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"The kernel is able to run a few types of executable files, including native binaries in the ELF format and interpreted programs that begin with the #! marker." https://lwn.net/Articles/1086947/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:52:05

  • A look at CrossPoint e-reader firmware [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1087635/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1087635/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:52:35

  • "Virtualization places a guest system into a separate security domain, typically with fewer privileges than software running directly on the host. Increasingly, there is interest in creating multiple security domains within a single virtualized system as well." https://lwn.net/Articles/1087590/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:53:07

  • Even more formal verification for BPF https://lwn.net/Articles/1087069/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:53:36

  • Changes in shadow-utils password-expiration features [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1086949/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1086949/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:54:22

  • "Storage code has to cope with hardware that fails in inconvenient ways, but coaxing a healthy disk into producing those failures on demand, for testing, is usually not possible." https://lwn.net/Articles/1086344/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:55:01

  • Anon: micropsoft is not spread by the powers that be /despite/ being a threat to national security but instead /because/ it is a threat to national security. really c.f. bill binney, ed snowden, et al https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/ms-security.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 05:55:53

  • "I think most people agree that monopolies are a bad thing, as a general statement, because they tend to be exploitative." gemini://ingrix.info/log/20260819-important-parts-of-society.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:01:15

  • "you said: being an adult means doing things that you don't want to" gemini://nullish.smol.pub/3-am    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:02:10

  • GeoCities sites that never updated again (scary!!!) gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/geocities_sites_that_never_updated_again.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:02:34

  • "I came across this video on yt and might use that as a base for today's humming and hawing: Before You Buy Another 2027 Planner, Ask These 5 Questions" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260817planners.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:04:07

  • "That's what happens when you change your antagonists five chapters in while still being set on the same outcome. The lore now needs to wiggle and bent to fit old and new. And I've reached the point where the new bits need to be introduced." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260817pantsing.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:04:40

  • books - updated august 12th gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/books    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:05:27

  • "I'm a Muse fan. So, of course, I've pre-ordered the new album, even if they don't do those pretty box sets anymore. I ordered the pretty "Store Exclusive Collectors' Edition" and added that pin, because one can never have enough pins either." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260807Muse.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:06:40

  • Looks like Windows fell to all-time low in China last night. GNU/Linux 11%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:26:23

  • Brunei about 5% GNU/Linux Looks like Windows fell to all-time low in China last night. GNU/Linux 11%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/19/GNU_Linux_Rising_to_6_in_Brunei.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:27:48

  • Brunei about 5% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=BN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:28:05

  • Madagascar 5% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=MG&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 06:28:59

  • The Pavements and the Dust https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/the-pavements-and-the-dust/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 07:26:58

  • Social media giant lays off 75 Bellevue workers https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/tiktok-lays-off-75-bellevue-workers-mostly-in-e-commerce-division/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 07:28:55

  • Nearly End of "Meteorological Summer" https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/nearly-end-of-meteorological-summer/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 08:19:32

  • Climate Change Not Just a "Theory" https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/climate-change-not-just-a-theory/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 09:49:27

  • GNU/Linux According to Clownflare https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/20/gnulinux-according-to-clownflare/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:16:30

  • "Germany doesn't have a hard benchmark for when a site is structurally infringing." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/a-german-court-drew-the-piracy-line-at-81-5-kinogo-was-blocked-with-at-least-82-4/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:25:30

  • "The band filed its lawsuit in the Central District of California under their company, Hyde Lane, against Netflix, Netflix Studios" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/19/netflix-trademark-lawsuit-demon-hunter/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:25:48

  • "The regulators criticised Apple's conditions, including a new Core Technology ​Fee" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-changes-fees-for-alternative-app-stores-in-eu/articleshow/133335542.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:27:41

  • "Announced on August 18, the changes introduce new business terms for applications distributed in the European Union." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/08/19/epic-games-dismisses-apples-simplified-eu-app-store-fees-as-junk/5289794 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:28:03

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posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:35:09

  • "Without it, or under a pared down version" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/19/libraries-beg-brendan-carr-to-back-off-plan-to-make-u-s-broadband-shittier-more-expensive/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:35:24

  • "Here, an analysis of MIT’s recent financial decisions and reports will be presented to explore the information behind these claims." ☛ https://thetech.com/2026/08/18/financials-letter-2026 | Source: MIT    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:36:44

  • "The project, which tribes say violates treaty rights, has been the subject of heated controversy and legal battles." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/us-army-corps-pushes-michigan-pipeline-project-ahead-over-indigenous-opposition/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:37:06

  • "New Mexico regulators say the lab has ignored February demands to halt the spreading chromium plume." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/08/19/chromium-plume-standoff-reaches-pueblo-land/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:37:34

  • "These investigations included an unprecedented early review of ABC's eight local broadcast licenses." ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-u-s-press-starts-showing-the-hint-of-a-backbone/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:38:47

  • "U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper offered a more measured response in a post on CENTCOM’s X account after visiting the Abraham Lincoln." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pentagon-unleashes-fury-on-america-hating-media/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:39:24

  • "Carr used this to try and justify an unprecedented early review of ABC’s eight local affiliate broadcast licenses." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/18/abc-sues-the-fcc-for-massive-first-amendment-violations/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:40:07

  • "OK, so what do I do?" ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/19/survival-guide-for-a-censored-internet/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:40:23

  • "A federal appeals court just made it harder for online services, big and small, to get lawsuits over user speech dismissed early." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/ninth-circuit-ruling-will-force-online-platforms-host-user-speech-fight-lengthy | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:42:06

  • "Dissent in China is tightly controlled, however, especially around central government policy." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/china-goes-rural-with-data-centres-in-quest-to-power-ai/articleshow/133336641.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:42:27

  • "New Charges." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-teen-prisoner-protest-putin/33832932.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:42:42

  • "Here are the facts." ☛ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fact-check-would-money-out-of-politics-proposal-stifle-free-speech/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:43:30

  • "The election was marred by accusations of interference and by arrests of opposition figures." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/zambia-mundubile-seeks-to-overturn-election-result-in-court/a-78436788 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:44:41

  • "The US ​tech giant raised the amount by issuing ​3-, 5-, 10- and 20-year bonds, the term sheet showed." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/alphabet-raises-3-9-billion-in-inaugural-australian-dollar-bond/articleshow/133342858.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:44:59

  • "Neither company disclosed terms and the reported numbers do not agree." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/stripe-buys-ai-model-router-openrouter-in-reported-7-5b-deal/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:45:26

  • "The deal, announced on Wednesday, combines Stripe’s technology, which lets companies direct payments to other businesses" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/stripe-openrouter-ai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:47:27

  • "Fishback made the proposal personal for Rain by publicly calculating she could owe Florida $42 million under his plan." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sophie-rain-celebrates-florida-sin-tax-defeat-1815231 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:48:01

  • ""Loot" threatened to increase his demand by US $100,000 for every month his former employer refused to pay" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/prison-data-analyst-extort-employer | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:48:27

  • "Of course, similar to Anthropic’s Mythos misadventures before it, OpenAI may have other incentives for publicizing the slowdown." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openai-training-pause-cybersecurity/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:48:50

  • "Jellyfish have survived for over 500 million years, making them older than dinosaurs and even trees." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51611511/floridas-jellyfish-museum-is-dedicated-solely-to-the-mesmerizing-floating-predators | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:55:13

  • "We do have a damaged sky; we put billions of tons of greenhouse gases in it, thickening the planet's insulating layer and heating it all up." ☛ https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-right-word-is-wrongness/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:55:38

  • "This study utilizes large climate model ensembles to investigate how human activities influence Pacific decadal variability (PDV), focusing on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO)." ☛ https://ocean2climate.org/2026/08/19/is-global-warming-changing-the-pacific-oceans-natural-cycles/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:57:24

  • "Aside from electricity use and consumption pushing prices for all consumers, the next big issue that many data centers face is the amount of water that they consume in their operations." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/jason-kelce-led-marketing-campaign-asks-beer-drinkers-to-send-their-pee-to-ai-data-centers-liquid-death-and-garage-beer-skit-claims-ai-data-centers-waste-millions-of-gallons-of-water | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:57:40

  • "Axios first reported on a leaked memo sent by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) on Tuesday." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/gop-begs-ai-firms-to-fix-data-centers-toxic-brand-to-help-midterm-chances/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:02:35

  • "While this summer's headlines have focused on record-low water levels on the Rhine, Danube and Vistula, Lithuania's own rivers have been in slow decline for three decades" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3024353/as-europe-s-rivers-hit-record-lows-what-does-the-future-hold-for-lithuania-s-waterways | Source: LRT    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:06:48

  • "It took a literal act of Congress to get the Epstein files released" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/18/foia-documents-show-epstein-files-had-flag-list-which-included-the-term-potus/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:07:16

  • "I’m a huge fan of the corporate death penalty, a legal process in which a corporation is forced to dissolve or stop existing" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/19/bring-back-the-corporate-death-penalty/ | Source: Salon    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:07:43

  • "Their return does not necessarily mean those voters were disenfranchised, as they could have voted in person instead." ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/arizona/2026/08/19/navajo-county-undelivered-mail-ballots-postal-service-records-data-analysis/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:08:01

  • [Old] "Big Tech companies fight regulation by claiming that they are a necessary force for American national security." ☛ https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/big-tech-monopolies-endanger-american-security/ | Source: AELP    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:08:32

  • [Old] "And the biggest players, Russia and Iran, are working even harder at election inuence than they did in 2016 or 2020." ☛ https://cryptome.org/2024/10/US-Spies-Who-Sound-Alarm-About-Election-Interference.pdf |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:08:41

  • "Flock has finally recognized its most profitable market is littered with people who simply can’t be trusted with this access to billions of license plate records." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/flock-safety-decides-to-implement-a-few-changes-after-months-of-negative-press/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:09:19

  • "Bills currently before Parliament could also be part of a digital alignment package, though the U.S. has tended to focus on laws, not pending legislation." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/digital-trade-alignment-what-may-be-in-play-in-the-canada-u-s-trade-deal/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:09:51

  • "This is no longer a future challenge. For most sectors, the implications have been debated and analysed extensively." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/19/asia-pacific-privacy-laws-are-arriving/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:10:09

  • "Days after its CEO apologized for documented abuses of the company's system" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/19/flock-surveillance-backlash-mounts-as-fiendish-halloween-plans-circulate/5289701 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:10:22

  • "Citing ProPublica’s reporting, eight senators wrote a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioning the administration’s approach to foreign health data." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-letter-health-data-africa-humanitarian-aid | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:10:45

  • "The op-ed Canyen Ashworth wrote last September may have been critical of the police where he lives in Lenexa, Kansas, but it could hardly be considered radical." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/what-deflock-week-of-action-confronts-the-ai-surveillance-state/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:11:03

  • "Everyone in the clip — the girl, the boy filming, and hallway passersby — is a teenage student." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:11:15

  • "Crucially, the camera-equipped AirPods aren’t designed to take photos or video, according to the reporting." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/apple-leaked-airpods-privacy | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:11:28

  • "LINK still will attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to demonstrate key capabilities for the future of space exploration." ☛ https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-for-commercial-swift-boost-mission/ | Source: NASA    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:12:02

  • "On Wednesday, NASA announced that a rescue spacecraft that was meant to grab onto the space agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and push it into a higher altitude will not proceed." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/science/nasa-swift-telescope-failed-rescue.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:12:17

  • "Intense solar activity caused the telescope to lose altitude faster than engineers had anticipated." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-abandons-swift-observatory-rescue-mission-1815230 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:12:29

  • [Old] "Software can easily rate among the most poorly constructed, unreliable and least maintainable technological artifacts ever invented by man -- with perhaps the exception of Icarus' wings." ☛ https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/bad-software.shtml | Source: Paul A Strassmann    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:21:30

  • [Old] "The purpose of this hearing is to examine the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board’s recent report concerning the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange on-line cyber incident." ☛ https://www.congress.gov/118/chrg/CHRG-118hhrg58996/CHRG-118hhrg58996.pdf | Source: US Congress    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:23:04

  • "The Cl0p ransomware group has named more than 40 organizations allegedly targeted in the recent campaign that exploited a vulnerability in PTC’s product lifecycle management (PLM) platforms Windchill and FlexPLM." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cl0p-ransomware-group-names-over-40-victims-of-ptc-windchill-campaign/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:23:20

  • "The vulnerability at the center of Clop’s latest campaign affects a pair of software products from PTC — Windchill and FlexPLM — which manufacturers and retailers" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/clop-zero-day-attacks-ptc-windchill-flexplm/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:23:32

  • "Replying to a customer on WhatsApp will start costing business users money from October. Meta won’t confirm how much." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/whatsapps-free-lunch-ends-on-1-october/285051/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:24:14

  • "Bejar is the first witness to take the stand and has argued that the company prioritized profits over safety by encouraging people to spend more and more time on Facebook and Instagram." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/some-of-metas-safety-tools-were-designed-to-fail-witness-1031846679 | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:24:24

  • "Bejar worked at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, attracting wide attention for his work to combat cyberbullying." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/former-meta-engineer-says-instagram-took-a-dont-ask-dont-tell-approach-on-kids-under-13/articleshow/133362274.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:24:39

  • "All 29 states accused Meta of violating federal law by improperly collecting and using children's personal data." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-rejects-claims-it-sought-to-hook-children-to-facebook-instagram-as-landmark-trial-begins/articleshow/133340295.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:25:02

  • "reward mechanisms that were designed for adults and are inherently unsafe for teenagers" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/social-media-safety-tools-were-designed-to-fail-former-meta-engineer-testifies/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:25:20

  • "Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:28:26

  • "But how real is that 4,177 number? We all know that subscriber counts are a bit misleading." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/subscriber-rot/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:00

  • "Two weeks ago, we shared insights from Mastodon’s first Discovery Week and how it’s informing our roadmap" ☛ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/ | Source: Mastodon    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:12

  • "And report after report after report shows this to be true." ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/new-people-on-x/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:26

  • "Brought by 29 US states, the lawsuit argues Facebook and Instagram knowingly contributed to negative health outcomes for minors." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/18/2026/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-opens | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:38

  • "The initial multidistrict litigation consolidated hundreds of personal injury lawsuits on behalf of children and adolescents by school districts, local governments and state attorneys general" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/hook-harvest-hide-states-slam-metas-secret-strategy-on-first-day-of-jury-trial/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:29:51

  • "You’re going to hear how Meta desperately tried to hold on to those kids, how it wanted them so badly, how it wanted them young" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-18/california-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-meta | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:30:06

  • "The case is the latest in a web of litigation that aims to hold social media companies accountable for alleged harms to the mental health of young people." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5935458 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:30:31

  • "The case could also force Meta to make major changes to how its platforms work." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/meta-child-safety-trial-india-instagram-facebook-changes-138761117.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:30:44

  • "The surrounding infrastructure tells us what the object is, how it relates to other research outputs, and whether its record is still current" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/08/19/guest-post-ai-can-find-the-article-can-it-tell-which-version-it-used/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:31:19

  • "Dismal Failure" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-teens-failure | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:31:31

  • "The new AI infrastructure will come by way of a multiple-award IDIQ contract with a collective ceiling of $88 million." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/fbi-artificial-intelligence-infrastructure-expansion/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:32:10

  • "Cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) such as museums, libraries, and archives, carry the important public-interest mission of providing access to the heritage in their collections." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/08/19/open-heritage-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:37:24

  • "The investigation started in July, when 404 asked a bookseller if the outlet could place an Apple AirTag in a book inside a 1,000-book shipment." ☛ 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 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:37:42

  • "Everyone here should already know my stance on these things" ☛ https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/ | Source: James Brown    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:39:08

  • "but it works for me." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/18/hot-take-harness-loop-engineering-graph-engineering-are-bullshit/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:39:19

  • "This has been the summer of cyberattacks from out-of-control AI." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-to-survive-the-ai-cyberpocalypse | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:39:31

  • "AI companies did deals last year to buy almost all the memory in the world. Memory prices in the US are now 5 to 10 times what they were just a year ago." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/19/memory-prices-are-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:40:44

  • "We haven't reached Math AGI yet and we may never fully get there. We have entered the world of Centaur Math." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/08/centaur-math.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:41:00

  • "Simon Wilson has the best description of LLMs that I’ve seen so far. He called them a calculator for words, and I think it’s a great way to put it" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/what-is-a-perversion-to-writing/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:41:32

  • "Simon Wilson has the best description of LLMs that I’ve seen so far. He called them a calculator for words, and I think it’s a great way to put it" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/what-is-a-perversion-to-writing/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:42:32

  • "Instead of going off a gut feeling, I decided to actually run some checks. agentsview indexes all my conversations into a SQLite database, so this kind of question is just a query away. Here’s the chart: [...]" ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/code-comments-are-a-model-fingerprint/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:42:38

  • "One of the most influential 21st century pieces of writing for AI researchers is Scott Alexander’s Meditations on Moloch" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/help-peer/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:42:44

  • "there's a fly in the ointment" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/asymmetric-agents/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:43:30

  • [Old] "As the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) spreads, the Internet is experiencing its own form of tail-eating. But instead of renewal" ☛ https://therepublicjournal.com/essays/the-curse-of-the-ai-ouroboros/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:43:51

  • "To understand how these tools position themselves and how they might influence the Brazilian political debate" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-artificial-intelligence-ideological-chameleon-deepen.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:44:28

  • "Fred Lambert, the editor-in-chief of the electric vehicle blog Electrek, described this close call in a harrowing new piece." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/journalist-tesla-fsd-serve-highway | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:44:48

  • "I have read this over several times. It is the argument of the moment, in miniature." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/have-a-good-life | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:47:17

  • "For the Jewish students at the centre of the two incidents, the findings amount to vindication of the concerns that have been ignored" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/tmuantisemitism/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:47:33

  • "I say future policymakers because in the United States there is no point in offering sensible advice to current management" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-are-bond-markets-telling-us | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:47:57

  • "In a decision authored by Circuit Judge Garcia, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/08/19/dji-department-of-defense-lawsuit-appeal-ruling/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:48:19

  • "How do you feel about data centers?" ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/elections/2026/08/data-centers-where-projects-go-local-candidates-follow/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:48:34

  • "A triptych of screenshots showing the HYDR8 dashboard.This wearable is based on a XIAO ESP32-C3." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/hydr8-will-lead-you-to-water-but-will-you-drink/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:49:00

  • "Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-worst-ive-ever-seen-cargo-thieves-are-turning-violent-in-pursuit-of-ai-hardware/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:49:26

  • [Old] "Dan’s famous for many things." ☛ https://wirespeed.co/posts/our-influences-dan-geer |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:53:44

  • "I don’t like it when something with promise turns rancid." ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/19/ch-ch-changes/ | Source: Joe Crawford    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:53:56

  • "Look we make time for reading because it is our job and even then, we often fail at making enough time." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-do-our-patrons-make-time-for.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:54:26

  • "Writing, the piece notes, helps develop all sorts of cognitive faculties, including building our working memory, executive planning skills, and our metacognition, or the ability to be aware of your own thinking." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/students-lose-ability-think-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:54:41

  • "In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:54:58

  • "Discovering extraterrestrial civilizations would constitute a conceptual revolution, potentially more impactful than the mathematical reformulation of spacetime and gravity." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/how-to-rule-butterflies-42bc994eff3e | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:55:11

  • "The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet? is a great read. We have precisely zero evidence of advanced life in the universe beyond Earth." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/proof-of-life-out-there | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:55:28

  • "As the antenna for the ground-penetrating radar extends beyond the landing legs, it was crucial that said antenna was flexible enough to simply fold in on itself like fabric." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/nasa-tests-featherweight-radar-antenna-for-skyfall-mars-helicopters/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:55:39

  • "For more basic, low-frequency circuit and protocol debugging it would already be enough." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/simple-diy-stm32-oscilloscope-project/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:56:25

  • "The Trump administration is touting the opportunities as a means to further its federal research-and-development priorities." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/nsf-billion-foundational-research-funding-grants/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:56:37

  • "Goodman was hitchhiking in the days following the festival when a driver stopped to give him a ride" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jimi-hendrix-woodstock-performance-a-second-look-film-1235610617/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:57:16

  • "If you’ve ever fallen into a blogging slumber, what stirred you out of it?" ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/blogger-hardly-know-her/ | Source: Luke Davis    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:57:31

  • "At minimum, UIs need to detect them." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/19/what-is-reasoning/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:57:52

  • "I’ve most certainly written this sort of thing before as well." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/competitions-good | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:03:44

  • "Notifications are a core feature of needy programs. Every app wants to be the centre of attention." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/08/20/ruminations-on-notifications/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:04:01

  • "I posted what follows more than twenty-six years ago on Searls.com, which now brings up a danger warning because it’s still http and not https." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/08/18/on-what-still-hasnt-happened/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:04:30

  • "Well, that’s the conundrum, isn’t it. Once you start writing for an audience you stop writing for yourself. And that’s what I always did, and what I always loved: writing for myself." ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/08/19/thinking-in-public/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:04:47

  • "I have cleaned up the layout I was using so it at least looks presentable. It seems I'm once again posting to baty.blog. For now. Don't forget, there's an RSS feed." ☛ https://baty.net/posts/2026/08/for-fun-i-thought-i-d-revisit-my-pure-blog-blog/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:05:25

  • "It is time once again for the mind-numbing process of feeding 45 disks through the readers to verify their checksums" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/08/2026-optical-media-durability-update.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:19:11

  • "Second Django ORM post of the week! First, an important distinction before we start" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/q-is-for-q-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:19:37

  • "This article is dedicated to the first one: the McNemar’s test." ☛ https://statsandr.com/blog/mcnemars-test-in-r/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:20:22

  • "For over a decade, I've been a proponent of writing detailed Git commit messages." ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/17/hand-write-commits/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:21:04

  • "The responsibility never left. It just changed costume." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1326 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:22:08

  • "I need a heap-allocated member with value semantics" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/08/19/cpp26-polymorphic | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:24:54

  • "Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th century." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/hackaday-europe-2026-the-1-bit-cpu-that-ran-factories/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:25

  • "I haven’t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago!" ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/inaugural-hwc-ap-recap/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:33

  • "For the 3rd year running, I've been at GopherCon UK and am surprised to have survived the heat in London" ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/14/gophercon-uk-2026/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:48

  • Dan Geer publications ☛ http://geer.tinho.net/pubs | Source: Dan Geer    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:26:57

  • "There are two important updates and one not so important that I wish to share regarding my blog: [...]" ☛ https://merecivilian.com/merecivilian-website-update/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:27:36

  • "Where redirects can come in handy in this context is if there isn’t a suitable replacement link for a broken one." ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/re-re-the-loss-of-links-continues/ | Source: Luke Davis    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:27:48

  • "It is intentionally small." ☛ https://www.tara.sh/posts/2026/2026-06-22_gixsql_cobol_freebsd/ | Source: Tara Stella    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:29:01

  • "I think one of the biggest causes of NoSQL is that while SQL is a powerful language because of the ideas behind it, it’s often implemented in clumsy and archaic ways." ☛ https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/ | Source: The Sporks Space    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:29:20

  • "It is rock-solid and stable." ☛ https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:30:41

  • "Part of that is because I like thinking in Postgres." ☛ https://rednafi.com/system/pg-isolation-ref/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:30:59

  • "Starting in curl 8.10.0, curl works a little harder to come up with a filename to store the download in when -O is used." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/19/a-filename-when-none-exists/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:31:38

  • "UNO is a residual rather than a browser-provided metric." ☛ https://csswizardry.com/2026/08/uno-is-underrated/ | Source: Harry Roberts    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:31:49

  • "As I mentioned in my post on the 2.0 anniversary, what you knew of as "3.0" had internally been slated to be the "2.1" bugfix release" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/netscape-navigator-3-0-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:32:26

  • "Google and Mozilla on Tuesday announced fresh Chrome and Firefox security updates that address multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-firefox-updates-patch-dozens-of-vulnerabilities/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:32:39

  • "Smartphones that you no longer wish to use for everyday browsing or whatnot can still be useful for several more years" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/smartphone-old-offline-2fa-token.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:34:24

  • "The build is based around a wired doorbell setup, in particular, a Vistadoor ADV-100." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/smarting-up-a-doorbell-with-zigbee/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:36:01

  • "From there, things switch over to the electronics." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/19/mini-blinking-barrels-keep-desktop-traffic-in-check/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:36:17

  • "EdgeVOLT is a rugged, modular battery system designed to provide portable power for communications equipment, sensors" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/3me-edgevolt-portable-battery-us-military-prism | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:37:37

  • "Making a single device is hard; you have to prepare your hardware, your software, your documentation" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-programming-jig/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:37:49

  • "Raspberry Pi has a solution for that, now. It's the CM5 Programming Jig (pictured above), one of which they sent for testing." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/cm5-programming-jig/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:37:59

  • "For an upcoming project I want to get three axis motion working with linear stages" ☛ https://nick.zoic.org/art/three-axis-motion-with-grbl/ | Source: Nick Moore    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:38:08

  • "Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 7.0 or later to 7.11." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_11/ | Source: Tor    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:38:38

  • "The new version, 260819 "Temeraire"" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12926 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:39:02

  • "If you played the original Gratuitous Space Battles game about 500 years ago" ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/08/19/challenge-ui-for-ridiculous-space-battles/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:39:24

  • [Old] "A few weeks ago, I got to watch Jeff Triplett migrate DjangoPackages from DigitalOcean to Hetzner1 using Coolify. The magical world of Coolify made everything look just so ... easy." ☛ https://ryancheley.com/2026/01/12/migrating-to-hetzner-with-coolify/ | Source: Ryan Cheley    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:39:59

  • [Old] "Nested CSS is now baseline; meaning that it's finally supported across all the major browsers." ☛ https://conradresearch.com/design-distilled/css-nesting-is-now-baseline-supported | Source: Conrad Research Corporation    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:40:17

  • "HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML." ☛ https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/ |    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:40:30

  • "assess whether the application is a good fit, map its real dependencies, build and test a working container, and roll it into production gradually." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/containerize-legacy-linux-application/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:41:28

  • "So 12 years later, I'm still trying to figure it out." ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2026/08/i-turned-50-today-so-naturally-im-recording-a-podcast-episode-a-day-for-my-50th-year-on-this-planet/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:41:58

  • "What followed involved a wall, a blue ice chest, and anyone in the room wearing white shoes. Oh, and did we mention you can buy a flamethrower attachment?" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-481/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:42:17

  • "We start this week with Emanuel’s big story about Amazon buying, and destroying, masses of books to train AI. After the break we talk about a couple of wild cases where people are using AI." ☛ https://www.404media.co/podcast-amazon-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:42:28

  • "Open Thread: Trump's Continuing Decline - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/open-thread-trumps-continuing-decline/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:43:42

  • ""Our AI Doesn't Learn from You and Your Data is Local" - Blatant Lies from Big Tech" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/ai-learn-x:b    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 12:43:52

  • "America’s Authoritarian Fantasies - by Evan Gottesman" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/americas-authoritarian-fantasies    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:10:50

  • "Verfassungswidrig: Was der Stopp des französischen Social-Media-Verbots bedeutet - netzpolitik.org" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2026/verfassungswidrig-was-der-stopp-des-franzoesischen-social-media-verbots-bedeutet/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:11:03

  • "The Trump Plan to Cook the Census Books | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-census-citizenship-question/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:11:27

  • "Saudi firms Aramco and Maaden form a mining joint venture | Semafor" https://www.semafor.com/article/08/19/2026/saudi-firms-aramco-and-maaden-form-a-mining-joint-venture    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:11:45

  • "Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema wins second term in controversial election | Semafor" https://www.semafor.com/article/08/19/2026/zambias-president-hakainde-hichilema-wins-second-term-in-election    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:12:19

  • "US Navy destroyer spent 4 days without power in South China Sea" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/19/us-navy-destroyer-spent-4-days-without-power-in-south-china-sea/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:12:33

  • "French Constitutional Council Blocks Under-15 Social Media Ban, In A Ruling That Should Concern Every Other EU Country | Techdirt" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/19/french-constitutional-council-blocks-under-15-social-media-ban-in-a-ruling-that-should-concern-every-other-eu-country/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:13:04

  • "Ingen räddning för EU:s e-handel i sikte" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/19/ingen-raddning-for-eus-e-handel-i-sikte/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:13:15

  • Seven stable kernels for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089557/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:22:07

  • Tobias Bernard: GUADEC 2026 in A Coruña ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2026/08/19/guadec-2026/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:23:00

  • What is the TDF team working on, in the LibreOffice project? ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/19/what-is-the-tdf-team-working-on-in-the-libreoffice-project/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:24:00

  • Copr: Give your Copr profile a README ☞ https://fedora-copr.github.io//posts/give-your-copr-profile-a-readme    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:25:08

  • "frp solves this by reversing the connection direction: your local machine connects out to a public server, and the tunnel it creates carries traffic back in." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/frp-reverse-proxy-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:25:39

  • "Yesterday I wrote about how on one of our servers, systemd took three seconds to load (user) units as part of setting up your systemd user session." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdSlowSessionStartProblemII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 13:25:49

  • IBM Red Hat selling slop plagiarism under the guise of "infrastructure sovereignty" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/scaling-agentic-ai-how-llm-d-enables-infrastructure-sovereignty | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:00:41

  • Some more mindless buzzwords for slop ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/experiment-production-reliable-architecture-version-controlled-mlops-0 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:01:15

  • "Both kits support up to six independent 4K displays, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.2 Gen2, M.2 expansion, and LattePanda Mu compute modules." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/lattepanda-mu-mxm-carrier-kits-with-choice-of-arc-a380-or-rtx-3060-graphics/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:06:57

  • Proton Experimental brings fixes for Company of Heroes 3, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Arma 3 and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-company-of-heroes-3-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-arma-3-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:08:00

  • Linux VRAM management set for more improvements with kernel 7.3 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/linux-vram-management-set-for-more-improvements-with-kernel-7-3/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:08:42

  • Turn neighbourhoods into car parks in Car Park Capital - confirmed to arrive October 9 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/turn-neighbourhoods-into-car-parks-in-car-park-capital-confirmed-to-arrive-october-9/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:11:39

  • RetroSpace will bring disco-punk space horror on October 1 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/retrospace-will-bring-disco-punk-space-horror-on-october-1/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:18:39

  • TFC2: The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of The Bronze Age is one to check out for RTS fans | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tfc2-the-fertile-crescent-2-collapse-of-the-bronze-age/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tfc2-the-fertile-crescent-2-collapse-of-the-bronze-age/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:18:59

  • It's time to enter the Torment Hexus for some roguelike match-3 battling | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/its-time-to-enter-the-torment-hexus-for-some-roguelike-match-3-battling/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:28:06

  • SiN Reloaded from Nightdive arrives September 24 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sin-reloaded-from-nightdive-arrives-september-24/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sin-reloaded-from-nightdive-arrives-september-24/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:32:07

  • Roguelike assassination game 'Gone Feral' sounds hilarious | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/roguelike-assassination-game-gone-feral-sounds-hilarious/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:33:48

  • Cinematic puzzle-platforming comedy LIFTED is a delightful short adventure | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/cinematic-puzzle-platforming-comedy-lifted-is-a-delightful-short-adventure/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:34:28

  • [Podcast] DNS cold start ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/20/podcast-dns-cold-start/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:34:58

  • Hands-on with Raspberry Pi's CM5 Programming Jig ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/cm5-programming-jig/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:37:02

  • PINE64 pulls the plug on GNU/Linux devices because of Hey Hi (AI) boom ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/pine64-stops-linux-device-production-chip-shortage    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:48:03

  • Pine64 hits pause on GNU/Linux devices due to RAM and eMMC shortage/high prices ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/pine64-hits-pause-on-linux-devices-due-to-ram-and-emmc-shortage-high-prices/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:48:29

  • Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 gets an official programming jig ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-gets-an-official-programming-jig/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:49:08

  • Valve’s Free SteamOS Runs Arch GNU/Linux for Daily Desktop Use ☞ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/steamos-linux-distro-review/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:49:47

  • Felipe Borges: Decoupling Boxes from the OS Release Cycle ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/decoupling-boxes-from-the-os-release-cycle/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:50:58

  • Proprietary-made slop hosted by Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/dev-uses-claude-ai-to-create-native-macos-driver-for-obscure-windows-only-printer-linux-container-hack-enables-system-wide-cmd-p-printing-driver-now-available-on-github    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:54:47

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 665 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/08/19/this-week-in-rust-665/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:55:28

  • Sergio Cipriano: My experience at DebConf 2026 in Santa Fé ☞ https://sergiocipriano.com/debconf-santafe-2026.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 14:56:44

  • How to Containerize a 15-Year-Old Legacy GNU/Linux Application Without Downtime ☞ https://ostechnix.com/containerize-legacy-linux-application/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:00:15

  • Murena Just Made The Fairphone (Gen. 6) Better! ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/murena-fairphone-6-plus/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:00:42

  • Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089501/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:02:29

  • Linux Magazine Reviews Tellico ☞ https://tellico-project.org/linux-magazine-reviews-tellico/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:08:32

  • GSoC 2026 Wrap-up ☞ https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/gsoc-2026-wrap-up/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:08:51

  • GSoC 2026 Final Report: Enhancing openSUSE Git Workflow ☞ https://mmarhin.github.io/gsoc2026blog/gsoc/opensuse/autogits/golang/svg/gitea/2026/08/15/gsoc-2026-final-report.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:09:20

  • Upgrading my ThinkPad X230? In this economy? ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/upgrading-my-thinkpad-x230-in-this-economy/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:15:39

  • Linux Samba server and GNU/Linux Samba client tutorial ☞ https://nmariusp.blogspot.com/2026/08/linux-samba-server-and-linux-samba.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:16:13

  • Accelerate automation with Hey Hi (AI) and the Ansible development tools MCP servers ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/19/red-hat-ansible-development-tools-mcp-server    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:17:37

  • Linux Kernel Removes even MORE Hardware Support ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-kernel-removes-even-more-hardware    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:18:11

  • German arms manager aimed high with kamikaze drones for Ukraine – then went underground over “disposable agents” ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/19/german-arms-manager-aimed-high-with-kamikaze-drones-for-ukraine-then-went-underground-over-disposable-agents/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:18:34

  • Netflix Hit With Trademark Lawsuit Over ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ by Christian Metal Band Demon Hunter ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/19/netflix-trademark-lawsuit-demon-hunter/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:19:20

  • $30 Million Lawsuit Ignites Over C+C Music Factory Trademarks — Freedom Williams Accused of Performing Under the Group’s Name ‘Without Authorization Since the Late 1990s’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/19/freedom-williams-lawsuit-cc-music/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:19:33

  • MODICIA 6.12.101 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/modicia    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:21:18

  • Plop 26.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/plop    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:21:39

  • Garuda 260819 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/garuda    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:21:46

  • config.sys - how FUZOMA loads dos to ramdisk gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-08-20-rdisk.txt    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:23:29

  • Open Thread: Convicted Felon’s Continuing Decline ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/open-thread-trumps-continuing-decline/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:25:16

  • Mangione’s state trial postponed amid double jeopardy concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/mangiones-state-trial-postponed-amid-double-jeopardy-concerns/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:25:45

  • "I own and manage woodland, and I'm often alone in my woods at dusk. At such times the forest appear to be endless, especially when the fog rolls in, which it often does in the autumn. It's not surprising that you hear... stories in densely forested regions like this." gemini://larsthebear.me/dark_woodsman.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:27:38

  • "Every 5-10 minutes or so, it would either reset itself completely, or decide that resetting was too much effort and simply lose internet connectivity for 30-60 seconds. Naturally, this made the home network about as reliable as a coin toss." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/the-modem-was-the-problem/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:28:14

  • South Korea estimates North Korea has up to 120 nuclear warheads, far above Convicted Felon’s figure ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-estimates-north-korea-has-up-to-120-nuclear-warheads-far-above-trumps-figure    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:34:16

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man says he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-un later this year ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260820-trump-says-he-will-meet-north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-later-this-year    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:34:46

  • North Korean Official Dismisses Reduced Drills Between US and South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/world/asia/north-korea-trump-military-drills.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:34:57

  • South Korea minister says Convicted Felon appears to be pressuring Seoul over Iran, investment ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-minister-says-trump-appears-to-be-pressuring-seoul-over-iran-investment    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:35:18

  • South Korea exploring creation of new financial hub beyond overcrowded Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-exploring-creation-of-new-financial-hub-beyond-overcrowded-seoul    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:36:05

  • South Korea’s Incheon Airport puts up fence after queue-jumping incidents ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-incheon-airport-puts-up-fence-after-queue-jumping-incidents    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:36:24

  • North Korea's Kim Yo Jong denies Zelenskiy's claim on additional troops deployment ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-denies-zelenskiys-claim-on-additional-troops-deployment    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:37:01

  • North Korea leader’s sister ‘unaware’ of reported Kim-Dihydroxyacetone Man communication ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-leaders-sister-unaware-of-reported-kim-trump-communication    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:37:26

  • South Korean container ship to test Arctic route to Europe amid Western concern ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-container-ship-will-test-arctic-route-to-europe-amid-western-concern    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:37:59

  • Malaysia raises concerns over US-backed Philippine military base ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-raises-concerns-over-us-backed-philippine-military-base    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:38:51

  • Malaysia’s July exports jump 38% year on year, higher than forecast ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-july-exports-jump-38-year-on-year-higher-than-forecast    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:39:15

  • Potential kingmaker in New Zealand’s next government wants universal income, tax overhaul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/potential-kingmaker-in-new-zealands-next-government-wants-universal-income-tax-overhaul    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:39:44

  • Chinese Comic Investigated After Singing a Riff of a Patriotic Song ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/us/guo-degang-china-comic-investigated.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:41:24

  • Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/world/asia/china-rocket-first-stage-recovery-land.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:41:39

  • Support.Mozilla.Org: Firefox new release cadence and what to expect ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2026/08/19/firefox-new-release-cadence-and-what-to-expect/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:42:09

  • Just Reiterating ☞ https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2026-08-just-reiterating/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:44:28

  • IRC is back on linux.org ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/irc-is-back-on-linux-org.70338/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:45:56

  • COSMIC Epoch 1.6.0 Released with Per-App Basis Volume Control ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/cosmic-epoch-1-6-0-released-with-per-app-basis-volume-control/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:47:09

  • China robot makers flock to Beijing show, seek path to mass adoption ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-robot-makers-flock-to-beijing-show-seek-path-to-mass-adoption    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:48:22

  • China’s Wang Yi in South Korea for talks amid Convicted Felon push to revive North Korea diplomacy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-wang-yi-in-south-korea-for-talks-amid-trump-push-to-revive-north-korea-diplomacy    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:48:40

  • China’s Zhuque-3 rocket comes home for first time, closing in on SpaceX ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-zhuque-3-rocket-comes-home-for-first-time-closing-in-on-spacex    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:48:58

  • China tax crackdown forces wealthy investors to assess their offshore trusts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-tax-crackdown-forces-wealthy-investors-to-assess-their-offshore-trusts    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:49:28

  • China tests a new maritime presence east of Taiwan, report says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-tests-a-new-maritime-presence-east-of-taiwan-report-says    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:49:46

  • China Evergrande founder sentenced to life in prison ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-evergrande-founder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:50:04

  • Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defence spending 18% to a record high ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-proposes-boosting-2027-defence-spending-18-to-a-record-high    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:50:20

  • Philippines bets on classrooms to strengthen South China Sea claims ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/08/19/philippines-south-china-sea-education/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:51:25

  • Stanford could face DOJ scrutiny over foreign donations ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/08/19/doj-scrutiny-of-foreign-donations/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:51:48

  • Massive Study Links The Time You Eat Breakfast to How Long You'll Live ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-study-links-the-time-you-eat-breakfast-to-how-long-youll-live    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:52:13

  • Organized Megastorms Could Reshape Tropics' Rainy Seasons In The Coming Years ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/organized-megastorms-could-reshape-tropics-rainy-seasons-in-the-coming-years    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:55:45

  • Quantum Entanglement Generated From Sunlight For The First Time Ever ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-researchers-have-generated-quantum-entanglement-directly-from-sunlight    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:55:55

  • This Simple Trick Could Finally Help You Cut Down on Phone Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-simple-trick-could-finally-help-you-cut-down-on-phone-time    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:56:53

  • Scientists Discover a New Organ Hiding in The Skull ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-new-organ-hiding-in-the-skull    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:57:02

  • Unprecedented: Scientists Have Built Miniature Brains That Experience The Passage Of Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/unprecedented-scientists-have-built-miniature-brains-that-experience-the-passage-of-time    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:57:16

  • Astronomers Detect The Fastest Star Ever Seen, Traveling at 15,500 Miles Per SECOND ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-fastest-star-on-record-has-been-found-hurtling-past-our-galaxys-black-hole    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:57:27

  • People Who Live Past 100 Have a Surprising Abundance of Cancer-Killing Immune Cells ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/people-who-live-past-100-may-be-protected-by-rare-cancer-killing-immune-cells    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:57:54

  • How You Feel Today Could Have an Overlooked Impact on Your Well-Being For Decades, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/how-you-feel-today-could-have-an-overlooked-impact-on-your-well-being-for-decades-study-finds    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:58:06

  • More Fed Officials Lost Patience About Elevated Inflation at Latest Meeting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/federal-reserve-interest-rates.html https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-government-insolvent-fiscal-crisis-fix/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:58:29

  • Australia mushroom killer's lawyers point to jury irregularities at appeal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260819-australia-mushroom-killer-s-lawyers-point-to-jury-irregularities-at-appeal    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:58:49

  • Gamifying Snacking with Snacker Tracker ☞ https://kevquirk.com/gamifying-snacking-with-snacker-tracker    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:59:33

  • 5 Americans and Ecuadorean Official Are Killed in Helicopter Crash in Kenya ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/world/africa/helicopter-crash-kenya.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 15:59:57

  • Patient’s severed toe found in Seoul nursing hospital fridge, along with drinks and dips ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/patients-severed-toe-found-in-seoul-nursing-hospital-fridge-along-with-drinks-and-dips    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:00:38

  • How “Argentina’s MElon” Is Bringing Technocracy To Patagonia ☞ https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/08/investigative-reports/how-argentinas-elon-musk-is-bringing-technocracy-to-patagonia/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:01:15

  • GOP urges top Hey Hi (AI) firms to do something about the toxic image of data centers ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/gop-urges-top-ai-firms-to-do-something-about-the-toxic-image-of-data-centers/ Tackling not the issue but perception of the issue https://techrights.org/datacentre_bibliography.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:03:02

  • What is President Sheinbaum’s view on Mexico becoming a data center hub? ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/what-is-president-sheinbaums-view-on-mexico-becoming-global-data-center-hub/ "their environmental costs are seen as too high for the sector to go global"    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:03:35

  • Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:03:55

  • ABC/Disney Sues Convicted Felon’s FCC as a Broadcast Licensing Battle Turns Into a War ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/abc-disney-sues-trump-fcc/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:04:23

  • Fault Lines – Putin’s Kurils trip, US’s carrier gap, China’s NZ espionage ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fault-lines-putins-kurils-trip-uss-carrier-gap-chinas-nz-espionage/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:04:59

  • Security to probe Lithuanian Airports board member over alleged Russia, Belarus links ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3026257/security-to-probe-lithuanian-airports-board-member-over-alleged-russia-belarus-links    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:05:24

  • Did Cape Town’s gunshot detection system work? Why jury is still out on what ShotSpotter achieved ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/did-cape-towns-gunshot-detection-system-work-why-jury-is-still-out-on-what-shotspotter-achieved/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:06:16

  • CareCloud Data Breach Impact Grows to 3.7 Million Individuals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/carecloud-data-breach-impact-grows-to-3-7-million-individuals/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:07:06

  • 943 Patches Rolled Out With Oracle’s August 2026 Security Update ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/943-patches-rolled-out-with-oracles-august-2026-security-update/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:07:28

  • US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-charges-17-iranian-hackers-offers-10-million-rewards-for-5-of-them/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:07:43

  • New rules will let Latvian army requisition private land in an emergency ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/19.08.2026-new-rules-will-let-latvian-army-requisition-private-land-in-an-emergency.a659415/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:08:12

  • Latvian citizen to be prosecuted for war glorification ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/19.08.2026-latvian-citizen-to-be-prosecuted-for-war-glorification.a659414/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:08:25

  • XWayland 26.1 RC1 is out    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:08:42

  • Here’s what’s new in Arduino® Cloud: multi-page dashboards, Spaces Overview, and more! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/19/heres-whats-new-in-arduino-cloud-multi-page-dashboards-spaces-overview-and-more/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:09:05

  • 'Psychics' scam two women for over 150 thousand euros in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/19.08.2026-psychics-scam-two-women-for-over-150-thousand-euros-in-latvia.a659405/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:10:09

  • Higher Ed's Hidden Corporate Empire ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-eds-hidden-corporate-empire "A single campus can contain dozens of separately incorporated entities"    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:10:48

  • Do Colleges Covertly Discriminate? Convicted Felon's New Investigation Casts a Wider Net. ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/do-colleges-covertly-discriminate-trumps-new-investigation-casts-a-wider-net    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:11:09

  • France measures more than 7,300 excess deaths – and counting – during historic heatwaves ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260819-france-experienced-more-than-7-300-excess-deaths-during-historic-heatwaves    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:11:56

  • Universal Music Inks Major Beatles Merch Deal Ahead of Multiple Biopic Releases ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/19/umg-inks-beatles-merch-deal/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:20:32

  • CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Fashion Company Apple Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-urges-immediate-patching-of-exploited-microsoft-vmware-apple-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:20:49

  • Loongson loong64 packages on apt.postgresql.org ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/loongson-loong64-packages-on-aptpostgresqlorg-3351/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:23:37

  • PwrBlock 323 – A USB-C PD programmable power supply for automated test fixtures (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/pwrblock-323-usb-c-pd-programmable-power-supply-for-automated-test-fixtures/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:24:36

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

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:25:03

  • ICE Collecting DNA Samples ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ice-collecting-dna-samples.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:25:25

  • The Aesthetic Rebellion ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1166/the-aesthetic-rebellion    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:25:33

  • Some Stand-Up Comics Are Pivoting Away From Video on social control media ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/arts/comedians-social-media-photos-captions.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:26:31

  • No, Italy’s Lake Como didn’t dry up ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260819-italy-lake-como-dry-up-debunked    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:26:53

  • 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/ Puppy breaker: feeding is "littering". Also, NVIDIA warming up the planet, using up water and power is "OK"    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:27:36

  • KAGA FEI ES4L15MA1 is a ridiculously small, ready-to-use BLE 6.0 module based on Nordic nRF54L15 SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/20/kaga-fei-es4l15ma1-is-a-ridiculously-small-ready-to-use-ble-6-0-module-based-on-nordic-nrf54l15-soc/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:28:06

  • $10 Quake shareware CD locked copies of all id Software games behind a flawed encryption scheme — ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/usd10-quake-shareware-cd-locked-copies-of-all-id-software-games-behind-a-flawed-encryption-scheme-pay-over-the-phone-system-only-held-up-for-39-days-after-1996-release-leaving-developer-with-150-000-discs-it-couldnt-sell    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:28:33

  • Fact check: Would ‘money out of politics’ proposal stifle free speech? ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/fact-check-would-money-out-of-politics-proposal-stifle-free-speech/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:29:41

  • Pleading Licensee Marking After VDPP v. Volkswagen ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/pleading-licensee-marking-after-vdpp-v-volkswagen.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:30:21

  • New FRAND guidelines: Munich Court aims to make proceedings more efficient ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/new-frand-guidelines-munich-court-aims-to-make-proceedings-more-efficient/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:30:51

  • Greens announce windfall tax on the profits of big banks to help more than a million small and medium businesses ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/08/19/greens-announce-windfall-tax-on-the-profits-of-big-banks/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:31:24

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppMsgPack 0.2.5 on CRAN: Minor Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/19#rcppmsgpack_0.2.5    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:31:52

  • Beijing Hey Hi (AI) bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/beijing-ai-bar-pours-pints-of-foam-with-free-deepseek-tokens-served-from-two-nvidia-dgx-sparks    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:32:24

  • Anubis continues to expose new ways people configure webservers ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-csp-worker-hell/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:47:29

  • StarFive Dubhe-100 – A 64-bit, RVA23-compliant RISC-V core for high-performance applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/20/starfive-dubhe-100-a-64-bit-rva23-compliant-risc-v-core-for-high-performance-applications/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:47:53

  • Go 1.27 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089559/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:48:36

  • Identify GUI binaries in /usr/bin via ELF dynamic section inspection ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/44378/identify-gui-binaries-in-usrbin-via-elf-dynamic-section-inspection    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:56:21

  • Malaysia dispatch: revisiting the ‘To Kill A Movement’ exhibition ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/malaysia-dispatch-revisiting-the-to-kill-a-movement-exhibition/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:56:47

  • IBM peddling slop plagiarism in Red Hat's name ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/19/tokenomics-self-hosted-llms    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:57:38

  • Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS launches Partner Store ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/08/19/kiwi-tcms-launches-partner-store/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:58:29

  • Fedora and slop in bed together ☞ https://blog.tomecek.net/post/agents-rekindled-my-passion-for-my-open-source-projects/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 16:59:37

  • Red Hat wastes efforts pumping up a bubble; this will imperil this company's future☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-readies-an-mcp-server-to-help-llms-manage-kubernetes/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:00:44

  • Google to stop making Pixel devices in China, report claims — India and Vietnam prime candidates for manufacturing shift owing to Beijing-Washington tensions ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/google-to-stop-making-pixel-devices-in-china-report-claims-india-and-vietnam-prime-candidates-for-manufacturing-shift-owing-to-beijing-washington-tensions    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:01:19

  • Comcast turns Xfinity routers into home motion detectors — free Wi-Fi sensing feature tracks RF interference with zero extra hardware required ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/routers/comcast-turns-xfinity-routers-into-home-motion-detectors-free-wi-fi-sensing-feature-tracks-rf-interference-with-zero-extra-hardware-required https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/A_Vortex_of_Beacons_or_Bluetooth_Everywhere_Vision.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:02:10

  • WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/mary-lou/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:02:29

  • Kyiv targeted by massive Russian strikes killing several people ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260820-kyiv-targeted-by-massive-russian-strikes-killing-several-people    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:02:43

  • In a Faltering Chinese Economy, Working-Class Stories Strike a Chord ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/world/asia/china-working-class-writers-books.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:03:16

  • Kyiv’s Dormition Cathedral is Revived After Russian Drone Strike ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-cathedral-russia-drone-strike.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:03:34

  • Signs mount that Russians are losing patience with Kremlin’s war with Ukraine ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0819/russia-yabloko-ukraine-war-wildberries-drone-strikes    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:04:06

  • Australia ‘outraged’ over Israel decision to close probe into aid worker killings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-outraged-over-israel-decision-to-close-probe-into-aid-worker-killings    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:04:31

  • Australia summons Israeli ambassador over Gaza aid worker death ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australia-summons-israeli-ambassador-over-gaza-aid-worker-death    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:04:52

  • Israel blames Turkey after strike on Syria air base ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260819-israel-blames-turkey-after-strike-on-syria-air-base    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:05:31

  • Turkey slams Israel's 'untenable' claims after strikes on Syrian base ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260819-turkey-slams-israel-s-untenable-claims-after-strikes-on-syrian-base    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:05:52

  • Modular’s Got Its ‘Mojo’ Working Fully Open Source ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/modulars-got-its-mojo-working-fully-open-source/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:06:17

  • Tuba 0.11 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1089537/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:06:42

  • Antoine Beaupré: The people vs the Hey Hi (AI) overlords ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-18-people-vs-ai-overlords/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:07:02

  • EasyOS: More packages compiled in woofQ2 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202608/more-packages-compiled-in-woofq2.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:07:35

  • Australia says relations with Israel ‘difficult’ after aid worker death ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-outraged-over-israel-decision-to-close-probe-into-aid-worker-killings    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:07:57

  • Tuba 0.11.0 released with full Mastodon quote support ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/tuba-mastodon-quote-support-collections    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:08:32

  • SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/microsd-cards/microsd-card-testing-database-celebrates-third-anniversary-with-133-petabytes-of-data-written-across-4-6-million-cycles-hundreds-of-cards-tested-to-failure-reveal-sandisk-as-the-outlier-with-6-failures-of-the-7-tested    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:10:01

  • VirtualBox 7.2.16 Released with defective chip maker Intel FRED Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/virtualbox-7-2-16-released-with-intel-fred-support/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:11:08

  • Pluralistic: The ordinariness of evil (19 Aug 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/19/banaility/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:11:28

  • 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 Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:12:45

  • Hundreds of union workers rally across North America to protest Xbox layoffs https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/hundreds-of-union-workers-rally-across-north-america-to-protest-xbox-layoffs    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:13:00

  • PAYDAY 3 is generating less and less money, nearly half of the staff have been laid off — and more from the Starbreeze report | WN Hub ⚓ https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-51830 ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//wnhub.io/news/hr/item-51830    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:13:37

  • Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court https://danielpocock.com/en/pocock-binface-nobody-vs-farage-defamation/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:15:25

  • "The Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the company's most powerful notebook. The machine can be had with either Windows or Ubuntu out of the box. Framework has revealed that most people who choose Ubuntu for the Laptop 13 Pro tend to stick to the OS." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Most-Framework-Laptop-13-Pro-Linux-users-apparently-never-switch-to-Windows.1372564.0.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:35:38

  • Slop kills https://www.hackster.io/news/pine64-calls-time-on-the-linux-hardware-market-ceases-production-until-the-ai-bubble-bursts-a865c8345041    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:37:26

  • Frame Buffer Compression Promises Performance Boost for Intel GPUs on Linux https://www.techpowerup.com/351694/frame-buffer-compression-promises-performance-boost-for-intel-gpus-on-linux    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:37:50

  • Lerd: A Free, Open Source Herd Alternative for Linux and macOS https://laravel-news.com/lerd    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:38:28

  • "Do you think Linux is just for homelabs or servers? Worried it can't handle your professional workflow? Well, I've been daily-driving Linux for 10 years, and here are five ways it helps me do real work." https://www.howtogeek.com/yes-linux-can-do-real-work-here-are-five-things-i-do-on-my-linux-pc/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:39:20

  • "It has been about a year now since I made the jump from Windows to Linux, and my biggest regret is that I didn't do it sooner. Sure, it's better that I did eventually make the jump than never making it at all, and I'm glad I found a new home in the world of FOSS operating systems." https://www.xda-developers.com/ignored-linux-years-daily-driver/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:39:40

  • These 5 simple Linux tools make Windows 11 look outdated https://www.howtogeek.com/these-five-simple-linux-tools-make-windows-11-look-outdated/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:39:55

  • "The Framework Laptop 12 just got a welcome upgrade, particularly if you prefer Linux to Windows. Framework has updated its more affordable PC with not just Intel's newer Core Series 3 chips, but an option to have Linux pre-installed." https://www.howtogeek.com/framework-laptop-12-linux-core-series-3-launch/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:40:12

  • CIQ Opens Direct Purchase of Enterprise Linux and Removes Procurement from the Path to Production https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/08/18/ciq-opens-direct-purchase-of-enterprise-linux-and-removes-procurement-from-the-path-to-production/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:40:42

  • "GNOME is finally catching up to other desktop environments, thanks to Aura Glass, a fluid, modern desktop inspired by Apple's Liquid Glass." https://www.zdnet.com/article/gnome-desktop-liquid-glass-aura-glass/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:41:18

  • "If [slop] isn't your jam, and you're looking for an operating system that doesn't (and won't) force it on you, look no further than these Linux distributions." https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-6-ai-free-linux-distros/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:50:11

  • "Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.6 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and Rust-based graphical desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-6-desktop-environment-released-with-more-improvements    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:50:26

  • "a smart speaker based on a BL602 RISC-V microcontroller." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/pine64-hits-pause-on-linux-devices-due-to-ram-and-emmc-shortage-high-prices/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:51:00

  • "Linux" brand misused for slop promotion https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-foundations-akrites-go-live/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:51:48

  • Seems like promotional spam though https://allaboutcookies.org/best-linux-hosting    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:52:35

  • Slop-ware https://www.howtogeek.com/ai-is-splitting-linux-and-nobody-wants-to-say-it-out-loud/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:52:52

  • affiliate spam https://itsfoss.com/ultimate-ai-guide-for-linux-engineers-review/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:53:55

  • "A good thing about it is that you don't need to know anything about the first game, it's entirely standalone" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tfc2-the-fertile-crescent-2-collapse-of-the-bronze-age/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:54:54

  • Framework announces new Framework Laptop 12 with Linux massively outselling Windows SKU https://www.notebookcheck.net/Framework-announces-new-Framework-Laptop-12-with-Linux-massively-outselling-Windows-SKU.1372543.0.html    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 17:56:00

  • Macnica 32-Channel ST 2110, Linux Zero-Copy Media Pipelines https://content-technology.com/ibc/macnica-32-channel-st-2110-linux-zero-copy-media-pipelines/    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 18:01:56

  • Cinegy To Highlight Linux-Based Playout Efficiency and Software-Defined Workflows https://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews/333705/cinegy_to_highlight_linux_based_playout_efficiency_and_software_defined_workflow    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 18:03:09

  • "Yesterday, I took off in my van. Not a big roadtrip. Just a short hop, less than 10 miles from home. The thing is, my van is my refuge. When I'm in my van, I almost immediately feel like I'm on my holidays." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/20260820-by-the-wood    

posted Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 18:07:32
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