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"I read a post by sava.rocks [0] and various replies on the geminispace BBS [1] about AI agents grabbing content from gopher and gemini using an MCP server developed last year. It really was just a matter of time before they infiltrated the smolnet." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~slugmax/phlog/2026-09-03-on-ai-infiltrating-the-smolnet    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 05:46:21


  • head full of words gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/head_full_of_words    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 05:47:34


  • "I've been silently enjoying the feed here for a long time, especially during the last weeks it seemed more alive around than ever (since I was around at least). Now something has indeed shifted in the air, since little campsite left us. Was there something I didn't notice?" gemini://flo.smol.pub/missing    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 05:48:16


  • "In an attempt to become more familiar with the lore of the Forgotten Realms, I chose the Avatar series as a starting point. These are my thoughts about this series, and they will contain spoilers. If you haven't read the books, you might want to stop reading right now." gemini://capsulated.life/posts/2026-08-29-forgotten-realms-avatar-series.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 05:49:32


  • GNU/Linux reached 17% in North America yesterday https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=north-america&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:01:40


  • Still can’t establish a connection to the server at stallman.org. Soon it'll be one week.    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:07:55


  • Aaron Swartz died about 13 years ago and his site still works ok. http://www.aaronsw.com/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:08:36


  • "by demoting a labor rights issue to a mere property rights issue, AI critics are setting workers up to fail." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/scrape-scrope-scrap/#unpermissioned_research | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:31:58


  • "I doubt anyone can look at the side-by-side and say the similarities are coincidence." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/09/04/plagiarism/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:32:08


  • "Internet service provider RCN has asked a New Jersey federal court to reconsider a six-year-old ruling and dismiss the major record labels' piracy liability lawsuit." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/rcn-urges-judge-to-toss-the-major-labels-last-piracy-liability-lawsuit/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:32:34


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.theverge.com/games/989978/nvidia-dlss-5-rtx-40 | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:33:10


  • "Which brings me to the post-Trump [Internet]. Trump isn't the first president to figure out that the [Internet] could be weaponized for geopolitical ends." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/#things-get-worse | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:33:46


  • "On 15 April 2026 Verisign proposed the destruction of the entire 3rd level of the '.name' hierarchy in order to simplify their administration." ☛ https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:33:55


  • "The Consumer Rights Wiki documents anti-ownership and anti-consumer shenanigans ranging from planned obsolescence to subscription traps" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/09/01/consumer-rights-wiki-tracks-every-shady-and-sketchy-trick-they-pull.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:42:59


  • "Starting in the 1960s, at a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5718381 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:43:29


  • "It was too heavy to play soccer in. It restricted him to a seventy-five-mile radius. It was visible under his clothes." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-twenty-year-old-is-dead-because | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:45:10


  • “Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.” ― Gloria Steinem    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:49:57


  • "More than 200 staffers at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the encyclopedia Wikipedia, have voted 158-14 to join the Communications Workers of America labor union." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-workers-vote-on-whether-to-unionize/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:50:05


  • “Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke . . . She will need her sisterhood.” ― Gloria Steinem    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:50:35


  • Freedom of Information ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/09/neither-free-nor-imprisoned-tunisias-journalists-in-legal-limbo/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:56:39


  • "The deal is worth $285 million, more than twice GoPro’s market capitalization." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/gopro-sold-at-a-bargain-price-after | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:57:41


  • "The big takeaway from this primary season isn’t one of “generational change.” It’s the growing power of progressives, along with voters’ increasing suspicion of giant corporations, Big Tech, and the billionaire class." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-not-age | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:57:53


  • "Now, the former Microsoft CEO has been suspended by the NBA for a year, while the league says his team will forfeit five future draft picks and pay a $30 million fine, among other penalties." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/989962/steve-ballmer-kawhi-leonard-pablo-torre-finds-out | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:58:31


  • "OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-elon-musk-cursor-billion-revenue/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:59:09


  • "Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 06:59:36


  • "A psychological operation is a coordinated effort by an interested party to move a target audience toward a specific belief by supplying that audience with framed information" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-ai-trade-is-a-psyop | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:01:22


  • "BirdNET-Go uses a USB microphone to listen for birds. Using machine learning BirdNET-Go identifies the birds before pulling beautiful illustrations from a local database." ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/in-this-garden-a-raspberry-pi-is-keeping-an-ear-on-the-birds/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:01:54


  • "Dumont’s camera design relies on the Seeed Studio MLX90640 thermal imaging sensor." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/03/building-a-diy-thermal-camera-for-work-and-play/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:02:25


  • "A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/03/a-split-keyboard-designed-for-human-hands/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:02:36


  • "The most effective methods involve modifying the model itself to reduce or eliminate stress points." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/03/corners-lifting-on-3d-prints-guide-gives-prevention-tips/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:03:09


  • "At its heart are three integrated circuits, the familiar Si5351 as a transmit VFO, an Si4372 receiver, and an RP2040 tying it all together." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/03/a-thoroughly-modern-minimalist-transceiver/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:03:20


  • "In Raspberry Pi Official Magazine #167, we used a trick with a capacitor to get a reading from an analogue sensor." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-an-internet-radio/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:03:31


  • "The primary challenge of rocket propulsion is the burden of needing to accelerate the spacecraft’s own fuel, resulting in only a logarithmic gain in maximum speed as propellant is added to the spacecraft." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/detectable-flashes-from-light-sail-transport-systems-between-habitable-exoplanets-765ecb6f39f2 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:04:05


  • "That dollar amount looks paltry today: From January 2025 through July 17 this year, Waymo racked up $957,008 in fines" ☛ https://sf.gazetteer.co/waymo-has-been-slapped-with-more-than-8300-parking-tickets-since-january-2025 | Source: Gazetteer, San Francisco, California    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:04:18


  • "I was gonna make a joke about how many parking tickets you thought a regular meatsack Non-Corporate person could get and still keep their license, but it turns out that the answer is infinitely many as long as you pay them." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/09/i-pay-my-parking-tickets-like-any-other-corporate-person-a-million-dollars-at-a-time/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:04:39


  • "Testing for no power confirmed that the power had indeed been cut" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/03/how-to-avoid-getting-arc-flashed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:05:05


  • "Our current infrastructure was built for a world that no longer exists. How do we build the power to survive when the systems we depend on fail us?" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/organizing-for-survival-in-an-era-of-climate-chaos/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:08:39


  • "The shift follows growing public resistance to data centers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/midterm-candidates-rethink-data-centers-as-opposition-grows/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:08:50


  • "The World Meteorological Organization is warning that the climate phenomenon that has the Pacific running a fever will last until at least February, with dire consequences for weather worldwide." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/2026-supersized-el-nino-impacts-worsen/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:09:59


  • "Billionaire Lobby" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/09/california-proposition-40-billionaire-tax-lobby | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:11:16


  • "The group, which calls itself VantaCore, has targeted at least seven known victims, Russian cybersecurity firm F6 said in a report published this week." ☛ https://therecord.media/new-pro-ukraine-hacker-group-custom-ransomware-russia | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:11:30


  • "There’s more background here. Bessent, as much as or more than Trump, has been effectively an enemy of Ukraine from the beginning." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/imperialist-delusions-and-the-price | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:11:50


  • "The US slide into autocracy has been enabled at every step by pathetic tech executives that enthusiastically embraced a complete lack of ethics." ☛ https://karlbode.com/never-forget-how-eagerly-apple-and-google-coddled-fascism/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:12:06


  • "Don’t Call It ‘Hybrid.’" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/russia-is-at-war-with-the-west-dont | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:12:21


  • "… but that won’t change any minds" ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/04/the-us-navy-loses-another-war/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:12:39


  • "A leaked report alleges some Moroccan police officers guided crossings into the Spanish enclave" ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/09/03/leaked-spanish-report-claims-total-permissiveness-of-morocco-over-ceuta-crisis_6757116_4.html?srsltid=AfmBOoruP06jBUHOzNLLWqP6JJmmt22656OURwxyuaZfEvoDfUHHZqzm | Source: Le Monde    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:13:01


  • "Next Tuesday, September 8th, we will do a C-tor release (0.4.9.12) containing fixes for a set of high severity issues" ☛ https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-dev-upcoming-c-tor-security-release-0-4-9-12/22075 | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:14:43


  • Blogging Not Dead in 2026 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/blogging-not-dead-in-2026/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:21:42


  • EnzoFC’s Next Home Test https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/enzofcs-next-home-test/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:27:17


  • "Official sources: Surveying drone found along Finnish coast is thought to be Russian | Yle News | Yle" https://yle.fi/a/74-20244534    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:27:38


  • UK Government Says Start Stocking Up, But It Speaks of Weather, Not the War https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/uk-government-says-start-stocking-up-but-it-speaks-of-weather-not-the-war/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:37:06


  • More Food/Farms, Less Datacentres https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/more-foodfarms-less-datacentres/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 07:45:55


  • "Previously Windows simply kicked that decision down the road for a period of three days; now, you can opt out forever." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3223851/microsofts-onedrive-love-it-hate-it-manage-it.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:04:58


  • "WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/flock-ai-search-user-interface/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:05:08


  • "The webinar shows just how routine the idea of always-on surveillance has become, and how casually it is used during extremely innocuous events." ☛ https://www.404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-protesters/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:05:21


  • "At least 30 healthcare organizations were affected by the Aesto breach." ☛ https://therecord.media/health-data-aesto-cyberattack-leak | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:05:40


  • "One effective form of attack on the Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure, including the root servers, is the so-called ‘random name attack’." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/04/what-part-of-no-is-so-hard-for-the-dns-understand/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:06:10


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/manchester-airports-group-data-on-8-8-million-people-leaked-after-ransom-refusal/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:07:18


  • "I really enjoy any sort of photography, if you have read my blog for a while you will probably know this already." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/posts/where-do-i-share-my-photography | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:07:46


  • "What made this particularly great though? Like Mr. Coyote traditionally communicates, every one of his answers was via a hand-held sign." ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/09/03/proof-reddit-isnt-always-terrible-wile-e-coyotes-ama/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:07:56


  • "Now, TikTok is refusing to appear citing its own desire to avoid broader scrutiny of its child safety practices" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/989769/tiktok-house-committee-china-kids-online-safety | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:08:21


  • "I'm pretty worried about how AI might change the world a lot very soon." ☛ https://www.jefftk.com/p/personal-effort-to-reduce-biorisk | Source: Jeff Kaufman    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:08:57


  • "Fast forward to September 2026, and memory supply constraints across the industry have pushed up prices, including for the Framework Desktop." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/choosing-a-framwork-desktop-for-local-ai | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:09:11


  • "The startup used the approach to build a model that has rocketed to the top of ARC-AGI 3, a notoriously difficult competition for AI models. (They wouldn’t tell me more because they want to win the contest.)" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/russian-startup-mostik-ai-models-communication/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:09:25


  • "We are being flooded with spam coming from fake gmail.com addresses at the moment." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/03/dont-use-a-gmail-com-address/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:10:17


  • [Old] "Welcome back. It’s part 5 of my R for SEO series and I hope you’re all finding it useful so far." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-5-common-excel-formulas-in-r/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:10:24


  • "At the Indian hospital, when I tried to book an appointment in advance, they were confused. “Just come in”, they said." ☛ https://sive.rs/inflow | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:15:42


  • "Checking the transcript for more than a second never happens, because the excuse for the AI is the doctors don’t have the time in the first place." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/03/uk-ai-medical-transcription-is-dangerous-and-doesnt-work/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:16:00


  • "On September 1, 1982, the Commodore 64 launched. Its name referred to the amount of memory it had on board: 64 kilobytes. And it was the first computer with 64K of memory to sell for under $600." ☛ https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/ | Source: David L Farquhar    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:17:30


  • "It is fascinating to see this phenomenon happening again. Years ago, Apple's iPhone revenue wasn't so much based on how much demand there was in the market, it was literally how many iPhones they could manufacture." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/nvidia-is-doing-the-iphone-thing/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:17:41


  • "The panels offer a color range from 2800-6500K." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/camera-lights/with-eyes-on-stalks-this-ingenious-camera-lighting-device-is-an-affordable-friend-for-macro-photography-and-bug-hunters | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:18:22


  • "coil whine" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/techie-creates-a-database-of-coil-whining-graphics-cards-power-supplies-and-liquid-cooler-pumps-open-source-project-wants-community-reports-of-affected-parts | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:18:41


  • "data center operators are expected to purchase new GPUs and related infrastructure every four to six years" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/ai-data-center-investment-projected-to-hit-usd32-trillion-by-2050-infrastructure-spending-estimated-to-exceed-capital-requirements-for-railways-electrification-or-the-internet | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:19:01


  • "Some of the most valuable conversations at RIPE Meetings happen when research meets operational problems." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/jelena/bridging-the-gap-between-theory-and-practice-in-internet-operations/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:20:10


  • "Package managers are numerous and diverse, yet all fundamentally solve the same problem, while remaining ad hoc and non-interoperable." ☛ https://ryan.freumh.org/package-calculus.html | Source: Ryan Gibb    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:20:47


  • "Seems perfectly reasonable. Then I tried to think about how you'd photograph a guitar from all the angles needed for a guitar to be have like a 3D object." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/maths | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:21:07


  • "The point is: ‘content‘ have become a catch-all term so broad as to be meaningless. A tweet is content." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/09/03/why-i-stopped-creating-content/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:21:33


  • "After the IndieWeb Zine Pop Up in May, I decided that I wanted to make a zine. I had already made a zine before, Quiet Edinburgh, but the zine was more of a booklet." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/09/02/zine | Source: James G    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:22:01


  • "Yesterday, I decided to make a zine in a similar vein, except with some of my own tips for exploring galleries." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/09/03/your-tiny-gallery-guide-a-zine | Source: James G    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:22:39


  • "Infrastructure people understand this. They even have a shorthand for it: two nines, three nines, four nines. They intuitively grasp the difference because they swim in these numbers every day." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:22:56


  • "Stay grounded. Write your way." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/do-your-worst/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:23:18


  • "Stay grounded. Write your way." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/do-your-worst/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:23:39


  • "You do not need to go back and read the old article. We will review how maps behave and the concepts needed here before moving into the new runtime internals." ☛ https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-swiss-table-map/ | Source: VictoriaMetrics    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:49:14


  • "In Python, the dict data structure is the conventional key-value structure. E.g., you might store a list of names as keys and have their phone numbers as values." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/03/python-sets-and-dictionaries-can-have-quadratic-time-performance/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 08:49:38


  • "Welcome back, and we’re finally at the end of my R for SEO series, at least for now." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-10-seo-reporting-with-google-sheets-openrouter/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:08:17


  • [Old] "This is going to be fairly important for our final piece, so it’s worth paying attention today." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-9-web-scraping-with-r-rvest/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:08:26


  • [Old] "Applys are a more “R-centric” way of running functions across a range of data." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-8-apply-methods-in-r/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:08:38


  • [Old] "If you’ve followed along so far, or you’ve tried some experimentation of your own, you’ve probably encountered loops and applys along the way." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-7-loops/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:08:51


  • [Old] "If you’ve followed along so far, or you’ve tried some experimentation of your own, you’ve probably encountered loops and applys along the way." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-7-loops/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:09:02


  • [Old] "I know, again, that this piece is super late. The last eighteen months has been a lot, but hopefully the next few months will give me more time." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-4-functions/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:09:26


  • IBM CEO "Arvind retirement? What is the best guest estimate as to when AK will retire? Is there any chance at this point that RT will NOT be the new CEO?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1ney51a    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:17:58


  • [Old] "a combo plot and finally a really cool wordcloud with our search queries." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-3-data-visualisation-with-ggplot2-wordcloud/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:18:11


  • [Old] "Hello and welcome to part two of my series on using the R programming language for SEO. Hopefully you enjoyed part one and are raring to go with today’s piece." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-2-packages-google-analytics-search-console/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:18:20


  • [Old] "The R programming language has lots of benefits for SEOs, but it just doesn’t get as much love in the space as Python." ☛ https://www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-part-1-basics/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:18:28


  • "Something is definitely up… I think the 3rd quarter numbers will be a disaster, but what do you expect when you totally re-org the Sales teams mid-year!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1j4e3pc    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:18:58


  • "Remember, the Clown in chief has an all hands next week on Wednesday, and the Clown in charge of Consulting has an all hands on Thursday. No word on if something's happening next week, but who knows? Here is the link to see all the Insider Transactions    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:19:38


  • In https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/ibm/insider-activity    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:19:48


  • I think you have hit the nail on the head. When you surprise the CFO and CEO right before an earnings announcement, you are playing with fire that may damage your future at IBM. NOTE The sale was most likely scheduled months ago as Execs only get limited windows in which they are allowed to sell. One of those windows opened at the end on July, and that was most likely just after he got the news that his career just topped out   

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:20:30


  • " I think you have hit the nail on the head. When you surprise the CFO and CEO right before an earnings announcement, you are playing with fire that may damage your future at IBM. NOTE The sale was most likely scheduled months ago as Execs only get limited windows in which they are allowed to sell. One of those windows opened at the end on July, and that was most likely just after he got the news that his career just topped out"    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:20:37


  • " I think you have hit the nail on the head. When you surprise the CFO and CEO right before an earnings announcement, you are playing with fire that may damage your future at IBM."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:20:49


  • "NOTE The sale was most likely scheduled months ago as Execs only get limited windows in which they are allowed to sell. One of those windows opened at the end on July, and that was most likely just after he got the news that his career just topped out"    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:20:53


  • "Sounds like he's been informed he will not, in fact, be the next CEO. Arvind probably bringing on a cousin or nephew to hand off the role to."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:21:32


  • "The day they canceled our raises this year I immediately sold all my IBM shares. Only 200 shares and ones that I bought with my own money not some kind of grants but it felt great. Then the fact that the stock dropped some 20% in the next few days made it that much sweeter."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:21:39


  • "Ready to retire by the end of the year. Been asked to train some Indians to take over the responsibilities. Sad to see team members being PIP’ed and literally being pushed out the door to make room for Indians." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1gqc5k1    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:22:27


  • "Layoffs make stocks go up. Share holders love it. The general greenhorns in the market will chuck it up to AI." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1gqc5k1    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:22:32


  • "There is another reason, after a reorg or a layoff, clueless bosses will parachute into a team. Instead of learning, they will start pushing for nonsense. The senior ppl that know the product and the customers, will try to educate them, as as result , they will be labeled as negative, bad team players, legacy thinking , etc."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:23:08


  • "So they will be pushed out (often by ostracize them, making them to quit). Besides money , the only thing that IBM appreciates greatly are yes men."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:23:14


  • "AmberDB is an embedded, schema-driven NoSQL database engine for Perl, designed for applications that need structured records, fast indexed queries" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/mcetin/2026/08/amberdb---an-embedded-nosql-database-engine-for-perl.html | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:23:39


  • "In a run of posts I have argued against a handful of things one at a time: splitting code across many repositories, long-lived feature branches" ☛ https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/how_to_guarantee_you_never_ship.html |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:24:45


  • "This article has been updated with extra links to relevant sources." ☛ https://pulkomandy.tk/_/_/_A%20bicycle%20for%20the%20mind | Source: PulkoMandy    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:24:57


  • "I have been growing more and more careful about security as I develop new services for the Geminispace. I mostly write in C++, which is not known to be the safest language around." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/09-03-least-privilege-most-shenanigans.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:26:17


  • "Federico Terraneo came to Hackaday Europe to discuss this very topic. He talks about kernel architecture, real-time operating systems, and how to best use C++ in the world of microcontrollers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/03/hackaday-europe-2026-fluid-kernels-and-optimizing-c-for-mcus/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:26:41


  • "I have just sent an open letter to the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organisation for Wikipedia (and a number of other projects)" ☛ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/21442.html#cutid1 | Source: Diziet    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:27:35


  • "The company said its mobile app received hundreds of thousands of downloads after it announced Thursday that the name Lake Ontario would remain on its apps" ☛ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6063924-mapquest-tops-apple-google-maps-in-downloads-after-refusing-trumps-lake-america-change/?ref=ihnatko.com | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:28:21


  • "When making decisions about which CC tool to use, we’ve long encouraged licensors to share their work under the most flexible CC license or tool applicable" ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/03/guidance-on-using-cc-licenses-in-an-ai-ecosystem/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:29:06


  • "I agree with the top HN commenter that Mozilla pisses me off so much because I care." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/02/when-rationality-clashes-with-emotions/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:29:34


  • "I was looking at my server stats (AWStats) to see if I could identify bot traffic easily. (Spoilers: no.)" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/09/03/distinguishing-human-readers-from-bot-traffic-with-server-side-stats/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:30:21


  • [Old] "When we run into jank like this as developers, the usual reaction is to wonder “is my code slow?” and start picking apart algorithms or looking for wasted computation." ☛ https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/ |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:30:30


  • "One of the things I love about the Emacs community is people's sense of humour and whimsy." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/09/emacs-carnival-september-2026-games/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:32:36


  • "I moved to it when money was tight, but I soon learned it also had value beyond its price." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/twenty-years-of-using-the-gnu-image-manipulation-program/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:32:54


  • "SonicWall customers have confronted a barrage of attacks for years, including five actively exploited vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 appliances since late 2025." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/sonicwall-sma1000-zero-days-actively-exploited/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:33:18


  • "I identified 14 commissary refrigeration/freezer outage reports attributed to the following military installations across 11 states" ☛ https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary |    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:33:36


  • "Rather than generic certifications, our approach focuses on specialized learning paths broken down into core modular exams." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-we-create-a-canonical-academy-exam | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:33:57


  • "Firefox is moving to a 2-week release cadence starting in September, and so Tor Browser and Tails are doing the same. Tails 7.12 is the first release on this new cadence." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_12/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:34:23


  • "CERN talked about this exciting news at the MiniDebConf that took place in Winterthur, Switzerland this past weekend." ☛ https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL | Source: Phoronix    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:34:33


  • "it removes all of the now-replaced" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/Fedora44DNFTransactionFailed | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:37:00


  • "For many years now, I and others have been working on getting plasmashell’s open bug reports as accurate and actionable as possible." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/03/bug-triaging-help-needed/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:42:12


  • s/But they won't like it/But the companies and other rogue actors won't like it/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/04/Thieves_Complain_About_the_People_They_Steal_From.shtml    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:48:20


  • "...there are few to no articles or news reports even mentioning the surveillance catastrophe marketed as electric vehicles. People _*want*_ electric vehicles, but the desire to avoid cameras, microphones, GB of telemetry, and other surveillance is stronger."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:48:52


  • "Vehicle manufacturers are trying to bury EVs with surveillance systems. If it fails, they win by going back to established ICE vehicles. If it succeeds, they win by enforcing microphones and cameras with live streams from both inside and outside the cars."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:49:19


  • "When I buy something, from a small kitchen appliance to a car, I’m now forced to get formal confirmation by the seller that I will be able to use it without installing one, two or three different apps."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:50:27


  • "I kept the count: in the last year alone, I had to argue against the installation of 18 smartphone apps. Just in my toilet, I’m supposed to have an app for the seat, an app for the flush and one for the ventilation." gemini://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:50:56


  • “Give me a country where I can be free” https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/01/give-me-a-country-where-i-can-be-free/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:51:18


  • Protests greed and hoarding (1970s) https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=9bycauDeobw    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 09:52:48


  • Erotica Is Not Music https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/erotica-is-not-music/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:20:31


  • "Four new hacks this time, two by me: floppy, graphstat, amigajuggler and polarnight." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/09/xscreensaver-6-16/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:21:41


  • "Traceroute is a powerful tool for uncovering how packets travel across the Internet." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/shk/when-traceroutes-lie-how-ttl-jumps-can-give-us-a-false-impression-of-the-internets-topology/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:22:09


  • "A lot of things these days can report useful information about their status and health. Or at least their theoretical status and health." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UPSBatteryReportingIssue | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:22:17


  • "Trump’s Bonkers Bullying of Canada Is Backfiring" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/o-canada-526    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:30:17


  • "Hegseth Must Go - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/hegseth-must-go    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:30:28


  • blocked by gratuituous javascript https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/element14-presents/project-videos/w/documents/72105/building-a-customisable-handheld-arduino-thermal-imaging-camera    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:30:40


  • "California Lawmakers Unanimously Pass Linux Exemption From Age-Verification Law - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/09/02/0022223    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:30:55


  • Oh noes! The programmer does not agree with me on politics!!!! https://codeandcake.dev/posts/2026-09-03-what-do-you-do    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:31:26


  • GAFAM layoffs https://www.teamblind.com/post/am-i-rejected-google-htzxhe7g    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:46:40


  • "Senior Program manager- Was part of 4th round of layoff in my team at Amazon in the summer. Also grieved a parent passing at the same time. Hoping for better days." https://www.teamblind.com/post/layoff-support-jdisr2bi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 10:47:16


  • Slop and Scrapers Broke Stats https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/slop-and-scrapers-broke-stats/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:20:27


  • Time to resume EPO coverage ahead of the AC meeting. Maybe we can all 'Kongstad' Antonio the Unready.    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:31:02


  • "When it comes to office suites, PCLinuxOS has that covered as well. Of course, you can ALWAYS use Google Docs as your office suite." https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/editorial.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:32:50


  • Nice parrots there    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:33:15


  • PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page13.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:33:59


  • Refill the glass https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page12.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:35:02


  • Slop is a failure. If it fails, then best to avoid it, not add "rails". https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page01.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:35:56


  • GIMP Tutorial: Remove A Background In A Glass Object https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page03.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:41:19


  • Wiki Pick: Install Man Pages In PCLinuxOS https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page07.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:41:41


  • Alternative Methods of Installing Typst Locally https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page08.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:43:41


  • Tip Top Tips: Automatically Backup Your System When You Update https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page09.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:44:14


  • mpv: Using The "Forgotten" Multimedia Player As An OTA TV Player https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202609/page05.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 11:45:05


  • itch.io upgraded their app to support Steam shortcuts, a headless mode and linking existing downloads | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/itch-io-upgraded-their-app-to-support-steam-shortcuts-a-headless-mode-and-linking-existing-downloads/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 12:49:59


  • METRO 2039 arrives February 4, 2027 and there's a new trailer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/metro-2039-arrives-february-4-2027-and-theres-a-new-trailer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 12:50:52


  • Rebounder is an ultra stylish precision-platformer comic-book world of ink, paper, and print | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/rebounder-is-an-ultra-stylish-precision-platformer-comic-book-world-of-ink-paper-and-print/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 12:51:40


  • Exploration-first JRPG with creature collecting - Stories of Somnia gets a first demo | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/exploration-first-jrpg-with-creature-collecting-stories-of-somnia-gets-a-first-demo/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 12:59:54


  • Gloria Steinem: a life through the lens of the women she inspired https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/gloria-steinem-through-the-lens-of-the-women-she-inspired/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:02:03


  • Infinity Bounce is a chaotic physics-based pinball-like incremental game | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/infinity-bounce-is-a-chaotic-physics-based-pinball-like-incremental-game/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:03:45


  • ASCII-based traditional roguelike 'Rangedrifter' has such a damn cool style | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ascii-based-traditional-roguelike-rangedrifter-has-such-a-damn-cool-style/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ascii-based-traditional-roguelike-rangedrifter-has-such-a-damn-cool-style/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:03:53


  • "Not an investigation, a smear campaign Dale Vince donated £5.7 million to Labour, and his companies later received £123 million in taxpayer subsidies.🇬🇧🇬🇧" Now SLAPPing critics https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_157_Out_of_200_What_is_a_Defamation_Troll.shtml    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:12:50


  • Classic JRPG 'Blue Dragon' gets an unofficial open source native PC release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/classic-jrpg-blue-dragon-gets-an-unofficial-open-source-native-pc-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:47:04


  • Wadjet Eye Games reveal vampire RPG 'Nighthawks' to release September 22 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/wadjet-eye-games-reveal-vampire-rpg-nighthawks-to-release-september-22/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/wadjet-eye-games-reveal-vampire-rpg-nighthawks-to-release-september-22/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:47:09


  • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace preservation project OpenPhantom adds Linux support via Wine / Proton | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-preservation-project-openphantom-adds-linux-support-via-wine-proton/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 13:47:19


  • Moulting Sucks, It Makes Animals Look Unhealthy https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/moulting-sucks-it-makes-animals-look-unhealthy/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:07:32


  • Planet News Roundup ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/04/planet-roundup/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:09:44


  • "My name is Geetansh Goyal, and I was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 mentee with Uyuni and the openSUSE project." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/03/gsoc-2026-uyuni-mqtt-nodered/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:10:04


  • "The reComputer RK3576 compute module is based on Rockchip’s RK3576 SoC" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/rockchip-rk3576-module-powers-edge-ai-dev-kit-with-20-tops-rk1820-accelerator/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:11:01


  • Kubernetes v1.37: DRA Updates ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/09/03/kubernetes-v1-37-dra-updates/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:11:40


  • "Be a bit stubborn on the vision you have, but flexible on the details of how to get there." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/architecture-autonomy-how-ing-built-future-proof-tech-strategy | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:12:22


  • "Tool calls give your agent hands." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/last-mile-problem-agentic-ai-why-tool-calling-reliability-harder-it-looks | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:12:31


  • IBM Red Hat shilling slop, not Linux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:13:37


  • Bug triaging help needed ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/03/bug-triaging-help-needed/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:20:00


  • How we create a Canonical Academy exam ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-we-create-a-canonical-academy-exam    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:20:32


  • Building a DIY handheld thermal camera for work and play ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/03/building-a-diy-thermal-camera-for-work-and-play/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:21:18


  • Twenty years of using the GNU Image Manipulation Program, and remembering Fireworks ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/twenty-years-of-using-the-gnu-image-manipulation-program/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:21:38


  • Guidance on Using CC Licenses in an Hey Hi (AI) Ecosystem ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/03/guidance-on-using-cc-licenses-in-an-ai-ecosystem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guidance-on-using-cc-licenses-in-an-ai-ecosystem    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:21:58


  • US min. wages $7.25/hour. Living without debt not feasible. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=yosp2VU2goc    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:23:30


  • Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/03/python-sets-and-dictionaries-can-have-quadratic-time-performance/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:24:16


  • Can We Stop With the Uptime Percentages? ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:25:07


  • Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/manchester-airports-group-data-on-8-8-million-people-leaked-after-ransom-refusal/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:26:14


  • What part of ‘No!’ is so hard for the DNS understand? ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/04/what-part-of-no-is-so-hard-for-the-dns-understand/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:26:42


  • Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Dihydroxyacetone Man internet (03 Sep 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/03/broken-arrows/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:27:57


  • Droidian – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for mobile devices ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/droidian-debian-based-linux-distribution-mobile-devices/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:29:45


  • Tiny OSM-MF module runs GNU/Linux on Sitara AM67 and 4-TOPS Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-osm-mf-module-runs-linux-on-sitara-am67x-with-4-tops-ai/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:30:37


  • Tmux Fundamentals ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/tmux/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:33:39


  • Chapter 1: Why Tmux? Understanding Terminal Multiplexing ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/tmux-2/why-tmux/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:33:55


  • Chapter 2: Get Tmux Running ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/tmux-2/get-tmux/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:34:04


  • Ubuntu Unity 26.10-snapshot3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntuunity    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:34:14


  • Mainstream 2.0.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mainstream    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:34:30


  • FOSS Weekly #26.36: Debian CERN Win, Faster Firefox, Free Bash Course, Grub Customization and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-36/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:35:08


  • ShrikeLinux 2026.09.03 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shrikelinux    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:35:27


  • starkOS 20260904 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/starkos    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:35:39


  • Ubuntu 26.10-snapshot3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:35:53


  • 2,000 Vulnerabilities per GNU/Linux Release ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/2-000-Vulnerabilities-per-Linux-Release    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:37:27


  • GNU/Linux Continues to Grow in China ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/04/GNU_Linux_Continues_to_Grow_in_China.shtml    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:37:45


  • BRICS in the Windows: Brazil's GNU/Linux Share (as Measured by CDN) Has Hit Highest Point in a Month ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/04/BRICS_in_the_Windows_Brazil_s_GNU_Linux_Share_as_Measured_by_CD.shtml    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:37:55


  • SlyOS – lightweight Arch-based distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/slyos-lightweight-arch-based-distribution/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:38:23


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

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:39:35


  • pychemqt – chemical engineering process simulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pychemqt-chemical-engineering-process-simulator/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:39:53


  • OpenEMM – self-hosted web application for email marketing and email automation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openemm-email-marketing-automation/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 14:40:11


  • "The level of incompetence at IBM is outrageous" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1p28bac "Y’all, I know that the PIPs and RAs across the board are truly unsettling, and in many cases, just wrong. On the flip side, the amount of incompetence is mind blowing - people lack fundamental product and business skills here. Very concerned about we are all gonna get it if we don’t get it together."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:54:44


  • "Yeah people, the incompetence is mind blowing. And numbing. Everyone: start building up your badges. We've got to get our collective act together before this whole place gets flushed. Save rhe IBM shithole!"    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:55:17


  • "I think most problems at IBM is because got rid of smart workers, especially Chinese. As result don't have talent needed because most employees lack intelligence maybe. This cause big problems."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:55:22


  • "Only bootlickers would care about employees unwilling and/or unable to do good work for this shithole. Isn't executive compensation already high enough?" "here is zero accountability there. It’s where accountability goes to die"    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:55:45


  • "The Office. Doing fu-k all" "This is very generic. Is it a Friday rant before labor day in the US ? "Very concerned about we are all gonna get it if we don’t get it together." It is naive to believe, the path to destruction can be reversed."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:56:49


  • https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1pbc1cm   

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:58:07


  • "Who was the Last Good Leader" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1pbc1cm "This probably goes far back in time, but who do you consider the last good leader at IBM? This is probably somewhat subjective since there are multiple elements and differing opinions on what makes a good leader."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:58:14


  • Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage - and Russia is the chief suspect https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4g6meekro    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 15:59:50


  • When Your Own Government Tells You to Stockpile https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/when-your-own-government-tells-you-to-stockpile/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:04:30


  • The need for European deterrence against Russia https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/09/04/the-need-for-european-deterrence-against-russia_6757160_23.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:05:17


  • United Nations Concedes That Efforts to Arrest Climate Change Have Failed, and the Planet Is Now Spiraling Into Environmental Catastrophe ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/united-nations-failed-stop-severe-climate-change    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:13:49


  • The Search for New Cures Is Broken ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/opinion/clinical-trials-drugs-science.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:14:04


  • There’s been a shift in where people earning STEM Ph.D.s are ending up ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/09/theres-been-a-shift-in-where-people-earning-stem-ph-d-s-are-ending-up/ "Today, we produce many more Ph.D.s in computer science, but about three-quarters of those Ph.D.s are going anywhere but academia"    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:14:44


  • UN raises concern for women and girls amid mounting death toll in Nepal floods ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/un-warns-mounting-death-toll-and-concern-for-women-and-girls-in-nepal-floods/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:15:23


  • South Korean Prosecutors Push for Indictment of BTS Founder Bang Si-Hyuk Over Allegations of Fraud ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/03/south-korea-bang-si-hyuk-push-for-indictment/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:16:18


  • Haze From Indonesian Wildfires Blankets Parts of Malaysia, Philippines ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/world/asia/malaysia-philippines-haze-indonesia-singapore-wildfires.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:16:35


  • Malaysia’s Sarawak declares emergency in Serian district due to haze ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sarawaks-serian-district-hits-hazardous-api-reading-of-518-above-emergency-level    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:17:00


  • Lake Ontario Is One of Many Bodies of Water Caught in a Naming Fight ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/americas/lake-ontario-bodies-of-water-naming-disputes-south-china-sea.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:17:43


  • China Boycotts a Top Art Festival Over Taiwan Exhibition ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/asia/china-taiwan-gwangju-biennale.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:18:03


  • China urges France to ‘halt’ fast-fashion law, warns of countermeasures ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-urges-france-to-halt-fast-fashion-law-warns-of-countermeasures    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:18:23


  • China artists quit South Korea exhibition over Taiwan row ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-artists-quit-south-korea-exhibition-over-taiwan-row    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:18:42


  • Nepali survivor recounts 'fight through darkness' to escape flood-hit tunnel ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepali-survivor-recounts-fight-through-darkness-to-escape-flood-hit-tunnel    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:19:04


  • Taiwan condemns China’s ‘wolf warrior’ behaviour at Pacific forum ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-condemns-chinas-wolf-warrior-behaviour-at-pacific-forum    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:19:22


  • China Threatens France Over New Shein and Temu Levy as Paris Defends 'Eco-Friendly' Fashion Crackdown ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/france-anti-ultra-fast-fashion-law-shein-temu-1817910    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:19:35


  • Palau urges ‘unified’ Pacific response to China’s intercontinental ballistic test ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/03/palau-urges-unified-pacific-response-to-chinas-intercontinental-ballistic-test/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:22:57


  • Pacific leaders issue joint rebuke over China missile test ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/04/pacific-leaders-issue-joint-rebuke-over-china-missile-test/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:23:21


  • They should have called it "AI" of "crypto", then be bailed out rather than arrested ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/04/singapore-says-china-arrests-52-citizens-in-pyramid-scheme-clampdown/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:24:11


  • China Installing Huge Facility That Turns Plastic Waste Into Jet Fuel ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/china-huge-facility-plastic-waste-jet-fuel-pyrolysis    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:24:36


  • 1Password Just Pledged $300,000 to DHH's Omarchy, and its Own Employees Aren't Happy ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/1password-omarchy-pledge/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:24:59


  • Hype time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-experiment-reveals-quantum-objects-do-obey-gravity    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:36:33


  • digitalmusicnews gravitates towards spam as 'articles' ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/03/umusic-hotel-london-2026-launch/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:37:36


  • Your Body Doesn't Age Steadily – It Ages in Two Big Bursts, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-human-body-may-age-in-two-major-bursts-and-a-new-study-reveals-what-drives-them    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:37:49


  • Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish From a Recent Tuna Haul – 96% Were Infected ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-parasites-in-almost-every-fish-from-a-recent-tuna-haul-96-were-infected    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:38:11


  • Antique 'Fox Head' Bought at Auction Wasn't a Fox at All. It Was a Long-Extinct Species. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/antique-fox-head-bought-at-auction-wasnt-a-fox-at-all-it-was-a-long-extinct-species    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:38:32


  • A Scientist Says We've Been Wrong About Where Life on Earth Began ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/leading-theory-for-how-life-on-earth-began-is-highly-unlikely-says-contentious-new-paper    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:40:33


  • Cerebral Palsy Might Not Actually Be a Disease, Scientists Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cerebral-palsy-might-not-actually-be-a-disease-scientists-say    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:40:47


  • Peppermint Oil Lowered Blood Pressure by 8 Points in Just 20 Days, Trial Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/peppermint-oil-lowered-blood-pressure-by-8-points-in-just-20-days-trial-finds    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:42:20


  • There's Enough Rare Earth Metal in US Coal Waste to Cut China Out of The Supply Chain, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-could-have-a-100-billion-stash-of-rare-earth-elements-hiding-in-coal-waste    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:44:12


  • Experimental One-Dose Treatment Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 52% in First Human Trial ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/experimental-one-dose-treatment-cuts-bad-cholesterol-by-52-in-first-human-trial    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:46:05


  • A Billion Tons of Ice Are Hiding Under Utah, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-billion-tons-of-ice-are-hiding-under-utah-study-finds    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:46:23


  • Mortgage Rates Hit 6.71%, Their Highest Level Since July 2025 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/mortgage-rates-housing.html MortgageBoy must work harder then. https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/31/Spending_Over_a_Million_Bucks_on_Lawsuits_Abroad_When_There_s_a.shtml    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:46:58


  • "Nigel Farage filmed celebrating "illegal" foreign donations - Boing Boing" https://boingboing.net/2026/09/04/nigel-farage-filmed-celebrating-illegal-foreign-donations.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:47:27


  • Audacity 4.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1092439/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:48:24


  • Bernie Sanders' New Hey Hi (AI) Bill Could Shut Down Companies and Jail Developers for 20 Years ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ban-superintelligent-ai-legislation-1817896    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:49:13


  • Iconic Packard Bell brand rises from the ashes after 13 years with the DotBook 14 at IFA ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/iconic-packard-bell-brand-rises-from-the-ashes-after-13-years-with-the-dotbook-14-at-ifa-colorful-and-affordable-intel-twin-lake-laptop-is-europe-only-for-now    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:49:43


  • Chaos? For who? Plagiarists? ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-claude-grok-go-down    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:51:29


  • EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/09/epa-proposal-could-leave-the-public-in-the-dark-on-data-center-plans/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:51:52


  • Nigel Farage Aide 'Suggests' Way Around Donations Law in Undercover Sting as Reform Leader Listens ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/undercover-investigation-reform-uk-foreign-donation-scheme-1817876    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:52:20


  • Saeima tightens up Latvia's e-identity laws ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/03.09.2026-saeima-tightens-up-latvias-e-identity-laws.a661633/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:53:12


  • social control media ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/nyregion/mamdani-influencers-emilia-rowland.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:54:17


  • Zohran Mamdani Bans Hey Hi (AI) for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/zohran-mamdani-bans-ai-for-nyc-public-school-students    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:54:54


  • Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/technology/openai-hugging-face-hacking.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 16:55:29


  • Maybe the Last Chance to Sunbathe https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/maybe-the-last-chance-to-sunbathe/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:01:16


  • Stallman.org Back Online After Long Downtime https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/04/stallman-org-back-online-after-long-downtime/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:16:28


  • Anon: So, RMS' team was not doing backups :( From what very little I know, it sounds like they lost the whole VM from administrative / bureaucratic failure    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:17:17


  • This page was updated 5 hours ago https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:28:00


  • Why your data is safer than you think on public Wi-Fi ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/why-your-data-is-safer-than-you-think-on-public-wi-fi/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:40:53


  • Angolans fleeing drought face arrest and deportation in Namibia, report says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/amnesty-international-calls-for-protection-of-angolan-women-and-children-fleeing-drought-and-climate-change/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:41:30


  • Cisco Warns of Unpatched Secure Email Flaws, Patches Critical Switch Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-warns-of-unpatched-secure-email-flaws-patches-critical-switch-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:42:11


  • Over 3 Million WordPress Sites Affected by Migration Plugin Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-3-million-wordpress-sites-affected-by-migration-plugin-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:42:22


  • 153 Million Driver License Images Offered on Dark Web ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/153-million-driver-license-images-offered-on-dark-web/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:42:42


  • In This Garden, a Raspberry Pi Is Keeping an Ear on the Birds ☞ https://blog.pimoroni.com/in-this-garden-a-raspberry-pi-is-keeping-an-ear-on-the-birds/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:43:27


  • Arduino Core on Zephyr 1.0.0 is here! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/03/arduino-core-on-zephyr-1-0-0-is-here/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:43:47


  • SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List: summer 2026 update ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/09/03/spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-summer-2026-update/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:44:11


  • Good News! CERN is Migrating Over 2,200 Control Systems to Debian 13 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/cern-debian-push/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:44:38


  • Building Your Race Calendar ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/09/03/building-your-race-calendar/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:45:14


  • Postal Service finalizes election ballot mail portal ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2026/09/postal-service-finalizes-election-ballot-mail-portal/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:45:42


  • ArduinoCore-Zephyr 1.0.0 adds support for Arduino VENTUNO Q, updates to Zephyr 4.4.1, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/04/arduinocore-zephyr-1-0-0-adds-support-for-arduino-ventuno-q-updates-to-zephyr-4-4-1-and-more/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:46:44


  • Researching Employment Scams ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/researching-employment-scams.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:49:29


  • 'I've Never Seen Taylor Swift Do This': Olivia Rodrigo Accused of Refusing Photo With Israeli Fan ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/olivia-rodrigo-photo-refusal-debate-1817911    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:50:16


  • Gloria Steinem: A Life in Pictures ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/style/gloria-steinem-photos.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:50:45


  • Andy Simpkins: A quick experiment with vibe coding ☞ https://blog.koipond.org.uk/archives/386    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:51:51


  • Hong Kong police arrest 21 men, including private tutor, for sharing indecent images of children ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/04/hong-kong-police-arrest-21-men-including-private-tutor-for-sharing-indecent-images-of-children/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:53:28


  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox Profiler Deployment (September 3, 2026) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-profiler-deployment-september-3-2026/149360    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:54:32


  • Mozilla Performance Blog: Introducing PerfCompare’s Simple View ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2026/09/03/introducing-perfcompares-simple-view/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:54:52


  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppExamples 0.1.11 on CRAN: Very Minor Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/09/03#rcppexamples_0.1.11    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:55:33


  • Suspect detained for hate speech against Kurdish Amedspor fans ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/suspect-detained-for-hate-speech-against-kurdish-amedspor-fans-323106    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:55:57


  • Strings Attached: The House Hearing on Renewing USPTO Fee Setting Authority ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/strings-attached-the-house-hearing-on-renewing-uspto-fee-setting-authority.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:56:25


  • UBQS-IP file collaboration patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/9/3/ubqs-ip-file-collaboration-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:56:49


  • DynaIP entity WirelessWerx IP geofencing patent monopoly challenge granted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/9/3/dynaip-entity-wirelesswerx-ip-geofencing-patent-challenge-granted    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:57:57


  • A&O Shearman ramps up US patent monopoly practice with prominent judge ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ao-shearman-ramps-up-us-patent-practice-with-prominent-judge/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:58:06


  • Kangaroo court of the corrupt EPO with the political appointee connected to the corruption, Carl Josefsson ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/g1-25-patent-holders-must-amend-patent-specifications-but-not-in-every-case/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:58:59


  • Judges becoming employees in private law firms is classic corruption. It must never happen.    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 17:59:56


  • Defying RAMageddon with the new Fairphone ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/stories/defying-ramageddon-with-the-new-fairphone    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:00:22


  • Then again, Albright was always a shill of patent trolls, now he's clearly "cashing in" from subverting a court    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:01:04


  • The Bond Markets Are Pushing Up Rates. Will Central Banks Follow? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/business/bond-yields-rates-central-banks.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:01:42


  • TinyGo 0.42 adds support for 87 Puya PY32 MCU variants and two EmbedFire boards ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/04/tinygo-0-42-adds-support-for-87-puya-py32-mcu-variants-and-two-embedfire-boards/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:09:37


  • In Pursuit of Rights-Based Peace Journalism on Television: The 'Syria' Agenda ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/in-pursuit-of-rights-based-peace-journalism-on-television-the-syria-agenda-323042    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:10:19


  • CNBC latest to pull back from Hong Kong as local office closes, shows axed ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/04/cnbc-latest-to-pull-back-from-hong-kong-as-local-office-closes-shows-axed/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:10:45


  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.98.1 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/03/Rust-1.98.1/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:11:12


  • BSD Now 679: It also goes to 11 ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/679    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:12:18


  • Community consultation on increasing diversity in APNIC community leadership: Stage 1 report released ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/04/community-consultation-on-increasing-diversity-in-apnic-community-leadership-stage-1-report-released/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:12:43


  • Evaluate Hey Hi (AI) agents ... Hey Hi (AI) ... lots of buzzwords, just mindless propaganda☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/03/evaluate-ai-agents-ibm-clear-evalhub-openshift-ai    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:13:39


  • More nonsensical promotion of plagiarism engines ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/03/evaluating-llm-guardrail-configs-locally-with-evalhub    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:14:26


  • Absolutely nothing but promotion of slop plagiarism in this blog that day ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/03/speeding-llm-inference-p-eagle-vllm-speculators    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:15:11


  • They suggest using slop for security, which is a security risk in its own right ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/04/build-ai-assisted-firewall-workflows-ansible-automation-platform    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:15:52


  • Jon Chiappetta: Elliptic Curve Memory Refresher ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/elliptic-curve-memory-refresh/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:30:16


  • Why the Courts Are Hesitant to Punish Tech Giants Like Meta and Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/business/google-antitrust-ad-tech-remedies-analysis.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:30:34


  • Flock cameras: How a police tool sparked a surveillance revolt in the US ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0904/flock-cameras-privacy-surveillance    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:30:51


  • California Pushes Bill to Ban Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot Toys for Kids ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/california-to-ban-ai-chatbot-toys-for-kids    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:31:02


  • How growing Israeli-Turkish tensions led to a strike on a Syrian air base ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2026/0903/israel-turkey-syria-netanyahu-erdogan-iran-gaza    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:31:17


  • Tigray's fragile recovery at risk as drone strikes reignite war fears ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260904-tigray-s-fragile-recovery-at-risk-as-drone-strikes-reignite-war-fears    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:31:58


  • Week 12 + Week 13: Everything merged, Final GSoC blog ☞ https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-12-week-13-everything-merged-final-gsoc-blog    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:33:09


  • AI and the Public Sector: A Human Rights Approach ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/ai-and-the-public-sector-a-human-rights-approach/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:33:59


  • ORG and MPs call for public sector use of Hey Hi (AI) to be regulated ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-and-mps-call-for-public-sector-use-of-ai-to-be-regulated/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:34:12


  • Counting them is pointless, doing exercise is not ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/back-up-to-ten-thousand-steps/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:35:33


  • Randal Schwartz on Perl and timestamps ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/randal-schwartz-on-perl-and-timestamps/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:35:59


  • Names in common with lost friends ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/names-in-common-with-lost-friends/ "I took my current social control media hiatus."    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:37:02


  • Audacity 4.0 released with brand-new look, clip editing features ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/audacity-4-released    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:37:58


  • Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 is now available for testing ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-26-10-snapshot-3    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:38:29


  • Vivaldi 8.2 is out with a calculator in the address bar ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/vivaldi-8-2-released    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:40:17


  • TickrCast – An ESP32-S3 HUB75 LED ticker display with server-side rendering and OTA (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/03/tickrcast-esp32-s3-hub75-led-ticker-display-with-server-side-rendering-and-ota/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:40:58


  • Jon Chiappetta: Finally got multi-queue batch-io linux kernel tun interface in C! ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/finally-got-multi-queue-batch-io-linux-kernel-tun-interface-in-c/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:41:37


  • Made by slop; better avoided, experimental, use GNU's GIMP instead ☞ https://ostechnix.com/install-paint-net-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:42:20


  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1092419/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:42:40


  • Using slop (LLM) to develop something does not prove you're advancing or evolving, just like taking steroids does not make you stronger, it kills you because you cheat and destroy your health.    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:43:57


  • 6 Best GNU/Linux Distros for Kids in 2026 ☞ https://linuxstans.com/best-linux-distros-for-kids/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:45:04


  • Slopfarm linuxsecurity(.com) is taking the spam with slop up a notch. No value in it, linuxsecurity is probably as rogue as the company behind it.    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:45:56


  • linuxiac has been LLM slop for over a year    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:46:23


  • Tether: Fashion Company Apple Continuity Like Experience Between iOS and GNU/Linux Desktop Machines ☞ https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/apple-continuity-linux/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:47:45


  • Potions in Mageia. 03 – Elograf or how have voice dictation with Mageia ☞ https://blog.mageia.org/en/2026/09/03/potions-in-mageia-03-elograf-or-how-have-voice-dictation-with-mageia/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:48:03


  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: PerfCompare just deployed (Sept 3, 2026) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/perfcompare-just-deployed-sept-3-2026/149361    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:51:50


  • Yes, no Hey Hi (AI) is now a feature ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:52:36


  • Results from the survey about LibreOffice Base ☞ https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/09/03/results-from-the-survey-about-libreoffice-base/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:53:01


  • The AMA Must Defend its Paywall on CPT Codes ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2026/09/03/the-ama-must-defend-its-paywall-on-cpt-codes/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:53:41


  • Lithuanian parliament speaker urges contacts with Belarusian govt, but stronger sanctions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3041330/lithuanian-parliament-speaker-urges-contacts-with-belarusian-govt-but-stronger-sanctions    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:53:59


  • Lithuanian intelligence sees no increased threat from Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3042067/lithuanian-intelligence-sees-no-increased-threat-from-belarus    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:54:07


  • Belarus conference to take place in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/03.09.2026-belarus-conference-to-take-place-in-riga.a661637/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:54:26


  • Norway Seizes Russian Ship, Testing Moscow in the High Arctic ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/europe/norway-russian-research-ship-arctic.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:55:01


  • The Risk of Russian Sabotage in Europe: A Fight That Spirals Out of Control ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/world/europe/russia-europe-nato-sabotage.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:55:13


  • Mongolia bears brunt of Russia's fuel crunch, official says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/mongolia-bears-brunt-of-russias-fuel-crunch-official-says    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:55:34


  • Prabowo offers Indonesia as Russia’s gateway to ASEAN ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/prabowo-offers-indonesia-as-russias-gateway-to-asean    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:55:43


  • Vietnam’s globetrotting leader To Lam to visit Russia, France, US in September: Sources ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnams-globetrotter-leader-to-visit-russia-france-us-this-month-sources-say    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:55:57


  • Belarusian opposition leader says Russia could use Belarus to provoke NATO ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3041074/belarusian-opposition-leader-says-russia-could-use-belarus-to-provoke-nato    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:56:10


  • The New Jet-Powered Drones That Are Breeding Anxiety in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/europe/ukraine-russia-jet-powered-drones.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:56:58


  • Rival Ukrainian Intelligence Units Open Fire Against Each Other in Kyiv ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/europe/rival-ukrainian-intelligence-units-open-fire-against-each-other-in-kyiv.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:57:13


  • For Russia and Ukraine, an Escalating Spiral With No End in Sight ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-escalation.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:57:52


  • U.S. Diesel Prices Set New High ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/business/diesel-price-record-oil-iran.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:58:08


  • After Fighting Russia Fiercely, He Wants to Forge Ukraine’s Path to Peace ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/world/europe/ukraine-russia-talks-kyrylo-budanov.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:58:31


  • This week, Germany stopped putting up with Russia’s hybrid war ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0903/germany-russia-attacks-hybrid-warfare-drones-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:58:55


  • Test for the West as it anticipates more Russian interference ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/0904/russia-nato-ukraine-attacks-us-response    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:59:06


  • Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/04/1143452/drone-data-wild-west/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:59:19


  • Zelenskyy Blasts 'Disgraceful' Kyiv Shoot-Out Between Ukraine's Security Agencies ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-shootout-security-agencies/33845793.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:59:36


  • Zelenskyy Says US Envoys To Visit Kyiv, Moscow As Russia Again Strikes Ukraine's Capital ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-witkoff-kushner-trump-kyiv-russia/33846491.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 18:59:48


  • Ukraine 'Optimistic' On Russia Sanctions Bill But Obstacles Loom ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-congress-vlasiuk-russia-sanctions-graham/33846754.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:00:00


  • Lithuania tightens inspections of Russian grain amid concerns over Ukrainian cargo ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3042090/lithuania-tightens-inspections-of-russian-grain-amid-concerns-over-ukrainian-cargo    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:00:12


  • Slop promotion, a sea of hype ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/04/configure-admission-fair-sharing-red-hat-build-kueue-1-4    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:01:40


  • How to Search, Stream, and Download Anime Using ani-cli ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/ani-cli-watch-anime-linux-terminal/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:02:38


  • A Surge of Russian Sabotage Attacks in Europe, and MElon’s Political War Chest ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/podcasts/the-headlines/russia-sabotage-attacks-elon-musk.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:03:26


  • Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:03:42


  • Japan budget requests swell to pandemic-era scale under Takaichi ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-budget-requests-swell-to-pandemic-era-scale-under-takaichi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:04:07


  • Have We Destroyed Childhood? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/have-we-destroyed-childhood    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:04:20


  • Israeli Military Kills Two Palestinian Youths in Village Raid, Residents Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/world/middleeast/west-bank-israel-palestinians-shooting.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:05:02


  • Amlogic A311Y3 Cortex-A78/A55 Edge Hey Hi (AI) system-on-module delivers up to 8 TOPS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/03/amlogic-a311y3-cortex-a78-a55-edge-ai-system-on-module-delivers-up-to-8-tops/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:05:22


  • quantum quantum quantum quantum HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE https://cyberscoop.com/g7-quantum-computing-encryption-warning/ next year is the year of quantum !!    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:05:54


  • Watch out, US can do quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum quantum things. And it has live aliens with ALIEN TECH in Area 51.    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:06:34


  • MISinformation. As usual. https://lunduke.substack.com/p/bluesky-users-bully-paintnet-dev    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:07:15


  • How to back-door Debian for Microsoft. https://dwaves.de/2026/09/03/how-to-install-ms-teams-in-debian-13/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:07:32


  • I put Linux on Microsoft’s own hardware, and it works so much better than Windows https://www.makeuseof.com/put-linux-on-microsoft-surface-pro-hardware-and-it-works-better-than-windows/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:11:03


  • Ubisoft abandons Linux players with For Honor Competitive Update https://overclock3d.net/news/software/ubisoft-abandons-linux-players-with-for-honor-competitive-update/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:11:36


  • This contains LLM slop!! https://www.techtimes.com/articles/326413/20260903/signing-ab-1856-protects-linux-vetoing-it-leaves-open-source-os-makers-californias-law.htm    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:12:40


  • Hands-On with Pandora, the 2010 Pocket Linux Machine With Dual Nubs and a Full Keyboard https://www.techeblog.com/open-pandora-smallest-linux-pc-2010-specs-features/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:12:59


  • Seems like LLM slop. Microsoft words salad. https://korben.info/en/winbtrfs-windows-driver-mounts-linux-disks-wakes-up.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:13:39


  • MOZA Flight Adds Linux and macOS Force Feedback Support via FFB-Bridge https://boxthislap.org/moza-flight-linux-macos-force-feedback/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:14:25


  • "Firefox 155 has arrived quietly, speeding up page loads with Happy Eyeballs v3 and QUIC v2. And the timing is perfect for you to switch. Google just removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store, leaving Firefox one of the last non-Chromium browsers still supporting it." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-36/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:14:51


  • No, it's worse. It's made by LLM slop. Use GIMP or Krita. https://www.xda-developers.com/paintnet-has-finally-arrived-on-linux-but-it-is-extremely-experimental-for-now/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:15:19


  • “distinguished corporate patron” https://ua.news/en/technologies/1password-rozkritikuvali-cherez-pidtrimku-linux-proiektu-omarchy-stvorenogo-dhh    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:15:55


  • LLM slop with slop images. This USED to be a real site! https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/09/echo-acquires-minimus-assets-to-harden-more-linux-software/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:16:27


  • These 5 Linux distros promise to run Windows apps—I tried them all, and one was clearly the best https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/5-linux-distros-promise-run-000013552.html    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:19:01


  • Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/09/03/jas-i-khorlo-beta/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:19:27


  • Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware https://www.issuewire.com/kwt-spider-launches-version-30-extending-its-seo-crawler-from-windows-to-macos-and-linux-1875303191011818    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:19:55


  • "Audacity 4.0 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source digital audio editor and recording software, a major update that introduces new features and enhancements." https://9to5linux.com/audacity-4-0-open-source-audio-editor-officially-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:20:16


  • MechaHitler inside your pocket, in an "app" https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/news/spacexai-grok-bot-android-launch-features-11998128    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:20:49


  • I stopped getting lost in KDE’s settings after finding these simple shortcuts https://www.howtogeek.com/i-stopped-getting-lost-in-kdes-settings-after-finding-these-simple-shortcuts/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:21:03


  • Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in https://government.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/geosaral-brings-indigenous-linux-based-gis-capabilities-to-indias-geospatial-ecosystem/133733514    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:21:41


  • Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/03/haiku-os-rises-/-beta-6-sails-open-web-/-virtual-winds-fly-fast/5294184    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:22:12


  • "The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for August 2026 is now live, and with it we can see the latest system details for gamers on Steam. For August 2026, we did see a dip in the overall Linux user share." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steam-linux-user-share-dips-below-4-percent-for-august-2026/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:22:36


  • Goolag Imperialism shoehorns the brand Linux to conduct American imperialism inside the EU https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/google-pay/zero-knowledge-proof-library-linux-foundation/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:24:48


  • With a very European name, Abhi Shelat    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:25:08


  • Ubisoft banning Steam Deck users from For Honor reveals how expendable Linux gamers are https://www.xda-developers.com/ubisoft-banning-steam-deck-users-from-for-honor-reveals-how-expendable-linux-gamers-are/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:25:40


  • "This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 7.1 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life and that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 7.2 as soon as possible" https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-7-1-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-7-2    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:26:31


  • A buzzwords-spewing loser sucks up to IBM while leading Red Hat into hype bubbles https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2026/red-hat-ceo-matt-hicks-ai-has-changed-open-source-security    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:39:03


  • A buzzwords-spewing loser sucks up to IBM while leading Red Hat into hype bubbles https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2026/red-hat-ceo-matt-hicks-ai-has-changed-open-source-security    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:41:33


  • Red Hat is high on hype, buzzwords, and bubbles https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/layered-security-age-ai-emerging-threats-ebook    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:42:51


  • 100% buzzwords https://www.redhat.com/en/events/webinar/the-blueprint-for-scalable-enterprise-security-in-the-age-of-ai    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:43:31


  • IBM spends money paying fake 'analysts' for fake "discussions" which in turn influence the "analysis" (glorified marketing) https://redmonk.com/videos/jason-willeford/    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 19:45:20


  • ROOPHLOCH hackathon gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-09-04-lora.txt    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:00:34


  • "Arduino's Zephyr real-time operating system (RTOS) core for its microcontrollers has hit the milestone of a formal 1.0.0 release, a little over a month after the company announced it was leaving beta status with version 0.9.0." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202609/20260904-zeph.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:01:11


  • "A little while ago, one of my colleagues sent me this. It's a thoughtful piece by a Computer Science professor, writing to his students about the new tech world of scarce junior jobs, about the devaluing of expertise as workers are told by their companies to go all-in on AI." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/9-04.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:02:16


  • "If you read my previous "Summer of upgrades" gemlogs you might reminder "Never underestimate the power of having no plan at all". Well I clearly underestimated that one! Here is quick runup of the recent changes in my homelab." gemini://iam.jeroened.be/gemlog/summer-of-upgrades-epilogue-fell-for-it-again.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:02:58


  • "It was already one of those days where I was basically a cluster fire fighter - putting out small fires all over the system. Normally, that's a minor annoyance of being a systems administrator, it actually does come with the territory." gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-09-04.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:03:32


  • American Guinea Pig gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/US-american-guinea-pig-stephen-biro.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:03:58


  • "It reminds me that online community can be very real, but it it is also very fragile. Almost by definition, people are bound to come and go and the reasons for the coming and going aren't necessarily public. (Nor should they be)." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-09-04-re-missing    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:04:37


  • Resumen de las vacaciones 2026 gemini://caleb.subnet.city/gemlog/vacaciones2026parte2.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:05:05


  • Síndrome (Cuasi) post-vacacional 2026 gemini://caleb.subnet.city/gemlog/sindromepostvacacional2026.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:05:27


  • "My life is, and always has been, dominated by worry. Sometimes it's just a nagging, background annoyance, but on other occasions it escalates to a crippling, stultifying anxiety." gemini://larsthebear.me/worry.gmi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:06:52


  • forced samadhi gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/forcedSamadhi    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:07:35


  • SRA placed into special measures due to 'disappointing standard of leadership' https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/sra-placed-special-measures-due-disappointing-standard-leadership    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:48:21


  • Enforcement action against SRA intensifies after latest failure https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/enforcement-action-against-sra-intensifies-after-latest-failure/5127804.article    

posted Friday, September 04, 2026 at 20:48:35



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