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Linux at 35: The Hobby That Became Every Platform’s Foundation https://the-architect-ds.medium.com/linux-at-35-the-hobby-that-became-every-platforms-foundation-0cd83cae7cb0    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:55:20

  • 35 years ago today, Linus Torvalds made a Usenet post that introduced Linux to the world https://www.xda-developers.com/35-years-ago-linus-torvalds-usenet-linux/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 04:57:04

  • iophk: I think Ross' project is dead: https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/ It's been almost a month since it lost its content.    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:23:25

  • ross was "target" https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/rossfest/rossfest.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:26:51

  • Anon: very much so; anyone who does not toe the microsoft line or, worse, dares tell the truth about ICT gets brigaded in one way or another http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/03/30/RIP_Ross_Anderson.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:27:51

  • We got sued 3 weeks after Ross died    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:28:16

  • A day earler: http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/03/29/A_backdoor_in_xz.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:29:10

  • There's big business or "An Industry" around back doors https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/11/An_American_War_on_GNU_Linux_Software_Freedom_and_British_Inves.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:29:36

  • Slopmatt has been busy pretending to be a security person, despite his own spouse claiming the opposite is true    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:30:26

  • MediaCityUK Development Seems to Have Stalled https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/mediacityuk-development-seems-to-have-stalled/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:39:28

  • "Ross was not liked by the university to which he devoted his life. The fact is they wanted rid of him by forced retirement. At an institution taking funding from Elon Musk and some morally questionable technology organisations, Ross ruffled feathers with his plain integrity." https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/rossfest/rossfest.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:40:14

  • "He was not, however, an "activist" - which made the integrity all the more galling for some." https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/rossfest/rossfest.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:40:23

  • Anon: "conspiracy theory" has come to mean a known falsehood, however, that downplays or covers up the actual conspiracies going on, such as what has been happening against ICT for the last 25+ years    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:42:14

  • SLAPP Censorship - Part 159 Out of 200: Telling Courts False Information and Spoon-feeding Them Insults, Hoping or Expecting Them to Repeat These Insults http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_159_Out_of_200_Telling_Courts_False_Infor.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:42:40

  • You can spend 1.3 million dollars trying to persuade courts to repeat smears that you spoon-feed to them while lying to them    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 07:43:19

  • MediaCityUK Development Seems to Have Stalled https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/mediacityuk-development-seems-to-have-stalled/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 08:04:58

  • "Adult entertainment company FlavaWorks has elevated its legal campaign against the private torrent tracker Gay-Torrents." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/flavaworks-targets-75-members-of-gay-torrents-tracker-with-rico-lawsuit/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:40:55

  • "While the surveillance ad duopoly grows, the brands that use their advertising, not so much. And the squeeze is getting worse, not better." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/is-ai-already-good-enough-to-create-the-missing-online-advertising-boom/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:41:41

  • "The VCR was one of the fastest-adopted technologies in the history of the world, and it was disruptive." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/25/gammamax/#felony-contempt-of-business-model | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:42:03

  • "But one result from my 2026 Internet Map caught me completely off guard." ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/ashburn/ | Source: Kevin McDonald    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:52:08

  • "The Islamic Republic of Iran denies Zoroastrians and the Bahai’s equal citizenship even as it recognizes Zoroastrian religious identity." ☛ https://www.meforum.org/dhimmitude-project/neo-dhimmitude-in-iran-religious-hierarchy-and-minority-life-under-the-islamic-republic | Source: ME Forum    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:53:22

  • "The unemployment rate for men was 10.0 percent, down 0.2 percentage points from the previous year. For women, the unemployment rate was 9.8 percent, up 1.5 percentage points." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20242766 | Source: Yle    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:53:35

  • "That’s part of the import of the designation of CUC Op Keyhole designation in the opening document." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/25/stephen-miller-sent-9-special-operations-goons-to-tail-a-guy-driving-ice-out-signs/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:53:47

  • "the Pentagon is willing to go to control the narrative" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/08/pentagon-fires-stars-and-stripes-staffers-after-editorial-independence-comments/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:54:50

  • "Individually, none of these choices constitutes journalistic misconduct." ☛ https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/why-does-the-new-york-times-whitewash-the-taliban | Source: ME Forum    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:55:04

  • "Lux Claridge was dragged from a city meeting about data centers and charged with interfering with the police after they clapped during a presentation." ☛ https://www.404media.co/charges-dropped-against-person-who-clapped-at-a-city-data-center-meeting/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:55:25

  • "Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah is the latest example of this shift." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/25/fired-columnist-rehired-as-rights-charlie-kirk-campaign-collapses/ | Source: Salon    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:55:51

  • "Vanity Fair told us earlier ... they've called off the article she was going to write for them. But Brittany tells us they can't revoke a contract she never signed." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2026/08/25/lindsay-clancy-reporter-brittany-romano-receiving-death-threats/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:56:13

  • "But what exactly counts as AI slop, how does LinkedIn identify it, and could the growing use of AI-generated content make things harder for human writers and creators?" ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/linkedin-reduces-ai-slop-posts-feeds-hari-srinivasan-138833414.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:56:31

  • "An Israel-funded think tank is churning out AI written essays to catch the attention of AI chatbots and warp search results." ☛ https://www.404media.co/israel-is-running-a-synthetic-think-tank-to-influence-ai-search-results/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:57:09

  • "The EU has required producers to take responsibility for packaging waste for many years through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes." ☛ https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs |    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 09:57:32

  • "In 2025 I was honored to be selected for the first cohort of Sovereign Tech Fellows" ☛ https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/08/sovereign-tech-fellowship-for-freedesktop-tasks.html | Source: Matthias    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:00:54

  • "No matter how hard you try, disruption comes for you." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/08/24/columbia-house-history-retrospective/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:01:13

  • "Valve didn’t come from nowhere, and it doesn’t have a bedroom coder story like many of the game publishers of the 8- and 16-bit eras." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-was-founded-30-years-ago-today-changed-pc-gaming-forever-with-half-life-then-steam | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:01:27

  • "The most efficient use of rocket fuel is by tailoring the exhaust speed to be exactly equal and opposite in direction to the velocity of the rocket." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/nuclear-spacecraft-ccbdc591d163 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:02:51

  • "It’s now two weeks since we’ve got it fully resolved, but it was a mess. On the 4th of August, I woke up, went to the bathroom: light didn’t turn on." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/08/25/electricity-leakage/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:03:03

  • "Together, the three facilities have five generating units and produce approximately 830GWh of electricity each year – enough to supply around 53,000 Norwegian homes." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/technology-equipment/hydropower-plants-in-western-norway-to-be-modernized/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:03:19

  • "The amount of gas-fired power in development for data centers in the US has nearly doubled in less than a year, new research released Tuesday shows." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/us-data-centers-drive-gas-power-expansion/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:04:07

  • "The federal government does not systematically track water consumption across the data-center industry" ☛ https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/ |    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:04:16

  • "federal laws that require the agency to outline whistleblower protections" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2026/08/nsa-isnt-complying-with-federal-laws-on-whistleblower-protections-ig-finds/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:15:42

  • "The courting of AIPAC funds comes despite the fact that the Rogers campaign seeks to distance him from the group." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/el-sayeds-gop-opponent-attended-3-aipac-hosted-fundraisers-in-1-day/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:16:00

  • "The first UC’s photos show that this is the kind of evil threat HSI was hunting." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/25/the-invented-blockade-and-the-fake-doxing-that-hsi-turned-into-terrorism/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:16:15

  • "The recruitment of African nationals is not an isolated phenomenon, but rather the core of a deliberate and organized strategy" ☛ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/human-security/report-exposes-russian-plot-to-lure-africans-into-its-war/ | Source: Defence Web    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:18:07

  • "Zambia’s government closed the country’s courts, preventing opposition parties from mounting legal challenges over this month’s disputed election." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2026/zambia-election-concerns-mount-as-courts-close | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:18:26

  • "We are talking about someone who publicly talked about giving a million dollars to folks to actually go vote" ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/wisconsin/2026/08/26/elon-musk-wisconsin-voters-million-dollar-checks-no-criminal-charges/ | Source: Votebeat    

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

  • "poorly worded statement that was corrected and brought into compliance with the law." ☛ https://www.notus.org/us-news/elon-musk-no-election-bribery-charges-wisconsin | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:19:39

  • "Which triggered my inner history nerd, because on one hand actually Ceuta has been under the Spanish crown since 1560, not 1668." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/25/why-ceuta-is-european-and-what-came-of-it/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:20:11

  • "The above quote is actually from Hilaire Belloc’s book: The Great Heresies, first published in 1938" ☛ https://thecritic.co.uk/the-challenge-of-islam/ | Source: The Critic    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:20:37

  • "Quite honestly, it was breathtaking" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5941135 | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:21:18

  • "WhatsApp passed 1 billion passkey users, the company said on August 25, 2026, as it rolled out a set of account security upgrades." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/whatsapp-1-billion-passkey-users-2fa-passwords/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:21:58

  • "The #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition are a collective of organisations and grassroots groups, working across digital, racial and migrant justice in the UK." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/safety-not-surveillance-townhall/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:22:11

  • "The blog post is more accessible, so that's what I will quote from. But for the details you need to read the paper." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/08/not-bug-but-feature.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:24:59

  • "This exercise stays inside the isolated lab from Part 1. The target, users, passwords, logs, and test traffic must all be yours." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-light-offensive-to-think-defensively-part-3-recon-and-password-attack-theory-inside-the-lab/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:25:11

  • "The frauds that target seniors typically rely on abusing their trust" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/online-harms-forgotten-generation-why-the-government-needs-to-pay-attention-to-protecting-seniors/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:26:37

  • "Rolling Stone spoke to four creators about their relationship with affiliate links, and the biggest payouts they’ve experienced." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/affiliate-marketing-social-media-1235605379/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:30:53

  • "Elon Musk’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter’s maintainer, a legitimate service that displays X posts through a different interface." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/nitter-cease-desist/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:32:20

  • "Politics aside, I wonder whether X will make any difference to MacStories‘s business." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/tech-choices-macstories/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:32:43

  • "Now that X’s algorithm demands video content just like every other platform does" ☛ https://www.garbageday.email/p/right-wingers-want-every-woman-to-be-a-mom-and-also-hate-moms-now | Source: Garbage Day    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:33:00

  • "Recent incidents have underscored the point, she noted." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20242706 | Source: Yle    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:33:32

  • "A majority of both Democrat and Republican voters opposed new data centres in their area, but Democrats opposed them more strongly." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/25/everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:33:45

  • "There's a term I like: 'innovation theatre'." ☛ https://www.elliotcsmith.com/engineering-theatre/ | Source: Elliot C Smith    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:34:03

  • "The above sign wasn't found in some rural Buddhist lodge that had never seen a foreign tourist, but rather a luxury resort hotel built within the last five years in the heart of Tokyo!" ☛ https://justin.searls.co/shots/2026-08-26-13h01m54s/ | Source: Justin Searls    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:34:25

  • "The rhetoric that comes out of this particular historical moment is really about the evanescence of modern liberal democracy, constitutional democracy" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-professor-ai-factory-farming-humans | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:34:37

  • "A friend was helping his aunt sell a used iPad, barely used and a generation newer than my current one." ☛ https://roytang.net/2026/08/used-ipad/ | Source: Roy Tang    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:35:19

  • "If you have used Linux for a while, you probably know cron jobs. You use it to run a script every night at 2 AM, or every 5 minutes." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/linux-systemd-timers-guide/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:35:28

  • "One of the primary purposes for our homelab FreeBSD box is for data backups and storage for myself, Clara, and our family." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/reintroducing-4tb-drives-into-our-freebsd-server/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:36:39

  • "arguably inherited from the PDP-11 or indeed PDP-7, meant that “nobody wanted” a 64-bit version of the segmentation features." ☛ https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/2026/08/25/#flat-vs-segmented | Source: Stephen Kell    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:39:28

  • "These are the libraries I love. Each one a calm oasis in a world teeming with more, faster, better, over-powered, AI-powered. Inviting and welcoming everyone." ☛ https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/in-praise-of-libraries/ | Source: Michelle Barker    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:40:16

  • "He explained that Parton had asked him years earlier to make the public announcement when the time came." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dolly-parton-planned-her-own-goodbye-years-ago-nephew-fulfils-her-final-request-1816316 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:40:34

  • "She was also a great philanthropist. Her Imagination Library has distributed more than 200 million books to babies and young children." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dolly-parton-rip | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:41:01

  • "Thanks to a dwindling supply of open roles, “one-click” applications, and the rise of artificial intelligence, it’s easier than ever to apply for a job. We’re all paying the price." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/applying-for-a-job-is-too-damn-easy/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:41:47

  • "Uraninite nodules in calcite (?). Unlike the Colorado plateau rocks, the veins are nice and clean (although not chemically pure) which results in a shiny surface." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/misc/rocks3/ | Source: Maury    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:42:52

  • "The paper introducing the first variant of the radix heap. Found on archive.org with help from the University of Illinois library." ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/scans/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:43:08

  • "I didn’t explain in that post why this is. In this post I will." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/24/numerical-instability-recurrece/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:43:22

  • "Imagine you rent office space for a three-day event. You quickly set up a few Ethernet switches and tape some cables on the floor to get everyone online." ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree-video | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:43:41

  • "That’s where the spanning tree protocol (STP) comes in. STP blocks just enough of your spare cables to leave a loop-free tree." ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:45:52

  • "The Red Mailbox was not always there." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/08/the-red-mailbox/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:46:15

  • "But there's one thing that's still haunting me." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/dont-make-my-blogging-mistake/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:46:32

  • "I started blogging and expressing myself via photography and the written word on platforms like Xanga, LiveJournal, and Tumblr because I like being able to share online anonymously" ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/augustory/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:46:40

  • "Now, I know almost every technical writeup on this blog is obscure, but this is going to be a really weird one." ☛ https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2026/08/25/how-i-fixed-an-mt-32-midi-soundtrack-for-the-hardware-i-use/ | Source: Misty De Méo    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:53:55

  • "I've been working on a number of connection points between my site and the broader web." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/implementing-webmentions | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:54:08

  • "The ‘Authenticated Transfer Protocol’, or AT Proto for short, is a very simple system at its core." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/atproto-ethos | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:54:22

  • "It admittedly does make for a rather cluttered UI. But hey, I’m only half-joking here: [...]" ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-proposal-for-new-netflix-content-rating-icons/ | Source: Eric Bailey    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:54:40

  • "Zsh modifiers are a family of suffixes that transform words as they’re expanded." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/08/24/zsh-filename-modifiers/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:55:24

  • "For each card, I can write a short note to tell why it’s in my binder." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/v-is-for-visible-characters/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:55:59

  • "This will require some background. I handle my email in the venerable (N)MH, which is very old and thus slightly flawed." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/EmailParsingUnicodeFumble | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:56:07

  • "The reason it is a separate step is caching. If the build info was generated at link time then everytime we link the binary it would produce different bytes causing it to not be bit-reproducible." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/25/stamping-build-info-in-constant-memory | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:56:35

  • "A quick recap: SELF, a format where the program is a SQLite database." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:57:09

  • "Attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities faster than most organizations can safely patch." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/the-patch-window-has-collapsed-defenders-need-to-change-now/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:57:21

  • "I'm currently working on migrating my open source projects from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance." ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/forgejo-hack-how-to-set-a-starting-issue-and-pull-request-number | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:57:34

  • "None of these fits my bill, so I spent a moment to craft a solution that I wanted to share with you." ☛ https://pawelgrzybek.com/jump-between-projects-in-neovim/ | Source: Paweł Grzybek    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:57:54

  • "I write code roughly the same way I did ten years ago1: I make edits in my text editor, I switch over to a terminal window and I run a command to compile and execute the code." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:58:10

  • "I think both arguments focus on the wrong thing because they focus on who writes the code." ☛ https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html | Source: Var Zero    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:58:22

  • "The big upside here is that this makes Placemark cleanly open source: all of its dependencies have proper open source licenses like MIT, ISC, Apache-2.0" ☛ https://macwright.com/2026/08/25/placemark-fully-open-source.html | Source: Tom MacWright    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:58:52

  • "Multiple spaces (Identity, SaaS, AppSec, Data) have almost every vendor leading with AI; existing unsolved problem areas just got worse." ☛ https://andy2f23e12677d-pqsnr.wpcomstaging.com/reports/state-of-security-vendors-blackhat-2026/ |    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:59:21

  • "Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/black-hat-state-of-security-vendors.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:59:35

  • "IETF 126 welcomed 1,230 on-site participants and 672 remote attendees, setting a new attendance record." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/25/ai-ipv6-and-the-future-internet-at-ietf-126/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 10:59:55

  • "A long time ago I start my personal server in Django (a lot of the stuff from Django tricks were coded for my personal Django stuff)" ☛ https://fundor333.com/post/2026/moving-to-django-6-x/ | Source: Fundor 333    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:01:18

  • "These are run with WordPress. I did some maintenance on them today. Not particularly interesting, but it keeps me busy." ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/25/hey-lets-update-websites/ | Source: Joe Crawford    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:01:33

  • "I fall in the love camp. My introduction into coding was through SQL. Everyone has their native language they think in and mine is SQL." ☛ https://tylerhillery.com/blog/i-love-sql-i-hate-sql/ | Source: Tyler Hillery    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:01:57

  • "I’ve been reading through the recent run of incidents where package-manager infrastructure was the attack surface, as one does on a Sunday afternoon." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/25/hardening-the-override-flag.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:02:52

  • "When text is copied from an org-mode or markdown-mode buffer and pasted into another Emacs buffer, its visual formatting can sometimes follow it." ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-fix-org-mode-copy-paste-yank-bleed/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:03:04

  • "Eglot ships with Emacs as a built-in, lightweight LSP client, and its default configuration is sufficient for most projects." ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/emacs-eglot-performance/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:03:39

  • "Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/shipping-microlighter/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:04:10

  • "Emacs 31.1 has been released, whee! Also, Divya's post An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs is really cool and I'm looking forward to that becoming generally available in Emacs 32. =)" ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/08/2026-08-24-emacs-news/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:04:24

  • "I decided to test the UniFi 5G Backup, which is a small PoE-powered 5G RedCap-enabled device good for up to 220 Mbps of downlink bandwidth." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/unifi-u5g-backup-debugging/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:38:18

  • "A pyrotechnic charge is set off by passing a high voltage through a filament within it, melting the filament and igniting the charge." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/blow-those-pyros-with-a-telephone/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:46:49

  • "For last article’s resin print, I had to put a number of models onto the build plate in the slicer, after which I mashed ‘auto arrange’" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/anatomy-of-an-sla-resin-printing-disaster/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:47:05

  • "My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1)." ☛ https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ |    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:47:49

  • "Remote desktop has been one of the weaker areas of the transition to Wayland." ☛ https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/whats-happening-in-kde-remote-desktop-improved-unattended-mode-and-more/ | Source: David Edmundson    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:48:24

  • "The National Guard never wanted to be Trump's tool of oppression - Boing Boing" https://boingboing.net/2026/08/24/national-guard-trump-dc-deployment.html    

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

  • "The Dead Internet Theory May Be Coming True, Pew Research Findings Show - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/23/2258205    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:13:08

  • "Not coincidentally, the only places in the world that chattel slavery still exists are in Islamic countries." https://pjmedia.com/aj-christopher/2026/08/22/who-needs-islam-n4956418    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:13:24

  • "Trump is Being Confronted by his Worst Nightmare - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/25/trump-is-being-confronted-by-his-worst-nightmare/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:14:15

  • Inverting what freedom means? Proprietary made out of free software is freedom? "Jeffrey Paul: The AGPL License Is Nonfree" https://sneak.berlin/20250720/the-agpl-is-nonfree/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:14:48

  • "Losing the Iran War: The Economic Front - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/losing-the-iran-war-the-economic    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:14:58

  • Hackaday making excuses for plagiarism industry? https://hackaday.com/2026/08/25/ai-book-scanning-just-what-is-a-rare-book/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:17:10

  • Anon coastal (Swedish speaking) or the rest? https://phys.org/news/2026-08-finns-productive-healthy-years-average.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:17:41

  • ("Finns may live to 80 or 85, but productive healthy years average 43 to 46")    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:18:44

  • "On Linux, Citrix Workspace (wfica; icaclient 26.04.0.105) crashes, printing the following error message to console: [...]" ☛ https://yingtongli.me/blog/2026/08/25/citrix-sigfpe.html | Source: Lee Yingtong Li    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:20:52

  • "If you're setting a maximum, you need to know how much memory the system has." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemMemoryNeedQuestion | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:21:03

  • "In Episode 16, I chat with Nic, the author of nicchan.me about, among other things, using the web as a design tool, web accessibility, learning from others' code, and more." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/08/25/www-16 | Source: James G    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:21:35

  • "Wonders of Web Weaving" ☛ https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/16 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:21:51

  • "Check out the second installment of our new segment "Steve Scale" as Steve digs into the Ovens family distro. What is BootC and why does he use it? LG is pushing ads to your monitor, and we introduce you to CachyOS." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/501 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:22:01

  • Last Year's Decision https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/last-years-decision/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 12:30:26

  • Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/unifi-u5g-backup-debugging/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:51:50

  • What’s Happening In KDE Remote Desktop – Improved Unattended Mode and More ☞ http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/whats-happening-in-kde-remote-desktop-improved-unattended-mode-and-more/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:52:14

  • Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter? ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/shipping-microlighter/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:52:34

  • Black Hat State of Security Vendors ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/black-hat-state-of-security-vendors.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:52:50

  • Harvard Professor Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-professor-ai-factory-farming-humans    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:55:35

  • Online Harms’ Forgotten Generation: Why the Government Needs to Pay Attention to Protecting Seniors ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/online-harms-forgotten-generation-why-the-government-needs-to-pay-attention-to-protecting-seniors/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:56:18

  • Safety Not Surveillance – National Townhalls on Hey Hi (AI) and ‘crime-predicting’ technologies ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/safety-not-surveillance-townhall/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:56:31

  • Safety Not Surveillance – National Townhalls on Hey Hi (AI) and ‘crime-predicting’ technologies ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/safety-not-surveillance-townhall/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:56:39

  • NSA isn’t complying with federal laws on whistleblower protections, IG finds ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2026/08/nsa-isnt-complying-with-federal-laws-on-whistleblower-protections-ig-finds/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 13:57:17

  • Steam Machine and Steam Controller support coming to NVIDIA GeForce NOW, plus DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction out now for desktop gamers | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-machine-and-steam-controller-support-coming-to-nvidia-geforce-now-plus-dlss-4-5-ray-reconstruction-out-now-for-desktop-gamers/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:03:34

  • Drop Loot is a slick reinvention of Tetris as an engrossing dungeon crawler | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/drop-loot-is-a-slick-reinvention-of-tetris-as-an-engrossing-dungeon-crawler/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:04:03

  • True classic SNES JRPG 'Terranigma' comes to PC in early 2027 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/true-classic-snes-jrpg-terranigma-comes-to-pc-in-early-2027/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:06:36

  • W4 Games, the company formed by Godot Engine veterans, gets help and funding from Tencent | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/w4-games-the-company-formed-by-godot-engine-veterans-gets-help-and-funding-from-tencent/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:07:52

  • BS headline today: "New Xbox ROG Console Costs Over $1,000, RIP Your Wallet". No!! There is no future console, no "new XBox". This is VAPOURWARE.    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:09:03

  • Slopmatt's angry lawyer operates under the false impression that while labouring as a hired gun with death threats, threats to decapitate sites, and threats to put a family in prison he is somehow a poor victim. Are these people as drunk as their clients?    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:13:28

  • Cult-classic horror point-and-click adventure Sanitarium returns as Sanitarium Enhanced | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/cult-classic-horror-point-and-click-adventure-sanitarium-returns-as-sanitarium-enhanced/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:15:00

  • The Crocodile is Shedding Off Tears Again https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/the-crocodile-is-shedding-off-tears-again/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:36:03

  • Bazzite 44 getting a hotfix for various issues after the recent big release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bazzite-44-getting-a-hotfix-for-various-issues-after-the-recent-big-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:36:28

  • Techrights said: "Don't choose barristers/counsels based on price." While it is a "bad idea to give advice on correcting their mistakes" it does show their client that their incompetence means dumping them would be wise.    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:37:56

  • iophk: "high school"? most of those are "junior high school" level https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5468462 Have reading skills deteriorated that badly nationally?    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:38:23

  • Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection announced for September | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/alien-breed-35th-anniversary-collection-announced-for-september/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:40:16

  • Valve updated a bunch of their older Steam shooters | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/valve-updated-a-bunch-of-their-older-steam-shooters/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/valve-updated-a-bunch-of-their-older-steam-shooters/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:40:24

  • Red Hat is marketing slop while neglecting Linux ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/beyond-benchmarks-5-pillars-ai-evaluation-systems | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:44:01

  • "Marc Richter manages a team of Red Hat technical account managers (TAMs) for the southeast commercial region in the US." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/paying-it-forward-how-mentorship-comes-full-circle-early-talent | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:44:10

  • "crypto" BS to help IBM with the hype campaign that basically cheats shareholders ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/preparing-openstack-post-quantum-era-systematic-approach-crypto-agility | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:44:45

  • GAFAM instead of freedom ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/streamlining-container-security-red-hat-hardened-images-now-supported-aws-inspectorscan-api-and-ecr-basic-scanning | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:45:40

  • "an 8-core Arm CPU" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/upcoming-jetson-orin-nano-2-boosts-edge-ai-performance-to-78-tops/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:46:37

  • So much focus on slop ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-edge-box-runs-linux-on-rockchip-rv1126b-with-3-tops-npu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:47:15

  • Slop plagiarism instead of proper work that can be understood ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/iar-webinar-to-examine-static-and-runtime-analysis-for-ai-assisted-embedded-development/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:47:48

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posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:49:16

  • Richard Stallman's GNU Project Began 42 Years Ago With GNU Emacs and More ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/26/Richard_Stallman_s_GNU_Project_Began_42_Years_Ago_With_GNU_Emac.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:49:20

  • "We’ve worked closely with Arduino and Qualcomm Technologies to deliver an ‘industrial-grade’ software stack as a starting point." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/arduino-ventuno-q-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-pre-installed | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:52:34

  • GNU/Linux Measured at 10% in Germany, Based on Clownflare ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/26/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_10_in_Germany_Based_on_Clownflare.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 14:53:08

  • Go Language 1.27 Released with Generic Methods, JSON v2, SIMD Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/go-language-1-27-released-with-generic-methods-json-v2-simd-support/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:02:35

  • State divergence enables unauthorized access ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/25/state-divergence-enables-unauthorized-access/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:03:48

  • Talos 1.14.0-rc2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/talos    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:04:01

  • Zenwalk Current-260825 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zenwalk    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:04:09

  • Using and powering shelf retrocomputers ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/using-and-powering-shelf-retrocomputers/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:04:56

  • "I got a termination letter today - After successfully passing my PIP and last meeting with my manager yesterday. Today IBM sent me a termination letter. No severance. Nothing. Just take your stuff and bye. My advice your you guys. Do not trust any manager at IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z49eyw    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:05:53

  • "Quantum Computing Failure Now Obvious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX_oIQ-tA6M IBM features prominently in Sabine's new video." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0yxcgat    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:06:25

  • Now up to about 10% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=EC&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP compare to https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/18/GNU_Linux_in_Ecuador_and_Colombia_Growing_Still_Below_Internati.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:32:42

  • Netherlands 10% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=NL    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:34:43

  • Firefox Nightly: Icons! Lots of them! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 206 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/08/25/icons-lots-of-them-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-206/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 15:52:20

  • I Try My Best to Boycott YouTube and You Should Too https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/i-try-my-best-to-boycott-youtube-and-you-should-too/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 16:25:50

  • Stallman was right wing, said nobody ever...    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 16:32:45

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

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 16:36:15

  • Windows down to 61% in desktops/laptops https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202608    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 16:36:49

  • GNU/Linux "Market Share" Rises to About a Quarter in Sudan https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/19/GNU_Linux_Market_Share_Rises_to_About_a_Quarter_in_Sudan.shtml CLownflare says 6% for Sudan    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 16:50:49

  • You Know You Secretly Hate Women When... https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/26/you-know-you-secretly-hate-women-when/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:00:43

  • OpenRGB: Remote System Compromise via Custom Network Protocol ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/08/25/openrgb-remote-vulnerabilities.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:30:27

  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090524/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:30:42

  • Vanilla OS 3 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090527/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:30:55

  • Antoine Beaupré: A more nuanced view of LLMs ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-08-25-llm-nuance/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:32:57

  • The Job Is Not Yours to Ban ☞ https://jxself.org/not-yours.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:34:42

  • Amid drone threat, Lithuania deploys air defence system near capital Vilnius ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3032147/amid-drone-threat-lithuania-deploys-air-defence-system-near-capital-vilnius    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:35:25

  • Slop 'coding' gemini://mozz.us/journal/2026-08-25_wednesday-is-token-day.gmi    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:37:11

  • "There's a family band of magpies that keep me noisy company at my desk in the morning. As I'm back and forth from my desk as I deal with other responsibilities, they are there out of the window, calling to each other and letting me know at the same time where they are." gemini://littlecampsite.smol.pub/five-for-silver    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:38:41

  • "In which I mine my music collection for inspiration, and decide to have fun answering questions posed by song titles." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/answering-song-title-questions-1    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:39:20

  • "This year is the 50th anniversary of my first record purchase." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/buying_music    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:39:59

  • "Okay, with this variant you win when the opponent can’t make a move on the board and is out of reserve pieces, just like the original 1960s game, but you only have six moves to win!" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/focus-doomsday-clock    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:40:34

  • "Of course, the defining event in the recent history of Rwanda is the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed" gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-26-ubumuntu    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:42:09

  • "Will hopefully bump into Richard out there on the back roads at some point for some tea and godcake. Can't believe I forgot to mention tea in a piece in which I had a cup of nettle and honey tea next to me the whole time. I'm just so blinded by the road right now it seems!" gemini://littlecampsite.smol.pub/junction    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 17:43:00

  • WikiHow Files Lawsuit Against Proprietary Chaffbot Company Over ChatGPT’s Use of Its How-To Library ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/08/25/wikihow-files-lawsuit-against-openai-over-chatgpts-use-of-its-how-to-library/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:02:26

  • WikiHow Launches Copyright Infringement Suit Against Proprietary Chaffbot Company Over Instructional Material Used to Train Hey Hi (AI) Models ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/25/wikihow-sues-openai-copyright-infringement/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:02:47

  • Three killed, some 150 injured in fire at Russian gas chemical complex ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/more-than-120-injured-in-fire-at-russian-gas-chemical-complex-one-chinese-worker-killed    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:02:58

  • South Korea says Russian military planes entered its air defence zone ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-russian-military-planes-entered-its-air-defence-zone    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:03:12

  • Russia Says ‘Nyet’ to Kanye Performances, Claims No Agreements Were Ever Signed ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/25/russia-cancels-planned-kanye-concerts/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:03:36

  • American military plane flies from Rīga to Moscow ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/25.08.2026-american-military-plane-flies-from-riga-to-moscow.a660303/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:04:21

  • Latvia broadens list of banned items from Russia and Belarus ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/25.08.2026-latvia-broadens-list-of-banned-items-from-russia-and-belarus.a660332/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:04:33

  • What Happened to the Coveted Western Tanks Sent to Ukraine? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/europe/ukraine-russia-tanks.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:05:07

  • For Ukraine’s Greek peoples, the war threatens a language and a way of life ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0825/ukraine-roumean-north-azovian-greek-urum-mariupol-war    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:05:35

  • Congress eyes tighter sanctions on Russia – with wiggle room for Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0825/russia-sanctions-congress-trump    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:05:51

  • CIA Chief John Ratcliffe Sparks Global Frenzy With Unannounced Moscow Flight for High-Level Discussions ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cia-director-secret-moscow-visit-1816272    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:06:24

  • Nvidia Jetson Orin-guided Russian Hey Hi (AI) drone killed three civilians in Ukraine, forensic teams say — first documented case of civilian deaths caused by a Russian drone using fully autonomous targeting ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/nvidia-jetson-orin-guided-the-russian-ai-drone-that-killed-three-civilians-in-ukraine-forensic-teams-say    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:06:53

  • CIA Director Ratcliffe's Surprise Moscow Trip Raises Questions Over Russia, Ukraine, Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-cia-unannounced-rare-visit/33839330.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:07:08

  • ‘Not an isolated incident’: Russian drones stalk Ukraine’s civilians in ‘human safaris’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260825-not-an-isolated-incident-russian-drones-stalk-ukraine-civilians-human-safaris    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:07:35

  • CIA director Ratcliffe visits Moscow, US media reports ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260825-cia-director-ratcliffe-visits-moscow-us-media-reports    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:08:03

  • The last, perilous, 6 miles: where drones are replacing men ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/the-last-perilous-6-miles-where-drones-are-replacing-men/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:08:27

  • "social control media influencers" ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/human-security/report-exposes-russian-plot-to-lure-africans-into-its-war/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:08:56

  • Ukrainian cinema days returning to Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/culture/25.08.2026-ukrainian-cinema-days-returning-to-riga.a660219/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:09:11

  • Latvia will use VAT rebate to buy 12 more diesel generators for Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/25.08.2026-latvia-will-use-vat-rebate-to-buy-12-more-diesel-generators-for-ukraine.a660257/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:09:23

  • Latvia contributes to UN Security Council hearing on Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/25.08.2026-latvia-contributes-to-un-security-council-hearing-on-ukraine.a660265/    

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

  • Tim Retout: TF RAID ☞ https://retout.co.uk/2026/08/25/tf-raid/ "if you understand “working” to mean “working in production”. Which I do."    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:10:52

  • Yet Another Massive Rust Security Failure, Surprising No One ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/yet-another-massive-rust-security    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:12:13

  • pg_statviz 1.2 released with PostgreSQL 19 support and new features ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_statviz-12-released-with-postgresql-19-support-and-new-features-3369/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:13:13

  • What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #70 – S3E22 Private Forks, CRA Deadlines, and the True Cost of Open Source Compliance with Dave Russo ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/08/25/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-70-s3e22-private-forks-cra-deadlines-and-the-true-cost-of-open-source-compliance-with-dave-russo/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:13:33

  • Teens return to Fentanylware (CheeTok) after world’s first usage ban, data shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/teens-return-to-tiktok-after-worlds-first-usage-ban-data-show    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:14:20

  • 'Linux' Foundation serves Microsoft, pyramid scheme (slop), and "Attestation" ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/linux-foundation-to-govern-trace-an-open-standard-for-ai-runtime-attestation/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:15:42

  • parted Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/parted/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:16:08

  • mklinux-v7.0-mk2 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1090582/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:16:36

  • Patent troll uses illegal 'court' (UPC) to leverage software patents ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/interdigital-escalates-upc-campaign-against-disney-over-vp9-workaround/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:17:25

  • Nowadays contaminated by slop while removing proper code understood by humans ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-was-announced-by-linus-torvalds-35-years-ago-today-humble-os-started-with-10-000-lines-of-code-but-has-now-grown-to-40-million-dominates-global-infrastructure    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:18:19

  • Decades-long GNU/Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/decades-long-linux-ownership-dispute-effectively-dead-after-xinuos-appeal-rejected-us-court-of-appeals-halts-the-legal-wrangling-over-ibms-and-red-hats-use-of-project-monterey-unix-code    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:19:02

  • SIGFPE (Floating point exception) on Citrix Workspace for GNU/Linux ☞ https://yingtongli.me/blog/2026/08/25/citrix-sigfpe.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:21:31

  • Stumped by a Medical Mystery? Try Metagenomics ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/stumped-by-a-medical-mystery-try-metagenomics    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:22:39

  • Japan zoos, aquariums change long-standing practices over animal welfare concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/zoos-aquariums-change-long-standing-practices-over-animal-welfare-concerns    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:22:57

  • USS Abraham Lincoln to dock in Thailand next week, Thai official says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/uss-abraham-lincoln-to-dock-in-thailand-next-week-thai-official-says    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:23:22

  • Trapped in a Pill Culture: Nearly 9.1 Million in England Rely on Antidepressants as Prescriptions Hit Record High ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/record-high-antidepressant-prescriptions-england-1816249    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:23:50

  • Millions in Indonesia suffer respiratory illnesses as haze spreads nationwide ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/millions-in-indonesia-suffer-respiratory-illnesses-as-haze-spreads-nationwide    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:24:01

  • Massive Black Market for Unapproved and Potentially Dangerous Obesity Drug Alarms Doctors ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/massive-black-market-obesity-drugs-glp1s-retatrutide    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:24:17

  • Confronting South Korea’s Violent Past and Its Echoes Today ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/asia/korea-democracy-tankday-starbucks.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:29:26

  • What does a self-reliant South Korea look like? Some push for a nuclear option. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0825/south-korea-us-drills-nuclear-weapons    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:29:38

  • Green turtles return to Malaysia’s Kelantan coast after 30 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/green-turtles-return-to-malaysias-kelantan-coast-after-30-years    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:30:26

  • China examines new legal tool to pursue graft suspects, assets abroad ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-examines-new-legal-tool-to-pursue-graft-suspects-assets-abroad    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:36:52

  • ‘West Asia’, not the Middle East: it’s time for Australia to reset its strategic compass ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/west-asia-not-the-middle-east-its-time-for-australia-to-reset-its-strategic-compass/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:37:26

  • New bridge linking China, North Korea may open soon with Customs facility built ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-bridge-linking-china-north-korea-may-open-soon-with-customs-facility-built    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:37:41

  • Philippines seeking to expand military drone capabilities, says defence chief ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-seeking-to-expand-military-drone-capabilities-says-defence-chief    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:37:55

  • Satellite images hint at China adding radar ‘eyes’ near emerging South China Sea base ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/new-installations-emerge-on-islet-as-china-accelerates-south-china-sea-build-up    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:38:08

  • China sentences artist Gao Zhen to 3 years’ jail for ‘insulting heroes’, says rights group ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-sentences-artist-gao-zhen-to-3-years-jail-for-insulting-heroes-says-rights-group    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:38:33

  • China, India hold border talks, agree to continue search for boundary settlement ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-india-hold-border-talks-agree-to-continue-search-for-boundary-settlement    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:39:16

  • China’s Pooh-tin signals defiance as US threatens sanctions over Iran help ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-signals-defiance-as-us-threatens-sanctions-over-iran-help    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:39:29

  • China renews scrutiny of military procurement with call for tips ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-renews-scrutiny-of-military-procurement-with-call-for-tips    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:39:42

  • China flexes its auto-safety chops with huge recall of Tesla, other cars ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-flexes-its-auto-safety-chops-with-huge-recall-of-tesla-other-cars    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:40:05

  • Hong Kong court verdict aims to erase Tiananmen memory, 1989 student protester says ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2026/08/25/hkaspdmc-hong-kong-china-subversion/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:40:25

  • China Recalls Nearly Three Million Teslas Over Unsafe Door Handles ☞ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/china-recalls-three-million-teslas-unsafe-door-handles    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:41:10

  • This Tiny USB Device Turns Your Phone Into a Keyboard, Mouse, and SSH Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/openterface-keymod-crowdfunding-campaign/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:41:29

  • Experimental Drug Makes Obese Mice Burn Fat Without Losing Muscle – Or Eating Less ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/experimental-drug-makes-obese-mice-burn-fat-without-losing-muscle-or-eating-less    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:43:08

  • Meet Orexin, The Brain Chemical Behind Staying Motivated ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-may-have-found-the-exact-brain-cells-crucial-for-sustaining-motivation    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:44:21

  • World First: Mitochondria From a Woman's Leg Were Injected Into Her Eyes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-mitochondria-from-a-womans-leg-were-injected-into-her-eyes    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:44:35

  • 'Brand New' Frog Species Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight For Years, And It's Adorable ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/brand-new-frog-species-has-been-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-years-and-its-adorable    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:44:52

  • Fedora Community Blog: Meet editorial-guide-ramalama: An Hey Hi (AI) Assistant That Checks Your Fedora CommBlog and Magazine Articles Against Editorial Guidelines ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/meet-editorial-guide-ramalama-an-ai-assistant-that-checks-your-fedora-commblog-and-magazine-articles-against-editorial-guidelines/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:45:23

  • First Malware Built Specifically for Car Head Units Fuels Botnet ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/first-malware-built-specifically-for-car-head-units-fuels-botnet/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:46:14

  • Placemark is now fully open source ☞ https://macwright.com/2026/08/25/placemark-fully-open-source.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:46:51

  • WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys and Stronger 2SV in Account Security Update ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/whatsapp-adds-multiple-passkeys-and-stronger-2sv-in-account-security-update/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:47:18

  • No Place on Earth Is Safe if All Hell Breaks Loose, But One Place Is Safer Than The Rest ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/no-place-on-earth-is-safe-if-all-hell-breaks-loose-but-one-place-is-safer-than-the-rest    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:53:40

  • Deep Sea Scientists Hunting a Shipwreck Accidentally Stumbled Across The Ocean's Own Backrooms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/deep-sea-scientists-hunting-a-shipwreck-accidentally-stumbled-across-the-oceans-own-backrooms    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:53:50

  • Should We All Be Taking Probiotics Daily? An Expert Weighs in ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/should-we-all-be-taking-probiotics-daily-an-expert-weighs-in    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:54:01

  • Massive Study Says Vaping Really Is The Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking – But There's a Catch ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/massive-study-says-vaping-really-is-the-most-effective-way-to-quit-smoking-but-theres-a-catch    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:54:13

  • Newly Launched Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator Exposes $11 Billion Annual Ticket Resale Price Inflation ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/25/annual-ticket-resale-price-inflation-study-2026/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:54:39

  • 'Bored Rich Kids': North West's Dream of a 'Regular Job' at Starbucks Divides the Internet ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-west-starbucks-dream-celebrity-privilege-1816262    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:55:04

  • Nobody Wants Anthropic’s Best Hey Hi (AI) Model Anymore Now That There Are Way Cheaper Alternatives ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nobody-wants-anthropics-best-ai-cheaper-alternatives    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:57:10

  • Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than Hey Hi (AI) Models ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/babies-way-better-learning-ai-llm-models-language    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:57:30

  • 90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, Hey Hi (AI) Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/90-percent-execs-ai-didnt-help-productivity-layoffs    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:57:45

  • MElon Just Said Something About Hey Hi (AI) That’s Literally Incomprehensible ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-incomprehensible    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:58:01

  • Lithuania’s human rights progress held back by gaps between law and practice – report ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3032320/lithuania-s-human-rights-progress-held-back-by-gaps-between-law-and-practice-report    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:58:28

  • Kroger Faces a 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 Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:59:24

  • N.Y.C. Officials Defend Second-Home Tax Rollout and Move to Ease Worries ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/nyregion/mamdani-pieds-a-terre-tax-homes.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 18:59:56

  • AliExpress allegedly uses your browser's audio system to fingerprint your PC — hidden code runs even when no sound is playing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/aliexpress-allegedly-uses-your-browsers-audio-system-to-fingerprint-your-pc-hidden-code-runs-even-when-no-sound-is-playing    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:00:56

  • DHS proposes new $100K filing fee on H-1B visa petitions ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/dhs-proposes-new-100k-filing-fee-on-h-1b-visa-petitions/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:01:41

  • Nigeria’s president orders rescue operation after mass kidnapping at mosque ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260825-nigeria-president-orders-rescue-after-mass-kidnapping-during-mosque-attack    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:03:13

  • Water sector passes, government sector fails attempts to spot and halt simulated CISA attack ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-red-team-report-government-water-cybersecurity/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:03:35

  • The GTA VI leaks are breaking the internet. Security researchers have seen this before. ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/grand-theft-auto-6-data-theft-extortion-leaks/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:04:00

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: gettz 0.0.6 on CRAN: Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/25#gettz_0.0.6    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:05:36

  • Designs should not be patented but copyrighted; this is not real system meant to encourage anything but protectionism ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/design-patents-did-it-how-china-passed-japan-in-us-patent-grants.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:08:37

  • Wikipedia is now like a conference you submit papers to and can sponsor to get your paper accepted ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202608/easyos-draft-submitted-to-wikipedia.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:10:03

  • Airstrikes and Illegal Mining Add to Myanmar’s Troubles ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/asia/myanmar-junta-violence-rohingya.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:10:50

  • Beware of Other License Plate Surveillance Companies Besides Flock ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/other-alpr-vendors    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:11:03

  • Phone signal in tent ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202608/phone-signal-in-tent.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:18:19

  • Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab - GSoC Week 9 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/25/week9-gsoc-blog/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:18:51

  • My first class action ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/im-part-of-my-first-class-action/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:19:33

  • KLV-Airedale sr22 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/klv    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:19:45

  • Congrats to Linux.org for Adopting or Getting Back to IRC ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/24/Congrats_to_Linux_org_for_Adopting_or_Getting_Back_to_IRC.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:23:09

  • Amnesty International calls for children to be included in youth digital rights regulatory processes ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/amnesty-international-calls-for-children-to-be-included-in-youth-digital-rights-regulatory-processes/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:27:26

  • South Asia SRF highlights Member priorities on IPv6, routing security, and training ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/25/south-asia-srf-highlights-member-priorities-on-ipv6-routing-security-and-training/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:33:19

  • Red Hat shilling slop and hype ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/automating-red-hat-openshift-ai-installations-with-helm-and-gitops    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:34:29

  • Beyond origin validation: Four classes of routing attack nobody Is validating ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/26/beyond-origin-validation-four-classes-of-routing-attack-nobody-is-validating/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:34:55

  • Rakudo Weekly 2026.34 YAR by Coke ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/08/25/2026-34-yar-by-coke/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:35:37

  • Firehat is an open-source FireWire DV capture HAT for SBCs with Raspberry Pi PCIe FFC connector (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/25/firehat-open-source-firewire-dv-capture-hat-pcie-sbc-raspberry-pi-5-radxa-rock-2f/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:36:23

  • AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:36:41

  • Obfuscating IP Addresses as Hostnames, (Tue, Aug 25th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33280    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:41:20

  • Hong Kong court acquits gov’t statistician who followed, photographed girl during school open day ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/26/hong-kong-court-acquits-govt-statistician-who-followed-photographed-girl-during-school-open-day/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:42:46

  • CISA Warns of Exploited Oracle WebLogic Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-of-exploited-oracle-weblogic-vulnerability/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:43:36

  • Lantronix Open-M 720G/520G – Ultra-compact LGA system-on-modules based on MediaTek Genio 720 and Genio 520 SoCs ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/26/lantronix-open-m-720g-520g-ultra-compact-lga-system-on-module-based-on-mediatek-genio-720-and-genio-520-socs/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:44:10

  • $299 Arduino Ventuno Q SBC combines Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 SoC and STM32H5 MCU ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/25/299-arduino-ventuno-q-sbc-combines-qualcomm-dragonwing-iq8-soc-and-stm32h5-mcu/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:44:38

  • Apple price hikes continue as Mac mini with 16GB RAM and 256GB is now $899 — 1TB storage option adds $500 to entry-level headless system ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/apple-price-hikes-continue-as-mac-mini-with-16gb-ram-and-256gb-is-now-usd899-1tb-storage-option-adds-usd500-to-entry-level-headless-system http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/02/Storage_and_Memory_Prices_Are_Rising_Not_Because_of_High_Demand.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:46:05

  • Read as: X11 is STILL better them Wayland. THEM: So USE Wayland!!! https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-68-Better-Remote-Desktop    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:47:14

  • Us the "something worse" or we'll call you "nazi"    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:48:02

  • (Use)    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:48:09

  • The age of Physical Hey Hi (AI) is here, and it runs on the Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q board ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/25/the-age-of-physical-ai-is-here-and-it-runs-on-the-arduino-ventuno-q-board/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:48:18

  • CISA wants agencies to maximize ‘insight’ from cyber data logging ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/cisa-wants-agencies-to-maximize-insight-from-cyber-data-logging/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:48:37

  • WordPress Websites Targeted via MiniOrange Plugin Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/wordpress-websites-targeted-via-miniorange-plugin-vulnerabilities/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:48:59

  • Slop about SLOP about Linux. This is a slopfarm googlebombing "LINUX" to sell SLOP. https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/securing-ai-agents-on-linux-understanding-nvidia-openshell/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:52:32

  • "OpenSSL 4.0.2 has been released today as the second maintenance/security update to the latest OpenSSL 4.0 series of this widely used TLS/SSL and crypto library for providing secure communications over computer networks." https://9to5linux.com/openssl-4-0-2-released-with-important-security-and-bug-fixes    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:52:53

  • "Over the last day Valve put out updates for some of their more classic shooters - nice to see they don't completely forget about some of their older games. Sure would be fun to see a new modernised version of something like Day of Defeat though." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/valve-updated-a-bunch-of-their-older-steam-shooters/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:53:18

  • Worthless, reinventing the wheel with plagiarism, full of bugs... waste of energy https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-veterans-vibe-coded-task-manager-now-also-runs-on-mac-and-linux-downloadable-app-is-the-result-of-a-107-page-spec-fed-to-claude-code    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:53:48

  • Uptick in SLOPfarms promoting slop and googlebombing "Linux" https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/linux-foundation-submits-openmdw-for-open-source-review/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:54:25

  • BUT DAZ it something something quantum, IBM? https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260825PR200/ibm-arm-linux-processor-software.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:55:05

  • Linux kernel 7.3 includes direct support for the Steam controller. Controlread 2026 https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/v-sostav-yadra-linux-7-3-voshla-pryamaya-podderzhka-kontrollera-steam-controller-2026 Linux kernel 7.3 = http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/18/Linux_Losing_Interest_in_Users_Freedom_Pursues_DRM_Instead.shtml    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:55:56

  • Linux devs WILL NOT be interested in checking botspam for a living. This will weaken the project.    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:56:38

  • "Ardour 9.8 has been released as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems." https://9to5linux.com/ardour-9-8-open-source-daw-is-now-available-with-initial-scales-support    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:56:44

  • Xbox PC Games May Soon Be Able To Run on Linux OS https://in.ign.com/xbox/268436/xbox-pc-games-may-soon-be-able-to-run-on-linux-os    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:57:35

  • Slopfarm about LF. Did LF pay these BOTS to issue SPAM made by LLMs about its slop activities? LF is increasingly just a scams hub. https://betanews.com/article/linux-foundation-openmdw-osi-license/ http://techrights.org/o/2022/08/19/the-bakkt-pyramid-scheme/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:58:40

  • The PocketBook Q is a Linux-based alternative to Android ereaders — new Boox rival has a 5.84-inch E Ink screen and will cost $235 https://tech.yahoo.com/apps/articles/pocketbook-q-linux-based-alternative-111157235.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:59:08

  • "Recently, Saudi company Humain teased a new product featuring the Snapdragon X2 Elite processor running a non-Windows OS" https://finance.biggo.com/news/9bbf036e-90b5-4d00-a35b-372e50c6b41f    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 19:59:56

  • LilyGo Launches K230 Kit: RISC-V AI Pocket Computer Blocked From Current Ubuntu https://www.techtimes.com/articles/325384/20260824/lilygo-launches-k230-kit-risc-v-ai-pocket-computer-blocked-current-ubuntu.htm    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:00:31

  • I've tried every major Linux distro, and this is the only one I can recommend for work https://www.howtogeek.com/ive-tried-every-major-linux-distro-and-this-is-the-only-one-i-can-recommend-for-work/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:00:53

  • Latest SCAM to be promoted by misusing "LINUX" brand, with errors made in the paid PR https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-welcomes-trace-to-advance-verifiable-runtime-evidence-for-ai-workloads-302858923.html    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:01:42

  • 5 free games that make learning the Linux command line addictive https://www.howtogeek.com/gamification-tricks-that-make-learning-the-linux-command-line-addictive/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:02:02

  • 'Linux' Foundation serves Microsoft, pyramid scheme (slop), and "Attestation" https://www.hpcwire.com/aiwire/2026/08/25/linux-foundation-welcomes-trace-to-advance-verifiable-runtime-evidence-for-ai-workloads/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:02:54

  • Noy only that https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-has-both-gnome-and-kde-because-of-a-licensing-war/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:03:11

  • The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over https://thenextweb.com/news/who-owns-linux-xinuos-ibm-appeals-court-ruling    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:04:12

  • Espressif posts a Linux BSP for the ESP32-S31 https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/25/espressif-posts-a-linux-bsp-for-the-esp32-s31/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:05:34

  • "Shelly 3.1 has been released today as a major update to this pacman alternative for Arch Linux distributions, introducing several new features and enhancements." https://9to5linux.com/shelly-3-1-package-manager-is-out-with-support-for-building-arch-linux-packages    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:06:07

  • "Xinuos plans to petition for a full‑bench rehearing of its case, but this kind of request has only a 0.03% success rate according to IBM’s lawyers." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/decades-long-linux-ownership-dispute-effectively-dead-after-xinuos-appeal-rejected-us-court-of-appeals-halts-the-legal-wrangling-over-ibms-and-red-hats-use-of-project-monterey-unix-code    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:06:29

  • "Minix's main goal was to teach students how an operating system worked, and Torvalds drew inspiration from it to the point where he set out to make his own." https://www.xda-developers.com/35-years-ago-linus-torvalds-usenet-linux/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:06:59

  • "Looking at the bigger picture, Torvalds has said the period in early 1992, when Linux switched to the GNU Public License version 2 (GPLv2), was especially important." https://www.zdnet.com/article/just-a-hobby-linus-torvalds-introduced-linux-35-years-ago-almost-called-it-freax/    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:09:01

  • and so it begins... gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/andsoitbegins    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:34:05

  • torii moon garden gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/renewal    

posted Wednesday, August 26, 2026 at 20:34:45
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