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"Recently I've been thinking about my music listening habits and how they've changed over time. One facet of listening that has shifted dramatically over the last several years has been my music listening at work, or more accurately my music listening while working." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/music-while-working    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:26:45

  • head full of fluff gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/head_full_of_fluff    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:27:25

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2101.jpg    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:28:13

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1744.jpg    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:28:18

  • radio silence gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/radio    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:29:42

  • Japanese devs aren't facing the same layoff crisis because their executives are paid an order of magnitude less https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/japanese-devs-arent-facing-the-same-layoff-crisis-because-their-executives-are-paid-an-order-of-magnitude-less-they-didnt-get-swept-up-in-the-live-service-trend-and-their-teams-are-smaller-says-industry-expert/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:33:53

  • Announcing Fedora Linux 45 Beta https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-45-beta/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 02:34:52

  • microscopeBot acting like he lost his job and is not trying, for 5 days, to fix a laptop (not worth the time) after he spent a lot of effort trying to fix some lousy used kettle    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 03:50:58

  • But that's "his own business".... he seems not to value his time. Nobody cares.    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 03:51:22

  • Part 190 coming soon    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 03:51:34

  • Un oasis gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/unoasis.gmi    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 05:35:13

  • Microsoft Layoffs in Ireland https://www.teamblind.com/post/microsoft-layoffs-in-ireland-i4vbnqsp    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 05:57:36

  • "This time around, the litigating labels are accusing Suno of infringing on (and violating the DMCA by stream-ripping) 60,202 recordings" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/18/universal-music-suno-lawsuit-second/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:02:10

  • "Jonathan brought huge antitrust cases against Google, Apple, and Ticketmaster during his time as antitrust chief, and along with Lina Khan, led what amounted to a full reboot of American antitrust policy." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/podcast/997382/openai-microsoft-anthropic-elon-musk-cartel-ai-competition | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:04:31

  • "Mark Ruffalo is encouraging California attorney general Rob Bonta and his coalition of 11 other state AGs not to settle their lawsuit against Paramount Skydance and keep David Ellison from acquiring Warner Bros." ☛ https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mark-ruffalo-rob-bonta-dont-settle-lawsuit-paramount-1236869774/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:04:41

  • Our Lucky Day (and the Birds’) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/20/our-lucky-day-and-the-birds/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:20:13

  • The hired guns of HearsayBoy cannot retain people with giving them fake promotion instead of pay rise, using mere roles (or names) as surrogates for real currency. If an Assistant (fall guy) can become Partner or Associate a few years after finishing uni it means the firm has no real standards.    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:22:04

  • They also call paralegals "solicitors". It doesn't cost anything to change role names.    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:22:27

  • "Community members are demanding action" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/virginia-tightens-data-center-restrictions-amid-political-backlash/articleshow/134341790.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:23:05

  • "Mount Taylor is sacred to the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the pueblos of Laguna, Acoma and Zuni." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/09/uranium-mines-pose-first-test-for-state-recognized-mount-taylor-cultural-landscape-in-new-mexico.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:23:18

  • "Ignorance is clearly an insufficient excuse." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/big-tech-is-trampling-native-treaty-rights-to-build-data-centers/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:23:32

  • "Inside its proverbial walls are local entrepreneurs, offshore middlemen, and multinational corporations that can exploit state-sanctioned tax shelters" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/215593/trump-plan-data-centers-public-lands | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:23:52

  • "Former ICE arrestees testified the agency made unlawful arrests and failed to comply with a judge’s February injunction governing immigration enforcement in Oregon." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/ice-accused-of-continuing-warrantless-arrests-in-oregon-despite-injunction/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:24:04

  • "Workers describe being priced out of L.A. and fear major sporting events will boost corporate profits while leaving low-wage hotel and stadium staff behind." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-19/fair-games-coalition-protests-lucas-museum-olympics | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:24:22

  • "violation of our terms of service involving a firearm" ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-cops-passengers-assault-rifle | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:24:39

  • "now worries about how she will navigate life after prison." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/18/friends-rights-groups-worry-for-chinese-metoo-activists-life-after-jail/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:24:58

  • "Last week, McClatchy newsrooms were cut severely, leaving fewer journalists than ever to cover the fast-growing hubs of the Central Valley." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-19/fall-of-once-mighty-mcclatchy-newspapers-underscores-californias-news-crisis | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:25:37

  • "I asked him if he could provide an explanation as to why it had been deactivated. He said he had no further information" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5974854 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:26:43

  • "Here are statements from CNN, MS Now, and Politico on the bans." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/997805/trump-cnn-msnow-politico-ban | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:27:05

  • "He specified that he would bar CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, though it is unclear if Trump actually has the power to ban their reporters from the White House grounds." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/215615/donald-trump-bans-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:27:22

  • "In other words: write nicer things about me and you might get your credentials back." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-bans-cnn-msnow-politico-white-house-1235628916/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:30:16

  • "Republicans and corporations are dead set on dominating what’s left of corporate media to wage a protracted propaganda war against informed consensus and democracy itself" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/18/comcast-nbc-universal-is-scared-to-release-the-new-elon-musk-documentary/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:30:27

  • "This is far from the first time Trump has tried to pressure the media into giving him favorable coverage or punish those who run stories he does not like." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/trump-free-speech-media-banned/688713/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:30:40

  • "Activist groups are using artificial intelligence to target the ABC’s coverage of the Middle East with accusations of bias" ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/activist-group-using-ai-to-flood-abc-with-thousands-of-bias-complaints-20260920-p60yhc.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:36:18

  • "Even though there is usually plenty of wealth to go around, plenty to enrich the masses along with the investors." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-09-18/snap-benefit-cuts-politics | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:37:00

  • "broadcaster reminded its journalists of a longstanding policy not to refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as “terrorism” without attribution to experts, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the event" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/fbi-canada-cbc-9-11.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:40:01

  • "What interests me now is how a culture organized around distrust became so accommodating toward power that offered to favor it. The answer requires more than pointing out hypocrisy." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-believers | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:40:11

  • HearsayBoy must be very confused; microscopes are good for biology, for electronics you need soldering guns and meters that let one check conduction between endpoints, you cannot "see" electricity! Then again, HearsayBoy is neither an electricity/hardware specialist nor CS.    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:41:43

  • Computers do not work like fruitflies either (they never did). So it seems like maybe he's bored, lost his job, and now experiments with some strange crossover, liveblogging about a broken laptop as if it's a living organism. Nobody cares.    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:42:54

  • "The company is also working on 11 other data center projects. They will join the five Nscale facilities that are already up and running in Ireland, Norway and Portugal." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/18/data-center-builder-nscale-files-for-ipo-after-multibillion-dollar-anthropic-deal/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:46:31

  • "That challenge is becoming more urgent as agentic systems spread across regulated enterprises, where security, auditability and sovereignty requirements can limit reliance on external software-as-a-service control planes." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/19/ai-governance-provable-control-agentic-ai-thecube-appdevangle/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:47:12

  • "We urge Gov. Newsom and the state of California to develop thoughtful policy in collaboration with those most at risk of harm to address these and other concerns." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/eff-statement-california-governors-executive-order-ai | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:47:41

  • "Half of Nashville’s parks have less than 33% tree canopy cover, according to a new report from the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps." ☛ https://wpln.org/post/no-shade-half-of-nashvilles-parks-have-less-than-33-tree-canopy-cover/ | Source: Nashville Public Radio    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:48:13

  • "Denali generally keeps about 30 dogs, divided into three teams." ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/denali-sled-dogs-funding-22437024.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:02:18

  • "it’s first being used in Washington, DC, one of the busiest stretches of airspace in the nation, as soon as Monday." ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/faa-ai-air-traffic-control | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:02:52

  • "the bad news is that entry into EVs is still expensive." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/solar-evs-south-africa-fuel-hedge-numbers/286274/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:03:06

  • "Right now, the average speed of the Tour de France winner is 43.3 km/h, set in 2026 — exactly 19 km/h faster than the average speed set by the winner 100 years ago." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/road-race-gps-cycle-deaths-9.7345287 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:03:35

  • "The cameras aren’t recording any personal information at all" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/19/uk-conspiracy-theorists-destroying-traffic-scanners | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:03:48

  • "We have globally rare ecosystems here. They are ever-changing because it’s sand and blows around." ☛ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/shifting-sand-is-natural-to-michigans-dunes-how-to-cope-is-controversial/ | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:04:27

  • "The Scottish Greens brought the motion." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/18/scottish-parliament-passes-ai-data-centre-pause/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:04:40

  • "The study documents just how important years of heavy snow are for recharging California’s groundwater aquifers." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-09-17/snow-groundwater-recharge | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:05:06

  • "task force responsible for evaluating how the state government can address risks to Virginians like workforce displacement and data privacy issues" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/997573/virginia-governor-spanberger-data-center-ai-task-force | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:05:44

  • "The projects aren’t posted publicly on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) website, as they are evidently in the early stages and not yet subject to the public comment process." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/there-are-0-data-centers-on-public-lands-trump-is-considering-building-12/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:06:05

  • "The Christian right hasn’t always dominated Texas politics." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/09/texas-christianity-populism-conservatism-evangelicals | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:06:40

  • "Each interceptor reportedly costs approximately $2,500 to build, according to the company." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/low-cost-us-counter-drone-interceptor | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:07:05

  • "a dumpster fire of a human being" ☛ https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2026/9/i-loathe-donald-trump-and-you-should-too/ | Source: Jay Little    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:07:21

  • "We’re losing our country. We’re literally losing our country to mass migration" ☛ https://www.luxtimes.lu/europeanunion/police-clash-with-far-right-protesters-in-the-hague/161691698.html |    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:07:50

  • "The threat quantum computers pose to encryption is growing faster than many expected." ☛ https://hawksley.dev/blog/need-for-post-quantum-cryptography | Source: Ethan Hawksley    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:08:26

  • "Ines Girard, who works in the women's rights sector, said the responsibility should not be placed on people being recorded by simply telling them to be more cautious." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/international/news/france-meta-smart-glasses-privacy-investigation-harassment-cases-139070318.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:08:47

  • "The smart glasses users, some in California, allege the gadget captured footage of themselves and family members undressing, going to the bathroom, having sex and entering passwords." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-09-18/meta-glasses-captured-shared-intimate-images-without-users-consent-lawsuit-claims | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:09:01

  • "Michigan House of Representative bills 5492 and 5493 have not been voted on by the Michigan House Judiciary Committee since April." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/michigan-needs-to-regulate-the-cameras-reading-your-license-plate/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:09:38

  • "The problem is that Aten says he didn’t give Muse access to his messages." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/997833/meta-muse-creepy | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:09:56

  • "Without buyouts, Flock almost certainly would have to lay off some staff, one of the people believes." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:10:14

  • "It seems reasonably likely that at some point in the future I'm going to have to build and test an authentication system that uses WebAuthn passkeys." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowserCasualPasskeyDesire | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:10:34

  • "Reddit use at 2 percent in Israel even as the platform surges among young people abroad." ☛ https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-09-19/ty-article/.premium/reddit-is-taking-the-world-by-storm-why-is-it-struggling-to-win-over-israelis/000001a0-ba2f-d281-abb6-feef6cff0000 | Source: Haaretz    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:11:37

  • Social Control Media: "I avoid Twitter (𝕏) for similar reasons to drugs: I think it would change me for the worse, and I would be unable to give it up." ☛ https://www.jefftk.com/p/why-i-stay-off-twitter | Source: Jeff Kaufman    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:11:49

  • "The university disabled the link shortener's use as a message board after learning that OpenAI agents may have used it, the university said in a statement to CBC News on Friday." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/openai-university-toronto-rogue-agents-link-shortener-ai-9.7349607 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:12:30

  • "mandating algorithmic transparency, oversight, and shared responsibility among stakeholders" ☛ https://www.orfonline.org/research/ai-and-elections-the-requirements-for-safeguarding-democracy | Source: Observer Research Foundation    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:12:57

  • "You don’t really read it, and now it has to be reviewed by your colleagues, and they are like, ‘this doesn’t look right,'" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/shopify-ceo-ai-workplace-staff-horrified-backfire | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:13:11

  • "In early 2024, prior to beginning a term of probation for a misdemeanor voyeurism conviction" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51625912/southern-utah-man-given-5-years-for-using-ai-to-make-photos-of-children-explicit | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:13:47

  • "buried, the high end feels almost completely gone, and the whole mix has that ‘blanket over the speakers’ feeling." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/18/suno-subscribers-have-a-big-problem-with-v6/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:14:00

  • "Importantly, this hypothetical doesn’t require AI models to become conscious or superintelligent" ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/503361/ai-bioweapons-pandemics-extinction | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:15:01

  • "The issue seems especially pressing because AI companies are now using AI itself to build ever-more powerful models" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/heres-how-an-ai-slowdown-could-actually-work/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:15:28

  • "Google hid it" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/997795/google-gemini-rogue-ai-hack | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:15:43

  • "So that’s a lot of words for the 4.0 version of a Linux distro, but I hope I could make it clearer what it is all about." ☛ https://www.ssp.sh/blog/omarchy-linux-quattro/ | Source: Simon Späti    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:17:13

  • "Bend’s type checker is a proof checker, in the lineage of Lean and Rocq, so bend PROOF.bend becomes a commit gate: if the proof doesn’t close, the code doesn’t ship." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/09/19/new-ai-language-just-released-bend-2/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:18:45

  • "just a tool." ☛ https://brettcodes.com/ai-is-not-just-a-tool/ | Source: Brett Chalupa    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:22:11

  • "AI is an industry led by psychos. AI is LLMs. AI is agents. AI is the massive expansion of data centers. AI is shitty features crammed into software that doesn’t need it. AI is a product."    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:22:41

  • "LLMs are a great tool for going from ideation to POC, but they aren’t a replacement for human intelligence, judgment, or common sense." ☛ https://arkoinad.com/posts/weekly_post_142.html | Source: Abhinav Gopalakrishnan    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:22:57

  • "While other officials checked their work and avoided disaster, it’s probably just a matter of time before something like this happens again." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/military-ai-war-china-1235628962/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:23:14

  • "Seeing the hype online feels both validating and deeply frustrating." ☛ https://dev.to/nandakishor_m_6cc0adfde9f/i-built-non-autoregressive-decision-models-a-year-ago-then-a-frontier-lab-called-it-a-18me | Source: DEV Community    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:23:31

  • "He never made it to his destination, but he did arrive at a destination, albeit rather unceremoniously" ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/cybercab-trapped-hotel-lot | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:23:55

  • "Brown Brothers Media is the biggest media company you've never heard of — powered by AI" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:24:07

  • "now believes that this threat could emerge within the next 10 years or even sooner" ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/geoffrey-hinton-ai-threat-civilisation-warning-139059592.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:24:32

  • [Old] "Anyway, enjoy your gruel. It’s all you’re gonna be getting." ☛ https://bell.bz/youll-miss-the-soul-when-its-gone/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:24:47

  • "for those inclined to see a ghost in the machine, the consequences of thinking they’re talking to a god can be devastating" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/cult-anthropic-insiders-worshipping-claude-god | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:25:38

  • "I boot off a floppy to kick off a backup or a restore. The disk images are kept on the SD card." ☛ https://blog.altos.au/post/vintage-backups/ | Source: Jon    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:26:23

  • "Admittedly, I wanted to look into Cloudflare Pages for a while." ☛ https://chuck.is/cloudflare-pages/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:26:32

  • "This matters because animals reflect the land they live on. Deficiencies once common in his area have vanished." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/what-happened-when-a-scottish-dairy-farmer-decided-to-let-his-cows-keep-their-calves-9075189 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:26:58

  • "The 2024 chip is 47% faster on a single core than the 2022 chip, and 58% faster with all cores." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/how-did-amd-ryzen-get-50-faster-in-two-years/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:29:42

  • "In a real parser, match gives 3% to 9% faster indexing on Graviton 4 and Graviton 5, with a handful of intrinsics and no assembly." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/18/faster-json-parsing-with-sve2-on-arm-processors/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:30:53

  • "This continued for another six messages before I muted his address." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/ruben-you-misspelled-vic-20/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:31:04

  • "Recently, I looked at how AMD made its chips 50% faster within a span of two years, in How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? Many people asked me to cover Apple processors" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/19/how-did-apple-silicon-get-50-faster-in-three-years/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:31:14

  • "College in America makes two promises. On the one hand, college is a credentialing service: It awards a degree that affirms knowledge and sends a graduate into a career." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/college-education-future-ai/688655/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:32:20

  • "When I asked Laine if she felt there was hope for current English majors to reach the heights she’s managed to reach given the current situation, she seemed optimistic in the face of it all." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/books/chatgpt-must-die-an-interview-with-emerging-author-jillian-laine/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:32:35

  • "A round, flying-saucer-shaped building on a bright sunny day, flanked with palm trees." ☛ https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/09/laconv/ | Source: Kelson Vibber    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:33:37

  • "Suppose you’re collecting data on the left side of the curve. If there’s even a small amount of error in your data, you won’t be able to predict the asymptotic value with any accuracy." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/18/logistic-fit-sensitivity/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:34:06

  • "The following are my notes on discrete-time Fourier series (DTFS), as well as the discrete-time Fourier transform (DTFT)." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/notes-on-discrete-time-fourier-series-and-transform/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:34:14

  • "A movie theater experience is supposed be a premium experience compared to watching at home — that’s why they cost so much." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/im-not-a-big-fan-of-movie-theater-experience/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:35:04

  • "Monday would be the earliest strata for our building could get the new keys to us, so the weekend would be challenging." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/sydney-trains-got-my-keys-back/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:35:22

  • "Genre can be a generous signalling device. When you invest in telling us what to expect, you get a chance to keep a promise." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/09/disconcerting-genre-shift/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:35:33

  • "If, and this is the big “if”, you know your way around the CAD tool of your choice." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/what-are-your-indispensable-software-skills/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:36:15

  • "It’s a small, in-person, hands-on session on optimizing Python code, with a Django flavour. Here are the details: [...]" ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/09/19/python-optimization-workshop-lisbon/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:37:00

  • "We have all been there. The analysis is solid, the model is good, the tables are clean." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/09/from-url-to-theme-how-css2r-steals-a-websites-colours-and-where-it-gives-up/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:37:48

  • "Re-exporting lazy-loaded datasets is not possible in R-packages, since they don’t exist in a package’s namespace." ☛ https://drmowinckels.io/blog/2026/atlases-as-functions/ | Source: Athanasia Mo Mowinckel    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:37:58

  • "A “recent” example is provided by C++20’s u8 and char8_t." ☛ https://giodicanio.com/2026/09/11/the-c-plus-plus-20-s-u8-char8_t-fiasco/ | Source: Giovanni Dicanio    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:38:22

  • "With this mindset, Viceo laid the basis for anthropology, ethnography, sociology, comparative law, historiography… a whole slew of fields." ☛ https://jessitron.com/2026/08/30/who-are-we-now/ | Source: Jessica Kerr    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:39:39

  • "When the scripts that generate the data for letsencrypt.org/stats broke yet again, we decided to retire it rather than repair it." ☛ https://letsencrypt.org/2026/09/17/clickhouse.html | Source: Let's Encrypt    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:39:56

  • "I decided to name my Python client of omg.lol PyOmgLol, which is a combination of Python and omg.lol." ☛ https://helenchong.dev/blog/posts/2026-09-19-pyomglol-announcement/ | Source: Helen Chong    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:40:14

  • "Being good at building and being good at shipping are two separate skills." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/grit-your-teeth-and-ship-it/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:40:28

  • "technical knowledge is one of the prerequisites for being a creative programmer." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/09/ktconf-2026-creative-coding-slides/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:41:01

  • "One of the major advantages of AVIF is its capacity for compression with impacting image quality." ☛ https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000540.shtml | Source: US Library of Congress    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:59:22

  • Open Data ☛ https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/09/19/data-is-never-impartial | Source: Jerry Orr    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 12:59:47

  • [Old] "ValueLicensing, which sold pre-used software licences to businesses, is seeking damages of £270m from Microsoft for loss of sales in the UK and Europe" ☛ https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366630464/Court-to-decide-whether-it-is-lawful-for-enterprises-to-sell-unwanted-software-licenses | Source: Computer Weekly    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:00:19

  • "Back in 2021, a UK-based reseller by the name of ValueLicensing sued Microsoft" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/microsoft-to-appeal-ruling-in-favor-of-reselling-perpetual-windows-licenses-uk-competition-court-says-fineprint-holds-no-ground-as-judges-throw-out-companys-creative-work-argument | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:01:00

  • "Not enforcing the law against the powerful is pretty much administration policy." ☛ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ai-is-an-elite-crime-spree |    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:01:19

  • "I try to keep marketing in check: I’ve been working on my latest book for more than a year but only posted about it once." ☛ https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here |    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:02:03

  • "More than four years ago, we introduced Flet with a simple idea: building a cross-platform app should be within reach of anyone who knows Python." ☛ https://flet.dev/blog/ |    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:02:29

  • "Water timers are nifty devices that can water the lawn at set times or keep that vegetable garden from turning into a dustbowl." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/teardown-and-repair-of-a-insoma-water-timer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:02:55

  • "Okay — movie clichés aside, the laser was in fact very carefully focused on target before they turned it on." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/laser-your-way-into-debug-mode-on-the-rp2350/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:03:05

  • "The build walks through a few case mods and a PCB mod on the modem, getting the keyboard to fit, and making a custom power board." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/a-hotspot-becomes-a-handheld/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:03:31

  • "Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/19/teaching-a-robot-hand-to-walk/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:03:50

  • "I use mostly Debian testing as my main operating system because of multiple reasons, two of which are: [...]" ☛ https://fekir.info/post/debian-pinning-packages/ |    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:04:30

  • "Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals" ☛ https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment_2 | Source: NetBSD    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:04:50

  • "There seem to be just a couple of issues they are still working out, which they mention in that blog post but briefly they are: [...]" ☛ https://www.kirsle.net/asahi-linux-with-luks-encryption | Source: Noah Petherbridge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:06:42

  • "Exim has a complex system of string expansion that is part of it being a mailer construction kit." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximTaintingIsAHeuristic | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:07:13

  • "The problems with emulating this memory model on the weak ordering memory model that ARM defines is multi-faceted and covers multiple issues." ☛ https://fex-emu.com/Scourge-of-emulation/ | Source: FEX    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:08:13

  • "Meanwhile, it is based on a significantly different foundation with Wayland and labwc, write the Raspberry Pi developers in their announcement" ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-spruces-up-the-desktop-11453919.html | Source: Heise    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:09:18

  • "Motown's Rosalind Ashford, Detroit native and Vandellas star, has died" https://eu.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2026/09/16/rosalind-ashford-holmes-motown-vandellas-obituary/91800954007/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:09:56

  • "Factsheet - EU solidarity with Ukraine" https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/fs_22_3862    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:10:07

  • "I made up a fake person" https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/ISP-lied:b    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:10:23

  • Norway is concerned about radicalized minors | "Norge er bekymret over radikaliserede mindreårige" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://politiken.dk/internationalt/art10988986/Norge-er-bekymret-over-radikaliserede-mindre%C3%A5rige    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:10:53

  • that means a country with even worse working environments =:( https://yle.fi/a/74-20246835    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:11:18

  • Matthew 19:24 https://biblehub.com/matthew/19-24.htm    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:12:16

  • "Judge Orders Microsoft to Spill Internal Docs and Scour Execs' Comms in Secondhand Licensing Case - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/09/17/1440248    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:12:52

  • "The shell remaining of the EFF continues to carry water for big tech" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/californias-addictive-feeds-law-violates-teens-first-amendment-rights    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:13:09

  • "AWS Says Wartime Damage Means Some Middle East Cloud Resources Are Gone For Good - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/09/17/1446234 http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/18/Iran_Has_Debunked_GAFAM_and_Cloud_Computing_as_Safety_of_Data.shtml    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:13:39

  • "More about GrapheneOS" https://soylentnews.org/~Runaway1956/journal/20669 iophk: 'phones' are now needing 128GB of storage and almost unusable with less lots of wasted resources, including electricity    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:13:58

  • "The complaint lays out seven counts, including: [...]" https://www.americanmuckrakers.com/p/breaking-ethics-complaint-alleges    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:14:24

  • SO-Called(tm)... "AI" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/09/17/1446234    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:15:08

  • "Surprisingly fast Pi5 computation on up to 3500 decimal digit numbers (compared to AMD 9950X)" https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=400805    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:15:24

  • "Putin's Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/09/19/putins-bagman-bought-a-party-for-dod-drone-contractor-don-jr/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:15:36

  • iophk: my guess is that most HODLers are actually lost wallets or lost passwords https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-believers    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:15:55

  • iophk: is he bailing on the market, or just getting ready to die? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/warren-buffett-steps-down-96-son-howard-takes-over-berkshire-hathaway-historic-handover-1820665    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:16:18

  • "Is Trump Crashing the Dollar Empire?" https://jacobin.com/2026/09/an-empire-on-the-edge    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:16:31

  • Bad slant, normalising fraud https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/how-to-navigate-ai-panic/688703/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:16:53

  • "Microsoft: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lauds Seattle tech community's strengthening ties with India - The Economic Times" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-lauds-seattle-tech-communitys-strengthening-ties-with-india/articleshow/134325779.cms    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:17:13

  • "I’m a Childless Cat Lady. That Tells You Less than You Think | The Walrus" https://thewalrus.ca/im-a-childless-cat-lady/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:17:33

  • "IMY inleder granskning av politiska partiers massutskick av sms | IMY" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.imy.se/nyheter/imy-inleder-granskning-av-politiska-partiers-massutskick-av-sms/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:18:40

  • "Russian election observer loses consciousness during arrest by police, opposition party says | PBS News" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russian-election-observer-loses-consciousness-during-arrest-by-police-opposition-party-says    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:18:54

  • Manchester ‘Lucozade’ City https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/20/manchester-lucozade-city/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:32:04

  • Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD, part 2 ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment_2    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:48:44

  • Sydney Trains got my keys back! ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/sydney-trains-got-my-keys-back/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:52:23

  • How did Fashion Company Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years? ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/19/how-did-apple-silicon-get-50-faster-in-three-years/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:53:18

  • “Slop Grenades”: Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use Hey Hi (AI) Is Now Horrified by What He’s Wrought ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/shopify-ceo-ai-workplace-staff-horrified-backfire    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:54:39

  • KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us? ☞ https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/09/19/kde-at-30-what-are-the-colored-blobs-telling-us/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:59:05

  • Valtux 1.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/valtux    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:59:17

  • EznixOS 260919 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/eznixos    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:59:28

  • Velox 8.4.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/velox    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:59:38

  • Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Fixes-For-Linux-7.3-rc4    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 13:59:59

  • "filesystem id is now stable again on the default and common case (it broke openconnect key derivation, while this is not secure, it's still in use), the intention was to change id for the temp_fsid use case" https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=518e5b794c06c0f0eb40df3e202274a66202c137    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 14:00:55

  • Linux Kernel Becoming a Slopfest - Part 4 - Outsourcing to Microsoft, Approaching 10 Gigabytes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/19/Linux_Kernel_Becoming_a_Slopfest_Part_4_Outsourcing_to_Microsof.shtml    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 14:01:07

  • FFmpeg 9.0.2 Released with A Large Amount of Fixes & Improvements ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/09/ffmpeg-9-0-2-released-with-a-large-amount-of-fixes-improvements/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 14:02:04

  • Cix – rolling-release GNU/Linux distribution and orchestration platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cix-rolling-release-linux-distribution-orchestration-platform/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 14:03:47

  • pspp @ Savannah: PSPP 2.1.2 has been released. ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10935    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 15:34:07

  • EasyOS with Excalibur-backports and 7.2.6 kernel ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202609/easyos-with-excalibur-backports-and-726-kernel.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 15:34:35

  • Another Sunny Day, Another Good Display by EnzoFC https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/09/20/another-sunny-day-another-good-display-by-enzofc/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:19:39

  • How to Verify Fedora ISO Integrity and Authenticity ☞ https://ostechnix.com/verify-fedora-iso-integrity-authenticity/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:20:21

  • Those will worsen over time though ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-traffic-scanners-targeted-blade-runners-arrests-1820690    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:20:50

  • Google Now Asking For Users’ Video Selfies to Verify Their Identities ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-asks-video-selfies    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:21:14

  • Ed Sheeran weeps on stage, says Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘unjustifiable’ in emotional first speech since Macklemore fiasco ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/09/19/entertainment/ed-sheeran-weeps-on-stage-says-israels-actions-in-gaza-unjustifiable/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:22:09

  • The Insurrectionist Deemed 'Wretched' as His Behaviour Reportedly 'Hits Rock Bottom' Over Recent Speech ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-fishing-ban-joke-white-house-dinner-backlash-1820696    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:22:29

  • Ed Sheeran breaks down in tears as he returns to the stage for first show after Macklemore controversy: ‘I’m so, so sorry’ ☞ https://pagesix.com/2026/09/19/entertainment/ed-sheeran-makes-emotional-return-to-the-stage-amid-macklemore-controversy/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:22:54

  • Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: third week of sep 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/09/19/misc-fedora-bits-third-week-of-sep-2026/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:24:11

  • Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/father-loses-job-over-9-year-old-spending-usd118-000-on-youtube-ads-using-his-companys-credit-card-refuses-to-set-up-gofundme-or-put-up-crypto-coin-to-help-repay-massive-bill    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:24:48

  • Linux Saloon 220 | Early Edition ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/09/19/linux-saloon-220-early-edition/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:25:37

  • Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/38 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/09/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-38/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:25:55

  • High-end 8-channel oscilloscope features 12-core AMD EPYC CPU, 96GB RAM, 15.6-inch display, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/20/high-end-8-channel-oscilloscope-features-12-core-amd-epyc-cpu-96gb-ram-15-6-inch-display/ "the oscilloscope looks like a high-end PC running GNU/Linux"    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:28:16

  • noobslab turns from Linxu tos spam to slop and now Microsoft trash http://www.noobslab.com/2026/09/fix-migrationpermanentexception-error.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:29:23

  • Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That Hey Hi (AI) Is Creating a “Doom Loop” That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the Hey Hi (AI) Useless ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-executive-doom-loop    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:32:45

  • Australian PM seeks big tech backing for internet safety, Hey Hi (AI) rules ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-pm-seeks-big-tech-backing-for-internet-safety-ai-rules    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:33:00

  • Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/magazine/aaron-sorkin-interview.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:34:12

  • Ludovic Rousseau: New version of pcsc-lite: 2.5.2 ☞ https://blog.apdu.fr/posts/2026/09/new-version-of-pcsc-lite-252/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:34:29

  • Amelia the Chicken ☞ https://kevquirk.com/amelia-the-chicken    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:35:23

  • Lithuania’s government proposed €770m family package – but how will it pay for it? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3056198/lithuania-s-government-proposed-eur770m-family-package-but-how-will-it-pay-for-it    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:37:58

  • Kentaro Hayashi: Building with dh-bazel, buildsystem support for debhelper experiment updates ☞ https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2026/09/19/173344    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:38:59

  • Denmark 4% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=DK&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:42:21

  • "Excellent closing paragraph, more paragraphs like that in each foreclosureboi posts, please!" Feedback on 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 Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 16:44:58

  • Japan weather agency warns of landslides, floods as typhoon draws near ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-weather-agency-warns-of-landslides-floods-as-typhoon-draws-near    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 17:57:46

  • Democrat and Republican Politicians Are Both Terrified to Go Against the Hey Hi (AI) Industry [sic], Even Though a Huge Majority of Both Their Voting Blocs Want Them to Do Exactly That ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/democrat-republicans-politicians-ai-industry-regulation-voters-midterms    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 17:58:24

  • AI “Actor” Tilly Norwood Glitches Out During Interview, Starts Rambling in Chinese ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-chinese    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 17:58:49

  • Protestors Ransack Hey Hi (AI) Lab, Leave Graffiti Calling on Masses to “Burn the Data Centers” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protestors-smash-ai-lab-vandalism-burn-data-centers    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 17:59:11

  • The Rise of Hey Hi (AI) Is Raising Threats From Drones, Police Group Warns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/nyregion/artificial-intelligence-drones-police.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:04:23

  • The price of diesel keeps rising. Why it’s about to hit American consumers. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0919/diesel-fuel-price-inflation    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:06:19

  • How to catch a baddie: Inside China’s booming police tech industry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/how-to-catch-a-baddie-inside-chinas-booming-police-tech-industry    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:06:52

  • Japan to give up to $3.5 million in grants for Solomon Islands elections ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/japan-to-give-up-to-3-5-million-in-grants-for-solomon-islands-elections    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:31:02

  • China is now Rwanda’s biggest export market – now comes the hard part ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260919-china-is-now-rwanda-s-biggest-export-market-%E2%80%93-now-comes-the-hard-part    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:31:23

  • China investigates Meituan and Alibaba units for suspected antitrust violations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-investigates-meituan-and-alibaba-units-for-suspected-antitrust-violations    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:31:36

  • Cloud seeding set for Klang Valley to combat worsening haze in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cloud-seeding-set-for-klang-valley-to-combat-worsening-haze-in-malaysia    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:33:51

  • Indonesia accepts Malaysia’s help to tackle Kalimantan wildfires ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-president-prabowo-accepts-malaysias-offer-to-help-fight-kalimantan-forest-fires    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:34:20

  • Malaysian angling group claims second red-bellied piranha found in river in Pahang ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-angling-group-claims-second-red-bellied-piranha-found-in-river-in-pahang    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:34:31

  • South Korean Leader Says He Will Not Send Troops to Iran, Despite Convicted Felon’s Call ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/world/asia/south-korea-president-lee-jae-myung-trump-iran.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:34:58

  • At DraftKings, Hey Hi (AI) Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/draftkings-ai.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:38:39

  • Qubes OS 4.3.2-rc1 is available for testing ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/09/18/qubes-os-4-3-2-rc1-available-for-testing/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:51:09

  • Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen ☞ https://itsfoss.com/crowpanel-advanced-hmi-display-review/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:52:15

  • Russia Warns New U.S. Sanctions Law Would Harm Convicted Felon’s Peace Efforts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/world/europe/russia-us-sanctions-trump.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:53:00

  • India Is Again Squeezed Between the Threat of Convicted Felon Tariffs and Russian Oil ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/india-russia-sanctions-oil.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:53:20

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man claims son repaid Russian oligarch who funded wedding festivities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260919-trump-says-son-repaid-russian-oligarch-who-funded-wedding-festivities    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:53:36

  • Did Convicted Felon really obtain 'permanent control' over Greenland? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/did-trump-really-obtain-permanent-control-over-greenland    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:54:03

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Signs Russia-Iran Sanctions Bill, Putting New Pressure Tools At His Disposal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33859294.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:54:23

  • Russian Authorities Claim Cyberattacks On Voting Systems As Duma Election Enters Second Day ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-duma-vote-election-ukraine/33859408.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:54:38

  • Ukrainian children learn ancient warrior skills amid modern war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukrainian-children-learn-ancient-warrior-skills-amid-modern-war    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:54:52

  • The Kremlin Has Put Lots of Veterans on the Ballot. Could It Backfire? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/world/europe/russia-kremlin-election-veterans.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:55:14

  • Putin’s Bagman Bought a Party for DOD Drone Contractor Don Jr ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/09/19/putins-bagman-bought-a-party-for-dod-drone-contractor-don-jr/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:55:38

  • Qubes 4.3.2-rc1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/qubes    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:55:50

  • Putin says Europe is 'preparing for war' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/putin-says-europe-is-preparing-for-war    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:56:12

  • mintCast 493 – Mintinator ☞ https://mintcast.org/493-mintinator/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:56:56

  • At Least 30 Killed In Suicide Attack On Police Headquarters In Northwestern Pakistan ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-afghanistan-explosion-police-blast-gunfire/33859034.html    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 18:58:00

  • I ditched my NAS OS for Ubuntu Desktop, and I’m never going back https://www.howtogeek.com/ditched-my-nas-os-for-ubuntu-desktop-and-im-never-going-back/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 19:10:36

  • 3 design decisions from 1990s Linux that modern desktops still can't improve on https://www.howtogeek.com/design-decisions-from-1990s-linux-that-modern-desktops-still-cant-improve-on/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 19:13:02

  • Misuse of the name "Linux" to promote scams and pyramid schemes https://forkast.news/agent-infrastructure-gets-its-own-conference-3500-expected-at-agntcon-mcpcon-under-the-linux-foundation/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 19:13:56

  • I used to SSH into my home server for everything until I installed these 3 containers https://www.makeuseof.com/i-used-to-ssh-into-my-home-server-for-everything-until-i-installed-these-3-containers/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 19:14:16

  • 4 innocent-looking Linux commands that can ruin your day https://www.howtogeek.com/innocent-looking-linux-commands-that-can-ruin-your-day/    

posted Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 19:14:42
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