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microsoft may be dying but it is not dead yet https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Microsoft_is_Pushing_Up_Daisies_Amid_Mass_Layoffs_Secret_Ones.shtml so 'soon pushing up daisies' would be accurate not 'pushing up daisies' now/yet    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 05:44:56

  • "HN == broligarch propaganda, to put it mildly Hardboiled Anti-FOSS site - a few ad hominems against TR, as expected, but most comments are about IBM but dreadfully uninformed and naive; some BS about Freenode take over"    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:06:42

  • Stopped monitoring networks some 12-24 hours ago https://netsplit.de/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:07:51

  • Some Librea.chat faithfuls are sore over TR not following the herd (like GNU and FSF did) and instead asserting that freedom isn't the same as herd-following    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:09:06

  • Anon: A big drawback to printed books is that it's hard skim or search for key points once a few days have passed    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:09:47

  • Anon: rumors are that RH hosted mailing lists which now bounce those lists were important for many FOSS projects, once upon a time    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:11:59

  • ...that's another important reason for self-hosting, but then again recall what happened the OpenDocument Fellowship's domain and sites    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:13:23

  • The thing about self-hosting is, not all parties are equal. Setting up one's environment is one thing, keeping it running for decades takes focus, not jumping from one idea to the next every month or so (like so many devs do).    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:15:13

  • "There are 520 known IRC networks listed below..." https://netsplit.de/networks/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:15:41

  • "the endurance aspect is a _*whole*_ other can of worms than just getting it going, both are exceptionally high barriers still. It has been pointed out that e-mail has failed to evolve technically since the 1990s and the administrative changes around it have only centralized it more and more."    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:16:43

  • 15 days PIP and lay off https://www.teamblind.com/post/15-days-pip-and-lay-off-8-yrs-ai-data-tpmpmt-roles-cnbwrj2s    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:19:15

  • "McDonald's Caught Cheating Consumers for Profit as Rage Over Cost of Living Burns" https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-scandal-at-mcdonalds-shows-why    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:25:35

  • The General 🎥 gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-10-01_The_General.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:40:55

  • "Somehow, the calendar year is once again three-quarters complete! September has come to an end and with it so to has the eighth(!) instalment of ROOPHLOCH." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/roophloch-2026-round-up.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:41:35

  • Microsoft's EEE, to prevent people from running actual Linux: Microsoft, Positioning Windows as "the Best Place" to Run Linux Workloads, Launches WSL Containers gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202610/20261001-wsl.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:42:31

  • bubi: 06:44:32 up 1022 days, 21:56, 3 users, load average: 9.01, 7.84, 7.38    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:44:47

  • Univention Corporate Server 5.2-7 is out https://distrowatch.com/12960    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:48:35

  • warm bodies gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/warm_bodies    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:52:55

  • "The scales, from top-to-bottom, are a linear L scale, a CI scale, and a C and D scale. These are not all the scales I would like to have, for sure, but they are enough to do multiplication, division, log (base 10), and arbitrary exponents." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20261001-0.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:53:45

  • "A field report on Haiku OS Beta 6, the lean successor to BeOS for the local, single user desktop." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-09-30-haiku-no-cloud.en.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:54:19

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1756.jpg    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:56:54

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2113.jpg    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 06:56:59

  • No Badges, Thanks https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/no-badges-thanks/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 07:00:08

  • After 3 Years https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/after-3-years/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 07:16:47

  • The Sick Bird, Not Durian and Peanut https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/the-sick-bird-not-durian-and-peanut/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 07:29:17

  • Manchester City (Man City) Issues Ahead https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/manchester-city-man-city-issues-ahead/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 08:00:16

  • I Never Envy People Who Drive (or Who Still Have Cars) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/i-never-envy-people-who-drive-or-who-still-have-cars/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 08:23:17

  • Daniel Pocock is Crushing Reform UK Party Ltd https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/daniel-pocock-is-crushing-reform-uk-party-ltd/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 08:28:30

  • Shell Update https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/shell-update/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 08:59:43

  • Kader⁴² 2026.09.20 "https://distrowatch.com/kader42    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:32:35

  • Australian Government To Probe OpenAI Agent After It Breached Health Portal and Bypassed Security Blocks https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/openai-ai-agent-accessed-australian-health-portal-files-1821771    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:33:21

  • DOJ Cites “National Security” to Defend Cheeto Mussolini’s White House Ban on News Outlets https://truthout.org/articles/doj-cites-national-security-to-defend-trumps-white-house-ban-on-news-outlets/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:33:49

  • no guarantee of security https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/israel-may-soon-learn-occupation-and-devastation-are-no-guarantee-of-security-20260923-p60y7d.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:34:19

  • Lawyers: Alleged Islamic State security chief was not given a fair trial https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/20/lawyers-alleged-islamic-state-security-chief-given-fair-trial    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:35:09

  • Dancer2 2.2.1 released (security) https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2026/09/dancer2-221-released-security.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:35:51

  • I turned my gaming PC into a Proxmox server and found a whole new use for its power https://www.makeuseof.com/i-turned-gaming-pc-into-proxmox-server-found-whole-new-use-for-its-power/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:37:20

  • I stopped wasting a whole mini PC by moving its working n8n automations to a VM in one shot https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-wasting-a-whole-mini-pc-by-moving-to-a-vm-in-one-shot/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:38:02

  • US government argues that fair use applies to OpenAI’s training of LLMs in key copyright case http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2026/09/us-government-argues-that-fair-use.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:38:34

  • https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/victory-appeals-court-rejects-expansive-new-copyright-claim   

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:38:48

  • EFF = GAFAM https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/victory-appeals-court-rejects-expansive-new-copyright-claim    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:38:55

  • Microsoft Director Warned AI Training Could Be 'Largest Theft of Labor in Human History', Filing Says https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-openai-ai-training-creators-copyright-case-1821309    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:39:11

  • Techrights latest article on Red Hat accessed about 63k times so far - very unusual    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:41:15

  • Sheer irony of the hired guns of Garrett publishing "The end of misleading headlines" after they themselves defamed people they had sued, using BS headlines and lies. They also defame Garrett's spouse. https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_88_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_is_Defamin.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 10:44:28

  • "“The activity extended beyond searching for information,” Asymmetric said in a far more detailed Thursday post." ☛ https://therecord.media/openai-software-attempted-to-secretly-scrape-data-from-dozens-of-websites | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:48:21

  • "Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect. These are some of their objections: [...]" ☛ http://thecostofknowledge.com/ |    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:48:30

  • "Streaming services have long provided the most popular way to listen to music, but downloading things digitally has its perks. That’s why some people still prefer to buy their music instead of renting it." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/personaltech/how-to-listen-to-your-favorite-music-online-or-off-the-grid.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:48:57

  • "But then in 2020, they spent $200 million to make that fraud legal, so now they won't have to pay that again in the future!" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/its-not-illegal-if-you-buy-new-laws/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:49:21

  • "I’m one of the many experts who Waylon spoke to for his story." ☛ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-scandal-at-mcdonalds-shows-why | Source: Matt Stoller    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:49:31

  • "The rest of the interview portrayed a frustrated president cocooning himself in an alternate reality [sic] as the nation turns on him." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-explodes-reporter-time-interview-1235635165/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:50:13

  • "We must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately." ☛ https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-white-house-press-corps-needs | Source: Richard J Tofel    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:50:24

  • "student reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, and other issues that public institutions would rather not have their reputations connected to." ☛ https://www.404media.co/how-schools-and-universities-try-to-censor-student-journalists/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:50:40

  • "LLerandi told CPJ that the threats began in July when he was summoned to an interrogation by State Security agents in Marianao" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/10/cuban-journalist-forced-to-flee-island-to-brazil-following-threats-by-state-agents/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:51:06

  • "The forty-fourth annual Banned Books Week (BBW) takes place October 4 through 10 this year, but given the significant, sustained efforts to restrict what young people can read" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/make-america-read-again/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:51:37

  • "The Kremlin’s fondness for international assassinations of its critics and enemies has a long history" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/new-details-assassins-were-indicted | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:51:46

  • "Wasn't HN under Scam Altman for a while? Ycombinator (anti-democracy techbros) founded Redddddit and, thus, probably had something to do with the hollowing out of the (then) pro-FOSS Slashdot." https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/10/Y_Combinator_YC_Funds_Scams_Run_by_Scammers.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:52:39

  • Yep: "It occurs to me that Aaron and Altman represent two archetypes of what Silicon Valley might value. Sam Altman embodied the ideals of the founder." https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:53:13

  • "He so impressed Paul Graham that, even though Altman's company (Loopt) was a failure, Graham named him the the next President of YCombinator. Say what you will about the guy, but he has a remarkable flair for failing upward." https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:53:35

  • "Also, Substack is part of that crowd and a worse problem It is not a "Nazi bar", it is even worse than that, as per its owners" http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/12/Beehiiv_and_Substack_Are_Platform_Lock_in_Similar_to_Vendor_Loc.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:54:27

  • "Whoever wins AI wins" ☛ https://www.netmeister.org/blog/winning-ai.html | Source: Jan Schaumann    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:55:42

  • "I may not know what "winning AI" means, but I do know it is the wrong framing for a meaningful debate about how to handle the many risks inherent in the development of large-language models and other artificial intelligence: "Winning" implies a zero-sum game"    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:56:01

  • "Neither applies here, and the use of this phrase is a cheap rhetorical trick to avoid meaningful regulation, because of course "we" have to "win", and if you don't "win", then you necessarily "lose", and who wants to be a loser, huh? Why do you hate America?"    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:56:18

  • "For comparison to another absurd initial public offering, SpaceX said its A.I. business lost $6.3 billion in calendar 2025, and its capital expenditures in the segment totalled nearly $13 billion." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/anthropic-ipo/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:56:34

  • "And Anthropic says it is prepared to spend over half a trillion dollars? I cannot wait to see if it truly believes its total addressable market is, as reported by the Wall Street Journal last month, close to the entire U.S. economy."    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:56:55

  • "The financial structure of these data centres is scarcely believable. Meta is putting hundreds of billions of dollars behind this infrastructure, yet is keeping the expenses off its books to preserve its credit rating while also avoiding tax at the federal and state levels." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-data-centre-tax-break/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:57:13

  • "Micron says it’s signed SCAs that extend into 2031, as well as one-year extensions to 2031 for two agreements. Its customers obviously have confidence in their long-term demand for memory and storage." ☛ https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/10/01/memory-gold-rush-bonanza-makes-billions-for-micron/5300445 |    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:57:42

  • "Another set of thoughts about OpenAI’s recent announcements, which trigger all sorts of reactions in me." ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/09/30/maybe-openai-is-crossing-a.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:58:21

  • "It occurs to me that Aaron and Altman represent two archetypes of what Silicon Valley might value." ☛ https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder |    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:58:33

  • "Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 2.7.0." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/arti_2_7_0_released/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:58:46

  • "After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky is leaving the company." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/1003515/microsoft-ryan-roslansky-office-teams-linkedin-leaving | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:59:02

  • "Modern contraceptives are an important tool to strengthen women’s bodily autonomy while simultaneously helping lower fertility rates and slow population growth." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/reproductive-rights-an-unfinished-project-and-an-ecological-imperative/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:59:34

  • "An unusual study aims to estimate the pollution and health costs from a cluster of proposed data centers, instead of considering each one separately." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/climate/data-center-pollution-study-pennsylvania.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 11:59:54

  • "I think there is a confession in that expectation. If you regard a public office as an opportunity to reward your friends and punish the people you hate" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/inside-the-deranged-mind-of-the-right | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:05:08

  • "niche manufacturers control a substantial amount of American wealth" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/review-millionaires-wealth-distribution-pass-throughs | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:09:27

  • "This morning, I wrote that none of the terrible predictions I have watched come true required some exceptional intellect to make." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/lost-friendships-and-the-cost-of | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:09:51

  • "I talk with organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about what it means to defend an election under authoritarianism" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/activists-are-preparing-to-defend-elections-this-november/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:10:04

  • "The Billionaire Problem" ☛ https://phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-10-01/billionaires | Source: Phirephoenix    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:10:19

  • "Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to make them matter, we need a lot of small p politics." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/data-centers/#now-make-me-do-it | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:10:44

  • "There's a private information leak most days, usually by way of misconfigured services or nasty security bugs." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ai-agents-inadvertently-leak-13-000-internal-screenshots-from-organizations-list-of-companies-includes-fortune-500-and-a-frontier-ai-lab | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:11:29

  • "Most of the targets were not identified, but the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab named two journalists and two activists in Italy." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-secrets-of-the-us-spyware-king/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:11:50

  • "Marcin Wichary has posted today an article “The left hand should know what the right hand is doing” on his blog Unsung." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/the-left-hand-should-know-what-the-right-hand-is-doing/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:12:05

  • "Basically, your car’s manufacturer has you under constant surveillance, and they use that data against you." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/connected-cars-are-a-surveillance-platform.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:16:34

  • "That’s the core finding of a series of tests conducted by privacy researchers at Northeastern University in Boston, using Consumer Reports’ vehicles and Auto Test Center in Connecticut." ☛ https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/your-car-is-sharing-data-with-big-tech-companies-study-finds-a4474820962/ | Source: Consumer Reports    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:17:54

  • "The first large-scale measurement study of the connected-vehicle ecosystem." ☛ https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/ |    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:18:13

  • "A support ticket can contain a user’s name, a screenshot of an application, a configuration export, or notes from an incident." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/shadow-ai-puts-msp-client-data-boundaries-to-the-test/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:20:00

  • "ElevationLab has released an AirTag product I find appalling, and I strongly urge they immediately withdraw it from sale and recall all inventory." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/silencing-airtags-enables-stalkers-and-domestic-violence/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:20:31

  • "Big Tech’s goal is a kind of surveillance-driven centrally planned economy, where all businesses feed data into The Algorithm, which controls who sells what to who." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/how-the-california-legislature-is-saving-us-from-surveillance-dystopia/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:20:48

  • "Social media services and video-sharing platforms will be required to verify age when a new account is opened." ☛ https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/eu-kids-act-helping-children-navigate-safer-online-world-2026-09-17_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:20:59

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/south-africa-help-cyberattack-air-traffic-control | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:25:54

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/shinyhunters-suspect-arrested-now-investigated-alleged-murder-plots | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:26:11

  • "Had I not already pretty-much abandoned Reddit 9 years ago, when it was already succumbing to an increasing barrage of enshittification, then this would be the last straw for me, too." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/10/01/im-leaving-reddit-because-of-rss/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:27:58

  • "For my personal use, 1000 or even 500 RSS feed requests per day, over 50 maximum feeds, should suffice." ☛ https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/10/1.html | Source: Lap Cat Software    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:28:23

  • "The majority of my timeline is fun, but the outraged minority have ruined for me. To the point where I don't want to be there, and I'm much happier having not checked the timeline for the last month or so." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/i-dont-remember-the-last-time-i-checked-mastodon | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:28:35

  • "The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/24/thats-so-ai-what-gen-alphas-biggest-insult-tells-us | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:40:00

  • "The preponderance of Brown Brothers Media’s traffic seemed to come from Google." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-halts-publishing | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:40:12

  • "A team of Australian machine learning researchers has found yet another way to work around chatbot guard rails. They tell the chatbot to act drunk: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/30/new-ai-jailbreak-get-your-chatbot-drunk/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:40:57

  • "Anthropic’s money situation is as bad as we thought. Actual revenue in 2025 was $4.6 billion." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/01/anthropic-ipo-filing-the-disaster-in-numbers/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:41:11

  • "AGI" ☛ https://comicss.art/comics/260/ | Source: ComiCSS    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:41:21

  • "Bryan recently wrote the revolt of the reader, which accurately describes the feelings I experience when reading generated content." ☛ https://jnsgr.uk/2026/10/write-it-yourself/ | Source: Jon Seager    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:41:38

  • "Let me just take a nice long sip of this beverage and then open up my web-hosting bill for last month..." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/today-in-the-scraperpocalypse-3/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:41:50

  • "Sorry, Mr. Shevlin, but if you can’t understand the difference between talking about a fictional entity in the context of that fiction versus talking about an actual thing in the real world" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/optimus-prime-is-a-made-up-thing-for-children | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:42:04

  • "I think many people are pro-LLM-torture because they think expressing any reservations concedes that LLMs are conscious, or worthy of moral consideration." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/do-not-build-the-llm-torture-factory/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:42:18

  • "Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/whatever-ai-safety-looks-like-its-not-this/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:42:38

  • "Dan opened with a deceptively simple question: why do we need explanations in the first place?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/not-all-explanations-are-equal-social-explainable-ai-and-critical-computational-literacy/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:42:50

  • "I'm hearing a lot from friends and collegues who've recently upgraded to Apple's latest iPhone 18 Pro that they are experiencing random Bluetooth disconnects, especially with Apple's own Apple Watch." ☛ https://davidroessli.com/logs/iphone-18-pro-bluetooth-is-unstable/ | Source: David Roessli    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:43:11

  • "Well, that is not exactly true, either. I compared the update policy document against Best Buy’s Chromebook results as a kind of quick benchmark." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-chromeos-graveyard/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:43:22

  • "All of that said, my Thinkpad & Linux experiment is still on! My plan from the start was to have the Thinkpad as a plaything and to stick to my Macs when I just need to get stuff done." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/re-comfortable-in-linux/ | Source: Sal    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:43:36

  • "He built a house where hard things couldn’t be said to him." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/10/01/somewhere-in-kentucky/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:45:37

  • "The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/measles-is-forcing-hospitals-to-adapt-to-a-new-normal/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:45:47

  • "The American Library Association (ALA) and American Association of School Librarians (AASL) today announced their endorsement of the bicameral" ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2026/09/ala-aasl-endorse-bicameral-quality-educator-partnership-act | Source: American Library Association    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:46:41

  • "Trust is the confidence that you can rely on someone in a particular situation when the stakes are high" ☛ https://michaelheap.com/what-is-trust/ | Source: Michael Heap    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:47:00

  • "I would like to see Britain be the first, leading nation, completely free of commercial social-media. Putting digital communications back into individual hands, where responsibility lies, we can begin long, slow road back to political and civic life. We can begin the rehabilitation of reality." https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:47:53

  • "Already AI proofs run to hundreds of pages — 166 in the case of Navier-Stokes (pdf); there is no reason why they won’t reach thousands of pages one day." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/30/in-the-wake-of-the-latest-unprecedented-ai-proofs-what-now-for-mathematics-and-mathematicians/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:48:25

  • "Before the advent of AI, there was an easily discernible, practical limit to the rate at which independent submissions could be produced" ☛ https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/ |    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 12:48:36

  • "One of the big ones is that this blog is officially 10 years old! This post is the 1285th post I've written on here, and I still love this part of myself." ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/10/01/10-years/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:10:29

  • "In this post, we’ll look at serving these two files from Django, with tests." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/10/02/django-app-links/ | Source: Adam Johnson    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:11:13

  • "Every clever line you write is a loan against the future." ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/most-code-should-be-boring/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:16:18

  • "Public information should not require an account with a private company to access it. Government websites should be the primary source." ☛ https://michaelreflects.com/blog/public-information-should-be-public/ | Source: Michael Mitchell    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:16:53

  • "We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the third alpha version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This release has an official version number of 2.97.0." ☛ https://discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidgin-3-0-alpha-3-2-97-0-has-been-released/436 | Source: Instant Messaging Freedom    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:22:27

  • "Software Heritage has been building a universal archive of source code since Inria launched the project in 2016." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/01/software-heritage-identifiers.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:22:39

  • "The pitch: writing improves the quality and depth of thought, and a Zettelkasten is an environment for thinking through writing, not merely a place to store notes." ☛ https://christiantietze.de/posts/2026/09/watch-zettelkasten-for-regular-emacs-hackers/ | Source: Christian Tietze    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:23:01

  • "Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of September 30, 2026): [...]" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-september-gnu-spotlight | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:23:12

  • "These are maintenance releases that fix bugs and include a few improvements. The most important ones are: [...]" ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/2026/10/01/powerdns-recursor-5.3.11-and-5.4.7-released | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:23:38

  • "Option -S takes a value, a positive number. It’s the size of the decompression buffer. By default, its value is 0." ☛ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2026/09/30/update-search-for-compression-py-version-0-0-8/ | Source: Didier Stevens    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:23:49

  • "In another hint that a new OpenBSD release is close, the OpenBGPD project has announced a new release of its software, version 9.3: [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261001164002 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:24:05

  • hearsayBoy talking about Jake Appelbaum and Ted T. today is a distraction from what his own spouse says about him    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 13:28:17

  • "Only a few weeks ago I was singing the praises of vertical tabs and specifically threw praise at Firefox's implementation" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/10/01/firefox-157-vertical-tabs/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:10:22

  • "Moreover, Tor Browser Alphas are now based on Firefox's betas." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a13/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:10:38

  • "The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:10:49

  • "Learning some useful techniques about selecting rows for locking in PostgreSQL." ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/10/02/dev-notes-select-locks-in.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:11:34

  • "When legacy directives block crawlers from fetching JavaScript and CSS, search engines may not be able to render the page as users see it, which can affect visibility in search results." ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/wordpress-robots-txt/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:11:57

  • "This blog has moved from WordPress.com to self-hosting. If you were following it via WordPress, you should use an RSS reader pointed at nolanlawson.com/feed instead" ☛ https://nolanlawson.com/2026/09/30/goodbye-wordpress/ | Source: Nolan Lawson    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:12:05

  • "This website is it is now using Hugo 0.163.3, it was using 0.151 before." ☛ https://techtea.io/articles/2026/sep-review/ | Source: TechTea    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:15:09

  • "I realized this year that even when I give the same talk multiple times, it never stays the same. Every audience, time slot, and format forces me to rethink the material." ☛ https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68113/conferences | Source: Alvaro Montoro    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:16:30

  • "I am back from EuroBSDCon and finished going through my inbox... It is time to write a blog post and share my experience!" ☛ https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2026_in_brussels_belgium | Source: NetBSD    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:17:04

  • "It’s still possible, though, to suppress most advertising, even in 2026." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/adblock.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:19:31

  • Hearsayboy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cuckold    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:27:37

  • A concept which disappeared from society 3 or 4 generations ago: https://yle.fi/a/74-20249460 Recent generations now (mostly) choose to genuflect towards Redmond    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:27:59

  • "Underneath the 3D-printed shell in that iconic shape, this is an Arduino UNO Rev3-controlled rover robot." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/01/this-mouse-droid-knows-how-to-party/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:30:00

  • "The tester is powered by an overclocked Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and it can test RAM at full speed, quickly telling you if your RAM is good." ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-pico-2-checks-retro-ram-chips-in-classic-computers/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:30:12

  • "With this vacuum cleaner model, you’ll be taking off the friction-fit tube a lot to clean up areas like the couch. That kills the plastic." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/10/01/makita-dcl-180/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:30:22

  • "ESP-Vim is, as its name suggests, Vim, for some of the ESP32 series of microcontrollers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/the-whole-computer-is-vim/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:30:37

  • "Recently, the ESPARGOS team has made an exciting discovery." ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/various-projects-independently-find-hidden-sdr-capabilities-in-esp32-microcontrollers/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:30:48

  • "FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/archiving-the-worlds-oldest-webcam-feed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:31:03

  • "FogCam is the oldest webcam feed that’s still up and running." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/archiving-the-worlds-oldest-webcam-feed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:31:13

  • "The coreboot project is pleased to announce the release of coreboot 26.09." ☛ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2026/10/01/announcing-the-coreboot-26-09-release/ | Source: Coreboot (Official)    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:31:49

  • "Utkarsh Gupta has announced a beta snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10, which carries the code name "Stonking Stingray"." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12968 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:32:18

  • "I’m running the XFCE flavor of Linux Mint 22.3. I could run the Cinnamon version fine, but XFCE is lighter and noticeably snappier on aging hardware." ☛ https://tylersticka.com/journal/repurposing-a-15-year-old-macbook-air/ | Source: Tyler Sticka    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:32:28

  • "the project's Debian-based Linux distribution featuring an immutable base" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12967 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:32:56

  • "Thes means that those running the latest-and-greatest [via a sufficiently new snapshot or built from source] no longer need to use "-D snap" with pkg_add(1)" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261001091454 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:33:27

  • "Sometimes the advice for cubelets is to stick to three or four archetypes but here’s a template for a full ten-archetype cubelet." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/cubelet-95 | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:33:47

  • "After previously exploring the impact of vapor pressure on the drying of desiccant and more" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/01/vacuum-drying-and-making-stuff-hot-in-a-vacuum/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:34:24

  • "APFS volumes can be protected by encryption in several different ways, which can lead to confusion." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/09/30/how-does-apfs-handle-encryption-keys/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:50:13

  • "So I’m dusting off Developing Perspective." ☛ https://david-smith.org/blog/2026/10/01/re-developing-perspective/ | Source: David Smith    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:53:17

  • "A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/show434/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:53:32

  • BSD Now 683: GeFS (GeFUS) ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/683 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:53:41

  • Hearing Held Regarding Winding Up Petition or Insolvency of Reform UK Party Limited https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/hearing-held-regarding-winding-up-petition-or-insolcvency-of-reform-uk-party-limited/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 14:59:48

  • Techrights is in the court papers    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:00:06

  • Hersayboy comment: "Ted "All rape victims are liars" Ts'o might be a candidate for Drew Devaults weird guy list. Didn't he also contribute to bullying the former Rust in Linux lead?" Hahaha, so pointing out MICROSOFT STAFF inside LINUX KERNEL spreading RUST is "BULLYING"? Incredible!    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:03:33

  • He also pointed out exFAT in Linux is bad because of software patents. Was he "BULLYING" by pointing this out? Linux is doomed if it permits the Puppy Breaker et al have a say/voice.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:04:29

  • Did Theo de Raadt "bully" the new poster in the mailing lists whose sole purpose and aim was to shoehorn RUST into OpenBSD? No.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:05:15

  • Anon: Rust == ad hominem + politics [and] systemd == ad hominem + argumentum ad novitatem. Rust has no special technical merits and certainly nothing which would let it compete with C. However, it is a big dose of politics hiding behind a technical veneer.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:08:05

  • Putting it into the kernel serves no one except those working circumvent or outright eliminate the senior developers there. http://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/going-rusty-faster/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:08:57

  • Slop junks the linux kernel even faster, trashing it by replacing human-audited pieces with slop at a very rapid rate    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:09:48

  • "and /or working to sneak in unreviewed / unacceptable code [...] in addition to other problems slop brings extreme bloat"    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:10:39

  • "Chatkontrolle-Verhandlungen: EU-Staaten und Parlament weiter uneins - netzpolitik.org" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2026/chatkontrolle-verhandlungen-eu-staaten-und-parlament-weiter-uneins/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:10:53

  • "The E.U. Abdicated its Moral Responsibility by Failing to Oppose War on Iran - DAWN" https://dawnmena.org/the-e-u-abdicated-its-moral-responsibility-by-failing-to-oppose-war-on-iran/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:11:06

  • "Cornell Had 1,200+ Sexual Violence Reports From 2018 to 2024, Only 7 Cases Ended in Expulsion or Dismissal | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cornell-sexual-misconduct-reports-seven-expulsions-1823220    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:11:19

  • "Inside Microsoft’s big Copilot rethink | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003365/microsoft-copilot-os-for-work-notepad https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:11:38

  • "A Globalist Comeback? - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-globalist-comeback    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:11:49

  • rust + 'claude' = trash sold as sugar https://isene.org/2026/10/TryFe2O3.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:12:08

  • better link: F-35 SUSTAINMENT: Actions Needed to Ensure Updated Strategy Improves Persistent Readiness Challenges https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108113.pdf    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:13:06

  • summary: Only 1 in 4 F-35s is fully mission capable, GAO finds https://www.militarytimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/06/12/only-1-in-4-f-35s-is-fully-mission-capable-gao-finds/ It's an old problem https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-105995    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:13:52

  • It now seems abundantly clear what triggered the defamatory attack on two Linux developers. It was this article: https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Brigading_Against_Women_Part_XIII_The_Offer_We_Didn_t_Ask_For_a.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:17:48

  • Animal Hospital https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/animal-hospital/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:25:53

  • Linux 5.4%, 9% if one does not count mobile https://analytics.usa.gov/ Firefox 1.2%    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 15:29:32

  • Announcing the coreboot 26.09 release ☞ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2026/10/01/announcing-the-coreboot-26-09-release/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:31:23

  • This mouse droid knows how to party ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/01/this-mouse-droid-knows-how-to-party/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:32:16

  • Many people remember this but before MS Lunduke was pandering for 4chan (fanning flames of racism) he was selling himself like "let's have a talk" for $100 like some "hotchick" from OnlyFans    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:33:54

  • FSF Blogs: September GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring seventeen new GNU releases: Coreutils, SCM, and more! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-september-gnu-spotlight    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:34:17

  • Thunderbird Blog: Thunderbird for iOS: A First Look at the Native iPhone Email App in Development ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-app-in-development/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:35:06

  • EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium: travel notes after the conference ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2026_in_brussels_belgium    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:36:42

  • HearsayBoy still schtum about wanting to stab colleagues https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=schtum    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:37:37

  • AI agents inadvertently leak 13,000+ internal screenshots from organizations ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ai-agents-inadvertently-leak-13-000-internal-screenshots-from-organizations-list-of-companies-includes-fortune-500-and-a-frontier-ai-lab    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:41:06

  • The word "inadvertently" is misplaced. Bots (so-called 'AGENTS') have no logic.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:41:54

  • Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/connected-cars-are-a-surveillance-platform.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:42:00

  • When Data Centers Cluster Together, How Dirty Are They? One County Wants Answers. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/climate/data-center-pollution-study-pennsylvania.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:44:13

  • UNICEF says one in five Lebanese children going hungry amid conflict ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/unicef-says-1-in-5-lebanese-children-going-hungry-amid-conflict/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:46:20

  • Twenty-five years after 9/11, researchers are still discovering health effects among first responders ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/10/twenty-five-years-after-9-11-researchers-are-still-discovering-health-effects-among-first-responders/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:46:29

  • FOSS Weekly #26.40: NixOS is European Choice, Firefox Nova and Features, Free Terminal Course, Homelab Improvements and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-40/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:47:45

  • Turkey bans online censorship monitor’s X account ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-bans-online-censorship-monitors-x-account-323997    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:48:05

  • bianet editor, other journalists targeted in new social control media censorship wave ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/bianet-editor-other-journalists-targeted-in-new-social-media-censorship-wave-324005    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:48:19

  • PS3 emulator devs warn of fake Blu-ray drives on Newegg and AliExpress ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/ps3-emulator-devs-warn-of-fake-blu-ray-drives-on-newegg-and-aliexpress-beware-of-fake-blu-ray-drives-devs-warn-retrogamers-scammers-use-spoofed-firmware-to-disguise-older-mechanisms-in-high-end-shells    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:49:30

  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.99.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/01/Rust-1.99.0/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:50:21

  • Qt contributes to the slop plagiarism problem https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-21-Beta    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:50:51

  • 131: Lucas is Incompetent or Evil ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24997    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:51:27

  • Avaota F2 – Allwinner V861 RISC-V SBC targets Hey Hi (AI) cameras with PTZ and audio support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/02/avaota-f2-allwinner-v861-risc-v-sbc-targets-ai-cameras-with-ptz-and-audio-support/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:51:58

  • Interview with Liam Quin ☞ https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/10/01/liam-quin-interview-lgm2017/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:52:36

  • I Don’t Remember the Last Time I Checked Mastodon ☞ https://kevquirk.com/i-dont-remember-the-last-time-i-checked-mastodon    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:52:45

  • This Month in KDE Linux: September 2026 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/01/this-month-in-kde-linux-september-2026/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:53:22

  • Ryoku – Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution with custom Wayland desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ryoku-arch-based-linux-distribution-custom-wayland-desktop/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:53:54

  • Sparky news 2026/09 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2026-09/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:54:50

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098067/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:55:03

  • "September delivered a stacked month of snapshots across the desktop, developer tooling, and security surface." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/10/01/tw-monthly-update-september/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:56:26

  • "In July 2026, the second High School Internship Program kicked off in Boston and Raleigh." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/inside-look-red-hats-high-school-internship-program | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:57:29

  • "In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/android-belongs-in-your-ci-cd-pipeline | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:58:34

  • Mozilla promotes slop plagiarism that, instead of giving originals exposure builds a derivative ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/prompt-tuning-firefox-shake-to-summarize-recipes/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 16:59:53

  • How to remove Hey Hi (AI) from your life ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-turn-off-ai-aY7hh1g54QGj    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:01:13

  • "Makerfabs has added a 7.5-inch model to its MaTouch E Ink family, pairing an 800 × 480 four-color electrophoretic display with an ESP32-S3 controller, four-microphone array, six-axis IMU, microSD storage and optional camera." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-s3-e-ink-board-with-800x480-display-mic-array-and-imu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:01:38

  • "Shenzhen Graperain Technology has featured an Allwinner A733 development platform with a gold-finger system-on-module and carrier board." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/a733-development-board-with-lpddr5-pcie-storage-and-risc-v-coprocessor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:01:46

  • Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-autumn-sale-2026-is-live-now-with-lots-of-discounts/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-autumn-sale-2026-is-live-now-with-lots-of-discounts/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:03:05

  • Here's the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for September 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heres-the-top-50-most-played-games-on-steam-deck-for-september-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heres-the-top-50-most-played-games-on-steam-deck-for-september-2026/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:03:10

  • Part 40 regarding EPO is coming today. Techrights can complement later in the month with other "battle stories" from insiders.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:12:39

  • "That alone is annoying, but the bigger problem shows up when you try to run the upgrade again" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/apt-dnf-fix-crashed-upgrade-lock-errors/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:35:17

  • There is a saying like, those who are loud or those who shout over the other are clearly losing and are trying to knock over the Chess pieces (compensating for prior bad moves)    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:36:34

  • Two Decades of Techrights https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/two-decades-of-techrights/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 17:49:38

  • How Did Christa Pike Survive Two Lethal Injections of Pentobarbital? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/science/pike-execution-pentobarbital.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:28:53

  • Shark! Busan’s latest viral sensation raises a climate question ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/sharks-busans-latest-viral-sensation-raises-a-climate-question    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:29:42

  • South Koreans’ distrust of North Korea reaches record high: Survey ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreans-distrust-of-north-korea-reaches-record-high-survey    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:29:55

  • South Korea’s centenarian population grows over 30% in 4 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-centenarian-population-grows-over-30-in-4-years    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:30:16

  • Nepal floods: One of 55 missing Malaysians confirmed alive, reunited with family ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/nepal-floods-one-of-55-missing-malaysians-confirmed-alive-reunited-with-family    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:31:01

  • Myanmar ships with returnees from Malaysia enter home waters, state media says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanmar-ships-with-returnees-from-malaysia-enter-home-waters-state-media-says    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:31:36

  • Men are strong. We know that. https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/02/taiwan-gender-row-boxer-lin-yu-ting-wins-asian-games-gold/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:32:19

  • First new F-16V fighter jets to arrive in Taiwan to bolster defences against China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/first-new-f-16v-fighter-jets-to-arrive-in-taiwan-to-bolster-defences-against-china    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:32:53

  • Kyrgyz Activist Gets 2 Years For Criticizing Growing Chinese Presence ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyz-activist-jailed-china-criticism/33868520.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:33:08

  • How I Fixed the Biggest Annoyance of My Homelab ☞ https://itsfoss.com/homelab-internal-domain-setup/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:34:43

  • F-Droid's New App Shows it Isn't Going Anywhere ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/f-droid-revamp/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:35:35

  • YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/yt-dlp-ifpi-piracy-watchlist/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:35:47

  • Local newspaper where Harold Evans began closes after 171 years in print ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/local-newspaper-where-harold-evans-began-closes-after-171-years-in-print/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:36:14

  • What I’ve learned: Dropping out of school at 17 was turning point for Irish News editor ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/what-ive-learned-dropping-out-of-school-at-17-was-turning-point-for-irish-news-editor/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:36:27

  • Eating Alone Can Literally Change How Your Body Metabolizes Glucose ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/science-says-who-you-eat-dinner-with-matters-as-much-as-whats-on-your-plate    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:45:02

  • One of The World's Most Used Drugs May Lower Dementia Risk – But There's a Catch ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-of-the-worlds-most-used-drugs-may-lower-dementia-risk-but-theres-a-catch    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:45:21

  • Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nine-patients-received-a-personalized-kidney-cancer-vaccine-none-had-a-recurrence    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:45:47

  • Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-quantum-entangled-a-levitating-speck-of-glass-with-light-at-room-temperature    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:46:07

  • Revolutionary Feathered Dinosaur Discovery in China Suggests Flight Evolved Multiple Times ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of-exquisite-feathered-dinosaur-in-china-could-rewrite-the-evolution-of-flight    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:46:29

  • Physicists Find a Superconductor That 'Breaks' The Symmetry of Time – A First For Its Kind ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-find-a-superconductor-that-breaks-the-symmetry-of-time-a-first-for-its-kind    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:46:44

  • Sony released the first CD audio player on this day in 1982 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/sony-released-the-first-cd-audio-player-on-this-day-in-1982-player-cost-usd3-700-when-adjusted-for-inflation-but-it-would-be-another-decade-before-the-cd-rom-driven-multimedia-pc-era-began    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:47:17

  • France’s purchasing power crisis: Navigating the pinch ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/economy/20261001-france-s-purchasing-power-crisis-navigating-the-pinch    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:47:39

  • A Hidden Compound in 'Healthy' Plant-Based Foods May Be Fueling Gut Inflammation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-compound-in-healthy-plant-based-foods-may-be-fueling-gut-inflammation    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:48:18

  • Rust 1.99.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098068/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:48:39

  • Qt Creator 21 Beta released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-21-beta-released    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:49:25

  • Implementing Tracepoints in Qt Applications using Qt Creator 21 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/implementing-tracepoints-in-qt-applications-using-qt-creator-21    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:49:34

  • Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/10/why-internet-infrastructure-decisions-rarely-stay-localized/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:50:08

  • AI could worsen radicalisation of young Australians. Help parliament understand ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ai-could-worsen-radicalisation-of-young-australians-help-parliament-understand/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:51:28

  • Israeli Politicians Trade Barbs Over FlyDubai Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/world/middleeast/israel-flydubai-netanyahu-elections.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:52:19

  • "One of the few uses for LLMs is high speed generation of propaganda and disinformation in massive campaigns"    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:52:55

  • These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/old-tweets-appear-anthropic-employee-quit    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:54:44

  • OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/01/openai-dismisses-three-safety-researchers-accused-of-sharing-confidential-material/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:55:04

  • Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing Hey Hi (AI) Slop That Leads to Mass Panic ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/singapore-man-ai-slop-misinformation-three-years-prison-panic    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:55:28

  • The Hey Hi (AI) Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an Hey Hi (AI) Agent Running Their Whole Life ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-problem-agent-running-life    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:55:52

  • Cornell 7 Defendant Gillio Lopes Confronted Over Jane Doe Case as He Says 'There's a Reason for That' and Refuses to Explain ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cornell-student-confronts-chi-phi-member-sexual-assault-case-1823265    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:56:45

  • Chi Phi Members Accused in Cornell Sex Assault Lawsuit Give Varying Accounts of Night ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/nyregion/cornell-rape-fraternity-chi-phi-men.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:56:59

  • Did Olivia Dean Plagiarize Bill Withers’ Classic ‘Just the Two of Us’? Welcome to the Latest Industry Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/01/olivia-dean-bill-withers-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:58:13

  • Attorney Tony Buzbee to Face $25 Million Defamation Suit Stemming from Ugly Court Battle with Jay-Z ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/01/tony-buzzbee-defamation-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:58:44

  • Hong Kong Journalist Arrested After Covering Gathering Linked to 2019 Protests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/world/asia/hong-kong-arrest-journalist-activist.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 18:59:48

  • Kasparov says US, Lithuanian intelligence warned life ‘in danger’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3069244/kasparov-says-us-lithuanian-intelligence-warned-life-in-danger    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:00:43

  • UK police arrest dual UK-Iranian national over Fairford air base incident ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261001-uk-police-arrest-dual-uk-iranian-national-over-fairford-air-base-incident    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:01:03

  • Slop policy circles targeted in China-linked phishing operation ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/china-cyber-espionage-ta419-phishing-us-ai-policy-experts/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:01:50

  • Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/zammad-zero-days-exploited-in-ai-powered-divd-hack/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:05:01

  • Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/zimbra-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild-prior-to-public-disclosure/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:05:28

  • Police Shut Down KillSec Ransomware, Identify Alleged Teen Leader ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/police-shut-down-killsec-ransomware-identify-alleged-teen-leader/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:05:44

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastAD 0.0.6 on CRAN: Agentic Fix ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/10/01#rcppfastad_0.0.6    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:06:31

  • Tomeu Vizoso: Ethos-U NPU update 2: Executorch support ☞ https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2026/10/ethos-u-npu-update-2-executorch-support.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:07:18

  • Latvian central bank issues more crypto licences ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/01.10.2026-latvian-central-bank-issues-more-crypto-licences.a665612/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:07:35

  • Lade aged 41 changes jobs, this is considered newsworthy? ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ao-shearman-poaches-dla-partner/ Seems more like UPC propaganda from the usual culprit.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:08:38

  • AI's chipmaking frontier may face patent monopoly infringement hurdles as autonomous tools take over ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ais-chipmaking-frontier-may-face-patent-infringement-hurdles-as-autonomous-tools-take-over-ai-can-spread-a-copied-design-or-infringed-patent-across-thousands-of-chips-before-anyone-notices-says-expert    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:08:54

  • Micron lawsuit claims Chinese memory maker YMTC poached its engineers, then sued it using its own stolen tech ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/micron-lawsuit-claims-chinese-memory-maker-ymtc-poached-its-engineers-then-sued-it-using-its-own-stolen-tech-ex-employees-hid-roles-on-linkedin-patented-micron-tech-and-won-a-german-injunction    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:09:04

  • Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge granted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/1/another-wilus-wi-fi-patent-challenge-granted    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:09:26

  • Ease Is Not Necessity: Third Circuit Affirms No Fair Use in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/ease-is-not-necessity-third-circuit-affirms-no-fair-use-in-thomson-reuters-v-ross.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:09:40

  • Clear but Impossible: Satius v. Samsung Moves Inoperable Claims from Indefiniteness to Enablement ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/clear-but-impossible-satius-v-samsung-moves-inoperable-claims-from-indefiniteness-to-enablement.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:09:54

  • Social Control Media: Tbilisi Rebukes Iranian Envoy Over Social Media Post On Canonized Georgian Queen ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-georgian-moujani-queen-ketevan-summon/33867839.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:10:37

  • Is RPKI becoming harmful to BGP stability? ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/02/is-rpki-becoming-harmful-to-bgp-stability/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:10:50

  • Ubisoft shuffle people around bringing The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell together | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ubisoft-shuffle-people-around-bringing-the-division-ghost-recon-splinter-cell-together/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:11:11

  • The excellent helicopter shooter Cleared Hot - Chapter 2 arrives October 15 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-excellent-helicopter-shooter-cleared-hot-chapter-2-arrives-october-15/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:11:25

  • A Game About Digging A Hole Together announced | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-game-about-digging-a-hole-together-announced/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-game-about-digging-a-hole-together-announced/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:11:40

  • New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Stick it to the Stickman and Dicevaders - 2026-09-30 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-09-30-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:11:47

  • Get the Freedom Planet and River City Girls series plus more in the 2D Rewind Collection Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/get-the-freedom-planet-and-river-city-girls-series-plus-more-in-the-2d-rewind-collection-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:12:13

  • Petal Crash 2 brings more retro-styled tile-matching excellence in Early Access | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/petal-crash-2-brings-more-retro-styled-tile-matching-excellence-in-early-access/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:13:40

  • SUPERHOT VR expands Steam Frame support with eye-tracked foveated rendering | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/superhot-vr-expands-steam-frame-support-with-eye-tracked-foveated-rendering/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:13:57

  • ALLFATHER is an upcoming brutal, first-person roguelike with precise, stamina-driven combat | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/allfather-is-an-upcoming-brutal-first-person-roguelike-with-precise-stamina-driven-combat/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:14:22

  • Valve's Deadlock gets a massive update - still a while away from a public release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valves-deadlock-gets-a-massive-update-still-a-while-away-from-a-public-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:14:46

  • GPU virtualization at scale: AMD MI300X SR-IOV on Red Bait OpenStack Services on OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/01/gpu-virtualization-amd-mi300x-sr-iov-red-hat-openstack-services-on-openshift    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:25:46

  • Master your skills: Building skills you can trust ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/01/master-your-skills-building-skills-you-can-trust https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/02/Red_Hat_Stop_Saying_Master_It_s_Racist_Today_s_Red_Hat_Master_Y.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:34:35

  • Plagiarism is Ok if you call it "training" ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/penske-ai-overviews-lawsuit-dismissed-because-no-formal-bargain-struck-with-google/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:35:39

  • Sheer devastation: '80 percent of Gazan infrastructure has been destroyed' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/sheer-devastation-80-percent-of-gazan-infrastructure-has-been-destroyed    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:35:53

  • Migration deal: 'Really a scheme around political diplomacy between UK & France in post-Brexit era' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261001-migration-deal-really-a-scheme-around-political-diplomacy-between-uk-france-in-post-brexit-era-1    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:36:08

  • A Vast Hole Almost The Size of Portugal Opened Up in Antarctica's Winter Sea Ice. Now We Know Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-hole-almost-the-size-of-portugal-opened-up-in-antarcticas-winter-sea-ice-now-we-know-why    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:36:47

  • High Blood Pressure May Be Quietly Destroying Your Cartilage, Scientists Find ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/high-blood-pressure-may-directly-accelerate-osteoarthritis    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:36:59

  • UGS introduces motion to protect student identities amid Hey Hi (AI) controversy ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/01/ugs-student-privacy-ai-controversy/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:37:25

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

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:37:59

  • Pakistan Targets Afghan Border Regions With Another Round Of Air Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-afghanistan-air-strikes-taliban/33867970.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:38:09

  • Cameroon govt announces payments as teachers strike continues ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261001-cameroon-govt-announces-payments-as-teachers-strike-continues    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:38:40

  • LibreOffice project and community recap: September 2026 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/01/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-september-2026/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:39:34

  • The Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke Slop Problem ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/30/The_Microsoft_Lunduke_Slop_Problem.shtml https://lunduke.substack.com/p/openbsd-says-no-to-rust-clones    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:40:09

  • A Front Line at the Border: How Russia Uses Migrants as Weapons Against Europe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/world/europe/latvia-immigration-russia.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:40:33

  • Latvian Defense Minister Says Russia's Hybrid Attacks, Not Nuclear Rhetoric, Are The Main Concern ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/latvia-russia-nuclear-warning-kaliningrad/33867766.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:40:43

  • Couple in Latvia suspected of spying for Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/01.10.2026-couple-in-latvia-suspected-of-spying-for-russia.a665602/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:41:20

  • Latvian parliament broadens Russian food ban ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/food-drink/01.10.2026-latvian-parliament-broadens-russian-food-ban.a665606/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:41:31

  • Saeima rules that LSM can write in Russian only on specific occasions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/media/01.10.2026-saeima-rules-that-lsm-can-write-in-russian-only-on-specific-occasions.a665628/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:41:42

  • South Korea's Lee threatens action against Ukraine over transfer of North Koreans ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-lee-threatens-action-against-ukraine-over-transfer-of-north-korean-soldiers    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:42:02

  • Live: Russia hits Kyiv’s Southern Bridge as Moscow continues to pound capital ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261002-live-russia-hits-kyiv-s-southern-bridge-as-moscow-continues-to-pound-capital    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:42:11

  • Russia to Sharply Increase War Spending and Cut Social Programs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/world/europe/russia-war-budget.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:42:23

  • My Friend Is a Draft Dodger in Ukraine. He’s Not a Coward. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-draft.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:42:34

  • Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/world/europe/russia-ukraine-winter.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:43:19

  • South Korea warns ‘further measures’ if Ukraine refuses public apology ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-warns-further-measures-if-ukraine-refuses-public-apology    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:43:36

  • South Korea's Lee threatens action against Ukraine over transfer of North Korean soldiers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-lee-threatens-action-against-ukraine-over-transfer-of-north-korean-soldiers    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:43:55

  • Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/web-hosting/kyiv-missile-strikes-take-out-popular-torrent-trackers-russo-ukrainian-war-temporarily-achieves-what-lawmakers-cant    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:44:09

  • Joint statement by the European Commission and Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_2045    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:44:28

  • Putin envoy praises Lithuanian PM for toning down ‘Russian attack’ warnings ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3069162/putin-envoy-praises-lithuanian-pm-for-toning-down-russian-attack-warnings    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:45:03

  • Search for fuzzy translations ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202610/search-for-fuzzy-translations.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:45:52

  • Qualcomm Unveils GNU/Linux Preview on Snapdragon X2 to Accelerate Upstream ARM Laptops ☞ https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/snapdragon-x2-linux/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:46:02

  • Dutch Government Turns to Open Source for Digital Sovereignty ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Dutch-Government-Turns-to-Open-Source-for-Digital-Sovereignty    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:47:43

  • AfagOS 20261001 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/afagos    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:48:43

  • AbeirOS 20261001 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/abeiros    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:48:48

  • Calam 2026-10 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calam    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:48:54

  • Mainstream 3.0.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mainstream    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:49:01

  • CalamaroOS 20261001 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calamaroos    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:49:06

  • "Just what the franchise needs: an injection of Hey Hi (AI) slop." ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bbc-director-ai-doctor-who    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:51:35

  • FlyDubai Under Scrutiny After Cockpit Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/world/middleeast/flydubai-israel-scrutiny.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:52:01

  • LOL!!!! BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS https://www.securityweek.com/enterprises-struggle-to-prepare-for-ai-and-quantum-threats-pwc-says/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:55:12

  • PwC: we get paid by the likes of GAFAM and IBM to spread buzzwords in LLM-generated 'reports'    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:55:45

  • securityweek parrots this BS. Probably paid to do so...    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:56:18

  • Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-2GB-Price-77.50    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:56:53

  • Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Checks Retro RAM Chips in Classic Computers ☞ https://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-pico-2-checks-retro-ram-chips-in-classic-computers/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:57:12

  • An Arduino® UNO™ Q lets this vintage terminal answer questions without internet access ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/01/an-arduino-uno-q-lets-this-vintage-terminal-answer-questions-without-internet-access/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:57:50

  • ":/ Hey Hei - That's the only real money in the scam, our money paying for chips. The rest is just debt and circular investments.    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:58:19

  • Amazon Settles Lawsuit Over Claims of Slow Deliveries to Low-Income Areas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/technology/amazon-slow-deliveries-dc.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:58:53

  • Oil Exports Find A Way Past Iranian Attacks, But Refinery Bottleneck Persists ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-oil-exports-hormuz-refinery-market/33867914.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:59:29

  • Pgpool-II 4.7.3, 4.6.8, 4.5.13, 4.4.18 and 4.3.21 released. ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgpool-ii-473-468-4513-4418-and-4321-released-3390/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 19:59:57

  • Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/treasury-blacklists-most-wanted-atm-malware-developer-and-his-network/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:00:33

  • Slop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_of_the_Bizarre    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:00:51

  • What We Heard From the Creative Commons Community ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/10/01/what-we-heard-from-the-creative-commons-community/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:01:32

  • Canonical turns to scammers and liars in pursuit of fake (paid for) 'recommendations' ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/canonical-a-challenger-in-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-server-virtualization-platforms https://techrights.org/wiki/Gartner_Group/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:02:34

  • Audacity 4.0.1 Brings Back Multi-Track Export ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/audacity-4-0-1-brings-back-multi-track-export/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:02:59

  • Ubuntu Budgie 26.10-beta ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntubudgie    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:03:18

  • Canonical lets a British spy replace GNU with Rust https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-rust-pgp-sq http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:05:02

  • Four-port IO-Link module for Raspberry Pi and embedded GNU/Linux systems ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/four-port-io-link-module-for-raspberry-pi-and-embedded-linux-systems/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:05:46

  • Ubuntu 26.10 Beta released with Linux 7.3 & GNOME 51 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-beta-released    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:06:29

  • Linux App Release Roundup (September 2026) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-app-release-roundup-september-2026    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:06:49

  • The EU Is About to Make Linux’s Vulnerability Management Problem Harder to Ignore ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/10/the-eu-is-about-to-make-linuxs-vulnerability-management-problem-harder-to-ignore/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:07:58

  • It’s Looking Possible That Kapo-berg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-meta-accidental-corporate-suicide-hyperscale-ai    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:08:38

  • LakeShark firmware turns LilyGO T-Display P4 into a handheld ESP32-P4 SDR scanner ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/01/lakeshark-firmware-turns-lilygo-t-display-p4-into-a-handheld-esp32-p4-sdr-scanner/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:09:10

  • Spotify, Amazon Music, Merlin, Empire, Downtown, Distrokid, Meta, Others Join the DOJ In Recommending Prison Time for Streaming Fraudster Michael Smith ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/01/doj-cites-mffa-streaming-fraud-case/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:10:41

  • "According to The Register, Canonical was waiting for backports to resolve regressions in a recent version ofrust-coreutils. That package is part of a broader effort within Ubuntu to reimplement traditional system components in Rust." https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/144692/canonical-offers-users-an-ubuntu-upgrade-to-26-04-1-lts/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:12:29

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

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:12:58

  • Microsoft liar Abhijith M B is painting EEE attack on Linux as a gift https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/01/microsofts-then-ceo-called-linux-a-cancer-and-now-windows-11-ships-linux-containers-with-upgraded-wsl/ Abhijith M B lies: https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/No_WSL_Windows_With_Fake_Linux_Isn_t_Growing_Faster_Than_Ubuntu.shtml    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:15:46

  • Qualcomm Unveils Linux Preview on Snapdragon X2 to Accelerate Upstream ARM Laptops https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/snapdragon-x2-linux/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:16:03

  • "Since it has anti-cheat it's listed on our dedicated SteamOS / Linux compatibility page." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valves-deadlock-gets-a-massive-update-still-a-while-away-from-a-public-release/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:16:34

  • "OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 ROME has been officially released today, October 1st, 2026, as the rolling-release version of OpenMandriva Lx, the successor of the Mandriva Linux operating system." https://9to5linux.com/openmandriva-lx-26-09-rome-released-with-kde-plasma-6-7-    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:16:51

  • "Arch Linux 2026.10.01 has been released today as the Arch Linux ISO snapshot for October 2026 for those who want to install this lightweight and flexible GNU/Linux distribution on their PCs." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-iso-release-for-october-2026-ships-with-the-archinstall-4-5-installer    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:17:12

  • "Uri Herrera announced that the Nitrux 7.0 immutable and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution is out today with Linux kernel 7.2, Hyprland 0.55.4, Maui Apps 4.0.4, an updated Calamares installer, and other changes." https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-nitrux-7-0-released-with-linux-kernel-7-2-and-hyprland-0-55-4    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:17:27

  • This Linux experiment convinced me to stop dual-booting Windows https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-experiment-convinced-me-to-stop-dual-booting-windows/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:18:02

  • "Once you start to dabble with Linux, you’ll encounter the phrase “terminal emulator” over and over again. You might be familiar with games emulators, but don’t be misled. This is very different." https://www.howtogeek.com/why-is-it-called-a-terminal-emulator-what-is-it-emulating/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:18:18

  • Thanks to fans, the original Halo just got an unofficial Windows, Linux, PS5, and Android port https://www.xda-developers.com/original-halo-just-got-an-unofficial-windows-linux-ps5-android-port/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:18:44

  • Slop plagiarising things in "Linux" clothing https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20261001dc61922/ai-takes-center-stage-at-open-networking-edge-one-summit-2026-program-hosted-by-lf-networking    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:19:50

  • "If you wanted to learn how to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux but didn't want to buy a license from Red Hat, CentOS was your distro. How did this affect the Linux ecosystem?" https://www.howtogeek.com/post-centos-world-how-linux-became-fragmented-into-competing-alternatives/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:20:07

  • EmuDeck 2.7 update improves Steam Machine support, introduces AutoMap for controllers, and much more https://www.pcguide.com/news/emudeck-2-7-update-improves-steam-machine-support-introduces-automap-for-controllers-and-much-more/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:21:17

  • Linux in Slop Package https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/stocks/NVDA/pressreleases/4904281/sidero-labs-introduces-talos-linux-for-ai-and-talos-cupar-for-running-sovereign-ai-on-private-infrastructure/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:22:07

  • From GAFAM, as usual https://www.citybiz.co/article/912905/linux-foundation-names-michael-hursta-executive-director-of-x402-foundation/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:22:44

  • Qualcomm Finally Fixes Their PC CPU Line! https://www.semiaccurate.com/2026/10/01/qualcomm-finally-fixes-their-pc-cpu-line/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:24:39

  • Red Hat puff piece for Red Hat to link to in order to promote slop https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/openclaw-launches-free-enterprise-control-plane-for-persistent-ai-agents-backed-by-openai-red-hat-and-nvidia    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 20:36:25

  • Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (38/2026): Two Releases and a Conference https://linmob.net/weekly-update-38-2026/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 21:23:52

  • Slop kiddies he calls 'em https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/09/19/222229/developer-abandons-ps5-linux-project-after-sony-patches-ai-discovered-exploit    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 21:25:19

  • Alpine 3.21.8, 3.22.6, 3.23.6 and 3.24.2 released https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.21.8-3.22.6-3.23.6-3.24.2-released.html    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 21:25:42

  • GAFAM-EFF should say don't use it, instead it does a sort or PR for GAFAM again https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/how-limit-what-apples-new-siri-ai-can-access-ios-27    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 21:26:48

  • "When I was young enough to still imagine myself to be invulnerable, and not to mind uncertainty about reaching my destination and having to sleep rough if things went wrong, I used to hitchhike. It's not something you see very often now, at least in the UK, but at the time it was a pretty common sight." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/hitch_hiking    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:12:03

  • "In this one, I'm back at university. Reviewing some essays I need to write over the coming months. I get a message. From them. My ex, the most recent one." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/10-02.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:12:34

  • Win gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/pcwin    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:12:54

  • "I enjoy reading gemlogs. Not because of FOMO but because it sparks the backside of the brain where lingering ideas stagnate. The importance of gemlogs comes from:" gemini://smallword.space/gemlog/20260930-the-journey-of-thoughts.gmi    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:13:52

  • Rainy September gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/OCT2026/entry-1    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:14:40

  • "Also, a record for me: my NetBSD box has a current uptime of 403 days." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/OCT2026/entry-1    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:15:02

  • ROOPHLOCH 2026: EPIPHLOGUE gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20261001_rphlch_out    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:15:42

  • SRA eyeing role of solicitors amid Man City fallout https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-eyeing-role-of-solicitors-amid-man-city-fallout/5128073.article    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:27:31

  • Lawyers That Lie to Courts https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/02/lawyers-that-lie-to-courts/    

posted Friday, October 02, 2026 at 22:34:23
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