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Maresca Finds Confidence https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/maresca-finds-confidence/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 02:42:15

  • my elephant and I gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/my_elephant_and_i    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 02:44:58

  • "I am sitting here eating a vaguely Mexican-inspired bowl of assorted sauteed vegetables, beans, and spices that looks weird but tastes amazing." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-08-28    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 02:45:43

  • "I've struggled a lot with anxiety; over the years it has caused me to miss out on a lot of life. I've gotten better at getting past it, but it's still a very real obstacle, a little battle I have to fight every time I journey out of my comfort zone; something I'd been doing quite a bit in the recent times." gemini://feathers.smol.pub/2026-08-29_my_little_battle_cry    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 02:46:24

  • "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 Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 02:47:17

  • "There is, supposedly, only tuning of the network parameters (e.g., promoter production rates) due to "selection pressure"." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260828-0.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 02:48:21

  • Stories for September https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/stories-for-september/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 03:04:35

  • "Western Capitalism" in the 'New Age' https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/western-capitalism-in-the-new-age/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 04:34:19

  • The USA is on the Side of the Aggressor https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/the-usa-is-on-the-side-of-the-aggressor/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 06:37:24

  • [IBM] Second line manager got the booth. What's next? https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/LypsgKSMZg    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:28:26

  • "It looks like my second line was booted out and theres been no communication about it. People who have experienced this, how should I expect this to affect me? This is US consulting"    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:28:58

  • "For all the PIPs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m14edr6b "For the influx of PIPs coming in, where are you located and which BU? Before someone starts yelling “WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?”, it’s because this would help folks in these countries/BU to know what’s coming and start looking for new roles."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:29:37

  • "Over the past two years, Belgium's anti-piracy blocklist has grown past 1,500 domains." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/belgian-orders-demand-pirate-site-operators-bank-details-crypto-wallets-and-server-logs/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:51:22

  • "The US tech giant found itself in EU regulators' crosshairs after publishers complained ‌about its ⁠site reputation abuse ⁠policy." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-changes-spam-policy-in-eu-to-avert-antitrust-fine/articleshow/133583861.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:53:06

  • "Private utility companies like PG&E, Duke, and Exelon control electricity for nearly 70% of Americans" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-truth-behind-your-high-electricity | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:53:13

  • "This tallies, of course, with sales of CDs themselves." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/22/young-people-buying-all-in-one-cd-players | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:53:42

  • "About six months ago, I realised I was feeling increasingly uncomfortable paying for our Spotify Premium Family plan. The company had hiked its prices yet again." ☛ https://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/spotify |    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:53:59

  • "Even though automakers made concessions more than a decade ago, they have continued to prevent consumers from accessing their vehicle data." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/right-to-repair-laws | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:54:10

  • "The report states that the discussion to give away the land parcel to Kingsbarn Realty Capital started in the Spring of 2025." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/is-trump-giving-away-part-of-yosemite-national-park-to-kingsbarn-realty-capital-for-resort-what-we-know-so-far-101787939727178.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:57:47

  • "The proposed deal, first reported by NOTUS, would benefit Kingsbarn Realty Capital" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-eyes-deal-to-give-away-yosemite-park-land-to-real-estate-firm/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:57:58

  • "The Constitution says that “the Times, Places, and Manner” of federal elections “shall be prescribed” by the states." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2026/0828/supreme-court-mail-in-voting-trump | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:58:16

  • "And in several of these states these laws are approaching four or five years of age." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/28/right-to-repair-state-laws-continue-to-surge-but-enforcement-remains-nonexistent/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 07:58:29

  • "the U.S. military’s independent news source since the Civil War with a long history of editorial independence, free from news management or censorship by military command" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/journalists-sue-pentagon-stars-and-stripes | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:01:40

  • "The International Press Institute, a nonprofit that aims to protect media freedom, recorded 26 incidents of attacks and threats in the five months to March." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/28/2026/environmental-journalists-in-africa-facing-violence-report-says | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:01:51

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posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:02:05

  • "The Pentagon fired three journalists — Publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte — on Aug. 21 for insubordination." ☛ https://www.notus.org/defense/stars-and-stripes-sue-pete-hegseth-firings | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:02:10

  • "Zambia's national broadcaster reports that Brian Mundubile, who wanted to challenge this month's presidential election results, and his running mate have surrendered to police and are being interviewed." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/zambian-opposition-leader-in-police-custody-state-media/a-78531338 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:04:23

  • "The detention of Brian Mundubile and Makebi Zulu on Thursday risks clouding Lusaka’s credentials as a relatively stable southern African democracy and denting investor confidence in Africa’s second-largest copper producer." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/28/2026/zambia-detains-main-opposition-leader-following-election | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:04:42

  • "Posts which appear to be from your personal account have come to my attention. Please plan to meet with me tomorrow to discuss" ☛ https://abc7.com/post/beverly-hills-substitute-teachers-lawsuit-school-claims-she-was-fired-anti-trump-social-media-posts/19734121/ | Source: ABC    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:05:05

  • "I loaded the movie on a streaming service, and I noticed its unusual duration. Only 1h 19min. Strange." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/books-dvds.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:05:23

  • "It’s no surprise that a group of concerned publishers, booksellers, authors, library associations, libraries, library workers, and library" ☛ https://www.oif.ala.org/what-fayet-teville-public-library-v-murray-means-for-arkansas-libraries/ | Source: American Library Association    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:06:42

  • "The 206-page judgment, after all, boils down to saying that pursuing democracy is a crime." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/28/in-full-tiananmen-vigil-activist-chow-hang-tungs-mitigation-after-guilty-verdict-in-national-security-trial/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:06:54

  • "Abkhazian blogger Daur Buava has been found dead in an apartment in Tbilisi on Thursday night, with the cause of his death currently unknown. Buava was an outspoken proponent of dialogue between Georgians and Abkhazians." ☛ https://oc-media.org/abkhazian-blogger-daur-buava-found-dead-in-tbilisi/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:07:08

  • "The Iranian regime has repeatedly harassed and attempted to kidnap and kill journalists and Iranian dissidents worldwide simply for exercising their freedoms." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-threats-farda-military-target-srights/33842697.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:07:25

  • "Because access to banking, government, insurance, judicial, and even educational services in Iran is now tied to a verified mobile number and one-time SMS codes" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-sim-ban-punish-activists-disrupt-life/33841790.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:07:39

  • "But there was another force at play." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-standing-rocks-propaganda-war-means-today/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:08:40

  • "As a scholar of conspiracy theories and extremism, I’ve watched QAnon seep from the margins into mainstream American politics over the past decade." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/08/28/the-long-afterlife-of-qanon-conspiracy-theories-haunting-american-politics-partner/ | Source: Salon    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:08:51

  • "AI companies have promised us world-shifting technology. But there’s a cost: loud, unsightly datacentres that drain environmental resources." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/aug/27/everyone-hates-datacentres-do-we-really-need-them-video | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:09:35

  • "I’m not saying that with Musk money, one can’t blight the sky with computer hardware, I’m sure he can." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/28/datacenters-in-spaaaaaaace/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:09:48

  • "Three days after a prominent artificial intelligence investor and his wife donated $1 million to a political action committee boosting Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/nevada-governor-endorsed-data-centers-days-after-ai-investor-donated-1-million/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:10:01

  • "From its very first broadcast episode on September 8 1966, Star Trek established that its true subject was the exploration of humanity itself" ☛ https://theconversation.com/star-trek-at-60-the-secret-of-this-pioneering-series-was-its-exploration-of-humanity-not-aliens-290646 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:10:14

  • "The data showed that most other figures, like Donald Trump or Taylor Swift" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-anti-dolly-parton | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:10:47

  • "The loan would add to SoftBank’s flurry of recent debt financing activities tied to its bet on OpenAI, including a potential bond sale of as much as $20 billion" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/softbank-seeks-another-10-billion-loan-for-openai-stake-funding/articleshow/133586218.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:10:58

  • "It would also give Nvidia control of Hugging Face, which hosts open-source large language models and datasets" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/nvidia-is-buying-the-home-of-open-source-ai/285404/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:11:10

  • "With the light fading and the drone battery beeping, I waited patiently for this exact moment before bringing the drone back to land at a critical 3%" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/people-keep-asking-me-if-its-ai-thats-not-an-insult-though-because-it-just-doesnt-seem-real-photographer-captures-threatened-species-that-wins-australias-most-prestigious-nature-photo-competition-but-his-drone-almost-died-out-on-the-ocean | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:12:46

  • "As the placard above makes pretty clear, most of the peninsula is covered by a big grassy field" ☛ https://blog.kamens.us/2026/08/26/trustees-hike-charles-river-peninsula/ | Source: Jonathan Kamens    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:13:03

  • "The federal government has proposed legislation to force data centre developers to provide their own renewable energy source." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australia-wants-more-data-centres-disagreement-over-power-sources/c04rtutv8 | Source: SBS    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:13:50

  • "Announced on Wednesday at the Activate AI conference in Cape Town, the venture pairs Stratos Lab as cloud operator" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/nvidias-top-ai-chips-are-coming-to-a-centurion-data-centre/285394/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:14:34

  • "IREN shares ‌fell more ⁠than ⁠7% in extended trading after the company swung to ​a quarterly loss, driven by costs tied to retiring ​bitcoin mining hardware as it shifts to AI cloud services." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/data-center-firm-iren-signs-new-deal-with-frontier-ai-lab-quarterly-loss-hits-shares/articleshow/133582380.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:16:23

  • "It’s well understood that El Niño, which typically brings a surge of global heat" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/27/el-nino-climate-patterns-fossil-fuels | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:17:14

  • "While data centers were not previously allowed in Harford County, the legislation codifies a permanent prohibition." ☛ https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/harford-county-data-center-ban-maryland-ai-council-court-law |    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:17:32

  • "Harford County, MD is the first county in the state to ban data centers outright, reported WBFF-TV." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/harford-county-md-first-to-ban-data-centers-in-the-state/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:17:55

  • "The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites apply for an air permit." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986176/data-center-pollution-epa-rule-change-air-permit | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:25:49

  • "But new guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency about “islanded” power plants — those built to serve a single facility rather than the electricity grid" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-rapid-buildout-of-data-centers-is-weakening-the-clean-air-act/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:26:03

  • "the bacterium is monitored by the US government as a Tier 1 agent/toxin, and has long been studied for its military potential as a biological weapon." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-crashed-his-car-into-a-deer-then-he-mysteriously-became-sick | Source: Science Alert    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:26:18

  • "Heatmap’s Robinson Meyer reported earlier this month that his own outlet’s survey found an extraordinary depth and breadth to public opposition to AI data centers." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/214795/ai-data-center-backlash-inevitable | Source: New Republic    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:26:32

  • "Currently, data centres are automatically classed as ‘critical infrastructure’ — along with vital sectors like energy, water and food" ☛ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/08/28/green-party-calls-for-govt-to-slam-the-brakes-on-new-data-centre-approval-after-water-shortage-fears/ | Source: Green Party UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:26:46

  • "The company's water usage effectiveness (WUE) ratio climbed to 2.40 litres per kilowatt-hour in the year to June, from 2.25 the prior year" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/australia-data-centre-firm-nextdc-reports-rising-water-energy-use-with-profit-beat/articleshow/133582745.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:27:02

  • "The latest twist comes in a long-running lawsuit brought by journalist Katie Phang" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-doj-contempt-epstein-files-1816954 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:27:29

  • "For those who in 2022 were dismayed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent relentless destruction of the country and its people" ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/08/28/show-me-your-friend/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:29:50

  • "Candidates with a history of denying the 2020 election results are on the ballot in states across the country this fall" ☛ https://www.notus.org/campaigns/election-deniers-swing-state-control-arizona-nevada-wisconsin | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:30:11

  • "The Great American Conflict, a 75-minute documentary produced by a Texas-based organization dedicated to converting Iran to Christianity" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/500726/muslim-documentary-texas-michigan-republican-evangelical-christian-activist-islamophobia | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:30:31

  • "Spooked by anti-billionaire talk from the Democratic Party base, ultrawealthy donors are backing Republicans this cycle." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/08/democratic-party-billionaires-money-populism | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:30:46

  • "As long as you have a flag state that doesn't care" ☛ https://therecord.media/finland-appeals-court-revives-case-against-eagle-s | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:31:17

  • "Looking at the site's code, the developer found it used the Web Audio API to build audio-processing graphs set to zero volume" ☛ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/08/24/aliexpress-ran-silent-browser-audio-to-fingerprint-and-track-devices-researchers-find/ | Source: Ghacks    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:36:08

  • "In other online spaces, the department’s post sparked discussions about surveillance and its abuses" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/police-surveillance-man-money-ground | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:36:19

  • "Our no photo/no video policy exists to protect the privacy" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nyc-basement-smart-glasses | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:36:31

  • "To admit these students into engineering, computer science, virology, microbiology or artificial intelligence programs, the university will have to conduct a background check." ☛ https://www.idsnews.com/article/2026/04/indiana-law-sea-256-requires-background-checks-international-students |    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:36:41

  • "What I love is that he doesn't argue with the hate." ☛ https://matduggan.com/you-know-gdpr-is-good-based-on-who-hates-it/ | Source: Mat Duggan    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:39:44

  • "According to the Chester County Sheriff's Office, they bypassed security poles with saws and battered the digital units with hammers until internal lithium battery packs exploded into roaring flames in the Edgemoor area." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/three-south-carolina-teenagers-arrested-flock-safety-camera-vandalism-1816961 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:39:56

  • "Now, computer monitors may be going the same way." ☛ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/lg-displaying-ads-monitor | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:40:05

  • "Much like Google’s infamous Google Glass smart glasses, Meta’s camera-equipped AI Glasses have turned into a widely derided gadget associated with horrendous public behavior and unwanted surveillance." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-kill-switch-pervert-glasses | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:40:39

  • "The information included email addresses, phone numbers, vehicle registrations and postcodes." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/customer-data-stolen-in-cyberattack-on-three-british-airports/articleshow/133569967.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:40:51

  • "GitHub Outage" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/28/github-outage/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:41:33

  • "This role is not eligible for relocation assistance or visa sponsorship." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/28/now-hiring-senior-open-source-maintainer.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:41:40

  • "Large corporations have poured billions to ensure as many eyeballs as possible remain active on their platforms." ☛ https://rohanrd.mataroa.blog/blog/age-of-distractions/ | Source: Rohanrd    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:42:26

  • "an open-source alternative front end for the social media platform — permanently shut down its instances and remove the project’s source code repository, it went after the code itself" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/x-nitter-open-source-takedown/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:42:41

  • "Eyewitness footage circulating across social media showed masked youths in tracksuits letting off blue flares, setting off fireworks, and driving vehicles recklessly across open farmland" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/county-durham-cars-torched-vigil-a66-crash-michael-cahill-1816947 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:42:56

  • "About $12.7bn of the total is guaranteed over ten years" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-17bn-settlement-child-safety-1816952 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:43:15

  • "Probably not, some digital safety researchers and advocates say." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0827/meta-settlement-facebook-instagram | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:43:27

  • "Despite the movement’s inherent characteristics of finding individualized personal enjoyment, whimsy has degraded into a standardized trend." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/social-media-kills-whimsy/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:43:38

  • "The settlement left untouched the personalised feeds and ad targeting that underpin its profits." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/metas-social-media-settlement-leaves-its-money-machine-unscathed/articleshow/133566900.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:43:56

  • "It also sent Meta’s shares about 1% higher, suggesting investors welcomed an outcome that will cost the company far less than the $1.4-trillion in penalties it said the states were seeking before trial." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/meta-wins-by-settling/285468/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:44:16

  • "But school systems are not prepared to engage in this level of sexual education, and young people’s information environment, especially on social media, is flooded with misinformation." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/29/choking-sexual-strangulation-research-no-safe-pressure-ntwnfb | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:44:29

  • "Having an AGENTS.md increases the token cost quite a lot — whether the file is chatbot-generated or human-written." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:47:22

  • "I’m not trying to avoid using AI. As I said at the top of the post I’m looking for more ways to take advantage of it." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/28/making-the-unnecessary-easier/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:47:31

  • "This is the problem acceptmarkdown.com wants to solve." ☛ https://syntackle.com/blog/should-your-website-serve-markdown-to-ai-agents/ | Source: Murtuzaali Surti    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:47:46

  • "I’ve been helping SF companies get sales and one of my customers came to me with a cold message that he wasn’t getting any good results with it." ☛ https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-slop-cold-message-rules | Source: Namanyay Goel    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:48:00

  • "Merely having this file in the repo has caused three issues: [...]" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/retiring-my-gag-agents-file/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:48:14

  • "it claims Grok was trained on child pornography, resulting in the child pornography problems created by Grok." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/08/28/groks-child-porn-nightmare-just-got-worse.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:48:26

  • "A class action lawsuit filed by victims of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) accuses xAI of training Grok’s synthetic deepfake “nudify” capabilities on real images and videos of child abuse." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/xai-grok-csam-class-action-lawsuit/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:48:44

  • "Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT make it easier for business owners to produce polished pitches" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-widespread-ai-tools-harder-craft.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:49:07

  • "What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ai-nonproliferation-usa-china/688421/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:49:20

  • "In May, Meta laid off roughly ten percent of its global workforce, affecting almost 8,000 people." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-secret-plan-replace-meta-staff-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:49:35

  • "The complaint, lodged Wednesday in the Northern District of California by an anonymous plaintiff identified as Jane Doe 1" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/child-abuse-victim-sues-musks-xai-over-ai-generated-images/articleshow/133573332.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:49:51

  • "Earlier this week I reported that purging Time Machine snapshots to reclaim free space was unreliable in macOS Tahoe 26.6.2." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/08/27/why-can-purging-snapshots-fail/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:50:08

  • "This change, if implemented, would have made these addresses basically useless. I am glad to see this was reversed." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/blocking-hide-my-email-followup/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:50:23

  • "But over the last year or two, opening Google Maps started feeling less like launching a clean utility and more like stepping into a social directory." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/finally-giving-up-on-google-maps-on-android-what-i-am-replacing-it-with/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:50:36

  • "Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-teams-is-becoming-a-haven-for-chinese-scammers/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:50:54

  • "The company urged customers to remove their servers from the public internet and restrict web access to only trusted IP addresses." ☛ https://therecord.media/papercut-warns-of-hackers-using-printer-management-vulnerabilities | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:51:05

  • "The War Horse spoke with four Army Reserve soldiers from the 103rd Sustainment Command who were wounded in the attack." ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/27/they-survived-an-iran-war-drone-attack-six-months-later-theyre-struggling-to-get-care/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:51:40

  • "Mother Nature drives our bus" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/213800/black-farmers-trump-administration-screwed | Source: New Republic    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:51:49

  • "I’m slowly closing in on a completist collection of Royal standard typewriters." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/27/royal-standard-typewriter-collection/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:52:15

  • "This mirrors what some colleagues are saying at Indiana University, where I currently hang. Here’s one story. Another. Another. Another. Another. Another." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/08/27/oh-canada/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:52:37

  • "Giving up is okay. But this feels more like being kicked out. Getting more than 5 rejections a day despite my past work is humiliating." ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/kicked-out/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:52:47

  • "If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one" ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/dolly-partons-superpower | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:53:04

  • "That turns out to be a bit of theme for this post, because it’s something I only noticed borrowing some documentaries from the late 1980s." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/documentaries-used-to-be-so-chill/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:53:22

  • "These results are relatively low-hanging fruit for AI; none of them required developing an extensive new theory." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-mathematics-at-least-not-yet.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:53:42

  • "The pioneering computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra, winner of the 1972 A.M. Turing Award and inventor of one of the most iconic algorithms in all of computing, was nothing if not opinionated." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-computer-science-need-computers-20260828/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:53:54

  • "The Aurigid meteor shower will remain active until 5 September, with activity expected to peak on the night of 31 August to 1 September." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/aurigid-meteor-shower-everything-you-need-to-know/p0xu8sm3e | Source: SBS    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:54:08

  • "They also help with the planning fallacy: our habit of estimating how long something takes by imagining it going well." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/28/implementation-intentions-correct-the-planning.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 08:54:35

  • A Dream Start https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/a-dream-start/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 09:01:53

  • iophk: it's over for Debian https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use "there is just too much bad happening to it since the infiltration by microsofters and their hollowing out the developer base I _*really*_ hope core Arch can survive all this so that there is _*something*_ left in the future."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:27:03

  • "The LLM poison will thus spread from the root of the tree to many hundreds of derivative distros."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:27:09

  • "Berezin thinks the fact that two tech giants handle 38.6 percent of email is concerning." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/26/self-hosted-email-is-in-steep-decline-microsoft-and-google-are-taking-over/5292471 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:28:31

  • "The domains didn't disappear; they moved. Google Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Microsoft 365 for 16.8%." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/artem-berezin/two-providers-a-stubborn-plateau-and-a-very-long-tail-email-in-the-tranco-top-1m/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:28:54

  • "Here’s my current Ghostty configuration: [...]" ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/taking-terminals-seriously/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:29:35

  • "While I like writing code to solve my technical problems and fulfill my software needs, I don’t like writing unnecessary code." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/y-is-for-yagni-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:30:06

  • "I discussed the use of the tm and wordcloud packages to create a visual representation of the most frequently used" ☛ https://dmwiig.net/2026/08/28/visual-representation-of-complex-data-using-r-the-tm-and-wordcloud-packages-part-two/ | Source: R Statistics and Programming    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:30:46

  • "The Perl Toolchain Summit (PTS) is an annual event, held in Europe, where work on improving the Perl toolchain takes place." ☛ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/08/28/how-i-spent-my-perl-toolchain-summit-v2025/ | Source: Olaf Alders    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:31:06

  • Mayfield Coffee Shop Opens https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/mayfield-coffee-shop-opens/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:41:34

  • 4 years ago: British army trains with Swedish and Finnish forces https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62781489 today https://united24media.com/world/sweden-deploys-fighter-jets-and-corvettes-to-help-defend-finlands-borders-22038 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/sweden-to-send-gripens-to-patrol-finlands-border-with-russia-svt-reports    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:45:41

  • Some media here says stock cans and water... while Swedish Army helps fortify the Finnish border and CIA visits Moscow. Is NATO anticipating something? The stock canned food + water mindset means emergency, but they try to avoid public panic or panic buying.    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:45:49

  • "A few months ago, Coding Jesus reached out to me about collaborating on content for GetCracked, his C++ learning platform." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/08/28/getcracked-intermediate-cpp-roadmap | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:48:51

  • "The report said companies often discover problems with their data only after they have already started an AI project." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ai-ecommerce-projects-may-fail-without-clean-centralised-data-report/articleshow/133586667.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:49:29

  • "Programmatic Access to Data and Statistics from the World Bank API" ☛ https://pacha.dev/blog/2026/08/28/wbstats/index.html | Source: Mauricio “Pachá” Vargas S    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:49:38

  • "Saturday 21 November 2026 WHERE: The Café at Zoopla, The Cooperage, 5 Copper Row, London SE1 2LH" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/lpw/2026/08/announcing-the-london-perl-raku-workshop-2026.html | Source: Perl    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:50:10

  • "Run by volunteers from the London Perl & Raku community, LPW will have talks about Perl, Raku, and other languages, technologies, and topics" ☛ https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2026/ | Source: Perl    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:50:19

  • "At that scale, wasting a single byte per entry costs more than 250 gigabytes of memory across our fleet." ☛ https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ | Source: Cloudflare    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:51:15

  • "Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cloudflare-frees-100tb-of-ram-by-shrinking-dns-cache-entries | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:51:34

  • "Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a10/ | Source: Tor    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:52:15

  • "Dreaming about a Chromium/Firefox extension that auto open any article on the web in reading mode." ☛ https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/08/28/654c1/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:52:43

  • "Ardour now allows you to visualize out-of-scale notes and choose if you want to avoid creating them entirely when you compose and improvise in a specific musical key" ☛ https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html |    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:53:07

  • "The current version of CPerl mode supports Perl syntax up to Perl 5.44." ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/haj/2026/08/cperl-mode-for-emacs-is-now-on-gnu-elpa.html | Source: Perl    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:53:20

  • "Emacs startup proceeds through several stages: it loads the early init and regular init files, processes command-line options, sets after-init-time" ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/measuring-emacs-startup-time/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:53:36

  • "If you follow me on Mastodon, you might have noticed that I launched a new app a few weeks ago, which is available now on Flathub." ☛ https://nathandyer.me/2026/08/28/kepublicity.html | Source: Nathan Dyer    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:53:49

  • "A quick look at your phone’s homepage can show you how exactly bad it looks. Most of us barely have any local apps on our phones." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/08/why-your-phone-has-barely-any-local-apps-the-zimbabwean-startup-problem/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:54:20

  • "A growing number of Russians living overseas who return to the country temporarily are reporting psychological pressure and mobile-phone searches at the Russian border." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/29/how-to-prepare-your-mobile-phone-for-the-russian-border-meduza-s-complete-survival-guide | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:54:49

  • "MIG welding isn’t very difficult — at least not until you need to weld something at a weird angle or over a long seam." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/28/this-custom-motorized-turntable-makes-welding-easier/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:55:29

  • "So I built a little 'portable homelab' (pictured above) that supports 1-10 Gbps networking" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/mini-homelab-network-fits-in-carry-on/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:56:11

  • "The library is based around a tiny robotic arm that can physically grip the cards and move them in and out of a reader." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/this-library-needs-to-be-at-least-three-times-bigger/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:56:26

  • "A big hint during initial diagnostics was a clear short between the supply rail and ground" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/reviving-an-sd-card-with-shorted-capacitors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:56:42

  • "It’s technically true that any piece of software can be reproduced in hardware" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/doom-played-on-series-of-555-timers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:57:01

  • "Since DIY is really his thing, he also made his own kiln using cement and perlite, plus a propane burner." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/casting-engine-parts-from-3d-prints/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:57:18

  • "In a previous post, we described how we calculate the embodied carbon of our products: weighing each component" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-better-model-for-silicon-quantifying-chip-carbon-with-columbia-and-cornell/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:58:08

  • "The EndeavourOS project has a new release, which is acting as a filler between two major releases." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12937 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:59:07

  • "After couple months of work, I have now finally managed to cobble together the QtWidgets side of Union." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/posts/union-qtwidgets/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 12:59:32

  • "Don Hopkins has been maintaining FOSS ports of SimCity (1989) as Micropolis and MicropolisCore, faithfully reproducing the ruleset of the original" ☛ https://www.jeffquast.com/post/a-perfect-simcity/ | Source: Jeff Quast    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:00:12

  • "To my delight, lots of prior work exists. The answer, of course, is meta tags." ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/08/28/meta-to-meza/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:01:09

  • "If the nameservers for a domain are at a subdomain of that domain, you’ve got a circular dependency." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/08/28/white-label-dns/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:01:23

  • "As I mentioned in yesterday's entry, the standard systemd behavior is that anyone can do 'loginctl enable-linger' for themselves." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/PolkitDisableLoginctlLinger | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:01:40

  • "My choice of dashboard will remain with Homer as I already had the config set and don’t want to waste time customizing." ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0828-2129/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:01:53

  • "We’ll never fully get away from Javascript (and really we shouldn’t, it’s very useful as long as it stays in its lane)" ☛ https://amberweinberg.com/recent-improvements-in-web-development/ | Source: Amber Weinberg    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:02:06

  • "I hit that wall four times in the last year, and every one of them has already shown up on this blog in passing: [...]" ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/bhyve-inside-a-jail-the-freebsd-feature-nobody-uses/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:02:47

  • "What did Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams read in Hackaday last week? Probably everything" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/hackaday-podcast-episode-384-ocr-mod-records-magical-pcbs-and-the-gravity-of-space-stations/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:03:24

  • "The rough transcript is on YouTube, the cleaned-up transcript is on the Patreon." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/28/ketan-joshi-ai-versus-the-climate/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:03:36

  • SteamOS 3.8.26 Beta brings a performance fix and various other improvements | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steamos-3-8-26-beta-brings-a-performance-fix-and-various-other-improvements/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:05:00

  • NVIDIA Recommended Driver version 595.99.02 out now for Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-recommended-driver-version-595-99-02-out-now-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:05:21

  • Sovereign Tech Agency makes a big investment into Flatpak | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/sovereign-tech-agency-makes-a-big-investment-into-flatpak/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:05:46

  • s-box, the game creation platform from Facepunch now has a Linux Beta | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/s-box-the-game-creation-platform-from-facepunch-now-has-a-linux-beta/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:06:32

  • Proton Experimental brings fixes for Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry, Warhammer: Vermintide 2 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-dragon-age-inquisition-far-cry-warhammer-vermintide-2/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:07:12

  • Lossless Scaling Frame Generation on Linux lsfg-vk moves away from GitHub, changes license due to AI slop forks | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lossless-scaling-frame-generation-on-linux-lsfg-vk-moves-away-from-github-changes-license-due-to-ai-slop-forks/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:07:38

  • 8BitDo announce 'Ultimate Software Online' to update controllers in your browser to help Linux gamers | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/8bitdo-announce-ultimate-software-online-to-update-controllers-in-your-browser-to-help-linux-gamers/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:08:03

  • Almost all major companies now pay salaries in "stocks". Oh oh!    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:08:36

  • Beat Saber is now Steam Frame Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/beat-saber-is-now-steam-frame-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/beat-saber-is-now-steam-frame-verified/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:08:55

  • "Red Hat Academy empowers educational institutions with a comprehensive curriculum designed to keep pace with evolving industry demands." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/celebrating-excellence-honoring-red-hat-academy-apac-award-winners | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:12:29

  • "When I started my internship at Red Hat as a product training analyst intern" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/learning-while-building-how-red-hat-training-accelerates-technical-growth | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:12:49

  • Slop @ Red Hat "When you're building out your AI infrastructure, one fundamental choice is whether to use managed AI models via APIs or host the models yourself." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/managing-enterprise-ai-scale-hosting-deployment-patterns-and-day-2-operations | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:13:39

  • "MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/msi-ws300-with-72-core-grace-cpu-blackwell-ultra-gpu-and-dual-400gbe/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:15:14

  • "Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-zero-4-with-octa-core-a733-wi-fi-6-and-gigabit-ethernet/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:15:27

  • Murder, in the river valley, with a spreadsheet | "Mord, i flodalen, med et regneark | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/mord-i-flodalen-med-et-regneark    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:17:09

  • "Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs are dreaming of a Right Wing Christmas - Boing Boing" https://boingboing.net/2026/08/27/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-magas-are-dreaming-of-a-right-wing-christmas.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:17:36

  • Raspberry Pi CEO "spins AI too positively" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iVQShkgAzUg    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:17:59

  • ""This attack has no military purpose. Its sole aim is to terrorize civilians and attempt to deprive tens of thousands of Kherson residents of a source of heat ahead of the heating season," acting Naftogaz CEO Sergii Fedorenko said." https://kyivindependent.com/russia-destroys-all-generating-equipment-at-kherson-thermal-power-plant-ahead-of-heating-season/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:18:24

  • "AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions | Donald Trump | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-truth-social-ai-george-washington    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:18:54

  • "Self-Hosted Email Is In Steep Decline, Microsoft And Google Are Taking Over - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/27/1733200    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:19:09

  • blocked by gratuitous javascript https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/28/set-up-a-vpn-on-your-raspberry-pi/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:19:28

  • "Overboard! Whiskey Pete Hegseth Tries to Fire His Way Out of Being a Loser - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/28/overboard-whiskey-pete-hegseth-tries-to-fire-his-way-out-of-being-a-loser/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:19:42

  • "World’s Most Powerful Person Does a Stupid Thing About a Lake – Pixel Envy" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/lake-ontario/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:20:01

  • revisionism; sure the stock prices soared but at the cost of the actual technology being more or less abandoned https://www.macworld.com/article/3222260/tim-cook-wasnt-steve-jobs-he-was-better.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:20:29

  • "Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:20:42

  • "Trump Plans to Ditch 9/11 Ceremony for the Most Selfish Reason | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/214874/trump-ditch-911-ceremony-ground-zero    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:21:00

  • "President Trump won’t commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York because he wouldn’t be allowed to make a speech."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:21:22

  • "Goodbye to Karoline Leavitt, the Latest in a Long Line of Clowns | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/214813/donald-trump-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-latest    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:21:39

  • "Democrats have a golden opportunity. They're fighting each other instead - Salon.com" https://www.salon.com/2026/08/28/democrats-have-a-golden-opportunity-theyre-fighting-each-other-instead/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:21:55

  • "What has the US achieved in Iran war? A report card after 6 months. - CSMonitor.com" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0828/iran-war-trump-objectives-six-months    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:22:07

  • WTF? https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/national-park-service-backs-trumps-arch    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:22:42

  • "Democrats, the Party’s position on Israel has to change" https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/democrats-the-partys-position-on-israel-has-to-change/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:23:10

  • bill sez https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-world-needs-to-take-the-ai-bull-by-the-horns-and-fast/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:23:23

  • I'm going to the Digitization Fair Part II – Svend Brinkmann asks the questions we forgot to ask https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/jeg-skal-med-paa-digitaliseringsmessen-del-ii-svend-brinkmann-stiller-de-spoergsmaal-vi-glemte    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:23:57

  • Slopfest ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ai-harnesses-for-telco-autonomous-networks | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:31:42

  • "This week highlights the SUSE security review that uncovered remote root exploits in OpenRGB" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/08/28/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:32:27

  • Self-service backup for VMs and containers on OpenShift: No cluster-admin required ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/28/self-service-backup-vms-openshift    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:37:22

  • Marca – GTK 4 bookmark manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/marca-gtk-bookmark-manager/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:47:33

  • QSB-117: defective chip maker Intel CPU firmware vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/28/qsb-117/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:48:12

  • Joey Hess: Debian and the sirens ☞ http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:50:14

  • Initial Release of Union QtWidgets ☞ https://akselmo.dev/posts/union-qtwidgets/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:54:08

  • Google clamps down on Android app RAM usage amid Hey Hi (AI) memory crisis — developers have until February 2027 to adapt to new memory-optimizing rules ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/android/google-clamps-down-on-android-app-ram-usage-amid-ai-memory-crisis-developers-have-until-february-2027-to-adapt-to-new-memory-optimizing-rules    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:54:51

  • Building a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/mini-homelab-network-fits-in-carry-on/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:55:36

  • This custom motorized turntable makes welding easier ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/28/this-custom-motorized-turntable-makes-welding-easier/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 13:55:54

  • Clownflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cloudflare-frees-100tb-of-ram-by-shrinking-dns-cache-entries    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:00:47

  • Slop Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-mathematics-at-least-not-yet.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:03:09

  • Documentaries used to be so chill ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/documentaries-used-to-be-so-chill/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:03:32

  • Mark Kapo-berg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With Hey Hi (AI) Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-secret-plan-replace-meta-staff-ai    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:04:58

  • Retiring my gag agents file ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/retiring-my-gag-agents-file/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:05:35

  • A Man Crashed His Car Into a Deer. Then He Mysteriously Became Sick. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-man-crashed-his-car-into-a-deer-then-he-mysteriously-became-sick    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:08:17

  • Data Shows That Mark Kapo-berg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises, Him Regardless of Their Beliefs ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-anti-dolly-parton    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:13:37

  • Cherish your physical books and media ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/books-dvds.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:14:57

  • This Week in GNOME: #263 Reset Recovering ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/08/twig-263/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:17:36

  • Toluwaleke Ogundipe: GPU Reset Recovery in Mutter: GSoC Wrap-Up ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/anonymoux47/2026/08/28/gpu-reset-recovery-in-mutter-gsoc-wrap-up/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:17:45

  • Overboard! Whiskey Pete Hegseth Tries to Fire His Way Out of Being a Loser ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/28/overboard-whiskey-pete-hegseth-tries-to-fire-his-way-out-of-being-a-loser/    

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

  • NYC Legionnaires’ outbreak death toll reaches 11— but officials insist disease no longer spreading ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/us-news/nyc-legionnaires-outbreak-death-toll-reaches-11-officials-insist-disease-no-longer-spreading/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:21:00

  • Chinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/chinese-scientists-develop-muscle-grafts-injected    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:21:16

  • Sun-Ways Is Testing Out Train Track Solar Farms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/climate/solar-power-railway-train-tracks.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:21:31

  • Seoul fertility rate rebounds as births, marriages rise ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-fertility-rate-rebounds-as-births-marriages-rise    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:23:36

  • Nepal declines foreign rescue help, South Korea says it is negotiating ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepal-declines-foreign-rescue-help-south-korea-says-it-is-negotiating    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:24:13

  • Underground missile shelter to be built near Tokyo Station ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/underground-missile-shelter-to-be-built-near-tokyo-station    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:24:35

  • Fear Over Malaysia’s Plan to Send Back Rohingya Migrants to Myanmar ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/world/asia/rohingya-refugees-malaysia-myanmar.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:25:06

  • Nepal needs help in technical areas, not search and rescue, foreign minister says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepal-needs-help-in-technical-areas-not-search-and-rescue-foreign-minister-says    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:25:45

  • China Offers Condolences to Nepal While Emphasizing Disaster Began There ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/world/asia/china-nepal-floods-xi-jinping.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:27:37

  • Deadly Nepal-Tibet floods spawn fast-swelling lakes that could burst again ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/deadly-himalayan-flood-spawns-fast-swelling-lakes-that-could-burst-again    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:28:17

  • China halts rescue at Tibet disaster epicentre over flood risk ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-halts-rescue-at-tibet-disaster-epicentre-over-flood-risk    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:28:26

  • Mapping the 5.0-magnitude quake in China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/mapping-the-5-0-magnitude-quake-in-china    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:28:53

  • Typhoon Saudel makes landfalls on China’s eastern coast, disrupts travel ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/typhoon-saudel-makes-landfalls-on-chinas-eastern-coast-disrupts-travel    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:29:11

  • China removes two top generals from supreme military command body ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-removes-two-top-generals-from-supreme-military-command-body    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:29:40

  • Number of missing in deadly Nepal, China floods jumps past 2,400 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/missing-soar-over-2400-after-deadly-nepal-china-floods    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:30:03

  • China halts rescue at Tibet disaster epicentre over flood risk ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/28/china-halts-rescue-at-tibet-disaster-epicentre-over-flood-risk/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:30:14

  • Nepal: A newly formed lake is sparking fears of more flooding along the Chinese border ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260828-nepal-a-newly-formed-lake-is-sparking-fears-of-more-flooding-along-the-chinese-border    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:30:28

  • Nepal flood survivors rescued from hydropower tunnel ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nepal-flood-survivors-rescued-from-hydropower-tunnel    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:30:49

  • Nepal floods explained: The chain of events behind the disaster ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nepal-floods-explained-the-chain-of-events-behind-the-disaster    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:31:09

  • 🔴Nepal-Tibet floods live: Death toll passes 580, nearly 2,500 people missing ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260828-nepal-tibet-live-china-warns-lake-formed-by-mudslide-on-nepal-border-could-breach    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:31:40

  • Scientists Identify a Single Protein That May Control Cravings For Fatty Foods ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-a-single-protein-that-may-control-cravings-for-fatty-foods    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:32:09

  • NASA Spots a Bizarre 'Jellyfish' Floating on Mars. Here's What We Know. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-spots-a-bizarre-jellyfish-floating-on-mars-heres-what-we-know    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:32:43

  • The Hiroshima Atomic Blast Forged a Metal Never Seen Before on Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-hiroshima-atomic-blast-forged-a-metal-never-seen-before-on-earth    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:32:57

  • This Week in Science: Ocean 'Backrooms', Plastic Cookies, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-ocean-backrooms-plastic-cookies-and-more    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:34:56

  • Researchers Put Spinach Directly Into Bread And Saw The Body's Insulin Response Change ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-put-spinach-directly-into-bread-and-saw-the-bodys-insulin-response-change    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:35:09

  • Gruesome Discovery Shows 17th-Century Villagers Were Terrified of What Lurked in 'Grave 75' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gruesome-discovery-shows-17th-century-villagers-were-terrified-of-what-lurked-in-grave-75    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:35:28

  • This 17th-Century Aristocrat Had an Ingenious Secret For Keeping Her Teeth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-17th-century-aristocrat-had-an-ingenious-secret-for-keeping-her-teeth    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:36:02

  • Where to next on interest rates? Warsh, Bessent point in opposite directions. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0828/warsh-bessent-inflation-economy    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:36:40

  • Anon: here's the official denial, proving the imminent threat: "Trump Dismisses Fears Of Russian Strike On NATO: 'I Am Not Concerned'" https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-nato-baltic-cia-russia-attack/33842015.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:53:14

  • The Mexican peso’s strong run hits a snag following US inflation worries ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexican-pesos-strong-run-hits-snag-following-us-inflation-worries/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:55:56

  • "We cant connect to the server at soylentnews.org." Seems down from here.    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:58:07

  • kolie fell offline from irc some hours ago (Techrights), maybe same subnet    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:59:13

  • How I Spent My Perl Toolchain Summit v2025 (Leipzig) ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/08/28/how-i-spent-my-perl-toolchain-summit-v2025/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:59:38

  • "the problem(s) at SN started some hours ago."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 14:59:59

  • IRC also: Looking up chat.soylentnews.org; Unknown host. Maybe you misspelled it? Cycling to next server in SN...    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:00:39

  • Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-nukes-a-developers-700-gb-home-directory-while-testing-a-script-to-ensure-it-wouldnt-do-so-automatic-model-downgrade-may-have-contributed-to-the-screw-up    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:01:21

  • Nvidia denies pausing Hey Hi (AI) cloud commitments initiative after reported partner backlash ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-denies-pausing-ai-cloud-commitments-initiative-after-reported-partner-backlash-report-claims-company-told-cloud-providers-it-could-only-lease-its-gpus-to-nvidia-approved-customers    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:01:52

  • NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries” ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/nasa-powerful-new-space-telescope-spy-satellite    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:02:38

  • Why Countries Are Pushing Social Media Bans Despite Their Flaws ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/technology/social-media-bans-meta.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:03:01

  • UN raises concerns about rise in anti-migrant violence in South Africa ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/un-raises-concerns-about-rise-in-anti-migrant-violence-and-xenophobic-attacks-in-south-africa/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:03:55

  • Brazil sues Discord over alleged shortcomings in youth safety policies and enforcement ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/brazil-sues-discord-over-alleged-shortcomings-in-youth-safety-policies-and-enforcement/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:04:19

  • Federal Judge Consolidates Two Suno Data Breach Class Actions — Plaintiffs Say They’re Facing ‘A Significantly Increased and Certainly Impending Risk of Fraud’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/28/suno-data-breach-lawsuits-consolidated/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:04:44

  • 'In Danger': Prince Harry Reportedly Denied Taxpayer-Funded UK Police Escort Despite Home Move ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prince-harry-uk-return-security-concerns-1816944    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:06:34

  • Marianas voices demand a seat at the table in U.S. seabed mining proposal ☞ https://rfa.org/english/pacific/2026/08/28/cnmi-mining-supply-chain-minerals/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:06:56

  • US charges dozens of alleged Puerto Rico gang members with gun and drug offenses ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/doj/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:07:26

  • National security conviction shows ‘pursuing democracy is a crime,’ Tiananmen vigil activist says in mitigation hearing ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/28/national-security-conviction-shows-pursuing-democracy-is-a-crime-tiananmen-vigil-activist-says-in-mitigation-hearing/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:07:55

  • Former Convicted Felon Border Commander Says He Was Stripped of Protection as Officials 'Want Him Dead' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-border-patrol-chief-alleges-threats-security-detail-removed-1816941    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:08:15

  • There is an evolving false narrative wherein people who oppose the pyramid scheme of slop are actually Chinese trollfarms or people 'fooled' by China    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:09:28

  • Spanish government urges calm after Ceuta anti-migrant protesters clash with police ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260828-spanish-government-urges-calm-anti-migrant-protesters-clash-police-ceuta    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:11:01

  • Lawmakers, National Security Veterans, and Former U.S. Archivists Urge Appeals Court to Uphold Block on Convicted Felon’s Evasion of Presidential Records Act ☞ https://americanoversight.org/presidential-records-act-lawsuit-amicus-briefs/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:11:34

  • Anon: "I've seen that. The propaganda for slop farms is getting complex. Remember that the slop farmers have stated that they aim to turn the Republican base to favor slop farms and thus create a partisan divide where there is currently unity."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:12:10

  • PaperCut Releases Emergency Patch for Exploited Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/papercut-releases-emergency-patch-for-exploited-zero-day/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:12:40

  • ATF Confirms Cyber Incident After Ransomware Group Claims Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/atf-confirms-cyber-incident-after-ransomware-group-claims-attack/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:13:11

  • In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-log4j-rce-scare-minimus-shutdown-iranian-hacker-sanctions/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:18:41

  • Car: Dolphin 26.08 and KIO performance improvements ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1091177/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:19:14

  • Mark Kapo-berg Faces Biggest Reckoning Yet as Meta Settles Landmark Lawsuit for 17B ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-17bn-settlement-child-safety-1816952    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:19:50

  • How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-the-meta-settlement-could-change-the-internet    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:19:58

  • Rescuers grapple with mountain of challenges after the Nepal-Tibet floods ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260828-rescuers-grapple-with-mountain-of-challenges-after-the-nepal-tibet-floods    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:20:36

  • each time puppy breaker squawks he gives away what his pain point is, thus showing the way for future parts to tackle next    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:31:23

  • Microduck – A duck-like biped robot designed for physical Hey Hi (AI) experimentation and fun ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/28/microduck-a-duck-like-biped-robot-designed-for-physical-ai-experimentation-and-fun/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:32:53

  • Spark Solder one-handed USB-C soldering iron supports TS100 tips, integrates solder feeder (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/28/spark-solder-one-handed-usb-c-soldering-iron-ts100-tips-automated-solder-feeder/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:33:05

  • Fanless AMD Ryzen Embedded 8840U/8640U Edge Hey Hi (AI) Computer supports up to 256GB DDR5 SO-DIMM memory ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/28/fanless-amd-ryzen-embedded-8840u-8640u-edge-ai-computer-supports-up-to-256gb-ddr5-so-dimm-memory/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:33:37

  • Hong Kong police officer arrested after allegedly sending indecent messages, images to female friend of suspect ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/28/hong-kong-police-officer-arrested-after-allegedly-sending-indecent-messages-images-to-female-friend-of-suspect/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:35:29

  • SLAPP Censorship - Part 165 Out of 200: Two Years Since My Wife and I Sued ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/29/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_165_Out_of_200_Two_Years_Since_My_Wife_an.shtml puppy breaker really hates when it comes up BECAUSE it is true    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:36:08

  • USPTO Fee Setting Authority and PTAB Institution Reform ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/uspto-fee-setting-authority-and-ptab-institution-reform.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:40:37

  • SLAPP Censorship - Part 164 Out of 200: Patent Troll SLAPPs, Defamation Trolls, and Stranglers From America ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/28/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_164_Out_of_200_Patent_Troll_SLAPPs_Defama.shtml    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:40:49

  • Seems like paid-for marketing for a sponsor instead of news ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/two-vossius-partners-reopen-german-market-for-pinsent-masons/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:41:26

  • A Nepali city struggles to handle the many bodies on its riverbanks. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/28/world/nepal-tibet-flash-floods/bharatpur-bodies-morgues    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:41:49

  • Nepal lake breaks banks, water level rising: District official ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepal-says-dam-burst-in-tibet-warns-rescuers-to-head-to-safety-police    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:42:03

  • Senior Latvian central bank official to resign ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/28.08.2026-senior-latvian-central-bank-official-to-resign.a660833/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 15:42:41

  • Introducing BOMHort: Kubernetes-Native SBOM Visualization & Governance at Scale Joins the OpenSSF Sandbox ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/08/28/introducing-bomhort-kubernetes-native-sbom-visualization-governance-at-scale-joins-the-openssf-sandbox/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:17:00

  • We should worry about MSM (paid for by slop interests) amplifying the narrative of China/BRIC 'inciting' against datacentres, but care to be taken to 1) avoid giving more visibility to this phony narrative; 2) avoid too weak a rebuttal    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:18:30

  • Once a good framing and rebuttal for it becomes available, then it can be referenced repeatedly each time the media repeats the straw man argument    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:19:20

  • Kubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/28/kubernetes-v1-37-pod-certificates-and-cluster-trust-bundles/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:19:45

  • Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #540 - A jiggy new product for provisioning Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 at scale ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/M32wt1wbp4WQE6N9nRIckQ    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:20:26

  • warship deployment https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/naval/naval-ships/sweden-bolsters-finlands-borders-with-jets-and-warship-deployment "Finland has a 1,340-kilometre long eastern border with Russia."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:22:02

  • This Week in Plasma: QtWidgets Apps Join the Union ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/28/this-week-in-plasma-qtwidgets-apps-join-the-union/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:22:27

  • FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:22:47

  • The day after the zero-days ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/28/the-day-after-the-zero-days/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:23:22

  • Chromium 152 – a pain to compile, so have patience (similar for LibreOffice) ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/chromium-152-a-pain-to-compile-so-have-patience-similar-for-libreoffice/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:23:49

  • Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide — three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/security-researchers-find-surveillance-implants-in-chinese-made-routers-sold-worldwide-three-different-backdoor-like-implants-hidden-in-firmware    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:24:22

  • People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/folk-heroes-flock-surveillance-towers-vandal    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:25:05

  • Another Problem With AI-Assisted Police Reports: Companies Can Have Incentives to Distort Their Content ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/distorting-ai-police-reports    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:26:12

  • On islands key to Taiwan’s defence, troops train for a Chinese first strike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/on-islands-key-to-taiwans-defense-troops-prepare-for-a-chinese-first-strike    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:26:46

  • Some Malicious PE Stats, (Thu, Aug 27th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33292    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:27:51

  • A new flag for Massachusetts ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/a-new-flag-for-massachusetts/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:28:14

  • Trying Out an ATAPI Zip drive again ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/trying-out-an-atapi-zip-drive/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:28:48

  • Ubuntu 26.04.1 Released with the Annoying Spinning Cursor Fixed ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/ubuntu-26-04-1-released/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:29:53

  • A hidden Ubuntu feature that stacks desktop icons, macOS-style ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-desktop-icons-stacks    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:34:47

  • I tried Ubuntu’s new Hey Hi (AI) voice typing feature ‘Myna’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/testing-ubuntu-ai-voice-dictation    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:35:05

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: corels 0.0.6 on CRAN: Microfix ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/28#corels_0.0.6    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:35:41

  • FunOS 26.04.1 LTS ☞ https://funos.org/funos-26-04-1/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:35:58

  • Unnecessary slop and gimmicks ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/calibre-ebook-ai-covers    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:36:49

  • Netdeep 4.10356 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/netdeep    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:37:03

  • Kiro 26.09.01 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kiro    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:37:12

  • Mabox 26.08 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mabox    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:37:22

  • Asmi 26.04.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/asmi    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:38:03

  • ZenLake 26.04.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zenlake    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:38:12

  • Nobara 44 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nobara    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:38:24

  • FunOS 26.04.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/funos    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:38:48

  • openKylin 3.0-20260827 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openkylin    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:38:57

  • Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chris-Mason-Leaving-Meta    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:39:11

  • Oracle, Facebook... LF. Does Mason have any taste in employers? Or just hunger for money?    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:39:45

  • GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Does_Not_Need_Social_Control_Media_to_Succeed.shtml    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:40:25

  • 10 Best Free and Open Source X11 Tiling Window Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-tiling-window-managers/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:40:46

  • Otto Kekäläinen: The growing divide between Hey Hi (AI) hype and software engineering reality ☞ https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:41:59

  • How to Install FunOS in OEM Mode (For Manufacturers and System Builders) ☞ https://funos.org/how-to-install-funos-oem-mode/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:42:15

  • How LibreOffice is funded ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/28/how-libreoffice-is-funded/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:42:40

  • Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1091117/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:43:54

  • Nepal orders rescuers to safety as overflow brings new flood risks and death toll climbs to 472 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/28/nepal-orders-rescuers-to-safety-as-overflow-brings-new-flood-risks-and-death-toll-climbs-to-472/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:44:21

  • Content Creators Will Love This FOSS Android App ☞ https://itsfoss.com/image-toolbox/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:45:22

  • wbstats 1.2.0 is now on CRAN ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/wbstats-1-2-0-is-now-on-cran/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:45:57

  • Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/technology/meta-social-media-big-tobacco.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:51:16

  • Nepali government asks Meta, Fentanylware (CheeTok) to remove graphic flood content, misinformation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/nepali-government-asks-meta-tiktok-to-remove-graphic-flood-content-misinformation    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:51:27

  • LibreOffice 26.8 Again Proves Open Source Is About More Than Code ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/08/libreoffice-26-8-again-proves-open-source-is-about-more-than-code/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:52:08

  • Slop boosting cartel to drive sales of plagiarism and nonsense, based on hype and peer pressure ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/open-secure-ai-alliance    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:53:26

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Dismisses Fears Of Russian Strike On NATO: 'I Am Not Concerned' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-nato-baltic-cia-russia-attack/33842015.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:53:38

  • Why Putin Is Fighting On, Even as His Problems Multiply ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-putin.html    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:53:50

  • Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/russia-fully-ai-controlled-drones-kill-ukrainians    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:56:00

  • Ukraine races to prepare for winter ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ukraine-races-to-prepare-for-winter/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:56:11

  • Major cigarette smuggling operation case goes to court in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/28.08.2026-major-cigarette-smuggling-operation-case-goes-to-court-in-latvia.a660750/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:56:29

  • Poland detains two Lithuanians over balloon cigarette smuggling ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3035301/poland-detains-two-lithuanians-over-balloon-cigarette-smuggling    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:56:40

  • Lithuanian, Belarusian climbers identified after perishing in Kyrgyzstan mountains ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3035122/lithuanian-belarusian-climbers-identified-after-perishing-in-kyrgyzstan-mountains    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:56:51

  • US Copyright Fees Are Rising; Labels Now Have A Window Before Higher Fees Hit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/28/us-copyright-fees-rising-2026/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:58:11

  • Forensic Architecture presents new evidence in trial of nine police officers over death of refugee Ibrahima Barry ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/28/forensic-architecture-presents-new-evidence-in-trial-of-nine-dusseldorf-police-officers-over-death-of-refugee-ibrahima-barry/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:58:46

  • Kubernetes v1.37 Enhances Dynamic Resource Allocation ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/kubernetes-v1-37-enhances-dynamic-resource-allocation/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 16:59:06

  • OpenAI Agents Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw on Company’s Own Systems ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/openai-agents-exploited-linux-kernel-flaw-on-companys-own-systems/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:10:11

  • Regex Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/regex/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:13:27

  • Eight stable kernels with fix for a single vulnerability ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1091118/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:13:52

  • Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/35 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/08/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-35/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:18:39

  • Remi Collet: ⚙️ PHP version 8.4.25 and 8.5.10 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/08/28/PHP-version-8.4.25-8.5.10    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:19:12

  • Supercell Wx – advanced desktop weather radar viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/supercell-wx-advanced-desktop-weather-radar-viewer/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:19:39

  • "Canonical has published the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS ISO images today for all official flavors as the first point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) operating system series." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-1-lts-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:22:25

  • "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users can now jump to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with the availability of the first point release of the series." https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-2404-to-2604-upgrade-path-opens-with-point-release/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:22:51

  • Ubuntu 24.04 gets an official upgrade path to 26.04 LTS https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/143917/ubuntu-24-04-gets-an-official-upgrade-path-to-26-04-lts/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:23:23

  • This distro nobody talks about is more popular than Ubuntu and Fedora—here's 3 reasons why https://www.howtogeek.com/this-distro-nobody-talks-about-is-more-popular-than-ubuntu-and-fedora/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:23:49

  • Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/28/keepers-of-noble-numbats-to-be-offered-a-resolute-racoon-ubuntu-26041-is-coming/5293277    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:26:13

  • I gave my Linux gaming PC the Steam Machine trick everyone wants https://www.makeuseof.com/i-gave-my-linux-gaming-pc-the-steam-machine-trick-everyone-wants/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:36:01

  • "The game has a nice controller UI that has been really easy to use, with all buttons being setup correctly out of the box. With a radial menu for each character along with their actions, it makes everything simple to understand." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/star-wars-zero-company-is-out-now/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:36:34

  • "DXVK 3.1 was released today as the latest stable version for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, bringing new features and improvements for several games." https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-3-1-released-with-initial-support-for-dxgi-present-parameters    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:36:54

  • "I've experienced first steps with countless Linux distributions over the years, but this one nails every step of the way for users of all types." https://www.zdnet.com/article/stillos-best-onboarding-experience-linux-distro/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:37:15

  • Proprietary https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/this-linux-and-windows-app-makes-managing-all-of-your-documents-easier/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:38:01

  • "The EndeavourOS team announced today the general availability for download of EndeavourOS Titan Nova as the latest stable snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/endeavouros-titan-nova-is-out-with-linux-kernel-7-1-and-kde-plasma-6-7-4    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:38:58

  • "As the announcement makes clear, this is multikernel Linux, not microkernel Linux, which is an experimental OS designed to run the Linux kernel as a user-space server running on top of OS X’s Mach kernel." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/27/running-multiple-linux-kernels-without-hypervisor/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:39:50

  • Linux never got a licensed DVD player, and the code everyone uses instead ended up on T-shirts and in a haiku https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-never-got-licensed-dvd-player-code-t-shirts-haiku/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:40:33

  • RAM And EMMC Prices Are So High, Pine64 Has Stopped Linux Device Production https://hackaday.com/2026/08/28/ram-and-emmc-prices-are-so-high-pine64-has-stopped-linux-device-production/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:41:04

  • This site seems to have become a slopfarm https://www.scworld.com/brief/cisa-adds-owncloud-linux-kernel-and-jfrog-artifactory-flaws-to-exploited-vulnerabilities-list plagiarising https://securityaffairs.com/198014/hacking/u-s-cisa-adds-owncloud-linux-kernel-and-jfrog-artifactory-flaws-to-its-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog.html ?    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:53:08

  • The bus is in the chips https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mits-new-us-chip-attack-steals-protected-linux-data-in-5-attempt    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:54:35

  • Trapped in Microsoft GitHub https://steamdeckhq.com/news/sbox-enters-linux-beta/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:55:27

  • 8BitDo Launches "Ultimate Software Online" Browser-Based Configuration Tool for Linux Users https://www.techpowerup.com/352084/8bitdo-launches-ultimate-software-online-browser-based-configuration-tool-for-linux-users    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 17:56:48

  • "Perhaps some will use LLMs to do that. If they succeed, Debian will become dependent on proprietary software for development, while still needing people in the loop, doing even less appealing scut-work." http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:13:19

  • "This is the 10th post in the f3s series about my self-hosting home lab. f3s? The "f" stands for FreeBSD, and the "3s" stands for k3s, the Kubernetes distribution I use on FreeBSD-based physical machines." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-09-01-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-10.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:37:45

  • "In fact, I think I would most likely be verbally abused or worse yet physically assaulted for daring to wear a shirt emblazoned with that one simple, yet for some perplexing reason, problematic word." gemini://buster.smol.pub/stop-the-hate    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:39:22

  • "My quintet had its last gig of the summer last night, playing a private event in a courtyard in one of the old residential neighbourhoods of the city. It was a beautiful evening - warm, clear sky, then rain threatening briefly, then not." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-29.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:40:30

  • "For the last 2 years I have run my own Prosody server, and also ejabberd server for a couple of stints." gemini://lowkey.party/gemlog/20260829-nz-xmpp/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:41:15

  • "Goldfish, it is known, have a memory of only 3 seconds" gemini://littlecampsite.smol.pub/goldfish    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:42:25

  • "It's wandering, mostly. And by wandering, I mean it's traveling with no particular destination in mind, which is what I'd like physically be doing as well." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/answering-song-title-questions-2    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 18:43:27

  • The Thing You Entered the Kitchen to Do... But Forgot https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/the-thing-you-entered-the-kitchen-to-do-but-forgot/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:02:50

  • "Existing government preparedness guidance recommends keeping bottled water, non-perishable food, essential medicines, a first-aid kit and hygiene supplies at home." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/britain-rewrites-its-22-year-old-war-book-families-told-stockpile-food-water-1816332 bms    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:04:06

  • Anon: "looting of municipal coffers occurred a while back ..." https://defence24.com/defence-policy/norway-orders-all-municipalities-to-prepare-for-war-but-many-are-too-broke-to-comply    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:18:41

  • Today: Russia plans new ground attack on Kyiv, Ukraine warns https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-plans-new-ground-attack-on-kyiv-ukraine-warns/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:19:44

  • "Pavlo Palisa, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, told reporters that Russian military chiefs have been tasked by the Kremlin’s political leaders with planning and preparing for attacks on the two cities, according to intelligence received and verified by Ukraine."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:20:26

  • Royal Navy warships track Russian vessels for three days in UK waters https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93e88jzn54o    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:21:01

  • 2 hours ago: https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/russia-attack-nato-putin-trump-9rpff79n5    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:21:44

  • Data centers are part of the CCP's attack on the defense of Europe, e.g. Norwegian company says TikTok data centre is limiting energy for manufacturing Ukraine ammunition https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/28/energy-hungry-tiktok-data-centre-ukraine-ammunition-production-nammo-norway    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:31:33

  • "The Grauniad _*wrongly*_ spins the problem as one of "cat videos" but those are just the carrier signal for the real payload: destructive propaganda such as car-burning yobs who drive the wrong way down the highways"    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:32:27

  • "Propaganda requires a carrier signal to trap people's attention and provide a false sense of value so that they are paying attention when the real payload is transmitted. The payload can be 1 out of 20 or fewer, as long as the other 19 or so keep the targets engaged and receptive."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:34:52

  • 'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20yzm84r7lo    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:37:01

  • Growing Risk, Not Just to Ukraine But to NATO https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/29/growing-risk-not-just-to-ukraine-but-to-nato/    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:40:20

  • "...FWIW back in the 1980s, I took a number of Army officer level courses on psychological warfare. Only those that are able to get inside the minds of the targets will have any effect. That's why Iran does so well, they've had many, many decades of their people who have spend all or part of their education and or careers in the US and know its culture."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:41:49

  • ""In contrast, few to none in the US even speak Farsi or even know the difference between islam and Zoroastrianism"    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:42:37

  • "Likewise with Russia. Most people mistake Russia for being similar to Europe culturally. The values, customs, mores, and history are *all* different."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:45:11

  • or many people think russia is like formerly occupied-by-ussr eastern european nations such as poland    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:46:05

  • "USSR left a terrible legacy in Ukraine and Poland and other areas: corruption"    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:50:00

  • "Likewise with Russia. Most people mistake Russia for being similar to Europe culturally. The values, customs, mores, and history are _*all*_ different."    

posted Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 19:50:47
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