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"ITwire went under a while before it decided to give Sam the boot. Moving The Reg to the 'Defunct' category within the main OPML file. ITWire is already long gone."    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:35:28


  • 3.6k soon: "There are 5316 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3583 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:40:16


  • Salir de fiesta gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/salirdefiesta.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:41:15


  • stagnant water gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/stagnant_water    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:42:12


  • "And yet… somehow it works! The songs are good and the characters are worth caring about." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/10/13/ballad/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:43:13


  • "Not in any party political sense (though if I were in the US, I probably would vote Democrat). I mean it in the broader sense that I fundamentally believe in democracy as a means of organising public life." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-10-13-democracy    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:43:55


  • "It occurs to me that the major difference between the bitcoin craze, NFT's, the whole metaverse thing, and the AI grift, is who got suckered into it. Bitcoin, NFT's, metaverse, that was for the most part a grift aimed at everyday people." gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1791926101    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:44:33


  • El día que doné (accidentalmente) 5000 euros gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/done5000euros.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:44:58


  • "I recall this one specific time long ago circa the two thounsand four and ten I entered a standalone cinder-block building miles from civilization where a lone ceiling fan turned counter-clockwise." gemini://smallword.space/gemlog/20261014-ceiling-fan.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:45:34


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1768.jpg    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:46:39


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2125.jpg    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:46:43


  • Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/13/ai-companies-rushed-workers-fallout    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 05:50:49


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/gaming-all-digital-future-and-creative-constraint | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:00:32


  • "You can tell the capitalist system is in trouble when Americans start talking about Eugene Debs." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/debs-biography-socialism-class-race | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:00:52


  • "Some legal experts say Jason Watson’s confinement for 24 hours a day could amount to illegal pretrial punishment." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/air-force-major-who-called-for-trumps-impeachment-held-in-solitary-confinement/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:01:01


  • "Broadcasting Nidal Hasan’s execution would undermine human dignity and risk turning his death into a spectacle, Archbishop Timothy Broglio said in a statement Monday." ☛ https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-10-13/catholic-archbishop-broglio-firing-squad-23139161.html | Source: Stars And Stripes    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:01:43


  • "Worldwide, states’ are deploying authoritarian tech to stifle dissent, assert control and diminish human rights." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/report/5873/global-report-authoritarian-use-technology | Source: Privacy International    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:01:56


  • "This is according to a press statement issued to the media by Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Mulambo Haimbe." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/10/13/zambia-elected-to-the-un-human-rights-council-for-2027-2029-term/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:02:12


  • "But the pool is a proxy for the wider fight over whether the president" ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/what-is-the-white-house-pool-these-days-its-a-battleground-between-trump-and-free-press-rights/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:03:42


  • Microsoft lays off staff in Vietnam https://dtinews.dantri.com.vn/vietnam-today/microsoft-lays-off-staff-in-vietnam-20261014074055458.htm    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:06:06


  • Microsoft lays off multiple employees in Vietnam https://news.tuoitre.vn/microsoft-lays-off-multiple-employees-in-vietnam-103261014100711973.htm    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:06:30


  • Microsoft confirms organizational restructuring and job cuts in Vietnam. https://www.vietnam.vn/en/microsoft-xac-nhan-dieu-chinh-to-chuc-va-cat-giam-vi-tri-viec-lam-nhan-su-tai-viet-nam    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:06:54


  • Microsoft Weighs 20% Cost Cuts In Azure Vertical Amid Soaring AI Data Center Spending: Report https://www.tradingview.com/news/stocktwits:04d6c2a6f094b:0-microsoft-weighs-20-cost-cuts-in-azure-vertical-amid-soaring-ai-data-center-spending-report/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:18:51


  • Microsoft’s Azure chief seeks at least 20% cost cuts - report https://seekingalpha.com/news/4652728-microsofts-azure-chief-seeks-at-least-20-cost-cuts---report    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:19:24


  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/after-3200-layoffs-asha-sharma-launches-xbox-labs-to-make-games-with-ai-3016864-2026-10-14    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:43:29


  • "Here is the larger issue behind this ban: restricting a person, organization or media outlet simply because they disagree with the president is unconstitutional." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/white-house-media-ban-hurts-more-than-just-washington-journalists/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:45:01


  • "In an opinion adopted during its 9–10 October plenary session and dated 13 October" ☛ https://oc-media.org/eus-venice-commission-says-georgian-laws-threaten-democratic-pluralism/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:59:33


  • "Bound for bans. Public schools banned nearly 12,000 books over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America." ☛ https://freespeechcentermtsu.blogspot.com/2026/10/no-justice-dance-partners-free-form.html | Source: Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 06:59:40


  • Misinformation targeted: "The rate then plummeted to 0.3% after the third data center was hit in Vladimir Oblast." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/no-ukraines-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-didnt-cripple-russian-influence-ops/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:00:15


  • "But these people are wrong. The drone strikes appear to have affected Yandex’s web crawlers, not any disinformation or political operations." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/1010424/yandex-drone-strike-outage-disinformation-zelenskyy | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:00:31


  • "Tech is the new tobacco." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/06-its-not-our-job-to-fix-our-employers/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:04:23


  • "More than half of the references to data centers on Fox News over the last two years would have left viewers with a favorable impression, compared to less than 10% on CNN and 5% on MS NOW" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/11/2026/fox-stays-positive-on-data-centers-even-as-public-backlash-grows | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:04:36


  • "Many may be surprised to learn this, as I was." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-eds/through-the-u-m-data-center-chris-kolb-attacks-everything-he-once-championed/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:04:48


  • "Army leaders said they’ve watched the public outcry around data centers and are planning to get ahead of it as the service signs agreements to host them on bases." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-data-center-pushback/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:06:46


  • "Responsibility lies with EU Parliament." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/ranking-who-eu-parliament-fights-your-privacy-and-who-big-tech | Source: NYOB    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:06:57


  • "Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy 2026, the Infosys CEO highlighted that the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure comes with technological risks" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/high-data-centre-chip-costs-and-cheaper-ai-models-pose-risks-to-capacity-usage-infosys-ceo/articleshow/134918407.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:15:41


  • "It’s not just your electricity bill that could be going up — it sounds like the massive boom in AI data centers is making practically everything more expensive." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/federal-reserve-ai-data-center-buildout-more-expensive | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:15:51


  • "Commits under clang/ by who paid for the work, usually the author's employer at the time. "Top ten" is the share of commits by the ten most active authors: [...]" ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/who-pays-for-clang | Source: MaskRay    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:16:22


  • "Instead of 5 stops we had about 20. It was awesome." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/10/13/a-day-on-the-grand-loop/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:17:43


  • "Following previous post where using M720q as a desktop machine was considered not that good, someone on the Fediverse pointed me to the AMD versions of ThinkCentre." ☛ https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/ | Source: TuMFatig    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:19:33


  • "It’s a popular policy measure that wins votes. But the leading provincial parties haven’t come out strong on the issue." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/10/13/Public-Transit-Phantom-Election-Issue/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:19:46


  • "Tallinn is pushing back against plans to let motorcycles and e-scooters use bus lanes, warning they could slow public transport and increase crash risks." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610165185/tallinn-says-no-to-motorcycles-e-scooters-in-bus-lanes | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:19:57


  • "Close examination of the policies and messaging of major environmental (eg Greenpeace) and climate NGOs, such as Extinction Rebellion" ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/the-progressive-left-are-the-bad-guys-too/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:20:49


  • Going Tropical for Wintertime https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/going-tropical-for-wintertime/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:26:36


  • "But emails between ABC News and its subjects, provided to Semafor, show the network seeking to downplay its errors by misrepresenting its own processes." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/11/2026/abc-news-offers-contradictory-explanation-for-vanishing-anduril-story | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 07:26:56


  • Anon: Kees asserts that much (most) of the proprietary software deployed during and by the Clinton administration for the US gov was backdoored https://yewtu.be/watch?v=voUQNIZPacY The backdoors remain(ed) in place    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:07:48


  • "Ukrainian drone strikes on three data centers operated by Russia’s Yandex" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-strikes-data-centers-disruption-shopping-business-russia/33875869.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:12:18


  • "For decades, the American presence in Europe has been more than the sum of US troops, aircraft and military installations." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/10/13/nato-3-0-and-the-battle-for-europes-strategic-frontier-why-ukraine-georgia-and-the-black-sea-will-determine-the-success-of-the-new-european-security-architecture/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:12:32


  • "Ukraine said it received no warning from its Western partners before a Russian missile attack against Kyiv on Tuesday night" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/ukraine-trump-intelligence.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:12:46


  • "Eagen said the U.S. is mindful of the pride Panamanians take in their nation’s sovereignty." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/10/12/the-us-army-is-back-in-the-jungle-panamanians-are-showing-soldiers-the-way/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:13:00


  • "Take out the big rounds and the picture is bleak. Most of the money went to a handful of fintech and logistics companies that have already proven themselves." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/13/2026/uae-and-saudi-arabia-account-for-almost-90-of-298-billion-of-startup-capital-in-2026 | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:13:21


  • "defending Western civilization" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-defending-western-civilization | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:13:42


  • "So here’s my quick check-in on the state of fascist power in the United States: [...]" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/what-happens-when-fascists-realize-they-might-lose/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:14:10


  • "Despite this underground war, the officer questions the growing military involvement in safeguarding voting." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack-the-election | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:14:23


  • "Sommer noted one of the most dangerous legal problems with this stunt: HIPAA (and other state laws) makes what they did a crime." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/the-james-talarico-hipaa-crime-and-stephen-millers-apparent-advance-knowledge/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:15:25


  • "My personal website has a simpler job: publish articles, projects, photographs, and information about my work." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/13/why-i-dont-use-analytics-on-my-personal-website/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:26:01


  • "As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Tor Project relies on donations to power its tools – the Tor network, Tor Browser, Tails OS, and the Tor ecosystem." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/tor-is-powered-by-you/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:26:31


  • "The audio-only Ray-Bans aren’t a novel concept." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009128/ray-ban-meta-audio-glasses-review-smart-glasses-headphones-wearables | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:27:04


  • "In 2020, the police department of picturesque Covington, Georgia, paid Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company, $40,000 to maintain 20 cameras around the city." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-much-does-flock-actually-cost-cities/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:27:42


  • An 'apology' makes everything OK https://yle.fi/a/74-20251367 no further need for fines, jail time, or cancelled plans    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:28:13


  • "... in good cooperation with all the different partners and local authorities ..."    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:29:33


  • "the local administrations there are highly corrupt, the 13 billion alleged investment is more like an extraction in which the country loses and gains little to nothing; net loss"    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:29:54


  • Yle = GAFAM megaphone. Maybe time to defund further.    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:31:21


  • GAFAM committed crimes overseas (EU), hoping those crimes would widen its business opportunities. And it worked. "No forests, so might as well get on with the projects..."    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:32:23


  • "Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/an-openai-employee-allegedly-used-a-chatbot-to-help-plant-a-recording-device-at-the-office/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:32:35


  • Yle's headline style: GAFAM sez. This is NOT how journalism is DONE!!    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:33:21


  • "OJ says he is not guilty!" "Bill Espteingate says he didn't --- young Russian girls" "Trump says he's not racist" "Clinton says I didn't have sex with that woman"    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:34:44


  • "When police showed up to Anthony Sistilli’s front door in September" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/police-upset-flock-camera-alpr-surveillance-canada | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:34:49


  • Journalism is about studying facts and scrutinising bad actors, not quoting tweets and statements from culprits, giving them headlines as "megaphone space".    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:35:42


  • What we have is why Microsoft staff can strangle women and then some GAFAM liar and pervert can pretend it didn't happen (official documents exist, not MSM reports) and then utilise them for lawfare. The media in its current state enables bad actors.    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:37:03


  • "Now, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority has issued its decision – and fined Xandr € 8.5 million (NOK 92 000 000) for its GDPR violations." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/privacy-win-norwegian-authority-fines-microsofts-xandr-eu-85-million | Source: NYOB    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:37:17


  • "noyb remains one of the leading European forces pushing for the fundamental right to data protection for all users." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/annual-report-2025-out-now | Source: NYOB    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:37:28


  • "clear warnings" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-watchdog-says-smart-glasses-must-give-clear-warnings-when-recording/articleshow/134921868.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:37:48


  • "growing concerns over privacy violations and a backlash against secretly filmed footage of women and girls" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/eu-watchdog-says-smart-glasses-must-give-clear-warnings-when-recording-600910298 | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:40:09


  • "Meta is notifying roughly 1,500 people, most of them employees in the US" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/meta-says-hackers-took-code-personal-data-of-1500-in-github-breach/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:40:47


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://pariganaka.com/massive-cyberattack-on-french-supermarkets-spoils-millions-of-euros-in-food/ | Source: Pariganaka    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:42:07


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/asia/japan-cyberattack-artificial-intelligence.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:42:15


  • We plan to improve many things in the coming days/weeks. To avoid last-minute rush (as in previous times), it would help to start this ASAP.    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:46:59


  • "I think the following things can all be true." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/10/13/True-Things-About-X | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:50:01


  • "This field of work - what I'm increasingly calling “ambient media” – is often misunderstood as shallow because it's short." ☛ https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/10/tiktok-is-coming-for-your-talent/ | Source: Adam Tinworth    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:50:20


  • "If a bureaucratic takeover isn’t alarming enough, Harari warns of a deeper psychological shift." ☛ https://pariganaka.com/ai-has-already-secretly-taken-over-yuval-noah-hararis-startling-new-warning/ | Source: Pariganaka    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:57:15


  • "In a recent lecture, Harari presented a profound and unsettling thesis: AI is not a tool; it is an agent. And this agent is natively adapted to thrive in the very environment that allows humans to dominate the planet: bureaucracy." ☛ https://pariganaka.com/the-bureaucratic-takeover-how-ai-has-already-hacked-human-civilization/ | Source: Pariganaka    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:57:37


  • "What’s surprising, and a bit worrying, is that AI chatbots are also one of the spaces where they feel free" ☛ https://werd.io/young-people-trust-ai-more-than-the-people-in-their-lives/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:57:56


  • "The developers have taken out a bank loan to keep the demo running. A free demo where the whole way the game works relies on a paid service." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/12/ai-game-demo-is-going-broke-on-just-430-players/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:58:23


  • "Now, Paul Krugman's AI Versus Everything Else presents a different aspect of the competiton for capital — it is "crowding out" investment in everything else: [...]" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/10/crowding-out.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:58:39


  • "Character.AI files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/disney-to-buy-suicide-booth-chatbot/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 08:58:49


  • "The company said that in 2024, the company spent $13.8 million per month on AI compute; in 2025, it spent $10 million per month on AI compute." ☛ https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:01:00


  • "For decades, people have debated the merits of guaranteed income programs, also called universal basic income, as an alternative or complement to traditional welfare." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/technology/universal-basic-income-silicon-valley.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:01:06


  • "The official count for OpenAI's maths solution release was 722 manuscripts" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-causes-uproar-in-mathematics-as-experts-warn-against-sharing-research-with-llms-after-openai-shares-722-manuscripts-and-proofs-professor-argues-that-the-field-must-focus-on-building-community-over-raw-solutions | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:01:17


  • "Historically, this window was measured in months. Then, it shrank to days. Today, it is measured in seconds." ☛ https://pariganaka.com/the-27-second-cyberattack-why-humans-are-losing-the-race-to-defend-the-grid/ | Source: Pariganaka    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:01:27


  • "Eurogamer, which has seen the footage, says it appears to be legitimate, and confirmed that it carries the emblem of CyberLeek." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/gta-6-leaker-threatens-release-full-game | Source: Bitdefender    

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


  • "All of it has felt like an engineer's view of how a family would operate in theory, without real life impacting decisions in software." ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2026/10/apples-view-on-life-in-homes-is-expensive/ | Source: Chris Enns    

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


  • "It listens to a radio signal and adjusts itself to the correct time, even during major time changes." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/10/12/atomic-wall-clocks/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:04:39


  • "When photographers buy an official lens from the camera maker, they expect that lens to work for decades to come, for as long as the camera maker supports the lens mount (and the lens doesn't suffer a mechanical failure)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SpecificationsAndCompatibility | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:09:01


  • "can't say about the reporting but the news is good: https://yle.fi/a/74-20251128 Seven airports will cease getting subsidies and shut down."    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:09:46


  • "When Framework introduced the Laptop 12 early last year, it offered an affordable, repairable, and relatively capable laptop, especially aimed at students." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/framework-laptop-12-review-wildcat-lake | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:10:07


  • "Some factors that weigh in a novel’s favor when I’m deciding whether to add it to my TBR, not in any particular order: [...]" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/10/12/what-makes-me-pick-up-a-book/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:10:41


  • "Managing your attention is therefore something different from concentrating or producing more." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/10/13/choosing-what-you-attend-to.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:10:50


  • "The mathematics community is in the midst of a major paradigm shift." ☛ https://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/2026CoEWorkshop | Source: American Mathematical Society    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:11:17


  • "The Fast Fourier Transform is one of the most important innovations in digital signal processing and one of my favorite algorithms." ☛ https://www.argmin.net/p/faster-fourier-transforms | Source: Arg Min    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:11:26


  • "Our brains are powerful pattern-matching machines." ☛ https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/hot-take | Source: Alex Ewerlöf    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:16:19


  • "This text is about the technical backstage." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/10/13/i-self-published-my-own-book-ebook-competent-enough/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:16:32


  • "A few months ago I completely redesigned this website, but I was never fully happy with the result." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/10/13/redesign/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:16:54


  • "In September I hosted the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival on the topic of “Moonlight”. I received four stories. I also wrote a story for the Carnival." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/10/13/iwfc-sep-2026-roundup | Source: James G    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:17:18


  • "I always tell myself if I ever become a supervillain, my origin story would involve trying to become immortal." ☛ https://roytang.net/2026/10/live-forever/ | Source: Roy Tang    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:17:32


  • "I’m helping my father in law with a project that has entailed me looking up some hardware specifications for something." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/the-older-thing-was-objectively-better/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:17:45


  • "‘How many shots are there in the average movie?’ is a very common question I get asked." ☛ https://stephenfollows.com/p/how-many-shots-are-in-the-average | Source: Stephen Follows    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:17:58


  • "But EPS is still weird! It’s a “frozen” format in that it hasn’t been touched in decades." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/10/12/eps/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:25:43


  • "It turns out that it’s easy to add a similar feature to tmux. Here’s my relevant config: [...]" ☛ https://sals.place/blog/tmux-trick-scratch-session/ | Source: Sal    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:26:03


  • "Python used to have limited parallelism, due to its global interpreter lock (GIL). Only one thread could run Python code at a time." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/12/parsing-json-at-tens-of-gigabytes-per-second-in-python/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:26:52


  • "James Shore posits that each person-month spent writing code results in 10 days of maintenance in the first year" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/geometric-model-of-maintenance | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:27:17


  • "His client, Nolan O’Neal, had been a 20-year-old high school student when he was arrested for murder by Chester police, who had four eyewitnesses identifying him." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/post-conviction-legal-delays-pennsylvania | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:27:38


  • "This year, I had the great opportunity to participate in the Google Summer of Code for the FreeBSD Project." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-trip-report-federico-angelilli/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:28:23


  • "This summer, I started an internship with FreeBSD Taiwan, and my mentor, Li-wen Hsu, recommended that I attend EuroBSDCon." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-2026-trip-report-yan-cheng-chen/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:29:09


  • "Join us for the November 2026 FreeBSD Vendor Summit." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/november-2026-freebsd-vendor-summit/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:29:21


  • "Sorhus figured it out by using the Elementary library to generate the HTML and routes using a small framework he built on top of it." ☛ https://coywolf.com/notes/this-developer-rebuilt-his-entire-website-using-swift/ | Source: Coywolf LLC    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:30:02


  • "I finally got around to importing my whole historical Twitter archive (just my own original tweets" ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/10/13/archived-tweets/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:30:15


  • "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15025/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:31:16


  • "More control over feeds and a multitude of fixes." ☛ https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.6/ | Source: Waterfox    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:31:24


  • "This is a list of some improvements that are included in the curl 8.23.0 release, to be shipped tomorrow on October 14." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/13/a-slightly-faster-slimmer-curl/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:34:20


  • "Anthropic ran an AI model on 15 cheap Android TV boxes, and its research suggests small open-weight models could soon self-replicate across IoT devices." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/self-replicating-ai-worms/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:34:53


  • "Anyway, on the software side, I adapted a version of Yocto (because that's what I use at work and know how to do it" ☛ https://pulkomandy.tk/_/_/_Generating%20VGA%20Using%20The%20Allwinner%20V3s | Source: PulkoMandy    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:37:12


  • "Now, h0m3us3r, one of the discoverers of the ESP32-SDR hack, has discovered a way to turn a Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router, which uses a MediaTek MT7996 chip, into a wideband software-defined receiver." ☛ https://www.rtl-sdr.com/turning-a-wi-fi-7-router-into-a-320-msps-sdr/ | Source: RTL-SDR    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:37:31


  • "the glasses could give a trained professional the correct procedures for a task without requiring a physical manual." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/industry/techwatch/2026/10/13/startup-wants-us-soldiers-to-command-ai-agents-through-its-smart-glasses/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:37:47


  • "LinuxDays 2026, the largest open-source event in Czechia, took place on the first weekend of October, and we had a Fedora & CentOS booth there again" ☛ https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/10/13/fedora-centos-at-linuxdays-2026/ | Source: Jiri Eischmann    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:38:17


  • "Yesterday, Monday, I was woken up at 8 a.m. by a loud, insistent beep." ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/10/06/disaster-on-my-nas-how-i-almost-lost-90-tb-of-data/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 09:38:39


  • "Fluffpad is a "pocket games console built from a Raspberry Pi RP2350 and Pimoroni parts" created by Ilya Titov aka Webgoggles" ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/father-and-daughter-turn-game-making-into-a-family-project-with-fluffpad/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:48:05


  • "But the main thing is I REALLY enjoyed making this game so far, and I think its pretty good." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/10/13/ridiculous-space-battles-demo-released/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:48:17


  • GamingOnLinux has managed to acquire the SteamOS powered Steam Frame VR device, these are some initial thoughts now I've got it all set up.   

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:50:20


  • Squadron 42 now has a Steam page and new trailer ahead of "Q2 2027" release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/squadron-42-now-has-a-steam-page-and-new-trailer-ahead-of-q2-2027-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:50:38


  • Clean up a bloody aftermath to grow a terribly weird garden in Goreticulture | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/clean-up-a-bloody-aftermath-to-grow-a-terribly-weird-garden-in-goreticulture/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:52:04


  • "GamingOnLinux has managed to acquire the SteamOS powered Steam Frame VR device, these are some initial thoughts now I've got it all set up." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-frame-some-early-thoughts/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 10:53:20


  • Mancunian Impact in Politics (and BBC Seems Jealous) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/mancunian-impact-in-politics-and-bbc-seems-jealous/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:09:01


  • One More Flight is an upcoming psychological horror set aboard a doomed flight trapped in a time loop | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/one-more-flight-is-an-upcoming-psychological-horror-set-aboard-a-doomed-flight-trapped-in-a-time-loop/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:09:18


  • Pick up more games in the Cozy After Dark Showcase Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/pick-up-more-games-in-the-cozy-after-dark-showcase-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/pick-up-more-games-in-the-cozy-after-dark-showcase-humble-bundle/    

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


  • Hytale Chapter I: Out of the Breach has arrived as a massive update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/hytale-chapter-i-out-of-the-breach-has-arrived-as-a-massive-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:09:52


  • Man Dragged From Iowa Meeting For Protesting Microsoft Data Center https://www.newsweek.com/man-dragged-from-iowa-meeting-protesting-microsoft-data-center-12560823    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:12:38


  • LLM slop 'hallucinating' OLD news with NEW headline and word salads https://startupfortune.com/linkedin-cuts-875-jobs-even-after-its-best-revenue-quarter-ever/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:14:22


  • "Revenue" = Microsoft buying from ITSELF (fraud).    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:14:40


  • RimWorld switching from Unity to their own Waylith Engine and a new game was teased | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/rimworld-switching-from-unity-to-their-own-waylith-engine-and-a-new-game-was-teased/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:50:06


  • Proton Experimental gets updated to fix a prefix corruption bug and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-gets-updated-to-fix-a-prefix-corruption-bug-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:50:29


  • Bazzite Linux update for October 12 brings many more bug fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/bazzite-linux-update-for-october-12-brings-many-more-bug-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:50:51


  • "Bitmerse’s Romu recently debuted on Crowd Supply as an ultra-compact development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2354A microcontroller." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/coin-sized-romu-packs-raspberry-pi-rp2354a-into-usb-type-a-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:54:29


  • "Institutions are recalculating who controls the technology they rely on. Mozilla has an independent option to offer." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/introducing-firefox-enterprise/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:54:54


  • Slop cheerleading from IBM Red Hat ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-ai-defining-new-architect | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:55:33


  • Hype about "AI security tooling" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-old-new-lightwell-discovers-novel-zero-day-vulnerability-core-java-framework | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:55:56


  • "Most of that starts with ordinary HTML." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/12/the-html-details-that-make-forms-more-accessible/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:56:32


  • "When traveling, it’s often convenient to have your media offline. Here’s how you can do this: [...]" ☛ https://greycoder.com/a-quick-guide-to-offlining-media/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 11:56:42


  • "always choose BTRFS, not EXT4" ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/10/12/linux-users-always-choose-btrfs-not-ext4/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:05:54


  • "The twenty-third episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: [...]" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/10/13/www-23 | Source: James G    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:07:01


  • "Released October 2026 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/show435/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:07:18


  • "In Episode 23, I chat with Ben, the author of werd.io about, among other things, the role of the indie web in the broader information ecosystem, community building and growing the indie web, and more." ☛ https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/23 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:07:28


  • "That model was never perfect, but it was remarkably successful. What interests me now is how much of it modern software has gradually hidden" ☛ https://deadparrotbbs.com/what-happened-to-the-desktop-metaphor/ | Source: Dead Parrot BBS    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:08:19


  • So deploying $8 billion in capital, the cost of a data center, in a non-AI sector will, on average, support more than 10,000 jobs, while investing that money in a data center will support only around 100 jobs.    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:09:01


  • "Or to put it another way, money spent building data centers will, on average, create only around one percent as many jobs as investing the same sum in other industries would have created." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-ai-crowd-out-jobs    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:09:09


  • "Trump Branded 'Sick Man' After Posting Brutal Tiger Attack Videos on Truth Social as Critics Express Disgust | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-criticised-sharing-fatal-tiger-attack-footage-1825460    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:09:27


  • "Joni Mitchell Announces U.S. Citizenship" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joni-mitchell-united-states-citizenship-1235642054/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:09:41


  • Is hybrid warfare here now? | "Är hybridkriget här nu?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/13/ar-hybridkriget-har-nu/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:10:11


  • Sharding etcd on hosted control planes and what the numbers actually say ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/13/sharding-etcd-on-hosted-control-planes-and-what-the-numbers-actually-say    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:15:25


  • IBM selling slop, not Linux ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/13/red-hat-ai-inference-3-5-maas-governance-aks    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:15:48


  • Test and deploy bootable containers with bootc virtualization kit (bcvk) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/13/test-deploy-bootable-containers-with-bcvk    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:16:06


  • Haiku Activity & Contract Report, September 2026 ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-10-13-haiku_activity_contract_report_september_2026/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:24:02


  • Lightwhale – immutable GNU/Linux distribution for Docker servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lightwhale-immutable-linux-distribution-docker-servers/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:24:59


  • Talos 1.15.0-alpha1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/talos    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:25:28


  • ChurrOS 1.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/churros    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:25:33


  • Why The Document Foundation Went on a Logo Hunt ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/10/why-the-document-foundation-went-on-a-logo-hunt/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:26:27


  • Thirty Years of KDE, Coming to a Laptop Near You ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/10/thirty-years-of-kde-coming-to-a-laptop-near-me/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:26:43


  • Pluralistic: Bundestrojaner (13 Oct 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/13/petards-r-us/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:29:47


  • KOL502 | Abolish Intellectual Property? Stephan Kinsella on Objectively Speaking: Scarcity, Negative Servitudes, IP, Objectivism, Hey Hi (AI) Copyright, and Bitcoin Ownership ☞ https://stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast/kol502-abolish-intellectual-property-objectively-speaking/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:30:10


  • Jiri Eischmann: Fedora & CentOS at LinuxDays 2026 ☞ https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2026/10/13/fedora-centos-at-linuxdays-2026/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:31:10


  • A slightly faster slimmer curl ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/13/a-slightly-faster-slimmer-curl/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:31:49


  • EuroBSDCon 2026 Trip Report – Yan-Cheng Chen ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-2026-trip-report-yan-cheng-chen/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:33:58


  • EuroBSDCon Trip Report – Federico Angelilli ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-trip-report-federico-angelilli/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:35:05


  • M715q power usage and the BSDes ☞ https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:35:33


  • The older thing was objectively better ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/the-older-thing-was-objectively-better/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:36:10


  • Framework Laptop 12 (Wildcat Lake) review: Growing up amid an unprecedented shortage ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/framework-laptop-12-review-wildcat-lake    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:37:53


  • AI causes uproar in mathematics as experts warn against sharing research with LLMs after Proprietary Chaffbot Company shares 722 manuscripts and proofs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-causes-uproar-in-mathematics-as-experts-warn-against-sharing-research-with-llms-after-openai-shares-722-manuscripts-and-proofs-professor-argues-that-the-field-must-focus-on-building-community-over-raw-solutions    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:39:50


  • Ransomware Attacks Have Swept Japan. Hey Hi (AI) May Be Making Them Easier. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/asia/japan-cyberattack-artificial-intelligence.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:41:10


  • Meta Says Hackers Took Code, Personal Data of 1,500 in Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/meta-says-hackers-took-code-personal-data-of-1500-in-github-breach/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:49:28


  • Annual Report 2025 out now! ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/annual-report-2025-out-now    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:49:43


  • Cops Not Happy When Man Creates Flock-Style Camera That Only Collects Police Plates ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/police-upset-flock-camera-alpr-surveillance-canada    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:50:33


  • Ukraine Says It Received No Intelligence About Strikes 2 Nights in a Row ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/ukraine-trump-intelligence.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:54:45


  • Federal Reserve Says Hey Hi (AI) Data Center Buildout Is Making Everything More Expensive ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/federal-reserve-ai-data-center-buildout-more-expensive    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:55:24


  • Global Report on the Authoritarian use of Technology ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/report/5873/global-report-authoritarian-use-technology    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 12:56:10


  • Google slop ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-partially-reverses-chrome-bug-bounty-cuts/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:02:07


  • China-linked hackers hit Fiji: US embassy ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/13/china-linked-hackers-hit-fiji-us-embassy/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:03:05


  • The Fascinating World of Domains ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/domains-article-on-wired/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:04:52


  • To review slop? ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2026/10/12/help-ego-team/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:06:06


  • Fedora is slop ☞ https://jwheel.org/blog/2026/10/managing-multiple-git-repos-with-ai/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:06:45


  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox Profiler Deployment (October 13, 2026) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-profiler-deployment-october-13-2026/149776    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:08:06


  • Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 158 ☞ https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-158/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:08:34


  • With an Eye on Europe, Mozilla Launches Firefox Enterprise With Self-Hosted Browser Management ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-enterprise/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:08:54


  • Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20261013.2) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/happy-bmo-push-day-20261013-2/149795    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:09:41


  • Sounds like he planned to do something GOOD, like collection evidence of ACTUAL CRIME https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/14/openai-engineer-charged-after-boardroom-bug-found-wrapped-in-toilet-paper/5303000    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:42:38


  • Weird. Why? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2026/1013/New-editor-named    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:43:14


  • Leo XIV’s Lung Cancer Diagnosis Tests a Papacy Still Taking Shape ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/pope-leo-health-cancer.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:43:50


  • How Do Cuttlefish Hide? Scientists Search for the Secret to Camouflage. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/science/cuttlefish-brain-camouflage.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:44:07


  • NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/science/mars-rover-sets-record.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:44:17


  • Is the collagen in bone broth good for your skin and joints? ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-the-collagen-in-bone-broth-good-for-your-skin-and-joints-aoZrk0x9flCr    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:46:24


  • Smog persists across Hong Kong on Wed after authorities warn of ‘serious’ health risk ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/14/smog-persists-across-hong-kong-on-wed-after-authorities-warn-of-serious-health-risk/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:46:40


  • S. Korea to inspect glasses of students taking college entrance exam amid cheating fears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-to-inspect-glasses-of-students-taking-college-entrance-exam-amid-cheating-fears    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:47:03


  • Eight Injured as Man With Knives Strapped to Both Hands Attacks Shoppers in South Korea ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/south-korea-incheon-shopping-complex-knife-attack-1825491    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:47:49


  • At Least 6 Injured in Stabbing in South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/asia/south-korea-stabbing-homeplus.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:47:58


  • Woman unplugs freezer in South Korean shop to charge phone, leaving owner with melted ice cream ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/woman-unplugs-freezer-in-south-korean-shop-to-charge-phone-leaving-owner-with-melted-ice-cream    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:48:22


  • South Korea’s Lee welcomes home Arctic container ship as route faces viability tests ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-welcomes-home-arctic-container-ship-as-route-faces-viability-tests    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:48:48


  • DOJ charges 14 over a sprawling North Korean remote work scheme ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/doj-north-korea-remote-work-laptop-farms/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:49:41


  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.29 on CRAN: New QuantLib, Plus Small Fixes ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/10/13#rquantlib_0.4.29    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:50:09


  • Pete Hegseth’s Bloodlust Doesn’t Hide His Military Failures ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/opinion/hegseth-livestream-firing-squad-execution.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:51:05


  • Eisentraut: The reverts will continue until morale improves ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100182/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:52:14


  • Epic slop. RIP, Epic. https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/epic-games-reportedly-delays-disney-shooter-title-so-it-can-pivot-to-ai-coding-staff-allegedly-told-no-more-handwritten-code-with-art-generated-with-full-ai-workflows compare to https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/14/Microsoft_XBox_Won_t_Survive_Microsoft_s_CEO_for_This_Perishing.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:52:41


  • Read as: they cannot afford to make games, so they experiment with slop plagiarism instead for low-budget junk    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:53:16


  • Making original stories/art/games DOES take time and hence money. There's no shortcut. Cheating won't be rewarded once caught.    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:54:03


  • And now it's also clear why Tim Sweeney was moaning about Valve flagging and deranking slop junk    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:55:03


  • Fewer hands for the harvest: Lithuania’s apple orchards face seasonal labour crunch ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3073247/fewer-hands-for-the-harvest-lithuania-s-apple-orchards-face-seasonal-labour-crunch    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:56:01


  • GAFAM SURVEILLANCE "for the Home" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/technology/apple-homeview-tablet.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:56:27


  • Google-Tied Hey Hi (AI) Startup Once Valued at a Billion Dollars Declares Bankruptcy ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-character-ai-bankruptcy    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 13:57:03


  • ICFK 2026: Calligraphy Festival ☞ https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/icfk-2026-calligraphy-festival/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:14:25


  • Tails 7.15 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:14:33


  • Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kalvach-postcards    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:14:44


  • Employee Arrested After Listening Device Found in Proprietary Chaffbot Company Conference Room, FBI and the Company Say ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/employee-arrested-after-listening-device-found-in-openai-conference-room-fbi-and-the-company-say/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:15:28


  • Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ivanti-zero-day-chain-gave-attackers-root-access-to-fully-patched-vpn/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:15:46


  • Cyberattack Prompts Grocery Giant Ahold Delhaize to Disconnect Systems... DUMB company!!! ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-prompts-ahold-delhaize-to-disconnect-systems/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/24/Appliances_Should_be_Dumb.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:17:01


  • Ivanti misses opportunity to fix vulnerability before attackers got to work and made it a zero-day ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ivanti-connect-secure-zero-day-actively-exploited/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:18:31


  • A Father’s Mission Is to Show the World ‘What Russia Did to My Family’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/ukraine-war-soldier-sumy-family.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:19:08


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Squeezes Ukraine, Again ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/trump-russia-ukraine-deal-pope-leo.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:19:19


  • They Came to Russia for Work. Now They Are Under Fire. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/russia-migrant-workers-killed.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:19:28


  • After Russian Diesel Deal, Convicted Felon Faces New Crisis Over Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-us-diesel-deal-negotiations.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:19:40


  • NATO Details Plan to Shield Ukraine’s European Allies From Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/europe/nato-strategy-russia-europe.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:19:51


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man's New Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Mocked on Her First Day: 'She Can't Even Read a Script' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/katie-zacharia-first-white-house-briefing-criticism-1825442    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:20:04


  • Zelenskyy Accuses Russia Of Breaking Convicted Felon's Cease-Fire On Energy Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-russia-diesel-deal-ukraine-cease-fire/33875531.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:20:18


  • Russian Film Aims to Rewrite History of Deadly Theater Bombing in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/europe/mariupol-theater-russian-documentary-witnesses.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:20:30


  • Former Ukrainian officer goes on trial over sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/10/14/world-news/former-ukrainian-officer-goes-on-trial-over-sabotage-of-nord-stream-pipelines/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:20:41


  • As force exposure becomes perilous, wars become long ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/as-force-exposure-becomes-perilous-wars-become-long/    

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


  • Ukraine live: Russia's 'targeted' strikes on energy leave 600,000 without power, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261014-live-ukraine-massive-russian-attack-on-energy-facilities-at-least-six-dead    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:21:26


  • First troops in returning US rotation arrive in Lithuania, president says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3082052/first-troops-in-returning-us-rotation-arrive-in-lithuania-president-says    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:21:38


  • Russian Missile Strikes Kill 3 In Kyiv, Knock Out Power As Zelenskyy Says West Gave No Warning ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ballistic-missile-attack-ukraine/33876280.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:21:51


  • How is Lithuania preparing for the worst – war? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3077302/how-is-lithuania-preparing-for-the-worst-war    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:22:07


  • Have Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres hit Russian online disinformation? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20261013-have-ukrainian-strikes-on-yandex-data-centres-hit-russian-online-disinformation    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:22:16


  • Kyiv power plant hit by Russian missile without warning from allies ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261014-kyiv-power-plant-hit-by-russian-missile-without-warning-from-allies    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:22:29


  • Eyebrows Raise When MElon’s Ex-Twitter Engagement Shrivels After Destruction of Russian Data Centers ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-engagement-shrivels-destruction-russian-bot-farm    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:22:50


  • 32,000 Ukrainians currently have protection in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/13.10.2026-32000-ukrainians-currently-have-protection-in-latvia.a667297/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:23:02


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Gives Putin a Hand in Russia’s Economic War With Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/europe/russia-diesel-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:23:16


  • Senators Urge Convicted Felon to Reverse Diesel Deal With Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-diesel-senate.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:23:38


  • U.K. and Europe Recoil From Convicted Felon’s Diesel Deal With Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/trump-putin-diesel-uk-europe-gift.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:23:46


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/russia-putin-trump-diesel-ukraine.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:24:05


  • ZOTAC CM5-PICO Fanless Industrial PC with Dual HDMI and M.2 Expansion ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/zotac-cm5-pico-fanless-industrial-pc-with-dual-hdmi-and-m-2-expansion/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:24:23


  • Geniatech Enables Local LLM Inference with RK1828 and Hailo-10 M.2 Hey Hi (AI) Accelerators ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/geniatech-enables-local-llm-inference-with-rk1828-and-hailo-10-m-2-ai-accelerators/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:24:55


  • Did Bill Epsteingate's "Micro" "Soft" spread viruses to Russia? ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/13/hong-kong-enacts-pneumonia-checks-for-arrivals-from-russia-after-mystery-lab-death/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:26:10


  • Digital distrust and polarisation: 'We need to get back to engaging with one another as a society' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20261013-digital-distrust-and-polarisation-we-need-to-get-back-to-engaging-with-one-another-as-a-society    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:26:33


  • Lithuanian PM calls Convicted Felon’s easing of Russian diesel sanctions ‘shameful’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3081078/lithuanian-pm-calls-trump-s-easing-of-russian-diesel-sanctions-shameful    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:26:47


  • India’s top diplomat encouraged by US talks, defends Russia ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indias-top-diplomat-encouraged-by-us-talks-defends-russia-ties    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:26:57


  • Russia Detains Japanese Journalist for Alleged Espionage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/russia-detains-japanese-journalist.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:27:09


  • MI5 Chief Warns of Escalating Hybrid Threats From Iran and Russia on British Soil ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/mi5-uk-threat-iran-russia.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:27:28


  • Bulgaria Summons Russian Ambassador After More Black Sea Drone Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/black-sea-drones-russia-bulgaria-nato.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:27:39


  • Japan protests Chinese delegation visit to island held by Russia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-protests-chinese-delegation-visit-to-island-held-by-russia    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:27:49


  • Record number of illegal border crossing attempts forecast in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/13.10.2026-record-number-of-illegal-border-crossing-attempts-forecast-in-latvia.a667274/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:27:58


  • Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/microsoft-patches-more-than-1400-security-flaws/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:34:24


  • Eyes on Deck | LINUX Unplugged 688 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/688/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:35:04


  • mintcast 495 – More Vibrations, Please! ☞ https://mintcast.org/495-more-vibrations-please/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:35:25


  • Brace Yourself: Massive US Copyright Fee Increases Hit November 11th ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/13/massive-us-copyright-fee-increase-incoming/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:52:21


  • Can We Sue Our Way to Hey Hi (AI) Control? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/13/can-we-sue-our-way-to-ai-control/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:52:35


  • LibreOffice Migration Workshop in Nairobi, Kenya ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/10/13/libreoffice-migration-workshop-in-nairobi-kenya/ Good timing    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:53:29


  • Linux Matters 92: Shonky WonKey Donkey ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/92/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:54:11


  • After Lockdown, Sea of Protesters Flows Through India’s Capital ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/asia/india-protests-congress-rahul-gandhi.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:54:37


  • Munich Regional Court hands Murata injunctions in SAW-filter dispute with Maxscend ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/munich-regional-court-hands-murata-injunctions-in-saw-filter-dispute-maxscend/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:56:09


  • Why Chinese College Grads Are Becoming Farmers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000011189303/china-young-people-new-farmer.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:56:29


  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100181/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 14:57:29


  • Malaysian youths rack up $1.7 billion in Buy Now, Pay Later purchases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-youths-rack-up-1-7-billion-in-buy-now-pay-later-purchases    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:00:36


  • Haze in Malaysia: Schools in Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, several other districts to shut on Oct 14 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-in-malaysia-schools-in-johor-melaka-negeri-sembilan-and-several-other-districts-to-close-oct-14    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:01:06


  • Malaysian police probing Molotov cocktail attack on Rohingya settlement in Johor ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-police-probing-molotov-cocktail-attack-on-rohingya-settlement-in-johor    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:01:17


  • Malaysian links identified in Laos airport drug seizure probe, say Malaysian police ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-links-identified-in-laos-airport-drug-seizure-probe-say-malaysian-police    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:02:07


  • Economists estimate that Malaysia loses up to $15.72 million a day due to haze ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/economists-estimate-that-malaysia-loses-up-to-15-72-million-a-day-due-to-haze    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:02:20


  • Pressured at home, EU leaders weigh China trade steps ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pressured-at-home-eu-leaders-weigh-china-trade-steps    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:03:03


  • Is Convicted Felon's New Press Secretary an 'Attorney'? Katie Zacharia's Legal Credentials Under Scrutiny After Awkward White House Debut ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/katie-zacharia-legal-credentials-white-house-debut-1825467    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:03:36


  • China’s Exports Soar, Putting Its Trade Surplus on Track for a Record ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/business/china-exports-trade-surplus.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:03:55


  • China-linked hackers breached Fiji organisation, US Embassy says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/china-linked-hackers-breached-fiji-organization-us-embassy-says    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:04:10


  • Taiwan must ‘bear the consequences’ of water cannon incident, China says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-must-bear-the-consequences-of-water-cannon-incident-china-says    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:05:01


  • Malaysia taps China’s satellites to boost disaster response ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-taps-chinas-satellites-to-boost-disaster-response    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:05:23


  • China sentences to death Myanmar scam clan members ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/13/china-sentences-to-death-myanmar-scam-clan-members/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:05:48


  • China is bringing car production to EU ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20261013-china-is-bringing-car-production-to-eu    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:06:06


  • promoters of slop and Microsoft formats ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-docs-10-release/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:09:58


  • This Rust File Manager Was Designed for Omarchy, but Arch Users Can Run it Too ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/strata-file-manager/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 15:10:16


  • BBC Talking About Dinners Instead of Tonight’s Match https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/bbc-talking-about-dinners-instead-of-tonights-match/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:26:57


  • But BBC never talks about the dinners of Bill Epsteingate (who bribes BBC) and pedophiles. https://techrights.org/wiki/BBC/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:27:31


  • Microbe Discovered With One of The Smallest Genomes on Record, Pushing The Bounds of What It Means to Be Alive ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microbe-discovered-with-one-of-the-smallest-genomes-on-record-pushing-the-bounds-of-what-it-means-to-be-alive    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:32:44


  • Dogs Seem to Agree With Humans That 'Bouba' Is Round And 'Kiki' Is Spiky ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dogs-seem-to-agree-with-humans-that-bouba-is-round-and-kiki-is-spiky    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:33:22


  • Incredibly Creepy Video Shows You a Bee Stinger Like You've Never Seen It Before ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/incredibly-creepy-video-shows-you-a-bee-stinger-like-youve-never-seen-it-before    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:33:49


  • Yandex seems very broken. Ukraine's job?    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:34:40


  • Partial Vision Restored in Some Blind Patients With New Experimental Treatment ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/partial-vision-restored-in-some-blind-patients-with-new-experimental-treatment    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:35:07


  • The Alberta referendum is a serious sign of a growing far-right ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/alberta-referendum-is-a-sign-of-a-growing-far-right/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:35:41


  • Indigenous Peoples Day: What We Inherit, What We Reclaim, and What We Choose to Pass On ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/indigenous-peoples-day-what-we-inherit-what-we-reclaim-and-what-we-choose-to-pass-on    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:35:58


  • A Congressman Questioned Reports of Deadly Conditions at an ICE Detention Center. Then Two More People Died. ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/a-congressman-questioned-reports-of-deadly-conditions-at-an-ice-detention-center-then-two-more-people-died    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:36:10


  • Nix and Lix local root-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100247/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:36:47


  • South Korea says US raised intelligence cooperation concerns, Yonhap says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-us-raises-intelligence-cooperation-concerns-yonhap-says    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:37:31


  • MElon Tries to Convince Followers to Let Grok Control Their Credit Cards, in a Stunt That Immediately Backfires in a Very Embarrassing Way ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-grok-control-credit-cards-backfires    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:38:25


  • India's 'cockroach' movement leaders detained in jail for five days, party and police say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indias-cockroach-movement-leaders-detained-in-jail-for-five-days-party-says    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:38:53


  • Cornell and Toxic Frat Culture ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/cornell-assault-frat-israel.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:50:23


  • Pope Leo’s Cancer Surgery Draws Outpouring From World Leaders ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/world/europe/pope-leo-cancer-diagnosis-prayers-reaction.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:50:57


  • Volcanic crater lake in eastern Japan draws crowds on reopening after 8-year closure ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/volcanic-crater-lake-in-eastern-japan-draws-crowds-on-reopening-after-8-year-closure    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:51:27


  • No report of Malaysian companies involved in Indonesia fires ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/no-report-of-malaysian-companies-involved-in-the-indonesias-fires    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:51:48


  • Senegal’s anti-LGBT crackdown ahead of Youth Olympic Games poses human rights concerns, HRW says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/senegals-anti-lgbt-crackdown-ahead-of-youth-olympic-games-poses-human-rights-concerns-hrw-says/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:52:24


  • FTC says ‘sextortion’ protection companies deceived customers about services ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ftc-lawsuit-dmitry-belkin-sextortion-fraud/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:53:04


  • Supreme Court agrees to hear watchdog lawsuit seeking records on MElon’s DOGE ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/10/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-will-intervene-in-watchdog-lawsuit-seeking-records-about-elon-musks-doge/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:53:48


  • FIFA’s failure to implement human rights commitments at 2026 Men’s World Cup left communities exposed, rights groups say ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/fifas-failure-to-implement-human-rights-commitments-at-2026-mens-world-cup-left-communities-exposed-rights-groups-say/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:54:28


  • Chaos Continues to Consume the Dolly Parton Estate ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/13/dolly-parton-estate-dispute-continues/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:55:47


  • SAP Patches Critical NetWeaver, S/4HANA Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-netweaver-s-4hana-vulnerabilities/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:56:36


  • US to drop South Korea intelligence case against ex-CIA analyst ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/us-to-drop-south-korea-intelligence-case-against-ex-cia-analyst    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:57:10


  • Hacker claims ‘123456’ password let them breach the Danish national registry, accessing 8.8 million records ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-claims-123456-password-let-them-breach-the-danish-national-registry-accessing-8-8-million-records-it-and-data-services-company-with-weak-passwords-linked-source-of-the-hack    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:57:24


  • warns, says, claims... so many BS headlines these days, amplifying what a simple fact-check proves to be false    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:58:37


  • "One can only hope that GAFAM collapses soon. Very soon. However the Epstein Class benefits from it and may use your tax money to keep that crap afloat."    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 16:59:19


  • US federal agents execute search warrant at residence of Representative Ilhan Omar ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/us-federal-agents-execute-search-warrant-at-residence-of-representative-ilhan-omar/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:00:13


  • Political commentator charged with revealing nat. security probe says police gave no confidentiality warning ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/14/political-commentator-charged-with-revealing-nat-security-probe-says-police-gave-no-confidentiality-warning/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:00:51


  • RMS interview in Russian, 2007 https://rus-linux.net/lib.php?name=/MyLDP/freesoft/rms.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:03:48


  • Not due to dumb decisions? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/supermarket-fridge-hacking-attacks-due-to-lack-of-basic-cybersecurity-measures-expert-says https://techrights.org/n/2026/09/24/Appliances_Should_be_Dumb.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:05:51


  • Kdenlive 26.08.2 released ☞ https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.2/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:07:29


  • Ovaries Develop an Intriguing Second Role After Menopause ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ovaries-develop-an-intriguing-second-role-after-menopause    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:08:13


  • Hong Kong actor Angela Yuen calls for eradication of film industry’s ‘misogynistic’ culture ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/13/hong-kong-actor-angela-yuen-calls-for-eradication-of-film-industrys-misogynistic-culture/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:11:26


  • Adobe Patches 176 Vulnerabilities Across 11 Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-patches-140-vulnerabilities-across-10-products/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:12:32


  • Swarms of Hammerhead Sharks Spotted Gathering Off The Coast of Australia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dozens-of-young-hammerhead-sharks-spotted-gathering-off-australian-beaches    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:12:58


  • Scientists Had Mice Eat Olive Oil Before Carbs, And It Changed Their Blood Sugar Response ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/eating-olive-oil-before-you-eat-carbs-may-reduce-blood-sugar-spikes-study-suggests    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:13:41


  • FDA-Approved Drug Could Be Repurposed to Relieve Osteoarthritis Pain And Protect Cartilage ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fda-approved-drug-could-be-repurposed-to-relieve-osteoarthritis-pain-and-protect-cartilage    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:14:03


  • "7 critical vulnerabilities requiring no customer actions." ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33422    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:14:33


  • Syria: Israeli army accused of arbitrary arrests and detention ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20261013-syria-israeli-army-accused-arbitrary-arrests-detention    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:15:14


  • VIEWE launches 4.3-inch ESP32-S31 display development board ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/14/viewe-4-3-inch-esp32-s31-display-development-board/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:15:40


  • Dragonwing FWA Gen 6 Elite Platform combines 5G Advanced, NR-NTN, and tri-band Wi-Fi 8 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/13/dragonwing-fwa-gen-6-elite-platform-combines-5g-advanced-nr-ntn-and-tri-band-wi-fi-8/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:16:37


  • Journalist Erdal Süsem receives life sentence in retrial despite top court ruling ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-erdal-susem-receives-life-sentence-in-retrial-despite-top-court-ruling-324383    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:17:06


  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 10: return var_v0 ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-13-16-27_decompilation_patterns_part_10_return_var_v0.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:17:50


  • Taiwan warns Europe of dangers of dependence on China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-warns-europe-of-dangers-of-dependence-on-china    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:19:01


  • Hylke Bons: Icon for Ripples ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/10/12/ripples    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:23:21


  • XSAs released on 2026-10-13 ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/10/13/xsas-released-on-2026-10-13/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:23:38


  • Asterinas 0.19.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100055/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:23:54


  • ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker expands to include patent monopoly data ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-expands-to-include-patent-data/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:24:18


  • Inter Partes Review (IPR) Filings Collapse to a New Normal ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/inter-partes-review-in-fy2026-petitions-down-by-two-thirds-institutions-down-by-half.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:24:49


  • Subject Matter Eligibility Declarations: An Empirical Study of Rule 132 Evidence and Examiner Response ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/subject-matter-eligibility-declarations-an-empirical-study-of-rule-132-evidence-and-examiner-response.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:25:10


  • Enpulz Automotive ADAS patents being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/12/enpulz-automotive-adas-patents-being-investigated    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:25:32


  • Nom Nom Data optimization patent monopoly being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/12/nom-nom-data-optimization-patent-being-investigated    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:25:49


  • $2,000 for Flash Uplink network patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/13/2000-for-flash-uplink-network-patent-prior-art    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:26:05


  • Ones to Watch Netherlands 2026: Wouter Mooij ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ones-to-watch-netherlands-2026-wouter-mooij/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:26:28


  • Microchip MTCH3380P and MTCH3240P capacitive touch controllers support up to 64 buttons with parallel sensing ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/13/microchip-mtch3380p-and-mtch3240p-capacitive-touch-controllers-support-up-to-64-buttons-with-parallel-sensing/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:27:04


  • A UAF turned RCE ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/14/a-uaf-turned-rce/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:27:32


  • Too much stenography, not news; "it's like they've mostly stopped doing reporting"    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:28:01


  • This afternoon Techrights published EPO bombshell, with another to follow later today    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:28:37


  • Livestreamed US execution amounts to public execution and violates absolute prohibition on torture, OHCHR warns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/10/livestreamed-us-execution-would-amount-to-public-execution-and-violate-absolute-prohibition-on-torture-ohchr-warns/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:29:09


  • Kushal Das: Ektu Bangla, to help kids to read Bengali ☞ https://kushaldas.in/posts/ektu-bangla-to-help-kids-to-read-bengali.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:29:28


  • Saudi Arabia Faces More Attacks as It Reels From Airport Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/middleeast/iran-houthis-saudi-arabia.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:29:58


  • As Houthi attacks undermine Saudi security, a cautious kingdom recalibrates ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2026/1013/saudi-security-houthi-airport-attacks-iran-yemen    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:30:15


  • Dozens Killed in Airstrikes Near Sudan-Egypt Border ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/world/africa/egypt-sudan-goldmine-strike.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:30:22


  • XWorm RAT Evolves Into Surveillance Platform ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/xworm-rat-evolves-into-surveillance-platform/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:33:14


  • RustGIS is a Desktop GIS Tool That Also Runs in a Browser ☞ https://itsfoss.com/rustgis-open-source-gis-tool/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:33:51


  • Beware of spyware: Access Now urges pension funds to scrutinize investments for spyware exposure ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/beware-of-spyware-pension-funds/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:35:38


  • The Use of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot in Asylum Decisions ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/the-use-of-chatgpt-in-asylum-decisions/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:36:02


  • ORG Investigation into use of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot in asylum decisions highlights errors, inaccuracies and Home Office incompetence ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-investigation-into-use-of-chatgpt-in-asylum-decisions-highlights-errors-inaccuracies-and-home-office-incompetence/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:36:20


  • Puter’s “Everything” Project Changes Everything ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2026/10/13/puters-everything-project-changes-everything/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/11/Slop_ware_Is_Not_Newsworthy.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:38:00


  • Firefox 158.0 is Available with Official JPEG-XL Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/firefox-158-0-is-available-with-official-jpeg-xl-support/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:38:46


  • Ubuntu Announced the Tech Preview of Its Myna Speech to Text App ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/ubuntu-announced-the-tech-preview-of-its-myna-speech-to-text-app/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:39:54


  • When reporting impacts the life of just one person, when that person is a huge liability to many people in society, then it is an effort worthy of time and sweat. https://techrights.org/wiki/Jesper_Kongstad/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:40:53


  • ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is a ‘fully rebuilt app’ with expanded Hey Hi (AI) tools ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/onlyoffice-10-expands-ai-tools    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:41:45


  • RAYE Changes Ticket Pre-Sale After 'AI Bots' and Scalpers Flood Sign-Ups: 'Never Witnessed Bots on This Scale' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/raye-ticket-presale-bot-signups-royal-albert-hall-1825504    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:42:11


  • This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago ☞ https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17496631/luma-first-look    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:42:21


  • www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Welcome our new member - Richard Qin ☞ savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10946    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:42:56


  • New version of Gphoto - GNU Digital Camera Program ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gphoto_-_GNU_Digital_Camera_Program    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:43:10


  • openEuler Wants GNU/Linux to Treat an Entire Hey Hi (AI) Cluster Like One Single Machine ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/openeuler-oss-prague/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:44:18


  • Firefox 157 Nova tweaks and improvements ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/firefox-157-nova.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:46:45


  • Radxa Linkr - Reviewed on Linux: An affordable and featureful IP KVM Device ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/radxa-linkr-review/index.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:49:09


  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Stuntboost and Deified - 2026-09-23 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-09-23-edition/index.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:49:21


  • Linux Mint Monthly News – September 2026 ☞ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:50:19


  • Linux kernel 7.2.10 compiled ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202610/linux-kernel-7210-compiled.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:51:09


  • 1998: Linux bugs are shallow something something many eyeballs. Now: Linux patches are shallow something something because "HEY HI" something something.    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:52:21


  • Broadcom-sta driver compiled for 7.2.10 kernel ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202610/broadcom-sta-driver-compiled-for-7210-kernel.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:52:42


  • Linux Mint 27 ‘Adrien’ due this Christmas with MORE new apps ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-mint-27-adrien-due-at-christmas    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:54:39


  • Kernel 7.2.10 compiled with hugepage support ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202610/kernel-7210-compiled-with-hugepage-support.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:55:12


  • curl 8.23.0 ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/14/curl-8-23-0/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:56:19


  • A misty evening Sydney webcam view ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/a-misty-evening-sydney-webcam-view/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 17:56:50


  • Microsoft Canonical https://www.securityweek.com/canonical-websites-disrupted-in-second-ddos-attack-this-year/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:01:10


  • Dictation is 1990s "rage" https://9to5linux.com/ubuntus-myna-speech-to-text-app-is-now-available-as-a-technology-preview    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:01:36


  • TrustKernel https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/12/plugmate-and-plugclaw-review-thumb-sized-android-based-private-computers-with-optional-ubuntu-openclaw-support/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:02:02


  • Proprietary and buzzwords galore https://www.gadgets360.com/laptops/news/jiopc-cloud-pc-service-price-in-india-features-12176766    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:02:52


  • "the project was first announced a whole 14 years ago" https://www.techpowerup.com/353634/nexphone-a-pocket-pc-smartphone-running-windows-11-linux-and-android-launching-in-2027    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:04:42


  • Slop-ware https://www.androidauthority.com/googlebook-linux-terminal-3722360/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:05:05


  • "A smaller update to Proton Experimental landed for October 12th, but one of the fixes is quite a major one (although a rare issue)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-experimental-gets-updated-to-fix-a-prefix-corruption-bug-and-more/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:05:26


  • Encouraging slop, bad quality, data loss etc. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/10/googlebook-linux-terminal-preview-vm.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:06:10


  • Adobe Photoshop etc. https://www.howtogeek.com/3-windows-exclusive-apps-that-actually-run-fine-in-linux-and-how-i-make-them-work/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:07:06


  • Bubblegum is a free Melodyne-style note editor for Windows, Mac and Linux https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/this-free-pitch-editor-brings-melodyne-style-note-editing-to-windows-mac-and-linux    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:07:48


  • This might be a slopfarm https://www.neoteo.com/en/pimax-says-its-dedicated-linux-client-is-in-development    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:08:45


  • The best Linux terminal isn't something you can download, you have to build it yourself like this https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/best-linux-terminal-isnt-something-200013538.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 18:09:35


  • Maresca on PSG Tonight https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/maresca-on-psg-tonight/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:01:20


  • Stopped to hide gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/stopped_hiding.txt    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:02:50


  • "Kolibri doesn’t get a lot of mainstream attention because it’s neither the most capable nor the most efficient model out there. But it’s a departure in several ways, and we can learn by considering how it’s different." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-14-why-kolibri-matters.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:03:49


  • "I was wondering about offering people a way to leave Obsidian." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-14-directory-tree    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:04:32


  • The Address Is the Pin gemini://randogoth.com/smolmail-implementations    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:05:09


  • "The last post ended on fumi-core, the Rust library underneath the reference client, and on the claim that everything in this post would be built on it. That turned out to be two thirds true, and the exception is the interesting one." gemini://randogoth.com/smolmail-clients    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:05:41


  • "Kiwix is a browser which allows you to open and browse compressed .zim files, which can contain all of the content from a website, so that content becomes portable and available offline." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/kiwix_zimit    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:06:18


  • "The web is a loud place now. Pages track you, shout at you, and weigh magnitudes more than the words they carry." gemini://randogoth.com/mews-profile    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:06:49


  • "Until this week, installing one of my Android apps meant finding the APK on a release page and tapping through the warning about unknown sources." gemini://randogoth.com/fdroid-repo    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:07:19


  • "I have not touched my camera for a long time, and it's a rainy season. With this in mind after fighting my silly self for a few hours I rode on a random train, then another one and eventually ended up somewhere close to Minatomirai." gemini://ghosisiphus.xyz/glog/2026-10-14-a-random-walk-in-i.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:07:53


  • "I've been a big fan of e-books for many years now. Got over four gigabytes worth of them; wrote magazine articles about them and self-published a bunch." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~nttp/gemlog/2026-10-14-ebooks.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:08:43


  • "We got a new cargo ebike. I have used a bicycle or an ebike to get around for 20 years or so now. I also rode various mopeds and motorcycles as my primary transportation for years." gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2026-10-14-newcargoebike.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:09:13


  • "This was not an act of enthusiasm. This was an act of infrastructural self-defence, performed with the weary resignation of someone installing a portcullis on a garden shed." gemini://iam.jeroened.be/gemlog/anubis.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:09:49


  • "Anyway, here's what I know about keeping my house clean despite having ADHD and living alone and not really enjoying the whole "cleaning" thing." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-10-14    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:10:26


  • "On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025)." gemini://eve.smol.pub/authorship-division-of-labour-material-form-thoughts-on-samuel-a-moores-publishing-beyond-the-market    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:11:34


  • "Since I last wrote, I have had a few more thoughts on Samuel Moore’s book. Again, these are not necessarily things that he does not discuss or things that he should have discussed. They are merely thoughts that occurred to me in response to reading his work." gemini://eve.smol.pub/profit-cost-price-learned-societies-further-thoughts-on-samuel-a-moores-publishing-beyond-the-market    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:12:27


  • Priority #1 is Investigative Journalism https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/priority-1-is-investigative-journalism/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 19:44:28


  • PSG is Killing Us https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/psg-is-killing-us/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 20:45:29


  • When Bowties Became Symbols of Traitors and Microsoft Pushers (the Case of James Bottomley) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/14/when-bowties-became-symbols-of-traitors-and-microsoft-pushers-the-case-of-james-bottomley/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:04:33


  • Motion of no confidence in SRA stalls at Law Society AGM https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/motion-of-no-confidence-in-sra-stalls-at-law-society-agm/5128221.article    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:05:40


  • "The takedown of LibGen was no massive shock. Indeed, several projects were already continuing LibGen’s legacy." gemini://eve.smol.pub/the-lineages-and-inheritances-of-shadow-libraries-and-their-documentation    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:23:51


  • "The answer is… 108 hours spent answering email. That’s down to 13.5 days of time; a substantial improvement! This left, during my working hours, many more opportunities for (I feel) more meaningful work." gemini://eve.smol.pub/who-knows-where-the-time-goes    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:24:34


  • "I would also note that I would like to commend SHARP for running an online, digitally-accessible event. As they note, in the programme, “One of our central aims in planning the SHARPIES has been to try to ensure accessibility for all participants”." gemini://eve.smol.pub/in-conversation-with-matthew-g-kirschenbaum    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:25:13


  • "It is a crisp autumn day in October, 1983. I am walking across the school playground, the basketball blacktop and then the school behind me, up the hill." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/20261014-autumn-nostalgia.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:25:45


  • "I haven't been on GeminiSpace in a while." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/sergio101/49956    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:26:23


  • "Today I feel like we need a new enlightenment, like Voltaire arguing that church power is bad, actually, and that it was full of corrupt and terrible people, and where are we now? Pointing out that rich billionaires everywhere are corrupt and terrible people, you know?" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-14-politics    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:27:20


  • "I write in English, both at work and at home. I read a ton of English. It's still my second language as far as proficiency is concerned. I guess it's also only the fourth language I learned, growing up." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-10-14-english    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:28:24


  • Funcom is planning staff layoffs as the company shifts its focus exclusively to "Conan Exiles" and "Dune: Awakening" https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-52392    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:48:17


  • 37% corporate staff out: Largest US grocery giant announces historic layoffs, bets big on AI https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/37-corporate-staff-out-largest-us-grocery-giant-announces-historic-layoffs-bets-big-on-ai/4360741/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:48:41


  • Not a joke; this is not a legit govt. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/trump-august-trades-meta-spacex-financial-disclosure.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:50:32


  • ‘A Massive Pile of Debt’ Threatens Ellison’s New Media Empire https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/06/a-massive-pile-of-debt-threatens-ellisons-new-media-empire/    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:51:27


  • Netflix's Newest Rival Has Nearly $70 Billion in Annual Sales. It Also Carries About $82 Billion of Debt. https://www.aol.com/articles/netflixs-newest-rival-nearly-70-175401000.html    

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2026 at 21:52:51



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