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Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0 https://lwn.net/Articles/1094575/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:05:08

  • Compiling the kernel with gccrs https://lwn.net/Articles/1095553/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:06:06

  • Testing compat_linux on NetBSD with the Linux Test Project https://lwn.net/Articles/1094310/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:07:00

  • Thread-identity switcheroo for io_uring https://lwn.net/Articles/1094303/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:07:32

  • "he thought that open source needs a lot of help in the area of UX design. That is challenging, because open-source projects are understaffed." https://lwn.net/Articles/1095425/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:08:20

  • "He had worked on the Chrome team for a while, which he said was ""filled with people who wanted nothing but open-source, open-web"" projects. Things had changed radically, which led him to leave Google, ""but I'm trying to atone for my sins working for these companies""."    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:08:55

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1755.jpg    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:10:29

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2112.jpg    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:10:34

  • Notes from DWeb Cascadia 2026 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20260930-dweb.txt    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:12:23

  • Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? gemini://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:13:11

  • "I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior - Schneier on Security" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/i-want-better-reporting-on-ai-genie-behavior.html a thing to cover as topic if only schneier would stop parroting and hailing this propaganda as "AI"    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:25:11

  • "FSF comments on Newsom's executive order on so-called artificial intelligence Free Software Foundation - Working together for free software" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-comments-on-newsoms-california-executive-order    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:25:39

  • c.f. "The AI Kill Switch Act is repeating the Clipper Chips mistakes | CyberScoop" https://cyberscoop.com/ai-kill-switch-act-clipper-chip-mistakes-op-ed/ a topic they need to revisit as they do not solve the issues    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:26:35

  • "also one of the blogs pointed out that the LLMs are performing in such a way that they should have been pulled offline long ago already but haven't. Thus that demonstrates already that any "kill switch" is going to be used for just about any purpose _*except*_ reining in LLMs"    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:27:04

  • There is already an ocean of articles about this slop "regulation" frenzy, including sites bribed by slop pushers    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:28:16

  • "Machines now do things we once filed under distinctively human: reasoning, conversation, creativity, the appearance of empathy" gemini://adjb.smol.pub/theologies-of-technology-and-ai    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:30:46

  • "There is a moment in a long project when you stop being someone who reads the literature and become someone the literature includes. It is quieter than it sounds, and most people miss it while proofreading." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/the-scholar-practitioner-producing-knowledge    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:31:29

  • "I want to make a pragmatic argument, not an inspiring one. If you are trying to build a scholarly writing practice that survives past February, the Pomodoro method is worth a try." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/the-pomodoro-method-for-scholars    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 07:32:06

  • Seven Years Since COVID-19 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/01/seven-years-since-covid-19/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 08:17:40

  • When People Get Back to Art https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/01/when-people-get-back-to-art/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 08:17:54

  • What Has Happened to Singers Who Can Play Several Musical Instruments? https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/01/what-has-happened-to-singers-who-can-play-several-musical-instruments/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 08:53:27

  • "Months after a Spanish court refused to fine NordVPN over IP blocking, LaLiga is now raising its concerns with the European Commission." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-wants-major-vpns-on-eu-piracy-watch-list-over-affiliate-marketing/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 12:59:00

  • "In a six-week period between February and March, they identified 400 URLs based on keyword searching and Google Alerts" ☛ https://www.404media.co/deepfake-abuse-sites-infrastructure-providers-study/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:00:11

  • [Old] "In the war of what celebrity is the pettiest of all time, 50 Cent almost never loses." ☛ https://celebrityinsider.org/teairra-mari-bested-yet-again-by-50-cent-rapper-trademarks-i-aint-got-it-270380/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:00:50

  • [Old] "Here is the full list: [...]" ☛ https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list | Source: Military.com    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:10:08

  • "The new directive follows the DOD dramatically reducing its official recognized faith list earlier this year by roughly 180." ☛ https://www.military.com/air-force-issues-official-new-guidance-directing-every-airman-guardian-update-religious-affiliation-align-dod | Source: Military.com    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:10:29

  • "Douglass’s constitutional thought uniquely answered the question of what the Constitution’s posture toward slavery was." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/09/frederick-douglass-constitution-slavery-interpretation | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:11:00

  • "The shutdown of STT is absolutely shocking news given the current security situation, in which attempts to influence information are an everyday occurrence" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20249129 | Source: Yle    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:12:57

  • "as if collecting journalists’ request for comment from newsmakers about topics they were in the process of making public were some grave assault on the First Amendment" ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/chuck-grassley-and-far-right-propagandists-covering-up-how-trump-defrauded-magats/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:13:16

  • Reader on TR: "no hurry, thoughtful coverage can take days"    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:14:14

  • We publish less now, but longer and hopefully better    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:14:33

  • "“Reporting is not sedition,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/09/hong-kong-journalist-tang-ho-wing-arrested-in-latest-sedition-case/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:14:47

  • "The California Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision to strike a former Premise Data CEO’s meritless lawsuit against a journalist who exposed the CEO’s secret arrest for felony domestic violence." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/victory-california-appeals-court-refuses-revive-surveillance-tech-ceos-meritless | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:15:24

  • "I want to be crystal clear here: I do not accept such requests. I do not remove text with valid citations. I do not remove references you don’t like. And I do not edit Wikipedia for compensation, financial or otherwise." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/being-asked-to-sanitise-wikipedia-entries/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:17:33

  • "Why do Americans hide their views in 2026? The Freedom Forum concludes that: [...]" ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/freedom-forum-fear-of-expressing-oneself-is-subsiding/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:17:54

  • "It’s no wonder that across the country, local communities are crowding into their council meetings, pleading with representatives to oppose data center projects" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protesters-crash-pro-data-center-party | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:18:57

  • "As the Alaska Beacon reported, Christina Weaver" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/alaska-woman-police-google-ai-overview-poach-wilsons-snipes | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:21:43

  • "Most products in America are shipped along the road via trucks" ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/504562/diesel-prices-iran-war-crude-oil-farmers-groceries | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:27:39

  • "The Amazon is one such ecosystem, under intense dual pressures from deforestation, degradation, wildfires, and climate change." ☛ https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/rest/items/item_35009/component/file_35022/content |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:28:01

  • "Human activities have pushed Earth beyond its Safe Operating Space." ☛ https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:28:11

  • "And now researchers have discovered a new way these substances are polluting the environment: Plastic is fusing with corals." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/plastic-is-melting-onto-corals/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:28:24

  • "The multi-year agreement with Dynamis Power Solutions covers SGT-400 gas turbine cores, each capable of producing about 15 megawatts." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/siemens-energy-119-gas-turbines-us-mobile-power | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:28:42

  • "“This backdoor ‘dirty deal’ will worsen the climate crisis and put families at even greater risk of losing their homes and loved ones to extreme weather." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/a-blatant-giveaway-to-big-oil-and-big-tech-oil-change-international-opposes-potential-permitting-bill | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:28:56

  • "AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don’t want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/i-want-better-reporting-on-ai-genie-behavior.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:31:05

  • "The hearings come against the background of the foreign ministry’s payment of more than 130 million kroner to the International Peace Institute (IPI) between 1997 and 2018" ☛ https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3369349/norways-ministers-questioned-parliament-over-epstein-ties | Source: SCMP    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:31:18

  • "But the war machine is not powered by Moscow alone. It draws on a network of states, companies, intermediaries, and individuals who supply weapons" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/stopping-russias-aggression-requires-holding-its-enablers-accountable/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:32:04

  • "Slash a Fifth of All Military Leadership" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/215992/pete-hegseth-slash-fifth-of-military-leadership | Source: New Republic    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:32:19

  • "The same 30 September announcement included plans to reduce the number of generals and admirals by 20%" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musk-pentagon-project-future-warfare-1823008 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:32:35

  • "The Russians keep bombing cities and civilians. Americans overwhelmingly want to see the president take action now" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-graham-legislation-russia-sanctions-congress/33866211.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:32:54

  • "The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Hegseth would say that he plans to cut the billets for general and flag officers by 20%." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/09/29/pentagon-chief-set-to-announce-additional-cuts-in-senior-officer-positions/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:33:09

  • "General Jenkins spoke about the importance of the Klaipėda seaport" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3066114/i-worry-about-russian-miscalculation-in-baltics-interview-with-britain-s-top-general | Source: LRT    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:33:22

  • "The ads are clear violations of appropriations law prohibiting the federal government from spending money for “publicity or propaganda purposes.”" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-midterms-ads/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:33:39

  • "Over half of police forces in England and Wales are deploying live facial recognition out on the streets." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/29/ai-police-surveillance-trial-costs-320k-catches-zero-crooks/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:34:12

  • "The unencrypted files contained Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, contact details, and other military personnel data including - in some cases - details of the jobs individuals held." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/pentagon-personnel-database-breach-personal-data-millions | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:34:23

  • "However, a carve-out excludes information about persons already subject to a warrant or other lawful authority." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/09/is-compromise-on-encryption-possible-why-bill-c-22s-minor-opening-leaves-the-central-question-unanswered/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:34:37

  • "The public has made it clear that mass surveillance violates fundamental rights, even when it is laundered through fragmented systems, private companies, and regional task forces.”" ☛ https://www.404media.co/how-cities-are-forced-to-funnel-license-plate-data-to-a-massive-federal-surveillance-program-hidta/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:35:05

  • "The Commission had the opportunity to change the rules of the dangerous game that makes people unsafe online." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-kids-act-will-make-the-internet-less-safe/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:35:27

  • "Through the workshops, there were consistent themes in the feedback from attendees: lack of clarity around what data was required to share" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/09/30/guest-post-medical-and-health-data-sharing-policies-need-specific-guidance-new-stm-recommendations-aim-to-help/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:35:58

  • "If you've ever written names on the back of a photograph, then consider yourself a hero." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/a-texan-man-found-a-photo-album-in-a-garage-that-may-hold-unseen-pictures-of-bonnie-and-clyde-but-caution-over-their-authenticity-points-to-a-deeper-lesson-about-how-we-should-safeguard-our-own-photography-for-future-generations | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:36:38

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/should-south-africa-ban-ransomware-payments/286628/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:37:11

  • "Sanseitō, which literally means “political participation party,” has gained significant ground among Japanese youth." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/japan-far-right-youth-vote-sanseito-sohei-kamiya/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:37:38

  • "Reddit is further limiting who can use the “Old Reddit” experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002788/old-reddit-ai-scraping | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:37:47

  • "When you are racing towards a cliff,” said Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont at a September 14 Washington, DC, conference on AI, “you hit the brakes." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/how-ai-could-kill-humanity/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:38:47

  • "On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech billionaires who’ve pushed the AI buildout" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/donald-trump-press-media-ai-safety-hoax-billionaires | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:39:02

  • "OpenAI has been remarkably open about the number of times its agents have broken into other people’s systems and how it needs to improve its safety practices" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-ai-safety-accord-is-a-fancy-pinky-swear/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:39:48

  • "There are basically three potential positions: [...]" ☛ https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:41:49

  • "unexpected or concerning model behavior" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openai-agents-security-bypasses/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:46:30

  • "A recent article revealed that OpenAI is purchasing tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to give AI agents dedicated environments to run, make mistakes, and learn." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/30/how-little-does-an-ai-agent-need-and-how-cheap-can-it-get/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:46:41

  • "Beware building features the team doesn’t understand. When things go wrong and the chatbot can't figure it out, it’s a bad situation." ☛ https://brettcodes.com/beware/ | Source: Brett Chalupa    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:54:30

  • "Meat Proxies" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1176/meat-proxies | Source: David Revoy    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:54:41

  • "For what? I imagine one or more of these might be down in the vortex: [...]" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/09/29/dont-fall-in/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:54:56

  • "Anyway, which kind of AI booster are you: the kind who's a fraud, or the kind who thinks they own millions of slaves?" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/09/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:55:24

  • "I have encountered the same problem repeatedly, in defensive security work, animation, and game development" ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/defenders-need-models-they-control/ | Source: Niels Provos    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:55:36

  • "There is also, however, a more prosaic reasons for the public’s dislike of AI: This is a technology of, by and for oligarchs, with hardly any of the benefits trickling down to regular Americans." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/one-more-reason-americans-hate-ai | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:55:49

  • "Gorgon Halo keeps the same CPU and GPU architectures as Strix Halo, so the existing software carries over." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/what-192gb-changes-for-local-ai-on-the-framework-desktop | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:56:06

  • "It isn’t that I hate pretending to be a webdev troubleshooting an issue, but I did waste part of an afternoon doing just that." ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/09/debingd/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:56:24

  • "Beyond the devices themselves, the findings are the latest to illustrate the perils of being exposed to social media at such a formative part of a child’s life." ☛ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/horryfing-research-12-year-old-smartphones | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 13:56:50

  • "The question hit me again at a side event on African adapted crops during the Africa Food Systems Forum, hosted by the Africa Adaptation Crops Initiative" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/in-africa-changing-the-crops-without-changing-the-system-is-not-good-enough/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:03:56

  • "As if he knew I was coming, Helmut had this lovely Royal/Triumph-Adler R 700 sitting right up front on the counter." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/30/royal-triumph-adler-r-700/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:04:26

  • "But sailors, dockworkers, and blacksmiths needed a connection that was strong enough to handle heavy loads but could also be opened without cutting rope, chain, or cable." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/the-sordid-history-past-and-present-of-the-modern-shackle/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:04:42

  • "We’ve also introduced a number of firmware improvements with this launch." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/192gb-framework-desktop-open-for-pre-order | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:05:11

  • "Adding insult to injury, the respective communities alienate interdisciplinary people who do not fit into their narrow conception of the field." ☛ https://molily.de/web-dev-education/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:05:30

  • "That’s a whopping 67.5% reduction since 2025…" ☛ https://bell.bz/in-response-to-the-death-of-web-development-education/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:05:41

  • "I’ve been in a funk for a few weeks and am taking a couple of weeks off work to reflect on the past and rethink my future." ☛ https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2026/09/30/i-miss-people.html | Source: Clinton Blackburn    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:05:54

  • "In the video the full assembly can be observed, along with detailed instructions should anyone want to follow along with their own DIY jet turbine." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/30/assembling-and-testing-a-diy-jet-turbine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:06:14

  • "Which brings us to NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/09/30/roman-telescope-saves-fuel-doubles-mission/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:06:30

  • "the scrapers didn’t actually put any noticeable load on the website, but they did manage to screw up my analytics!" ☛ https://chameth.com/monthly-meanderings-2026-09/ | Source: Chris Smith    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:07:04

  • "I’d love to hear from people with experience in writers’ rooms about whether this is accurate." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/30/the-office-a-sort-of-conjecture-about-why-some-us-sitcoms-are-the-way-they-are/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:07:18

  • "The other trend may be worse. Personal blogs and websites from people who have been on the web for a long time are going silent or disappearing altogether." ☛ https://michaelreflects.com/blog/domains-cost-more-blogs-disappear/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:07:29

  • Techrights "pleased to be able to add even a small number of blog feeds each day to compensate for attrition." Slopfests.    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:07:53

  • Like with code, reducing input or removing code or quantity can be more desirable than adding    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:08:26

  • "The survivor bias comes from the fact that the blogs that you follow or pay attention to get older" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/09/30/re-domains-cost-more-blogs-disappear/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:08:39

  • "I’ve captured a few OSS highlights below, but I encourage you to browse the collection at its original home." ☛ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/09/30/latte-art-for-nerds/ | Source: Olaf Alders    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:08:50

  • "Walker has 95 shows preserved on the Internet Archive dating back to 2017." ☛ https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/29/every-night-is-different-ryley-walker-on-preserving-live-music/ | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:09:06

  • "I move most of the defunct ones out of the way. Same for slop-loving accounts. Not fetching any of those saves time, so I have decided to comment them out."    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 14:10:02

  • "Globs sort filenames character by character, so numbered files often come out in a surprising order, with 10 before 2." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/09/30/zsh-n-glob-qualifier/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:46:00

  • "It is useful to have some knowledge about the Python development process, ongoing concerns for the project, governance, and some history about "how we got to this moment" to be able to write about the Python Language Summit." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/python-language-summit-blogging | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:46:20

  • "security.txt is a web standard to fix this problem. It’s a small text file, served at the reserved path /.well-known/security.txt, that says how to report security issues to your organization. It was standardized in April 2022 as RFC 9116." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/10/01/django-security-txt/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:46:29

  • "Translating your code line by line is the surest way to get it all wrong…" ☛ https://rtask.thinkr.fr/my-first-attempt-at-porting-a-shiny-app-failed-and-not-for-a-technical-reason/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:47:18

  • "Three hundred twenty-nine new packages were submitted to CRAN in July." ☛ https://rworks.dev/posts/august-2026-top-40-new-cran-packages/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:47:28

  • "A major step towards releasing the next language level of the Raku Programming Language (tentatively called “6.e”) has been achieved with the 2026.09 release" ☛ https://rakuweekly.blog/2026/09/29/2026-39-mainstreamed/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:48:43

  • "If you’ve ever needed to hit a breakpoint programmatically in C++, you’ve probably written something like this: [...]" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/30/cpp26-debugging | Source: Sandor Dargo    

POSTED tHURSDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2026 AT 15:49:51

  • "Nearly 600 medieval manuscripts from two German monasteries are now available to explore online, following the completion of a six-year digitisation project." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/09/600-medieval-manuscripts-online/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:54:37

  • "Lawyers getting caught using AI and submitting errors to the court has been a big problem for years" ☛ https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-fake-witnesses-testimony-stephen-aarons-new-mexico/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:55:02

  • "We hope our readers understand the problems inherent in giving one single or a small number of kill switches to anyone." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-comments-on-newsoms-california-executive-order | Source: FSF    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:56:07

  • "Yahoo’s own privacy documentation says that Yahoo systems may analyse and store communications content, including incoming and outgoing email." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/09/zimbabwes-embassy-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-hiding-in-plain-sight/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:56:15

  • "A new feed manager and built-in reader are now available natively within Waterfox." ☛ https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.5/ | Source: Waterfox    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:56:37

  • "There are many approaches to safe and private browsing depending on the threats and attacks you need to protect yourself against." ☛ https://molily.de/safe-websurfing/ |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:57:56

  • "The camera, a PTC06 TTL serial JPEG camera, captures images at 320 x 240 pixels, and with 1MB of storage available there is space for 60 dithered images." ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/project-turns-badgeware-into-a-21st-century-nintendo-game-boy-camera/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:58:19

  • "Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 7.0 or later to 7.14" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_14/ | Source: Tor    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:58:50

  • "On the 31st of August of this year (2026) Debian 11 "Bullseye" reached the end of its Long Term Support period, at which point we consider Bullseye to be End of Life" ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/2026/09/29/end-of-life-announcement-debian-11 | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 15:59:00

  • "FreeBSD’s release cadence works well for many environments, but enterprise systems and products often operate on much longer lifecycles." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-release-cycles-enterprise-requirements-lts/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:05:08

  • "Nowadays, there's no difference between the two options in GNU coreutils. The current manual page says: [...]" ☛ https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html | Source: Peter Hofmann    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:05:44

  • [Old] "This systems works by assigning a user and a group to every file. Then users of that file are put into one of three classes: [...]" ☛ https://wpollock.com/AUnix1/FilePermissions.htm |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:05:54

  • "The twenty-first episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: [...]" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/09/29/www-21 | Source: James G    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:06:33

  • [Old] "Documents That Changed the World is an ongoing podcast series by UW Information School Professor Joe Janes that explores the compelling stories of various documents" ☛ https://ischool.uw.edu/podcasts/dtctw?page=6 |    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:06:42

  • NVIDIA security bulletin for Sept 30 notes many GPU issues | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/nvidia-security-bulletin-for-sept-30-notes-many-gpu-issues/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:08:13

  • Here comes the algorithm - Valve updating Steam to show different games for discounts and events | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/here-comes-the-algorithm-valve-updating-steam-to-show-different-games-for-discounts-and-events/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:08:39

  • Classic strategy game DEFCON from Introversion Software gets a free 20th Anniversary Edition upgrade | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/classic-strategy-game-defcon-from-introversion-software-gets-a-free-20th-anniversary-edition-upgrade/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:08:59

  • The Big Break Showcase was stacked with reveals from Coffee Stain and others | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/the-big-break-showcase-was-stacked-with-reveals-from-coffee-stain-and-others/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:09:21

  • "Trump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear Button" https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-finger-gets-closer-to-nuclear    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:31:34

  • "My advice to young people - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/advice-to-young-people    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:31:45

  • "Trump's Bizarre Standing Position Goes Viral as Viewer Says 'Something's Definitely Wrong With That Leg' | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-unusual-stance-super-intelligence-announcement-1822997    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:32:00

  • "Trump Administration Plans to Add 5,000 New ICE Employees by End of Year | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-plans-to-add-5000-new-ice-employees-by-end-of-year/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:32:27

  • truthout parroting the lie https://truthout.org/articles/opposition-to-ai-data-centers-is-actually-a-chinese-psyop-mike-johnson-says/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:32:40

  • "Ukraine’s former defense minister launches ‘Manhattan Project’ for killer robots" https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2026/09/30/ukraines-former-defense-minister-launches-manhattan-project-for-killer-robots/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:32:54

  • Techdirt lobbying for social control media again https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/30/ban-kids-from-social-media-and-theyll-just-chat-in-public-radio-podcast-comments/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:33:15

  • Chat Control 2: Negotiation mode still locked | "Chat Control 2: Förhandlingsläget fortfarande låst" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/09/30/chat-control-2-forhandlingslaget-fortfarande-last/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:33:39

  • Øjvind's father's backhoe | "Øjvinds fars rendegraver | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/oejvinds-fars-rendegraver    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:34:08

  • "Vladimir Putin only has two options in Ukraine: Total victory or endless war - Atlantic Council" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/vladimir-putin-only-has-two-options-in-ukraine-total-victory-or-endless-war/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:34:20

  • FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters ☞ https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-release-cycles-enterprise-requirements-lts/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:38:37

  • How little does an Hey Hi (AI) agent need, and how cheap can it get? ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/09/30/how-little-does-an-ai-agent-need-and-how-cheap-can-it-get/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:41:55

  • The KIDS Act will make the internet less safe ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-kids-act-will-make-the-internet-less-safe/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:42:45

  • Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/being-asked-to-sanitise-wikipedia-entries/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:46:52

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: myman 0.1.0 on CRAN: New (fabulous !!) Package ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/09/30#myman_0.1.0    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:47:16

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastFloat 0.0.6 on CRAN: New Upstream ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/09/30#rcppfastfloat_0.0.6    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:47:30

  • More accounts banned on X amid censorship wave ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/more-accounts-banned-on-x-amid-censorhsip-wave-323932    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:47:52

  • Court censors news about doctor's detention after refusing to examine prosecutor without appointment ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/court-censors-news-about-doctor-s-detention-after-refusing-to-examine-prosecutor-without-appointment-323950    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:48:03

  • "The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will begin on Oct. 3-4 at UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/30/welcome-osas26-yogyakarta/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:53:13

  • A733 development board with LPDDR5, PCIe storage and RISC-V coprocessor ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/a733-development-board-with-lpddr5-pcie-storage-and-risc-v-coprocessor/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:54:01

  • Fairphone 6 with /e/OS report 2 - Road trip challenges ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-eos-report-2.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:54:35

  • Akademy 2026 (Graz) - 30th Birthday Edition ☞ https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/09/30/2026/_akademy-2026-30th-birthday-edition    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:55:03

  • "PureOS Development Report: August 2026" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-development-report-august-2026/ | Source: Purism    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:56:16

  • "The openSUSE Kudos recognition platform has a new feature: teams. You can now thank a whole team at once, see who is part of which team, and join or start a team yourself." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/09/30/kudos-teams/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:56:49

  • "Purism continued to publish its warrant canaries every quarter for over ten years running." ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/over-a-decade-of-warrant-canaries/ | Source: Purism    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:57:07

  • Canonical peddling LLM slop again ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/realtime-transaction-fraud-detection-with-an-llm | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:58:23

  • "If you have used an AI chatbot for Linux work, you have probably had it tell you exactly which nmcli command to run, and then you still had to open a terminal and type it yourself." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/openkylin-review-kylinbot-ai-agent-desktop/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:59:06

  • IBM peddling slop via Red Hat: "Stores raw video feeds, processed clips, frame metadata, bounding box coordinates, and audit logs." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-ai-powered-multimodal-compliance-monitor-training-tracking-chat | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 16:59:42

  • "Modernizing your infrastructure does not have to be a disruptive process." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migrate-virtual-machines-red-hat-openstack-services-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:00:19

  • Some more peddling of slop from IBM ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/reimagining-enterprise-innovation-engine-agentic-era | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:00:48

  • Do not use LLMs in the first place ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/30/backdoors-in-llms-why-model-scanning-isn-t-enough    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:01:21

  • Beyond pass or fail: The new era of chaos engineering ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/09/30/beyond-pass-or-fail-the-new-era-of-chaos-engineering    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:01:36

  • AlgaOS – beginner-friendly Gentoo-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/algaos-beginner-friendly-gentoo-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:04:38

  • ChurrOS – lightweight Arch GNU/Linux distribution for modest hardware ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/churros-lightweight-arch-linux-distribution/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:05:14

  • Debian ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/geekbench-7-results-suggest-openais-dots-agent-runs-on-nine-core-amd-epyc-vms-with-nearly-10gb-of-memory-newest-runs-score-about-six-times-meta-muse-in-multi-core    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:08:02

  • Evolving Candela City ☞ https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2026/09/evolving-candela-city.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:08:41

  • ScreenConnect Client (Ab)used by Attackers, (Thu, Oct 1st) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33388    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:09:12

  • Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1097753/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:10:19

  • High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerabilities-patched-in-openssl-wolfssl/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:10:35

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 671 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/09/30/this-week-in-rust-671/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:11:47

  • Indonesia’s Health Minister Budi Sadikin hopes to be first South-east Asian chief at WHO ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/from-jakarta-to-geneva-indonesias-health-minister-budi-sadikin-hopes-to-be-first-south-east-asian    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:14:05

  • Hong Kong authorities hail scheme for reducing average sodium levels in bread by up to 17% ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/29/hong-kong-authorities-hail-scheme-for-reducing-sodium-levels-in-bread-by-average-of-up-to-17/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:14:20

  • Ankara court annuls ban on feeding stray animals ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/ankara-court-annuls-ban-on-feeding-stray-animals-323927    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:14:40

  • New Jersey So Flooded That a Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through a Suburban Neighborhood ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/new-jersey-flood-shark    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:14:59

  • North Korean leader ‘extremely obese’: Seoul spy agency ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korean-leader-extremely-obese-seoul-spy-agency    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:15:46

  • Lost shark becomes viral star in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lost-shark-becomes-viral-star-in-south-korea    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:15:59

  • Cornell 7 Defendant's Reported Army Link Prompts Journalist to Call Korean Military Amid Reopened Rape Probe ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/journalist-contacts-south-korean-military-cornell-defendant-service-claim-1823023    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:16:16

  • UN refugee agency concerned by Malaysia returns to Myanmar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/un-refugee-agency-concerned-by-malaysia-returns-to-myanmar    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:16:46

  • Japan drops out of top 10 holiday spots for Chinese travellers amid tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-drops-out-of-top-10-holiday-spots-for-chinese-travellers-amid-tensions    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:17:27

  • Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Shines Blue at Software Freedom Day Bukidnon 2026 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-shines-blue-at-software-freedom-day-bukidnon-2026/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:18:35

  • Fedora Community Blog: Anaconda F45 features Test Week ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/anaconda-f45-features-test-week/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:18:59

  • ESP32-S3 E Ink board with 800×480 display, mic array and IMU ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-s3-e-ink-board-with-800x480-display-mic-array-and-imu/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:22:18

  • Kiro 26.10.01 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kiro    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:22:32

  • Shadowfetch 5.0.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shadowfetch    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:22:41

  • butrelinux 20261001 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/butrelinux    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:22:46

  • Rust Causes Upgrade Issues in Ubuntu ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/30/Rust_Causes_Upgrade_Issues_in_Ubuntu.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:26:43

  • Ubuntu 26.10 adds early support for Snapdragon X2 laptops ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x2    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:27:39

  • New FOSS web browser Blanc opts for a different kind of UI ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/blanc-web-browser-new    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:28:11

  • Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04.1 Upgrade Channel Is Finally Open ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/09/ubuntu-24-04-to-ubuntu-26-04-1-upgrade/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:29:02

  • OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:29:55

  • Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP on the road to the 8.6.0 release ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/09/30/PHP-on-the-road-to-the-8.6.0-release    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:31:01

  • Openness & Digital Sovereignty: Who Sustains the Commons? ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/09/30/openness-digital-sovereignty-who-sustains-the-commons/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:31:28

  • The 'Linux' Foundation Technical Advisory Board 2026 election approaches ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1097758/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:31:48

  • By "unfortunate passing of Dan Williams" they mean suicide    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:32:03

  • About:Community: A fresh Firefox and MozFest count down ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2026/09/30/newsletter-sep-2026/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:33:35

  • Linux CTF Challenges ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/ctf/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:34:18

  • Link Your CTF Handle to Your GNU/Linux Handbook Account ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/ctf/link/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:34:25

  • Command Conqueror ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/ctf/command-conqueror/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:34:31

  • Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan kill nine, Kabul says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistani-airstrikes-on-afghanistan-kill-nine-kabul-says    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:34:49

  • Gunnar Wolf: The Origins of GPU Computing ☞ https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3778248    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:35:12

  • Dear Software Makers ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:36:15

  • If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing (YouTube) ☞ https://blog.hayati.net/2026/10/if-buying-isnt-owning-then-piracy-isnt-stealing-youtube/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:36:29

  • Kernel Recipes videos posted ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1097802/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:36:49

  • After the Failed Attack on a Taylor Swift Concert in Austria, One of the Terrorists Actually Sued Disney ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/30/taylor-swift-concert-terrorist-sues-disney/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:37:28

  • Human rights standards and guidelines on the use of digital technologies in electoral processes ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5867/human-rights-standards-and-guidelines-use-digital-technologies-electoral-processes    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 17:37:44

  • It’s now the EU’s turn to avert a trade conflict with China ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/0930/china-EU-talks-economy-rare-earth-minerals    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:08:50

  • Republican committee chair calls for scrutiny of Seoul's China ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/republican-committee-chair-calls-for-scrutiny-of-seouls-china-ties    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:09:29

  • Taiwan transfers naval commander to Coast Guard to boost deterrence against China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-transfers-naval-commander-to-coast-guard-to-boost-deterrence-against-china    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:09:48

  • China’s former market regulator head to be tried for graft ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/09/30/chinas-former-market-regulator-head-to-be-tried-for-graft/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:21:23

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posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:23:37

  • Playering social control media games = "content creator skills" ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-creates-40-jobs-to-train-journalists-as-content-creators/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:23:48

  • Eating One Type of Fruit Is Linked to Better Heart Health, Study of 371,000 Americans Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/how-you-eat-your-fruit-is-linked-to-heart-health-study-of-371000-americans-reveals    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:25:05

  • Melting Permafrost Is Poisoning Rivers With Metal Levels 70 Times Higher Than Normal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/as-permafrost-melts-toxic-metals-are-poisoning-rivers-with-levels-70-times-higher-than-normal    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:25:21

  • Astronomers May Have Found a Planet in The Habitable Zone of The Hottest Star Yet ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-may-have-found-a-planet-in-the-habitable-zone-of-the-hottest-star-yet    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:31:35

  • Popular Supplement Could Have an Unexpected Downside, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/popular-supplement-could-have-an-unexpected-downside-study-finds    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:41:04

  • Alzheimer's Protein Just Behaved Exactly Like a Prion in Mouse Brains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-watched-human-dementia-proteins-spread-through-mouse-brains-like-prions    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:41:18

  • Scientists Connected 3 Human Mini-Brains in a Dish. They Learned Something The Others Couldn't. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-connected-3-human-mini-brains-in-a-dish-they-learned-something-the-others-couldnt    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:41:33

  • Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Have a Surprising Effect on Alcohol Cravings ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-like-drugs-could-have-a-surprising-effect-on-alcohol-cravings    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:41:59

  • No youth jobs? Mark Carney says join the military ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/no-youth-jobs-mark-carney-says-join-the-military/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:42:19

  • Science Says Who You Eat Dinner With Matters as Much as What's on Your Plate ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/science-says-who-you-eat-dinner-with-matters-as-much-as-whats-on-your-plate    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:42:35

  • Will Convicted Felon Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding. ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/will-trump-administration-officials-be-held-accountable-for-defying-a-court-order-the-courts-are-still-deciding    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:43:08

  • No youth jobs? Mark Carney says join the military ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/no-youth-jobs-mark-carney-says-join-the-military/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:43:34

  • The Insurrectionist vowed a ‘Michigan miracle.’ How that promise and others are going ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/donald-trump-vowed-a-michigan-miracle-how-that-promise-and-others-are-going/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:43:56

  • New York Gov pushes for probe into Cornell's handling of gang rape allegation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260930-new-york-gov-pushes-for-probe-into-cornell-s-handling-of-gang-rape-allegation    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:45:00

  • A Safer Internet Starts with Taking Action: Introducing the Online Trust and Safety Hub ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/09/a-safer-internet-starts-with-taking-action-introducing-the-online-trust-and-safety-hub/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:45:34

  • The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/the-ethernet-spec-was-first-drafted-on-this-day-in-1980-dec-intel-and-xerox-defined-the-standard-several-years-before-the-internet-existed    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:53:56

  • Meta's Muse Hey Hi (AI) agent accused of ignoring user permissions and accessing forbidden personal user data ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/metas-muse-ai-agent-accused-of-accessing-sensitive-user-data-on-iphone-and-mac-without-permission-agent-shocks-reporter-by-referring-to-confidential-messages-it-wasnt-granted-access-to    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:55:18

  • Trump orders referring to himself as "Super Demented"    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 18:56:16

  • WaterISAC reckons with range of threats after summer of cyberattacks ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/water-utility-cyberattacks-waterisac-cyware-threat-intelligence/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:00:55

  • Man City not 'above the rules', says No 10 after backlash to Burnham remarks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3v4vn3ydw1o    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:04:35

  • Bummer https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjkg7g93y5yno    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:05:03

  • Did stab-my-colleagues go on another 3-day wedding or is he unable to log in to social control media after his laptop died?    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:08:45

  • FTC reportedly investigating OpenAI, Anthropic over potential consumer risks ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/30/ftc-reportedly-investigating-openai-anthropic-over-potential-consumer-risks/ Accounting fraud http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/19/FTC_Realises_Microsoft_Buying_Fake_Clients_to_Fake_Revenue_Micr.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:10:17

  • That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-halts-publishing    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:11:23

  • The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier Hey Hi (AI) Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ftc-investigating-frontier-ai-labs-hacks    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:11:46

  • New Proprietary Chaffbot Company Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-agent-fails-live-demo    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:14:26

  • People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/urine-therapy-ai    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:14:39

  • RFK Jr Announcing That Hey Hi (AI) Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rfk-announces-ai-better-doctors    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:15:05

  • Here’s the Email You Get When an Proprietary Chaffbot Company Model Hacks Your Organization ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/email-openai-model-hacks-your-organization    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:15:17

  • Reopened case into Kaşif Kozinoğlu's death raises more questions than answers ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/reopened-case-into-kasif-kozinoglu-s-death-raises-more-questions-than-answers-323839    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:15:58

  • Journalist Fatih Ergin remanded over social control media post about intelligence officer's death ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-fatih-ergin-remanded-over-social-media-post-about-intelligence-officer-s-death-323916    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:16:08

  • F.T.C. Investigates Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Anthropic Over Potential Consumer Harms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/ftc-openai-anthropic-investigation.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:16:36

  • Late Night Is Skeptical of Hey Hi (AI) Leaders Self-Regulating ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/arts/television/late-night-trump-ai-leaders-regulation.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:16:53

  • Oasis Auction Abruptly Suspended After Band Takes Legal Action ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/30/oasis-auction-suspended-due-to-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:17:27

  • Goodbye WordPress ☞ https://nolanlawson.com/2026/09/30/goodbye-wordpress/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:18:33

  • Fault Lines – Taiwan’s arms hopes, Indonesia’s carrier, Fiji’s chiefs ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fault-lines-taiwans-arms-hopes-indonesias-carrier-fijis-chiefs/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:21:48

  • Pentagon gets pwned as breach exposes sensitive data on nearly three million military and civilian personnel ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/pentagon-gets-pwned-as-breach-exposes-sensitive-data-on-nearly-three-million-military-and-civilian-personnel-stolen-info-includes-social-security-numbers-and-job-related-records    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:24:22

  • Zimbabwe’s Embassy Has a Cybersecurity Problem Hiding in Plain Sight ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/09/zimbabwes-embassy-has-a-cybersecurity-problem-hiding-in-plain-sight/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:25:09

  • Qt 6.12 LTS Released! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.12-released    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:25:36

  • Safe, but sailing nowhere. Can you stop a fleet of ships? ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/safe-and-going-nowhere/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:28:10

  • British PM alleges there are 'strong indications' Iran was involved in Fairford airbase incident ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260930-british-pm-alleges-there-are-strong-indications-iran-was-involved-in-fairford-airbase-incident    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:28:24

  • OpenSSF Newsletter – September 2026 ☞ https://openssf.org/newsletter/2026/09/30/openssf-newsletter-september-2026/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:28:45

  • ShinyHunters Defiant After FBI Calls on Members to Come Forward ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/shinyhunters-defiant-after-fbi-calls-on-members-to-come-forward/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:29:23

  • Government, Finance Orgs Targeted in Weeks-Long NetScaler Zero-Day Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/government-finance-orgs-targeted-in-weeks-long-netscaler-zero-day-attacks/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:29:46

  • WatchGuard Patches Critical Fireware OS Code Injection Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/watchguard-patches-critical-fireware-os-code-injection-vulnerability/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:30:04

  • FTC is Investigating Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Anthropic Over Possible Risks to Consumers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ftc-is-investigating-openai-and-anthropic-over-possible-risks-to-consumers/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:30:29

  • “There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-heavenly-death    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:30:52

  • Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/philip-sidney-and-the-extreme-disgraces-of-the-parenthesis    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:31:03

  • itsfoss being a booster of "Local Hey Hi (AI)" is BAD OPTICS. One might imagine the site will sooner or later write articles using "Local Hey Hi (AI)" too... at which point it's a spamfarm/slopfarm like linuxiac. We'll keep monitoring this BS trajectory of theirs.    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:33:07

  • They boost Windows and EEE as well, maybe out of sheer ignorance https://itsfoss.com/news/wslc-general-availability/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:34:26

  • We would hesitate to contact them about it, having noticed linuxiac acting all coy when confronted by slop accusations    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:35:35

  • Meat Proxies ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1176/meat-proxies    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:35:57

  • Alzheimer's Might Be a Third Type of Diabetes, Some Scientists Argue ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/some-scientists-are-calling-alzheimers-type-3-diabetes    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:36:48

  • Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1097761/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:37:25

  • Syria: An exclusive look at the integration of Uyghur fighters in armed forces ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260930-syria-an-exclusive-look-at-the-integration-of-uyghur-fighters-in-armed-forces    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:37:39

  • Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Over 100 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-firefox-updates-patch-over-100-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:38:38

  • validate_script_output over grep ☞ https://openQA-Bites.github.io/posts/2026/2026-09-30-validate_script_output_is_your_friend/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:39:04

  • Hylke Bons: Icon for Ratio ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/09/30/ratio    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:40:17

  • Method or Molecule: Judge Dyk Dissents from En Banc Denial in Teva v. Lilly ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/09/method-or-molecule-judge-dyk-dissents-from-en-banc-denial-in-teva-v-lilly.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:45:15

  • $30 Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module for CM5 targets digital signage displays and kiosks ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/01/30-raspberry-pi-smart-display-module-for-cm5-targets-digital-signage-displays-and-kiosks/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:51:39

  • Execution of convicted US killer Christa Pike fails despite two lethal injections ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261001-execution-of-convicted-us-killer-christa-pike-fails-despite-two-lethal-injections    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:52:00

  • Google (GAFAM) tried to stigmatise as paranoia an opposition to slop plagiarism and overhyped nonsense ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/business/media/google-hollywood-krya-sedgwick.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:53:44

  • CERT: Repeated attacks on municipal surveillance systems in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/30.09.2026-cert-repeated-attacks-on-municipal-surveillance-systems-in-latvia.a665394/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:54:17

  • Watch Plasma Erupt in Full Color Inside a Fusion Reactor at 16,000 FPS ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-plasma-erupt-in-full-color-inside-a-fusion-reactor-at-16000-fps    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:54:59

  • Reject Digital Restrictions (DRM) and so it how it should be done ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/personaltech/how-to-listen-to-your-favorite-music-online-or-off-the-grid.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:56:16

  • How to Install and Optimize PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 26.04 for High Performance Web Apps ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-and-optimize-postgresql-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:57:34

  • The Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke Slop Problem (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/30/The_Microsoft_Lunduke_Slop_Problem.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:57:49

  • ‘The Song Is Non-Negotiable’: Indie Music Giants Unite to Force a Fair Licensing Framework ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/29/impf-and-impel-unite-generative-ai-licensing/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:58:28

  • Thomson Reuters Scores Appeals Court Win In Closely-Watched ‘Fair Use’ Copyright Case — Defendant’s Copying Was ‘Highly Commercial and Minimally Transformative’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/09/30/thomson-reuters-v-ross-win/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:58:49

  • OpenMandriva 26.09 "ROME" ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmandriva    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 19:59:04

  • Indonesian governor orders halt on data-centre project by Singapore’s BDx due to lack of permits ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-governor-orders-halt-on-data-centre-project-by-singapores-bdx-due-to-lack-of-permits    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:00:24

  • OpenArm 2.0 – An open-source 7-DOF robot arm with QDD joints, bilateral force feedback, in-hand camera ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/30/openarm-2-0-an-open-source-7-dof-robot-arm-with-qdd-joints-bilateral-force-feedback-in-hand-camera/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:00:59

  • Czechia would send two brigades in event of Russian attack on Baltics, PM says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3068118/czechia-would-send-two-brigades-in-event-of-russian-attack-on-baltics-pm-says    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:10:30

  • Lithuania to ban Belarusian, Russian nationals from owning property near strategic sites ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3068236/lithuania-to-ban-belarusian-russian-nationals-from-owning-property-near-strategic-sites    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:10:40

  • American troops are coming back to Lithuania. Will they stay? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3068243/american-troops-are-coming-back-to-lithuania-will-they-stay    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:10:56

  • Moscow threatens nuclear response over tiny fortress wedged between US allies as clash fears grow ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/10/01/world-news/russia-threatens-nuclear-response-if-kaliningrad-is-isolated-by-nato/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:11:10

  • Russian APT Star Blizzard Uses ‘RedFlick’ Infection Chain in Recent Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-apt-star-blizzard-uses-redflick-infection-chain-in-recent-attacks/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:11:28

  • Britain pledges nuclear deterrent to defence of Baltic ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/30.09.2026-britain-pledges-nuclear-deterrent-to-defence-of-baltic.a665412/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:11:38

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man and Netanyahu Praise Hero Pilot Whose 'Ukrainian, Emirati or Indian' Identity Confuses Media in 9/11 Plot ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/flydubai-captain-co-pilot-attack-emergency-landing-1823043    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:12:27

  • Oman Turtle Reserve Rules Explained After Influencer Sat on Sea Turtle: No Night Entry Without a Permit ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oman-legal-action-tourist-nesting-turtle-video-1823047    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:13:11

  • How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/world/europe/ukraine-naval-drones-russia.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:13:29

  • South Korea made no military aid pledge to Ukraine over transfer of North Koreans: Lawmaker ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-made-no-military-aid-pledge-to-ukraine-over-transfer-of-north-koreans-lawmaker-says    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:13:41

  • Air Strikes Kill Several In Ukraine As Russia Focuses Attacks On Energy Facilities ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-drone-missile-stirke-ukraine-kyiv/33866974.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:13:54

  • Lithuania to ban Belarusian, Russian artists who performed in occupied Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3068216/lithuania-to-ban-belarusian-russian-artists-who-performed-in-occupied-ukraine    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:14:13

  • Russia launches major attack on Ukraine’s energy grid, causing power cuts ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261001-russia-launches-major-attack-on-ukraine-energy-grid-causing-power-cuts    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:15:40

  • Kodachi 10.0.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kodachi    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:15:57

  • Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/show434/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:17:08

  • [Podcast] The October 2026 root KSK roll ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/01/podcast-the-october-2026-root-ksk-roll/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:17:46

  • The FSF’s Warning on Hey Hi (AI) Kill Switches ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/09/the-fsfs-warning-on-ai-kill-switches/ "The FSF’s concerns go beyond whether Hey Hi (AI) platforms need kill switches. They extend to who controls them—and whether users will have any say."    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:19:18

  • One Year ☞ https://kevquirk.com/one-year-lisa "Today marks a year since my little sister, Lisa, took her own life. She was 34"    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:19:55

  • "It was an overdose, but we don't know if it was an accident or suicide. We’ll never get an answer, yet I lean toward believing it was by choice. As grim as it sounds, picturing her with some control over the end brings me a small measure of peace."    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:20:25

  • Regata 26.0.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/regata    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:21:07

  • Japan court rules human voice is protected in Fentanylware (CheeTok) Hey Hi (AI) case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-court-rules-human-voice-is-protected-in-tiktok-ai-case    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:21:43

  • Cornell 7 Case Sparks Backlash After Man Asks Why Woman Drank 10 Shots: 'Men Shouldn't Be Trusted' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiktok-debate-cornell-7-allegations-investigation-reopened-1823054    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:22:08

  • Alexandra Cross' 'Goodbye to ChatGPT' Goes Viral, but Netizens See a Cry for Help: 'She's Telling Us How Isolated She Is' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/alexandra-cross-chatgpt-goodbye-tiktok-trend-1823042    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:22:35

  • "Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed" https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/30/canonical-begins-pushing-resolute-raccoon/5300225    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:24:44

  • Canonical peddling LLM slop again https://aimagazine.com/news/canonical-and-huaweis-ubuntu-kunpeng-collaboration    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:25:25

  • "If you went a decade back in time and asked someone in the Linux community what the best beginner distro was, there's a good chance they'd reply with Ubuntu. It's what I heard a lot about when I first dipped my toe into the world of FOSS operating systems, and for good reason." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-replaced-ubuntu-best-first-distro/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:26:09

  • "You've probably never heard of your next favorite Linux distro." https://www.zdnet.com/tech/why-i-love-niche-linux-distros/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:26:33

  • "Archinstall 4.5 has been released today as the latest stable version of the official installer for the Arch Linux distribution, with new features, improvements, and bug fixes." https://9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-5-arch-linux-installer-adds-aarch64-support-for-grub-and-limine    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:33:07

  • The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft https://www.techspot.com/news/114018-netherlands-building-own-linux-os-break-free-microsoft.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:33:24

  • No Time to Pwn: CVE-2026-72018 https://xbow.com/blog/no-time-to-pwn-cve-2026-72018    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:35:13

  • "If you miss the early days of Linux, when you were the one who decided what was installed on your OS, Fedora has a treat for you." https://www.zdnet.com/tech/fedora-everything-linux-hands-on/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:35:32

  • "Are you one of the lucky people who got the new Steam Frame? Having issues streaming with the wireless Dongle? Valve are doing something about it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/valve-made-a-steam-frame-dongle-troubleshooting-script-for-linux-gamers/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:35:58

  • "This release also brings some accessibility improvements and an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab." https://9to5linux.com/audacity-4-0-1-audio-editor-restores-keyboard-shortcuts-from-audacity-3    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:36:16

  • "This is the most I've ever seen in one go. Possibly as a result of more AI being used to track down issues. Like we've also seen for the Linux kernel which has caused Canonical to speed up Ubuntu kernel updates." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/nvidia-security-bulletin-for-sept-30-notes-many-gpu-issues/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:36:49

  • openSUSE Leap adds a new security layer: Immutable mode https://www.zdnet.com/tech/opensuse-leap-immutable-mode-security/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:37:20

  • "Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Chennai, Linux is a specialty-focused domestic formulations platform with a portfolio of over 125 brands spanning ~400 SKUs." https://www.bwdisrupt.com/article/linux-labs-secures-70-mn-strategic-investment-from-chryscapital-tata-capital-healthcare-fund-626246    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:38:37

  • Seems like a trademark issue here https://www.biospectrumindia.com/news/16/28577/linux-secures-70-m-strategic-investment-from-chrys-capital-and-tata-capital-healthcare-fund.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:39:13

  • Valve's Steam Frame dongle script says do not switch your Wi-Fi region to US https://mixed-news.com/en/valve-steam-frame-dongle-script-wifi-regulatory-domain-usb-tethering/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:39:55

  • 4 Linux terminal tricks that make boring jobs weirdly satisfying https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-terminal-tricks-that-make-boring-jobs-weirdly-satisfying/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:40:20

  • Hardware issue https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-spectre-v2-attack-variant-leaks-linux-root-password-hash-in-minutes/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:41:22

  • Stop treating your daily-driver Linux PC like a science experiment https://www.howtogeek.com/dont-treat-your-daily-driver-linux-pc-like-a-science-experiment/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:42:20

  • Valve confirms Nvidia's 580 driver branch breaks Steam Link VR on Linux https://mixed-news.com/en/valve-nvidia-580-driver-steam-link-vr-linux-vulkan-maintenance9/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:42:50

  • The Netherlands is building its own state Linux to ditch Windows https://korben.info/en/netherlands-builds-state-linux-to-ditch-windows.html    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:43:08

  • Intel Media Driver 26.3.5 adds Crescent Island video support https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-xe3p-based-crescent-island-gains-video-encode-and-decode-support-in-linux-media-driver    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:44:08

  • Onslaught of Linux kernel bugs forces cyber pros to rethink security boundaries https://cybernews.com/security/linux-kernel-bugs-erode-container-security-boundary/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:48:26

  • "So, I have this 13-year-old PC. It's not a powerhouse and can't do much for gaming, but it can still browse the web and get my work done just fine. So I don't really want to throw it away; it's still perfectly good as my day-to-day driver." https://www.xda-    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:49:11

  • "So, I have this 13-year-old PC. It's not a powerhouse and can't do much for gaming, but it can still browse the web and get my work done just fine. So I don't really want to throw it away; it's still perfectly good as my day-to-day driver." https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-abandoned-my-12-year-old-pc-so-i-revived-it-with-linux-mint/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:49:21

  • AMD iGPUs To Get Promising Performance Boost on Linux via PerfOpt Patch https://www.techpowerup.com/353266/amd-igpus-to-get-promising-performance-boost-on-linux-via-perfopt-patch    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:49:47

  • The Witcher 3 Remastered only just released, and Linux gamers already got it running "with no issues" https://www.xda-developers.com/the-witcher-3-remastered-was-just-released-and-linux-gamers-already-found-a-way-to-make-it-run-with-no-issues/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:50:16

  • No More Windows For The Dutch Government, Ze Kiezen Nu Linux https://hackaday.com/2026/09/29/no-more-windows-for-the-dutch-government-its-linux-all-the-way/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 20:51:10

  • This subreddit has become "IBM India application questions." https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1wsgnom/this_subreddit_has_become_ibm_india_application/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 21:23:54

  • IBM - most over worked and underpaid workers. https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1wrhp01/ibm_most_over_worked_and_underpaid_workers/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 21:24:43

  • Reform UK is Not a Political Party, It’s a Private Company That Takes Bribes From Overseas Masters https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/01/reform-uk-is-not-a-political-party-its-a-private-company-that-takes-bribes-from-overseas-masters/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 21:40:04

  • Reform UK is 'The Company', It Should be Shut Down for Acting as Proxy for Foreign Plutocrats and Convicted Felons Who Try to Shift Britain to the Right https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/01/reform-uk-is-the-company-it-should-be-shut-down-for-acting-as-proxy-for-foreign-plutocrats-and-convicted-felons-who-try-to-shift-britain-to-the-right/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 21:45:59

  • Taylor Swift’s Advantage and Mistake (Outsourcing Her Work) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/01/taylor-swifts-advantage-and-mistake-outsourcing-her-work/    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:02:18

  • "Today, October 1st, is the last day for: Red Hat; Nordcloud; IBM Research people who were jettisoned to Anderon; I am sure there is many more people and areas impacted today that I am missing from this list. Probably there is others also that we do not know yet. It is difficult to keep track of everybody who is being impacted." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3v672w2#replies    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:04:09

  • "To the asshole who runs gemini://fractumseraph.net/ You have made 3.7 MILLION requests to Kennedy. Please go fuck yourself, and/or your poorly coded crawler" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/Acidus/49259    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:15:58

  • "A cubelet is a shared deck for Magic where you can play any card facedown as a land." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/cubelet-95    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:16:53

  • "As I've mentioned in an earlier post, before personal computing became practical and affordable in the early 1980s, my technical hobby of choice was amateur radio." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/tape_recording    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:17:33

  • "And while he was able to identify the site belonging to the IP, there’s a piece of the puzzle missing: it’s not the capsule that crawls, it’s web crawlers using the open Gemini-to-Web proxy to find their way into the Geminispace." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-10-01-beware-of-open-web-proxies-and-fix-your-config.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:18:13

  • ROOPHLOCH 2026: @Griffith Park Observatory gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260930_rphlch_gpo    

posted Thursday, October 01, 2026 at 22:19:20
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