy-ieds-explosives-bust-sinaloa/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:29:25

  • Department of Homeland Security Seeking Humanoid Robots to Patrol Southern Border ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/department-homeland-security-dhs-humanoid-robots-mexico-border-foundation    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:29:48

  • Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dozens-of-webkit-vulnerabilities-patched-with-fresh-macos-ios-security-updates/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:31:59

  • Heights Finance Data Breach Impacts at Least 1.2 Million Individuals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/heights-finance-data-breach-impacts-at-least-1-2-million-individuals/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:32:23

  • 300,000 WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hacking Due to Form Plugin Flaw ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/300000-wordpress-sites-potentially-exposed-to-hacking-due-to-form-plugin-flaw/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:32:36

  • Mozilla Privacy Blog: Brazil is Taking an Important Step Toward More Open & Competitive Digital Markets ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/08/18/brazil-is-taking-an-important-step-toward-more-open-competitive-digital-markets/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:33:25

  • If You Thought Pervert Glasses Were Bad, Wait Till You See Apple’s Leaked AirPods ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/apple-leaked-airpods-privacy    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:34:01

  • ICE Bars Its Workers From Wearing Meta’s Smart Glasses on the Job ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/ice-meta-smart-glasses.html    

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

  • Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform — and What That Actually Means ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/18/why-digital-sovereignty-requires-an-open-document-platform/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:35:28

  • Digital Sovereignty Without Open Standards Spells Defeat ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/digital-sovereignty-without-open-standards-spells-defeat/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 14:35:49

  • Linux Matters 88: Talking to my Computer ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/88/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:33:35

  • What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #69 – S3E21 Watering the Community Garden: Navigating the EU CRA for Open Source with Roman Zhukov ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/08/18/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-69-s3e21-watering-the-community-garden-navigating-the-eu-cra-for-open-source-with-roman-zhukov/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:34:01

  • The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is all about giving you more ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:34:54

  • LILYGO T-Echo Lite Kit adds a keyboard shield to the nrRF52840-based ePaper LoRa and GPS development board ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/18/lilygo-t-echo-lite-kit-adds-a-keyboard-shield-to-the-nrrf52840-based-epaper-lora-and-gps-development-board/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:35:21

  • Bethesda Artist Says Microsoft’s Xbox Ended a No-Layoff Era, Turning Studio Retirement Dreams into Yearly Job Cuts https://wccftech.com/bethesda-artist-microsoft-xbox-no-layoff-era-yearly-cuts/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:38:20

  • Bethesda Layoffs Were Rare Before Acquisition by Microsoft, Says Developer https://gamingbolt.com/layoffs-at-bethesda-were-rare-before-microsofts-acquisition-says-developer    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:38:43

  • Japan envoy answers Russian summons amid Putin isle visit spat ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japan-envoy-answers-russian-summons-amid-putin-isle-visit-spat    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:39:37

  • Russia’s Putin hosts Myanmar leader, holds talks on energy projects ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/russias-putin-hosts-myanmar-leader-talks-up-energy-projects    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:39:45

  • Turkey plans to send cluster munitions to Ukraine, US congress records show ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-plans-to-send-cluster-munitions-to-ukraine-us-congress-records-show-322598    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:40:17

  • Ukrainians plan to sing Latvian national anthem in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/music/18.08.2026-ukrainians-plan-to-sing-latvian-national-anthem-in-riga.a659331/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:40:47

  • After Most of Europe Said No, Kanye West Heads to Russia ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/after-most-of-europe-said-no-kanye-west-heads-to-russia/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:41:00

  • Dismissed Ex-Defense Minister Says Ukraine Faces Crisis Of Governance, Elections Should Be Held Despite War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-chief-nuclear-plant-missiles/33832964.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:41:10

  • Sergei Lavrov says Russia, North Korea fighting for ‘new, righteous’ world order ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/lavrov-says-russia-north-korea-fighting-for-new-righteous-world-order    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:41:36

  • A Mother’s Quest to Rescue Her Son From Russian-Occupied Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/world/europe/ukraine-russia-rescue.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:41:44

  • AI-assisted tool helped secure satellite communication system after 2022 Russian hacking ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/ai-assisted-tool-helped-secure-satellite-communication-system-after-2022-russian-hacking/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:41:54

  • Russia protests to Japanese ambassador over Takaichi's 'anti-Russian' remarks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russia-protests-to-japanese-ambassador-over-takaichis-anti-russian-remarks    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:45:22

  • Lithuanian presidential aide backs tighter controls on Russian transit ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3025196/lithuanian-presidential-aide-backs-tighter-controls-on-russian-transit    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:45:36

  • ISS: Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon conduct spacewalk to replace space-to-ground antenna ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/iss-sophie-adenot-and-anil-menon-conduct-spacewalk-to-replace-space-to-ground-antenna    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:45:57

  • Volodymyr Zelensky names new Defence minister after weeks of political crisis ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/volodymyr-zelensky-names-new-defence-minister-after-weeks-of-political-crisis    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:46:16

  • Lithuanian businessman detained in Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3025215/lithuanian-businessman-detained-in-belarus    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:46:31

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

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:47:47

  • Maintenance release: Godot 4.7.2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-7-2/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:48:17

  • Turkey rivals Frontex and EU’s Irini mission with drones in Tripoli – the competition also concerns contacts with both Libyan camps ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/18/turkey-rivals-frontex-and-eus-irini-mission-with-drones-in-tripoli-the-competition-also-concerns-contacts-with-both-libyan-camps/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:48:46

  • A deck-builder where you burn your cards - Burn With Me releases October 12 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/a-deck-builder-where-you-burn-your-cards-burn-with-me-releases-october-12/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:49:35

  • The viral 'Normal Golf Game' from Fruit Ninja dev launches September 21 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-viral-normal-golf-game-from-fruit-ninja-dev-launches-september-21/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:49:52

  • Make funny looking heroes in the physics-based brawler Spectacular Team: Assemble | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/make-funny-looking-heroes-in-the-physics-based-brawler-spectacular-team-assemble/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:50:26

  • How to Install Odoo 18 on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-odoo-18-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:53:24

  • The PR adds Native Validity Fingerprint Sensors Support to Linux ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/validity-fingerprint-sensors-libfprint/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:54:14

  • Firefox 154.0 added Old Fashioned, Pride, Minimal App Icons Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/firefox-154-0-app-icons/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:55:53

  • FSF Blogs: Six more global stories: LibreLocal 2026, part two ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-librelocal-report-part-2    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:56:17

  • IBM Red Hat pushing slop plagiarism ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/18/securing-claude-code-plug-ins-best-practices-repository-security    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:56:52

  • Firefox 154 released with translation, Hey Hi (AI) and UI tweaks ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/firefox-154-released    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 15:58:26

  • Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them “Cockroaches” and Saying It’s “Time for Hunting” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facebook-declines-moderation-ai-slop-islamophobia-muslims    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:02:50

  • World Humanitarian Day ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_1741    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:03:37

  • Firefox 154.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089386/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:05:03

  • Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-14) ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/08/14/tiny-wins//    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:05:38

  • openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/08/17/pre-schedule-opensuse-asia-summit/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:06:12

  • I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful ☞ https://itsfoss.com/rewaita/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:08:57

  • Allowable, Not Allowed: What the First Action Predicts ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/allowable-not-allowed-what-the-first-action-predicts.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:10:16

  • Unified Patent Court is illegal and unconstitutional; here they are bickering over patents on controversial things, in a court that ought not even exist ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/the-mrna-wars-are-escalating-with-new-claims-from-arbutus/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:11:44

  • Interjecting slop plagiarism into the patent system ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/nlpatent-rebrands-as-clerq-launches-agentic-patent-research-workflows/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:12:46

  • Rakudo Weekly 2026.33 All The Way To Infinity ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/08/18/2026-33-all-the-way-to-infinity/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:20:28

  • Waveshare PiRack-M6F 6-node rack unit for Raspberry Pi 4/5 brings all ports to the front ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/18/waveshare-pirack-m6f-6-node-rack-unit-for-raspberry-pi-4-5-brings-all-ports-to-the-front/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:21:54

  • NXP MCX A5 Cortex-M33 MCU family supports 10BASE-T1S Single Pair Ethernet and Post-Quantum Cryptography ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/nxp-mcx-a5-cortex-m33-mcu-family-supports-10base-t1s-single-pair-ethernet-and-post-quantum-cryptography/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:22:33

  • Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 154 ☞ https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-154/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:23:30

  • iophk: TR-TM were ahead of the trend: https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/ ("SQLite for Everything")    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:24:41

  • In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance Cameras Could Have Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-ceo-new-low-alpr-nancy-guthrie-tucson-arizona    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:27:32

  • Israel Strikes Air Base in Syria, Drawing Ire From the U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/world/middleeast/israel-airstrikes-syria-air-base.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:29:54

  • Deadly Israeli Strike on Gaza Raises Doubts About Convicted Felon Peace Plan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/world/middleeast/israeli-strike-gaza-cafe-peace-plan.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:30:03

  • Middle East live: Turkey rejects Israeli claims after strike on Syria air base ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260819-middle-east-live-turkey-rejects-israeli-claims-after-strike-on-syria-air-base    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:30:24

  • Ebola in DRC: Deadliest outbreak on record ‘outpacing the response’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ebola-in-drc-deadliest-outbreak-on-record-outpacing-the-response    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:31:19

  • This turns out to be disinformation from a Microsoft site https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-on-windows-outgrowing-native-installs-not-according-to-canonicals-jon-seager/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:35:20

  • "Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/sponsor-gives-kde-plasma-66-the-lts-treatment/5288531    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:36:15

  • Still using Linux Mint? Here are the 6 Ubuntu features you're missing out on https://www.howtogeek.com/still-using-linux-mint-here-are-the-6-ubuntu-features-youre-missing-out-on/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:36:31

  • Linux can be your college PC—and these 4 apps prove it https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-can-be-your-college-pcand-these-4-apps-prove-it/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:52:11

  • I compressed my entire Linux drive and got 6GB back without deleting a thing https://www.makeuseof.com/compressed-entire-linux-drive-got-6gb-back-without-deleting-a-thing/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:52:52

  • Proprietary systems in question here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linux-botnet-turns-devices-persistent-attacker-m6rke/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:53:39

  • This seems to be a slopfarm https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/linux-7-2-drops-ai-cache-scheduling-sweeping-hardware-gains    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:54:16

  • "Developer Krzysztof Sokołowski has released astral-hwmon, an open-source kernel driver that reads current and voltage from each of the six +12V power connections individually." https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-astral-rtx-50-gets-12v-2x6-per-pin-monitoring-on-linux    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:55:57

  • В Cyberpunk 2077 Blue flashes have appeared on AMD graphics cards running Linux. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/v-cyberpunk-2077-na-videokartakh-amd-pod-linux-voznikli-sinie-vspyshki    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:56:28

  • Proprietary https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/08/18/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/teleport-brings-infrastructure-identity-to-linux-desktops/2407610    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:56:58

  • Slop galore https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-linux-7-2-release-cache-aware-scheduling/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 16:57:44

  • Slopfarms covering slop-filled Linux https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/linux-7-2-adds-ai-aware-cache-scheduling/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:00:40

  • "NVIDIA GeForce NOW finally adds official Firefox support. On Windows, that is. Sadly, any mention of Linux was left out of the announcements today. At least NVIDIA do now have an official supported GeForce NOW app for Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-finally-adds-official-firefox-support/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:01:00

  • GeForce NOW Linux App Leaves Beta With Cloud Gaming Upgrades https://techmymoney.com/2026/08/17/geforce-now-linux-app-leaves-beta-with-cloud-gaming-upgrades/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:01:21

  • The CVEs are not in Linux https://securityaffairs.com/197434/malware/new-mirai-based-evooo1bot-botnet-targets-linux-devices.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:03:30

  • "I didn't hate it" does not sound like a compliment https://www.zdnet.com/article/omarchy-quattro-linux-distro-power-users-ai/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/Omarchy_is_Already_Dying.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:04:20

  • Defective CPUs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/framework-laptop-12-gets-fedora-kde-linux-on-pre-builts-along-with-new-intel-core-series-3-processors/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:05:49

  • "Have you ever wanted to run a Linux distribution on your Android device? If so, your best bet is UserLAnd." https://www.zdnet.com/article/userland-makes-it-easy-to-run-a-full-linux-distribution-on-an-android-device/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:06:09

  • RedGNU https://www.xda-developers.com/after-europe-ditched-windows-china-follows-suit-with-its-own-home-grown-linux-distros/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:06:41

  • Linux 7.2 makes TSC support mandatory for x86 CPUs, but it's not like Windows 11's TPM 2.0 check https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113142/linux-7-2-makes-tsc-support-mandatory-for-x86-cpus-but-its-not-like-windows-11s-tpm-2-0-check/index.html    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:07:02

  • Plan 9 https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-secret-ingredient-1992-os/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:08:39

  • "I do put "my email" in geminispace and on the open web and make no effort to obfuscate it. Why did I use quotes above? I have a lot of email addresses: definitely dozens, and probably over a hundred." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/re-a-question-of-email    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:19:34

  • "I was thinking yesterday how much this space reminds me of the way the internet used to be. That thought led me to nostalgia for my old blog, which I'd thought was lost but has been mostly preserved by the Internet Archive. I found this post from February 2002..." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-19-0715    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:20:28

  • "Okay, my gemsite had too many logs and it became annoying, always having to decide if this is a whisper, a scream, a mumble or anything else. So I have boiled it down to 3 logs." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/restructuring-and-a-new-feed.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:21:57

  • "My smol space now points directly to a domain I own. The fact that it works has made me happier than is reasonable. Hurrah!" gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-19-1241    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:22:22

  • "hey everybody, autumn is here! i think? it kind of snuck up on me. we've gone straight from Heatwave to a 12C minimum and 22C maximum temperature, cool and rainy." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260819    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:22:56

  • "I like this path-optimisation word game, and it occasionally gets players, but the one-game-per-day schedule was too fast for the tiny playerbase. It's most interesting when you're competing with others on a single puzzle, and the chances of two players coming along within the same day are small" gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/glog/260819-updates.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:23:59

  • "If you are in the US and were put on a PIP today, they will exit you via the PIP. Severance for a PIP is 30 days, RA is 90 days. Cost less to exit someone via a PIP" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m00xx73f    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 17:36:23

  • "Microsoft: A U.S. Security Threat" https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/ms-security.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 18:23:12

  • TikTok cuts 75 jobs in Seattle area, hitting e-commerce teams    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 21:55:22

  • Feeding the Wildlife https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/feeding-the-wildlife/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 21:59:58

  • "Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have taught drones to play a game of tag via reinforcement learning — with a view to improving how autonomous systems can respond to rapid changes in environment during pursuit, evasion, or coordination." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260819-tag.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 22:18:59

  • "Nobody neeeds to read this, so nobody's life but mine is worse if it doesn't work. Of course, if it does work I'll have another to smile. Which is nice." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/first-cli-post    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 22:19:39

  • "It pointed out, just how… well, unsignificant the geminispace is compared to the big web. The chances of spambots and the likes hitting us here should just be so much smaller. And thus, I felt enbravent. (🤫 I've used it, thus it's a real word now.)" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260819mails.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 22:20:38

  • "There are 5229 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3513 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 22:21:30

  • Focusing on the Past, Not the Future https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/focusing-on-the-past-not-the-future/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 23:04:40

  • Not "cashless", "SERVICELESS" https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/25467946/asda-stores-going-cashless-petrol-stations/    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 23:06:39

  • Autumn Around the Corner Already https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/autumn-around-the-corner-already/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aUGUST 19, 2026 AT 23:26:27

  • fear of everything gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/fear_of_everything    

posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 23:27:22
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