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IBM offloads 'hundreds' of its cloudy VMware customers https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/10/08/ibm-offloads-hundreds-of-its-cloudy-vmware-customers/5301849    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 04:03:51

  • US suspends Microsoft and Adobe from visa programme amid fraud claims https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/8/us-suspends-microsoft-and-adobe-from-visa-programme-amid-fraud-claims    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 04:07:33

  • Microsoft faces foreign worker crackdown as Vance blasts layoffs https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2026/10/08/jd-vance-microsoft-layoffs-h1b-visas-perm-labor-certification-trump    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 04:07:56

  • US Bars Microsoft, Indian Firms From Visa Program in Blow (1) https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/us-suspends-visa-program-for-tech-firms-including-microsoft-2    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 04:08:17

  • Microsoft faces PERM suspension over H-1B allegations https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/10/08/microsoft-perm-suspension-h1b-vance-489667/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 04:08:45

  • U.S. is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the green card program over alleged fraud https://qz.com/microsoft-adobe-green-card-suspension-h1b-fraud-100826    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 04:09:37

  • "The US DoL announced that PERM labor certification processing has been suspended for eight technology and IT services companies: Capgemini, Infosys, Adobe, HCL Technologies, Microsoft, Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant and Wipro. The suspension covers both new and pending applications." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4ehz4rs    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:15:55

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2120.jpg    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:33:19

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1763.jpg    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:33:32

  • "So it applies as, for example, "It meaninglesso" which means "It is meaningless". Or, as another example, "Nabitleko meaninglesso" which means "Nabitleko is meaningless"." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-10-08__Meaninglesso.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:34:50

  • The Forgotten Self gemini://wormclub.smol.pub/1791516587    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:35:40

  • "This of course Does Not Work™ as the state is not maintained across an execv(3) call of some sort. The intent is to on each self-exec to increase a counter so that an increasing amount of time is spent before the process is restarted." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/09/state-across-exec.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:36:12

  • "City of Braunschweig, Germany. I quite liked it, they have quite a nice market with local products, nice old churches to play concerts in, and a good public pool and sauna." gemini://flo.smol.pub/wishlist    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:37:00

  • unbothered gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/unbothered    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:37:34

  • "Calculations and parts list are done. Now the screwdriver comes out. This part covers assembly in the order that turned out to work best in practice: batteries first, then the mechanics, then solar and fine tuning." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-10-08-solar-miniserver-part-3-assembly.en.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:38:07

  • "A feature of the stories of that era was that there would, one day, be a world government. I took it for granted that nation states would soon give way to a rational system that would not allow arbitrary borders to prevent solutions to problems being found." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-10-08-optimism    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:38:54

  • "I heard a rumor on the forecast yesterday of mostly clear skies today (2026-10-08). So this morning I got up a few minutes early and took a look outside. The stars looked a bit fuzzy — I think there was still some thin clouds here and there — but good enough for some stargazing." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20261008-0.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 05:39:37

  • "The last of the year's Nobel Prizes will be announced today. It is the Peace Prize and it is an easy call to say that JA will be skipped again by that Epstein-appointed committee."    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 06:26:26

  • No More Cheap Phones - SoylentNews ⚓ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/10/08/0046228#1456061 ䷉ Source: Soylent News | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/10/08/0046228#1456061    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 06:27:40

  • Why was he at an APPLE event???? https://pragativadi.com/king-charles-hears-ex-microsoft-employees-layoff-story-at-apple-event/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 07:40:38

  • GNU/Linux up several consecutive months https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/philippines/#monthly-200902-202610    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 07:55:38

  • Taiwan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/taiwan/#monthly-200902-202610    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 07:55:59

  • "Google will likely avoid any consequences from its illegal destruction of forests about 300 hectare in all."    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 08:10:18

  • Almost Five Years Since Dumping All Social Control Media https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/almost-five-years-since-dumping-all-social-control-media/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 08:22:37

  • Better to Write a Lot (With Full Context), Not Mindless Quips https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/better-to-write-a-lot-with-full-context-not-mindless-quips/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 08:44:46

  • Cybersecurity in Japan https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/cybersecurity-in-japan/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 08:49:21

  • The Raspberry Pi Storage Cost Problem https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/the-raspberry-pi-storage-cost-problem/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 08:58:02

  • Soaking https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/soaking/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 11:08:08

  • "We did hire 16 people in 2025 and one in 2026. Accenture/Deloitte/Indian Outsourcers are bringing in 1000s ... Here is us for 2025: https://h1bhq.com/search?employerSlug=international-business-machines-corporation&fiscalYear=2025&pageSize=25 " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4ehz4rs    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 11:46:22

  • Someone wrote in LinkedIn: "Richard Stallman invented the free software (rebranded to open source) paradigm in the 1980s." No, it was NOT rebranded. That's like saying CocaCola was rebranded "PEPSI".    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 11:48:07

  • countries that cease to be democracies have sham elections, that's when you know it's "too late" to vote    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 12:16:28

  • Putin recently won an 'election' by a large margins and 'surprisingly' nobody in the media spoke about how it came about    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 12:17:32

  • "Like the US which no longer has open and fair elections since a few decades ago Voting is performative anyway. The decisions are made when those with the actual power decide who to let run for office in the first place."    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 12:18:42

  • "Front row seats for the End Of Big Tech on the last night of "The Internet"" https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 12:31:36

  • double win! https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/09/several-modules-of-yandex-s-data-center-in-russia-completely-knocked-out-by-ukrainian-drone-strike a 'twofer'    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 12:32:44

  • Stadiums can serve as bomb shelters to some extent    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 13:02:51

  • "This purge will go on for the next 18 years....Trump+JD+Marco....Let's GO!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4e1kcan    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 13:18:10

  • "Breaking News: Big immigration news for the tech industry - Big immigration news for the tech industry today. The Department of Labor has frozen PERM applications involving eight major companies, including Wipro, Cognizant, Adobe, Infosys, Capgemini, Microsoft, HCL and TCS. Both new submissions and pending applications are affected." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4ehevst    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 13:18:48

  • "Cloudflare doesn't block pirate sports streaming sites through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver in France, only through its CDN" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-keeps-1-1-1-1-out-of-piracy-blocking-escapes-penalties-in-france/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:02:10

  • "After the conviction and sentencing of music streaming fraudster Michael Smith, the U.S. Copyright Office published a notice of inquiry (NOI) on music streaming fraud." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/07/us-copyright-office-streaming-fraud-investigation/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:02:20

  • "ChatGPT, it turned out, has a predilection for crediting Loper for stuff he didn’t make. In May, someone warned him about another image created by the OpenAI chatbot that had his name on it." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-caught-putting-signatures-of-real-cartoonists-on-ai-generated-comics | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:02:52

  • "Sometimes the customer acquisition costs (CAC) jump up quickly, as the duopoly can pass the costs of any disruption on to the advertisers." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/cac-crunch-goes-mainstream/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:03:20

  • "Let me start with staying I don’t believe is possible to get rid of all of the enshittification out there" ☛ https://a.l3x.in/blog/use-the-unshittified-alternatives/ | Source: Alexander Fortin    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:03:28

  • "The Internet Archive is joining other area nonprofits for the Uniqlo Street Festival on Friday" ☛ https://blog.archive.org/2026/10/08/internet-archive-to-demo-wayback-machine-at-fridays-uniqlo-street-festival/ | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:04:46

  • "Miller said thieves can pull up in a vehicle, cut the cable and leave in an hour or less. Repairing the damage can take much longer." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/copper-thefts-vex-md-county/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:04:55

  • "died" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5994868 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:05:38

  • "Don’t talk to anybody. It’s faster and more convenient to use the website!" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/talk-notes-modernization-treadmill/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:05:56

  • "The Verge contacted YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, Meta, Rumble, and Kick to ask if they plan to allow the livestream to be aired on their platforms. None responded before publication." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/1008530/us-government-livestream-execution-firing-squad-fort-hood | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:06:11

  • "The video cost the men, literally and figuratively." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/1008342/folkston-georgia-ice-detention-hunger-strike-video | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:09:16

  • "He served on the city council for eight years and has largely stayed out of local politics since leaving the council in 2021." ☛ https://www.404media.co/it-is-done-hail-satan-city-immediately-regrets-new-religious-liberty-law-that-allows-prayer-at-city-council-meeting/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:09:33

  • "The march has left the Sol encampment with flowers, photographs, and candles towards the doorway from which she was evicted on September 23" ☛ https://www.elconstitucional.es/en/municipalities/madrid-city/more-than-20000-people-march-towards-maricarmen-house-in-madrid-after-her-death-they-are-not-deaths-they-are-murders_8727_102.html | Source: El Constitucional    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:09:55

  • [Old] "What had happened to Paulina Borsook? The question was haunting her, even on a day when she’d gotten such good news." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:12:49

  • "More than one industry person called me prescient, but I wasn’t. It was completely obvious this was going to happen." ☛ https://werd.io/the-space-to-breathe/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:20:30

  • "The leader of our nation shouldn’t have the power or the ego to remove White House access to major news networks, simply on the basis that he doesn’t agree with their reporting." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/freedom-of-the-press-is-an-unalienable-right/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:21:08

  • "This is National Newspaper Week, a celebration of the role that papers and their online platforms play in our society. Candidly, it’s a tough sell." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/do-you-have-a-good-local-newspaper-take-the-test/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:21:31

  • "At Duke University Press, we are celebrating 100 years of publishing field-defining works." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/08/guest-post-do-not-go-gentle-duke-university-press-turns-100/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:22:14

  • "Sarah Rogers’ targeting of the Disinfo2026 conference here in Lithuania was precisely that kind of illegal action." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/08/sarah-rogers-is-the-foreign-censorship-threat-she-warned-against/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:22:43

  • "Under the pretext that certain forms of speech can lead to violence, or even more vaguely, can pose some kind of threat to America’s economy" ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech-that-gets-you-banned-from | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:22:54

  • "a violation of free speech and a retaliation for broadcast material that President Donald Trump dislikes." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/abc-trumps-fcc-battle-in-federal-court-over-free-speech-jurisdiction/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:23:10

  • "Grandmother Tree" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/border-patrol-unleashes-violence-on-protesters-over-trumps-border-wall/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:27:04

  • "The authorities did not ban VPNs outright. Instead, they required providers to filter their Russian users’ traffic and block access to resources on the banned list." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/08/russia-has-spent-a-decade-trying-to-stop-people-from-bypassing-internet-censorship-now-it-plans-to-spend-nearly-60-billion-rubles-over-three-years-on-traffic-filtering | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:27:16

  • Misinformation ☛ https://text.npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-5977768/trump-tv-media-ban-white-house | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:27:58

  • "The debate surrounding these bills is almost universally framed around protection and safety." ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2026/10/for-real-online-safety-protect-teens-at-the-app-store-level/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:28:30

  • "The 11 partners have committed $2.4 billion in AI tools and compute credits for the Genesis Mission Consortium" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/genesis-mission-investment-nvidia-google-anthropic-openai/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:28:57

  • "announced by Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling during a press conference at the White House today" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/08/white-house-bars-microsoft-from-sponsoring-green-card-applications-as-jd-vance-accuses-it-of-fraud/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:29:16

  • "About 1131 people participated in the voting process, 985 cast their votes, and about 146 people abstained. With no further delays, meet the 2026 Governing Board!" ☛ https://fossunited.org/blog/organization/meet-the-2026-foss-united-governing-board | Source: FOSS United Foundation    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:29:31

  • "The rise in interest rates on French government bonds is largely driven by heightened perceptions of the risk that France could default on its national debt." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whats-the-matter-with-france | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:30:42

  • "I've previously written about never leaving on a no, which is about how to get to a resolution when you disagree with your boss (in private)." ☛ https://michaelheap.com/when-you-disagree-with-a-decision/ | Source: Michael Heap    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:30:57

  • "Unfortunately, the organisations built around them are still very much intact" ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/bravery-kpi/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:31:11

  • "On Sunday, I’ll read that the AI industry is booming, and on Monday, I’ll learn that its revenue is plateauing." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-state-of-ai-in-2026in-26-charts | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:31:35

  • "01 October 2026 - 03 December 202" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/19418-Child-online-safety-keeping-digital-spaces-accountable-and-trustworthy-EU-Kids-Act-_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:32:03

  • "Gentoo Linux is made possible by many community donations and sponsors, together with the enthusiastic work of our developers. [...]" ☛ https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/infrastructure-sponsors-wanted.html | Source: Gentoo    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:32:41

  • "Two megabytes looks small beside a phone photo or video file. On a fast home connection, a 2 MB page can also appear almost instantly." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/07/what-a-2-mb-page-costs-your-visitors/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 14:32:53

  • "New research suggests the animals’ overlapping calls serve as coordinated group messages and may contain additional information beyond what’s encoded in individual rumbles" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/african-elephants-often-produce-choruses-of-low-pitched-rumbles-now-scientists-are-using-ai-to-decode-the-joint-vocalizations-180989620/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:40:51

  • "A number of countries that back “innocent passage" for commercial ships have joined a war in Yemen over control of a vital strait between Asia and Europe." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/1007/Global-tipping-point-in-a-shipping-choke-point | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:41:22

  • "Chung suggests computing systems should be seen as a stack with hardware at the bottom, backed up by systems software, algorithms and applications." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/software-could-be-the-easiest-fix-for-hyperscalers-ai-power-squeeze-researchers-say-data-center-demand-is-expected-to-rival-japans-electricity-usage-by-2030 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:41:41

  • "IL added that the preliminary investigation began after a request was filed with police on 2 October by a private individual." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20250446 | Source: Yle    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:42:13

  • "Many of my friends and fam fly more than the average. (Some don’t and that’s no thanks to me but I appreciate it all the same. ♥︎)" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/culpa | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:42:22

  • "These stop-work orders aren’t related to electricity supply, though." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/finland-orders-google-to-stop-work-on-two-ai-data-centers-over-alleged-deforestation-company-admits-it-has-fallen-short-of-our-own-high-standards-in-this-instance | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:42:35

  • "So, here’s a quick update on how things are going, what we aim to achieve this year, and what I hope to be able to report in the next post." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/net-zero-at-pi-towers-how-were-doing-it/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:43:00

  • "The Bureau of Land Management granted the polluters a new categorical exclusion that will allow activities including seismic surveys" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sierra-club-slams-trump-administration-s-decision-to-bypass-environmental-reviews-for-arctic-oil-drilling | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:43:16

  • "The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/08/norway-environment-nordic-mining-waste-pollution-fjord-dumping-salmon | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:43:32

  • "El Manssouri has not identified the company that will become the data centre's client, but said it's one of two leading AI laboratories. He also declined to reveal the project's financial backers." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20250471 | Source: Yle    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:44:15

  • "Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton suggested he would support cuts to federal benefits programs during a private fundraiser with Washington lobbyists last month" ☛ https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/08/ken-paxton-leaked-audio-federal-benefits-texas-senate-election-2026/ | Source: The Texas Tribune    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:44:35

  • "revealed in leaked audio published by the Texas Tribune: [...]" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/ken-paxton-caught-planning-cuts-to-social-security-benefits-in-leaked-audio | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:44:54

  • "The decision follows a meeting of Helsinki City Council on Wednesday" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20250494 | Source: Yle    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:47:21

  • "It describes how tech billionaires and venture capitalists in the US have cultivated a virulently anti-democratic ideology for decades" ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-02/the-nerd-reich-silicon-valley-fascism-war-on-democracy-abc-2026/107091034 | Source: ABC    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:47:36

  • [Old] "gestalt is of testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands" ☛ https://www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-about-silicon-valley-25-years-ago-we-ignored-her/ | Source: The Nerd Reich    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:48:01

  • [Old] "Borsook has some arguably legitimate complaints about Big Tech of today, though in that podcast and the Times article, they are not particularly fresh or far-seeing." ☛ https://reason.com/2025/12/04/the-cyberselfish-revival-shows-libertarianism-continues-to-be-misunderstood/ | Source: Reason    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:48:30

  • [Old] "The high-tech culture is not divorced from the rest of society; it is an exacerbation and exaggeration of what’s going on in society as a whole." ☛ https://www.christianitytoday.com/2001/08/silicon-values/ |    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:48:52

  • [Old] "After working for an exciting new tech-focused magazine called Wired, Borsook penned an essay for Mother Jones titled “Cyberselfish,” expressing her alarm at the new vanguard of tech" ☛ https://slate.com/technology/2026/09/cyberselfish-come-back-paulina-borsook-silicon-valley.html | Source: Slate    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:49:19

  • Lots going on in CR-2026-007405 https://caseboard.io/cases/d2fe1130-b63b-4d0b-9461-c0f971992dc2 will Pocock write about it in public or just to the Court?    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:50:17

  • [Old] "my first job at a software company, 1981" ☛ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/07/cyberselfish/ | Source: Mother Jones    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:50:38

  • [Old] "Paulina Borsook saw there was something rotten afoot in Silicon Valley in the 1990s, and in her book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech" ☛ https://lithub.com/a-prophetic-classic-about-the-dangers-of-tech-is-back-in-print/ | Source: Literary Hub    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:51:09

  • ""Cyberselfish" has been reprinted — it was officially republished on Tuesday — after readers struggled for years to find used copies." ☛ https://www.kuow.org/2026-09-17/cyberselfish-paulina-borsook-pessimist-or-prophet | Source: KUOW TV    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:51:34

  • "More than 25 years ago, Paulina Borsook observed a toxic strain of libertarian-inflected ideology rising up out of Silicon Valley." ☛ https://www.thenerdreich.com/paulina-borsook-saw-tech-fascism-coming/ | Source: The Nerd Reich    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:51:48

  • "two Nvidia A100-based supercomputers named Chervonenkis and Lyapunov." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/ukrainian-drones-hit-russias-yandex-data-centers-housing-two-top-supercomputers-major-outage-follows-retaliatory-strike | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:52:11

  • "several modules of the data center have been completely disabled." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/09/several-modules-of-yandex-s-data-center-in-russia-completely-knocked-out-by-ukrainian-drone-strike | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:52:26

  • "The Portuguese digital rights organisation and EDRi member D3 announces that it has brought four class actions lawsuits against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube over the use of addictive design practices" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/d3-brings-class-actions-on-addictive-design-against-facebook-instagram-tiktok-and-youtube/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:53:07

  • "He was commenting on a Ukrainian strike on a Yandex data center in Russia’s Ryazan region, RBC-Ukraine reported." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/08/russia-called-its-strikes-on-ukrainian-data-centers-a-forced-digital-detox-zelensky-says-kyiv-has-answered-by-hitting-a-data-center-belonging-to-russian-tech-giant-yandex | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:53:24

  • "The reality is different, of course. Human rights in America in the modern era were never blazing any new trails, and religious liberty specifically has been on the decline for decades, particularly since the 9/11 attacks." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/pete-hegseth-pretends-pentagons-new-religious-affairs-office-isnt-christian-nationalism/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:53:32

  • "The F-35 parts were said to be sensitive military technology, not just because they were serviceable parts of one of the world’s most advanced fighter jets." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-allegedly-intercepted-ups-shipped-f-35-parts-after-employee-missed-email-warning-worker-decided-to-divert-through-hong-kong-to-speed-up-delivery | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:54:06

  • "What happens if there is a government that wants to silence a particular group or even a particular person? And you just built the architecture of surveillance that makes that super-easy" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5981343 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:54:41

  • "If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you may know that I do a lot of work with data privacy and that I have an interest in modal logic." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/08/privacy-policies-and-modal-logic/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 15:58:50

  • "Google wants the data to train AI models and has said it will be deidentified." ☛ https://therecord.media/lawmakers-warn-of-google-spirit-ai-training-deal | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:00:34

  • "But don't worry, Redmond insists it's totally secure and safe since the agents powering the functionality will run entirely on your PC — some of the time." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/07/microsoft-is-about-to-let-copilot-loose-on-your-file-system/5301763 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:01:16

  • "Paragon Solutions vowed not to sell its mobile spyware to governments with poor human rights records and to cut off customers who misuse its products." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/the-secrets-of-a-us-spyware-king/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:03:34

  • "Age verification proposals are often presented as a simple tradeoff: sacrifice a little privacy to better safeguard children online." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/when-no-id-means-no-internet-age-verification-and-right-access-information | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:03:50

  • "This EDRi-gram edition includes a real snapshot of the disconnect between the kind of technology and protections people and communities around the world need" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-8-october-2026/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:04:11

  • "How these technologies travel across contexts deserves further scrutiny" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/your-data-their-decision-the-hidden-surveillance-infrastructure-behind-europes-digital-borders/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:07:01

  • "The claim made in this post is false and does not accurately represent my views or scientific work." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/lies-damn-lies-and-internet-lies-b8091c12b6b9 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:07:56

  • "But if your inventories haven’t gone down … and your employee expense was not reduced … and if your company isn’t selling more products—which obviously it can’t, if you’re not shipping more of them—then you can’t tell me these robots increased your plant’s productivity." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/the-goal/ | Source: Atharva Raykar    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:08:32

  • "Yet these promises of a self-running state are illusory, because AI is never truly autonomous." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/how-technology-empowers-and-imperils-dictators.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:08:50

  • "The unauthorized bot activities included minor infractions" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/openai-agent-escape-causes-wikimedia-service-outage | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:09:22

  • "That’s nearly 9x more than Taylor Swift’s entire music catalog earned in the same period" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/american-jailed-for-commanding-10-000-bots-to-stream-his-own-ai-generated-songs-and-earn-millions-in-fraudulent-royalty-payments-beating-taylor-swift-is-the-first-person-to-end-up-in-prison-for-ai-assisted-music-streaming-crime | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:09:41

  • "The danger of these AI systems is real and growing" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/505319/ron-desantis-ai-james-uthmeier-openai-lawsuit | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:10:15

  • "EDRi member epicenter.works has sent an open letter to parliament, and is looking for input from readers elsewhere in Europe about how other countries are handling, or planning to handle, the same issue." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-only-government-decisions/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:10:58

  • "The infamous Adobe Creative Suite, later rebranded as the Creative Cloud — a change which brought about an end to true offline use" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/adobe-creative-suite-software-open-source-artcraft | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:11:30

  • "A quixotic new project takes an AI-first approach to battling Adobe, and while it’s unclear where it leads" ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/10/08/artcraft-vibe-coding-creative-cloud-remake/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:12:03

  • "We have started using visibility as the measure of a fulfilled life: how large your network is, how many conversations you keep going at once, how often you show yourself." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/10/08/how-visible-you-are-says.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:13:01

  • "Turns out Trump’s so-called “deep state” was protecting us from diarrhea and keeping our food safe." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/is-trump-to-blame-for-explosive-diarrhea | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:13:16

  • "It caught the attention of the California State Athletic Commission, which sent the company a cease-and-desist letter." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/technology/human-robot-cage-fights-california-rek.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:13:46

  • "Rek says it is the “the humanoid robot fighting league” on its website, and the robot appears to be one from EngineAI but with a Terminator-like head swapped on top." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/1008401/california-shut-down-rek-fighting-robot-company-human | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:15:09

  • "On average, the results showed over 300 toxicants in each tooth sample, but not every toxic substance was found in each child." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/higher-levels-of-19-potentially-toxic-chemicals-found-in-the-teeth-of-children-with-autism | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:15:19

  • "The findings were published in JAMA Network Open and support growing preliminary evidence that early and unsupervised smartphone ownership may be associated with downsides for mental health." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-everyday-habit-is-linked-to-49-higher-risk-of-eating-disorder-symptoms-in-teens | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:15:29

  • "Suppose that you have a fancy modern server with some fancy modern GPUs" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/HardwareWhoHandlesWhatNotClear | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:16:01

  • "This seemed like a nice way to enter the exciting world of 5 x 8″ index cards." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/10/07/5-x-8-metal-card-index-from-hunt-manufacturing-co-lit-ning-products-division/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:16:09

  • "Keep calm and carry on studying math." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/what-should-we-tell-our-students/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:16:31

  • "Long before software engineering became a boys’ club — the exclusive domain of tech bros and a mythical force that threatens to either transform the world or snuff it out — it was just Margaret’s thing." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/space/margaret-hamilton-computer-science.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:16:40

  • "Hamilton is best known for her major contributions to the Apollo missions." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/margaret-hamilton-a-pioneering-software-engineer-who-made-the-first-human-moon-landing-possible-dies-at-90-180989653/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:16:51

  • "There is a bit of chemical setup, as you might expect with reagents like nickel sulfate and nickel chloride." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/08/low-current-density-nickel-plating/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:17:11

  • "Anyway, here is where I suggest you begin. They made like a hundred movies over a couple of decades and they are not all winners, but these are some absolute winners that are worth your time: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/hammer-time/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:17:55

  • "The Computer History Museum has an article and a full oral history." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/10/08/margaret-hamilton-rip/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:18:10

  • "What Jagger said has stuck with me ever since. I often come back to this when I think about any industry or vocation — how long do people really make money doing a thing?" ☛ https://nazhamid.com/journal/exile-on-silicon-valley/ | Source: Naz Hamid    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:18:27

  • "live Sydney webcam" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/a-live-sydney-webcam/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:18:40

  • "Lightspeed" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/using-premise-red-hat-lightspeed-capabilities-monitor-vulnerabilities-and-apply-advisor-remediations | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:19:30

  • IBM's latest slop promotion ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mlops-edge-running-ai-models-edge | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:19:53

  • Some more slop for slop's sake ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mlops-edge-running-ai-models-edge-0 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:20:16

  • "Pen drive is a single-Podman image tool that provides a streamlined toolbox for cluster state analysis" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/actionable-disconnected-cluster-analysis-available-now-pen-drive-powered-red-hat-lightspeed | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:20:33

  • Cloudbreaker review - Bullet Heaven meets Inventory Management | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/cloudbreaker-review-bullet-heaven-meets-inventory-management/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:28:14

  • OCTOPATH TRAVELER, OCTOPATH TRAVELER II, and NEO: The World Ends With You arrive on GOG | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/octopath-traveler-octopath-traveler-ii-and-neo-the-world-ends-with-you-arrive-on-gog/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:28:23

  • ARC Raiders massive Frozen Trail 2.0 update is out and free to play for a few days | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/arc-raiders-massive-frozen-trail-2-0-update-is-out-and-free-to-play-for-a-few-days/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:28:48

  • Empty graph after one week of disruption/malfunction https://netsplit.de/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:29:49

  • Further increase in https://netsplit.de/networks/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:30:15

  • Dig to find your missing crew in the underground indie horror GRINDWORM | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/dig-to-find-your-missing-crew-in-the-underground-indie-horror-grindworm/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:30:35

  • Unity lean heavily into AI prompting games into existence with Unity Spark | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/unity-lean-heavily-into-ai-prompting-games-into-existence-with-unity-spark/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:31:23

  • Find your fighting spirit with the Humble Indie Fighters Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/find-your-fighting-spirit-with-the-humble-indie-fighters-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/find-your-fighting-spirit-with-the-humble-indie-fighters-bundle/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:31:45

  • Slop won't make great games, it'll make a sea of mediocrity, like those "500" games tapes for Nintendo compatible in the 1990s (same games with slight difference)    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:33:22

  • Be more ready for the Steam Frame with the Humble Beyond Reality VR Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/be-more-ready-for-the-steam-frame-with-the-humble-beyond-reality-vr-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/be-more-ready-for-the-steam-frame-with-the-humble-beyond-reality-vr-bundle/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:33:40

  • Flathub walked back their generative AI ban, replaced with a disclosure policy | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/flathub-walked-back-their-generative-ai-ban-replaced-with-a-disclosure-policy/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:34:08

  • Windows apps and games added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux now use Proton by default | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/windows-apps-and-games-added-to-steam-on-steamos-linux-now-use-proton-by-default/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:34:33

  • "I wonder if there is a cultural alignment, with Mastodon being much more “just us nerds” than Bluesky. Or maybe it’s just an artifact of many capsules having been started when it was the only viable replacement for Twitter." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-09-no-atmosphere-in-geminispace.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:37:05

  • OVERREGULATION gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-10-09Overregulation.txt    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:38:02

  • Mystical gemini://wormclub.smol.pub/1791522360    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:38:45

  • "Firefox is teaming up with AEG and taking to the main stage at Berlin’s biggest and best indoor arenas." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-aeg-uber-arena-partnership/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:41:53

  • "As I write this on 8 October, the root key of the Domain Name System (DNS) is scheduled to roll on 11 October 2026." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/09/rolling-the-root-key-2/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:43:01

  • "We implemented the Internet over carrier pigeon (RFC1149) in 2001. Twenty-five years later, one of the packets from the experiment could be yours!" ☛ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-unique-piece-of-internet-history.html | Source: BSDly    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:43:12

  • "I had been arguing a version of the same point long before I knew the term." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/10/the-pit-of-success-and-what-a-data-science-language-would-need-to-make-it/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:45:28

  • "In this post I want to provide examples of some simple uses of Monte Carlo simulations" ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/monte-carlo-simulations/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:46:19

  • "Let us see if Subodh Kulkarni and Rigetti Computing actually become Anderon’s first customer. If not, then what was the point of this publicity stunt only? I am not talking about the usual JDAs that Albany leadership are so fond of, but an actual paying customer bringing real business. Otherwise, it is all just big talk, no?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4g8pqtn    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:46:57

  • "QWC 2026 Anderon Introduction Video - Holy He-l that was absolutely terrible."    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:47:38

  • "Audience reaction in beginning and end says it all. He talks to audience like how he talks to us internally and it was just awkward and fell flat. He definitely did not receive the same reception he is used to internally. It’s not the same when the people aren’t being paid to nod their heads and say yes to you."    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:47:43

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posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:51:36

  • "This book was illustrated and put together by Kathrine Lunduke, the nerdiest, loveliest wife a guy could ask for." https://lunduke.substack.com/p/tux-the-penguin-as-a-paper-doll    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:51:41

  • "I have had the displeasure of integrating with a few different APIs over the past few weeks while working to automate Vori’s onboarding flow" ☛ https://dev.clintonblackburn.com/2026/10/08/a-rant-about-apis.html | Source: Clinton Blackburn    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:51:54

  • "The same steps work for any Subversion working copy whose repository has been converted to git." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/10/08/migrated-your-repo-from-subversion-to-git-heres-how-i-migrated-my-working-copies/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:52:04

  • ">We Were Not All Terrible Developers" ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/we-were-not-all-terrible-developers/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:52:25

  • "the linux man pages for these functions literally don't mention this at all, and there actually is a reason why which i'll get to in a sec" ☛ https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html | Source: Sebastian    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:52:47

  • "The table is public now too: every period since 2011, business, medical, moving, and charity, mid-year splits included." ☛ https://labnotes.org/the-mileage-rate-moved-in-july/ | Source: Assaf Arkin    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:55:05

  • "I don't trust any quoted statistics by default because I've (anecdotally) realised that pretty much every study is sloppily done or misinterpreted when quoted." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/surveys/ | Source: Atharva Raykar    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:55:15

  • "And I really need now to setup something like that." ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics | Source: David Revoy    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:55:45

  • "The EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is supposed to jump-start Europe’s “sovereign AI” ambitions." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-cloud-and-ai-development-act-cada-represents-everything-thats-wrong-with-europes-approach-to-digital-sovereignty/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:56:06

  • "The Firefox team just launched a website that allows users to rank the Interop 2027 proposals that they care about." ☛ https://ohhelloana.blog/my-interop-2027/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:57:45

  • "As an improvement to my version with Python or with Ruby, with tools like jq now being widely used, how do we minify a JSON string?" ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/10/08/minify-json-jq/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:58:41

  • "On this 20th anniversary of Zotero’s launch on October 5, 2006, I will do my best to recount Zotero’s pre-history, what it took to conceive, design, and build the 1.0 release." ☛ https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-slow-formation-of-durable-software/ |    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 16:58:48

  • "Likewise, open source software is becoming more appealing to people who want control over the tools they use. It isn't limited to developers." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/open-source-apps-so-good-i-gladly-pay-for-them/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:10:51

  • "The review is conducted with the Commerce Commission, which published its Mobile Transparency Guidelines in November 2025." ☛ https://billbennett.co.nz/spark-2degrees-mobile-transparency-drop/ | Source: Bill Bennett    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:11:00

  • "If you’re struggling to find the difference against normal Colemak, look at the cluster of five keys next to the return key." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/swemak | Source: Chris    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:11:49

  • "He starts out using an ESP32, because he already had one and why not? It’s got bluetooth, after all." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/08/the-80s-called-they-say-this-diy-phone-is-like-totally-rad/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:12:04

  • "Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/08/turning-a-run-over-samsung-galaxy-s23-into-a-gaming-pc/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:12:23

  • "One of the reasons I like the rM is that it’s a pretty open system running Linux – you can ssh into it out of the box." ☛ https://blog.danieljanus.pl/connecting-to-remarkable/ | Source: Daniel Janus    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:12:54

  • "The things I like most about using Arch are also the things people keep trying to save me from. Setting something up" ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/my-problem-with-omarchy-is-what-i-like-about-arch/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:13:27

  • "Guix is all about empowering people, so it should come as no surprise that one can extend it with new guix commands." ☛ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/extending-guix/ | Source: GNU    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:13:57

  • "I found myself thinking about all of the examples of skeuomorphism in our computer user interface metaphors: radio buttons, toggle switches, drawers, tabs, etc." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/10/08/weird-mouse/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:14:23

  • "The game came as a set of three files: a .ccd, a .cue and a .img file." ☛ https://werwolv.net/posts/macromedia_copy_protection/ | Source: WerWolv    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:14:48

  • ":focus-visible gives the browser room to show focus when the interaction method needs it." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/08/keyboard-focus-styles-with-focus-visible/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:15:49

  • ">Grid and Flexbox can move an element to almost any visual position. They do not necessarily move it in the DOM, keyboard focus order, or screen reader reading order." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/09/when-css-layout-order-stops-matching-the-html/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:16:25

  • "Clan is a peer-to-peer computer management framework for NixOS. It lets you fully provision a remote machine in a declarative way." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/setting-up-a-clan-machine-using-pxe-boot/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:16:47

  • "Aria is our internal messaging framework and hosted system that processes multiple terabytes of data per day." ☛ https://blog.janestreet.com/scaling-and-benchmarking-a-critical-message-bus/ | Source: Jane Street    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:17:01

  • "I’m pushing to complete a first draft of OpenZFS Mastery in the next few weeks. Here’s a bit on ZFS and lightweight virtual machines." ☛ https://mwl.io/archives/25008 | Source: MWL    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:18:35

  • "Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/684 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:18:52

  • false premises https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:24:09

  • "fediverse", FB employee, HN-approved propagandist: "I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/10/08/idle/ https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organizer/rachel-kroll-facebook    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:24:54

  • "Way back in 2018, I wrote about the notion of people having private/secret repositories where they worked on things without sharing with the world because they didn't want to deal with the assholes of "Open Source", or, let's face it, the assholes of "Free Software". Same shit, different asshole."    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:25:26

  • "What Happens When Billionaires Control Our Media?" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-billionaires-control    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:26:18

  • "Trump’s Politicized Deportations Are Becoming the Global Norm" https://jacobin.com/2026/10/ragozin-latvia-deportation-putin-trump    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:26:34

  • "Trump, Facing Sinking Approval on Earth, Sets Sights on Colonizing the Moon | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-facing-sinking-approval-on-earth-sets-sights-on-colonizing-the-moon/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:26:46

  • "Florida is not a red state. It is an under-invested one. And Angie Nixon has a path to victory—but it requires turning out Latino voters, especially Florida’s large Puerto Rican community." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/florida-senate-angie-nixon-latino-voters/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:27:03

  • "Trump Straight Up Admits He Pardons People Because He Expects a Favor | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/216393/donald-trump-admits-pardons-get-something-in-return    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:27:19

  • What a dumb thing to publish :'( https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dont-spend-time-with-your-kids-train-ai    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:27:55

  • "Agatha Christie også?! – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2026/10/08/agatha-christie-ogsa/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:28:08

  • "EU vill ge Europol ännu mer makt över våra personuppgifter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/08/eu-vill-ge-europol-annu-mer-makt-over-vara-personuppgifter/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:28:19

  • RIP, Linux? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AI-Agent-Resources http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/23/Linux_Kernel_Becoming_a_Slopfest_Part_8_In_Conclusion.shtml    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:34:10

  • Zero CVEs at delivery: Why container security belongs in the supply chain ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/zero-cves-delivery-why-container-security-belongs-supply-chain    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:36:58

  • Migration toolkit for applications 8.3: Agentic code modernization, PVC mobility, and out-of-the-box generators ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/08/migration-toolkit-applications-8-3-agentic-code-modernization    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:37:21

  • Rocky GNU/Linux Rescues OpenRadioss From Siemens’ Dumpster ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/10/rocky-linux-rescues-openradioss-from-siemens-dumpster/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:38:56

  • What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/what-let-the-record-show-reveals-about-a-200-year-old-petty-paperwork-problem-that-gave-courts-its-power-today    

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

  • ‘A celebration of the hybrid form’: Anne Carson wins Nobel literature prize ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261008-a-celebration-of-the-hybrid-form-anne-carson-wins-nobel-literature-prize    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:41:32

  • Antoine Beaupré: PSA: Europe changes time forward soon, North America next, for the last time? ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-10-08-dst-warning/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:41:57

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 672 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/10/07/this-week-in-rust-672/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:43:28

  • “Getting off the Modernization Treadmill” ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/talk-notes-modernization-treadmill/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:44:00

  • GNU Guix: Extending Guix ☞ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/extending-guix//    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:44:46

  • The Cloud and Hey Hi (AI) Development Act (CADA) represents everything that’s wrong with Europe’s approach to digital sovereignty ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-cloud-and-ai-development-act-cada-represents-everything-thats-wrong-with-europes-approach-to-digital-sovereignty/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:45:20

  • License update: Hey Hi (AI) derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics. ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:45:36

  • Migrated your repo from subversion to git? Here’s how I migrated my working copies. ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/10/08/migrated-your-repo-from-subversion-to-git-heres-how-i-migrated-my-working-copies/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:46:13

  • Data   

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:46:29

  • The Pit of Success, and What a Data Science Language Would Need to Make It ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/10/the-pit-of-success-and-what-a-data-science-language-would-need-to-make-it/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:46:34

  • Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/space/margaret-hamilton-computer-science.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:47:09

  • Kids Who Got a Smartphone at 12 Were 49% More Likely to Report Eating Disorder Symptoms by 14 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-everyday-habit-is-linked-to-49-higher-risk-of-eating-disorder-symptoms-in-teens    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:47:28

  • Higher Levels of 19 Potentially Toxic Chemicals Found in The Teeth of Children With Autism ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/higher-levels-of-19-potentially-toxic-chemicals-found-in-the-teeth-of-children-with-autism    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:49:00

  • Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/adobe-creative-suite-software-open-source-artcraft    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:49:21

  • No human required: Austria’s plan for AI-only government decisions ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-only-government-decisions/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:49:38

  • No human required: Austria’s plan for AI-only government decisions ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-only-government-decisions/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:49:45

  • How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/how-technology-empowers-and-imperils-dictators.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:50:09

  • Your data, their decision: the hidden surveillance infrastructure behind Europe’s digital borders ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/your-data-their-decision-the-hidden-surveillance-infrastructure-behind-europes-digital-borders/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:50:20

  • EDRi-gram, 8 October 2026 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-8-october-2026/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:50:36

  • The Secrets of a US Spyware King ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/the-secrets-of-a-us-spyware-king/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:50:47

  • China allegedly intercepted UPS-shipped F-35 parts after employee missed email warning ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-allegedly-intercepted-ups-shipped-f-35-parts-after-employee-missed-email-warning-worker-decided-to-divert-through-hong-kong-to-speed-up-delivery    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:51:03

  • D3 brings class actions on addictive design against Facebook, Instagram, Fentanylware (CheeTok) and YouTube ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/d3-brings-class-actions-on-addictive-design-against-facebook-instagram-tiktok-and-youtube/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:51:20

  • Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Yandex data centers housing two top supercomputers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/ukrainian-drones-hit-russias-yandex-data-centers-housing-two-top-supercomputers-major-outage-follows-retaliatory-strike    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:51:51

  • Finland orders Surveillance Giant Google to stop work on two Hey Hi (AI) data centers over alleged deforestation ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/finland-orders-google-to-stop-work-on-two-ai-data-centers-over-alleged-deforestation-company-admits-it-has-fallen-short-of-our-own-high-standards-in-this-instance    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:52:26

  • The US Copyright Office Launches a Formal Investigation Into Music Streaming Fraud. Let’s Open This Cellar Door, Shall We? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/07/us-copyright-office-streaming-fraud-investigation/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 17:53:39

  • Promoting 'secure' boot, get rewarded by the criminals from Microsoft (sooner or later) https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/speaker/TK9AKS/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:15:19

  • OpenAI Says Teens Can Talk About Suicide for Hours Before Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Will Notify Parents ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-teens-chatgpt-suicide-hours    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:16:12

  • Q8botOne – A palm-sized open-source quadruped robot with ESP32-C3, DYNAMIXEL smart actuators (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/08/q8botone-a-palm-sized-open-source-quadruped-robot-with-esp32-c3-dynamixel-smart-actuators/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:16:32

  • Q4OS 6.10 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/q4os    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:18:55

  • GNUSlashLinux 20261008 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnuslashlinux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:19:02

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: myman 0.10.0 on CRAN: Three new waves of posts! ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/10/08#myman_0.10.0    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:20:00

  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 5: Nested if/goto ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-08-21-04_decompilation_patterns_part_5_nested_if_goto.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:21:09

  • Sarah Rogers Censors Conference on Disinformation ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/08/sarah-rogers-censors-conference-on-disinformation/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:21:38

  • Sarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/08/sarah-rogers-is-the-foreign-censorship-threat-she-warned-against/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:21:45

  • Use kanidm as local OAuth2 provider for openQA ☞ https://openQA-Bites.github.io/posts/2026/2026-10-08-use_kanidm_as_local_oauth2_provider/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:22:08

  • Not like the old days: modern sea control will be episodic and local ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/not-like-the-old-days-modern-sea-control-will-be-episodic-and-local/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:24:13

  • Houthi Attacks on Saudi Airports Prompt Mass Cancellations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/middleeast/saudi-yemen-houthis-attack.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:24:24

  • French police deploy tear gas and non-lethal weapons as student protests escalate ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/french-police-deploy-tear-gas-and-non-lethal-weapons-as-student-protests-escalate/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:25:00

  • Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Canada’s bill C-22 threatens encryption, users’ privacy and the security of digital economies ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/10/08/canadas-bill-c-22-threatens-encryption-users-privacy-and-the-security-of-digital-economies/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:26:40

  • China militia boat spotted for first time off Taiwan's east coast, patrol finds ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-militia-boat-spotted-for-first-time-off-taiwans-east-coast-patrol-finds    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:29:19

  • Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in September 2026 ☞ http://blog.alteholz.eu/2026/10/my-debian-activities-in-september-2026/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:30:19

  • Openwashing Enables a Lot: The Openwashing at UNGA81 ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/open-enables-a-lot-the-osi-at-unga81    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:38:42

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1099388/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:38:59

  • ‘Fin-gilantes’: YouTubers pull night shifts to keep watch over stranded Busan shark ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/fin-gilantes-youtubers-pull-night-shifts-to-keep-watch-over-stranded-busan-shark    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:39:28

  • Slop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/08/manage-rhel-mcp-servers-and-red-hat-lightspeed    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:40:11

  • Egress network quality of service on Red Bait OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/08/egress-network-quality-of-service-on-red-hat-openshift    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:40:19

  • [UPDATED] btop: Monitor CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network in GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/btop-system-monitoring-tool-for-linux/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:49:20

  • Writing parsers is hard ☞ https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/writing-parsers-is-hard/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:49:56

  • How To Install Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-cassandra-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:50:32

  • LibreOffice 26.8.1 is now available, at last ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/08/lo-26-8-1-available-at-last/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:52:39

  • microsoft lunduke: the racists are cheating with slop. Yay!! https://lunduke.substack.com/p/woke-open-source-bans-ai-while-non    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:53:07

  • Red Aid once again fends off debanking after US sanctions, and thus a “ban on associations by the back door” ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/10/08/red-aid-once-again-fends-off-debanking-after-us-sanctions-and-thus-a-ban-on-associations-by-the-back-door/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:54:19

  • FOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's GNU/Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-41/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:55:42

  • NVIDIA 615 Driver is Finally Available in Official Ubuntu Repository ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/nvidia-615-available-ubuntu-repository/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:56:10

  • Intel Twin Lake-Based Helix 320 Industrial Gateway with Quad 2.5GbE ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/intel-twin-lake-based-helix-320-industrial-gateway-with-quad-2-5gbe/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:56:38

  • Ubuntu Currently Suffering From Sustained DDoS Attack ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-DDoS-October-2026    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 18:56:50

  • Heroes of Fedora Quality for Q3 2026 ☞ https://kparal.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/heroes-of-fedora-quality-for-q3-2026/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:02:01

  • US files new torture charges against Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261008-us-files-new-torture-charges-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-cilia-flores    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:02:28

  • PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/artcraft-free-photoshop-ai-clone    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:04:21

  • Dr. Luke’s Copyright Battle Against a South Dakota Broadcaster Enters Settlement—But Those Aren’t the Only Sides Battling Over Infringement Claims ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/08/dr-luke-sd-broadcaster-lawsuit-settlement/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:04:43

  • Russia Plague Scare: What to Know About Fears of an Outbreak ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/world/europe/russia-plague-fears-what-to-know.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:05:07

  • In Convicted Felon’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/trump-russia-oil-deal-lukoil-middle-east-investors.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:05:17

  • Russia’s Silence on Possible Plague Outbreak Stokes Fears of a Cover-Up ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/russia-plague-outbreak.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:05:26

  • US Congressman Dismisses Russian Plague Fears, Says Americans Have 'A Lot More to Worry About' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/suspected-plague-case-siberia-us-risk-who-1824561    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:05:40

  • Troops at Kaliningrad border are for stopping mobilisation dodgers – Lithuanian minister ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3076205/troops-at-kaliningrad-border-are-for-stopping-mobilisation-dodgers-lithuanian-minister    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:06:23

  • French, US and Russian astronauts return to Earth after eight months in space ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261008-french-us-and-russian-astronauts-return-to-earth-after-eight-months-in-space    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:06:32

  • OpenAI says Iran, Russia used Hey Hi (AI) journalists, think tanks to influence Western media ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/openai-disrupts-russia-iran-ai-influence-operations/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:06:50

  • Russians, Belarusians banned from owning critical infrastructure in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/08.10.2026-russians-belarusians-banned-from-owning-critical-infrastructure-in-latvia.a666691/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:08:24

  • ‘Absolute Nightmare’: Inside the Russian Warehouses Bombarded by Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/russia-wildberries-ozon-warehouse-ukraine-attacks.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:08:39

  • South Korea Recalls Envoy From Ukraine in Dispute Over North Korean POWs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/asia/ukraine-south-korea-ambassador.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:08:50

  • Escalating Assaults on Ukrainian Cities Are Taking an Enormous Toll ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-attack-bus.html    

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

  • South Korea recalls ambassador from Ukraine amid N. Korea prisoners wrangle ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-recalls-ambassador-from-ukraine-amid-n-korea-prisoners-wrangle    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:09:48

  • Dozens Killed In Russian Strike On Passenger Buses In Kramatorsk ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/dozens-killed-in-russian-strike-on-ukraine/33872781.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:09:57

  • Rubio Warns Russia's War Could Spill Beyond Ukraine's Borders ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/rubio-russia-war-spill-beyond-ukraine-borders/33872989.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:10:20

  • Lithuania to propose EU ban on Russian grain transit, sanctions on agricultural oligarchs ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3076118/lithuania-to-propose-eu-ban-on-russian-grain-transit-sanctions-on-agricultural-oligarchs    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:10:54

  • 30 dead in strike on Ukraine bus as Russian attacks intensify ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261008-30-dead-in-strike-on-ukraine-bus-as-russian-attacks-intensify    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:11:13

  • The Russian-occupied town in Ukraine facing starvation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261008-the-russian-occupied-town-in-ukraine-facing-starvation    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:11:22

  • Russian attack on Ukraine busses part of 'a steady increase in attacks on civilians' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261008-russian-attack-on-ukraine-busses-part-of-a-steady-increase-in-attacks-on-civilians    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:11:32

  • Black sea and black ops: How exposed is Europe to Ukraine war spillover? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20261008-black-sea-and-black-ops-how-exposed-is-europe-to-ukraine-war-spillover    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:11:39

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man envoys, European officials to discuss ‘new ideas’ for Ukraine peace in Miami ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261008-trump-envoys-ukraine-peace-talks-miami    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:11:49

  • OpenAI bans Russian, Iranian Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot propaganda networks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20261008-openai-bans-russian-iranian-chatgpt-propaganda-networks    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:12:01

  • The chatbots themselves or the LLMs are propaganda networks    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:12:34

  • One year of UNO Q: built together, open by design ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/08/one-year-of-uno-q-built-together-open-by-design/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:13:22

  • Solo developer rebuilds Adobe Creative Suite in Rust using Claude, releases it free to all ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/video-editing-graphic-design/solo-developer-rebuilds-adobe-creative-suite-in-rust-using-claude-releases-it-free-to-all-targets-100-percent-parity-in-one-month-despite-piracy-claims-and-safety-warnings    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:14:43

  • Spotifast lets you enjoy Spotify tracks while lowering RAM usage by 5x or more ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/applications/spotifast-lets-you-enjoy-spotify-tracks-while-lowering-ram-usage-by-5x-or-more-open-source-app-cuts-ram-usage-down-to-150-mb-and-brings-back-classic-winamp-skins    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:15:20

  • What Are the Remaining Millennium Prize Problems? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/millennium-prize-problems-explainer.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:15:50

  • Democrats May Struggle to Reverse Convicted Felon's Science Cuts Even With Midterm Win, Ex-NSF Official Warns ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/democratic-victory-may-not-reverse-trump-science-disruption-1824580    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:16:33

  • For Two Sisters, a “Biological Age Test” Measured More Than Their DNA ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/science/truage-biological-age-test-genetics-sisters.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:16:51

  • South Korea’s Lee oversees first test of a hypersonic missile ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-oversees-first-test-of-a-hypersonic-missile    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:17:15

  • DMZ blast exposes heightened dangers along North and South Korea border ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dmz-blast-exposes-heightened-dangers-along-north-korea-south-korea-border    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:17:24

  • Myanmar’s Strongman President Is on a Global Quest for Legitimacy. Next Stop, Malaysia. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/asia/myanmar-president-malaysia.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:17:56

  • Eswatini king pledges to strengthen 'enduring friendship' with Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/eswatini-king-pledges-to-strengthen-enduring-friendship-with-taiwan    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:18:25

  • Philippines flags near-doubling of Chinese presence in disputed waters ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/09/philippines-flags-near-doubling-of-chinese-presence-in-disputed-waters/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:18:46

  • China Expands Its Military Reach by Building a Base in Laos ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/asia/china-military-base-laos.html    

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

  • Japan tells China to show ‘respect’ in addressing PM Takaichi ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-tells-china-to-show-respect-in-addressing-pm    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:19:13

  • China nominates health official Song Li as WHO head ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-nominates-health-official-song-li-as-who-head    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:19:35

  • Top 50 US news websites: 90% see traffic drop in September ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-us-monthly-3/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:21:41

  • Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: Half see declines of 20% or more in September ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-world-monthly-2/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:21:52

  • PR agency linked to fake Forbes websites posts articles to help US visa applications ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agency-linked-to-fake-forbes-websites-posts-articles-to-help-us-visa-applications/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/13/Forbes_Already_Stopped_Being_a_News_Sites_Now_It_s_a_Spam_and_P.shtml    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:22:34

  • First Images Show How Two DNA Strands Lock Together Like a Zip ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-images-of-dna-zipping-together-confirm-a-20-year-old-prediction    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:23:45

  • A Scorching Phoenix Planet May Solve a 3-Decade-Old Astronomical Cold Case ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/more-might-be-out-there-a-scorching-phoenix-planet-may-solve-a-3-decade-old-astronomical-cold-case    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:24:04

  • Kevin Roose’s Buzzy New Book About the Hey Hi (AI) Industry Immediately Duplicated by Amazon Scammers Selling Hey Hi (AI) Lookalikes ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kevin-roose-ai-industry-book-amazon-copycat    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:25:20

  • Aaron Sorkin, Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White: The director and cast behind the Facebook (Farcebook) sequel ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20261008-aaron-sorkin-mikey-madison-jeremy-allen-white-the-director-and-cast-behind-the-facebook-sequel    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:25:46

  • Meta bans social control media TikTok ads across the US ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/10/08/business/meta-bans-social-media-tiktok-ads-across-the-us/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:26:42

  • “The Social Reckoning” Shows How It All Went Wrong ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/the-social-reckoning-shows-how-it-all-went-wrong    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:26:57

  • Third-party Litigation Funding in Patent Cases: Forum Shopping, Disclosure, and the Case for a Uniform Rule ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/5/tplf-patent-cases-forum-shopping    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:27:43

  • Bambu Lab’s 3D printing patent monopoly application for a new heatbed design may improve peeling issues ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/bambu-labs-3d-printing-patent-application-for-a-new-heatbed-design-may-improve-peeling-issues-replacement-costs-could-possibly-rise-as-a-consequence    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:27:52

  • HGF continues PE-backed expansion in France ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/hgf-continues-pe-backed-expansion-in-france/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:28:07

  • Wi-Fi Economic Report Update: Wi-Fi 7 adds no value over Wi-Fi 6 ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/8/wi-fi-7-addendum    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:28:27

  • ITFT vehicle patent monopoly being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/7/innovative-technology-vehicle-patent-being-investigated    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:28:53

  • ASSIA networking patents being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/7/assia-networking-patents-being-investigated    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:29:22

  • Jepson and Other Point-of-Novelty Claims in U.S. Patents, 1976–2026 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/jepson-and-other-point-of-novelty-claims-in-u-s-patents-1976-2026.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:29:36

  • Out of Line: Chief Judge Moore Rebukes Counsel, Then Leans Toward Reversal in J&M v. Kinze ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/out-of-line-chief-judge-moore-rebukes-counsel-then-leans-toward-reversal-in-jm-v-kinze.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:29:54

  • As elections near, how are French political parties reacting to student protests? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261008-as-elections-near-how-are-french-political-parties-reacting-to-student-protests    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:30:18

  • What to Make of Convicted Felon’s Uptick in Profanity ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/opinion/trump-profanity.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:30:34

  • KDE Gear 26.08.2 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.2/    

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

  • Qt for Python Release: 6.12 is here! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-python-release-6.12-is-here    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:44:29

  • Faster Python startup with lazy imports ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/09/faster-python-startup-with-lazy-imports/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:44:42

  • Record-Breaking Clock Just Set a New Standard For Accuracy ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-most-accurate-clock-in-the-world-atomic-clock-just-set-a-new-world-record    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:45:16

  • The Mediterranean Diet Has a Northern Cousin That May Also Help You Live Longer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ever-heard-of-the-nordic-diet-large-study-finds-it-could-help-you-live-longer    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:45:34

  • Hong Kong national security police arrest insurance agent and woman over ‘seditious’ social control media pages ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/08/hong-kong-national-security-police-arrest-insurance-agent-and-woman-over-seditious-social-media-pages/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:46:09

  • A Photo of Mussolini’s Corpse Led Page 1. How It Got There Is a Tale. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/mussolini-corpse-photo.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:46:49

  • Signs of Psychopathy Can Show Up in a Person's Writing ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bold-mean-disinhibited-how-3-psychopathic-traits-show-up-in-everyday-writing    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:47:25

  • Scientists Trace How Cancer Passed Between Twins Before Birth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-trace-how-cancer-passed-between-twins-before-birth    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:47:45

  • GLP-1 Users Are Reporting Their Fingernails Detaching ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/some-people-taking-ozempic-like-drugs-are-reporting-their-fingernails-detaching    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:48:04

  • BC activists risked jail time to provide safe drugs—and won a historic court ruling ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/bc-activists-risked-jail-time-to-provide-safe-drugs-and-won-a-historic-court-ruling/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:48:43

  • How long will the global energy crunch last? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/people-profit/20261008-how-long-will-the-global-energy-crunch-last    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:49:01

  • BBC apologises to Pink News bosses over defamatory sexual misconduct claims ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/bbc-apologises-to-pink-news-bosses-over-defamatory-sexual-misconduct-claims/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:49:42

  • A win for Mark Lewis https://caseboard.io/cases/8bef119e-35e1-4b0f-b57a-b837e79febb1 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/01/Two_Years_After_Mark_Lewis_Stepped_in_to_Defend_Us_From_America.shtml    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:50:41

  • Qt pushing slop ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-the-qml-live-preview-mcp-tool-for-agentic-development-of-embedded-devices    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:52:06

  • Ponzi scheme! Money out of THIN AIR. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/spacex-reportedly-seeking-usd40-billion-debt-package-for-nvidia-ai-hardware-massive-raise-could-fund-roughly-360-000-vera-rubin-gpus-across-5-000-nvl72-racks    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:52:40

  • Two Latvian men arrested at UK base housing US and NATO intelligence hubs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261008-two-latvian-men-arrested-at-uk-base-housing-us-and-nato-intelligence-hubs    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:53:00

  • Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta Hey Hi (AI) Glasses that Don’t Have the “Annoying Blinking Light” When They Record ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/influencers-promoting-cheap-dupes-meta-glasses-light    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:54:08

  • Taylor Swift Applies for Top Level Domains That End in .Taylorswift ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/taylor-swift-applies-top-level-domain-sites-dot-taylor-swift    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:54:37

  • The First Fully AI-Generated Movie to Receive an MPA Rating Is Making a Push for an Academy Award, But We Wouldn’t Hold Our Breath ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/first-fully-ai-movie-mpa-academy-award    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:55:05

  • Independent pays damages to filmmaker accused of fraud in dismissed lawsuit ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/independent-pays-damages-to-filmmaker-accused-of-fraud-in-dismissed-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:55:51

  • Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261008-canadian-poet-and-essayist-anne-carson-wins-nobel-prize-in-literature    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:56:06

  • Suno Taps Ticketmaster Vet Michael Chua to Lead Its Live Division, Says the Team’s ‘Central Focus’ Is ‘Helping Emerging Artists’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/08/michael-chua-suno-hire/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:56:31

  • Endangered monkey rescued from home in western Turkey ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/endangered-monkey-rescued-from-home-in-western-turkey-324236    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:56:50

  • 2 Latvians Arrested after Breaching Perimeter of RAF Molesworth, UK Air Base Used by US ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/latvian-men-arrested-raf-molesworth-uk.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:57:26

  • Department of War dishes out $1.5 billion loan commitment to boost semiconductor supply chain ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/department-of-war-dishes-out-usd1-5-billion-loan-commitment-to-boost-semiconductor-supply-chain-wolfspeed-to-focus-on-national-security-applications-as-part-of-30-year-agreement    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:57:42

  • Your Hey Hi (AI) can access it. Can an attacker? ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/your-ai-can-access-it-can-an-attacker/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:58:10

  • FortiBleed Attackers Locking Victims Out of Fortinet Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortibleed-attackers-locking-victims-out-of-fortinet-devices/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:58:35

  • Oracle Health Data Breach Tally Climbs to Nearly 20 Million ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-health-data-breach-tally-climbs-to-nearly-20-million/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:58:46

  • TP-Link Faces State Lawsuits and New Scrutiny Over ISP Router Flaws ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tp-link-faces-state-lawsuits-and-new-scrutiny-over-isp-router-flaws/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:59:00

  • SonicWall and Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-and-splunk-patch-critical-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:59:15

  • Attackers Target Critical Atlassian Vulnerability Within Hours of PoC Publication ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/attackers-target-critical-atlassian-vulnerability-within-hours-of-poc-publication/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:59:34

  • Cisco Patches a Dozen Critical Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-a-dozen-critical-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 19:59:50

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Suspends Abusive Monopolist Microsoft From Green Card Program, Alleging Visa Fraud ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/microsoft-visas-green-cards.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:00:11

  • Microsoft Hit by Green Card Freeze as JD Vance Accuses It of Replacing US Workers With Foreign Hires ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-suspended-us-perm-green-card-programme-1824569    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:00:20

  • U.S. suspends green card path for H-1B workers at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and Adobe — labor certification program blocked due to alleged fraud ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/policy/u-s-suspends-green-card-path-for-h-1b-workers-at-microsoft-and-adobe-labor-certification-program-blocked-due-to-alleged-fraud    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:00:33

  • Sipeed SLogic32U3 – A high-speed 10 Gbps USB 3.2 logic analyzer (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/09/sipeed-slogic32u3-high-speed-10-gbps-usb-3-2-logic-analyzer/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:01:00

  • Gentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled Out ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-infrastructure-sponsors-call/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:01:24

  • "Canonical and the hard-working people behind the Ubuntu distribution announced the dates of the upcoming Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray), due for release in October 2026." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-summit-for-ubuntu-26-10-takes-place-on-november-12-13-2026    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:03:52

  • Fedora KDE made Linux simple in ways Ubuntu couldn't, even though everyone said to start there https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-kde-made-linux-simple-ubuntu-couldnt/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:12:37

  • SpaceXAI backs Omarchy, the controversial Linux distro, with $1.5 million in compute https://www.theverge.com/tech/1008148/spacexai-omarchy-grok-david-heinemeier-hansson    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:17:19

  • These 5 Linux apps are built for people who are tired of working too hard https://www.howtogeek.com/these-5-linux-apps-are-built-for-people-who-dont-want-to-work-themselves-to-death/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:17:53

  • Steam's latest Beta update makes running Windows games and apps on Linux a lot easier https://www.xda-developers.com/steams-latest-beta-update-makes-running-windows-games-and-apps-on-linux-a-lot-easier/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:18:17

  • Memorizing these 7 Linux command line options will turn you into a pro https://www.howtogeek.com/memorizing-these-7-linux-command-line-options-will-turn-you-into-a-pro/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:19:17

  • Openwashing https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/miscellaneous/linux-foundation-launches-opengrid-to-build-open-20261008    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:19:35

  • Lxa – Linux Amiga emulation layer https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/08/lxa-linux-amiga-emulation-layer/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:20:16

  • Slop https://www.howtogeek.com/kde-is-fighting-over-whether-ai-belongs-in-linux-heres-whats-at-stake/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:20:54

  • "The Blender Foundation released today the beta version of the upcoming Blender 5.3 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software suite." https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-3-enters-public-beta-testing-with-vulkan-backend-by-default-on-linux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:21:10

  • "Linux owners who stream SteamVR to a headset and get a grey, flat picture now have an answer from Valve, and it points at the graphics card rather than at SteamVR" https://mixed-news.com/en/valve-steamvr-linux-grey-colours-amd-9000-vcn-encoder-bug/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:21:42

  • Nvidia's Linux driver fixes a Last of Us Part II bug reported on its forum four months ago https://mixed-news.com/en/nvidia-linux-615-78-08-last-of-us-part-ii-corruption-fix/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:21:56

  • NVIDIA has released Linux driver 615.78.08 with Wayland enhancements. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/nvidia-vypustila-drajver-615-78-08-dlya-linux-s-uluchsheniyami-dlya-wayland    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:22:20

  • "Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices." https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-imager-2-0-12-released-with-sequential-writes-via-io_uring-on-linux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:23:18

  • "The Q4OS team announced today the release and general availability of Q4OS 6.10 as the tenth update to the Q4OS 6 “Andromeda” series of this Debian-based Linux distro featuring KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktop Environment." https://9to5linux.com/q4os-6-10-andromeda-is-out-with-kde-plasma-6-3-6-and-trinity-desktop-14-1-5    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:23:35

  • Valve says Steam can assume NetworkManager when a distro calls itself SteamOS-like https://mixed-news.com/en/valve-steam-client-networkmanager-assumption-steamos-like-distro/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:23:55

  • "Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.10 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-10-adds-support-for-mapping-drawing-tablets-to-specific-displays    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:24:16

  • Openwashing https://w.media/the-linux-foundation-launches-opengrid-amid-rising-data-center-power-demand/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:24:46

  • A user replaced an RTX 3080 Ti with an RX 9070 XT and put it through a six-month test in Linux. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/polzovatel-zamenil-rtx-3080-ti-na-rx-9070-xt-i-ustroil-ej-polugodovoj-test-v-linux    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:25:14

  • NVIDIA adds VK_NV_low_latency2 revision 3 in Linux driver 615.78.08 https://www.neoteo.com/en/nvidia-adds-vk-nv-low-latency2-revision-3-in-linux-driver-6157808    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:25:34

  • More slop from fake 'author' https://betanews.com/article/steam-proton-non-steam-games/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:26:34

  • After turning PS5 into a PC, modders are now turning PCs into PS5s https://videocardz.com/newz/first-modders-ran-linux-on-ps5-now-they-are-running-the-ps5-interface-on-pc    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:26:58

  • Huawei introduces XMFS memory file system for modern Linux servers https://www.huaweicentral.com/huawei-introduces-xmfs-memory-file-system-for-modern-linux-servers/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:27:27

  • "The new method allows access using standard memory semantics instead of as a block device, drastically improving performance." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/new-linux-tech-compresses-memory-in-ram-as-ram-for-452x-speedup-new-cram-method-offers-giant-boost-to-compressed-memory-reads    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:27:53

  • "A laptop with no wireless connectivity feels like a rarity – but when you shop for powerful Linux single-board computers (SBCs), it is pretty common to see one skimp on WiFi." https://hackaday.com/2026/10/07/esp32-as-your-raspberry-pis-linux-wireless-co-processor/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:28:08

  • NVIDIA’s AI-Powerhouse “DGX Station” Breaks Out Of Linux, Cramming 748 GB Of Memory And 20 PFLOPs Into A Windows Workstation https://wccftech.com/nvidia-dgx-station-for-windows-ai-powerhouse-q4-2026-launch/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:28:39

  • The Async Multiprocessing Has Sound Foundations in Linux, But Further Testing Is Needed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/linux-amp-analysis/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:29:00

  • The 4 big Windows gaffes that convinced me to try Linux Mint https://www.howtogeek.com/the-4-big-windows-gaffes-that-convinced-me-to-try-linux-mint/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:29:13

  • The ESP32 S31 Runs Linux https://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/19197-the-esp32-s31-runs-linux.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:29:35

  • Linux Just Found a Way to Make Compressed Memory 452x Faster https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/linux-just-found-way-compressed-185452487.html    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:30:29

  • Lightwell: How IBM & Red Hat Fixed 400+ Java Vulnerabilities https://cybermagazine.com/news/lightwell-how-ibm-red-hat-fixed-400-java-vulnerabilities    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:39:02

  • "You can now reply to my content via webmentions, Bluesky, and the Fediverse. That means that anywhere you see this, you should be able to respond and it will appear on my site!" gemini://tilde.club/~twinbfield/posts/webmentions.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:51:27

  • Roughened Optical Fibers Turn Soft Sheets of Silicone Into Three-Dimensional Shape Sensors gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202610/20261009-soft.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:51:50

  • "While "surfing" the Gopher sphere, I came across the Gopher burrow of chrisod [1]." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/booklist-of-chrisod.txt    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:52:24

  • "Seriously. What do we mean when we say we are doing interpretability?" gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/10-08-meditation-on-llm-interpablity.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:53:44

  • Manifesto gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/hack11    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:54:07

  • "I am consciously trying to bring my attention to Geminispace. The aggregators and this BBS are very helpful in helping me discover new things, but I most enjoy (and expect to sustain) my own aggregation of gemlogs from capsules I find interesting. Also, I will scour the backlogs of those." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/49609    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:55:04

  • "Apart from that, I've been typesetting for a little event in December. Had to do the very daunting task of contacting authors for permission, but 2 of 3 already replied positively. So, that's big positive excitment and relief. 🎉" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/261009stuff.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:55:35

  • "The sky is pink and blue (my brain suddenly remembers an old tweet, with a picture of such: "sky says trans rights"), and I've just come in with the dogs, a few minutes before 8 am, ready to attack my white whale." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/10-06.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:56:17

  • Cryptography of the Internet - Part 1 gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-10-06__Cryptography_of_the_Internet_-_Part_1.gmi    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 20:56:46

  • Fed With Ideas https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/fed-with-ideas/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 21:56:08

  • Fake Wealth https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/09/fake-wealth/    

posted Friday, October 09, 2026 at 22:05:45
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