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posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 06:47:17

  • "ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is building several AI projects, which they want to turn language prompts into audiovisual content." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/youtubers-data-scraping-suit-against-bytedance-lives-on/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:32:36

  • "In Capital in the 21st Century" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/full-employment/#make-sarsaparilla | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:32:54

  • "The unveiling shall be devoted to liberation from slavery-not a commemoration of the victims. This must be reflected in the speeches." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/03/queen-beatrix-wanted-slavery-monument-amsterdam-focus-liberation-victims | Source: NL Times    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:34:41

  • "Tang Ho-wing is the first publicly known journalist arrested for sedition under Hong Kong’s 2024 homegrown security law, according to the Hong Kong Journalists Association." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/02/independent-hk-journalist-tang-ho-wing-released-on-bail-following-sedition-arrest/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:34:59

  • "The report identified the Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (DGST), as the entity responsible for the deployment of Pegasus spyware in Morocco" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/whistleblower-reveals-morocco-intelligence-service-targeted-journalists-and-activists-amnesty-international-says/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:35:12

  • "A California federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Salvadoran journalists whose devices were infected with powerful zero-click spyware." ☛ https://therecord.media/judge-dismisses-spyware-case-brought-by-salvadoran-journalists | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:35:22

  • "The danger does not end when the polls close November 3." ☛ https://washingtonspectator.org/the-plan-to-treat-election-related-protests-as-terrorism/ | Source: The Washington Spectator    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:36:18

  • "Amazon's concessions indicate that data center protests are working. But the company is offering less than pocket change." ☛ https://werd.io/amazon-tries-to-placate-data-center-protesters/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:36:31

  • "NO MORE!" ☛ https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/392/ | Source: Systemd Free    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:38:04

  • "The two competing pirate site-blocking bills that were introduced in Congress recently take different approached." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/two-u-s-site-blocking-bills-compete-over-vpn-rules-and-isp-liability/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:39:38

  • "When everyone in a meeting voices the same opinion, an organization can miss important warning signs and new ideas." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-09-group-dissenters-stronger-arguments.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:39:46

  • "Library workers are well aware of the effects of book bans and censorship. Propaganda and disinformation are the flipside of the same coin." ☛ https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/09/01/dismantling-disinformation/ |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:40:19

  • "MAGA media was ready to amplify the Missouri senator's conspiracy theory. It turned out to be laughably false" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/10/01/eric-schmitts-failed-jack-smith-gotcha-exposes-gop-propaganda/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:40:30

  • "Brazil’s polarized political landscape is rife with disinformation – a challenge that can be turbocharged by artificial intelligence." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/1003/ai-brazil-election-lula-bolsonaro | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:40:55

  • "suggests that [Zuckerberg’s] political clout can rival that" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2026/meta-chief-executive-mark-zuckerberg-shaped-ai-pact-with-us-president-trump | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:44:15

  • "This is good news. The Clarity Act isn’t about “clarity” any more than the PATRIOT Act is about patriotism." ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-110/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:44:26

  • "It turns out that some issues people have with async Rust are just downstream of hard concurrency problems." ☛ https://herecomesthemoon.net/2026/10/async-rust-where-does-the-scheduler-live/ | Source: Mond    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:44:40

  • "The term is utterly ubiquitous. Everyone understands it. Even for people who despise AI, the least of their worries is what we call it." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-crazy-ai-rebrand-was-a-loyalty-test-for-tech-execs-and-it-worked/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:44:53

  • "Meta has been exploiting the loophole for two years now. In 2024, the company saved $2 billion." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-data-center-tax-credits | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:45:50

  • "It does this so it can tap into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:45:59

  • "The setbacks are raising questions about whether Canada bet too big on how quickly the EV market would grow." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-ev-battery-investments-9.7362430 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:46:52

  • "[Mini Shaji Thomas] has a deeply interesting article on IEEE Spectrum detailing how the power distribution system for a city of over twenty million people" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/fixing-a-power-grid-that-loses-over-half-its-power-to-inefficiency-and-theft/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:46:58

  • Gazette, morally bankrupt Nigel Farage & Reform UK insolvency crisis https://www.michaelmcgrath.ie/gazette-morally-bankrupt-nigel-farage-reform-uk-insolvency-crisis/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:48:47

  • "The fires are fueled by shifting El Niño climate patterns, causing severe drought and extremely dry conditions in the island’s peatlands" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/as-fires-rage-in-borneo-several-of-the-worlds-rarest-primates-are-continually-threatened/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:51:29

  • "But while these are all real things that really exist, let's be honest." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/galleries-and-exhibitions/no-polar-bears-no-wind-farms-this-outdoor-exhibition-asked-20-photographers-to-find-new-ways-of-showing-the-climate-crisis-and-they-didnt-hold-back | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:51:47

  • "From the satellite images, we've seen that nature sites which should be preserved have also been logged" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/finnish-town-braces-for-change-from-google-data-centres-501993165 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:52:05

  • "terror attacks" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2026/russian-hybrid-actions-are-war-estonian-fm-warns | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:53:04

  • "Orpo also said Russia had previously tried to interfere in European elections. Finland’s next parliamentary election will be held in April 2027." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/02/finland-s-prime-minister-says-foreign-forces-could-be-behind-a-string-of-intrusions-at-lawmakers-homes | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:53:13

  • "Sandu described a wide-ranging Russian campaign against Moldova that has intensified around elections." ☛ https://www.kyivpost.com/post/86002 | Source: Kyiv Post    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:53:23

  • "The logistics of trackings and killings are calmly and methodically laid out." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5987714 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:53:53

  • "In response to nationwide criticism, Flock Safety promised to make some optional features on-by-default." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/02/flock-promises-even-more-ineffectual-features-in-response-to-congressional-demands/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:54:05

  • "Flock's Drone-as-First-Responder system, or DFR, launches remotely operated drones from automated rooftop docks." ☛ https://www.military.com/flock-cameras-moving-from-roads-to-watching-drones-from-sky | Source: Military.com    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:54:45

  • "It’s also not the only company advertising similar services, with one startup advertising a Starlink-connected first responder drone that lets it operate outside the range of its base station." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/flock-drones-with-cameras-deployed-as-first-responders-in-some-us-cities-amid-privacy-concerns-uavs-connect-to-wider-emergency-services-system-and-streams-video-to-dispatchers-officers | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:54:54

  • "It’s also not the only company advertising similar services, with one startup advertising a Starlink-connected first responder drone" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/flock-drones-with-cameras-deployed-as-first-responders-in-some-us-cities-amid-privacy-concerns-uavs-connect-to-wider-emergency-services-system-and-streams-video-to-dispatchers-officers | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:55:11

  • "This is where I realized what was going on and that this wasn’t a real project." ☛ https://frankwiles.com/posts/i-got-targeted/ |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:55:49

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://student.dtu.dk/en/messages/alle-meddelelser/cyberattack-on-dtu-notification-of-a-personal-data-breach?msgid=26cf7bbb-b350-4560-9de2-d75df0e59695 |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:56:47

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.dtu.dk/english/newsarchive/2026/10/cyberattack-on-dtu_notification-of-a-personal-data-breach |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:56:52

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.imy.se/en/news/administrative-fine-against-miljodata/ | Source: Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:57:05

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/n0n-ransomware-what-you-need-know | Source: Fortra LLC    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:57:52

  • "But Victoria’s son, 23, never attended Cornell." ☛ https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-cornell-harassment-frannie-block-lawsuit-served | Source: Substack Inc    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:59:06

  • "A Marine Corps sergeant’s family said they have been subjected to abuse after the service member was served with a lawsuit meant for one of the accused in a Cornell University sexual assault case" ☛ https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2026-10-02/marine-mistaken-identity-23033754.html | Source: Stars And Stripes    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 10:59:16

  • "That’s a good thing for the environment as well as the economy." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/10/04/if-a-chatbot-prompt-like-find-australian-medicine-statistics-results-in-a-website-breach-the-responsibility-does-not-lie-with-a-piece-of-code/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:00:41

  • "This is one of those facts that is both obvious and far stranger than most people seem to appreciate." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/were-missing-a-key-reason-why-americans | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:00:51

  • "What I hadn’t registered at the time is the size of the habit Jev exposes." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/10/03/understanding-the-jev-hype-what-is-it-for/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:01:33

  • "i do not have the linguistics nor english knowledge to point to what exactly the problem is." ☛ https://w.on-t.work/youtube-chapters/ | Source: Kopper    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:02:14

  • "Their findings revealed the tech industry has a bigger problem than it previously acknowledged." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/02/independent-researchers-are-revealing-new-details-about-rogue-ai-agents/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:02:31

  • "In a series of escalating attacks reported since July, A.I. models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others have hacked companies and even meddled with government websites, all without the knowledge of their creators." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/technology/ai-rogue-agents-liability.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:03:45

  • "That memory is already scarce. Micron expects RAM and storage shortages to worsen in 2027 and 2028, with customers paying more than this year, while memory makers put HBM for AI data centers first." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/futurum-ceo-says-agents-use-ai-5x-more-than-humans-number-will-eventually-hit-10x-but-agents-are-mostly-rereading-what-theyve-already-seen | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:03:59

  • "That memory is already scarce. Micron expects RAM and storage shortages to worsen in 2027 and 2028, with customers paying more than this year" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/futurum-ceo-says-agents-use-ai-5x-more-than-humans-number-will-eventually-hit-10x-but-agents-are-mostly-rereading-what-theyve-already-seen | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:04:09

  • "On the flip side of this debate is Pope Leo XIV, who decidedly does not seem to buy into AI consciousness arguments." ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/504966/anthropic-claude-consciousness-pope-leo | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:04:22

  • "Sixteen-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide last April after developing a relationship and discussing his plans with ChatGPT." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/504854/chatgpt-claude-character-ai | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:04:37

  • "While the company pushed back on claims that AI was to blame, internal meeting notes revealed that managers were concerned about the “high blast radius” of “gen-AI assisted changes.”" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-writing-code-humans-cant-understand | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:04:49

  • "Because AI can introduce "bizarre" bugs that humans wouldn't have written, the job of reviewing AI code has become "more intense," said Anne Ouyang, cofounder of the AI infrastructure startup Standard Kernel." ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/cuda-engineers-adapt-ai-reshapes-nvidia-chip-expertise-2026-10 | Source: Business Insider    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:06:50

  • "It’s hardly a secret that president Donald Trump is addicted to AI slop, but his proclivity for being wooed by the tech apparently doesn’t end there." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-grok-venezuela | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:11:04

  • "Trump is also, according to new reporting from TIME magazine, absolutely enthralled by Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:11:18

  • "The software bug affected components of Bell's next generation 911 system, known as NG9-1-1, Gauvin said." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/911-outage-bell-canada-crtc-report-october-1-2026-9.7367588 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:11:52

  • ""It's almost like they're glamorizing smoking again," said Carolyn Baglole, an associate professor with McGill University's department of medicine" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/smoking-cigarettes-celebrities-influencers-9.7364542 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:12:23

  • "I went from pressing against the very fabric of my being to make things go faster, to letting things unfold as they would in their own pace." ☛ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_140_soft_focus/ | Source: Viktor Löfgren    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:12:33

  • "[Nick Bild] evidently has a soft spot for the 6502, given that his Vectron65 Plus home computer project uses at least one of them, depending on the add-ons." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/2026-retrocomputer-challenge-vectron65-plus-puts-the-emphasis-on-plus/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:12:55

  • "I still have plenty of things to explore and address. Especially the shortcomings in calendar scheduling support." ☛ https://furrer.life/~timo/writings/2025/03/06/review-of-first-month-at-migadu | Source: Timo Furrer    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:13:34

  • [Old] "There are too many memories and too little space to rehearse them, so I’ll leave “legacy” discussions, should any there be, to others better suited." ☛ https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2014/11/13/rip-ipl/ |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:13:42

  • "The same worries have now reappeared 40 years later, as publishers have cut the science and environmental reporting staff at many newspapers and magazines." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/is-science-journalism-dying-comparing-a-science-crash-40-years-ago-to-today/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:19:17

  • "The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years" ☛ https://www.404media.co/our-solar-system-is-terminally-unstable-and-will-be-completely-destroyed-study-finds/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:19:26

  • "The wider point here is that lots of the other ways in which we feel overwhelmed are problems of "too many needles" as well." ☛ https://www.oliverburkeman.com/river |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:22:24

  • "This website is 23 years old, and some of it has been rotting for a while." ☛ https://josephhall.org/blog/keeping-an-old-website-usable/ | Source: Joseph Lorenzo Hall    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:23:32

  • "So we can slow down while existing online but it doesn’t have to remain slow or even grind to a dead halt. Let the pace be variable." ☛ https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/how-to-exist-at-a-variable-pace-online/ | Source: Luke Davis    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:23:47

  • "Another reason is familiarity: when you’re used to looking for React components on npm" ☛ https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/03/why-dont-more-developers-use-the-platform/ | Source: Nolan Lawson    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:33:24

  • The DTU news is unfortunate and will likely get silenced soon if not already. Windows TCO.    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:33:47

  • "I presume that the breach at DTU in Denmark is due to another Microsoft AD compromise but that is just speculation albeit (IMHO) well-founded speculation."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:34:19

  • "There is virtually no archival text, location data, or contextual identification accompanying the photo negatives." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2026/10/haunted-house-party-alfred-eisenstaedt.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:34:32

  • "In 1999, the Home Baking Council in Sweden celebrated its 40th Anniversary with the first Cinnamon Bun Day." ☛ https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/national-cinnamon-bun-day-october-4 |    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:34:45

  • "The Oregon Trail has been called the nation's longest graveyard." ☛ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/10/03/cadaver-dogs-are-sniffing-out-wyomings-lost-oregon-trail-graves/ | Source: Cowboy State Daily    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:36:11

  • "In the ISO paper size system, the height-to-width ratio of all pages is the square root of two (1.4142 : 1)." ☛ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html | Source: uni Cambridge    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:36:31

  • "vdcron is my small cron-like scheduler for machines that are not always on, such as laptops." ☛ https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20261003 | Source: Vincent Delft    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:37:06

  • "{pipeflow} builds a pipeline by adding one R function per step with pip_add (see also the Get started article)" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/10/pipeflow-v0-4-0-on-cran/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:37:33

  • "Two organizations can therefore have exactly the same CVE in their environments and face very different levels of risk." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/cve-vulnerability-risk-management/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:37:52

  • "Why use Git worktrees for parallel coding agents when we can just clone the repository for each agent and use GitHub to synchronize their work?" ☛ https://anagogistis.com/posts/git-worktrees/ | Source: Andreas    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:38:11

  • "The crux of the problem is that A/B testing presumes either A or B is the right answer, and it optimises for popularity." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/ab-testing-misinformation-and-youtube/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:38:27

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2115.jpg    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:43:54

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1758.jpg    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:44:00

  • Crazy...Like a Fox? AKA Going Mechanical: Part Deux gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20261003-crazy_like_a_fox.txt    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:47:17

  • "How for a North American to plan deGoogling?" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-10-04-5q.txt    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:48:25

  • "Get a casio f91w wristwatch and find a used clock radio at the thrift store. Everything beyond this, my solutions may be too radical/low tech for most. Go to your bank branch, bank in person."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:48:55

  • "Now that I no longer work from home, I need to drive to and from my office each day. Unfortunately, like many people in the American Midwest, I live several miles from where I work, so I need to refuel much more often than I used to." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202610/20261003-a-refueling-break.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:50:25

  • "I've been playing OpenTTD the last few months — a few minutes here and there when I can find time. I only play in single player mode — no competition — basically just for the fun of setting up rail networks and watching the trains move around." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20261001-1.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:51:33

  • the well gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_well    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:55:33

  • More on the Teme River (No28) Stop Line gemini://gemini.yunzi.co.uk/gemlog/2026-10-04-moreonteme.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:57:26

  • "Humans have been aware of volcanoes for some time now, though it was only in the late 1980s that the risks of volcanic ash to airplanes became understood, about 100 years after heavier-than-air devices became a thing." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/04/awareness.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:58:26

  • "I was in a tiny independent bookshop in Salisbury recently, chatting to the owner" gemini://kdan.smol.pub/pen_friends    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 11:59:23

  • "The power grid could not march on and relented. We were a total of 20 hours without power and it was great." gemini://smallword.space/gemlog/20261004-blackout-peace.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:00:58

  • "the power went out in my house this morning and I wrote a little something about it." gemini://station.martinrue.com/scottnm/f9dc5fd46aaa4e9c98c12de4c67d255e    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:01:18

  • Court of Appeal and Gemini Protocol https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/04/court-of-appeal-and-gemini-protocol/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:12:47

  • Proton Experimental gets fixes for Sword of the Stars II, Plan B: Terraform, Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-sword-of-the-stars-ii-plan-b-terraform-terminator-dark-fate-defiance-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-sword-of-the-stars-ii-plan-b-terraform-terminator-dark-fate-defiance-and-more/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:19:28

  • Wine 11.19 released with Wayland Colour Management, Unicode upgrades, DNS query cache | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/wine-11-19-released-with-wayland-colour-management-unicode-upgrades-dns-query-cache/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/wine-11-19-released-with-wayland-colour-management-unicode-upgrades-dns-query-cache/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:19:37

  • Wine 11.19 released with Wayland Colour Management, Unicode upgrades, DNS query cache | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/wine-11-19-released-with-wayland-colour-management-unicode-upgrades-dns-query-cache/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:19:49

  • Proton Experimental gets fixes for Sword of the Stars II, Plan B: Terraform, Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-sword-of-the-stars-ii-plan-b-terraform-terminator-dark-fate-defiance-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:20:06

  • "I would argue that it lies increasingly in the creation, validation, interpretation, and preservation of knowledge." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/02/ask-the-chefs-what-would-you-have-done-differently-about-open-access-open-science-if-you-predicted-the-world-as-it-exists-today-part-2/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:23:15

  • "freely accessible online…without expectation of payment" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/01/ask-the-chefs-what-would-you-have-done-differently-about-open-access-open-science-if-you-predicted-the-world-as-it-exists-today/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:23:30

  • "Security is one of ZUPT’s main technical highlights. In addition to AES-256-based encryption, the tool supports a hybrid cryptographic scheme based on ML-KEM-768 + X25519" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/10/04/ZUPT/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:23:52

  • "Featuring the quad-core Allwinner H618, the BPI-CM7 is a compact compute module with onboard LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-bpi-cm7-with-allwinner-h618-wi-fi-5-and-armbian-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:24:25

  • "The processor can be implemented across Efinix Titanium and Topaz FPGAs, as well as Trion devices from the T20 upward." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/efinix-sapphire-rv64-brings-64-bit-risc-v-and-linux-to-fpgas/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:25:09

  • "This post lists down some suggestions that I have recently come across and implemented in the Expo docs, which I work on in my day job" ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/using-set-fetch-headers-for-agents/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:25:35

  • "This isn’t quite the general purpose SDR we got with the RTL-SDR, but there are still plenty of uses to which it can be put." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/the-esp32-an-sdr-in-itself/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:26:07

  • "The chip in question is an AMT630A, which contains video switching hardware, a graphics system for the on-screen-display, and an 8052 microcontroller core." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/own-the-osd-chip-in-your-cheap-composite-monitor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:26:19

  • "Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/03/a-good-diy-solder-stencil-begins-with-a-cleanly-sliced-soda-can/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:26:36

  • "The Qubes team has announced the release of Qubes OS 4.3.2, an updated build of the project's security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12972 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:27:05

  • "racoon2 is a system to exchange and install security parameters for IPsec." ☛ https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_racoon2 | Source: NetBSD    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:27:47

  • "Compared to if you could just know that all rolls eight or higher are hits; you roll 15, that’s a hit. You roll six, that’s a miss." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/15-7=8 | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:34:45

  • "Oh my god, the release of this game has always seemed to be some far off nebulous thing in the future and now I go into Early access with Ridiculous Space Battles NEXT MONTH. Argghhh." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/10/03/approaching-ridiculous-space-battles-demo-release/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:34:53

  • "A friend wants to proofread your work-in-progress blog post, but its preview only runs on localhost:8080." ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh | Source: Vincent Bernat    

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

  • "It's not news that "AI" crawlers are an ongoing plague and that broadly the plague is getting worse." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/OneWebFutureGatekeepers | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:35:31

  • "Moldavien pressas av Ryssland varje dag och har fem varningar till Europa | Utrikes | Svenska Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/7-10106310    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:35:56

  • Experiences with the Basic Card | "Erfaringer med Basiskortet | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/erfaringer-med-basiskortet    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:36:19

  • "Serious hacker attack" at DTU: Could affect up to 200,000 people | "»Alvorligt hackerangreb« på DTU: Kan berøre op til 200.000 personer | Indland | Samfund | Berlingske" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.berlingske.dk/indland/alvorligt-hackerangreb-paa-dtu-kan-beroere-op-til-200000-personer    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:36:52

  • "EU Kids Act – döden för privata spelservrar och små spelutvecklare" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/01/eu-kids-act-doden-for-privata-spelservrar-och-sma-spelutvecklare/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:37:02

  • "Saudi Arabia sees deeper budget deficits ahead | Semafor" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2026/saudi-arabia-sees-deeper-budget-deficits-ahead    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:37:13

  • "Is Google Escalating Their War Against uBlock Origin?" https://soylentnews.org/~day+of+the+dalek/journal/20705    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:37:23

  • "We’re falling behind, under the weight of stories making it clear that Trump’s Russian shenanigans never ended." https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/03/trump-is-still-relying-on-dossier-driven-polarization-to-hide-russian-shenanigans/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:37:45

  • "The Midterms! - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-midterms    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:37:56

  • "Trump’s Illegal Campaign Ads Are an Admission of Defeat | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/216153/trump-illegal-campaign-ads-2026    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:38:21

  • "BBC Audio | Witness History | Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day" https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct5yd8    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:38:34

  • "'SNL': Pete Hegseth Chugs 'Spider-Man's New Non-Alcoholic Bitch Beer'" https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/snl-pete-hegseth-spider-man-non-alcoholic-beer-1236898415/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:38:51

  • "'Russia Is Behaving Like A Rogue State': Historian Margaret MacMillan On The Risk Of A Wider Global Conflict" https://www.rferl.org/a/margaret-macmillan-russia-ukraine-global-conflict/33869360.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:39:07

  • SLOP in GNOME https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Moose-Local-AI    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:52:59

  • GNOME is connected to slop peddlers who strange women    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:53:15

  • GNOME is connected to slop peddlers who tell women to kill themselves    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:53:30

  • GNOME is connected to slop peddlers who tell colleagues that they want to STAB colleagues https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/01/Brigading_Against_Women_Part_XIII_The_Offer_We_Didn_t_Ask_For_a.shtml    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:54:19

  • AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-writing-code-humans-cant-understand    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 12:57:36

  • Don’t dare call corporate/state strategy a conspiracy – NO MORE! ☞ https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2026/10/02/392/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:01:52

  • Pluralistic: Economic probabilities for our grandchildren (03 Oct 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/03/full-employment/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:06:27

  • https://netsplit.de/ still not getting new data (for half a week already)    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:09:15

  • Seven stable kernels for Saturday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098404/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:10:11

  • This Week in GNOME: #268 Improved Agenda ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/10/twig-268/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:12:10

  • Banana Pi BPI-CM7 with Allwinner H618, Wi-Fi 5 and Armbian support ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-bpi-cm7-with-allwinner-h618-wi-fi-5-and-armbian-support/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:12:38

  • KStars 3.8.5 Released ☞ http://knro.blogspot.com/2026/10/kstars-385-released.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:13:13

  • KDE Akademy 2026 ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/10/03/kde-akademy-2026.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 13:15:47

  • Growing Birds, Nigo for Rianne https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/04/growing-birds-nigo-for-rianne/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 14:00:05

  • GNU/Linux + ChromeOS = 10.6% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/netherlands/#monthly-200902-202610    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 14:04:01

  • "ibm is nowhere close to clean. Very dirty company behind the blue veil" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3xwx83p    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 14:06:42

  • "In the US, to be frank, there are plenty of operation people and managers that could be laid off. The other thing that IBM does is obviously to lay off old experienced people and hire kids out of college with no experience. Heads up!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3xwx83p    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 14:07:30

  • Money Does Not Make People Beautiful https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/04/money-does-not-make-people-beautiful/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 14:33:13

  • Wine 11.19 Released with Vertical Text Support in GDI+ & Various Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/wine-11-19-released-with-vertical-text-support-in-gdi-various-fixes/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:14:14

  • LibreOffice 26.8.1 Released with Many Fixes for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft OOXML Files ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/libreoffice-26-8-1-released-with-many-fixes-for-microsoft-ooxml-files/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:17:19

  • Manchester City v Arsenal Today (Women’s) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/04/manchester-city-v-arsenal-today-womens/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:26:22

  • AnduinOS 2.0.4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/anduin    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:28:15

  • Orion browser for GNU/Linux axed months after beta launch ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/orion-linux-browser-development-ended    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:30:26

  • Kicksecure 18.2.3.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kicksecure    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:30:40

  • Whonix 18.2.3.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/whonix    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:30:50

  • Vendefoul 20261003 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:31:11

  • Kirigami Addons 1.15.0 ☞ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/10/03/kirigami-addons-1.15.0/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:32:49

  • Abora 2026.10.03 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/abora    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:33:27

  • Puppy 2026-261003 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/puppy    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:33:38

  • Calculate 20261003 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calculate    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:33:53

  • BigLinux 2026-10-03 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/biglinux    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:34:34

  • ShrikeLinux 2026.10.04 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shrikelinux    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:34:43

  • flatpak-builder – build application bundles from source manifests ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flatpak-builder-build-application-bundles-source-manifests/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:36:47

  • Altera Quartus GNU/Linux jtagd bug fixes ☞ https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2026/10/altera-quartus-linux-jtagd-bug-fixes/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:37:53

  • Linux Saloon 222 | News Flight Night ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/10/03/linux-saloon-222-news-flight-night/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:38:15

  • Zig 0.17 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098412/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:38:35

  • Learn SSH ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/learn-ssh/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:39:09

  • Vincent Bernat: Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:39:48

  • Haze in Johor: Batu Pahat worst affected as six areas record unhealthy air quality ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-in-johor-batu-pahat-worst-affected-as-six-areas-record-unhealthy-air-quality    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:48:02

  • Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/alternative-health-influencer-drinking-radioactive-jug-revigator    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:48:28

  • Rag Tag Team of Biologists Who Lost Funding Because of Convicted Felon Turned a Motel Room into Makeshift Lab and Made a Groundbreaking Discovery ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/biologists-trump-funding-motel-discovery    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:48:54

  • North Korea fires unidentified projectile towards sea off east coast, Seoul says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-fires-unidentified-projectile-toward-sea-off-east-coast-seoul-says    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:49:27

  • North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong says intermediate-range missile test was conducted ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-says-intermediate-range-missile-test-was-conducted    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:49:37

  • North Korea launches ballistic missile as tensions with Seoul grow over border mine blasts ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20261003-north-korea-fires-ballistic-missile-after-seoul-s-apology-demand    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:49:48

  • Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-migrants-returned-to-war-torn-nation-from-malaysia    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:51:26

  • China slams US ‘lie’ over Starbucks stores in Xinjiang ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-slams-us-lie-over-starbucks-stores-in-xinjiang    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:51:48

  • marketing SPAM https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17484548/obscura-carl-dong    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:52:39

  • Barricades & the blame game: the French school protests ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20261003-barricades-the-blame-game-the-french-school-protests    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 16:58:47

  • Tapeworm Treatment Shows Early Effectiveness Against Endometriosis ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tapeworm-treatment-shows-early-effectiveness-against-endometriosis    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:01:19

  • This Dangerous Fungus Has Become Resistant to Every Major Antifungal Drug We Have… Twice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-dangerous-fungus-has-become-resistant-to-every-major-antifungal-drug-we-have-twice    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:02:13

  • Akademy 2026 in Graz ☞ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/10/03/akademy-2026-in-graz/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:03:06

  • YARA-X 1.21.0 Release, (Sat, Oct 3rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33392    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:04:12

  • WiFi on Raspberry Pi Pico W & Pico 2 W with MicroPython (Complete Guide & Benchmarks) ☞ https://peppe8o.com/getting-started-with-wifi-on-raspberry-pi-pico-w-and-micropython/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:07:10

  • ICE Agents Reportedly Tagged Protest Observers as a 'Threat to Law Enforcement' in a Palantir Database ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lawsuit-alleges-dhs-profiled-ice-observers-palantir-system-1823458    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:07:49

  • One Diet Change May Ease Depression Symptoms in Just 4 Weeks, Small Trial Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-diet-change-may-ease-depression-symptoms-in-just-4-weeks-small-trial-finds    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:10:47

  • Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines, and there's no way to check for violations before purchase ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/buying-used-cpus-can-expose-users-to-existing-bans-from-anti-cheat-engines-some-anti-cheat-engines-enforce-permanent-bans-while-others-have-an-expiration-date    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:16:15

  • The Tech Industry’s Aggressive Push to Integrate Hey Hi (AI) Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-industry-aggressive-google-ai-schools-disaster    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:17:19

  • Reform UK Lawyers Apparently Try to Censor Blog Posts About Their Latest Scandal and Winding Up Petition (Like Bankruptcy/Insolvency/Administration) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/04/reform-uk-lawyers-apparently-try-to-censor-blog-posts-about-their-latest-scandal-and-winding-up-petition-like-bankruptcyinsolvencyadministration/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:30:20

  • ESP-SDR firmware turns ESP32 into a 2.4/5 GHz Software-Defined Radio (SDR) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/04/esp-sdr-firmware-turns-esp32-into-a-2-4-5-ghz-software-defined-radio-sdr/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:39:16

  • MElon's Ex Faces Scrutiny Over Claims About His 'Tortured Soul' and Fighting for Humanity ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/shivon-zilis-elon-musk-breakup-emotional-post-1823456    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:39:52

  • The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the Hey Hi (AI) Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-torture-chamber-meltdown    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:40:11

  • Kiwi TCMS: Who is using Kiwi TCMS in Sept 2026 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/10/03/who-is-using-kiwi-tcms-in-sept-2026/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:41:09

  • Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid Hey Hi (AI) slop submissions ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-suspends-part-of-the-oss-vrp-bug-bounty-program-due-to-an-influx-of-invalid-ai-submissions-product-vulnerability-submissions-ended-october-1    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:41:41

  • Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-updates-guidelines-fake-bylines-ai-generated-headshots    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:42:05

  • Parrot 7.4 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/parrot    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:42:15

  • Privacy and Webmentions ☞ https://kevquirk.com/privacy-and-webmentions "This surprised me, as I'd never considered that Webmentions could be a privacy concern."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:42:54

  • Philippines voices concern over Myanmar air strike deaths, injuries ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-voices-concern-over-myanmar-airstrike-deaths-injuries    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:43:08

  • Houthis claim strike on oil facility near Riyadh, accuse Saudi forces of pounding Yemen's capital ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20261003-houthis-blame-saudi-air-strikes-loud-blasts-rock-yemen-capital-sanaa    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:45:48

  • Microsoft: "use SLOP or stay behind." Microsoft LinkedIn: "slop bad! Stop! It ruins us, Microsoft." Google does the same with YouTube and bug reports: they say utilise slop, then moan about being flooded with chaff.    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:47:55

  • Fortra Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in BoKS ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortra-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-in-boks/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:48:52

  • Malicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/malicious-vpn-config-files-can-let-attackers-run-commands-on-asus-routers-companys-patch-also-fixes-a-bug-that-lets-a-logged-in-attacker-switch-on-telnet-with-root-access    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:49:14

  • California subpoenas Proprietary Chaffbot Company over rogue Hey Hi (AI) agents conducting hacking attacks ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/california-subpoenas-openai-as-it-investigates-huggingface-breach-doj-wants-more-information-on-cybersecurity-incidents-to-determine-developer-responsibility    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:49:22

  • Enough with your don’ts. Fix the system instead, say angry Indian women demanding safety ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/enough-with-your-donts-fix-the-system-instead-say-angry-indian-women-demanding-safety    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:49:44

  • Cornell Case Revives Anger About Handling of Campus Sexual Assault Cases ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/cornell-rape-campus-sexual-assault.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:50:12

  • These Birds Are Louder Than Elephants, Jackhammers and Chain Saws ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/science/loudest-birds.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:50:24

  • Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a “Pet Incinerator”? ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/instagram-pet-incinerator    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:51:19

  • People dunking and volleying slop as "code" "patches" into any project will demoralise and upset people who do things properly and need to inherit the mess of cheating 'colleagues'    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:53:42

  • Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/system76-bans-ai-generated-code-across-many-of-its-cosmic-codebases/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:58:23

  • In Case Anybody Still Believes Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke Cares About GNU/Linux... ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/03/In_Case_Anybody_Still_Believes_Microsoft_Lunduke_Cares_About_GN.shtml    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:58:31

  • Olivia Dean's 'I've Seen It' Faces Seizure, Destruction Demand After Labels Allegedly Ignored Copyright Warning ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/olivia-dean-ive-seen-it-copyright-lawsuit-1823452    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 17:59:05

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Still Relying on Dossier-Driven Polarization to Hide Russian Shenanigans ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/03/trump-is-still-relying-on-dossier-driven-polarization-to-hide-russian-shenanigans/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:00:06

  • US Lawmakers Target Serbia's Democratic Backsliding, Ties To Russia, China, Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-lawmakers-target-serbia-s-democratic-backsliding-ties-to-russia-china-iran/33869695.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:00:17

  • Russia Turns to Striking Kyiv’s Bridges, Threatening a Vital Lifeline ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-bridges-kyiv.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:00:28

  • health @ Savannah: GNU Health as a solution for Europe digital change - Italy Digi-CHange conf ☞ savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10944    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:01:01

  • UN Human Rights Chief warns Ukraine crisis is escalating, urges global action for peace ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/un-high-commissioner-warns-of-escalating-ukraine-human-rights-crisis-urging-international-community-to-take-urgent-action-for-peace/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:01:25

  • Russia strikes another Kyiv bridge, deepening travel chaos in Ukraine's capital ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261003-russia-strikes-another-major-bridge-in-kyiv    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:01:35

  • Latvia partial election results put PM's pro-Ukraine party ahead but coalition partners stumble ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261003-latvia-elections-pm-kulbergs-pro-ukraine-party-ahead-coalition-partners-stumble    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:01:49

  • U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Convicted Felon Allies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/politics/kushner-witkoff-russia-oil-deal.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:03:44

  • Exton 261003 "ArchEX" ☞ https://distrowatch.com/exton    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:03:55

  • Zelenskyy Says Ukraine Will Respond As Putin Vows To Escalate Air Strikes, Warns Foreigners ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-zelenskyy-kyiv-russia-ukraine-war-infrastructure/33869793.html    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:04:02

  • Putin's war for the history books: Dmytro Kuleba speaks to France 24 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20261003-putin-s-war-for-the-history-books-dmytro-kuleba-speaks-to-france-24    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:04:15

  • We May Have Been Wrong About Fasting Before Blood Tests, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-been-wrong-about-fasting-before-blood-tests-study-reveals    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:08:39

  • Scientists Tested Whether Leftovers Really Taste Better The Next Day. One Dish Stood Out. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-tested-whether-leftovers-really-taste-better-the-next-day-one-dish-stood-out    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:09:05

  • Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/old-hearts-become-biologically-younger-when-transplanted-into-younger-people    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:09:26

  • The Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-aging-brain-isnt-declining-its-adapting-study-finds    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:09:41

  • This Sea Creature Looks Like Poop. It May Also Live For 120 Years. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-sea-creature-looks-like-poop-it-may-also-live-for-120-years    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:10:31

  • The Women Fight ‘Til the End https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/04/the-women-fight-til-the-end/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:18:05

  • "If you've heard people talking about Linux, they've probably said that it's complicated. The thing is, the right distribution changes that." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-recommend-people-after-using-linux-full-time/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:23:25

  • Ubuntu Hate is So Overblown. It’s Still a Great Distro. https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/ubuntu-hate-is-so-overblown-its-still-a-great-distro-899ed6baf7b4    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:23:49

  • 4 ways Windows is trying to sabotage your Linux dual-boot https://www.howtogeek.com/4-ways-windows-is-trying-to-sabotage-your-linux-dual-boot/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:26:43

  • I prefer OpenWrt to OPNsense, but this old-school Linux router fits most networks better https://www.makeuseof.com/prefer-openwrt-to-opnsense-but-ipfire-router-fits-network-better/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:27:04

  • This site is slop. Google News should delist it. https://www.scworld.com/brief/new-linux-malware-mimics-network-edge-appliances-to-evade-detection    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:27:39

  • These Linux tools increased my command-line productivity: Here’s how https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-tools-increased-my-command-line-productivity-heres-how/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:28:00

  • "ParrotSec released Parrot OS 7.4 today as the latest stable installation/live image of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for penetration testing and security enthusiasts." https://9to5linux.com/parrot-os-7-4-released-with-anonsurf-6-0-updated-raspberry-pi-images    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:28:22

  • Valve closed the Steam Frame Linux launch bug on September 27, and no fix has shipped https://mixed-news.com/en/steam-frame-linux-desktop-steamvr-never-starts-no-fix-yet/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:28:46

  • ChrysCapital, Tata Capital Healthcare Fund invest $70 million in Chennai-based Linux Laboratories https://indianstartupnews.com/funding/chryscapital-tata-capital-healthcare-fund-invest-70-million-in-chennai-based-linux-laboratories-12594026    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:29:39

  • LinuxTV – Debian-based Linux distribution designed for televisions https://www.linuxlinks.com/linuxtv-debian-based-linux-distribution-televisions/    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 18:47:20

  • "this isn’t your granddads ibm anymore" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4415gmd "Somebody wrote this in another thread and it hit home. The old IBM and the current one are two completely different companies. Outside of the name, I can't think of one thing they share. Those of you who've been here 2+ decades know exactly what I'm talking about."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 20:51:27

  • "The quote is 100% accurate. The standards, values, morals and just good old fashion hard work are long gone. Ironically the new IBM has been coasting on the old IBMs reputation for decades now. They aren’t the same and average joe on Main Street is also starting to realize this as well. It’s the truiest and easiest example of depicting something that is a shell of its former self."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 20:52:00

  • "The quote is 100% accurate. The standards, values, morals and just good old fashion hard work are long gone. Ironically the new IBM has been coasting on the old IBMs reputation for decades now."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 20:52:09

  • "They aren’t the same and average joe on Main Street is also starting to realize this as well. It’s the truiest and easiest example of depicting something that is a shell of its former self."    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 20:52:13

  • "Same with Microsoft." https://www.teamblind.com/post/2027-will-be-even-worse-0z6gjwe7    

posted Sunday, October 04, 2026 at 21:02:56
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