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posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:20:31

  • "I'm a German tech author. My Gemini capsule is about what I call the Drowning Internet: authentic online communities disappearing under a flood of AI slop, SEO spam, and commercial noise. All posts in German and English, covering hobby robotics and electronics, internet forum decay, alternative protocols, and related topics." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/introductions/47541    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:21:40

  • "Welcome to my Gemini capsule! Here I share my thoughts on technology, electronics, and the future of the internet - or rather: its drowning." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/index.en.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:22:46

  • "There was a pleasant surprise waiting too: the capsule is automatically also available as an HTML version via https://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/ without me having to set anything up for that myself." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-08-24-schreibfaultiers-new-home.en.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:23:55

  • A digital expression of quiet optimism   

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:24:32

  • "Something about the way Orwell describes that face you ought to make towards the telescreens really resonated with me. When I first read it, I thought it spoke to some kind of forced insincerity I felt we all had to perform." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/quiet-optimism.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:24:38

  • "I usually treat connectivity as if it were a natural state: just there, always available, never questioned. In truth it breaks easily, because it depends on commercial services, on stable power, and on political availability." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-08-17-resilient-low-tech-information-network.en.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:25:28

  • "Sometimes technology takes you on an unexpected journey into the past. Yesterday I spent four intense hours debugging a Basic Stamp 2. A BS2 from a 2003 robot, a piece of history. I had no idea how involved this would become." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-08-16-bs2-debugging.en.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:26:04

  • "Lately, our conversations feel like navigating a labyrinth. One way in, one way back. But guess what? There's a minotaur in here, and every turn of phrase leads me closer to the center." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/minotaur    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:45:32

  • A page from the history book gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1787622939    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:52:53

  • El Chizpaso gemini://webnauta.smol.pub/el-chizpaso    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:53:17

  • Más allá del horizonte II gemini://webnauta.smol.pub/escribir-un-blog    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:53:58

  • La falacia del scroll expedito gemini://webnauta.smol.pub/la-falacia-del-scroll-expedito    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 06:54:02

  • Pushing to Live Soon https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/25/pushing-to-live-soon/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 07:09:38

  • XCancel — An Unofficial Twitter/X Mirror https://xcancel.com/about    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:21:27

  • Gender Apartheid https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/13/south-africa-names-gender-apartheid-now-it-should-act    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:21:53

  • Why Elon Musk Should be Boycotted, as Seen From South Africa https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/17/why-elon-musk-should-be-boycotted-as-seen-from-south-africa/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:23:04

  • EU waste packaging rules: Why small businesses are worried https://www.dw.com/en/eu-waste-packaging-rules-why-small-businesses-are-worried/a-78326555    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:30:55

  • teen death https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-orders-discord-to-halt-livestreaming-after-teen-death/a-78343328    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:31:22

  • Surveillance https://www.dw.com/en/unconstitutional-german-intelligence-to-receive-more-powers/a-78341313    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:40:16

  • wildfire "https://www.dw.com/en/vast-german-wildfire-forces-evacuation-in-eifel-forest/live-78361311    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:40:56

  • Brian Thompson death https://www.dw.com/en/luigi-mangione-pleads-guilty-to-federal-stalking-charges-in-brian-thompson-death/a-78375740    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 08:51:21

  • "Warren Pandiscia filed a proposed class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 20 August (No. 3:26‑cv‑08721), naming Twitch Interactive and Amazon.com as defendants." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twitch-legal-battle-ai-training-opt-out-1816008 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 12:57:24

  • "When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-owes-340-million-lost-several-domains-but-its-still-online/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 12:57:33

  • "Music photographer Justin Thomas took the photo at an Earls Court afterparty in 1995" ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/oasis-photo-copyright-lawsuit/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 12:57:46

  • "The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/teachers-deepfake-ai-students-content/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 12:58:15

  • "The Conservative Party is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to release "the full details" of the proposed Canada-U.S. trade deal that was on the table before negotiations collapsed late on Friday." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/conservatives-details-canada-us-trade-deal-9.7317541 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 12:58:58

  • "They had allegedly conspired to reduce competition in rental listings, leaving fewer options and higher prices." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/983864/zillow-redfin-ftc-settlement | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:03:49

  • "And the fact of the matter is, a digital copy of the game is the same as the disc copy. It’s not like steaming a movie compared to the Blu-ray." ☛ https://nathansnelgrove.com/2026/08/sony-ending-playstation-disc-production | Source: Nathaniel Snelgrove    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:06:33

  • "Google has forced the world into top posting in e-mail by default. I bet hundreds of millions of dollars in lost productivity can be pinned on that malicious choice."    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:09:07

  • "That's a warning from them. They can mess with the protocol(s) next and eliminate self-hosters almost over night once they decide to make their move there."    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:09:20

  • "Hochulization" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/983244/3d-printed-guns-hashes-hochul | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:09:35

  • "Though Disney last raised prices across its bundles last year, this is the first increase for ESPN, which rolled out its standalone streaming subscription last August." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/streaming/983794/espn-disney-plus-bundles-price-increase | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:10:03

  • "Though Disney last raised prices across its bundles last year, this is the first increase for ESPN, which rolled out its standalone streaming subscription last August." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/streaming/983794/espn-disney-plus-bundles-price-increase | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:13:50

  • "The FCC, in a report released last week, says broadband deployment is progressing at a reasonable pace, with fewer Americans lacking high-speed internet access." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-says-broadband-deployment-is-reaching-more-americans/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:14:22

  • "This a ramble about what a safe personal online space focused on creativity, community, and self-expression could look like." ☛ https://ohhelloana.blog/mkdn/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:14:29

  • "I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left in my mouth, it actually embarrasses me to be involved in any way" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5939973 | Source: NPR    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:17:00

  • "Nested within ICE is an American Stasi with the power to target U.S. citizens." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-most-dangerous-feds-youve-never | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:32:36

  • "In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/transportation/983765/robotaxi-waymo-zoox-tesla-rules-pushback-nhtsa | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:32:53

  • "A new book co-written by researchers at Binghamton University" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-human-rights-reveal-underperformers.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:34:37

  • "The concern is not simply that AI can make mistakes." ☛ https://theconversation.com/why-police-have-been-told-to-pause-their-use-of-ai-in-court-cases-289731 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:35:51

  • "On July 11, ICE detained Villafranca Trejo as the family drove home after a trip to Walmart" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/24/ice-detained-an-army-sergeants-wife-his-family-is-still-waiting-for-answers/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:36:04

  • "The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:39:34

  • "The statement noted that the dangers created by ISIS in the region are still ongoing, and said that Yazidi society has not yet recovered from the effects of the group’s crimes." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/yazids-react-to-attempts-to-amend-survivors-law-86904 | Source: ANF News    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:39:48

  • "Service charges used to be a matter of choice, but now consumers feel obliged to pay them for even a cup of coffee. How do we navigate this minefield and who is really profiting?" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/24/us-tipping-culture-uk-service-charges | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:40:02

  • "Large media consolidation is always harmful. There is no real debate." ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-hulk-hates-fascist-media-consolidation/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:40:24

  • "There are certainly similarities between the Charter and the US Bill of Rights." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/canada-constitution-first-amendment-rights/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:41:46

  • "The Ellisons have already gobbled up CBS and CBS News. If they get Warner Bros. Discovery, they’ll also own CNN, Comedy Central, and HBO." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-ellison-media-monopoly | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:41:56

  • "The ruling marks a landmark moment for press freedom, confirming that corporate media institutions cannot use retaliatory discipline to silence journalists who address uncomfortable truths" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/wapo-ordered-to-rehire-karen-attiah-who-was-fired-for-charlie-kirk-comments/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:42:03

  • "But no matter where the National Guard went, the promised reduction in violent crime failed to materialize." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/24/trump-threatens-think-tank-with-libel-lawsuit-for-telling-the-truth-about-national-guard-deployments/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:42:17

  • "Seven months after the bloody crackdown, victims are dealing with permanent physical disability along with losing the opportunity to work or get an education" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/iran-protest-victim-they-were-shooting-to-kill/a-78486217 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:42:33

  • "An unauthorized Iranian film released for free on YouTube is stirring debate by openly challenging restrictions on women singing and Iran’s compulsory hijab rules." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-singer-film-beiraghi-ahmadi-crackdown-viral-video-karlovy-vary/33835662.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:42:39

  • "Over the last two years, on Facebook, TikTok, Telegram, and even already on LinkedIn, we saw a spike in negative comments about Ukrainians" ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/08/24/from-social-media-to-politics-polands-ukraine-debate/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:43:35

  • "The latest funding will support spacecraft manufacturing, engineering and future launches as it works toward a large orbital computing network." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/us-startup-to-build-data-centers-in-space | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:46:12

  • "Manhattan West led the round that included new investors Nvidia and Cisco Investments, alongside existing backers Benchmark, EQT and ⁠Soma, among ‌others." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/orbital-data-center-startup-starcloud-valued-at-2-3-billion-in-latest-funding/articleshow/133416465.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:47:48

  • "These questions are valid ones, but they are based upon a flawed premise." ☛ https://brettcodes.com/why-im-learning-rust/ | Source: Brett Chalupa    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:48:03

  • "I believe the distinction lies, at least in part, in the government and cultural sectors now viewing the issue of cultural protection differently" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/culture-off-the-table-what-the-collapsed-canada-u-s-trade-talks-reveal-about-the-carney-governments-cultural-policy/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:48:56

  • "Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/criminal-deception-in-silicon-valley.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:49:28

  • "With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences." ☛ https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981 |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:49:45

  • "Beginning in January 2025, we witnessed an unprecedented removal of material from U.S. federal websites — documents related to education, health, science, and more, gone from public view almost overnight." ☛ https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/24/archiving-democracy-how-the-u-s-end-of-term-web-archive-preserves-government-history/ | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:50:00

  • "The sheer level of opposition is finally dawning on Abbott." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/texas-governor-turns-on-data-centers-backlash-grows | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:50:22

  • "The New ‌York-based ⁠company, which ⁠hosts open-source large language models and datasets, has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest, the report said." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-startup-hugging-face-exploring-sale-valuing-it-at-13-billion/articleshow/133449822.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:50:35

  • "During this time, the small cub – nicknamed Kio – goes from fighting for survival to becoming leader of the pack" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/nature-and-wildlife-photography/these-national-geographic-filmmakers-spent-four-years-following-the-journey-of-a-single-lion-cub-i-cant-wait-to-watch | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:51:09

  • "The start of the prolonged outage coincided with an announcement by the local power company's parent, NiSource Inc." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5942292 | Source: NPR    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:52:01

  • "Convair had been studying multi-person orbital stations under Krafft Ehricke since the late 1950s." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/an-early-history-of-space-stations-wheres-my-wheel/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:52:56

  • Social Control Media is Good for Forgeries, Not Information https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/25/social-control-media-is-good-for-forgeries-not-information/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 13:59:01

  • "One crypto boss disappearing is bad enough, but two in four years is crazy bad" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/world/europe/poland-estonia-cryptocurrency.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:04:26

  • "Sandhills 2.0 builds on the original Sandhills project which spawned the Lancer UGV, built on the Polaris Ranger 1500 utility vehicle" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/self-driving-ford-f-250-truck-with-shotgun-equipped-drone-killing-turret-tested-by-us-army-autonomous-system-designed-to-blast-fast-moving-drones-at-between-10-and-100-meters-range | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:04:48

  • "All serious cases, according to Ustav, are caused by excessive speed and not wearing a helmet." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610116255/hospital-sees-daily-child-injuries-from-electric-scooter-accidents | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:05:04

  • "For an older-style conventional cloud facility, we might have a couple of megawatts moving into that building, but for AI facilities, it's much more common to see hundreds of megawatts" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/data-centres-ask-faq-9.7316098 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:07:32

  • "I can tell you from a Wyoming point of view we have no current project applications for data centers on BLM land" ☛ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/08/23/a-data-center-is-proposed-for-public-lands-in-nevada-could-wyoming-be-next/ | Source: Cowboy State Daily    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:08:25

  • "How can we trust you guys when you constantly lie and show us how slimy you are?" ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-minister-glubish-peppered-with-profanity-at-second-town-hall-on-ai-data-centres/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:08:39

  • "Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/nvidia-invests-in-data-center-developer-cloverleaf-infrastructure/articleshow/133419940.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:08:57

  • "The average surface temperature of the planet's seas outside the polar regions hit 21.1C (70F) on Saturday, according to figures from the European Copernicus climate change service." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o | Source: BBC    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:09:10

  • "Ocean surface temperatures are also steadily creeping up, hitting 70 degrees Fahrenheit this month, the hottest point since records began." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/ocean-hot-125000-years-alarmed-researcher | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:09:21

  • "Amazon Web Services (NASDAQ: AMZN) has withdrawn its proposal to build multiple data center campuses at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant in Southern Maryland." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/amazon-abandons-plans-for-data-center-campus-at-calvert-cliffs/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:09:33

  • "Communities may have concerns over potential water quality impacts of discharges from data centers into nearby waterbodies or into wastewater treatment systems." ☛ https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R49057 | Source: US Congress    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:09:51

  • "In a recent report published by the Library of Congress, the CRS casts an eye over how server farms use water, looks at potential options to reduce this" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/08/24/us-datacenters-tripled-their-water-footprint-in-10-years/5291564 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:10:07

  • "It's a promising sign for similar clean air efforts around the world." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-evidence-that-londons-scheme-to-cut-car-emissions-worked-to-improve-child-health | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:10:23

  • "In a bizarre interview with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, flagged by Forbes, the president went out of his way to defend the AI industry’s data center frenzy" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/donald-trump-data-center-rube-interview | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:10:42

  • "Then he spent an hour retelling the story that became The Cuckoo’s Egg—one of the great stories of computer security." ☛ https://josephhall.org/blog/cliff-stoll-at-def-con/ | Source: Joseph Lorenzo Hall    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:11:01

  • "At least 30 people were killed when around 100 gunmen descended on a village in Nigeria’s Christian-majority Plateau State on Sunday August 16." ☛ https://www.barnabasaid.org/us/news/thirty-killed-as-100-gunmen-attack-village-in-plateau-state-nigeria/ | Source: Barnabas Aid    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:11:46

  • "Islamic State terrorists have claimed the killing of at least 130 Christians in three weeks of violence across Ituri Province, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)" ☛ https://www.barnabasaid.org/us/news/sixty-three-d-r-congo-christians-slaughtered-in-week-of-violence/ | Source: Barnabas Aid    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:12:00

  • "The city council meeting was moved to the Henry Ford Centennial Library in anticipation of large crowds for Jake Lang’s appearance in Dearborn Tuesday night." ☛ https://wdet.org/2026/08/19/detroit-evening-report-anti-muslim-demonstration-at-dearborn-city-council-meeting-mayor-hammouds-response/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:12:22

  • "Sewell, the senior pastor of 180 Church in Detroit, accused the city of being "under Sharia Law" and demanded that councilmembers renounce it." ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/anti-islam-protesters-community-members-dearborn-city-council-meeting/ | Source: CBS    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:12:50

  • "More than 7,800 people have been killed in provinces bordering Malaysia since 2004, when the latest round of a long-running insurgency led mainly by the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) flared" ☛ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/arson-and-bomb-attacks-hit-thailands-deep-south-authorities-say | Source: The Straits Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:12:57

  • "Political strategists are adopting PAC names that signal the opposite political goals from what those organizations truly intend." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/24/dont-trust-the-name-on-the-pac/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:16:52

  • Do not use LLM slop. It gives false advice, citing sites that actually give correct advice (but it interprets [sic] those words wrongly in the "words calculator"). The only reasons some people read chatbot spew from Google.com is that Google places it on top of results - hence self-fulfilling 'prophecy'.    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:19:25

  • Also avoid social control media as it spreads lies; it's economic there and no safeguards as people can spread the lies anonymously    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:19:49

  • "And yet, in a world with stepped-up basis, the higher you raise the tax rate on capital gains, the more incentive you give the rich to sit on their most lucrative assets until they die." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/500179/tax-the-rich-death-loophole-stepped-up-basis | Source: Vox    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:20:40

  • "Rogers reportedly brought up his reservations during a meeting last week with the AIPAC board chair, Michael Tuchin." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/214645/rogers-aipac-donation-michigan-senate | Source: New Republic    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:21:19

  • "The findings represent the first genomes, or complete genetic instruction books, designed entirely with generative A.I." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-used-ai-too-design-new-viruses-the-technology-could-be-a-boon-for-medicine-but-experts-worry-about-harmful-pathogens-180989336/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:21:35

  • "The fact that Trump is immune to learning from his mistakes (because that would require admitting that he made a mistake) does not bind Canada to do the same" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/elbows-really-up/#peoples-revolutionary-front-of-carneyism | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:21:58

  • "A January 2026 CSIS report said Ukraine has likely suffered between 500,000 and 600,000 casualties from February 2022 to December 2025, of which between 100,000 to 140,000 are thought to be killed in action" ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-1-476-580-troops-in-ukraine-since-feb-24-2022/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:24:14

  • "The country will send 90 percent of its drone production to Ukraine, says Finnish President Alexander Stubb." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20242499 | Source: Yle    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:24:39

  • "The scripts set the audio’s gain to zero, meaning the end user won’t hear anything, but the WebAudio graph will still be processed by the browser" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/24/aliexpress-accused-of-fingerprinting-shoppers-with-silent-audio-trick-that-also-muted-a-devs-headphones/5291662 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:25:24

  • "Audio headsets that connect to computers wirelessly via Bluetooth demonstrate how quickly this loss of control turns into a security problem." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-the-hidden-cost-of-todays-smart-devices | Source: FSF    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:25:37

  • "I go to DEFCON every year because I think the people there are doing really cool and awesome stuff. And this year was no different." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/the-coolest-anti-surveillance-tools | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:25:57

  • "She said she was not told why they were scanning it and had no idea an incident later that evening would lead to a flag that potentially banned her from bars across Canada." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/patronscan-id-winnipeg-riverside-bar-9.7312942 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:26:41

  • "In view of the more sensitive nature of a European Production Order to obtain traffic data" ☛ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1543/oj/eng | Source: EU    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:27:39

  • "All of these steps serve a purpose. At least in theory, each added layer helps prevent hacks and breaches." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/password-manager-login-difficulty/688396/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:27:57

  • Privateering ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/08/tsa-to-replace-gold-in-privatization-push/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:28:16

  • "It's not often that something happening online stays on my mind this long. It's not often that a social media situation disappoints me this much." ☛ https://flohgro.com/blog/disappointment/ | Source: Floh Gro    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:28:38

  • "This morning, I visited Reddit to answer a question about Craft" ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/08/24/being-manipulated.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:29:20

  • "He reported it to the school's assistant principal, who told him the matter would be 'taken care of'." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-generated-images-teachers-harassment-1816007 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:30:04

  • "Perhaps the most important trial — and test — will be an action launched by California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey, which began last week." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/meta-lawsuits-regulation-social-media | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:30:23

  • "The online illegal wildlife trade spreads across many platforms, including popular social media platforms, and represents a growing and evolving threat to biodiversity conservation" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-wildlife-trafficking-social-media-thousands.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:30:37

  • "Since 2021, around 1,500 children have been recruited by armed groups, according to HRW." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/facebook-tiktok-promoted-colombian-armed-groups-content-to-recruit-children-ngo/articleshow/133463986.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:30:53

  • "Every child recruited is indicative of a government failure." ☛ https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/24/colombia-armed-groups-expand-child-recruitment | Source: HRW    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:31:06

  • "This report examines the dynamics of child recruitment, the factors that place children at risk, the strategies armed groups utilize to recruit them, and how children are used by the groups." ☛ https://www.hrw.org/report/2026/08/24/i-thought-id-never-see-my-mom-again/recruitment-and-use-of-children-by-colombian | Source: HRW    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:31:17

  • "Since 2021, around 1,500 children have been recruited by armed groups, according to the non-governmental organization." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/facebook-tiktok-promoted-colombian-armed-groups-content-to-recruit-children-hrw-101787602246808.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:31:39

  • "Beijing bans chatbots from fostering emotional dependence in a pioneering regulation to contain the social risks of a technology poised to transform personal relationships" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-08-23/china-does-not-want-its-internet-users-to-fall-in-love-with-an-artificial-intelligence.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:32:02

  • "Where Americans were once excited for new tech products and industry ideas, they’re now exhausted by the sector’s intrusions into their lives, whether with AI-generated slop or the data centers that power it." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ceos-public-mad-outrage | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:32:18

  • "Notably, AI-assisted recordings can still chart if they are “substantially human-made.”" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/ai-generated-music-banned-from-charting-aria/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:32:35

  • "LLMs need vastly more data than children to learn language. Understanding why could help us create more efficient models—and reveal more about developing minds." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/24/1141740/kids-machines-language-learning/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:32:56

  • "takes the last few words it’s generated and feeds them to the Large-Language-Model process, and what comes out is a list of plausible next words, and a number which represents just how plausible they are." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/08/24/Text-Watermarking | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:33:21

  • "I still find it curious that we call these lies “hallucinations,” as if providing inaccurate or dangerously wrong information to millions and millions of people is somehow cute" ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/08/23/rebuilding-boris/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:33:56

  • "As Gary Marcus describes in a recent Organized Money interview, an LLM can recite the rules of chess" ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:34:25

  • "The first conventional chess-playing programs ran on electromechanical proto-computers, and they played a better game of chess than an LLM that uses billions of times more computing power and energy: [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/21/world-historic-forces/#multicore | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:34:38

  • "I made the mistake (looking at it in hindsight) of allowing AI to take over my critical thinking when it comes to coding." ☛ https://arjenwiersma.nl/ai-is-not-an-engineer | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:35:15

  • "The alleged data collection began over two years ago, per Pandiscia’s complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/twitch-streamers-sue-twitch-amazon-ai-data-training/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:35:34

  • "I would first assume: not very. Most class actions don’t go anywhere." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/24/twitch-ai-class-action-inept-and-written-with-chatgpt/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:35:51

  • "show significant signs of AI authorship." ☛ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dead-internet-theory-pew-research/ | Source: CNET    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:36:10

  • "The cash-strapped university system spent $17 million to give everyone ChatGPT, watched sign-ups come in far more slowly than expected, and responded by committing another $39 million to it." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/08/24/cal-state-chatgpt-ai-millions.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:36:39

  • "If I gave every CSU student a can of Coke, that’s equitable. But is that going to help their education?" ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/csu-openai-chatgpt-22397319.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:36:58

  • "McMahon said schools should monitor whether AI tools actually improve student outcomes and remove those that don’t. She also emphasized that AI should not replace human teachers." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/23/are-kids-guinea-pigs-for-chatbots-mcmahon-backs-classroom-ai-use/ | Source: Salon    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:37:09

  • "Other teachers got permission to skip it, so I requested a waiver." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/24/i-was-fired-for-resisting-technology-it-saved-my-career/ | Source: Salon    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:53:25

  • "clean water for beer" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/08/chippewa-falls-nitrates-drinking-water/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:53:53

  • "After a long pause of a year and a half, I finally managed to complete a modest new restoration project this summer." ☛ https://www.thebyteattic.com/2026/08/the-immortal-macintosh-restoration-diary.html |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:55:05

  • "The 35mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A is the 35mm lens I bought for my Pentax manual-focus SLR bodies." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/08/24/35mm-f-2-8-smc-pentax-a-2/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:55:16

  • "Every once in a while, a piece of journalism comes along that captures an industry shift so vividly, thoughtfully and humorously that you can’t help but pass it along to everyone you know." ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/08/24/wired-drone-light-show-article/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:55:34

  • "It takes the form of a PCB that hooks into the pads of the removed GBA audio chip, and provides a much cleaner audio path with filtering and EQ and a class D audio amplifier." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/at-last-a-gameboy-advance-with-decent-audio/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:55:50

  • "It’s likely that even those of us who have never picked up a guitar in our lives will recognize the sound of an electric guitar with a fuzz box effects pedal." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/an-electronic-explanation-of-1960s-fuzz-boxes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:56:05

  • "Naturally, with any new phone, some folks will get curious about just how durable it might be." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-11-teardown-worth-looking-at/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:56:19

  • "I've learned a lot from this initial experience. Some things I did right, some things I wasn't prepared for, and I was very lucky to have such a good audience." ☛ https://blog.guillheu.dev/articles/first-time-speaker/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:56:59

  • "The latter is increasingly difficult to defend." ☛ https://www.natchezdemocrat.com/opinion/the-school-day-should-belong-to-students-not-their-cell-phones-4f8d9e91 | Source: Natchez, Mississippi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:57:11

  • "skilled orchestrator paradox" ☛ https://larsfaye.com/articles/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertise | Source: Lars Faye    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:57:42

  • [Old] "An independent conference on software reliability." ☛ https://softwareshould.work/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:58:00

  • "This year I have spent a lot of time thinking about art. I have spent many weekends in art galleries, a kind of building that has a magnetism comparable to that I used to feel writing code. Except unlike software, art makes me stop and look and listen." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/08/24/art-technology-change | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:58:25

  • "Sure you need some money, but you probably don’t need as much as you might imagine. You most likely don’t need multi-million dollars to start your dream." ☛ https://kk.org/thetechnium/a-billion-dollars/ | Source: Kevin Kelly    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:58:48

  • "The bottleneck for most dreams is not financial. It’s a lack of confidence, willingness to take a risk, and face failure, or a lack of imagination of what is possible with current resources. If you want to write a novel you don’t need capital"    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 14:59:16

  • "I’ve been open about my issues with the concept of experts. We place them on pedestals as paragons of knowledge and wisdom." ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/ame-ask-me-everything/ | Source: Luke Davis    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:00:10

  • "I know. And yet, over the past 15 years, I have developed a reading system that relies on a Goodreads feature: custom shelves." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/08/23/my-book-tbr-system/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:00:24

  • "the challenges of bringing ROCm to FreeBSD" ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-intern-sourojeet-adhikari-on-bringing-rocm-to-freebsd/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:00:45

  • "The Annual Conference explores key challenges and opportunities facing libraries, with professional development rooted in timely research, innovation, and best practices." ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2026/08/ala-opens-2027-annual-conference-exhibition-call-proposals | Source: American Library Association    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:01:25

  • "As of this spring, 26 U.S. states have a college that offers at least one reduced-credit, three-year bachelor's degree, according to the nonprofit research group RAND." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51615300/3-year-college-degrees-grow-more-popular-in-the-us-saving-time-and-cash-but-critics-arent-sold | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:01:50

  • "blue people" ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/employers-ghosting-college-grads-22393277.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:02:03

  • "Still, some basic human decency — such as not taking back job offers and ghosting applicants — would be nice." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/employers-hiring-recent-grads-never-mind | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:02:20

  • "Things are given their names for reasons. Discovering those reasons may help you understand their motivation and use." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/23/modified-bessel-function/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:04:43

  • "Probability density function must integrate to 1, and so if you know a density function up to a constant, the constant is determined." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/24/von-mises-fisher/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:04:52

  • "This is called a three-term recurrence formula." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/24/three-term-recurrences/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:05:08

  • "That basic method used involves blasting aluminium oxide with a laser, which results in a container full of what are technically gems" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/making-better-rubies-at-home/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:05:20

  • "That basic method used involves blasting aluminium oxide with a laser, which results in a container full of what are technically gems" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/making-better-rubies-at-home/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:05:44

  • "A new study published in Media and Communication looks at the practice of watchdog science journalism" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/journalism-can-help-expose-bad-science-and-trigger-real-world-change-new-study-shows | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:05:58

  • "You don't need a deal with a label. You don't need a platform's blessing. All you need is an out of tune guitar you can barely play, or a free text editor and a hosting bill." ☛ https://indiewebispunk.net/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:06:30

  • "The reason I have so many extras is because of how big printers work. Or worked, at the time, anyway." ☛ https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/08/24.html | Source: DNA Lounge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:06:46

  • "When something breaks on the website, more often than not, it’s the SEO team that finds it." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/organisational-dysfunction/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:07:03

  • "a recursive effort to ultimately converge everybody towards a set of ideas" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/reply-to-dales-comment-on-my-indieweb-post/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:07:16

  • "My overarching theme for this month has been music: I’ve been listening to it, playing it, and also writing about it more often in August." ☛ https://kedara.eu/tune-in-to-writers/ | Source: Ruben Verweij    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:07:34

  • "At the end of nearly every show the performer begged us to leave a review on the Fringe website and to tell our friends." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/why-do-audience-members-choose-specific-shows-at-the-edinburgh-fringe/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:07:51

  • "Cloudflare announced the Content Signals Policy in September 2025 as an extension to robots.txt." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/adding-content-signal-to-docs-site/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:13:19

  • "This poses a problem. Some TXT records, especially when we’re talking about DKIM records, are very, very long." ☛ https://www.readwriterachel.com/things-i-learned/2026/08/24/fun-with-dns.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:13:36

  • Quality Lost and It’s Intentional https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/25/quality-lost-and-its-intentional/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:19:46

  • "“Non-stationarity in the NAO-Gulf Stream interannual relationship" ☛ https://ocean2climate.org/2026/08/22/think-twice-before-using-nao-time-series-in-your-next-climate-study/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:20:39

  • "For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, I've been manually maintaining a group of files in sync across three 'machines' (my GNU Emacs configuration)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WriteMoreShellScripts | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:21:11

  • "uv is a Python package and project manager but in my day-to-day use it’s more of a script and improved REPL runner" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/u-is-for-uv/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:22:14

  • "Estimating branch probabilities says how one branch splits." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/block-frequency | Source: MaskRay    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:24:23

  • [Old] "I've been a builder for 10 years, and I've built products that went nowhere because they were either too complex or had no identity." ☛ https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:24:34

  • "Earlier this year, I gave a lecture on benchmarking, which for lack of generic and always-applicable advice, I started with a brainstorming session about its pitfalls." ☛ https://stefan-marr.de/2026/08/pitfalls-of-benchmarking-on-modern-systems/ | Source: Stefan Marr    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:24:55

  • "I’ve got a couple of one-shot GPUParticles2D emitters in my Godot game, and they have a habit of causing slowdown when they’re emitted for the first time" ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/08/24/working-around-oneshot-gpuparticlesd-emitter.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:25:07

  • "With this tool, you can write an article in Markdown, convert it into HTML for pasting into the WordPress post editor; convert it into a textual representation of a Mastodon thread" ☛ https://blog.kamens.us/2026/08/23/new-wpmasto-posse-publish-to-both-wordpress-and-mastodon/ | Source: Jonathan Kamens    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:26:05

  • "I am building a website, for work. It feels like a radical act these days. I am not using an LLM, I am coding with my own hands, wading through documentation, tinkering, reverse engineering" ☛ https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/little-websites-everywhere/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:26:13

  • "One of the end results of that exploration was sqlelf, a tool that lets you explore an ELF file declaratively using SQL." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:28:12

  • "It isn’t often that new image formats land in browsers. In the early 2000s we had JPEG, GIF, and PNG." ☛ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:28:39

  • "If you have ever clicked the little ← and → arrows on a member’s site, you have used the plumbing that ties Static.Quest together." ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/improving-the-webring-links/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:28:58

  • "Version 31.1 of Emacs, the extensible text editor, should now be available from your nearest GNU mirror: [...]" ☛ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2026-08/msg00004.html | Source: GNU    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:29:21

  • "It's a big day for routing security aficionados. The OpenBGPD project (a sub-project of the OpenBSD project) have announced version 9.9 of rpki-client(8), with various improvements, enhancements and fixes." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260824085031 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:29:31

  • "What is a cyberdeck? Is it a wearable computer, a pocket computer, a launch monitor/centre for rockets or high-altitude balloons, or a knowledge store for the zombie apocalypse?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/create-your-own-cyberdeck/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:30:18

  • "Raspberry Pi has also increased its prices multiple times this year due to rising costs for RAM and other components" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/983786/raspberry-pi-cyberdeck-tutorial-price-increases | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:30:29

  • "That’s where Mikrotik L009UiGS-RM comes into play. It has enough gigabit Ethernet ports to connect all my Ethernet devices." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/24/mikrotik-as-a-home-router/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:31:03

  • "This is how I’ve randomly discovered a swedish company with 10.000 - 20.000 Nerves devices in production." ☛ https://underjord.io/nerves-iot-framework-apparently-popular-with-agents.html | Source: Lars Wikman    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:31:09

  • "The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/24/a-1990s-homebrew-os-with-gui-and-web-browser-in-am29000-machine-code/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:31:31

  • "It Is Known that DNS contains multitudes. Beyond its ten official record types are myriad RFC-described and wildly off-brand uses of them" ☛ https://breanneboland.com/blog/2020/02/28/you-can-put-what-in-dns-txt-records-a-blog-post-for-con-west-2020/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:31:55

  • "This basically meant we had two options: we could end the show or we could keep doing it, but on our own" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/comfort-zone-will-return/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:32:15

  • "After turning on the NAS for the first time in the new place, I thought plugging it in and turning it on was the extent of the setup. But alas, this turned into an evening project." ☛ https://svenluijten.com/blog/nas-access-woes | Source: Sven Luijten    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:32:40

  • "'It's war against the West' — Latvian PM on Russian provocations against European countries" https://kyivindependent.com/its-war-against-west-latvian-pm-on-russian-provocations-against-european-countires/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:33:44

  • "Former Pussy Riot member escapes Russia after 3 years of forced work for FSB" https://kyivindependent.com/former-pussy-riot-member-escapes-russia-says-fsb-forcibly-recruited-her/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:34:44

  • "Putin Signs Order Allowing Government to Seize Critical Infrastructure Following Attacks - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/08/24/putin-signs-order-allowing-government-to-seize-critical-infrastructure-following-attacks-a93569    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:34:55

  • I'm going to the Digitalization Fair - here's what I'm going to see | "Jeg skal med på Digitaliseringsmessen – her er hvad jeg skal se | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/jeg-skal-med-paa-digitaliseringsmessen-her-er-hvad-jeg-skal-se    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:35:30

  • Digital sovereignty requires more than a report | "Digital suverænitet kræver mere end en rapport | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/digital-suveraenitet-kraever-mere-end-en-rapport    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:35:55

  • Border congestion – the beginning of a new wave of refugees? | "Trängsel vid gränsen – början på ny flyktvåg?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.svd.se/a/7pyQ5B/ryssar-rapporteras-kora-mot-georgien-i-mojlig-ny-massflykt-undan-ny-mobilisering    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:36:20

  • Foreign authorities can now request your personal data | "Nu kan utländska myndigheter begära ut din persondata" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/24/nu-kan-utlandska-myndigheter-begara-ut-din-persondata/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:36:42

  • "As Ukraine turns 35, Nausėda tells Kyiv only victory can bring peace to Europe - LRT" https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3031081/as-ukraine-turns-35-nauseda-tells-kyiv-only-victory-can-bring-peace-to-europe    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:36:55

  • " Abdul El-Sayed To Headline Islamic Event Alongside Pakistani Cleric Who Forced His 13-Year-Old Niece Into Marriage, Was Denounced for ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric’ " https://freebeacon.com/democrats/abdul-el-sayed-to-headline-islamic-event-alongside-pakistani-cleric-who-forced-his-13-year-old-niece-into-marriage-was-denounced-for-pedophilic-rhetoric/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:37:09

  • "UK government tells Muslims to use less water for ablutions" https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-advises-muslims-use-less-water-perform-ablutions    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:37:30

  • "‘We are not a nation of Muslims’: Black pastor rails against what he believes is the implementation of Sharia law https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pastor-declares-dearborn-under-sharia-law-religious-tensions-erupt-city-meeting    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:37:46

  • Christian Man Arrested Following Blasphemy Allegation Over TikTok Video https://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/head-line-news-details/8606    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:38:05

  • "Moment Afghan teenager begs Taliban official for divorce from violent husband - before he refuses and brands women 'deficient in intellect'" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16075209/Afghan-teen-Taliban-divorce-refuses.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:38:29

  • "Afghan Christians at risk of ‘eradication’" https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2026/21-august/news/world/afghan-christians-at-risk-of-eradication    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:38:39

  • "Mohammed bin Salman in the City of Light: Does West value economic interests over 'Western values'? - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/mbs-in-the-city-of-light-in-a-world-of-realpolitik-does-west-value-economic-interests-over-values    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:38:48

  • "Saudi Arabia to invest €6 billion in theme parks near Paris, Macron says - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260824-saudi-arabia-to-invest-%E2%82%AC6-billion-theme-parks-near-paris-macron-says    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:38:59

  • A race to the bottom https://www.ksl.com/article/51615300/3-year-college-degrees-grow-more-popular-in-the-us-saving-time-and-cash-but-critics-arent-sold    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:39:15

  • Slop is not creative, it's plagiarism of sorts https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/23/dr-dre-comments-on-ai-use/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:39:51

  • Techdirt carries water for digital weapons https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/24/even-some-of-the-loudest-kids-online-safety-advocates-are-now-warning-against-social-media-bans/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/03/All_Social_Control_Media_is_a_Weapon_Against_Its_Users_Serving_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:40:30

  • "The Last Photos of Felice Schragenheim and Lilly Wust Together; Hours Later, Felice Was Captured by the Gestapo! ~ Vintage Everyday" https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/felice-lilly.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:40:48

  • "The Moose That Roared - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-moose-that-roared    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:41:00

  • “I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.” “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/259666.Mae_West    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:41:38

  • "Reliability Lessons From SQLite" by Richard Hipp https://yewtu.be/watch?v=V_qzqY1bb7I    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:41:54

  • "One of the main effects of tariffs within the U.S., economists say, has been to cause a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy and well-connected corporations." https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-redistribute-wealth-up-food-chain-9.7316144    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:42:13

  • "Planned US Data Centers Set to Produce 24M Cars’ Worth of Carbon Dioxide - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/23/0027258    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:42:26

  • Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter brings game crossovers in a free expansion | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/tails-of-iron-2-whiskers-of-winter-brings-game-crossovers-in-a-free-expansion/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:43:33

  • 1992 Amiga shoot 'em up classic remake Apidya' Special arrives August 25 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/1992-amiga-shoot-em-up-classic-remake-apidya-special-arrives-august-25/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:43:55

  • Mushroom-munching dungeon-crawling deck-builder 'Shroom and Gloom' arrives September 10 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/mushroom-munching-dungeon-crawling-deck-builder-shroom-and-gloom-arrives-september-10/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:44:37

  • "An AI model is a mathematical system trained on vast amounts of data to recognize patterns, make predictions, or generate content." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/enterprise-ai-model-selection-balancing-performance-privacy-and-operational-fit | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:50:00

  • Promoting slop, not Linux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:50:21

  • "Both workloads can receive SVIDs; moves you toward the full SPIFFE-to-SPIFFE model with symmetric identity" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/passwordless-workload-identity-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:50:29

  • "production AI" and buzzwords ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-extends-rhel-special-offering-participants-google-startups-cloud-program | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:50:51

  • "While questions queue up for the analyst or the dashboard developer, organizations pay the opportunity costs: decisions are made more slowly, and actions are delayed." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/we-built-enterprise-data-agent-and-you-can-too | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:51:04

  • "Being able to read and inspect those files quickly, without opening an editor or writing a Python script, is one of the most underrated command-line skills." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/view-contents-of-file-in-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 15:52:12

  • plagiarism https://www.dw.com/en/jason-arday-ex-cambridge-professor-at-centre-of-plagiarism-scandal-found-dead/a-78377633    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 16:33:16

  • Matthias Klumpp: Sovereign Tech Fellowship for Freedesktop Tasks ☞ https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/08/sovereign-tech-fellowship-for-freedesktop-tasks.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:17:08

  • Vincent Bernat: An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:18:58

  • Promotion of slop again ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/25/reinforcement-learning-from-verifiable-rewards-with-training-hub-on-red-hat-openshift-ai    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:23:08

  • Red Hat OpenShift autoscaling with Cluster Autoscaler ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/25/red-hat-openshift-autoscaling-with-cluster-autoscaler    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:23:17

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

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:24:19

  • Promotion of slop again ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/24/lora-fine-tuning-red-hat-openshift-ai-ray    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:25:12

  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260824.1) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/happy-bmo-push-day-20260824-1/149251    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:26:16

  • A curmudgeon tries a language server ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:26:55

  • Clueless Hey Hi (AI) CEOs Still Baffled Why Everybody’s So Mad About Hey Hi (AI) All the Time ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ceos-public-mad-outrage    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:39:12

  • AI-Generated Music to Be Banned From Hey Hi (AI) Charts in Australia ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/ai-generated-music-banned-from-charting-aria/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:39:29

  • Twitch Streamers Sue Twitch, Amazon Over Hey Hi (AI) Training Data Use ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/twitch-streamers-sue-twitch-amazon-ai-data-training/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:40:25

  • FSF Blogs: The hidden cost of today's "smart" devices ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-the-hidden-cost-of-todays-smart-devices    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:42:39

  • Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/elbows-really-up/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:43:09

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says You’re a Rube If You Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Backyard ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/donald-trump-data-center-rube-interview    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:43:36

  • First Evidence That London's Scheme to Cut Car Emissions Worked To Improve Child Health ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-evidence-that-londons-scheme-to-cut-car-emissions-worked-to-improve-child-health    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:43:52

  • The Ocean Hasn’t Been This Hot in 125,000 Years, Alarmed Researcher Suggests ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/ocean-hot-125000-years-alarmed-researcher    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:44:15

  • Texas Governor Suddenly Turns on Data Centers as Backlash Grows ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/texas-governor-turns-on-data-centers-backlash-grows    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:44:57

  • Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/criminal-deception-in-silicon-valley.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:45:13

  • AI, IPv6, and the future Internet at IETF 126 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/25/ai-ipv6-and-the-future-internet-at-ietf-126/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:49:40

  • Potions in Mageia. 02 – “Discover” Flatpak Gui App Installer ☞ https://blog.mageia.org/en/2026/08/24/potions-in-mageia-02-discover-flatpak-gui-app-installer/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:50:57

  • Hyundai Motor’s union reaches tentative wage deal, averting more strikes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hyundai-motors-union-reaches-tentative-wage-deal-averting-more-strikes    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:52:07

  • Nintendo takes down over 400 Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub repositories for Switch emulators in one go — Relentless DMCA strikes tied to piracy concerns over illegal cryptographic keys ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-takes-down-over-400-github-repositories-for-switch-emulators-in-one-go-relentless-dmca-strikes-tied-to-piracy-concerns-over-illegal-cryptographic-keys    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:52:26

  • Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Intent to Ship: JPEG XL ☞ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:53:00

  • Embattled Flock CEO Begs for “Compromise” As Backlash Spills Over ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-ceo-begs-compromise-backlash-spills-over    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:53:22

  • Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 16.3 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/08/24/kiwi-tcms-163/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:53:46

  • [GSoC 2026] Modernizing Haiku’s Bluetooth stack: Implementing support for HFP profile - Progress Report ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/vighnesh-sawant/2026-08-21_gsoc_2026_modernizing_haikus_bluetooth_stack_implementing_support_for_hfp_profile_-_progress_report/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:54:53

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: gaussfacts 0.0.3 on CRAN: Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/24#gaussfacts_0.0.1_to_0.0.3    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:55:34

  • David Bremner: Reproducing Org mode configuration ☞ https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/org-repro/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:56:02

  • S.E.C. Investigating Near-Implosion of Hey Hi (AI) Hedge Fund ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/business/sec-situational-awareness-investigation.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:56:38

  • Validity of Encryptawave Tech patent monopoly being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/8/24/validity-of-encryptawave-tech-patent-being-investigated    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:57:00

  • Allowable Subject Matter in the Final Rejection ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/allowable-subject-matter-in-the-final-rejection.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:57:33

  • MNT Station fanless, modular open-hardware computer supports a choice of 10+ Arm CPU or FPGA modules (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/24/mnt-station-fanless-modular-open-hardware-computer-supports-a-choice-of-10-arm-cpu-or-fpga-modules/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 17:58:23

  • The changing role of finite-state model checking ☞ https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-08-24-finite-state-future/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:03:27

  • Vincent Bernat: A non-interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree-video    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:05:44

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090304/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:05:59

  • Community Member Monday: Rohan Singh ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/24/community-member-monday-rohan-singh/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:06:44

  • Bundestag report: Complete withdrawal of benefits for asylum seekers unlawful, but ECJ to decide on cash payments ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/24/bundestag-report-complete-withdrawal-of-benefits-for-asylum-seekers-in-germany-unlawful-but-ecj-to-decide-on-cash-payments/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:07:00

  • Lunduke OS 0.2 Released ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/lunduke-os-02-released    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:07:09

  • Thinking About Gemini Capsule for Schestowitz.com ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/thinking-about-gemini-capsule-for-schestowitz-com/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:07:16

  • Fixing high polling rate mice on backdoored Windows in Godot ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/fixing-high-polling-rate-mice-on-windows/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:07:38

  • parted Command in Linux: Manage Disk Partitions ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/parted-command-in-linux/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:08:32

  • China Switching from backdoored Windows to GNU/Linux ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/China-Switching-from-Windows-to-Linux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:09:53

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Appears to Doze Off Again as Doctors Warn of 'Premature Disability and Death' Over His Weight ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-health-minerals-initiative-1816020    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:16:31

  • Michigan monitoring gaps mean many may unknowingly breathe unhealthy air ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/michigan-monitoring-gaps-mean-many-may-unknowingly-breathe-unhealthy-air/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:17:05

  • Profepa clears 6 dolphins for relocation from shuttered Cancún dolphinarium ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/profepa-dolphins-cancun-dolphinarium/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:17:25

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Admin Enabling the Systematic Slaughtering of Thousands of Wild Horses ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-wild-horses-slaughter    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:18:17

  • U.S. Marines Cancel Drill With South Korea, Citing Iran War Demands ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/asia/us-south-korea-military-drills-iran.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:19:57

  • South Korean police officer arrested over premature closure of missing persons cases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-police-officer-arrested-over-premature-closure-of-missing-person-cases    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:20:05

  • Seoul says South Korea and US vow close cooperation on North Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-says-south-korea-and-us-vow-close-cooperation-on-north-korea    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:20:24

  • South Korea’s SK Hynix union members reject wage agreement in vote ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-sk-hynix-union-members-reject-wage-agreement-in-vote    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:20:44

  • Two pastors fined $920 each for disrupting South Korean flight with loud preaching ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/two-pastors-fined-900-each-for-disrupting-south-korean-flight-with-loud-preaching    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:21:26

  • Indonesia to open airspace for cloud seeding to tackle haze, Malaysia says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indonesia-to-open-airspace-for-cloud-seeding-to-tackle-haze-malaysia-says    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:21:54

  • Malaysian university fires professor who said Romans learnt shipbuilding from Malays ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-university-fires-professor-who-said-romans-learnt-shipbuilding-from-malays    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:22:40

  • Haze hits unhealthy levels across 30 areas in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-hits-unhealthy-levels-across-30-areas-in-malaysia    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:23:05

  • South Korea tightens China cabbage inspections after formaldehyde scandal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-tightens-china-cabbage-inspections-after-formaldehyde-scandal    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:23:33

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man's 'Economic D-Day' Puts China and Iran's Trade Partners at Risk of Dollar-System Ban ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trumps-economic-d-day-puts-china-irans-trade-partners-risk-dollar-system-ban-1816073    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:23:49

  • Chinese Artist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Mao Sculptures ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/asia/china-artist-gao-zhen-jailed-mao-sculpture.html    

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

  • China’s netizens rage against professor who said gig work was a type of ‘welfare’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-netizens-rage-against-professor-who-said-gig-work-was-a-type-of-welfare    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:27:23

  • Japan lawmakers visit China seeking to patch up ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-lawmakers-visit-china-seeking-to-patch-up-ties    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:27:49

  • William Lachance: Glean Dictionary + DuckDB ☞ https://wrla.ch/log/2026/08/glean-dictionary-duckdb/?utm_source=mozilla&utm_medium=RSS    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:28:46

  • Jonathan Almeida: SSH access to Microsoft's proprietary prison over HTTPS ☞ https://jonalmeida.com/til/github-serves-ssh-over-tls-port/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:30:47

  • Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-21) ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/08/21/tiny-wins//    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:31:19

  • Valve was founded 30 years ago today — changed PC gaming forever with Half-Life, then Steam ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-was-founded-30-years-ago-today-changed-pc-gaming-forever-with-half-life-then-steam    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:32:40

  • Get a bunch of co-op games and Lovecraftian adventures in two fresh Humble Bundles | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/get-a-bunch-of-co-op-games-and-lovecraftian-adventures-in-two-fresh-humble-bundles/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:33:14

  • dwproton-11.0-12 released to fix Wuthering Waves on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dwproton-11-0-12-released-to-fix-wuthering-waves-on-steamos-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:33:39

  • Playing CDs With VLC and KDE's Dragon Player https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/25/playing-cds-with-vlc-and-kdes-dragon-player/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:38:24

  • Explaining AlternativeApproaches.com https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/25/explaining-alternativeapproaches-com/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:49:43

  • Ancient Dungeon adds Steam Frame support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ancient-dungeon-adds-steam-frame-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ancient-dungeon-adds-steam-frame-support/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:50:00

  • volt-gui is an AMD Adrenaline / NVIDIA Settings alternative for Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/volt-gui-is-an-amd-adrenaline-nvidia-settings-alternative-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:50:45

  • DXVK-Sarek 1.13.0 is a big release for older GPUs to play modern games on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dxvk-sarek-1-13-0-is-a-big-release-for-older-gpus-to-play-modern-games-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:51:37

  • AFM Voluntarily Drops Its Case Against ‘Warner Music Group Corp.’ — But the Major Is Still Facing High-Stakes Breach of Contract Claims ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/afm-warner-music-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 18:59:58

  • KDE Rounded Corners 0.10.0 Released with Gradient-Colored Outline ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/kde-rounded-corners-0-10-0-released-with-gradient-colored-outline/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:00:31

  • Vanilla 3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vanilla    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:00:46

  • Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stingray’ hits feature freeze ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-2610-hits-feature-freeze    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:01:21

  • Emacs 31.1 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090308/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:03:11

  • iDescriptor Lets You Manage & Interact with iPhone/iPad in GNU/Linux ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/idescriptor-lets-you-manage-interact-with-iphone-ipad-in-linux/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:04:12

  • IAR webinar to examine static and runtime analysis for AI-assisted embedded development ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/iar-webinar-to-examine-static-and-runtime-analysis-for-ai-assisted-embedded-development/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:05:04

  • Omarchy GNU/Linux Just Got $8 Million From Tech's Biggest Names ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/omarchy-launches-omacom-foundation/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:05:47

  • Slop and DRM ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-preview/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/18/Linux_Losing_Interest_in_Users_Freedom_Pursues_DRM_Instead.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:06:16

  • Kernel 7.2: RK3588 media, smarter GPU memory, and Rust foundations ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-7.2-rk3588-media,-smarter-gpu-memory,-and-rust-foundations.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:06:36

  • IBM is developing a dual-architecture chip to run Arm-native Hey Hi (AI) apps on Z mainframes and GNU/Linux servers ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/24/ibm-is-developing-a-dual-architecture-chip-to-run-arm-native-ai-apps-on-z-mainframes-and-linux-servers/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:08:03

  • Publisher funded by the company it is covering in a shallow, puff piece-centric way    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:08:41

  • KDu 9-Rv3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdu    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:09:06

  • Dharma 26.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/dharma    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:09:14

  • Ubuntu 24.04 gets a big open-vm-tools update ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-2404-open-vm-tools-update    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:10:10

  • Ceasefire verification mission deploys to eastern DR Congo ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260824-ceasefire-verification-mission-deploys-eastern-dr-congo    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:10:48

  • Election Observers Say Kazakh President's Party Had 'Undue Advantage' As It Grabs 70 Percent Of Vote ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhstan-election-adilet-toqaev-osce-criticism/33837256.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:11:02

  • Nine indicted by Taiwan over illegal export of Nvidia B300 GPUs to China — details reveal five-point strategy to exploit and avoid customs controls ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nine-indicted-by-taiwan-over-illegal-export-of-nvidia-b300-gpus-to-china-details-reveal-five-point-strategy-to-exploit-and-avoid-customs-controls    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:11:13

  • Taiwan indicts nine over alleged illegal export of Hey Hi (AI) servers to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/update-1-taiwan-indicts-nine-over-alleged-illegal-export-of-ai-servers-to-china    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:11:28

  • Advantech AOM-6741 Hey Hi (AI) Vision SMARC module features 100 TOPS Qualcomm IQ-9075 SoC, up to 36 GB LPDDR5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/25/advantech-aom-6741-qualcomm-iq-9075-smarc-module/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:11:50

  • Jetway PIC-TWL1 defective chip maker Intel N150 Pico-ITX motherboard is made for industrial automation and embedded systems ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/25/jetway-pic-twl1-intel-n150-pico-itx-motherboard-is-made-for-industrial-automation-and-embedded-systems/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:12:17

  • And Dr. Dre Said, ‘Only People Who Have Trouble Creating View Hey Hi (AI) as a Threat’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/23/dr-dre-comments-on-ai-use/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:13:14

  • Russian propaganda on 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact shifts focus, study finds ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3031153/russian-propaganda-on-1939-nazi-soviet-pact-shifts-focus-study-finds    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:13:27

  • Some of Russia’s Hey Hi (AI) Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-nvidia-ai-autonomous-drones.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:13:41

  • UK Prime Minister Burnham Arrives in Ukraine as Russia Amps Up Warnings ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/uk-andy-burnham-ukraine-russia.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:13:51

  • A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drones-autonomous-ai-kill-ukraine-war.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:14:01

  • Zelenskyy Marks Independence Day With Call 'To Make Russia Howl' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-ukraine-coalition-willing-europe-aid-russia/33836689.html    

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

  • As Ukraine turns 35, Nausėda tells Kyiv only victory can bring peace to Europe ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3031081/as-ukraine-turns-35-nauseda-tells-kyiv-only-victory-can-bring-peace-to-europe    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:14:25

  • Ukrainian president awards Nausėda Order of Liberty in Kyiv ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3031323/ukrainian-president-awards-nauseda-order-of-liberty-in-kyiv    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:14:40

  • What’s behind Russia’s threats against Baltics and Poland? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3031330/what-s-behind-russia-s-threats-against-baltics-and-poland    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:14:51

  • Ukraine showing ‘remarkable innovation’: Kyiv ‘holding front line’ while striking Russia’s economy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-showing-remarkable-innovation-kyiv-holding-front-line-while-striking-russia-s-economy    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:15:00

  • Ukraine celebrates Independence Day amid war's latest escalation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260824-ukraine-celebrates-independence-day-amid-war-s-latest-escalation    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:15:11

  • What the renewed Black Sea blockade means for Ukraine’s farmers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260824-what-renewed-black-sea-blockade-means-ukraine-farmers    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:15:23

  • UK, France ‘re-announce’ anti-missile technology for Ukraine: ‘None will be online for years’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260824-uk-france-re-announce-anti-missile-technology-for-ukraine-none-will-be-online-for-years    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:15:43

  • Moment of silence for Ukraine to be observed in Latvia Monday ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/24.08.2026-moment-of-silence-for-ukraine-to-be-observed-in-latvia-monday.a660021/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:16:13

  • Oksana Puhachova: Independence within us. 24 August for Ukrainians in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/features/24.08.2026-oksana-puhachova-independence-within-us-24-august-for-ukrainians-in-latvia.a660064/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:16:40

  • WATCH: 'Sunflower Road' march in support of Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/24.08.2026-watch-sunflower-road-march-in-support-of-ukraine.a660126/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:16:54

  • Commission approves €6.1 billion for Ukraine's defence ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1750    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:17:26

  • Ukraine’s Independence Day ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/24/ukraines-independence-day/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:17:38

  • China’s Pooh-tin Jinping looks set to visit India with big delegation for first time in seven years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-xi-likely-to-visit-india-with-big-delegation-for-first-time-in-seven-years    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:18:42

  • China develops missile to target planes thousands of kilometres away ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-develops-missile-to-target-planes-thousands-of-kilometres-away    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:19:20

  • Dog abuse incident in southern China sparks protests ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dog-abuse-incident-in-southern-china-sparks-protests    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:19:44

  • "For context, I was born in 90's and the internet of my childhood was AOL and Yahoo. This is not a firsthand account and some parts may be misunderstood." gemini://mozz.us/journal/2026-08-24_fidonet-history-1.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:21:18

  • "It is a long time since I read The Virginian, but that line has stayed with me." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-25-smile    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:22:16

  • "Another night of generating smolweb software no one else will use." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/flatfile.pyz/post/stop-it-bots.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:22:57

  • "as mentioned in a previous post, i rarely do tarot readings for myself anymore. something to do with being ok with what is/what is to come?" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/spiritualdevelopment    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:23:33

  • "Its been itching away me for a while now, ebbing and flowing but always there, this strange longing." gemini://littlecampsite.smol.pub/b-roads    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:24:10

  • "A long time ago, long before real mathematics was invented by Russel and Whitehead and Bourbaki, a philosopher by the name of Euclid did a first, primitive attempt by creating geometry." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1787674386    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:24:43

  • Rehén en mi Refugio gemini://webnauta.smol.pub/rehen-en-mi-refugio    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:25:00

  • "A small change to the sava.rocks infrastructure today: the site is no longer available through I2P or Yggdrasil." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/goodbye-i2p-and-yggdrasil-welcome-telnet/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:25:30

  • "I've also created an interactive Telnet server for sava.rocks. It felt like something was missing from the small-web collection. Gopher, Gemini, and Finger were all happily doing their thing, but somehow they were missing a proper Telnet server." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/SavaRocks/47579    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:26:07

  • Indonesia-China naval drill could help normalize Beijing’s presence east of Taiwan ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/08/25/indonesia-china-taiwan-east-exercise-navy/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:41:32

  • China abruptly delays unmanned moon mission over ‘launch conditions’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/24/china-abruptly-delays-unmanned-moon-mission-over-launch-conditions/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:42:07

  • TeamSpeak Will Let You Call Your Friends Directly ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/teamspeak-direct-calls-teased/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:42:51

  • Scientists Just Made A Cookie Out of Recycled Plastic 'Slurry'. Welcome to 2026 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-made-a-cookie-out-of-recycled-plastic-slurry-welcome-to-2026    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:52:09

  • Japan’s beaches are emptying out – and vanishing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japans-beaches-are-emptying-out-and-vanishing    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:52:20

  • What The Heck Are We Looking at? This Week's Monday Microscope Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/what-the-heck-are-we-looking-at-this-weeks-monday-microscope-mystery    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:52:43

  • This Giant Crocodile Relative Weighed as Much as a Car And Preyed on Rhino-Sized Mammals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-giant-crocodile-relative-weighed-as-much-as-a-car-and-preyed-on-rhino-sized-mammals    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:53:08

  • Heart Failure Can Hide Behind a 'Normal' Test Result, Cardiologists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cardiologists-just-changed-the-universal-definition-of-heart-failure    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:53:32

  • Some People Can Get Lost Even in Their Own Homes. Scientists Are Unraveling Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/some-people-can-get-lost-even-in-their-own-homes-scientists-are-unraveling-why    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:53:41

  • An Active Volcano May Be Creating a Valuable Metal Deposit Deep Underground ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/beneath-an-active-volcano-scientists-may-have-found-an-ore-deposit-being-born    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:53:55

  • Can Alzheimer's Spread Through Blood Transfusions? Here's What We Know. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/can-alzheimers-spread-through-blood-transfusions-heres-what-we-know    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:54:12

  • Common Daily Vitamin Linked to 13% Cognitive Boost in Early Dementia, Study Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-daily-vitamin-linked-to-13-cognitive-boost-in-early-dementia-study-shows    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:54:25

  • AI-Generated Music to Be Banned From Hey Hi (AI) Charts In Australia ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/ai-generated-music-banned-from-charting-aria/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:55:20

  • The Insurrectionist Personally Met with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino Before Calling Off the DOJ’s Case, Latest Leaks Reveal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/donald-trump-live-nation-ceo-meeting-doj-settlement/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:55:59

  • Iran Cracks Down on One Luxury Left to Its Youth: Coffee Shops ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/middleeast/iran-cafe-closures.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:56:52

  • Eurovision 2027 in Chaos as Dutch Broadcaster Boycotts Contest Over War Row: 'It Is No Longer Neutral' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/avrotros-withdraws-eurovision-2027-neutrality-concerns-1816005    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:57:24

  • Chris Brown’s Former Housekeeper Forcibly Collecting $13 Million From His Tour Income and Royalties Over Dog Attack ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/23/chris-brown-housekeeper-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:57:57

  • Kroger Faces Massive Social Media Infringement Lawsuit from Sony Music — Retail Giant Allegedly ‘Chose Not to Obtain the Required Licenses for Hundreds of Commercial’ Adverts ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/sony-music-kroger-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:58:26

  • SCOTUS tosses one of two injunctions against Convicted Felon USPS mail-in ballot rules ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/supreme-court-ruling-usps-mail-in-ballots/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:59:01

  • NYC’s 911 System Had an Outage. Officials Kept Quiet About It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/nyregion/mamdani-911-outage-nyc.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 19:59:49

  • India’s security chief Ajit Doval visits China for border talks ahead of BRICS meeting ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-security-chief-ajit-doval-visits-china-for-border-talks-ahead-of-brics-meeting    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:00:09

  • One SSID To Rule Them All ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/one-ssid-to-rule-them-all/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:00:38

  • Woman arrested for alleged sedition outside court ahead of Tiananmen vigil group’s national security case verdict ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/25/woman-arrested-for-alleged-sedition-outside-court-ahead-of-tiananmen-vigil-groups-national-security-case-verdict/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:01:52

  • Mohammed bin Salman in the City of Light: Does West value economic interests over 'Western values'? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/mbs-in-the-city-of-light-in-a-world-of-realpolitik-does-west-value-economic-interests-over-values    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:02:19

  • Israel's Netanyahu says Iran tried to assassinate one of his sons ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260824-israel-netanyahu-says-iran-tried-kill-son    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:03:01

  • Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/iran-linked-hackers-shut-down-uk-power-plant-for-four-days/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:03:58

  • Personal Information Exposed in Apollo Global Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/personal-information-exposed-in-apollo-global-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:05:44

  • 91 Vulnerabilities Patched in Spring Application Framework ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/91-vulnerabilities-patched-in-spring-application-framework/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:07:18

  • Uber Fined Nearly $1 Billion by Dutch Regulators Over Automated Suspensions of Driver Accounts ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/uber-fined-nearly-1-billion-by-dutch-regulators-over-automated-suspensions-of-driver-accounts/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:07:43

  • ReliaQuest Confirms ShinyHunters Hack, but Says Impact Was Limited ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/reliaquest-confirms-shinyhunters-hack-but-says-impact-was-limited/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:10:17

  • Venezuelan Gets Record Federal Prison Term for ATM Jackpotting ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/venezuelan-gets-record-federal-prison-term-for-atm-jackpotting/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:10:56

  • Affordable robot car kit becomes an intelligent creator-chaser ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/24/affordable-robot-car-kit-becomes-an-intelligent-creator-chaser/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:11:28

  • Sushi Express begins investigation after customer finds suspected worm in salmon sushi ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/24/sushi-express-begins-investigation-after-customer-finds-suspected-worm-in-salmon-sushi/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:11:57

  • After Facebook: Building a Music Career After Social Media ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/facebook-building-music-career-after-social-media/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:12:36

  • 'Turn Around and Don't Look': Amazon Accused of Letting Worker Die in Warehouse Amid 'Corporate Greed' Claims ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/james-talarico-criticises-amazon-worker-death-1816017    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:13:15

  • Fanless Edge box runs GNU/Linux on Rockchip RV1126B with 3-TOPS NPU ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-edge-box-runs-linux-on-rockchip-rv1126b-with-3-tops-npu/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:14:22

  • Cantor – graphical front-end for mathematical, statistical and scientific computing software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cantor-mathematical-statistical-scientific-computing-software/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:14:43

  • Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing | LINUX Unplugged 681 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/681/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:15:40

  • Late Night Linux – Episode 400 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-400/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:17:17

  • This Week in Linux 354: GNU/Linux 7.2, GNU/Linux Hits 10% Market Share, AUR Update, Fedora on Framework, KDE LTS, & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-354/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:18:41

  • GNU Emacs 31.1: Approaching Fifty and Still Improving ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/gnu-emacs-31-1-approaching-fifty-and-still-improving/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:21:29

  • E L O Greatest Hits Full Album - Best Songs Of E L O Playlist 2022 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=SSwWZhltLtk    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:23:29

  • TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children’s privacy ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/tiktok-reaches-400-million-settlement-with-us-justice-department-over-childrens-privacy/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:25:36

  • TikTok Reaches $400 Million Settlement With US Justice Department Over Children’s Privacy ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tiktok-reaches-400-million-settlement-with-us-justice-department-over-childrens-privacy/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:26:00

  • What You Should Know About College Admissions Changes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/college-admissions-changes.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:26:54

  • Vanderbilt's Convenient Political Awakening ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/vanderbilts-convenient-political-awakening    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:28:02

  • Breaking what works because idiots and spies want broken things with back doors and bug doors https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/canonical-backs-quest-to-translate-mountains-of-c-into-safe-rust-with-ai/5290959    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:29:40

  • Engineering veep Jon Seager.... says The Register MS. Clearly not qualified. Unless the goal is to serve GCHQ.    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:30:11

  • Brilliant idea: use the media to portray as SECURITY-CONCERNED or security "GURUS" the very people who actively pursue LESS security https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/14/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_149_Out_of_200_It_Took_a_Long_Time_to_Sho.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_150_Out_of_200_Always_Independently_Verif.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:31:17

  • European Union: 7.5% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=european-union    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:33:35

  • Linux gaming gets another boost as Proton adds support for 16 niche games https://www.xda-developers.com/protons-latest-stable-update-includes-support-niche-games/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:34:10

  • Paradox Interactive to publish survival-crafting creature collector adventure 'Guardians of the Wild Sky' | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/paradox-interactive-to-publish-survival-crafting-creature-collector-adventure-guardians-of-the-wild-sky/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:34:40

  • How to Fish is another brilliantly funny online co-op game | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/how-to-fish-is-another-brilliantly-funny-online-co-op-game/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/how-to-fish-is-another-brilliantly-funny-online-co-op-game/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:34:45

  • Mandrake/Mandriva https://www.howtogeek.com/these-once-classic-linux-distros-dont-exist-anymore/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:35:11

  • If they DEMAND Windows, they are not quite "open source" https://www.howtogeek.com/legendary-open-source-windows-apps-that-still-dont-work-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:36:08

  • Reddit? It's an anti-GNU/Linux site. https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-the-linux-distros-reddit-users-hate-most-and-theyre-not-that-bad/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:37:07

  • "I love getting into the nitty-gritty of things. Linux lets me do what I want, however I want — and I don’t have to bother with any artificial OS-level limitations. Setting things up manually is frustrating but often fun, and most certainly educational." https://www.makeuseof.com/kept-breaking-my-linux-desktop-until-i-switched-to-one-that-wont-let-me/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:37:25

  • "For those of you who like a simple GUI with a fair amount of options, this may be for you. Nice to see more apps like this for Linux to make things simpler to tweak." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/volt-gui-is-an-amd-adrenaline-nvidia-settings-alternative-for-linux/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:37:44

  • "This release also introduces xfwm4-gl, a fork of xfwm4 that finally brings OpenGL compositing to Xfce in X11." https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-8-released-with-linux-7-2-cosmic-1-6-and-more    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:38:19

  • "Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors." https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/uat-10147-uses-ai-to-scale-server.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:38:55

  • I installed Linux on my mother-in-law’s PC to prove it’s easier than Windows https://www.howtogeek.com/i-installed-linux-on-my-mother-in-laws-pc-to-prove-its-easier-than-windows/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:41:04

  • This Linux PC-phone hybrid could be the future of Linux smartphones https://www.howtogeek.com/i-cant-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-this-linux-pc-phone-hybrid/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:41:17

  • Appeals court upholds decision the case is dead, but Xinuos is trying for a long-shot re-hearing https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/24/ancient-who-owns-linux-case-now-has-one-foot-very-deep-in-the-grave/5291513    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:41:39

  • 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 23rd, 2026 https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-august-23rd-2026    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:42:21

  • "David Heinemeier Hansson, aka DHH, has put a number on how serious he is about desktop Linux. That number is eight million dollars, and it's going into a brand new nonprofit called the Omacom Foundation." https://itsfoss.com/news/omarchy-launches-omacom-foundation/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:42:43

  • LLM slop, plagiarism basically https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/pine64-halts-linux-device-production-over-memory-shortage/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:43:28

  • More LLM slop, the WWW is trash https://www.techedt.com/amds-medusa-point-apus-move-closer-to-launch-as-linux-firmware-reveals-rdna-4m-graphics    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:44:07

  • I finally understand why Qubes OS is perfect for Home Assistant—and nothing else comes close https://www.howtogeek.com/why-qubes-os-is-perfect-for-home-assistant/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:44:33

  • MOAR slop. "The new code is going to be part of the Tdfxfb Voodoo driver in Linux 7.3." https://www.techspot.com/news/113587-new-linux-patch-old-non-x86-home-computers.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:46:00

  • "The popular free to play games recently had a big 3.6 version update, which seems to have caused some problems." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dwproton-11-0-12-released-to-fix-wuthering-waves-on-steamos-linux/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:46:27

  • "The main DXVK keeps things quite modern, at times bumping up the GPU requirements and so DXVK-Sarek is an off-shoot of the original DXVK 1.10.x branch to keep more people able to play games while pulling in per game configurations, fixes and a little more where possible." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dxvk-sarek-1-13-0-is-a-big-release-for-older-gpus-to-play-modern-games-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:46:51

  • Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/24/linus-torvalds-banishes-linux-bug-with-a-bot/5291784    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 20:47:18

  • Station Square game studio Schell Games cuts 10% of workforce amid industry turmoil https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2026/08/25/station-square-schell-games.html    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 22:12:30

  • Starbucks Gave Seattle Workers a Choice: Move to Nashville or Lose Their Jobs — 120 Declined, 200+ Laid Off https://www.inkl.com/news/starbucks-gave-seattle-workers-a-choice-move-to-nashville-or-lose-their-jobs-120-declined-200-laid-off    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 22:12:49

  • GNU/Linux 5.1% in Asia https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=asia&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 22:31:20

  • Night times in Guatemala: GNU/Linux about 15% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=GT    

posted Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 22:33:10

  • ""For twenty-one years, Arduino has taken complex technology and made it simple enough for anyone to build something real," says Arduino's Fabio Violante, now a vice president and general manager at Qualcomm." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260825-vent.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:20:03

  • "I'm working through An Introduction to Systems Biology (2nd Ed.) by Uri Alon, as part of my studies in the idea of modeling cellular systems as analog computing circuits." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260825-0.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:20:49

  • "So they have no clue. Cultural knowledge strongly implies Tokyo as the target, but this also has some degree of uncertainty, not error bars but a weighted table of cities (why is it always cities) to roll on." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/08/25/errorbars.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:21:26

  • "Continuing in my newfound appreciation of minimalism and simplicity, I'm not going to complicate my journaling experience any more than I have to for next year." gemini://buster.smol.pub/journal-plans-for-27    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:22:26

  • spilling secrets gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/spilling_secrets    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:23:27

  • "Finger[1] is a protocol from the early days of internet, which allowed people to spy^H^H^H see what other people were doing and/or were planning to do, although it also had other uses, like letting people to see contemporary contents of bevirege vending machine[2]." gemini://namno.duckdns.org/blog/2026-08-25.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:24:11

  • "Owning a camper was a childhood dream, and though it took me the best part of half a century to get there, I still feel a great sense of privilege. Part of of me might wish I'd bought it earlier, but the truth is I wasn't in a position to get there any sooner." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-25-vanjoy    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:25:48
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