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"How best for a North American to plan deGoogling? Beyond easy fixes like installing F-Droid, using proxies for video watching, how much planning should a beginner do to migrate from a Gmail account, install a custom ROM, choose new alternative FOSS apps?" gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20261004-christina-s-five-questions-october-2026/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:13:05

  • "Codeberg voted to restrict LLM-heavy projects on the forge. I was a supporting member. I had been somehow proud of that — supporting Codeberg, being on their platform, and what they stood for." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-10-05-getting-off-codeberg.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:14:06

  • "About half a year ago I wrote about software patents (2026-03-18 I haven't thought about software patents in a long time). I was unhappy. And I think I was right. Just now I was looking through my dependencies again and noticed that something has changed." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-04-heic-patents    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:15:17

  • "Instead of manually configuring the system, you describe the desired state of the operating system in Nix configuration files. NixOS then creates the system from this configuration, making it reproducible, version-controlled, and easily rollable back." gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2026-10-04-My_New_Operating_System_of_choice_-_NixOS.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:15:52

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2116.jpg    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:16:14

  • "If I have set up everything correctly, this post will be visible in my Gemini capsule, but not my web site. It was created using Micropub (via IndieKit) but instead of using a traditional indieweb type like ‘article’ or ‘note’, it is a ‘gempost’." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/posts/2026-10-04-first-post.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:16:52

  • "I enjoyed this post and of course agree with their “conclusion” that the Ship of Theseus thought experiment is about the names we give “things”, which are really patterns with discernible continuity through time." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/posts/2026-10-04-the-i-of-theseus.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:17:35

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1759.jpg    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:17:50

  • "The Memory Police is a novel by Yoko Ogawa from 1994. The plot is very original and hard to categorize. According to Wikipedia it is a science fiction dystopian novel, but I am not sure this is a right categorization." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/the-memory-police.txt    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:18:39

  • "Someone posted a link to a Guix book project on Github on the System Crafter’s Guix discourse. The explanations are very well done and I’ve been learning more about features I didn’t know. There are some weird AI generated images that it makes use of, but the text itself is great." gemini://thatit.be/2026-10-04-14-12-49.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:19:12

  • "So, there has to be a good separation between *goodness* and _*keeping it*_. Goodness is the things to propagand about, to spread forward. Like for me, is the GNU operating system and Free Software." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-10-04__Expansion.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:19:55

  • "Welcome to the knowledge garden. The organization of content in this site follows standard [Org Roam] guidelines. Pages in Notes section are meant for long term reference and covers both technical and non-technical. Journal pages are meant for quick notes/links." gemini://prabu.freeddns.org/index.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:21:17

  • "I still hear it said that you can’t believe in God and accept the teachings of science. They are 2 incompatible “worlds” - you must live in one or the other." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-10-04-bible-science    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:22:07

  • fingers burned gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/fingers_burned    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:22:47

  • "As I've been ahem digging into Gopherspace this past month, I of course wanted to see how I could get there from my phone. I already had Lagrange for the Gemini protocol, and Lagrange handles Gopher in a Gemini client better than Netscape ever did in a web browser." gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/apps/gopher-android.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:23:18

  • "Another basic gopher client, similar to DeBurrow, but with different quirks. Bookmarks and history are supported, you can set your home page, it's visually clean-looking with icons for folders, text docs, web links, etc." gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/apps/diggiedog.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:23:47

  • "An extremely minimalist Gopher client for Android. I kind of like the text-based toolbar, though I had to experiment to figure out what each button does." gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/apps/gophercle.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:24:15

  • Pocket Gopher (Android) gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/apps/pocket-gopher.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:24:47

  • "I want to make a commitment to myself. It's only for a short time. Six month, starting at the beginning of this month. I want to take a commitment toward my health, wealth and living arrangement." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/commitment    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:25:57

  • "Tools only help if you have habits to run them through. I will argue that the habits matter more than the software by walking through five of them: how to handle sources as you read, how to size the work, how to keep your drafts safe, and how to protect the hours in which any of it happens." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/research-writing-strategies    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:27:34

  • "Most practitioner-scholars never study strangers. They study their own congregation, their own school, the organization they founded or lead, and sometimes communities for whom "research" carries a documented history of extraction." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/research-ethics-and-indigenous-data-sovereignty    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:28:15

  • "I will argue that search is a skill with distinct instruments rather than one big box you type into, and I will show it by sorting the tools into three jobs: broad discovery, citation mapping, and the subscription databases you are already paying for through tuition." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/research-databases-and-search-engines    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:29:22

  • "I don't remember why I downloaded The Moon Pool when I first discovered Standard Ebooks and set about grabbing a bunch of books to read later (as one does). I finally got around to reading it." gemini://kvibber.com/reviews/books/moon-pool.gmi    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 04:29:58

  • When Will Libera Chat Ban GAFAM and GAFAM-Funded Projects? https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/05/when-will-libera-chat-ban-gafam-and-gafam-funded-projects/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 06:00:14

  • "It is that time of the year again. It is time to remind people that there are no Nobel prizes for astrology, professional wrestling, or economics."    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 06:10:14

  • Nobel Week to open with medicine prize announcement https://qazinform.com/news/nobel-week-to-open-with-medicine-prize-announcement-d8cd66/amp    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 06:10:56

  • "Join the Omarchy community on Libera.Chat" https://www.omarchyarchive.com/creators/mike-gardner/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 06:12:29

  • (Famous last words)    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 06:12:39

  • Libera Chat Tolerates People Who Say “Gas the Jews” and Want to Stab Colleagues https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/05/libera-chat-tolerates-people-who-say-gas-the-jews-and-want-to-stab-colleagues/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 07:15:59

  • Breaches of Civil Procedure Rules in the UK (Now That the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Would Care) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/05/breaches-of-civil-procedure-rules-in-the-uk-now-that-the-solicitors-regulation-authority-sra-would-care/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 07:46:56

  • "Within 48 hours, pretty much anyone with a PR team or a social media account had found a way to claim victory." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/thomson-reuters-v-ross-fair-use-generative-ai/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 07:59:33

  • "Calling for filmmakers to hang because they expose your country’s violence is barbaric." ☛ https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/10/04/israel-cannot-edit-its-crimes/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 07:59:51

  • "Cumulative spending globally on data centres alone could top US$30-trillion by 2050, according to a projection by PwC, almost matching the value of outstanding US treasuries." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/ai-spending-railway-dot-com-booms/286847/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:00:21

  • "“Right now, the only requirement to get the benefits is capital investment,” says Emily Kraschel, a tax policy analyst at the Searchlight Institute, a public policy think tank." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/rural-data-centers-are-in-for-a-big-federal-tax-break/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:00:29

  • "Until last week, it was common in Australia for a card surcharge to be added to retail transactions." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/the-end-of-card-surcharges-in-australia/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:00:56

  • "The service I most want to see this from is AWS" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/ | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:01:02

  • "It’s time to reveal the secret of why I’m in Wellington" ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/10/04/a-day-in-wellington.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:01:47

  • [Old] "Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savannah-like ecosystems at 1.5-1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increase" ☛ https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/deforestation-lowers-threshold-for-amazon-degradation-to-below-2degc-warming | Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:02:35

  • "Some of it is true. His code name was Lawful, and Ted did want to prove that he couldn’t be defeated." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/10/04/i-grew-up-next-door-to-ted-kaczynski/ | Source: Salon    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:03:05

  • "Her son is like millions of other kids around the world whose physical and mental well-being are at risk because of excess screen time" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/youth-screen-time-tech-companies-9.7365434 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:03:49

  • Seems likely HearsayBoy got a conditional fee agreement (CFA or ‘no-win no-fee’ agreement) with the hired guns who send us illegal threats https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/28/What_I_Explained_to_Police_About_Blackmail_and_Death_Threats_vi.shtml    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:06:02

  • "skeptical public that its plan to build a $1.25 billion [data center]" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-eds/los-alamos-partnership-threatens-research-enterprise-ties-university-to-nuclear-weapons-research/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:07:22

  • "ethnonationalist political project" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-greens-vote-zionism-racism-despite-revolt-4-5-mps-israel-bans-polanski-1823587 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:07:35

  • "he U.S. Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2CR), based in Bavaria, Germany, has successfully launched an attack drone it claims is the first the unit has built and flown." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/us-army-unit-deploys-drone-assembled-completely-in-house-uses-3d-printed-dragoon-bombs-with-ball-bearing-shrapnel-device-has-a-range-of-up-to-12-miles-and-can-be-configured-for-anti-personnel-and-anti-light-armor-missions | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:08:08

  • "has successfully launched an attack drone it claims is the first the unit has built and flown." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/us-army-unit-deploys-drone-assembled-completely-in-house-uses-3d-printed-dragoon-bombs-with-ball-bearing-shrapnel-device-has-a-range-of-up-to-12-miles-and-can-be-configured-for-anti-personnel-and-anti-light-armor-missions | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:11:50

  • "In Part 1 of this series, I laid out the foundational OpenBSD and Unbound architecture used to reclaim network sovereignty from an LG Smart TV." ☛ https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service-part4-the-factory-reset-privacy-trap/ | Source: Fabricati Diem    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:12:10

  • "If the promises of these weapons salesmen are to be believed, the US war with Iran should already be over." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/congress-must-investigate-war-profiteers-once-again | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:12:33

  • "common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse" ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:13:04

  • "To my mind, a public post on an open platform like Mastodon is precisely that: public. The Fediverse is decentralised by design." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/privacy-and-webmentions | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:13:11

  • "The screenshot above is from a running pod. It wrote a haiku about the GPU shortage while occupying one of the GPUs in question." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosted-ai-qwen-38-on-a-rented-blackwell-at-150-tokens-per-second/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:13:36

  • "I work at a company doing things with computers, so of course there have been run-ins with AI at my dayjob, too." ☛ https://jssfr.de/2026-10-04-we-lost-the-war-on-quality.html | Source: Jonas Schäfer    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:14:00

  • "As recently as last summer, I added a new bookmark folder in Safari called “A.I. Slop”." ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/10/04/lazy-websites/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:14:14

  • "Scam Altman says" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/04/sam-altman-says-people-need-to-accept-some-bad-things-are-going-to-happen-if-they-want-ai/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:14:52

  • "The closer you look, the more you see doom loops everywhere. Journalists, for example, used to publish work under the assumption that online platforms would drive readership to them." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-is-creating-doom-loops-all-over-the-economy | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:15:07

  • "What was missing in my toolchest for that OS was a small program to print the system's uptime -- just like uptime on Unix." ☛ https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-04/0/POSTING-en.html | Source: Peter Hofmann    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:16:29

  • "A Q-switch is an optical attenuator; when placed in the laser cavity, it keeps the cavity from reaching resonance." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/04/upgrading-a-benchtop-laser-for-megawatt-power/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:21:15

  • "The Variax guitars are an "old" series of modelling guitars from Line6." ☛ https://blog.brixit.nl/variax/ | Source: Martijn Braam    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:21:24

  • "Long before he became famous as the author of The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt was a social psychologist whose work revolutionized the field." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/10/should-we-ban-ai-for-kids/688864/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:22:11

  • "Approximately none of these programs have a simple setting to invert themselves to a light theme." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/TerminalProgramsColourModeWish | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:22:51

  • "Computing is about choice, especially in our open source communities." ☛ https://chrismaiorana.com/m-x-magic/ | Source: Chris Maiorana    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:23:11

  • "I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/would-you-like-to-write-to-me | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:23:24

  • "Trump mistakes Brazil for India, says 125 million voted today in 'India's Presidential Election' | India News" https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/trump-mistakes-brazil-for-india-says-125-million-voted-today-in-india-presidential-election-101791172300909.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:26:42

  • "Who Dropped the Bonds? Interest Rates, Part II" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/who-dropped-the-bonds-interest-rates    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:26:50

  • "Friends Don’t Let Friends Join the Military" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/friends-dont-let-friends-join-the    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:26:59

  • "Putin Our Invitee - by Jay Nordlinger - The Next Move" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/putin-our-invitee    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:27:07

  • "Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/christopher-rufo-whines-about-being-named-as-the-propagandist-who-rationalized-alleged-klan-act-violence/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:27:22

  • DRM is An Attack on Today’s Youth https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/05/drm-is-an-attack-on-todays-youth/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:47:00

  • GNU/Linuxn 6% in Niger https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/niger/#monthly-200903-202610    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 08:54:20

  • Feedback: "restricted boot got omitted: https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/04/Many_Topics_to_Cover.shtml "    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:04:06

  • "...every post about him which leaves out restricted boot helps his narrative that it is a personal spat rather than a community and technical issue"    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:04:32

  • Ad hom tactics: "Don't Dare Call Corporate/State Strategy a Conspiracy NO MORE! - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/10/04/095205    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:04:58

  • "It is LoRa - Long Range, Low Power - which is almost impossible to trace." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/terrorists-in-kashmir-found-using-advanced-communication-device-lora-12138286#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:10:12

  • "I have used $p instead of Wikipedia's n, as that one is used for the input. Other than that, this is just a formula to code job." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/pythagoras-primed.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:10:37

  • "math_error(7) has this to say about support for math_errhandling in glibc: [...]" ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20261004-math_errhandling.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:11:15

  • "A couple of weeks ago I spoke about this topic at KC OSS Happy Hour and I wanted to turn the general ideas into a post I can point people at who are suffering from this" ☛ https://frankwiles.com/posts/open-source-maintainership-in-an-llm-world/ | Source: Frank Wiles    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:11:32

  • "Neither vendor offers an API for the data we need." ☛ https://joost.blog/just-ship-an-api/ | Source: Joost de Valk    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:11:56

  • "Well, this statement is, depending on where you view it from, either trivially true, trivially false, or... at least mildly interesting." ☛ https://simonsafar.com/2026/your_phone_is_not_your_computer/ | Source: Simon Safar    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:12:17

  • "The first thing I noticed was how many people already knew each other compared to how many were new. I can’t judge this objectively." ☛ https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/w2k26-edmonton-openbsd-hackathon/ | Source: Rafael Sadowski    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:29:24

  • "Because ssg only supports my site, and its source lives along side it, I don’t need a template system, i.e. Liquid." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/04/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:29:47

  • "When you think about that - it's hardly a hack. Just a misconfiguration of a system in a highly insecure way." ☛ https://connortumbleson.com/2026/10/05/software-secure-defaults/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:30:08

  • "I've taken it a little further and dropped a few honeytraps into the site to improve the bot detection rate." ☛ https://blog.altos.au/post/autobanning-bad-requests/ | Source: Jon    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:30:38

  • "I mostly listen to music on my phone, rarely on my PC. Usually with Bluetooth headphones." ☛ https://janlukas.blog/posts/music-hosting-struggles | Source: Jan-Lukas Else    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:31:09

  • "I've been recently increasingly interested in amateur radio and (since I'm yet to receive my license) I wanted to engage in the hobby in a way I actually could" ☛ https://nemin.hu/radio-patching/index.html | Source: Nemin    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:31:41

  • "If there’s a silver lining, I might end up being able to sell ours for more than I bought them for, given the current world of RAM prices in which we live. That’s nuts." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/i-think-im-done-with-the-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:32:25

  • "Not only did old scopes have plugins so you could reconfigure them" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/04/tearing-down-a-heavy-oscilloscope/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:33:41

  • "Among the notable additions are expanded and improved filtering and pattern matching features" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261004115249 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:36:04

  • "This is the fourth article in the FreeBSD Foundationals series. The first covered Jails, the second covered ZFS, and the third covered the boot process" ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-rcd-the-service-framework-that-fits-in-your-head/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:36:16

  • "On OpenBSD, /etc/daily and /etc/weekly quietly watch over the machine and mail you a report." ☛ https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20261004 | Source: Vincent Delft    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:53:59

  • "[...] while the GhostBSD lead developer begins work on a new desktop environment." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261005 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:54:10

  • "Each belt contains an ESP32-C3, an MPU-6050, and enough rechargeable battery to make it all work" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/04/motion-control-via-belt/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:54:50

  • "netip.Addr features an Unmap() method returning the unwrapped IPv4 contained in an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address: from ::ffff:203.0.113.10 or ::ffff:cb00:710a, it returns 203.0." ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-go-netip-addrto6 | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 15:56:12

  • I think I’m done with the Raspberry Pi ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/i-think-im-done-with-the-raspberry-pi/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:11:08

  • GNOME Internationalization & Localization: GNOME 51 localization & news about Damned Lies ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/i18n/2026/10/04/gnome-51-localization-news-about-damned-lies/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:13:32

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Heckled Over E. Jean Carroll Court Cases as Protester Shouts 'Liar' and 'Rapist' During Ohio Rally ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-protester-removed-ohio-rally-carroll-cases-1823556    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:14:59

  • instantOS – lightweight Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution for power users ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/instantos-lightweight-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:15:36

  • Play Roblox on GNU/Linux without Wine, using Sober ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/play-roblox-linux-sober    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:20:00

  • Besgnulinux 1.0 "Openbox" ☞ https://distrowatch.com/besgnulinux    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:20:29

  • ML4W 2.16.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ml4w    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:20:40

  • VasakOS 2026.10.04 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vasakos    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:20:55

  • Darktable 5.6.2 Fixed OpenCL Support for defective chip maker Intel Compute Runtime 26.35 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/darktable-5-6-2-released/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:21:15

  • Margine 20261004 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/margine    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:21:32

  • Winux 11.26.10 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/winux    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:21:45

  • Israel prepares to mark October 7 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/israel-prepares-to-mark-october-7    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:22:09

  • L’indépendance, ou en finir avec la vassalité ☞ https://gaelduval.com/lindependance-ou-la-fin-de-letat-de-vassalite/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:23:41

  • Unabhängigkeit oder das Ende des Vasallenstatus ☞ https://gaelduval.com/unabhaengigkeit-oder-das-ende-des-vasallenstatus/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:23:50

  • Brigador Killers: Review on GNU/Linux and Steam Deck ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/brigador-killers/index.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:24:29

  • Older AMD GPUs Get a Second Life in Linux's amdgpu Driver ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/older-amd-gp-us-get-a-second-life-in-linuxs-amdgpu-driver/index.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:24:48

  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Radiotext and The Great Release - 2026-09-30 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-30-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:25:16

  • YouTube Shorts Recommendations Will Prioritize ‘Genuinely Valuable’ Original Content ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/02/youtube-shorts-prioritize-original-content/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:26:01

  • Robotics startup has real human vs. robot cage match, California responds with cease-and-desist order ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/robotics/robotics-startup-has-real-human-vs-robot-cage-match-california-responds-with-cease-and-desist-order-regulator-threatens-misdemeanor-charges-after-youtuber-fights-three-robotic-humanoids    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:27:23

  • Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in / Malware is not wanted ☞ https://www.neowin.net/editorials/linux-still-gets-half-baked-software-here-is-the-proof/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:29:01

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

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:29:10

  • How To Install Darktable on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-darktable-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:29:38

  • PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202610/page14.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:36:03

  • ICYMI: Opposition To Data Centers Sweeps Across America, Intensifies https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202610/page01.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:40:01

  • Inkscape Tutorial: Create A Letter Logo https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202610/page03.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:40:33

  • Wiki Pick: Keep Your System In Good Order https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202610/page09.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:41:25

  • Using Kate As A Typst Editor https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202610/page04.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:41:56

  • All The Tools You Need To Record OTA TV Broadcasts & Edit Out The Ads https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202610/page06.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:43:39

  • Pete Davidson Has Been Crushing Black Market Peptides to Get Disgustingly Swole ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/pete-davidson-peptides    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:50:00

  • You’ll Never Guess Which Political Ideology People With Low Cognitive Ability Are Drawn Toward, According to New Research ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/political-ideology-conservative-christian-cognitive-ability-research    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:50:22

  • Harmonicon's song editor, explained with one song about a jumping harmonica ☞ https://tcanabrava.github.io/harmonicon-song-editor/    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:50:55

  • Israeli Authorities Trade Blame for Failure to Flag FlyDubai Co-Pilot ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/world/middleeast/flydubai-israel-debate-pilot-security.html    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:53:32

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:53:44

  • Israel Had the Crew List, a Pilot Ban and a 2024 Warning, But the Omani Co-Pilot Still Flew to Tel Aviv ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/flydubai-co-pilot-attack-captain-fz1073-1823551    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:53:54

  • Iranian national extradited to US over alleged $3.4 billion state-backed hacking campaign in rare legal win for law enforcement ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/iranian-national-extradited-to-us-over-alleged-usd3-4-billion-state-backed-hacking-campaign-in-rare-legal-win-for-law-enforcement-operative-helped-steal-31-terabytes-of-data-from-over-300-universities    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:54:14

  • Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using Hey Hi (AI) Slop of Troops in Warzones ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facebook-content-farms-stolen-valor-ai-slop-troops-war    

posted Monday, October 05, 2026 at 16:54:49
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