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UK https://www.dw.com/en/uk-village-votes-to-secede-in-asylum-center-plan-protest/a-79295826    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 04:45:51

  • extreme heat is hitting wallets https://www.dw.com/en/how-extreme-heat-is-hitting-wallets/a-79268306    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 04:46:14

  • Affecting More Than 3 Million People https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-data-breach-exposed-social-security-numbers-millions-1822709    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 04:48:39

  • ‘Obscurity not security’: Government accused of overreach in Medicare ‘hack’ response https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/obscurity-not-security-government-accused-of-overreach-in-medicare-hack-response-20260927-p610sm.html    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 04:49:18

  • The Hammer Withdraws: Object-Oriented Ontology and the End of Human Privilege gemini://adjb.smol.pub/object-oriented-ontology    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:03:16

  • "Most claims to novelty are rebranding. I will argue that a genuine new direction is always continuity plus departure, showing it through the New Directions in the Humanities network and its anchor volume, Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy's Conflicting Humanities (2016), then setting a counterweight against it." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/new-directions-in-the-humanities    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:03:55

  • "I will show it through Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker's account of oscillation, Luke Turner's manifesto, and Jason Ananda Josephson Storm's reading of what modernity never lost." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/metamodernism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:04:50

  • "Developer and computer science student Paul Loisil has launched a second-generation open-hardware do-it-yourself quadrupedal robot dog, with which he hopes to make robotics more accessible: the TNY-360 v2." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202610/20261005-tny.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:05:20

  • "So I figured I'd write something in response to some of the posts in Gemini I've read over the past few weeks and kinda liked! I spend so much more time reading than writing... Please excuse me if the summary or grammar is kinda off." gemini://timeinbetween.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-10-06-re-gemlogs-smallworld-kdan-iazia-calvusrex.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:05:51

  • "Momo is a novel by Michael Ende published in 1974." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/momo-a-charming-book.txt    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:06:32

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1760.jpg    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:07:07

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2117.jpg    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:07:12

  • "I assume I'm not alone in getting security warnings when using smol.pub on the web. Do we need to be concerned? I'm sure it will get sorted out." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-10-05-warning    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:07:56

  • "This is a rough season for me. The things I’ve historically depended on for my “joie de vivre”—my feelings of purpose, belonging, drive—have all been collapsing, or have collapsed. Without these things, life loses its flavor, becomes bland, and it becomes hard to feel the point in anything." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/10/05/fighting-for-purpose/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:08:24

  • now sleep gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/now_sleep    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:09:03

  • "I've been publishing documents on my own Gemini capsule for about six years now. Several years ago, I turned off my gemini->http proxy, and since then I've been publishing exclusively on Gemini" gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20261003-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:09:37

  • "unAmericans have, in recent years, coined a number of terms to describe things that describe certain patterns of behaviour, behaviour that they experience not just inwardly, but also in their interaction with the rest of the world." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1791251222    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:10:13

  • "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/gemlog/2026-10-04-the-i-of-theseus.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:10:51

  • "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/gemlog/2026-10-04-first-post.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:11:23

  • Anon: Git 3 will use SHA256 and be incompatible with the SHA1 in use now. I plan to reset the repositories to their beginnings when that gets rolled out in Debian, if not sooner.    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:18:28

  • Supermassive Lays Off 70 People Less Than Six Months After Releasing Its New Sci-Fi Horror Game https://kotaku.com/supermassive-lays-off-70-people-less-than-six-months-after-releasing-its-new-sci-fi-horror-game-2000740078    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:29:29

  • "Layden believes Microsoft has changed its Xbox strategy too often and now needs to commit more clearly to one direction." https://windowsreport.com/ex-playstation-boss-shawn-layden-says-xbox-needs-a-clear-direction/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:30:28

  • "120 is the new 40… mandatory training is out of control" https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1wv9ybd/120_is_the_new_40_mandatory_training_is_out_of/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:33:00

  • slow news != no news, slow news means the "news industry" is replaced by PR industry, then paid-for "AI" pushers (i.e. sellers of a Ponzi scheme). We must adapt and change how we think of the news, it has to be done in a grossroots fashion if the fifth pillar is sawed off.    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:53:31

  • (grassroots)    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:53:51

  • "According to the association's vice chair, Outi Simström, there is a common misunderstanding about the sector's earnings model." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20249883 | Source: Yle    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:55:35

  • orangesite seems to have brought new occasional or regular readers    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:56:29

  • "But before we get to that, I want to talk about three under-the-radar developments that explain why the food Americans eat is overpriced and often poor quality." ☛ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-three-quiet-scandals | Source: Matt Stoller    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:57:15

  • "The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open [Internet] to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/05/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-the-finished-internet/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:57:47

  • HearsayBoy posts photo, looks like 60, but in his late 40s.    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:59:05

  • "Zivot was right to say that Pike would suffer. But the nature of that suffering was, if anything, even worse than he predicted." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/christa-pike-execution-updates-death-penalty-torture/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 05:59:37

  • "The demand appeared alongside his rejection of the newspaper's reporting on empty seats. His post accused news organisations of understating attendance at his rallies while exaggerating the scale of events involving Bernie Sanders" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-calls-media-arrests-over-rally-crowd-reports-1823825 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:02:40

  • "He sided with pollster J. Ann Selzer and the newspaper in affirming that the poll and coverage of it were constitutionally protected political speech, not a commercial product." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/iowa-judge-dismisses-trumps-lawsuit-against-des-moines-register-and-pollster/# | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:32:06

  • "The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government" ☛ https://piji.com.au/blog/us-media-boycott-australia/ | Source: Public Interest Journalism Initiative    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:32:20

  • "FBI agents raided Burke’s home newsroom, and the National Basketball Association further alleged that Burke used “compromised credentials” to access NBA video streams." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/journalist-under-prosecution-sues-us-government-for-seizing-materials/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:32:30

  • "The Internet Archive Hero Award recognizes individuals and organizations that have demonstrated leadership in making information available to people around the world." ☛ https://blog.archive.org/2026/10/05/internet-archive-to-honor-poynter-institute-and-investigative-reporters-and-editors-with-2026-hero-award-for-preserving-local-news-online/ | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:32:37

  • "Banned Books Week is happening right now-- October 4-10, 2026. The theme this year is "Protect the Freedom to Read, Let Books Be." You can access the official website here" ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/10/banned-books-week-2026-advice-and.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:39:05

  • "The troubling trend of book challenges and bans in libraries across the US continues." ☛ https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2026/10/05/authors-discuss-being-banned-part-1-patricia-mccormick-and-stephen-chbosky/ | Source: American Library Association    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:39:23

  • "From jail, the former mayor of Istanbul accuses President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of hollowing out Turkey’s democracy to stay in power." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/world/middleeast/turkey-banned-book-opposition-leader.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:41:02

  • "The malware’s operators were seen indiscriminately exploiting Avtech, EnGenius, D-Link, Hytec, Ivanti, Lantronix, Linear, MeiG, Realtek, Sunhillo, Tenda, and TP-Link" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/linux-backdoor-abuses-stun-protocol-exploits-dozens-of-flaws/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:41:28

  • "In the beginning, I fell into the trap of trying to reason with these hostile users. I would write long, detailed emails attempting to explain." ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/almost-deleted-my-first-website-because-of-trolls/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:41:45

  • "The study, published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, looked at cognitive factors while stripping out variables like demographics and education." ☛ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/political-ideology-conservative-christian-cognitive-ability-research | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:41:56

  • "But there are lessons from past projects that we have to bear in mind." ☛ https://theconversation.com/rhinos-and-elephants-can-cause-huge-problems-if-reintroduced-badly-heres-how-to-get-it-right-292320 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:44:32

  • "Amphibians and reptiles are a reminder that there is no single universal way of experiencing the natural world." ☛ https://theconversation.com/unusual-senses-the-secret-superpowers-of-amphibians-and-reptiles-292854 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:44:38

  • [Old] "The new night train will connect Brussels and Amsterdam with Copenhagen and Malmö, creating a direct overnight service between the Benelux, Denmark and southern Sweden." ☛ https://www.euronews.com/2026/08/25/new-european-sleeper-train-to-launch-from-brussels-and-amsterdam-to-copenhagen-and-malmo-i | Source: EuroNews    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:44:59

  • "The data center boom is sweeping across America in many forms." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/05/upshot/data-center-scale.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:56:50

  • "Oil and gas corporations Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy want the Supreme Court to decide that municipalities can’t sue them in state court for damages related to climate change." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2026/10052/supreme-court-climate-change-suncor-exxon-mobil | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:56:57

  • "They’re labelled sci-fi, but in 2026, are we really that far from those imagined futures?" ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/10/as-the-world-moves-forward-u-s-retreats-on-climate-change/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 06:57:09

  • "Many people are learning about data centers and advocating for their communities’ interests." ☛ https://therevelator.org/virginia-data-centers/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:19:51

  • "I soon learned that the climate crisis isn’t just about a warming planet." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/10/05/I-Used-Believe-Climate-Change-Hoax/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:19:57

  • [Old] "Ex-intelligence contractor convicted of leaking report on Russian interference in US election released for good behavior" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/14/reality-winner-nsa-whistleblower-released-prison | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:31:52

  • "That's not what happened. Instead, in the process of fact-checking the document, the reporters assigned to the story sent the document to the FBI, which sent it to the NSA. " ☛ https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2025/09/11/nx-s1-5530026/nsa-leaker-reality-winner-is-rebuilding-her-life-and-looking-back-at-her-past/ | Source: Houston Public Media    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:32:00

  • "Those credits have value during a shortage. Water can later be pumped from underground to provide backup supplies for certain water users." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/10/05/arizonas-water-bank-shifts-from-saving-to-spending/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:32:28

  • "And for the sake of tradition, it would be great that the festival would be smaller and more folk, rather than being permanently overcrowded." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/oktoberfest/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:32:35

  • "Once there, they learned they "had not been documented as wounded in combat" and would not be hospitalized, which Bearman attributed to a coding error." ☛ https://www.rawstory.com/us-iran-war-wounded/ | Source: Raw Story    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:32:58

  • "We've built a society that offers infinite rewards to anyone who can put a name – and thus an identity – to anyone caught in public having an argument" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/pervert-glasses/#authentic-self | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:33:23

  • "As Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told local reporters in a statement, the woman admitted to using Claude like a “diary,” apparently unaware that her chat history could be read by Anthropic employees." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-police-violence-safety | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:33:32

  • "Such a [breach] would be disastrous. Meta asks users to let Muse control everything from their bank accounts to their emails." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-muse-data-breach-bank-accounts-email-archives | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:33:41

  • "It is against that backdrop that the sight of Jalali wearing a networked device has struck a nerve." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-smartwatch-gholamreza-jalali-criticism-security/33870633.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:35:46

  • "I have uploaded to CPAN some tooling modules which allow Perl documentation to be authored as Markdown files - or Docbook XML articles" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/aspeer/2026/10/perl-documentation-including-pod-with-markdown-and-docbook.html | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:36:11

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/250000-impacted-by-data-breaches-at-new-jersey-texas-healthcare-firms/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:36:24

  • "The news highlights glaring failures of moderation across Meta’s vast social media platforms." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-gay-bars-allowing-graphic-child-abuse | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:36:40

  • "If I asked you a question, it means I either assumed you had subject knowledge or you’re a gate blocking me from doing something I need done." ☛ https://ohhfishal.net/Posts/claude |    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:37:15

  • "That's it, right? The whole thing, their entire business model." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/ai-companies-are-parasites | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:37:20

  • When You Expose Microsoft Corruption and Hate Crimes https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/when-you-expose-microsoft-corruption-and-hate-crimes/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:42:47

  • "However, I still have one lingering question. If the AI tools are truly miraculous, why isn’t the quality of software getting better?" ☛ https://catskull.net/wheres-the-quality.html | Source: Dave DeGraw    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:42:55

  • "As always, let’s start with the physics. AI is what lawyers call an unavoidably unsafe product." ☛ https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/10/05/sam-altman-said-something-true-said-it-badly-the-internet-lost-its-mind/ | Source: Jeffrey Snover    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:43:05

  • "Just last week, OpenAI announced that it had paused the development of its frontier AI models after its next-generation one showed too many signs of dangerous behavior" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-world-suffer-glories-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:43:19

  • "The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, “unsuccessful attempts” to “exploit” the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation hosts" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/1004929/wikipedia-openai-rogue-bots-wikimedia-foundation-outage | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:43:35

  • "It has become one of the most popular sources of information over the last decade, allowing people to make verified edits to pages." ☛ https://therecord.media/wikimedia-foundation-openai-agents-report | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:43:49

  • "that we have discovered some activity by these 'rogue' OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/wikipedia-operator-says-openais-rogue-agents-possibly-tied-to-data-service-disruption-in-may/articleshow/134715909.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:43:59

  • "These types of successful intrusions can expose sensitive data or disrupt website services that users rely on, while clusters of agents can attempt attacks at a scale that is difficult for defenders to manage" ☛ https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/ | Source: Wikimedia Foundation    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:44:12

  • "According to arXiv, it received 9,869 submissions in September 2016, 20,569 submissions in September 2024, and 40,363 submissions in September 2026." ☛ https://www.404media.co/arxiv-is-rate-limiting-submissions-because-it-cant-keep-up-with-ai-slop/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:44:22

  • "Most edge AI/ML workloads belong on the CPU, but accelerators are important for the small minority of workloads that the CPU can’t accommodate." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/seeing-understanding-and-responding-low-power-cnn-vlm-and-slm-workloads-on-raspberry-pi-5/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:44:33

  • "Three franchisees told Reuters that the AI pricing engine has widened existing price differences between restaurants, even as close as between neighborhood to neighborhood." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/mcdonalds-ai-burger-pricing | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:44:41

  • "Specifically, as Apple calls out here, AI agents." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/apple-is-changing-full-disk-access-in-macos/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:45:13

  • "Researchers and security experts said the vulnerability — CVE-2026-88779 — is less concerning because exploitation triggers denial of service and only impacts instances that have SAML" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/citrix-netscaler-third-exploited-zero-day-vulnerability/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:45:23

  • "Administrators initially reported reboots of fully patched NetScaler systems on Friday, and Citrix soon confirmed the existence of another zero-day exploited in the wild." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-citrix-netscaler-zero-day-hits-appliances-patched-days-earlier/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:45:37

  • "Frustrated election officials say technology glitches with Texas’ TEAM system are making it harder to get through a backlog the state revealed last month." ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/10/05/voter-registration-system-team-secretary-of-state/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:45:56

  • "I’m focusing on more care, compassion and kindness toward myself lately." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/nice-things/ | Source: Ava    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:47:22

  • "The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed warrants for Afghan Education Minister Habibullah Agha" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20261005-icc-unseals-arrest-warrants-for-taliban-education-ministers | Source: France24    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:48:21

  • "But the real strong feeling I have probably stems from a youth spent playing in a metal band and hanging out in the hardcore and punk scenes a lot: screw the man, man." ☛ https://nathansnelgrove.com/2026/10/blogging-is-more-vital-than-ever | Source: Nathaniel Snelgrove    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:48:30

  • "If you can't identify what makes your story unique and interesting, chances are nobody else will either." https://comm.gatech.edu/resources/writers/5ws    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:49:09

  • "New stats for the day are finished [and] the trend is still up ..."    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:51:03

  • Sirius friends. "thank you for being an excellent colleague."    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:51:24

  • Mark the "CEO" still uses two "shells", one in the US, one in the UK: http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/06/SIRIUS_CORPORATION_LIMITED_as_Evidence_of_the_Financial_Shell_G.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:51:45

  • Communicating Effectively https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/communicating-effectively/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 07:59:43

  • "We are conducting a survey about academic philosophers’ views of (1) the effect of exploitation on subjective wellbeing" ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/10/05/experiments-on-exploitation/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:01:53

  • Brigading Against Women - Part XX - Attempts by Lozza to Deplatform Techrights and Tux Machines Only Days After I Sued Garrett and My Wife Also Sued Garrett (Shortly Before the Serial Strangler From Microsoft Joined) http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/06/Brigading_Against_Women_Part_XX_Attempts_by_Lozza_to_Deplatform.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:18:24

  • "Why now On 1 October immigration officers and police intelligence agents took Bini to the migration office in Quito." ☛ https://www.riotimesonline.com/ecuador-ola-bini-deported-sweden-10-year-ban-2026/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:18:39

  • "His attorneys filed a habeas corpus petition Thursday challenging his detention." ☛ https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/10/02/latam-ecuador-ola-bini-ordered-departed/7981790962336/ | Source: UPI    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:18:55

  • "Bini himself has reproached that he has not been allowed to review the file that has motivated his expulsion" ☛ https://www.democrata.es/en/international/ecuador-qualifies-as-a-threat-and-expels-ola-bini-swedish-activist-linked-to-assange/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:19:53

  • "It's October once again, and that means it is time to take the new release of Python for a spin (technically, it is the 3.15.0rc3 release that I'm using" ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-fast-is-python-3-15 | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:40:58

  • "Of course Andrew also blogged about this, and continued the series of blog posts about Junctions." ☛ https://rakuweekly.blog/2026/10/05/2026-40-pythonesque/ | Source: Raku Weekly News    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:43:18

  • "For existing projects that do decide to convert from SHA-1 to SHA-256, they will need to convert every object in the project to the new format, which will break all existing signatures." ☛ https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256 | Source: Scott Chacon    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:43:38

  • "The upcoming Git 3.0 is going to switch the default for commit hashes from SHA-1 to SHA-256, the newer more secure algorithm. It is being done to improve the security" ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/git-3-0-to-use-sha-256-hashes/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:43:48

  • "FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate." ☛ https://fosdem.org/2027/news/call-for-main-track/ | Source: FOSDEM    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:45:06

  • "Last week, I had the joy of presenting at DjangoCPH (Django Danmark's annual conference in Copenhagen) for the third time." ☛ https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/10/05/thank-you-again-djangocph-2026/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:45:11

  • "For users of the "Syntax-highlighting Code Block (with Server-side Rendering)" WordPress plugin, server-side rendering provides excellent frontend performance." ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/wordpress-auto-detect-syntax-highlighting-code-block-plugin/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:46:19

  • "The last few months I've been trying to RSS-ify my life as much as possible." ☛ https://notes.zachmanson.com/sort-by-rarity/ | Source: Zach Manson    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:46:38

  • "We have released LibreSSL 4.3.3, which will be arriving in the LibreSSL directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon" ☛ https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-4.3.3-relnotes.txt | Source: OpenBSD    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:46:58

  • "I started working on comicstash over a year ago. At first I worked on a Ruby on Rails web application." ☛ https://arjenwiersma.nl/introducing-comicstash | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:47:30

  • "In the meantime, I’ve recently turned to Secretive, an open-source tool by Max Goedjen and others that allows you to store your SSH keys inside your Mac’s Secure Enclave." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/secretive-helps-you-keep-your-ssh-keys-secret-keep-them-safe/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:47:39

  • "Ironclad has introduced support for the Open Sound System (OSS), a free software audio infrastructure traditionally present in many Unix-like systems like Linux, *BSDs, and the like" ☛ https://blog.ironclad-os.org/introducing-oss-support-in-ironclad/ | Source: The Ironclad Project    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:47:59

  • "It's important for system administrators and security people to understand that people aren't doing this because they maliciously want to bypass your firewalls" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/FirewallsArePorousNow | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:48:15

  • Try the demo for Geometry Rift: Apocalypse, a seriously cool merging of Geometry Wars and Vampire Survivors | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/try-the-demo-for-geometry-rift-apocalypse-a-seriously-cool-merging-of-geometry-wars-and-vampire-survivors/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:49:26

  • Victorian era point and click comedy Heir of the Dog launches October 29 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/victorian-era-point-and-click-comedy-heir-of-the-dog-launches-october-29/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:49:30

  • Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 2GB get price increases due to RAM demand | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/raspberry-pi-4-and-raspberry-pi-5-2gb-get-price-increases-due-to-ram-demand/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:52:17

  • Valve give game developers more Steam Deck Framerate data | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valve-give-game-developers-more-steam-deck-framerate-data/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valve-give-game-developers-more-steam-deck-framerate-data/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:52:22

  • Some of the best spooky Linux games to get in the Steam Autumn Sale 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-of-the-best-spooky-linux-games-to-get-in-the-steam-autumn-sale-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-of-the-best-spooky-linux-games-to-get-in-the-steam-autumn-sale-2026/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:52:27

  • "British whistleblower who flagged links between top Trump official Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein is found dead | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16183755/British-whistleblower-dead-links-Jeffrey-Epstein-Howard-Lutnick.html    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:53:00

  • "Returning to USA From Vacation? The Government Can Search Your Phone Without A Warrant. - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/10/04/098250    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:53:10

  • "The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-administration-is-a-cesspit    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:53:20

  • iophk: intentionally ignores that most users are forcibly _*required*_ by their bosses at work to shoehorn LLMs into all activities at work https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1145682/people-really-hate-ai-so-why-cant-they-get-enough/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/04/MIT_Technology_Review_MTR_Reinforces_MIT_s_Role_in_Promoting_Sl.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:54:06

  • "Scenarios for the future of the Russian Federation - New Eastern Europe" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/10/05/scenarios-for-the-future-of-the-russian-federation/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:55:11

  • "Satu Helkama ostaa konkurssiin menneen Tunturin ja toivoo, että pyörien hinta nousee | Talous | Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/74-20249412    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:55:19

  • "Macron vill »återställa sanningen« online" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/05/macron-vill-aterstalla-sanningen-online/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:55:27

  • "Hat-tip til salig Kim Larsen | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/hat-tip-til-salig-kim-larsen    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:55:34

  • A chat with Awesome Games Studio about Yet Another Zombie Survivors | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-chat-with-awesome-games-studio-about-yet-another-zombie-survivors/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/a-chat-with-awesome-games-studio-about-yet-another-zombie-survivors/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:55:57

  • Check out some of the most highly rated Steam Deck Verified games from September 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/check-out-some-of-the-most-highly-rated-steam-deck-verified-games-from-september-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:56:30

  • System76 COSMIC projects will no longer accept LLM-generated content in code submissions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/system76-cosmic-projects-will-no-longer-accept-llm-generated-content-in-code-submissions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:56:45

  • Proton-CachyOS version 11.0-20261005 released | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-cachyos-version-11-0-20261005-released/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-cachyos-version-11-0-20261005-released/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:58:27

  • METRO 2033 Redux and METRO Last Light Redux are getting next-gen updates | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/metro-2033-redux-and-metro-last-light-redux-are-getting-next-gen-updates/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/metro-2033-redux-and-metro-last-light-redux-are-getting-next-gen-updates/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:58:31

  • Half-Life remake Black Mesa has a Beta for a big update with a new UI and controller support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/half-life-remake-black-mesa-has-a-beta-for-a-big-update-with-a-new-ui-and-controller-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 08:58:39

  • But it doesn’t help with edge-specific problems such as interrupted image pulls that fail halfway on a weak link or devices that need to be managed as a group or running lightweight system containers."" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/podman-alternatives-lightweight-edge-servers/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:33:02

  • "The fixes are straightforward. The tips below show how to manage Docker resources with the CLI and configure the Docker daemon through /etc/docker/daemon.json" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/docker-tips-tricks/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:33:20

  • Slop promotion from IBM ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-pilots-production-dh2i-brings-customers-resilient-ai-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:34:22

  • Slop all day long ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mlops-edge-ai-preparing-ai-models-deployment-edge | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:34:35

  • "integrated AI tools" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-named-leader-idc-marketscape-worldwide-private-and-hybrid-cloud-management-automation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:34:54

  • Paid-for promotion ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-named-leader-2026-idc-marketscape | Source: Red Hat Official https://techrights.org/wiki/IDC/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:35:28

  • "Zero trust requires continuous, automated discipline at scale to counter modern security threats." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-zero-trust-networks-red-hat-ansible | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:35:41

  • "TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/technexion-telos-ai4000-delivers-40-tops-in-compact-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:36:11

  • FunOS 26.10 Beta ☞ https://funos.org/funos-26-10-beta/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:36:33

  • For no obvious purpose or reason ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/devpack-for-rust-support | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 12:36:57

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

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:17:03

  • Russell Coker: Kdeconnect DBUS ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/06/kdeconnect-dbus/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:17:29

  • Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098476/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:17:38

  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns part 2: do-while ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-05-16-54_decompilation_patterns_part_2_do_while.html    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:19:34

  • What If the U.S. Demanded This? The Cloud Provider Conditions Behind Canada’s EU Digital Pivot ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/10/what-if-the-u-s-demanded-this-the-cloud-provider-conditions-behind-canadas-eu-digital-pivot/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:29:40

  • Google Narrows Open Source Bug Bounty Amid Wave of Invalid Automated Reports ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-narrows-open-source-bug-bounty-amid-wave-of-invalid-automated-reports/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:32:14

  • RustConf recordings ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098610/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:36:09

  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098599/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 13:37:03

  • Slop maximalism ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/05/add-nemo-guardrails-langgraph-agent-openshift-ai    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:06:12

  • Scaling Kubernetes Workloads with Node Swap ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/10/05/scaling-kubernetes-workloads-with-node-swap/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:11:24

  • Why your non-root container dropped its capabilities (and how to fix it) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/05/why-your-non-root-container-dropped-its-capabilities-and-how-to-fix-it    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:11:46

  • How To Install Zig Programming Language on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zig-programming-language-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:12:21

  • "Confidential computing" as mere buzzwords to sell: 1) surveillance 2) outsourcing and 3) back doors ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/confidential-computing-use-cases    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:19:03

  • Particularly Weak-Minded Americans Are Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Which Candidate to Vote For, Which Sounds a Bit Like Hey Hi (AI) Is Just Voting Now Via Meat Proxies ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/voters-chatgpt-midterm-candidate    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:20:35

  • Egypt's First Kings May Have Been Buried With Human Sacrifices ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/skulls-buried-around-egypts-first-kings-reveal-evidence-of-human-sacrifice-5000-years-ago    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:21:21

  • Anesthesia Is 180 Years Old And Still a Mystery. A Study of 6 Animal Brains May Have Found Its Common Thread. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-under-anesthesia-behaves-surprisingly-like-a-worms-scientists-discover    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:21:36

  • 250,000 Impacted by Data Breaches at New Jersey, Texas Healthcare Firms ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/250000-impacted-by-data-breaches-at-new-jersey-texas-healthcare-firms/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:25:31

  • Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Healthcare Cybersecurity ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/senate-passes-bipartisan-bill-to-strengthen-healthcare-cybersecurity/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:25:53

  • Alleged ShinyHunters Leader Arrested in Jordan ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/alleged-shinyhunters-leader-arrested-in-jordan/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:26:19

  • Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler Zero-Day Hits Appliances Patched Days Earlier ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-citrix-netscaler-zero-day-hits-appliances-patched-days-earlier/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:26:32

  • Anthropic Reports User to the Police ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claude-ai-chatbot-police-violence-safety    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:26:57

  • Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-muse-data-breach-bank-accounts-email-archives    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:27:14

  • Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-gay-bars-allowing-graphic-child-abuse    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:27:47

  • Turkey blocks Sky News journalist’s X account over 'obscenity' ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-blocks-sky-news-journalists-x-account-over-obscenity-324095    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:27:58

  • MElon Admits Why Tesla Robotaxis Can’t Be Trusted at Night ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-tesla-robotaxis-night    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:28:44

  • Scam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-world-suffer-glories-ai    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:29:09

  • Picard 3.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1098600/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:30:11

  • Turkey’s annual inflation at 29.73% in September as fuel prices spike ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-annual-inflation-at-29-73-in-september-as-fuel-prices-spike-324102    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:30:28

  • Night Owls Are 70% More Likely to Need a Disability Pension, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/night-owls-are-70-more-likely-to-need-a-disability-pension-study-suggests    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:49:59

  • A Pickle Plugged Into an Outlet Glows Like a Tiny Star. Now We Know Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-may-have-finally-figured-out-why-pickles-glow    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:50:35

  • 'Ghost Poops' Are Real. Here's What They Might Mean For Your Gut Health. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-what-your-ghost-poops-may-say-about-your-gut-health    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:52:33

  • Too Little Sleep Raises Dementia Risk 18%. Too Much Raises It 28%. Scientists Say They've Found The Sweet Spot. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-the-optimal-amount-of-sleep-for-lower-dementia-risk    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:52:59

  • A Common Blood Pressure Drug Could Help Treat ADHD, Animal Studies Suggest ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-common-blood-pressure-drug-could-help-treat-adhd-animal-studies-suggest    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:53:17

  • Freediving Seems to Reorganize The Human Brain on a Large Scale ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/freediving-seems-to-reorganize-the-human-brain-on-a-large-scale    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 14:53:37

  • GNU/Linux has increased in China lately (past week) https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 16:50:43

  • Durian Can Eat From Jars Now https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/durian-can-eat-from-jars-now/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:12:42

  • Microsoft's "Ninja Theory Laying Off Employees Ahead Of Possible Closure"    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:18:53

  • The future of Linux depends on these 4 distros https://www.howtogeek.com/the-future-of-linux-depends-on-these-distros/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:23:23

  • Cult. https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-sequoia-pgp-inclusion/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:26:18

  • Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/05/ubuntu-stonking-stingray-beta-swims-out-deeper-rust-oxidization-plus-llm-speech-to-text/5301023    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:26:40

  • Valve says Steam for Linux is not currently supported on ARM, and cites a 2015 request https://mixed-news.com/en/valve-steam-for-linux-arm-not-supported-2015-feature-request/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:28:23

  • Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/kagi-is-pulling-orion-from-windows-and-linux-leaving-its-cross-browser-extension-dream-behind/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:29:05

  • New Stealthy Linux Backdoors [sic] Target Telecoms, Masquerade as Email Traffic https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/smtp-linux-backdoors-network-edge/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/06/It_s_Not_a_Linux_Back_Door_If_It_s_an_Unpatched_Device.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:30:15

  • West Coast, with penguins: Aaltoverb on Linux; Aalto 2 coming soon https://cdm.link/aalto2-aaltoverb-linux/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:30:46

  • The only 2 Linux distros I recommend for laptops with 4GB of RAM https://www.howtogeek.com/the-only-2-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-laptops-with-4gb-of-ram/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:31:22

  • "A hot news from the week was about the Linux-based distro, postmarketOS. If you haven't heard this name, its makers won't be surprised. That's why they decided to rebrand it to Nura after nearly a decade of existence." https://www.neowin.net/news/7-days-linux-project-renamed-big-firefox-update-and-apples-57-billion-fine/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:33:29

  • "Linux is an operating system that encourages you to explore and tinker. You can go from zero to power user quickly, but what makes it great for power users often puts off newbies." https://www.howtogeek.com/why-linux-power-users-love-the-features-that-hold-it-back/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:33:45

  • "cutting out games with AI disclosures" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-of-the-best-spooky-linux-games-to-get-in-the-steam-autumn-sale-2026/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:34:10

  • Half-Life: Alyx keeps crashing on Linux, and Valve's duplicate trail runs to 2020 https://mixed-news.com/en/half-life-alyx-linux-barnacle-crash-valve-duplicate-2020/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:34:25

  • Here's what may throw Linux 7.3 off course, but might not https://www.neowin.net/news/heres-what-may-throw-linux-73-off-course-but-might-not/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:35:22

  • "Debian 13.7 was released on September 12, before upstream kernel 6.12.111 arrived nine days later." https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/05/debians-latest-kernel-security-update-has-1313-reasons-to-patch/5301124    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:36:30

  • Abhijith M B = Microsoft LIAR https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/10/05/microsoft-distinguished-engineer-fires-back-at-anti-windows-11-rage-bait-says-more-developers-use-windows-than-linux-or-macos/ see https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/No_WSL_Windows_With_Fake_Linux_Isn_t_Growing_Faster_Than_Ubuntu.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:37:23

  • Namespace secures €37 million to scale coding, build and test infrastructure across Mac, Windows and Linux https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/namespace-secures-e37-million-to-scale-coding-build-and-test-infrastructure-across-mac-windows-and-linux/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:37:54

  • Enthusiasts have launched Bloodborne on a Linux PC directly without emulation. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/entuziasty-zapustili-bloodborne-na-pk-pod-upravleniem-linux-napryamuyu-bez-emulyatsii    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:40:46

  • Why the ISO is becoming irrelevant to modern Linux (and how the cloud took its place) https://www.howtogeek.com/why-the-iso-is-becoming-irrelevant-to-modern-linux-and-how-the-cloud-took-its-place/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:41:08

  • How to use diff3 on Linux to compare three files and resolve conflicts https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-diff3-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:41:33

  • "Windows and Linux both handle everyday computing, but they differ sharply in how much control they give you. Four Linux features in particular reflect design choices that Windows has never matched in the same way. Here is what they are and why they matter." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-4-powerful-linux-features-have-no-equivalent-in-windows/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:41:55

  • AMD has begun preparing Linux for RDNA 5 with support for GFX12.1 and SMU 15 https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/amd-nachala-podgotovku-linux-k-rdna-5-s-podderzhkoj-gfx12-1-i-smu-15    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:42:21

  • Valve says Linux PCs already stream to a Steam Frame, but its guide says Windows only https://mixed-news.com/en/valve-linux-desktop-steam-frame-host-tracker-reply-windows-only-guide/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:42:35

  • These 6 operating systems inspired Windows and Linux, and one is probably running on your PC right now https://www.howtogeek.com/these-operating-systems-inspired-windows-and-linux-and-one-is-probably-running-on-your-pc-right-now/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:43:10

  • Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs https://linuxgizmos.com/efinix-sapphire-rv64-brings-64-bit-risc-v-and-linux-to-fpgas/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 17:43:26

  • "I encourage you to provide feedback on the EU Kids Act. You can do this as a non-EU citizen or as the spokesperson for an organisation, not just as a EU citizen." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-06-kids    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:02:00

  • "After consistently playing for 2 years, for a long time now, I've stopped playing the online multi-player exploration and social dress-up game, Sky: Children of the Light" gemini://timeinbetween.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-10-06-game-iaps-and-self-control.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:03:15

  • "matches the changing colors of autumn and the feeling of impermanence, things fading away - like the powerful families that commissioned these early hand painted masterpieces." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/octoberdecks    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:03:53

  • The Practicality of Gemini gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/hack02 "Opera is based on the same engine as Chrome and natively supports Chrome extensions, so you can download the extension from the Chrome Web Store website."    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:04:45

  • autumn winds gemini://ming.smol.pub/1791294439    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:05:22

  • New EPO leaks to come out tonight    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:18:59

  • The Litigation Can Go on for a Very Long Time https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/the-litigation-can-go-on-for-a-very-long-time/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:26:14

  • Getting Cold This Week https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/getting-cold-this-week/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 18:31:17

  • "I was laid off from LinkedIn as part of an org restructuring, not for performance reasons." https://www.teamblind.com/post/background-check-reason-for-leaving-p1grbcy8    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:09:41

  • Spain: Windows plunging https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/spain/#monthly-200902-202610    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:21:08

  • Compare to https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=ES&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:21:51

  • Similar to Jordan https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=JO&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:22:37

  • Added today: Reasons not to use Instagram https://www.stallman.org/instagram.html    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:24:23

  • "In 2026, Instagram shut down a Canadian club's account because it mocked the bully's hostility towards Canada." https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-strip-club-instagram-taken-down-sign-calls-out-trump-12725993    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:24:43

  • Microsoft layoffs. "This always happens around rewards time at Microsoft, but this year the targeted percentage is much higher than the normal 5%." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m3xqkm4f#replies    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:32:07

  • Applications Concerning an Appeal Made https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/applications-concerning-an-appeal-made/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 19:45:57

  • If You Get Attacked, Then It Means You’re Effective https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/if-you-get-attacked-then-it-means-youre-effective/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 20:22:27

  • The Orange Site https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/the-orange-site/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 20:27:59

  • Diet and Fitness https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/diet-and-fitness/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 20:59:11

  • Diet and Fitness https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/06/diet-and-fitness/    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 20:59:47

  • "Raspberry Pi has shaken the dust off its near-forgotten Raspberry Pi Desktop" gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202610/20261006-rpidesk.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:45:52

  • christyotwisty's 5 Q's for Oct, 2026. gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20261006_5q_oct    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:46:16

  • "Of course this is too simple, and programmers are advised to declare the magic number elsewhere so you have to go look elsewhere to find it." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/06/const-sorrow.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:47:42

  • "I've also started looking at the signs for connected letters and syllables when doing practises. Which makes random text snippets with super-German long words so interesting." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/261006shorthand.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:48:23

  • "Can I get a cup of rose tea? The blood-red one please, I like it strong. No sugar, if possible. Lately I've been getting my hands dirty with the tip of a pen. I've been having these weird dreams lately, and I've jotted some of them down." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2854    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:49:15

  • mount meru gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/universe    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:49:53

  • "Max Weber gives comparative work two things at once. I will argue that Verstehen supplies the legitimacy and the ideal type supplies the instrument, and I will show it by building a sharpened model of excellent pastoral care and holding real cases against it. Take them in that order." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/max-weber-and-the-study-of-religion    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:51:20

  • "Most surveys of a professional field are catalogues wearing the clothes of research. They list what exists, source by source, and stop." gemini://adjb.smol.pub/mapping-a-practice-landscape    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:52:33

  • The Prayer Book That Stays Closed: Lived Religion and the Practice Nobody Wrote Down gemini://adjb.smol.pub/lived-religion    

posted Tuesday, October 06, 2026 at 21:53:10
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