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Gaming industry faces its worst crash in decades — but Japan is dodging the bullet https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gaming-industry-faces-its-worst-crash-in-decades-but-Japan-is-dodging-the-bullet.1402037.0.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 00:55:52

  • ENILINX's TICKEY Is a Modos-Driven, Espressif ESP32-S3-Powered Smart Ticket-Shaped ePaper Display gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202609/20260917-tickey.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 00:58:56

  • "I have created my own internet logs, created meditations, created (written) a book (available in and physical and digital formats), created a programming language (a Lisp fork), created a spoken language (an Esperantido); so......." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-09-17__Modern_Linguistic.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 00:59:36

  • "Boxing yesterday night" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/boxeNewSeason    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:01:27

  • "I love my mother, and also her most consistent skill is to disappoint me on my birthday. This year is no exception." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-09-17    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:02:37

  • "The numbers from part 1 set the frame, now it is about the actual components. Why a Pi Zero 2 W of all things, why this particular UPS HAT, and why two 18650 cells instead of a single small one, all decisions with upsides and downsides." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-09-17-solar-miniserver-part-2-hardware.en.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:04:31

  • words flowing gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/words_flowing    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:05:12

  • Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing, part 2 http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:22:23

  • Andreas Haerter: Rolling Wireless RW350R-GL / Fibocom FM350R-GL (5G module) on Linux https://foundata.com/en/blog/2026/rolling-rw350r-gl-fibocom-fm350r-gl-linux/-atom    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:22:54

  • Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (36/2026): Pixel 3 calling https://linmob.net/weekly-update-36-2026/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:23:17

  • BigBear Microsoft 365 phishing service bypassed MFA at 258 organizations https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bigbear-microsoft-365-phishing-service-bypassed-mfa-at-258-organizations/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:25:48

  • NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9 http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:28:20

  • Canadian 'banking' company linked to sanctioned money-laundering network https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-banking-company-linked-to-sanctioned-money-laundering-network-9.7331482    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:28:48

  • It's bots, not "AI", it'll just piss off customers and waste their time. They should leave. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-banks-ai-9.7337625    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:29:52

  • Making money from money https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/07/debate-returns-dutch-banks-billion-euro-profits-socially-justified    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:30:14

  • Exelixis, Inc. v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2026) https://patentdocs.org/2026/09/03/exelixis-inc-v-msn-laboratories-private-ltd-fed-cir-2026/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:30:45

  • " The informational system consistently oversells its power to control the environment before crashing into the hard limits of reality. Likewise, in America especially, it overestimates its capacity to alter the beliefs of people who remain stubbornly attached to making up their own minds." – Jacob Siegel https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:42:48

  • Era of Climate Chaos https://truthout.org/audio/organizing-for-survival-in-an-era-of-climate-chaos/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:56:56

  • The Public Supports Climate Superfund Bills. The Oil Lobby Is Tanking Them. https://truthout.org/articles/the-public-supports-climate-superfund-bills-the-oil-lobby-is-tanking-them/ https://www.thelocal.se/20260904/will-the-european-union-take-up-the-climate-fight-after-brutal-heatwaves    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:57:14

  • Nepal flood disaster puts climate justice under spotlight https://www.dw.com/en/nepal-flood-disaster-puts-climate-justice-under-spotlight/a-78998617    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:57:29

  • Climate crisis: How the supersized El Niño could hit Europe https://www.thelocal.se/20260907/climate-crisis-how-the-supersized-el-nino-could-hit-europ    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:57:46

  • August was Earth's hottest month, European climate agency finds https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/august-2026-hottest-month-9.7338753    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:58:23

  • Nepal Leaders Call for $20M Climate Justice Payment After Deadly Glacial Floods https://truthout.org/articles/nepal-leaders-call-for-20m-climate-justice-payment-after-deadly-glacial-floods/ https://bianet.org/haber/the-climate-crisis-is-here-new-campaign-highlights-sinkholes-in-konya-basin-323343    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:58:38

  • Nancy Pelosi Disclosed Multi-Million Dollar Bet https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pelosi-bloom-energy-investment-sp500-surge-1818737    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 01:59:18

  • Hong Kong Misuses Colonial-era Law to Violate Rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/04/hong-kong-misuses-colonial-era-law-to-violate-rights    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 02:00:04

  • Techrights reader: "it can be phrased differently or creatively but each and every time Garrett's name is cited, the damage he caused (restricted boot) needs to be brought up in some way, shape, or form"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 02:38:20

  • "Can the recent posts (say last week's worth) be retroactively edited to include at least a few words each on the topic of restricted boot?"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 02:39:40

  • "REALLY IMPORTANT !!!!! whiskyboy == restricted boot"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 02:39:59

  • The series regarding SLAPPs will not focus a bit on TPMs. "When people read the posts, they have to see the connection otherwise they will ask WTF is this?"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 02:52:12

  • "well put, but PLEASE always mention restricted boot when bringing up certain malfeasants: gemini.techrights.org//n/2026/09/16/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_186_Out_of_200_Love_Always_Commands.gmi "    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 02:52:40

  • Now HearsayBoy openly boasts about extortion by his hired guns in London. Not wise at all. He also gives away their strategy, which involves an American who strangles women.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 03:34:58

  • Lawfare comes in many forms. HearsayBoy does not even hide that what he does is lawfare. Says a lot about him as a person.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 03:35:53

  • Software Freedom Day 2026 is Tomorrow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/software-freedom-day-2026-is-tomorrow/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 04:30:57

  • HeardayBoy is begruindgyly learning that paying hired guns who send death threats will make the government uncooperative. https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/What_I_Explained_to_Police_About_Blackmail_and_Death_Threats_vi.shtml maybe one day HeardayBoy will share a cell with his spouse (whom he tricked his regime into kidnapping)    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:03:29

  • HearsayBoy is not smart, his know-it-all virtue-signalling (by misusing the name of a place where he studied) is an empty-pants gesture. Once people explain what he really is, he panics.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:04:46

  • Like his president, he tries to compensate with arrogance, threats, and bad language for sheer narcissism and the stupidity this narcissism manifests    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:05:51

  • And he is no friend of trans people http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_88_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_is_Defamin.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:06:20

  • Some trans people, like Leah Rowe, already saw that half a decade ago and justly detected Puppy Breaker for it    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:06:52

  • Turkey’s law enforcement probed over 200,000 people over social media posts in 2025 https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-law-enforcement-probed-over-200-000-people-over-social-media-posts-in-2025-323338    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:11:40

  • ‘spreading disinformation’ https://cpj.org/2026/09/journalist-oya-lale-arslan-arrested-in-turkey-on-suspicion-of-spreading-disinformation/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:12:03

  • Drones https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-drones-photos-9.7337102"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 05:13:26

  • Matt Garrett Has Just Threatened (in Public) to Send People to Our Home https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/matt-garrett-has-just-threatened-in-public-to-send-people-to-our-home/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 06:13:59

  • United States: GNU/Linux at 11% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 06:30:11

  • Bahamas: ChromeOS+GNU/Linux about 10% https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Clownflare_Sees_GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_at_Over_13_in_Bahamas.shtml https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=7d&loc=BS&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 06:31:32

  • "Apple is cutting managers and directors right now. We should follow suit." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2rrham8    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 06:33:04

  • "All of them are getting fired from IBM to Anderon. Good riddance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2qy4wah    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 06:34:06

  • "Lots of people getting hit some with 10+ years. I was told to take the "voluntary" separation agreement or go on PIP and be gone in 30 days. Hearing many others are affected. Tech sales and other areas. I am taking the PIP at 4 months severance plus my bonus. cya Microsoft!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m1dqaxqh#replies    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 07:04:52

  • OpenAI, Microsoft copyright lawsuit: NYT filing reveals paywall bypass claims https://www.firstpost.com/tech/openai-microsoft-copyright-lawsuit-nyt-filing-reveals-paywall-bypass-claims-14046747.html/amp    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 07:05:58

  • When Your Identity Becomes “Politics” https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/when-your-identity-becomes-politics/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 07:18:44

  • "LF" and its associates = Epstein class. Richard Stallman (RMS): Epstein is serial rapist. WHO would YOU cancel?    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 07:52:42

  • A cynic would joke that to climb up in the "Tech World" one needs to be a pedo or a protector of pedos.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 07:53:10

  • I Would Simply Not Assert That I Have Reputation If I Were a Potty-mouth Who Cannot Get Even a Single ‘Like’ in 2+ Hours https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/i-would-simply-not-assert-that-i-have-reputation-if-i-were-a-potty-mouth-who-cannot-get-even-a-single-like-in-2-hours/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 08:03:42

  • Sign of Life: Will Wikileaks Announce Turning 20 Next Month? https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/sign-of-life-will-wikileaks-announce-turning-20-next-month/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 08:12:18

  • "Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco lost a key challenge against a Belgian DNS blocking order." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/court-upholds-belgian-pirate-dns-blocking-order-opendns-exit-looms/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:03:01

  • "An Alabama martial arts instructor alleges that U.S. Army personnel copied his published training materials on self-defense and gunfighting tactics" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2026/09/17/martial-arts-instructor-accuses-army-of-stealing-instructional-material/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:03:14

  • "Google has been doing anticompetitive tricks all along, even during the antitrust cases." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/we-have-ad-slowness-metrics-at-home/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:06:11

  • "Antitrust experts say that while the companies’ charged language isn’t necessarily doing them any favors" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-slowdown-is-an-antitrust-mess/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:06:23

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-sues-game-cracker-voices38-for-bypassing-its-anti-tamper-drm/ | Source: Torrent Freak | "Anti-piracy outfit Denuvo has filed a DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuit in a U.S. federal court, targeting the anonymous game cracker known as 'voices38.'"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:13:37

  • "This is important because the regulator uses the risk assessment to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for regulated fibre companies." ☛ https://billbennett.co.nz/comcom-sees-lower-risk-for-regulated-fibre/ | Source: Bill Bennett    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:13:55

  • "Judge Richard Stone ordered Uber to pay $40 million to Normandin-Parker’s parents, concluding that the company is responsible for its driver’s conduct" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-17/woman-was-killed-when-uber-driver-left-her-on-freeway-ubers-been-ordered-to-pay-40-million | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:19:53

  • "That term – ‘We the People’ – comes from us because we’re governed by the people; they were learning from us" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0917/america-250-native-americans | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:20:10

  • "Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real opportunity to use AI to make campaigning better." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/how-candidates-could-use-ai-for-good.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:21:13

  • "But another part of the reason is that governments are facing competition for the available funds from other highly-rated borrowers." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/09/downgrades.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:22:12

  • "Looks like Anthropic is leaning towards oversight: We must pace the frontier. Within hours DeepMind, Open AI, and Grok all jumped on the call for regulation." ☛ https://joecode.com/2026-09-16-remember-they-have-no-moat/ | Source: Joe Wilson    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:22:25

  • "When you’re mad at a company, figure out who is actually responsible for the things you’re mad about, and be mad at them. Because people can be held accountable." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/companies-don-t-make-decisions | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:22:37

  • "Privacy provides the best-known example of how European rules are exported around the world" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/elbows-up-with-europe-too-why-canadas-pivot-to-the-eu-raises-the-same-digital-sovereignty-questions-as-the-u-s/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:22:56

  • "Nobody in West Hollywood was going to be argued out of their politics by a truck bed of young men, and nobody in Beverly Hills needed to be." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-pageant-and-the-program | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:23:15

  • "I’m going to be more candid here than usual. Bothsidesism doesn’t work on me. Quite the opposite." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/when-we-didnt-know-everyones-politics/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:23:33

  • "The Series F deal was led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. They were joined by more than two dozen other investors." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-center-builder-crusoe-valued-at-30-9b-in-3-9b-round/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:23:47

  • "Pondering the circumstances that led to the retirement of a 64-year-old cable brand in a merger. Turns out, brand loyalty matters less than we thought" ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/09/17/cox-charter-spectrum-brand-retirement-analysis/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:23:57

  • "Echidna are one of my favourite animals. Spiked, snooted, Australian." ☛ https://vonexplaino.com/blog/posts/article/2026/09/finally-met-a-wild-echidna.html |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:24:55

  • hearsayboy has no publications in Computer Science and maybe he thinks there is a fruitfly without ovaries inside his broken laptop, so he claims he asked for a microscope to check his laptop (!!!???). Unbelievable incompetence! What's he going to do? Check the silicon at gate level and use a hammer to fix things? Check diodes and fix with with his bare hands. Is he DRUNK?    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:29:35

  • He is just trying to recover from the embarrassment of spending 2-3 days, nights included, trying to fix in laptop. In vain. He how spouse says "he can't fuck or hack" and noted on several occasions he cannot code, among other things. 100% pretender.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:31:02

  • "he can't fuck or hack" = like a fruitfly without ovaries    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:31:08

  • "In the last post we described Jordan Hillebert’s reading of Henri de Lubac in his book Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence." ☛ https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/on-nature-and-grace-9c2 | Source: Richard Beck    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:32:15

  • "This stabs at the very heart of the Endangered Species Act by giving federal approval to the killing of some of America’s most beloved wildlife" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-administration-directive-would-allow-killing-of-endangered-wildlife | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:32:25

  • "I am privileged to be able to make good daily use of these cycling paths that normally are neatly separated from the usual road traffic." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/09/five-striking-cycling-bridges-nearby/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:33:26

  • "One of the main problems is simply one of cost, with wind energy having converged on a single design involving effectively the same three-bladed rotor" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/why-wave-energy-is-the-final-frontier-of-renewable-energy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:33:42

  • "The bill, the Ratepayer Protection Act, requires states to consider — but does not mandate — standards that would require AI data centers to pay the full cost of infrastructure upgrades to their facilities" ☛ https://www.washingtonsun.com/us-news/senate-stalls-major-data-center-bill-that-sailed-through-house | Source: NOTUS Media LLC    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:34:09

  • "The report, by researchers at the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/09/record-32-of-new-vehicle-sales-to-be-evs-in-2030-study-finds/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:34:24

  • "The fire was a difficult one, with heavy smoke in a windowless lab, and it had been burning for a while." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:44:06

  • "The fire was a difficult one, with heavy smoke in a windowless lab, and it had been burning for a while." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/17/ai-data-centre-fires-overwhelm-emergency-responders/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:44:26

  • "Waters of the United States." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-wants-to-further-destroy-the-clean-water-act/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:44:33

  • [Old] "Gelman Sciences LLC, a medical filter manufacturer, had slowly dumped wastewater laced with 1,4-dioxane into the ground around its facility for almost 20 years before it was discovered." ☛ https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2025-05-27/it-cost-us-dearly-the-legacy-of-ann-arbors-gelman-plume | Source: Michigan Radio    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:44:47

  • "Then, in 2016, Danish diver Gert Normann Andersen rediscovered the sunken boat and its toxic arsenal on the floor of the North Sea." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-ww1-submarine-wreck-is-leaking-explosives-into-the-north-sea | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:44:58

  • "targeted legal waiver" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-defense-department-sends-alien-disclosure-signal/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:45:51

  • "The lawsuit alleges Epstein had a "modeling book" full of inappropriate pictures of girls." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/17/jeffrey-epstein-estate-sued-by-two-women-claiming-nude-images/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:46:11

  • "Before agreeing to the purchase, the city spent six months conducting water testing, legal analysis, permit reviews and financial reviews." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/09/17/peoria-makes-104-million-water-purchase/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:46:45

  • "We have to assume from now on that our formations will be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum and tracked in real time" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2026/09/16/us-military-must-adapt-as-formations-will-be-hunted-by-autonomous-systems-caine-says/ | Source: USMC    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:47:23

  • "mini accounts" ☛ https://therecord.media/european-commission-set-to-push-social-media-kids-restrictions-into-law | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:47:36

  • "The company said Claude leads 26 percent of its research and development, an indicator of progress toward AI that builds itself without human help" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/17/anthropic-says-its-chatbot-claude-is-taking-over-work-building-its-own-successor/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:48:40

  • "In this regard, fascism is simply one end of the continuum of conservative movements" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/17/porque-no-los-dos/#fascist-incoherence | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:49:35

  • "That's because, at root, conservativism is the belief that some minority (rich people, white people, bosses, men, etc) were born to rule and everyone else was born to be ruled over: [...]"    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:49:55

  • "TikTok and its copycats have come to define how much of our societies consume information [sic]." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/02-why-are-short-videos-bad-for-learning/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:50:14

  • Our 15th Year https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/our-15th-year/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:59:10

  • "I don’t know if this president is aware that the movie says these [characters] are fascists without knowing that they’re fascists" ☛ https://ew.com/director-says-starship-troopers-is-about-nazis-after-trump-invokes-film-12123528 | Source: Entertainment Weekly    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 12:59:44

  • [Old] "After having run OpenVPN clients in production for quite a bit of time" ☛ https://huttu.net/posts/openvpn-client-runtime-issues/ |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:00:22

  • [Old] "In my practical human trials, I have encountered issues mostly with availability." ☛ https://huttu.net/posts/openvpn-client-stability/ |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:00:31

  • "The Android version is small beer compared to the revelation that they contain a hard-coded and very open-access API key" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/surveillance-camera-security-its-completely-flocked/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:23:36

  • "Helpfeel confirmed an attacker took 23.62 million user records, including email addresses, password hashes and session IDs." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/gyazo-breach-exposes-link-ids-private-captures/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:23:43

  • "Waymo’s camera-covered cars have already been drawn into the debate over privacy and surveillance." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/transportation/996863/robotaxi-waymo-police-privacy-surveillance | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:23:52

  • "Flock City PD also searched extremely sensitive queries" ☛ https://www.404media.co/flock-city-pd-the-fake-flock-owned-police-department-that-searched-real-cameras-for-real-people/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:26:26

  • "Flock says that its cameras are protected by on-device encryption, and even though a security researcher noted some flaws in its system" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hackers-find-encryption-key-stored-on-flock-camera-group-extracts-more-than-27-000-clips-1-6-million-images-captured-in-a-span-of-21-days-from-device | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:26:49

  • "Even America’s smallest cities are under a close eye. The Flock cameras in Alpharetta, Georgia—which has a population of nearly 67,000 people—are accessible to more than 2,000 agencies, according to another WIRED report." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/215485/hacked-data-flock-cameras-recording-people | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:27:05

  • "Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/17/netsuite-ai-agents-new-audit-assurance-gap-amplify/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:29:49

  • "Logging on to a website in 2036: [...]" ☛ https://joshwithers.blog/2026/09/18/logging-on-to-a-website-in-2036-username | Source: Josh Withers    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:29:58

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/ransomware-incidents-in-japan-in-the-first-half-of-2026/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:33:45

  • "small group of women allegedly were creating fictitious online dating profiles" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/215548/fbi-panics-women-pretend-tradwives-catfish-dox-ice-agents | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:51:40

  • "The case stems from a complaint by Lilianne Komba Maka, vice-president of Haut-Katanga provincial assembly" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/09/drc-journalist-detained-prosecuted-for-sharing-x-post-on-whatsapp/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:51:56

  • China wants to DISABLE half of the US workforce: "As a hashtag and aesthetic, #tradwife has gained a lot of traction on social media, particularly TikTok. Many creators have gone viral for videos performing domestic labor such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for children" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradwife TikTok = China.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:53:25

  • "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-admitted-ai-theft-labor-human-history-court-lawsuit | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:56:00

  • "Now the rise of the AI therapist is upon us. The growing cadre of AI mental-health services tend to avoid using words like therapist and therapy." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/ai-therapy-without-a-therapist/688633/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:56:09

  • "The concern, critics say, is not limited to weapons that can select and engage targets on their own." ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/09/16/ai-military-targeting-may-move-faster-than-humans-can-authenticate-critics-warn/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:56:51

  • Slop bots "need not go rogue to threaten the power grid or mess with your tap water." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/503068/ai-infrastructure-hacking-cybersecurity | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:57:16

  • "others argue that the people training and deploying AI are the real problem here." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rogue-ai-agents-human-blame-safety | Source: Science News    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:57:36

  • "many on the Left call this alarm “criti-hype” — an exaggeration of AI’s power that benefits Big Tech" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-danger-sanders-data-centers | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:58:07

  • "In this guide, we will explain how to install Atomic Chat on Linux, download a coding model, and use it to complete a real programming task both in the GUI and from the terminal." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/atomic-chat-local-ai-coding-assistant-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:58:30

  • "An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”" ☛ https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:58:51

  • "As models advance and become more widely deployed, decisions about AI development need evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-releases-new-policy-for-reporting-incidents-of-model-misalignment/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 13:59:35

  • "Worries run particularly high in wealthier countries like Australia" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/996775/ai-is-feared-globally-as-the-destroyer-of-jobs | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:00:06

  • "There are several problems with allowing access to frontier AI to remain concentrated in a handful of private companies." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/a-cern-for-ai-assisted-science/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:00:26

  • "But as I mull on this more, I realize that among this mix of contrasting feelings, there is one emotion that dominates - one that comes from my direct interactions with LLMs. I don’t like them." ☛ https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html | Source: Martin Fowler    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:01:02

  • "The Amish aside (straw hat tip), it feels like almost nobody on the planet can escape hearing about AI multiple times a day at this point, for better or worse. Mostly worse." ☛ https://houseofkyle.com/2026/09/16/on-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Kyle Ford    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:08:36

  • "What happens when machines become easier to relate to than other people?" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/artificial-intimacy-is-changing-who-we-are/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:08:50

  • "Using an LLM lets me over-complicate my workflow at unprecedented speeds." ☛ https://baty.net/journal/16Sep26/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:09:07

  • "over the past year, AI has become a political third rail among Americans. Attitudes have evolved from hopeful to outright apocalyptic." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/a-machine-beat-me-at-chess-im-still | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:09:39

  • "Then we will discuss how deep learning is not quite an optimization problem, at least in the way we formulated it. How do our goals vary from the simple formulation and what can we do about it?" ☛ https://ericphanson.com/blog/2026/an-opinionated-introduction-to-deep-learning/ | Source: Eric P Hanson    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:10:01

  • "There's lots of reasons to believe the "hyperscaler" model of AI can never be profitable, and not just because of its gigantic expenditures and negative unit economics" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/beggar-thy-neighbor/#red-queens-race | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:10:26

  • "I've been getting more email from agents lately and it's all both formulaic and irritating. My favorites (sarcasm) are the ones that cite a post where I explain a problem I'd already solved and then offer me a solution. They all read the same: polite, bland, slop." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/agent-email-is-spam | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:10:54

  • "Every week there's a new AI stunt, manufactured by the large companies wanting to keep the public convinced they're essential for the future of humanity." ☛ https://brettcodes.com/how-i-navigate-ai-anxiety/ | Source: Brett Chalupa    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:11:10

  • "That is, the ads work about as well as just chucking the ad on a random web page would." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/16/chatgpt-ads-media-agencies-are-underwhelmed/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:11:45

  • "That’s not the only troubling behavior the AI company reported that its models exhibited: It also shared five more reports of concerning model behavior observed during training or evaluation" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openai-model-misalignment-reports/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:12:12

  • "This week I was writing a story and noticed something strange: I didn’t give the document a title, but, after saving it, the document had a title that I did not expect." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/09/17/macos-suggested-filenames | Source: James G    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:12:59

  • "Throughout September 2025, Jaguar Land Rover shut down its UK plants because of an attack and halted the daily production of around 1,000 luxury vehicles." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-attacks-on-manufacturers-surge-as-supply-chain-risk-grows/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:13:16

  • "The latest zero-day — CVE-2026-76460 — has a maximum-severity rating and was exploited before Cisco disclosed and patched the vulnerability Wednesday." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cisco-ise-zero-day-cve-2026-76460/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:13:30

  • "Three of the promoted videos reached around 200,000 views." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-on-youtube-ad-campaigns-for-his-minecraft-channel-using-a-company-credit-card-bill-racked-up-in-just-three-weeks-was-supposed-to-be-one-usd20-promotion | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:14:01

  • "My review: I actually kinda like it. I do reach for it when I have this job." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/09/17/the-avocadinator/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:16:15

  • "Two years ago I attended the International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago's McCormick Place and found a rather limited focus on artificial intelligence among the exhibitors." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/09/ai-and-manufacturing-redux.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:18:23

  • "One thing I have noticed as my friends and I age, though: Growing - physically, mentally, emotionally - is pretty much inevitable for the first 30 years or so." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-09-17 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:18:34

  • "Interviews suck, I know. I don't think that's a hot take." ☛ https://var0.xyz/posts/interviews-suck-hiring-is-hard.html | Source: Var Zero    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:19:13

  • "Code lets me hide behind compiler passes and green tests. Writing in plain text gives me nowhere to hide. Why treating this blog as a personal diary changed how I think about systems." ☛ https://lorbic.com/writing-has-been-my-best-teacher/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:19:38

  • "More information on setting up a JOTA/JOTI operation may be found at www.jotajoti.info." ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/get-ready-for-jamboree-on-the-air | Source: ARRL    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:19:52

  • "Almost every day at around 2 p.m., I would show up sweaty and a bit tired after the almost-mile long walk on flat-ish rocks." ☛ https://thetech.com/2026/09/17/jojo-lighthouse-keeper | Source: MIT    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:20:07

  • "one can be found among those concerned with the effects of global warming produced by human (technological) activity" ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/17/existential-risks-in-an-age-of-science/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:24:57

  • "Or are those two aims valuable in different ways, so that there is no point in declaring one of them more important?" ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:28:45

  • "His goal was to separate T cells from blood for further lab analysis, and he needed to be able to work with blood in 15 mL conical tubes." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/building-a-diy-centrifuge-for-blood-processing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:29:00

  • "Like, I either memorize the folding steps/crease pattern, or I don’t, and I just follow the diagram and not worry too much." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/favorite-memorized-origami/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:29:36

  • "Usenet-Rewind is the a vast archive of Usenet postings (previously at Boing Boing) covering text from 1981 to the present day. It contains 1,059,610,453 messages and has the "advanced search" features you're looking for." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/09/16/archive-of-usenet-postings-going-back-to-1981.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:29:51

  • "Usenet-Rewind is a research archive for the newsgroup conversations that predate the modern web" ☛ https://www.usenet-rewind.com/ |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:30:21

  • "Another year has gone, and I will happily admit not much has happened with olduse.net." ☛ https://olduse.net/ |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:31:00

  • "I set up graphing of the ranking, to be able to follow along. I also looked up the earliest ranking I could find in The Internet Archive (446 on 2025-11-13 - above wikipedia.org!), and added it to my dataset." ☛ https://koldfront.dk/akarank_return_1992 |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:31:14

  • Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 13:35:59 EDT https://article.olduse.net/771@mit-eddie.UUCP new UNIX implementation    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:32:12

  • "The OpenBSD routing table can be carved into multiple virtual routing tables allowing complete logical separation of attached networks." ☛ https://www.packetmischief.ca/2011/09/20/virtualizing-the-openbsd-routing-table/ |    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:32:53

  • "CSS-Tricks repeatedly gave me the opportunity to write for them." ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/css-tricks-could-be-a-co-op/ | Source: Eric Bailey    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:33:17

  • "Saw a post from Theo Soti this week making the case for the CSS columns property. It’s a good use case for multi-column, newspaper-style text layout" ☛ https://dominickjay.com/writing/css-columns/ | Source: Dominick Jay    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:33:28

  • "The specific fix was simple, and I'm honestly surprised that Exim still allowed the unfixed version in Ubuntu 22.04." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximTestPlanSavedMe | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:33:41

  • "We’re miles off from that capability yet — it doesn’t look like any browser is working on it — so allow me to show you how to build a nice custom checkbox pattern for until we have the browser capabilities we’re after." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/a-decent-custom-checkbox-for-until-checkmark-is-ready/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:33:55

  • "The Cheap Yellow Display is an all-in-one ESP32 board with a touchscreen, that’s as the name suggests, cheap." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/your-cyd-is-now-a-telly/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:35:12

  • "This means the Adafruit Feather RP2040 with USB Type A Host probably works just as well. The Adafruit board is available on DigiKey and much better documented." ☛ https://qsantos.fr/2026/09/17/the-usb-interposer/ | Source: Quentin Santos    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:35:23

  • "That doesn’t mean pageviews tell me nothing. They tell me when something I wrote gets discovered." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/09/17/i-can-count-pageviews-but-i-cant-count-readers/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:39:50

  • "The following is a transcript of the 7am hour of Rise & Grind, a nationally syndicated breakfast news programme" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/17/good-morning-your-toaster-is-compromised.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:40:16

  • "Speaking of OIDC, I searched in my drawer and found all three security keys I own again." ☛ https://janlukas.blog/micro/2026/09/2026-09-17-zkgbu | Source: Jan-Lukas Else    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:40:31

  • "Or at least, that’s how it used to be." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/17/fcc-ism-rules-may-shatter-lora-mesh-communities/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:41:02

  • "Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/681 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:41:59

  • "Software network stacks have not kept pace, and they are now the dominant bottleneck" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/09/18/presto-a-match-action-tcp-stack-for-the-terabit-era/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:43:18

  • "With GNOME 51 out the door, it's wallpaper reveal season again." ☛ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/gnome51-wallpapers/ | Source: Jakub Steiner    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:43:34

  • "The AlmaLinux project has published a new beta snapshot for the 9.x series. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12955 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:43:56

  • "I was getting annoyed at having to manually copy Youtube's privacy preserving embed code each time I wanted to include a video in a post" ☛ https://www.jamesleighton.com/2026/09/easily-embed-youtube-videos-into-11ty/ | Source: James Leighton    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:44:18

  • [Old] "These realisations and what followed have been keeping me very busy over the past few months." ☛ https://blog.altos.au/post/decision-to-self-host/ | Source: Jon    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:44:42

  • "Now, it’s not impossible to do this, but it’s actually not formally correct to do so, and by doing so you’ll lose at least some of the type checking guarantees your language can usually make for you." ☛ https://crumbles.blog/posts/2026-09-17-immutable-mutable.html | Source: Daphne Preston-Kendal    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:46:27

  • "as levers for improving a team and the work the team is doing, I think process changes themselves are pretty weak." ☛ https://www.simplermachines.com/process-doesnt-matter/ | Source: Nat Bennett    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:46:39

  • "This converter runs Go’s standard ecosystem parsers (encoding/json, gopkg.in/yaml.v3, and github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2) directly in the browser via WebAssembly to ensure identical syntax compatibility with backend tooling." ☛ https://lorbic.com/apps/json-yaml-converter/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:46:53

  • "A quick reference for getting the current Unix timestamp and parsing an epoch integer (1800000000) into a human-readable date across common environments: [...]" ☛ https://lorbic.com/apps/unix-timestamp-converter/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:47:08

  • "Hashes in PKI operations serve three distinct roles: [...]" ☛ https://lorbic.com/apps/hash-generator/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:47:18

  • "I'm building a chess practice app; there are many great tools already available" ☛ https://www.mostlypython.com/teaching-models-vs-real-world-models/ | Source: Eric Matthes    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:53:57

  • VR shooter Forefront adds Steam Frame support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/vr-shooter-forefront-adds-steam-frame-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/vr-shooter-forefront-adds-steam-frame-support/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:54:54

  • Free-to-play, next-gen creature-catcher Aniimo arrives on Steam, needs a Proton tweak to run on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/free-to-play-next-gen-creature-catcher-aniimo-arrives-on-steam-needs-a-proton-tweak-to-run-on-steamos-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 14:56:17

  • Enjoying the Simplest Things https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/enjoying-the-simplest-things/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 15:12:59

  • Harbour Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 15:13:57

  • Lepton from Valve to run Android games on Linux is now open source | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/lepton-from-valve-to-run-android-games-on-linux-is-now-open-source/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 15:14:30

  • 32 Years With IRC https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/18/32-years-with-irc/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 15:32:23

  • Harbour Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/harbour-masters-release-paperboat-their-paper-mario-64-pc-port/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 15:59:23

  • Xbox classic Lost Odyssey has a experimental PC build - now with a Linux version | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/xbox-classic-lost-odyssey-has-a-experimental-pc-build-now-with-a-linux-version/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:00:33

  • "The developer behind the PS5 Linux project is stepping away, after getting frustrated with AI LLM "Slop kiddies" threw a spanner in the works." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ps5-linux-dev-quits-after-the-only-hypervisor-bug-left-was-reported-to-sony/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:01:23

  • GNOME 51 released with performance improvements, various app upgrades | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/gnome-51-released-with-performance-improvements-various-app-upgrades/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:09:04

  • Selling slop, not Linux ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/scaling-enterprise-ai-fleets-alquimia-and-red-hat-openshift-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:32:51

  • IBM selling bots as "agents" (slop buzzword), this is a case of a failed company as hype reseller without any soul left ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/smart-enough-fast-enough-choosing-right-models-agentic-work | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:33:33

  • "ecosystem" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/data-residency-digital-control-why-middle-east-cloud-future-depends-on-ecosystem | Source: Red Hat Official http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Iran_Has_Debunked_GAFAM_and_Cloud_Computing_as_Safety_of_Data.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:33:56

  • TPM + insane levels of surveillance https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/microsoft-world-domination:a https://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/12/Canonical_Has_Withdrawn_Ubuntu_24_04_5_Installer_Due_to_a_Criti.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:35:20

  • old: "The New War On Privacy And How We Win" https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/ToorCamp:d    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:35:30

  • "Mitch McConnell Looks Pretty Scary Now That He's Back, and Doctors Are Worried He Could Drop Dead" https://futurism.com/future-society/mitch-mcconnell-looks-scary-back    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:36:03

  • "Leaving DigitalOcean Took One Day" https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/leaving-digitalocean-took-one-day.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:36:15

  • "We Must Create the Shit Machine - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-must-create-the-shit-machine    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:36:28

  • "Fuels and our Money - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/fuels-and-our-money    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:36:52

  • "His ego is so fragile that the mere prospect of being shown to be who he fears he is — a loser, a bumbler, a clown — drives him nuts. Like a 6-year-old who kicks over the card table when he’s losing a game, Trump would rather demolish the Kennedy Center than endure the public humiliation of having his name removed from it." https://newrepublic.com/article/215543/maga-inc-trump-super-pac-spending-districts    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:37:15

  • "Trump’s Worst Fear - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-fear    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:37:30

  • "House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/215490/house-cancels-votes-avoid-embarrassment-hegseth-impeachment    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:37:44

  • [ 2016 ] "Trump's RUSSIA COVER-UP Finally REVEALED..." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jC2GhV1oQ0c    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:38:00

  • Windows down to just 66% on desktops/laptops in Grenada https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=GD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:41:06

  • From hours to minutes: Optimizing Red Bait Developer Hub performance testing with immutable LDAP images ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/optimizing-red-hat-developer-hub-performance-testing-with-immutable-ldap-images    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:45:40

  • Mindless slop promotion to help plagiarism tasks ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/catching-poor-llm-performance-and-accuracy-before-deployment    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:46:14

  • Build a unified CI/CD control plane with Red Bait Developer Hub ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/17/build-unified-cicd-control-plane-red-hat-developer-hub    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:46:26

  • "CompuLab has introduced the UCM-iMX952, a 28 x 40mm System-on-Module based on NXP’s i.MX952 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/compulab-i-mx952-module-showcases-2-5gbe-wi-fi-6-and-pcie-gen-3/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:47:29

  • "a programmable universal remote built around an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/openmote-turns-a-wiimote-style-remote-into-an-esp32-s3-home-assistant-controller/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:47:41

  • "As of April 30, 2026, the 10-year ESM coverage for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, under Ubuntu Pro, has officially reached its end of support." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/extending-ubuntu-pro-16-04-coverage | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:48:25

  • "Software engineering has evolved dramatically over the last decade. Development environments that once depended on dedicated hardware have become resources that can be provisioned, configured, and removed on demand." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/android-development-shouldnt-start-with-a-physical-device | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:48:34

  • "GAFAMozilla" is still promoting slop plagiarism instead of helping Firefox users, who want to avoid lies and noise, to block it ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mila-canada-open-source-ai-initiative/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:50:06

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 669 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/09/16/this-week-in-rust-669/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:50:49

  • Spain: Images of floods after torrential rain ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260917-spain-images-of-floods-after-torrential-rain    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 16:51:07

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1094962/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:02:10

  • FangOS – Arch-based KDE Plasma GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fangos-arch-based-kde-plasma-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:03:48

  • Meet Marknote's New Block Editor ☞ https://prayag2.github.io/posts/marknote-block-editor/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:04:32

  • GNOME 51 Released! To be Default in Ubuntu 26.10 / Fedora 45 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/09/gnome-51-released-to-be-default-in-ubuntu-26-10-fedora-45/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:04:51

  • Phil Spencer's Email Leak Revealed Game Pass Problems - Microsoft Didn't Know How to Value Games ⚓ https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/18/436605-utecka-pisem-fila-spensera-raskryla-problemy-game-pass-microsoft-ne-znala-kak-ocenivat-igry.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:10:27

  • 43rd Anniversary of the GNU Project Announcement (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/17/43rd_Anniversary_of_the_GNU_Project_Announcement.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:11:53

  • 43rd Anniversary of the GNU Project Announcement (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/17/43rd_Anniversary_of_the_GNU_Project_Announcement.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:14:54

  • Xubuntu 26.10-snapshot4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/xubuntu    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:15:01

  • Landmark Decision in Doe v. Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Hey Hi (AI) Court Battle ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2026/09/17/landmark-decision-in-doe-v-github-ai-court-battle/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:16:57

  • Microsoft Director Privately Admitted Hey Hi (AI) Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-admitted-ai-theft-labor-human-history-court-lawsuit    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:19:16

  • Plagiarism IS a form of theft, or UNAUTHORISED copying. Just because they call it "training" or "hey hi" does not change ANYTHING.    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:19:51

  • WTF slop? https://ostechnix.com/best-free-weather-apis-linux/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:20:49

  • The Famed PS5 GNU/Linux Project Lead Quits Over a Premature Exploit Report to Sony ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/ps5-linux-lead-quits/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:21:06

  • IBM's Fedora is a slop pusher, not a technical project anymore ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-at-data-con-la-2026-open-source-local-ai/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:23:15

  • It’s Time to Test Fedora 45 Beta ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/It-s-Time-to-Test-Fedora-45-Beta    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:24:52

  • Alpine 3.24.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/alpine    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:25:49

  • Louis-Philippe Véronneau: Fake Cash: The World Trade Game ☞ https://veronneau.org/fake-cash-the-world-trade-game.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:42:38

  • Science attacked by the Epstein Class: Dihydroxyacetone Man Air Force One Photos Fuel Kennedy Center Demolition Speculation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center-photos.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:45:16

  • AFP photo shows Convicted Felon examining image of apparent Kennedy Center razing ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/afp-photo-shows-trump-examining-image-of-apparent-kennedy-center-razing    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:45:52

  • How Turkey’s vague obscenity law is becoming a tool to criminalize LGBTI+ visibility ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/how-turkeys-vague-obscenity-law-is-becoming-a-tool-to-criminalize-lgbti-visibility-323560    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:46:17

  • WordPress 7.1.1 Maintenance and Security Release ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/09/wordpress-7-1-1-maintenance-and-security-release/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:47:37

  • The Trail to Silver Lake ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260917/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:50:15

  • This Rare Gene Drastically Raises Lung Cancer Risk in People Who Never Smoked ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/science/lung-cancer-gene-mutation-risk.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:58:27

  • The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/science/crispr-gene-editing-vipr.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:58:44

  • New cat species identified for first time in 100 years — it’s 3 pounds and looks like a mini leopard ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/science/new-cat-species-identified-for-first-time-in-100-years-its-3-pounds-and-looks-like-a-mini-leopard/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:58:59

  • Texas abortion bans challenged as unconstitutional in wrongful death suit over denied care ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/texas-abortion-bans-challenged-as-unconstitutional-in-wrongful-death-suit-over-denied-care/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:59:30

  • RFK Jr. Overhauls Powerful Health Panel Whose Work He Has Blocked ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/well/rfk-jr-uspstf-panel-health.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 17:59:43

  • RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/health/kennedy-vaccines-childrens-health-defense.html    

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

  • North Korean vice-foreign minister to attend UN General assembly next week ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korean-vice-foreign-minister-to-attend-un-general-assembly-next-week-yonhap-reports    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:00:43

  • North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong warns of stronger response to US-led drills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-warns-of-stronger-response-to-us-led-drills    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:00:55

  • China Stockpiled Oil, and Now It Could Dominate the Energy Landscape ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/business/energy-environment/china-oil-iran-war.html    

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

  • China presses Iran to help rein in Houthis after Saudi appeal, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-presses-iran-to-help-rein-in-houthis-after-saudi-appeal-sources-say    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:01:51

  • China creates Italy-sized no-fly zone around Beijing after rare crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-creates-italy-sized-no-fly-zone-around-beijing-after-rare-crash    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:02:08

  • China's Floating Rocket Launchpad Sends Nine Satellites Soaring 800KM Into Space in Historic First ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-gravity-1-sea-launch-nine-satellites-1820479    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:02:33

  • ‘No doubt’ of climate change role in deadly China-Nepal flood: scientists ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/17/no-doubt-of-climate-change-role-in-deadly-china-nepal-flood-scientists/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:03:00

  • Burkina Faso reveals new Sky Dragon air defence system ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/burkina-faso-reveals-new-sky-dragon-air-defence-system/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:03:22

  • Zsh Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your Shell? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/quiz/zsh-shell-fun/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:05:18

  • Two Body Measurements Linked to Nearly Double The Risk of Death – And Neither One Is BMI ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-body-measurements-linked-to-nearly-double-the-risk-of-death-neither-one-is-bmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:06:32

  • Just Smelling Coffee May Change Your Mood And Brain Activity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-smelling-coffee-may-change-your-mood-and-brain-activity    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:06:48

  • Here's Why Everything You See Is a Mix of Red, Yellow, Green, And Blue ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-why-everything-you-see-is-a-mix-of-red-yellow-green-and-blue    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:07:03

  • North Korea Stopped Nuclear Testing in 2017 – But Triggered Nearly 1,400 Earthquakes Since ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/north-korea-stopped-nuclear-testing-in-2017-but-triggered-nearly-1400-earthquakes-since    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:07:41

  • Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/africa-is-breaking-apart-faster-than-we-thought-forming-a-new-ocean    

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

  • ACLU Women's Rights Advocate Honors Gloria Steinem's Legacy ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/aclu-womens-rights-advocate-honors-gloria-steinems-legacy    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:08:20

  • Lithuania records EU’s second-highest annual inflation in August ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3055232/lithuania-records-eu-s-second-highest-annual-inflation-in-august    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:10:20

  • Britain invests $94 million into Starlink alternative ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/uk-research-agency-backs-drone-based-internet-service-experiment-with-lasers-microwaves-and-gravity-waves-used-for-wireless-power-britain-invests-usd94-million-into-starlink-alternative    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:10:48

  • What Happens When a Community Wires Itself: Lessons from Colville on the Power of Indigenous-Led Connectivity ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/09/what-happens-when-a-community-wires-itself-lessons-from-colville-on-the-power-of-indigenous-led-connectivity/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:11:23

  • How Three Brothers Built an Hey Hi (AI) Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:19:14

  • OpenAI Has Hundreds of Workers Reading People’s Private Chats ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-workers-read-private-chats    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:19:51

  • Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/cult-anthropic-insiders-worshipping-claude-god    

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

  • Fearing No Repercussions, Proprietary Chaffbot Company Admits That Its Rogue Hey Hi (AI) [spambots] Performed a Bunch of Other Terrifying Actions ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-admits-ai-agents-performed-terrifying-actions    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:20:40

  • 'She Was 12': Epstein Victims Sue Estate, Alleging His 'Victoria's Secret' Modeling Cover Concealed Stolen Abuse Images ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/two-women-sue-jeffrey-epstein-estate-alleged-images-1820489 http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:28:23

  • UN rights experts say global food supply under threat from criminalization of peasant seed systems ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/un-rights-experts-say-global-food-supply-under-threat-from-criminalization-of-peasant-seed-systems/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:28:55

  • UN Expert Mechanism calls for racial justice reform of drug laws to address systemic discrimination ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/un-expert-mechanism-calls-for-racial-justice-reform-of-drug-laws-to-address-systemic-discrimination/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:29:26

  • Mbappé draws fire from right wing in France, Spain over Ceuta t-shirt controversy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260917-real-madrid-s-mbapp%C3%A9-draws-criticism-from-far-right-over-ceuta-t-shirt-controversy    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:30:10

  • Suno Faces Yet Another Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged November 2025 Data Breach — Plus a Separate Complaint for Allegedly Violating the Americans with Disabilities Act ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/17/suno-data-breach-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:30:26

  • Amnesty International names 87 Iranian officials for crimes against humanity in 2022 crackdown ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/amnesty-international-names-87-iranian-officials-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-2022-crackdown/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:32:59

  • China imposes travel curbs to protect ‘national security’ amid superpower tech race ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/17/china-imposes-travel-curbs-to-protect-national-security-amid-superpower-tech-race/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:33:19

  • Climate change: Glacier loss and dry rivers threaten water security ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260917-climate-change-glacier-loss-and-dry-rivers-threaten-water-security    

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

  • Firefox Nightly: High-speed Release Trains – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 209 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/17/high-speed-release-trains-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-209/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:34:15

  • Influencers Are Using Meta’s AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/influencers-using-meta-ai-glasses-film-content-public-cruelty    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:34:50

  • Qantas ground workers to strike over pay and conditions next week ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/qantas-ground-workers-to-strike-over-pay-and-conditions-next-week    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:35:06

  • Imprint 1.0 and Kirigami Addons 1.14.0 ☞ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/09/17/imprint-1.0-and-kirigami-addons-1.14.0/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:36:34

  • Report finds DHS whistleblower retaliation complaints have spiked ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/09/report-finds-dhs-whistleblower-retaliation-complaints-have-spiked/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:37:05

  • Two Remote Amazon Communities Have Strikingly Low Dementia Rates. Scientists Are Struggling to Understand Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-remote-amazon-communities-have-strikingly-low-dementia-rates-scientists-are-struggling-to-understand-why    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:37:44

  • Kentaro Hayashi: Building Mozc with dh-bazel, buildsystem support for debhelper ☞ https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2026/09/17/215331    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:38:15

  • Oxygen 6.8 – more polish for KDE’s classic theme ☞ https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/oxygen-6-8-more-polish-for-kdes-classic-theme/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:38:50

  • Who’s suing Hey Hi (AI) and who’s signing latest: Village Media works with OpenAI, but Seattle Times, Newsday but Editorial Perfil sue ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:39:36

  • Inside Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and OpenAI, Worry About Damaging the Publishing Industry ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/technology/microsoft-openai-publishing-industry.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:40:03

  • Retired Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Engineer details the story about the famous leaked FCKGW backdoored Windows XP key — copy protection used 10MB of encrypted Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Bob for validation ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/retired-microsoft-engineer-details-the-story-about-the-famous-leaked-fckgw-windows-xp-key-copy-protection-used-10mb-of-encrypted-microsoft-bob-for-validation    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:40:24

  • Jewish centers spent more than $1 billion on security last year as antisemitism soars across US ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/09/17/us-news/jewish-centers-spent-more-than-1-billion-on-security-last-year-as-antisemitism-soars-across-us/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:44:32

  • CISA Releases Cyber Decoy Guidance to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Defenses ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-releases-guidance-on-deploying-cyber-decoys/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:45:11

  • Cisco Fixes Dozens of Flaws Across FMC, ISE and Nexus Dashboard ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-fixes-dozens-of-flaws-across-fmc-ise-and-nexus-dashboard/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:45:23

  • ISC Patches 14 Vulnerabilities in BIND 9 Security Update ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/isc-patches-14-vulnerabilities-in-bind-9-security-update/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:47:13

  • Revolut Data Breach: 5 Months, 680 High-Profile Accounts, $3M Ransom ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/revolut-data-breach-5-months-680-high-profile-accounts-3m-ransom/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:48:37

  • CISA Retires Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin in Risk-Based Pivot ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-retires-weekly-vulnerability-bulletin-in-risk-based-pivot/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:48:44

  • Cyberattacks on Two Oil Tankers Prompt Coast Guard, FBI to Board Vessels ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattacks-on-two-oil-tankers-prompt-coast-guard-fbi-to-board-vessels/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:48:58

  • U.S. expert: Baltic states have no need to panic, but need to prepare ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/features/17.09.2026-us-expert-baltic-states-have-no-need-to-panic-but-need-to-prepare.a663292/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:49:08

  • Scamwatch: 'My Fashion Company Apple account has been compromised' ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/scamwatch-my-apple-account-has-been-compromised-aKyRm2Q2GcMq    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:49:57

  • Raspberry Pi 5 gets dual GMSL2 Camera HAT based on MAX96716A deserializer ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/17/raspberry-pi-5-gets-dual-gmsl2-camera-hat-based-on-max96716a-deserializer/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 18:56:24

  • Introducing Enhanced Distribution Support ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/09/17/enhanced-distribution-support//    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:01:39

  • Turkey blocks over 400 social control media accounts belonging to journalists, rights groups ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-blocks-over-400-social-media-accounts-belonging-to-journalists-rights-groups-323559    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:01:54

  • 'Guess who didn't like Mark Carney's speech today? The far-right' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/guess-who-didn-t-like-mark-carney-s-speech-today-the-far-right    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:02:12

  • Patrik Sivek: What’s Up, Czech Translation? ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/patriksivek/2026/09/17/whats-up-czech-translation/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:03:28

  • Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, September 2026 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/09/17/gnome-foundation-update-september-2026/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:03:49

  • GNOME 51 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1094963/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:04:13

  • When the PTAB’s Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Goes Too Far ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/when-the-ptabs-broadest-reasonable-interpretation-goes-too-far.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:06:25

  • Objective Baselessness in Carnegie v. Fenix Diamonds ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/objective-baselessness-in-carnegie-v-fenix-diamonds.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:07:16

  • Slop and fraud in "law firm" clothing"? https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/dutch-ip-litigators-launch-ai-native-law-firm-in-amsterdam/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:08:04

  • Two Wilus Wi-Fi patents challenges granted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/9/17/two-wilus-wi-fi-patents-challenges-granted    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:08:14

  • Obviously this is just spam or paid placement for a partner; one person changing employer but not a job is totally not newsworthy ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/carpmaels-ransford-hires-freshfields-patent-partner-chris-stothers/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:09:03

  • Here's how we built the Fairphone Gallery app ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/stories/heres-how-we-built-the-fairphone-gallery-app    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:09:26

  • What We Lost When Big Tech Took Over the Classroom ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/progress-report/what-we-lost-when-big-tech-took-over-the-classroom    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:12:25

  • Decoding with Rockchip at Kernel Recipes 2026 ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/decoding-with-rockchip-at-kernel-recipes-2026.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:12:40

  • pgAdmin 4 v9.18 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v918-released-3381/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:14:22

  • Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 16.5 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/09/17/kiwi-tcms-165/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:15:41

  • Micron’s Taiwan workers threaten strike, say up to 68 months’ bonus not enough ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/microns-taiwan-workers-threaten-strike-say-up-to-68-months-bonus-not-enough    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:18:05

  • Iran Drone Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Are Permanently Deleting Customer Data ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/iran-drone-strikes-data-centers-deleting-customer-data    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:18:58

  • Bus strike caused inconveniences to many Latvian residents ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/17.09.2026-bus-strike-caused-inconveniences-to-many-latvian-residents.a663538/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:19:15

  • Ignore human rights risks, face the consequences: Telenor under investigation for crimes against humanity in Myanmar ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/telenor-under-investigation-for-crimes-against-humanity-in-myanmar/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:19:48

  • LausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages, (Thu, Sep 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33348    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:21:02

  • Rust tells people to install malware to protect against malware. Epic "fake security" in action. ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/targeted-attacks/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:21:58

  • Alice Mikhaylenko: Libadwaita 1.10 ☞ https://nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-10    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:22:45

  • How an Italian Logistics Company Moved From backdoored Windows to Linux: A Real Migration Story ☞ https://itsfoss.com/linux-stories/italian-logistics-company-migration/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:23:59

  • FOSS Weekly #26.38: GNOME 51 Release, LibreOffice Image Trick, VMWare Drama, Fingerprint Reader for GNU/Linux and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-38/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:24:33

  • Fix reading Xlibre server version ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202609/fix-reading-xlibre-server-version.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:25:35

  • German users please stay with version 7.4.7 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202609/german-users-please-stay-with-version-747.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:25:45

  • It sounds like GAFAMozilla supports so-called 'age verification' (surveillance) ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/09/17/pragmatic-principles-for-more-rights-respecting-age-assurance-architectures/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:34:47

  • LibreOffice 26.8 and interoperability: preserving what cannot yet be read ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/17/libreoffice-26-8-and-interoperability/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:35:32

  • Python's 5-Year Plan: Diversity & Inclusion in Every Decision Through 2031 ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/pythons-5-year-plan-diversity-and    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:35:42

  • EasyClone alternate build path and progress ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202609/easyclone-alternate-build-path-and-progress.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:36:08

  • Supporting open source work ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/09/supporting-open-source-work/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:39:25

  • UN experts: Belarus weaponized criminal justice system against government dissent ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/09/un-experts-belarus-weaponized-criminal-justice-system-against-government-dissent/ https://techrights.org/litigation.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:40:34

  • Russia and China Veto U.S. Bid to Renew U.N. Monitoring of Iran Nuclear Program ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/world/middleeast/un-iran-resolution-russia-china-veto.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:40:55

  • French fishermen to end blockades over fuel prices ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-fishermen-to-end-blockades-over-fuel-prices    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:42:25

  • US Midterms: Russian disinformation campaign targets Democrats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260917-us-midterms-russian-disinformation-campaign-targets-democrats    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:42:44

  • Authorities seize popular, long-running DDoS-for-hire service domains ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-seizes-nightmarestresser-ddos-for-hire-domains/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:43:07

  • Latest list of Latvian companies doing business with Russia and Belarus published ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/17.09.2026-latest-list-of-latvian-companies-doing-business-with-russia-and-belarus-published.a663549/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:43:17

  • Saeima moves towards full Russian food ban ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/17.09.2026-saeima-moves-towards-full-russian-food-ban.a663601/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:43:27

  • Fees to be hiked on Russian grain transit, total ban to be considered ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/17.09.2026-fees-to-be-hiked-on-russian-grain-transit-total-ban-to-be-considered.a663670/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:43:41

  • Fresh Russian Strikes Hit Ukraine As US House Passes Sanctions Bill Targeting Moscow ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-attack-ukraine-graham-bill-sanctions/33858069.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:43:53

  • Food security under pressure from conflicts, extreme weather ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/people-profit/20260917-food-security-under-pressure-from-conflicts-extreme-weather    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:44:03

  • The Ceuta effect: how far will Europe's anti-migrant backlash go? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260917-the-ceuta-effect-how-far-will-europe-s-anti-migrant-backlash-go    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:44:30

  • India vows to protect energy security after new US tariffs over Russian oil ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/india-vows-to-protect-energy-security-after-new-us-tariffs-over-russian-oil    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:44:57

  • Latvian Security Service launches case against terrorist threats ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/17.09.2026-latvian-security-service-launches-case-against-terrorist-threats.a663547/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:45:33

  • Russians Vote In First Parliamentary Election Since 2022 Ukraine Invasion ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-duma-election-vote-putin-ukraine-war/33858191.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:45:45

  • When trauma comes with the job: Understanding PTSD and mental health in the federal workforce ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/fed-thread/2026/09/when-trauma-comes-with-the-job-understanding-ptsd-and-mental-health-in-the-federal-workforce/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:46:12

  • Sam Thursfield: 17th September 2026 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/17th-september-2026/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:49:43

  • Lousy copycats controlled by Microsoft and aiming to help proprietary agenda ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/09/rust-coreutils-0-12-0-released/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:50:58

  • WLV-01 hackable DIY digital camera features Raspberry Pi 5, interchangeable sensors (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/18/wlv-01-hackable-diy-digital-camera-features-raspberry-pi-5-interchangeable-sensors/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:51:27

  • Read-out by President von der Leyen following her call with President Zelenskyy ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/read_26_1899    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:56:10

  • GeForce NOW’s native Linux client works on Ubuntu—but your network still makes the call https://www.neoteo.com/en/geforce-nows-native-linux-client-works-on-ubuntu-but-your-network-still-makes-the-call    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:59:25

  • My favorite Linux distro has been overlooked for years—here's why I use it instead of Mint or Ubuntu https://www.howtogeek.com/favorite-linux-distro-has-been-overlooked-why-use-instead-of-mint-or-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 19:59:43

  • GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/17/gnome-51-new-features/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:00:33

  • CiXTech Partners with Canonical to Lower Barriers for Edge [Slop] Devices https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/news/cixtech-partners-with-canonical-to-lower-barriers-for-edge-ai-devices-2100428676046172161    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:01:30

  • Microsoft acts as if it owns Ubuntu now. Maybe it does. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-17-ubuntu-26-generally-available-and-latest-migration/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:01:58

  • They even invent versions numbers that DO NOT EXIST!    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:02:33

  • "Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/09/16/fedora-45-beta-drags-the-linux-console-into-the-21st-century/5296873    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:03:19

  • Linux developer for PS5 announces departure from hacking scene due to "noobs" and "vibe coders" https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/16/436306-razrabotcik-linux-dlia-ps5-obieiavil-ob-uxode-so-sceny-vzloma-iz-za-nubov-i-maloletnix-vaibkoderov.html https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Slop_Ruins_Development_and_Reverse_Engineering_It_Rewards_Retar.shtml    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:03:58

  • Dennis Hilk Introduces 'The Lost Administrator', a Techno-Thriller Exploring Linux and Digital Evidence https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/941981037/dennis-hilk-introduces-the-lost-administrator-a-techno-thriller-exploring-linux-and-digital-evidence    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:04:45

  • "Andy "TheFlow0" Nguyen, the security engineer behind the PS5 Linux project, announced his departure from the PS5 scene in September 2026, and he wasn't quiet about why." https://tech.yahoo.com/gaming/articles/ps5-linux-dev-quits-slop-185134067.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:05:39

  • PS5 Linux Dev Quits After “Slop Kiddies” Hand Sony the Last Exploit https://www.gadgetreview.com/ps5-linux-dev-quits-after-slop-kiddies-hand-sony-the-last-exploit    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:06:20

  • SteamOS is Getting Native NVIDIA GPU Driver Support https://www.techpowerup.com/352763/steamos-is-getting-native-nvidia-gpu-driver-support    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:07:44

  • TheFlow Steps Away From PS5 Linux After Disputed Hypervisor Report https://www.neoteo.com/en/theflow-steps-away-from-ps5-linux-after-disputed-hypervisor-report    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:08:08

  • neoteo seems to be a slopfarm, but maybe premature to call it that    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:09:39

  • Valve says Nvidia GeForce support for SteamOS is progressing, but could take years https://www.techspot.com/news/113877-valve-nvidia-geforce-support-steamos-progressing-but-could.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:10:25

  • Modder is working on native launch of PlayStation 5 games on Windows and Linux PCs https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/09/17/modder-rabotaet-nad-nativnym-zapuskom-playstation-5-igr-na-pk-s-windows-i-linux.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:10:47

  • Developer abandons PS5 Linux project after people found a Hypervisor bug and reported it to Sony https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113593/developer-abandons-ps5-linux-project-after-people-found-a-hypervisor-bug-and-reported-it-to-sony/index.html    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:11:14

  • Linux taught me these 5 commands first, and I barely use any of them anymore https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-taught-me-these-5-commands-first-and-i-barely-use-any-of-them-anymore/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:11:52

  • "Linux XDG profile paths, extracted-DLC trailing-separator scanning, and AppImage dependency filtering." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/xbox-classic-lost-odyssey-has-a-experimental-pc-build-now-with-a-linux-version/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:15:03

  • "An old PC with a few CPU cores, several GBs of RAM, and a working network connection can still be useful long after it stops being suitable for demanding tasks, but Linux can turn that hardware into something that quietly handles useful jobs around your home or small office." https://www.howtogeek.com/you-dont-need-a-powerful-pc-for-these-surprisingly-useful-linux-projects/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:15:24

  • New Steam Deck Beta Client Update Fixes Linux Game Crashes https://steamdeckhq.com/news/steam-deck-beta-client-fixes-linux-game-crashes/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:15:49

  • Uses Gitlab https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/lepton-from-valve-to-run-android-games-on-linux-is-now-open-source/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:16:53

  • Slop discourages participation https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-embracing-ai-code-maintainers-paying-price/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:17:54

  • 4 open-source Android apps that are actually Linux tools in disguise https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-android-apps-that-are-actually-linux-tools-in-disguise/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:18:21

  • "Aniimo from Pawprint Studio has arrived on Steam as a new free-to-play, next-gen creature-catcher and it can work on SteamOS / Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/free-to-play-next-gen-creature-catcher-aniimo-arrives-on-steam-needs-a-proton-tweak-to-run-on-steamos-linux/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:18:49

  • after 10 years of using Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-to-beginners/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:19:09

  • Apple Taylor https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/17/swift-64-unifies-building-across-linux-macos-windows/5297006    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:19:44

  • The "era of AI" is a lie and Red Hat participates in this lie https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/safeguarding-and-scaling-app-delivery-ebook    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:47:24

  • Buying fake recommendation from a very sleazy fake "analyst" https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-recognized-leader-2026-gartnerr-magic-quadranttm-server-virtualization-platforms https://techrights.org/wiki/Gartner_Group/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 20:49:02

  • "Instead of using a #firefox fork like #librewolf I found a way to wrangle Firefox to work the way I want, right out of the box! All it needs is to copy some policies and settings into /etc/firefox." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:02:28

  • "Back in 2020, there was a massive explosion of users not only in places like this, but in all sorts of smaller niche spaces across the internet. There was suddenly a huge interest in Matrix, the Fediverse, Gemini, projects like Spacehey, Pixelfed, Lemmy, etc. It was nice." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2851    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:05:01

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1742.jpg    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:05:31

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2099.jpg    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:05:39

  • "Had my first guitar lesson of the fall tonight. I've been relearning "Pavana Chiamata La Desperata", by Pietro Paolo Borrono. It's a piece of Renaissance lute music, and it's coming up on 500 years old, being published in the mid 16th century." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/9-17.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:06:31

  • Work for the sake of work gemini://idiomdrottning.org/wftsow see Art For Art's Sake / 10cc - Live https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wGB59HuKu-I    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:13:08

  • "We went for a short hike up to Straža and on to and the beginning of it was surprisingly steep and interesting given that this tiny hill is an entertainment hot spot with some sort of ride down the hill. Just take the Blejski razgledni trail (BRT)." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-09-18-bled    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:13:42

  • "Raspberry Pi's Simon Long has teased a possible reboot of the Raspberry Pi Desktop project, which brought the Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution to x86-based hardware including laptops, desktops, and even rival single-board computers — more than four years after the company's last release." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202609/20260918-rpd.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:15:50

  • "You don't have to be the Haddaway to ask serious questions. Some of them belong to some niche area. The title comes from a song from the band called London Grammar." gemini://aenu.smol.pub/truth-is-a-beautiful-thing    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:18:24

  • What newly unsealed court documents state about LLM's and their training data gemini://enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-09-18.gmi "Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft _KNEW_ they were using data obtained illegally & didn't care. They also knew that the _underlying_ "business model" of LLM's would destroy the sites from which they stole "content".."    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:19:06

  • "Mum's still looking for a diary for next year. I can't get her to see my love for the Hobonichi Cousin (paper too thin, graph too small), so I had a look at Papertess' website again. And while Mum might indeed have a go at the Companion, I feel the siren call of the Desk." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260918planner.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:19:40

  • LLMs try to chew up a LOT of stuff (code, text, images) because they more they chew, the better they can obfuscate their plagiarism, which should really land their executives in prison for many decades    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:20:47

  • They call it all "AI" because the word "intelligence" smells better than "plagiarism".    

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

  • "But if you think toddlers are tiring, just wait until you have teenagers. There's a special kind of tired that comes from sitting up all night, waiting for your teenaged kids to come home from whatever fleapit they've been misspending their youth in." gemini://larsthebear.me/tired.gmi    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:22:17

  • Taking investment from a famous criminal that does little girls https://www.constructiondive.com/news/bechtel-splits-terrapower-nuclear-project-layoffs/830793/    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:36:19

  • Russians tell DW how canceled exams are upending their plans https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-goethe-institut-is-closing-in-russia-russians-tell-dw-how-canceled-exams-are-upending-their-plans/a-79218936    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:41:08

  • Russia Punishes Independent Researcher for Being Cited https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/09/11/russia-punishes-independent-researcher-for-being-cited    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:41:20

  • Goethe-Institut in Russia closes https://www.dw.com/en/the-end-of-an-era-as-goethe-institut-in-russia-closes/a-79224321    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:41:35

  • 'Hostage to politics' https://www.dw.com/en/russians-on-the-goethe-institut-hostage-to-politics/a-79218936    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:42:23

  • Europe seeks stricter age limits for TikTok, Instagram and Facebook https://www.dw.com/en/europe-seeks-stricter-age-limits-for-tiktok-instagram-and-facebook/a-79310207    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:43:56

  • "Oct. 1 is a pretty interesting start date for Anderon. It’s the rumored layoff date for a lot of people on PIPs, and it’s also reportedly the layoff date for the Red Hat folks. I think there’s one other group with an rumored Oct. 1 as their final day as well." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2n6pjeq#replies    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:51:11

  • "So if all of this lines up, Anderon really may just be a fancy-pants layoff mechanism for IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m2n6pjeq#replies    

posted Friday, September 18, 2026 at 21:51:17
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