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"When I was 11, back in the mid-1970s, my parents bought me a transistor radio for Christmas. It was a Benkson medium wave and longwave portable, made in Hong Kong, which fitted nicely in the hand, ran for ever on a PP9 battery, and with it I discovered (although I didn't understand the physics at the time) the wonder of over-the-horizon radio communications." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/steam_radio    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:15:56

  • "I start the first class in pursuit of my Masters degree in American History a little over a week from today and my focus has been on gathering books that will lean into a couple candidates for my thesis. Also, I am actively reading the required reading for the first course "From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods" by Martha Howell." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-21-reading.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:16:49

  • "This gemlog post turned out a bit like one of those those "using X-lang in production" articles, but with more sloppiness." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2026-08-22.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:20:17

  • "Thundermail is (or will be) an email service operated by the folk behind Thunderbird, the open source email client under the Mozilla umbrella. It is currently in closed beta, with early access being offered in waves to people on a waitlist." gemini://gemini.bunburya.eu/gemlog/posts/2026-08-22-thundermail.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:21:00

  • distance away gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/distance_away    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:21:35

  • broken car gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/brokenCar    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:23:31

  • "A while ago I installed Devuan on one of my laptops. It took a few tries, probably due to user error, but I got it working. That machine (which I'm currently using) is not my primary, but I semi-regularly switch between stretches on certain laptops." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260822-devuan.txt    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:24:33

  • "I is rare, but I know of a few managers at IBM who quit after being asked to do things to fire some of their employees." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0ejt3qg    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:32:24

  • "There are exceptions to the rule: Managers at IBM are useless POS." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0ejt3qg    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:32:29

  • They ensure to extend the survival for their own undeserved paychecks for as long as possible. Managers follow the lead of the slimy Indian at the top, to lie, cheat, scam and kick the can down the road." https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_But_Mostly_in_Secret_PIPs_and_Voluntary_Red.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:32:54

  • "When managers make decision, it is not based on ethics or morality. It is for their own survivals. Managers know quite well, they are useless POS."    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:33:02

  • "Indians generally don't even like other Indians unless they're from the same region of India, of the same caste, and speak the same language. Go to Blind or any other Indian dominated forum and you will constantly hear Telugu this, Gujarati that, etc. They stereotype and look down on each other all day. It's honestly disturbing and wouldn't be tolerated if it was coming from any other ethnicity"    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:34:01

  • Mentioned caste https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0fksf6m    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:34:17

  • "Goals are usually defined in such a way that it is impossible to achieve them completely. The goal of IBM is termination (or firing/layoffs)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:35:44

  • "PIP goals are mostly legalistic. Everything right now is about proving that they did nothing wrong by walking you to the door when they finally do that. Obviously, you should demonstrate your competence and worth in the coming days but understand that this is not a fair game; they want you gone." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:36:35

  • "He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared." — Sun Tzu https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:38:21

  • "In the final analysis, at IBM at least, "AI" has been nothing but cover for an unprecedented increase of outsourcing to India. There too they never show it has actually "replaced" the jobs of the original workers; they're simply occupying the same seats without regards to quality or outcome. Thanks to McKinsey that that's the IBM way."    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:39:07

  • "IBM AI = substituting high cost labor for low cost labor accomplished via offshoring. There is a reason IBM NA headcount and Northern Europe headcount has gone down by 100k while Indias headcount has gone up by 100k. It’s all about costs"    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:39:48

  • "Another PIP, another dollar in Alvind's bonus" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0j6cr5d    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:40:27

  • IBM mass layoffs "definitely coming you can feel it in the air during work hours" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx49z9    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:41:25

  • "If past behavior holds true then late next week or early the following will tell the tale"    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:41:50

  • "A fire sale to payoff the debts they accumulated buying other companies ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0gb74cq "Some useful info. here, plus, videos! https://www.persistent.com/partner-ecosystem/ibm/ "    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:43:15

  • IBM: "Damn…I thought I was going to get a 2nd severance." https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/NIb64DW7VI    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:44:14

  • "If the separation documents have been updated with the new dates, it should give an idea of when the next round of layoffs are hitting." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:45:12

  • How Winning Happens https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/how-winning-happens/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 01:55:54

  • Baidu up by a lot https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 02:07:29

  • This one says Chrome 55% https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202608 this one says 80% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=browser&dt=14d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP so which is it? Very far apart...    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 02:09:01

  • Clownflare does not get much international data out of China, only 2.5% of the whole https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=location&dt=14d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 02:11:06

  • Offline Birthdays https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/offline-birthdays/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 03:06:14

  • Slopmatt is now openly pro-slop. This is unhelpful to his position or any moral advantage he ever pretended to have.    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 03:38:25

  • "slop-o-matt-ic - being pro-slop is not what it appears to be on the surface there is some kind of threat underneath, something more evil than it first appears"    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 03:39:52

  • Being pro-slop is very common among non-Computer Scientists who work in computing, i.e. imposters    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 03:40:33

  • Anon: I see more and more people promoting slop out of some kind of personal fright (from what I can tell). It's not quite like what happened to Patrick Durusau but there something nasty under the surface... https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=Durusau&set1=any    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 03:41:24

  • 10cc Still Active https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/10cc-still-active/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 04:19:04

  • Signal-to-Noise Ratio https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/signal-to-noise-ratio/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 04:21:21

  • Focusing More on GNU/Linux, as It Grows Fast This Summer https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/focusing-more-on-gnulinux-as-it-grows-fast-this-summer/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 04:39:02

  • BS SPAM about HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/22/if-youre-not-using-ai-to-attack-your-own-systems-your-adversaries-will/5291346 follow the hype budget https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/14/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_AI_Webspam_That_Mentions_AI_.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 05:51:06

  • "That triggered 50-percent US tariffs impacting some $20 billion worth of goods, from hockey sticks to cement, effective Saturday." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/canadas-carney-stands-up-to-trump-despite-risks-1875992551 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:12:04

  • "We’ve been under no illusions. We recognized, from the start, that America has changed." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-why-i-rejected-trumps-trade-deal/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:12:14

  • Patents at stakes here. It is about MONOPOLIES. ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/why-us-canada-trade-talks-fell-apart/688386/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:12:33

  • "Who ends up paying the more than $50 billion a year spent on these ads? It’s not the sellers." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:12:53

  • "Sure, Apple Pay will work, but so will Google Pay and Samsung Pay, other niche digital wallets, as well as just tapping your plastic card to the reader." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/walmart-is-the-last-major-us-company-to-add-tap-to-pay/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:13:05

  • "In May 2025, streaming accounted for 44.8% of total US television viewing, compared with 20.1% for broadcast and 24.1% for cable. That gives sports companies a very different starting point when they think about where live coverage belongs." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/polymarket-live-sports-data-streaming/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:13:44

  • "Many people lost even more weight," ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-08-22/the-business-of-hunger-in-ice-centers-migrants-spend-thousands-of-dollars-to-avoid-eating-dog-food.html | Source: El País    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:14:10

  • "for a president of the United States to employ a personal lawyer to make such a legal threat takes Trump’s rage to a new and bizarre level." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/he-really-is-stark-raving-mad | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:14:57

  • "Max Lederer, publisher of Stars and Stripes, as well as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Erik Slavin, and a reporter, Lara Korte, were all fired on Friday for insubordination." ☛ https://www.notus.org/defense/pentagon-defense-department-fires-editor-publisher-stars-and-stripes-military-newspaper | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:15:09

  • "informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes — not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/journalists-fired-from-military-newspaper-for-asserting-editorial-independence/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:15:24

  • "occupies a unique place in American journalism." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/22/hegseth-fires-stars-and-stripes-journalists-deepens-pentagon-press-crackdown/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:16:04

  • Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:16:40

  • "A Moscow court sentences exiled comedian Semyon Slepakov (in absentia) to 400 hours of community service over a song mocking Putin as an ‘eternal little president’" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/21/a-moscow-court-sentences-exiled-comedian-semyon-slepakov-in-absentia-to-400-hours-of-community-service-over-a-song-mocking-putin-as-an-eternal-little-president | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:17:02

  • "This post assumes a basic familiarity with the Rust programming language. It will only explain Rust constructs when we encounter code that wouldn't appear in an introductory book or tutorial." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/concurrent-servers-part-7-rust/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:17:24

  • "Which in turn means that people can, and do, choose based on the marketing of languages much more." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:17:36

  • "These two guys was Mamdani and Hasan Piker at the time he said it. It has since expanded." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-framework-needs-the-enemy | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:19:05

  • "OpenRouter helps customers select different AI models to perform different tasks, depending on their specific needs and budget." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:19:15

  • "With a deal, OpenRouter’s business could be destined for commoditization, and that’s actually kind of the point." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2026/stripe-agrees-to-acquires-openrouter | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:19:26

  • "I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-should-never-be-angry-at-work/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:19:38

  • "In recent discussions with potential investors, Anthropic’s bankers said the San Francisco company could seek to raise more than $100 billion in its initial public offering" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technology/anthropic-ipo-100-billion.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:20:24

  • "The memo addresses the Democratic campaign to unseat Ohio Senator Jon Husted, who filled the hole left when JD Vance ascended to the Vice Presidency." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/leaked-memo-data-centers-ai-ohio-republicans-election | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:20:38

  • "We love a butterfly farm in this house. Well, Tabitha and I do. Charlotte does not like crawlies (they're not creepy)." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/butterflies-at-the-one-garden | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:21:02

  • "I suspect that the “gun” naming stemmed from the fact that longboards, 12 feet long, originally made to ride massive waves at places like Hawaii’s pipeline" ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/22/handgun-discussed-handgun-lost/ | Source: Joe Crawford    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:21:25

  • "I have spent much of my life despairing at how to explain my love of, and connection to, wild places." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-08-22 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:21:58

  • "This research utilizes historical wind observations from the English Channel to reconstruct a 330-year record of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and East Atlantic (EA) patterns." ☛ https://ocean2climate.org/2026/08/22/a-330-year-record-of-ships-logbooks-reveal-strong-interplay-between-the-north-atlantic-oscillation-nao-and-east-atlantic-ea-patterns/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:22:11

  • "In one image, this is why politicians are screaming at anyone who will listen that they loathe these data centers just as much as you do and want to stop Big Tech from building any more." ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/500158/data-centers-2026-election-texas-ohio-michigan | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:22:23

  • "Jason Arday wasn’t the first person to have been hounded by the UK press and he won’t be last." ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-arday-reckoning | Source: Carole Cadwalladr    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:25:46

  • "But my children cannot afford for me to tell them this lie." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/voting-rights-american-democracy-dead/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:26:18

  • "The official, who spoke on background, said in a statement that after the massive, multinational Exercise Saber Junction in August and September" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/21/us-army-to-end-experimental-drone-battalion-in-europe/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:26:24

  • "coordinated, multi-domain campaign" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-marines-warning-personnel-bases/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:27:50

  • "Despite the evidence against him, the jury declined to indict Morelock, resulting in all charges being dropped." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-alpr-surveillance-felony-legal | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:28:00

  • "at distances that leave subjects of surveillance completely unaware of the spy in the sky." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-quietly-selling-drones-scan-license-plates | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:28:14

  • "Federal agencies work hard to secure their online presence, but some website compromises are being uncovered through an unlikely source." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/a-surprising-source-is-helping-uncover-compromised-government-websites/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:28:49

  • "I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the “everything platform”, and that seems to have caused some backlash." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-values-morals-and-doing-business | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:47:23

  • "I understand why MacStories returned to X. My concern is how the decision was handled and communicated to its team, members, and wider community." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/i-understand-why-macstories-returned-to-x-but-not-how-it-happened/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:47:36

  • "one of the largest recoveries ever obtained in a COPPA case." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/983531/tiktok-settle-doj-lawsuit-coppa | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:47:50

  • "The case, In re: Social Media Adolscent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Litigation, is a consolidated multi-district litigation (MDL) under 28 USC 1407." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/meta-disputes-claims-of-deliberately-addicting-minors-as-landmark-social-media-trial-begins/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:48:05

  • "The destination is irrelevant, for this is a show – an exhibition of audacity, lawlessness and recklessness that draws viewers to TikTok" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/22/deadly-tiktok-motorway-driving-trend-horrifies-ireland | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:48:17

  • "LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983502/linkedin-ai-slop-button-one-million-people-message | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:48:35

  • "Researchers at Adversa AI discovered a new attack technique and named it Cryptographic Context Injection." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/encrypted-prompts-bypass-ai-safety-guardrails-in-grok-and-gemini/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:48:45

  • "But were they really learning, or were they using AI as a crutch to breeze through the assignments?" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/results-high-school-students-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:48:58

  • "It’s not the only slop targeted at children that tends to follow a formula." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-kids-stories-patterns | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:49:10

  • "California nearly reached universal coverage, with a record 95% insured, but budget cuts and federal rules now threaten to double the uninsured rate by 2030, stripping coverage from 2.2 million residents." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-21/california-nearly-achieved-universal-healthcare-now-millions-are-losing-coverage | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:49:56

  • "I could never get it to understand me,” saying that “I ended up just hanging up and not bothering to try and book an appointment" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/patients-skipping-doctor-ai-receptionist | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 06:50:06

  • "Almost Nobody Pays Attention to Web Standards Anymore - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/21/1222236    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:10:13

  • "Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.r3Ue.GTc_tOhX0qSn    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:10:34

  • "The DHH Problem by @davidcelis" x https://davidcel.is/articles/the-dhh-problem    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:10:53

  • "Natalie Harp Was the Document Author of Trump's Blow-Off of the January 6 Committee - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/22/natalie-harp-was-the-document-author-of-trumps-blow-off-of-the-january-6-committee/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:11:08

  • "The untrustworthy partner — Numeric Citizen Blog" https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/08/22/the-untrustworthy-partner.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:11:24

  • "Jared Bernstein on Debt (Reposted with better transcript)" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/jared-bernstein-on-debt    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:11:39

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posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:12:04

  • notice that they kept it out of the newscycle until the could claim to have a patch https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-rolls-out-22-fresh-security-patches/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Active_Directory_AD_and_Entra_Are_National_Security.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:12:12

  • siliconangle is bribed by slop pyramid scheme and it shows. siliconangle does exactly what it is paid to do, which is basically advocate for white-collar criminals. https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/21/politics-hits-data-centers-openai-falls-behind-anthropic-and-now-ai-is-too-big-to-fail-quietly/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:13:00

  • "Finland Summons Russian Ambassador Over Suspected Airspace Incursion - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/21/finland-summons-russian-ambassador-over-suspected-airspace-incursion-a93553    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:13:12

  • Wine 11.16 brings more ARM64 support improvements | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/wine-11-16-brings-more-arm64-support-improvements/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/wine-11-16-brings-more-arm64-support-improvements/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:13:46

  • "I had some time off over the past few weeks and, looking for a change from playing with ARM7, I picked up my Terasic DE0-Nano-SOC." ☛ https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2026-08-22/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:20:12

  • "Which one would you have chosen?" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/22/comparison-of-the-1971-hermes-3000-and-the-1971-sears-newport/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:20:41

  • "The gift will directly support ARRL programs and activities, including the ARRL STEM education initiative within the Education and Technology Program" ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/entrepreneur-and-amateur-radio-operator-invests-in-the-next-generation-of-problem-solvers | Source: ARRL    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:21:29

  • "The ABA continues to maintain that it is operating well within the Education Department’s requirements." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/214597/trump-american-bar-association-power-accreditation | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:21:51

  • "University students complaining about money is hardly a modern phenomenon." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/letters-students-middle-ages/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:24:27

  • "Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/22/inclination/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:24:50

  • "Mathematical Discourse publishes research talks in pure mathematics of the highest quality, promoting a culture which values communication as an essential part of the research process." ☛ https://www.mathematicaldiscourse.org/about |    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:25:01

  • "Our goal is to promote and nourish a culture which values communication as an essential part of the research process." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/mathematical-discourse/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:25:15

  • "This generalizes the famous theorem of Szemerédi in two ways: firstly, by considering “polynomial progressions” instead of arithmetic progressions" ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/quantitative-bounds-for-sets-lacking-polynomial-progressions-with-shifted-prime-difference/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:25:31

  • "If you’ve been to my site before—you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday." ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0822-2012/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:25:53

  • "Today I saw a question posted on Reddit from someone who’s deploying to Mildenhall from the US." ☛ https://petewarden.com/2026/08/22/how-to-see-hidden-east-anglia-as-a-us-service-member/ | Source: Pete Warden    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:26:18

  • "Finding your voice ain’t like finding lost keys. It’s not like solving the mystery of why your keys are always in the last place you look." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/your-voice-is-here/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:26:32

  • "Ribbons and medals, though, do not quite capture the breadth of Hotine's work. His greatest memorial is an artifact of his work: squat concrete pillars surmounted by a triangular brass plate" ☛ https://computer.rip/2026-08-22-figure-of-the-earth.html | Source: J B Crawford    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:27:32

  • GNU/Linux has grown some more this morning https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:47:45

  • "EPUB is a zip file that contains some metadata files and a bunch of XHTML. That is all." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/epub.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:47:55

  • "How hard can emails be? Or so I thought. Boy, was I wrong. This post is basically me fucking around with email infrastructure and finding out the hard way." ☛ https://yashgarg.dev/posts/the-schrodinger-email/ | Source: Yash Garg    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:48:04

  • "The Java implementation is much more sophisticated, and it is highly accelerated." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:49:15

  • "This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/concurrent-servers-part-8-go/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:49:26

  • "Time is wibbly wobbly — as my favourite Doctor would say — and when writing tests, it means that we need tools to control time." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/t-is-for-time-machine/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:50:50

  • "One of the things that ruff can be is a Python linter (in addition to at least a formatter and a not very attractive language server)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/TamingRuffAndMypy | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:50:57

  • "Data::Checks and its associated ecosystem of attributes allows for convenient definition of runtime value constraint assertions." ☛ https://fuzzix.org/perls-datachecks-and-tagged-types-of-a-sort | Source: Fuzzix    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:52:13

  • "well-intentioned but incorrect" ☛ https://typesanitizer.com/blog/performance-issues.html | Source: Varun Gandhi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:52:59

  • "Today I learned: When using the git CLI you can reference a commit by its commit message using the :/some text syntax." ☛ https://hamvocke.com/blog/git-revisions-by-text/ | Source: Ham Vocke    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:53:14

  • "This policy reaffirms the British Library’s commitment to making metadata as open as possible, and confirms the terms of licence" ☛ https://www.bl.uk/about/governance/policies/sharing-british-library-open-metadata-with-our-communities | Source: British Library    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:53:45

  • "So, I have this little app, Epoch, that I use to keep a journal. It’s a tiny Rust web app that runs as a systemd service and uses SQLite as the database." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/a-syncthing-and-sqlite-gotcha | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:55:01

  • "The online version of Think Java now features interactive widgets that run the code examples in the browser." ☛ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2026/08/22/think-java-but-interactive/ | Source: Allen Downey    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:57:15

  • "I’ve released WebDyne 3.0, an update to the Perl-based dynamic HTML engine I have created" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/aspeer/2026/08/ive-released-webdyne-30-an.html | Source: Perl    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:57:24

  • "Vim has over 100 events, from “buffer was created” to “file was saved”. But one of them sticks out to me: UserGettingBored. Here’s the documentation: [...]" ☛ https://evanhahn.com/usergettingbored-vim/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:57:52

  • "I'm not talking about the AI or Pixel-exclusive features, but the OS's overall look and feel." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/no-stock-android-in-2026/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:58:18

  • "I'm using a Framework 13 as my personal computer now and it’s pretty darn close to what I’d describe as perfect. But there are a some things that I’d change: [...]" ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/08/perfect-laptop-harley/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:58:56

  • "Up to a certain point, the simplest way to increase a radio’s range is to lower the frequency; lower radio frequencies penetrate better through most materials and don’t attenuate as quickly with distance." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/open-source-expresslrs-receiver-reaches-for-range/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59:21

  • "It’s not the first printable shutter we’ve seen, but it remains the first variable one" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/the-shutter-makes-this-3d-printed-camera-special/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 11:59:38

  • "There are two ranges to use, depending on the magnitude of the radiation source—1 uSv/h, and 10 uSv/h." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/building-an-analog-geiger-counter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:00:06

  • "The build in question concerns the use of a 555 timer IC." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/555-makes-a-useful-beat-frequency-oscillator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:00:21

  • "The actors leverage Internet scanning services to find Internet-exposed PLCs running outdated software or that are otherwise poorly protected" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/us-authorities-say-siemens-controllers-used-for-water-and-other-infrastructure-are-being-targeted-by-hackers-agencies-claim-threat-actors-use-ai-tools-to-generate-exploitation-scripts | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:01:03

  • "The chip in question is a SST39SF040, an EEPROM in a PLCC package. This necessitated buying a carrier adaptor from AliExpress to allow the T48 to interface with it: [...]" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/programming-an-sst39sf040-with-the-t48-and-minipro/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:03:07

  • "After some debugging I found two problems." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/08/debian-not-reusing-dhcp-leases/ | Source: Feld    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:05:22

  • "The biggest feature is probably HDMI 2.1 support. With my 9070 XT connected to my LG TV, I can now enable 4K HDR VRR. And the TV correctly recognizes FreeSync Premium." ☛ https://overkill.wtf/notes/bazzite-44-launched | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:08:12

  • "If you've spent any time configuring Arch Linux with a tiling window manager, you know the drill." ☛ https://fivenines.io/blog/omarchy-what-it-is-how-it-works/ |    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:09:06

  • "That’s why I built Omarchy: to create a stellar, developer-focused Linux system using the beautiful Hyprland tiling window manager on up-to-date Arch underpinnings." ☛ https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/ |    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:09:24

  • [Old] "Omarchy and Arch Linux both belong to the world of lightweight, customizable Linux distributions, yet each serves a very different user base." ☛ https://omarchy.net/omarchy-vs-arch-linux-understanding-main-differences/ |    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:09:49

  • "One of the monitoring checks I have in place will identify any installed package which is not in the package repository." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/21/freebsd-backup-libraries-such-as-base-freebsd-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile-so/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:10:36

  • "Today I use an extensively customized X environment, and I have every intention of clinging grimly to it for as long as I can." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandOptionsOptimism | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:12:30

  • "We should in all fairness start by saying it’s not “real” TOS, but EmuTOS, an open-source drop-in replacement." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/an-atari-desktop-on-a-sega/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:12:52

  • Anon: Microsoft hates SSH in a _*big*_ way and has been maneuvering against it for 10+ years - I guess the hostile fork was made 10 years ago, november, see: https://github.com/powershell/win32-openssh    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:13:45

  • ...The original project has done very poor by failing to protect the name or trademark (Same as in http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/02/Embrace_Extend_Replace_the_Original_Or_Just_Hijack_the_Word_Sud.shtml )    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:14:31

  • ...University of Kent has some old, related sources: https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.wiretapped.net/pub/security/cryptography/apps/ssh/OSSH/ However, none of the corresponding OpenPGP signatures are there for Ylönen's SSH 1.2.12 which was his last FOSS edition. So there is no real way to know whether the tarball there at Kent is authentic or not.    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:14:52

  • "To do just that, I’m incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate." ☛ https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/ |    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:16:05

  • Slopfarm? https://www.storyboard18.com/trending/sole-earner-microsoft-techie-says-he-was-laid-off-for-being-young-post-sparks-debate-108519.htm    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:24:27

  • Jon Chiappetta: Trying Out A Set Of Hacky Tampermonkey Javascript Modifications For A Better kick.com Live Stream Video Experience ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/trying-out-a-set-of-hacky-tampermonkey-javascript-modifications-for-a-better-kick-com-live-stream-video-experience/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:31:31

  • '$200 Billion in Lost Market Cap': Alphabet Stock Rocked by Brutal Hey Hi (AI) Brain Drain and DeepMind Rumours ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/alphabet-invests-departing-ai-talent-1815662 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Google_s_Debt_Trebled_in_Only_9_Months_and_It_s_Not_Even_the_Fu.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:32:05

  • Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/surveillance-pricing-data-companies.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:32:29

  • Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/school-district-police-electric-shock-torture-gloves    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:33:14

  • "Whether you do not subscribe to the current fashion in (claim) interpretation principles at the EPO is actually irrelevant, as it is not for you to decide, since at the end of the day it is for the boards of appeal to decide" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/claim-construction-checkpoints.html?showComment=1787339184598#c4663505536962821041    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:33:33

  • Java’s String.indexOf can be slow (quadratic) ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:35:26

  • Russell Coker: Links August 2026 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/08/23/links-august-2026/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:36:10

  • Antwerp's 'human zoo': Belgium confronts shame of colonial past ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260822-antwerp-s-human-zoo-belgium-confronts-shame-of-colonial-past-1    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:36:32

  • Sam Thursfield: 23rd August 2026 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/23rd-august-2026/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:37:52

  • Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because Hey Hi (AI) “Receptionists” Can’t Understanding What They’re Saying ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/patients-skipping-doctor-ai-receptionist    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:41:43

  • The Results of Middle and High School Students Using Hey Hi (AI) Are Extremely Ominous ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/results-high-school-students-ai    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:42:34

  • Proton OS – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/proton-os-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 12:55:42

  • Emmanuel Kasper: Create a development VM using Debian cloud images ☞ https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/create-a-development-vm-using-debian-cloud-images/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:00:40

  • Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used Hey Hi (AI) to Fix a Kernel Bug ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/torvalds-used-ai-fix-kernel-bug/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:01:31

  • Linus Torvalds Made an Hey Hi (AI) Debug a GPU Bug, and It Tried to Quit Twice ☞ https://linuxstans.com/linus-torvalds-made-an-ai-debug-a-gpu-bug-and-it-tried-to-quit-twice/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:01:41

  • If bugs take this much work to fix, why allow slop bots to add code? Mistakes can take a lot of work to identify and fix.    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:02:31

  • "The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix."    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:02:53

  • Pulseaudio mixer causes apps to crash ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202608/pulseaudio-mixer-causes-apps-to-crash.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:03:49

  • Guadalajara residents turn to citizen science as water crisis deepens ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/guadalajara-water-crisis-citizen-science/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:09:09

  • UN warns humanitarian aid cuts leave millions of children vulnerable to hunger in Somalia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/un-warns-humanitarian-aid-cuts-leave-millions-of-children-vulnerable-to-hunger-in-somalia/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:09:26

  • DR Congo receives Ebola vaccines in face of 'exponential' outbreak ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/dr-congo-receives-ebola-vaccines-in-face-of-exponential-outbreak    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:09:41

  • Four-legged lifesavers: Inside South Korea’s growing canine blood donation network ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/four-legged-lifesavers-inside-south-koreas-growing-canine-blood-donation-network    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:09:53

  • Philippines says military logistics pact with Japan now in force ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/philippines-says-military-logistics-pact-with-japan-now-in-force    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:10:30

  • Will Japan rewire global rare earth supply chains with its deep-sea breakthrough? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/will-japan-rewire-global-rare-earth-supply-chains-with-its-deep-sea-breakthrough    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:11:07

  • ‘War criminals shrine’: China’s replacement name for Yasukuni sharpens rhetoric against Japan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/war-criminals-shrine-chinas-replacement-name-for-yasukuni-sharpens-rhetoric-against-japan    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:11:29

  • China mulls bid to host 2028 UN climate talks: sources ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/22/china-mulls-bid-to-host-2028-un-climate-talks-sources/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:11:57

  • All Those Nuclear Tests Decades Ago Have Revealed Something New About Our Planet's Core ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/all-those-nuclear-tests-decades-ago-have-revealed-something-new-about-our-planets-core    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:14:27

  • Hidden Pulses Within Your Brain May Hold Your Thoughts Together ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-pulses-within-your-brain-may-hold-your-thoughts-together    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:14:39

  • An Ancient Shark Graveyard Has Been Found in The Egyptian Desert ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ancient-shark-graveyard-has-been-found-in-the-egyptian-desert    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:14:52

  • Michael Calabrese: Pitivi Timeline Ruler ☞ https://mccalabrese.github.io/gnome-blog/posts/final/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:15:24

  • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: third week of aug 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/08/22/misc-fedora-bits-third-week-of-aug-2026/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:16:07

  • "Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury | Tom's Hardware" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-fights-to-keep-chatgpt-lawsuit-away-from-a-state-jury    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:20:08

  • Laureen Caliman: GSoC 2026 Final Report – Laureen Caliman ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/laureen/2026/08/22/gsoc-2026-final-report-laureen-caliman/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 13:23:52

  • UN announces new initiative to protect terrorism victims from online harm and retraumatisation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/un-announces-new-initiative-to-protect-terrorism-victims-from-online-harm-and-retraumatisation/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:00:34

  • Your Heart Can Actually Build Its Own Bypass After a Heart Attack ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-heart-can-actually-build-its-own-bypass-after-a-heart-attack    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:01:02

  • There Are Fungi in The Ocean, And They May Be Way More Important Than We Realized ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/there-are-fungi-in-the-ocean-and-they-may-be-way-more-important-than-we-realized    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:02:01

  • This Once-Daily Pill Helps The Skin Regain Its Color in People With Vitiligo ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-once-daily-pill-helps-the-skin-regain-its-color-in-people-with-vitiligo    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:02:17

  • MElon Artificial Intelligence Warning: China Emerges as Strongest Competitor in Global Race ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-china-ai-competitiveness-1815656    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:03:09

  • Devious New Font Turns Hey Hi (AI) Scrapers Into Mincemeat ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/devious-new-font-turns-ai-scrapers-into-mincemeat    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:04:39

  • This Is Probably Not the AI-Generated Version of “The Odyssey” That MElon Was Imagining ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/not-elon-musk-ai-odyssey    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:04:58

  • Hyping up anything a crooked man says like he is a genius in proportion to alleged wealth    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:05:12

  • Logitech faces lawsuit for withholding $61M in tariff refunds from customers — lawsuit claims company extracted up to $97M from consumers in 2026 through tariff-justified price increases ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/logitech-faces-lawsuit-for-withholding-usd61m-in-tariff-refunds-from-customers-lawsuit-claims-company-extracted-up-to-usd97m-from-consumers-in-2026-through-tariff-justified-price-increases    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:05:45

  • Rights group sues Canada and Manitoba for ‘extremely underfunded’ criminal legal aid ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/rights-group-sues-canada-and-manitoba-for-extremely-underfunded-criminal-legal-aid/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:06:20

  • Amnesty International calls upon Hamas to ‘stamp out’ extrajudicial executions and ensure justice for victims in the Gaza Strip ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/amnesty-international-calls-upon-hamas-to-stamp-out-extrajudicial-executions-and-ensure-justice-for-victims-in-the-gaza-strip/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:06:53

  • Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing backdoored Windows 11 — RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-blames-rgb-peripherals-for-crashing-windows-11-rgb-software-is-causing-blue-screens-crashes-and-game-freezes    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:08:58

  • Science Weighs in on Whether All Those Photos Are Helping or Hurting Your Memory ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/science-weighs-in-on-whether-all-those-photos-are-helping-or-hurting-your-memory    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:09:51

  • GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for backdoored Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/take-two-subpoenas-microsoft-for-windows-device-ids-of-everyone-in-three-discord-servers-in-gta-6-leak-hunt    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:10:38

  • ICE Plans To Spend up to $20m on Thousands of Electric-Shock Gloves, Sparking Fears Over Potential Abuse ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-electric-shock-gloves-safety-legal-concerns-1815678    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:12:30

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.28 on CRAN: Small Updates ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/22#rprotobuf_0.4.28    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:13:01

  • Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:13:17

  • Qubes OS Summit 2026: Proposals closing soon; tickets still available! ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/22/qubes-os-summit-2026-proposals-closing-soon-tickets-still-available/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:14:05

  • 'Patently Unlawful': The Insurrectionist Gets Destroyed in Court Over Major 75-Country Immigrant Visa Ban ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-judge-overturns-trump-immigrant-visa-ban-1815672    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:14:35

  • Myanmar air strike on monastery kills 14: Witnesses ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-air-strike-on-monastery-kills-14-rebel-witnesses    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:15:31

  • UN warns that civilians in Gaza face severe shelter crisis as strikes and gunfire continue ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/un-warns-that-civilians-in-gaza-face-severe-shelter-crisis-as-strikes-and-gunfire-continue/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:15:48

  • Federal judge strikes down administration’s ban on visas for immigrants from 75 countries ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/federal-judge-strikes-down-administrations-ban-on-visas-for-immigrants-from-75-countries/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:16:18

  • 'Contrary to law': US judge strikes down Convicted Felon's 75-country visa ban ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260822-contrary-to-law-us-judge-strikes-down-trump-s-75-country-visa-ban    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:16:29

  • Tomeu Vizoso: Etnaviv NPU update 22: YOLOX support ☞ https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2026/08/etnaviv-npu-update-22-yolox-support.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:17:00

  • Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/banking-trojans-manic-grandoreiro-toxicpanda-2-0-in-the-spotlight/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:17:31

  • Slop-ware. Do not touch. Do not share. ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/postcard-gnome-email-client    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:18:22

  • SeqKit – manipulate FASTA and FASTQ files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/seqkit-manipulate-fasta-fastq-files/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:18:52

  • Proxmox VE Series Part 5: backdoored Windows Virtual Machine ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-5-windows-virtual-machine.63049/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:19:52

  • Microsoft https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:21:54

  • Does state life expectancy correlate with political party voting? ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/does-state-life-expectancy-correlate-with-political-party-voting/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:23:25

  • Each time slopmatt is called out on his lack of qualifications in security he'd post some circle-jerking self-praise and buzzword-dropping in social control media    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:29:16

  • ACPI training you at security like writing a CS thesis trains you to be a good physician    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:30:29

  • GSoC 2026: Building Join.Kde.Org ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/22/gsoc-2026-building-join.kde.org/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:30:52

  • Maintenance release: Godot 3.6.3 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-6-3/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:32:57

  • How a Convicted Felon Envoy Uses Vodka and Dirty Jokes to Conduct U.S. Diplomacy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/europe/belarus-john-coale-lukashenko-trump.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:33:23

  • MagOS 2025_20260821 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/magos    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:33:39

  • Rescue Operations Under Way After Russian Deadly Strike On Ukrainian Shopping Mall ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-attack-kryviy-rih-ukraine-zelenskyy/33836124.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:33:56

  • Macron Pledges Delivery Of French Air Interceptors Following Deadly Wave Of Russian Attacks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/macron-interceptor-missiles-ukraine-zelenskyy-russia-kryviy-rih/33836260.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:34:07

  • Children among wounded in Zelensky's hometown, struck by Russian drones ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/children-among-wounded-in-zelensky-s-hometown-struck-by-russian-drones    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:34:21

  • France to deliver interceptor missiles to Ukraine after fresh wave of Russian strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france-to-deliver-interceptor-missiles-to-ukraine-after-fresh-wave-of-russian-strikes    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:34:35

  • Why smartphones prices are increasing so much ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/08/why-smartphones-prices-are-increasing-so-much/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/02/Storage_and_Memory_Prices_Are_Rising_Not_Because_of_High_Demand.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 14:35:41

  • A "Pep" Deja Vu https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/a-pep-deja-vu/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 15:14:40

  • I Never Claimed to be a Medical Doctor https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/i-never-claimed-to-be-a-medical-doctor/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 15:49:02

  • They Fought ‘Til the End https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/they-fought-til-the-end/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 15:57:55

  • When Butterflies Come Visit https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/when-butterflies-come-visit/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 16:25:58

  • Australian court orders withdrawal of patent applications prior to publication http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/australian-court-orders-withdrawal-of.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:44:25

  • Amici Address Section 1498 Scope in Moderna COVID-19 Infringement Appeal: In Favor of Reversal https://patentdocs.org/2026/08/19/amici-address-section-1498-scope-in-moderna-covid-19-infringement-appeal-in-favor-of-reversal/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:44:47

  • Green Amendments https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/18/people-are-taking-power-for-climate-action-through-green-amendments/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:45:21

  • "To reduce the lure of my smartphone, I enabled greyscale on it. I really looks shitty, and makes the whole thing less attracting. Now we'll have to see how effective it is." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/set-my-phone-on-greyscale.txt    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:46:46

  • "Last night's concert was a blast. Small ensembles from the larger group I played with put on a concert at an old church and it was a huge success (well, apart from the two people who had open cans in the front row and were quietly asked to leave)." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-22.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:47:50

  • "I was doing some chores and tidying around the house today when I had a funny thought. Forgive a brief detour while I provide some context. When I was in school long ago, I took a data structures course where I learned about tree traversal." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/depth-first-vs-breadth-first-cleaning    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:49:22

  • "Gemtext is a simple, line‑oriented markup format used by the Gemini protocol. Each line is a complete element. There is no inline formatting, nor nesting. I wrote this guide to be as simple as possible, formatted in such a way that would be easy for me to read. I hope you may also find it useful!" gemini://buster.smol.pub/gemtext-a-condensed-guide    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:51:07

  • Hola Mundo gemini://webnauta.smol.pub/hola    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:51:33

  • "The British Isles are tolerably well-stocked with grand old ruined buildings , and I've been fascinated by them for most of my life. Even in ruins, the fact that these places have been present through hundreds of years of history is remarkable to me." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-23-ruminations-on-ruins    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:52:18

  • "All of the talk over the last couple weeks about people starting up vintage World of Warcraft and Minecraft servers on #CGHMN made me start thinking about an experience from my youth: an old MMO called Graal Online." gemini://gemini.n8fq.org/gemlog/a8b69c9fee534c6522faad5df2e6619b.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:52:59

  • "The Apple Silicon Macs are very impressive and are all still powerhouses compared to other computers on the market. That said, they are fraught with a litany of their own issues. macOS is not immune from bugs and other imperfections, no matter what the fanboys will try and tell you." gemini://buster.smol.pub/s-is-for-serenity    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:53:58

  • "Somehow I always ended up living next to some open space filled with water." gemini://ghosisiphus.xyz/glog/2026-08-23-finally-some-fresh.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:54:46

  • "A huge summer storm a couple of weeks ago has dashed my employer's mandate that I go back to the office four days a week. Water came in through the ceiling, through the foundations; and when they cut through some siding to check, they found black mold covering fibreglass batts." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-21.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:55:19

  • "So much stuff going on in my life. Most of it not great, some of it mundane. But mostly it is stuff that keeps me up at night. And I am already prone to never sleeping. Rather than wasting that time, I've been burying my head into random one night projects for Smolweb." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/flatfile.pyz/post/cant-sleep-make-stuff.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 17:56:20

  • "They should layoff all the xbox teams. There has been zero strategy for the console or games. Time to rebuild with a new team. Good riddance!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxkebsz6#replies    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:16:24

  • another heat wave https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/heat-wave-fires-britain-uk-france-europe-climate-change-9.7305698    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:16:52

  • climate-ready city https://www.dw.com/en/eco-wins-a-dutch-lab-for-crops-a-climate-ready-city-and-a-beaver-comeback/a-78372639    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:17:06

  • Thatcher Warned In 1989 Of A Climate Crisis. She Did Nothing. Nor Will Her Successors https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/14/thatcher-warned-in-1989-of-a-climate-crisis-she-did-nothing-nor-will-her-successors/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:17:23

  • climate action fatigue https://www.dw.com/en/in-germany-record-heat-meets-climate-action-fatigue/a-78374727    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:17:40

  • Climate Change Is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/16/how-climate-change-is-making-bad-working-conditions-even-worse/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:18:06

  • Tourists seek cooler climates — but at what cost to nature? https://www.dw.com/en/tourists-seek-cooler-climates-but-at-what-cost-to-nature/a-78362462    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:18:23

  • Are zoos ready for the changing climate? https://theconversation.com/are-zoos-ready-for-the-changing-climate-289757    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:19:10

  • Freedom of the Press https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/nation_world/pentagon-dismisses-stars-and-stripes-leadership-after-editor-reporter-oppose-military-interference/article_1de5f6ef-e272-57ef-9d83-dc55a4b934c6.html    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:39:54

  • forever chemicals? https://www.dw.com/en/does-the-clean-energy-transition-need-forever-chemicals/a-77888704    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:41:07

  • Summer power prices highest since 2022 energy crisis https://cphpost.dk/2026-08-17/business-education/business-business-education/summer-power-prices-highest-since-2022-energy-crisis/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:41:33

  • Following Court Victory Against Energy Dept., American Oversight Demands USAID Abandon Similar FOIA Purge Policy https://americanoversight.org/usaid-foia-still-interested-policy-energy-department/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:42:06

  • Cameroon journalist held incommunicado for photo of Anglophone unrest https://cpj.org/2026/08/cameroon-journalist-held-incommunicado-for-photo-of-anglophone-unrest/    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:44:34

  • MElon-ware for pedos https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/wyoming-woman-sues-elon-musk-ai-child-abuse-images-1814406    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 18:46:01

  • iophk: Apple seems really skilled at keeping bloggers and journalists from addressing the DRM baked into the new CPUs.    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 19:07:09

  • Incredible that 10cc can perform in their 70s almost the same as they did in their 20s https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rijHiyfzSVI    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 19:14:58

  • "I recently came across a long argument about consciousness, quantum physics, and the nature of reality that ended in a place I did not expect." gemini://gemini.madsweeney.me/articles/2026-08-22-blog.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:01:23

  • "A few months ago I hit age 60. I want to say it felt like any other birthday, and for the most part it did, but I realized how much my life has changed leading up to 60." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-22-sixtyish.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:02:13

  • "I saw this on a Mastodon post that lead to a smallweb/Gemcapsule post who claimed they nicked it from a "bloke" who nicked it from someone else." gemini://calvusrex.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-08-23-gemlog.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:02:43

  • "So I was browsing the fediverse and one of the ways I do that is solely by hashtags that represent things I am interested in or drawn to. So, I looked up #middleaged." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-23-sixtyish.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:03:15

  • "My drive to the office during the week is not far, maybe 5 minutes away from my apartment. Even if I go to other parts of town, 15 minutes max is all it takes. But it's funny the things you notice on an otherwise ordinary drive." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-20-field.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:04:42

  • "I got a PineTime smartwatch (USD $26.99 + shipping) which I've been wearing for 10 days now. I quite like this thing, and I got almost the whole 10 days on one charge." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/AUG2026/entry-3    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:06:12

  • Should GooTube Die? gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260823-should_gootube_die.txt    

posted Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 21:07:08
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