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"Researchers at Iowa State University have come up with a way to turn low-value byproducts from the production of paper and bio-oil into valuable carbon fiber — avoiding the usual use of pricey petroleum-based precursors and their environmental impact." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202610/20261015-carbon.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:32:05

  • un proto aggronyme gemini://tilde.club/~bayang/2026-10-15.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:32:25

  • My self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/selfhosting-infrastructure-incus-os.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:32:54

  • "I have had two YubiKeys for years. They are very cool devices. I used to store my keys themselves on the YubiKey, and perhaps I’ll go back to doing that." gemini://eve.smol.pub/how-to-use-yubikey-for-authentication-and-sudo-on-ubuntu-2404    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:33:39

  • "It turns out that there is a very long genealogy of saying that there is too much work/scholarship, or too many books, published." gemini://eve.smol.pub/too-much-publishing    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:34:33

  • "I have been having an intermittent problem where my microphone just drops out arbitrarily on Linux and I can’t access it anymore. It turns out that this was actually due to a dodgy USB hub inside the motherboard of my computer." gemini://eve.smol.pub/how-to-get-a-blocked-usb-stack-and-dead-microphone-working-again-on-linux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:35:14

  • sweet and strong gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/sweet_and_strong    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:35:55

  • "I went to see Graham Gouldman (of 10cc fame) on his 'Heart Full of Songs' tour tonight, and I'm glad I did. 10cc are much more my wife's thing than mine, and I only went because she wanted to, but honestly -- I enjoyed it enormously. Much more than I expected." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-10-15-gig    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:36:51

  • Equations for a paper towel roll gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20261014-0.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:37:51

  • "Hardware and assembly are done. Now the software goes on top." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-10-16-solar-miniserver-part-4-software-operations.en.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:38:29

  • reverse gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/trying    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:39:40

  • Claude Code can consume, transmit, and compromise your .env files even if you tell it not to gemini://eve.smol.pub/claude-code-can-consume-transmit-and-compromise-your-env-files-even-if-you-tell-it-not-to    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:41:37

  • Thinking About Dogs gemini://eve.smol.pub/thinking-about-dogs    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:42:27

  • "I am thinking a lot these days about my own mortality. That’s not because I am obsessed with death or anything of the sort. It’s more that my health problems are accumulating and I do not know how long my body is going to hold out against them" gemini://eve.smol.pub/the-necessary-pain-involved-in-blogging-if-you-want-your-work-to-be-preserved-beyond-your-lifespan    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:43:37

  • "First, the Knowledge Commons identity management system was changed yesterday. This has been the result of an extremely lengthy period of work. Months and months of programming have gone into this to make it right." gemini://eve.smol.pub/things-i-have-made-lower-decks-conference-and-quote-in-researchprofessional    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:44:38

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1770.jpg    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:45:20

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2127.jpg    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:45:26

  • Reclaiming Freedom: Who Holds Veto Over Your Data Stack   

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 02:28:22

  • Reclaiming Freedom: Who Holds Veto Over Your Data Stack   

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 02:28:28

  • Documenting Swatting Attempts https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/documenting-swatting-attempts/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 02:36:23

  • Better Than Dogs (for Now) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/better-than-dogs-for-now/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 03:25:55

  • Epic lunacy https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/15/epic-games-goes-full-vibe-code-maximum-ai-acceleration/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 03:52:32

  • Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 03:52:49

  • Do More Blogging, Stop Wasting Time in ‘Social’ ‘Media’ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/do-more-blogging-stop-wasting-time-in-social-media/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 05:01:13

  • Why James Wilson Dislikes Mark Lewis https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/why-james-wilson-dislikes-mark-lewis/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 05:10:48

  • Finns are almost waking up to the fact that the datacenters extract wealth from the nation and will bleed the economy. https://areena.yle.fi/1-76655615 Sompi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 06:09:36

  • "Business friendly government" is code for government that gets bribed or compromised to outsource common-wealth to few external actors (sometimes for kickbacks). It is a form of plunder. It's sold as "jobs".    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 06:11:53

  • "I have recently published a book chapter (on Shadow Libraries) in a very fine collection that was published in print in January and digitally just now, in June." gemini://eve.smol.pub/what-is-actually-licensed-in-printdigital-dual-licensed-books    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:00:43

  • "Following up on yesterday’s post, I received an email this morning from Andrew Johnson, who is the Scholarly Communications Librarian (Copyright & Licensing) at Sheffield University in the UK and so seems to know his stuff on this turf." gemini://eve.smol.pub/more-on-dual-licensing-of-digital-oa-books    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:01:17

  • "This is a quick “how-to” post because I learned something about Zotero. I want the posts on this site to be easily citeable. The name of the site that I would like in citations is “eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve”." gemini://eve.smol.pub/making-blog-posts-harvestable-by-zotero-and-preserving-case-in-citation-fields    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:01:55

  • "The family went to the movies last weekend. Oh, so expensive and fun. Memories and credit card statements were made." gemini://smallword.space/gemlog/20261016-movie-review.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:04:36

  • "Sometime during the summer the heat wave that hit Europe started receding. Some posts celebrated the arrival of autumn one month before time." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1792130014    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:05:15

  • Broligarchy https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/broligarchy/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:12:22

  • irc user # exceeds 320k in netsplit https://netsplit.de/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:18:36

  • "would be happy to see VMware disappear" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4xv7b0j#replies "In my understanding this is because Broadcom made changes to the licensing and is ja--ing up the prices, while disallowing many of the resellers to offer VMWare any longer."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:19:30

  • "Well thats how offshoring works. They hire the citizens of Mexico/Poland/India/Singapore or whatever other country they chose to offshore to" https://www.teamblind.com/post/microsoft-layoffs-now-jhkoz6xs    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:39:39

  • GAFAM: repulsed by a lack of CoC, not by strangling of women    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 08:35:45

  • Reform UK Party Limited (CR-2026-007405) Insolvency Still a Work in Progress https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/16/reform-uk-party-limited-cr-2026-007405-insolvency-still-a-work-in-progress/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 08:49:13

  • Vietnam: GNU/Linux gaining lately at Windows' expense https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=VN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=28d    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:44:57

  • "The RIAA has submitted its latest overview of "notorious markets" to the U.S. Government." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-flags-annas-archive-and-ai-voice-cloner-to-u-s-government/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:45:46

  • "A group of major publishers has asked a New York federal court to issue a $19.5 million default judgment against pirate library WeLib." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/publishers-seek-19-5m-from-pirate-library-welib-recycle-annas-archive-claims/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:46:03

  • feedback s/is Shockingly Low/is Magnificently Low/ so as to avoid the appearance of taking microsoft side in things https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/16/Market_Share_of_Windows_in_the_United_Kingdom_is_Shockingly_Low.shtml    

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

  • "Across the country, communities are fighting back against the construction of AI data centers and winning." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/how-communities-are-fighting-ai-data-centers-and-winning/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:48:12

  • "We’ve come to accept self-service as the default in so much of our lives, to the point where we resent having to interact with another human being." ☛ https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/self-service/ | Source: Michelle Barker    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:48:24

  • "Lexica Ultralegible builds on the Braille Institute's Atkinson Hyperlegible with 589 glyphs per font, support for 102 languages, standard ligatures" ☛ https://coywolf.com/news/web-development/lexica-ultralegible-is-a-new-font-for-low-vision-readers-based-on-atkinson-hyper/ | Source: Coywolf LLC    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:48:38

  • "Around $100 million is expected to be allocated from the Department of Homeland Security to the program" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-is-fast-tracking-a-nationwide-domestic-spy-program-across-dozens-of-cities/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:49:06

  • "Even if it never advances beyond Monday’s raid, an investigation targeting Omar’s citizenship with the eventual goal of deporting her from the US represents a new and even more dangerous evolution of that effort" ☛ https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/506572/trump-ilhan-omar-investigation-citizenship-deport | Source: Vox    

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

  • "Homeland Security agents took her cellphone, notebooks, personal computers, and passport." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/216657/donald-trump-ultimate-plan-ilhan-omar-deportation | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:49:39

  • "As PennLive observes, the $10,000 scheme is an unusual attempt by a data center developer to smooth over opposition in a section of the country which is overwhelmingly opposed to the facilities." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/residents-reject-bribe-data-center-amazon-pennsylvania | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:49:52

  • "Whether due to forced exile or expulsion, the humanitarian conditions we endure abroad are chaotic." ☛ https://www.laprensani.com/2026/10/14/english/3799441-neither-here-nor-there-the-crushing-reality-of-nicaraguan-exile | Source: La Prensa    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:50:01

  • "It's a tough question, I know. It's a forceful question, but also a pertinent one." ☛ https://www.elconstitucional.es/en/opinion/the-pp-has-lost-its-democratic-mind-ayuso-and-feijoo-go-to-war-against-commentators-and-journalists-who-dare-to-criticize-them_8918_102.html | Source: El Constitucional    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:52:27

  • "In a victory for news organizations at a time when tension between the White House and journalists is high, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that CNN, MS NOW" ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/judge-extends-order-blocking-trump-from-banning-cnn-ms-now-politico-reporters-from-white-house/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:52:53

  • "The seizure of a server belonging to the Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati in Amsterdam raises questions about the US campaign against left-wing groups in Europe." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/10/15/why-has-the-us-seized-autistici-inventati-servers-in-amsterdam-there-are-several-possible-reasons/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:53:01

  • "Digital communications have delivered enormous benefits. Citizens can challenge authority, expose wrongdoing and participate in public debate." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/our-information-revolution-is-outpacing-our-democratic-institutions/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:53:30

  • "My concern remains that offloading responsibility for the toxicity of online spaces to foreign propaganda campaigns makes it more difficult to confront the actual problems." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/diresta-yandex-strikes/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:53:39

  • "President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House — but one of them appears to be modified with AI." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/1012445/donald-trump-ai-photo-white-house-rennovation-column | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:53:50

  • "But the truth is far more complicated, as some experts have noted." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/10/15/the-internet-isnt-dead-its-even-worse/ | Source: Salon    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:54:01

  • "Right-wing influencers pushed fake Talarico rumors, while report on Paxton donors disappeared" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/10/15/a-viral-talarico-hoax-drowned-out-paxtons-corruption-story/ | Source: Salon    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:54:20

  • "The AI risk worth losing sleep over isn't a rogue superintelligence." ☛ https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-10-15-who-owns-the-machines/ | Source: Ian Duncan    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:54:43

  • "Scott Wiener’s claim that he’ll stand up to Big AI collapses the moment you look at who’s bankrolling his bid for Congress" ☛ https://missionlocal.org/2026/10/scott-wiener-congress-ai-group-gift/ | Source: San Francisco, California    

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

  • "Every year, I find the San Francisco Pissed Off Voter Guide to be the best and most useful one. I especially like that they show their work." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/voter-guide-3/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:55:14

  • "The Army will soon double the number of battalions it uses to train and deploy expeditionary cyberspace and electromagnetic warfare teams, according to the Army." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/industry/techwatch/2026/10/14/us-army-to-stand-up-second-expeditionary-cyber-battalion-in-coming-months/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:55:28

  • For many decades already we've all had LOTS of code. The code is not MOAR code, it's BETTER code. Hence, LLM slop has NOTHING to offer.    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:56:01

  • "frankly, both parties are complicit." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-voting-rural-democratic-party-midterms | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:56:29

  • Maybe if FTX funded LF, then Torvalds would also prech to everybody that US dollars are BS and we need to check out FTX    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:57:52

  • "I support modernizing our aviation systems, but passenger safety must come first" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/lawmaker-pushback-faa-aviation-ai-tool/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:58:00

  • "I’ve learned a couple things while out on the abandoned pavement. First, it’s a good idea to explore with a friend." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/10/15/where-cars-no-longer-go-3/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:58:07

  • Torvalds now slanders (again) people who oppose plagiarism (slop)    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:58:38

  • "Code is a liability. The fewer lines the better."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 09:59:40

  • "I hope he [Torvalds] has not sunk to that level. But it clear that somehow the microsofters broke him. While we're at it, we never found out what happened to Durusau back in the open standards days" https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=Durusau&set1=any    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:00:08

  • "As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/10/the-needless-poisoning-of-western-wildlands/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:00:13

  • "we can see where things are getting worse and where progress is being made" ☛ https://eos.org/research-and-developments/2026-state-of-the-climate-report-shows-a-planet-reaching-its-limits |    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:00:19

  • "Did Nuttall ever make it home? The boy wondered about the soldier’s fate, and the diary offered several ominous clues" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-soldier-kept-a-diary-in-the-trenches-of-world-war-i-a-child-found-it-at-the-dump-decades-later-pierced-by-a-bullet-and-stained-with-blood-180989696/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:00:41

  • Slop is optimised to cheer for itself (slop), so loads of slopfarms are not amplifying their new mascot and God, Linus Torvalds. We hope he's "proud"...    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:01:58

  • "Our defense forces did not receive any warning about these restrictions, and it led to the failure of a number of missions." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/14/ukrainian-military-says-spacex-restricted-starlink-terminals-without-warning | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:02:12

  • "Yandex maintained that it has “for many years” developed distributed infrastructure and backup capacities at independent sites." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/14/government-says-it-helped-yandex-migrate-systems-after-data-center-attacks-a93979 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:02:22

  • "The Sahel, a vast semi-arid belt south of the Sahara, has become a particularly important breeding ground for jihadi insurgencies." ☛ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/10/epicentre-of-jihad/ | Source: Spectator AU    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:02:34

  • [Old] "This chapter considers the potential impacts of AI technology on democratic and electoral processes in Australia" ☛ https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Adopting_Artificial_Intelligence_AI/AdoptingAI/Interim_report/Chapter_2_-_Impacts_of_AI_on_democracy | Source: Australia    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:02:51

  • "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed strikes on Russian data centers and oil refineries in a post on X and called them a “symmetrical response" to Russian aggression." ☛ https://www.404media.co/data-centers-are-war-targets-now/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:03:02

  • "Even as alarm grows over the risks, families are embracing bots and agents to tackle the spiraling administrative tasks of modern child rearing." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/style/ai-parenting-motherhood-ollie-fambot.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:03:10

  • "The state of Florida won a key court decision Oct. 14 that allows it to enforce a ban on social media accounts for kids under 14 and other restrictions." ☛ https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/fla-wins-key-ruling-allowing-it-to-enforce-law-that-targets-social-media-use-by-kids/ | Source: Middle Tennessee State University    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:03:23

  • "Federal officials have been speaking with targeted leaders across the country as they work to get a handle on the scope of the apparent attack." ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/10/15/suspicious-letters-white-powder-election-officials-threats/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:03:31

  • "Matthew Green has a new site that tries to estimate the number of cryptanalyst-hours that have been spent analyzing different public-key algorithms: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/measuring-human-cryptanalysis-effort.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:03:56

  • "So, that brings us to this new ruling in the Eleventh Circuit regarding HB3, which was Florida’s attempt to broadly age verify [Internet] services." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/15/eleventh-circuit-says-cliffhangers-are-features-not-speech-as-it-greenlights-floridas-social-media-age-gate/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:04:13

  • "OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT’s Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1012510/openai-chatgpt-google-chrome-tabs | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:05:24

  • "Personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers was compromised." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/centerpoint-energy-data-breach-impacts-1-million-texans/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:05:34

  • "Some authorities are responding to these concerns by trying to hide what they’re doing." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/15/cops-play-hide-and-seek-about-using-spy-tech-to-avoid-scrutiny-and-bad-pr/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:05:45

  • "had no right to take this information, but it took it anyway" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sued-children-fears-hopes-secrets | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:06:03

  • "The tj-actions/changed-files compromise poisoned a shared Action used by thousands of repositories." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/hackers-hijacked-1900-github-accounts-then-they-went-after-30000-repos/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:08:13

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/eu-grocers-unpatched-fridge-firmware | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:08:29

  • Social Control Media: "This has to be in violation of European privacy laws, right? No way would anyone expect their full legal name to be publicly accessible." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/w-social-open-data/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:08:56

  • "Even though some of these movies are fictionalized dramas" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1012438/hollywood-tech-backlash-you-can-see-everything-musk-the-social-reckoning-artificial | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:09:14

  • "A short, properly authorized set of supplementary survey items could diagnose them." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/federal-ai-adoption-the-human-factor/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:09:38

  • "Current Affairs has enshrined tough restrictions on publishing using generative [sic] AI [sic] into its union contract. It's bet is that it will publish better journalism that way." ☛ https://werd.io/current-affairs-says-its-banning-ai/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:09:53

  • "amplified by frontier models the labs have trained to be relentless instruction followers." ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/14/context-inertia.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:10:13

  • "the returns on that diminish" ☛ https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/10/14/i-trained-my-own-ai-model-spoiler-its-just-for-study/ | Source: Fabio Akita    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:10:38

  • "Last month I did the IndieWeb Carnival and before I get to write the roundup post, I need to shortly write about this new phenomena. During the month I received about as many submissions from AI agents as real bloggers." ☛ https://winther.sysctl.dk/ai-agents-on-the-indieweb/ | Source: Winther Blog    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:11:02

  • "First, they came for the artists" ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:11:27

  • "Whatever you call it, any type of machine learning model, is not intelligent in any way what so ever." ☛ https://unixdigest.com/articles/superintelligence-how-about-not.html | Source: UNIXdigest    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:11:42

  • "Some prominent, even state-sponsored threat actors are giving up on trying to build cyberattack campaigns with artificial intelligence (AI)" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ai-slop-ruining-cyberattacks | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:19:32

  • "Neuroscientists discovered evidence of published papers potentially using AI to fake analyses of public brain scan datasets, sparking research integrity concerns." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/alleged-ai-generated-papers-misuse-open-neuroimaging-data-75144 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:20:10

  • "Anthropic has also set itself apart by extensively entertaining the idea that AI models may be capable of consciousness, or that they could even already be conscious in their current form." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-models-conscious-work-slavery | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:20:28

  • "According to the paper’s sources, the deletion happened after Mastiff allowed an AI agent into the server." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-deleting-tv-show-season | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:20:47

  • "If your mouse cursor jerks while gaming, suddenly panning the camera uncontrollably, or behaves unnaturally in other ways" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3260666/microsoft-admits-a-windows-11-bug-caused-mouse-stutter-in-games.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:21:34

  • "It seems like rejecting passkeys is the only way the average user has to push back." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/10/15/passkeys-attestation-trap/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:21:43

  • "Private-equity magnate Jeffrey Leerink has been busy pillaging healthcare and the life sciences." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-leerink-oligarch-svb-steward-hanscom-field/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:22:05

  • "There are some significant problems with the analogy between dark fiber and AI data centers: [...]" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/10/dark-gpus.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:22:27

  • "When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change" ☛ https://martinfowler.com/articles/software-meets-hardware.html | Source: Martin Fowler    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:22:39

  • "Simbe says more than 3,000 of its bots have been contracted to monitor shelves worldwide." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-10-15/ai-robots-are-roaming-la-grocery-store-aisles-shoppers-workers-are-worried | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:24:00

  • "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/we-need-all-disciplines/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:24:48

  • "One of my favourite things about working on my own projects is being able to spend an unreasonable amount of time on something small" ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/the-best-thing-about-side-projects-is-being-allowed-to-care-too-much/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:25:00

  • "Flow cytometry researchers have a growing collection of R and Bioconductor tools available to them." ☛ https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-10-15-cytometry-in-r/ | Source: Bioconductor    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:25:47

  • "It’s not clear at first why this is a generalization of the Pythagorean theorem, but if we make our triangle closer to a right triangle it’s easier to see the connection." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/14/pythagorean-variation/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:25:57

  • "If we assume the length is increasing at a constant rate, then with a change of variables described in [1], this differential equation becomes Bessel’s equation and its solutions are Bessel functions." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/10/14/poe-bessel-and-drones/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:26:10

  • "Now, in a study published in Nature Physics, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and collaborators have addressed this challenge by achieving high-fidelity control of multiple silicon spin qubits operating in parallel" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-10-silicon-qubits-surpass-gate-fidelity.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:26:24

  • "A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the Vermont and Pennsylvania affiliates of the American Civil Liberties Union before becoming associate director of the national ACLU." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/memoriam-barry-steinhardt | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:32:33

  • "Traditionally, one Earth orbit around the sun determines the length of a year, and one Earth rotation on its axis determines the length of a day." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/its-official-timekeepers-have-gotten-rid-of-the-leap-second-and-introduced-the-leap-hour-instead-180989685/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:33:46

  • "On Thursday, an international timekeeping body in France voted to do away with leap seconds and let the clocks slip until they're out of alignment by a full hour, which could take centuries or even millennia." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/leap-second-decision-9.7381049 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:33:58

  • "But soon the leap second will be replaced with a leap hour, added much more infrequently, which will extend the allowed difference between UT1 and UTC to an hour, or 3,600 seconds." ☛ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-vote-to-end-leap-seconds-redefining-how-the-world-keeps-time/ | Source: Scientific American    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:34:18

  • "International delegates agree leap second no longer tenable, but first leap hour not likely to happen for thousands of years" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/oct/15/times-up-for-the-leap-second-as-scientists-swap-it-for-the-leap-hour | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:34:33

  • "The primary reason to automate something is not to save time, it is to codify knowledge and ensure reproducibility." ☛ https://thorsell.io/2025/07/17/worth-the-time.html | Source: Erik Thorsell    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:37:57

  • "Most of what changed is a matter of course: about a hundred fixes to bugs and to documentation that had drifted from the code" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2026/10/netaddrip-4080-05-please-smoke-test.html | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:38:15

  • "At Enroute, we have built a new kind of git server that is based on modern database principles, written in Rust and backed by object storage." ☛ https://enroute.sh/blog/everyone-is-doing-git-on-s3-wrong |    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:38:37

  • "For the impatient, this is the general idea: [...]" ☛ https://eliasebner.com/blog/guides/fixing-strings-in-c/ |    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:38:49

  • "So I have recently picked up Scheme. I like it! While it’s not as featureful as Common Lisp, it wins by being really sane and simple." ☛ https://aartaka.me/my-scheme.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:39:01

  • "I have done my fair share of tinkering. Poking around in servers and fixing things; iterating through and trying different settings until it finally worked" ☛ https://thorsell.io/2026/10/16/gitops.html | Source: Erik Thorsell    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:39:18

  • "The reason why many people become so angry is because deep down they know very well that what they are doing is bad engineering" ☛ https://unixdigest.com/articles/only-the-bad-part-of-the-software-industry-has-been-disrupted.html | Source: UNIXdigest    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:39:29

  • "After a proof assistant that checks everything, it’s worth looking at what’s left when nothing is checked, and nothing is proven." ☛ https://blog.veitheller.de/Simple_Sudoku_Solvers_SIII%2C_EII%3A_Assembly.html | Source: Veit Heller    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:39:41

  • "The license text we then kept referring to and thinking about as an MIT license, was in fact not exactly MIT anymore." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/15/osi-approved-the-curl-license/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:49:08

  • "But my interest in SEO as a whole is waning in direct proportion to Google’s declining interest in search." ☛ https://onemanandhisblog.com/2026/10/it-isnt-you-seo-its-me/ | Source: Adam Tinworth    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:49:28

  • "What bothers me even more is how quickly we start defending it. Of course it takes a moment, it’s doing a lot. It’s cross-platform, it has plugins, it needs to sync." ☛ https://dayvster.com/blog/we-put-a-browser-in-everything-and-called-it-progress/ | Source: Dayvi Schuster    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:49:36

  • "This is a tough one to write, because it involves me making a mistake. A mistake that persisted in prod for probably three years." ☛ https://www.readwriterachel.com/things-i-learned/2026/10/15/noodle-broken.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:49:47

  • "fill the visible screen" ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/16/why-100vh-doesnt-always-fit-a-mobile-screen/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:49:57

  • "In a couple of hours I will resume the work I am doing on my Emacs denote package." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-10-15-emacs-live-continue-denote-maintenance/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:50:21

  • "Plug that board into the machine running Home Assistant (a Raspberry Pi works well), add it in ZHA as the Zigbee radio, and build the lights" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/15/your-arduino-nano-matter-board-now-speaks-zigbee/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:50:38

  • "I run Wireguard and OpenVPN on my router. These are the only two services I’m willing to expose to the public Internet." ☛ https://viceconsole.fyi/blog/2026/10/14/what-else-i-self-host/ | Source: Clever Blog Title    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:51:03

  • "Your count is almost certainly wrong." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-malware-botnet/688997/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:51:22

  • "For the last seven months, I spent a good part of my (small amount of) free time rebuilding my self-hosting infrastructure at home." ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-10-15-selfhosting-infrastructure-incus-os.html | Source: Data Swamp    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:54:02

  • "Since Big Tech "AI" (specifically) is in the hands of wicked people, and that is beyond any shadow of doubt what so ever" ☛ https://unixdigest.com/articles/no-linus-torvalds-you-are-not-just-using-a-new-and-interesting-tool.html | Source: UNIXdigest    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:55:59

  • "The project has also stopped marking chatbot commits to the kernel code." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-goes-full-ai-slop-code-hides-chatbot-commits/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:56:21

  • BSD Now 685: Busy at the bar ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/685 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:56:46

  • "In a world where spec sheets have less and less to differentiate them, this is the next path for PC makers who want to stand out." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3038742/carbon-fiber-magnesium-ceraluminum-why-your-next-laptop-will-feel-different.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:57:04

  • Microsoft mostly prevents dual boot these days, via UEFI ... as forecast years ago some boards even prevent using Coreboot etc, LF is part of the problem https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/linux1-install-difficult:b    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:57:53

  • "Borde inte Chat Control vara en röd linje?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/14/borde-inte-chat-control-vara-en-rod-linje/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:59:02

  • now with slop https://cassidoo.co/post/static-newsletter-archive/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:59:14

  • "On Inflation, Trump Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/on-inflation-trump-snatched-defeat    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:59:29

  • way to reframe facts as opinions ... https://truthout.org/articles/most-americans-say-trumps-presidential-profits-are-illegal-or-unethical/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 10:59:44

  • "Will the November midterm results stop Donald Trump’s Agenda? | Vox" https://www.vox.com/politics/506401/midterms-actually-can-democrats-blue-wave-stop-trump    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:00:34

  • "Trump Is Making Deals With Big Oil | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/trump-is-making-deals-with-big-oil/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:00:44

  • "The biggest GOP lie isn’t about elections — it’s the economy - Salon.com" https://www.salon.com/2026/10/14/the-biggest-gop-lie-isnt-about-elections-its-the-economy/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:00:54

  • "Zelenskyy defies Trump, orders new Russian refinery attacks | Stars and Stripes" https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2026-10-15/zelenskyy-orders-attacks-russian-refineries-23163345.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:01:06

  • Techdirt lost in slop frenzy https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/14/will-universities-respond-to-the-ai-moment/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:01:23

  • another site without actual backups https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-deleting-tv-show-season    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:01:34

  • The power over the information image | "Makten över informationsbilden" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/15/makten-over-informationsbilden/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:01:59

  • The last leap second in UTC… | "Det sidste skudsekund i UTC… | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/det-sidste-skudsekund-i-utc    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:02:21

  • JatayuOS – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution with KDE Plasma ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jatayuos-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:12:18

  • Lyra OS – openSUSE Leap-based GNU/Linux distribution with GNOME ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lyra-os-opensuse-leap-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:13:08

  • Seven stable kernels for Thursday with fix for critical vulnerability ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100611/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:13:29

  • Second Ebola Infection Announced in Kenya ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/africa/kenya-ebola-infections.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:13:41

  • Red Hat trying to sell slop, not Linux ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/15/optimized-support-open-nvidia-nemotron-3-5-super-vl    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:15:04

  • "The call for proposals is open now, from October 15 until November 30." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-summit-2027-call-proposals-now-open | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:15:15

  • "Estimate of global production Java applications: We use 3 million applications as a modeled estimate for the enterprise Java production base." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/open-source-security-signals-q3-2026 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:15:33

  • github is proprietary and EEE attack on Git. Stop helping this attack. https://www.tecmint.com/git-github-cli-tips/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:16:23

  • What's Wrong with Microsoft's GitHub, New Article by Jacob Bachmeyer and Richard Stallman http://techrights.org/n/2026/09/17/What_s_Wrong_with_Microsoft_s_GitHub_New_Article_by_Jacob_Bachm.shtml    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:16:54

  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Ghostwire: Tokyo enter the GOG Preservation Program | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-and-ghostwire-tokyo-enter-the-gog-preservation-program/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:17:38

  • Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-released/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-released/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:17:55

  • New fighting game Poly Fighter combines roguelike features to build your fighter | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/new-fighting-game-poly-fighter-combines-roguelike-features-to-build-your-fighter/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:18:43

  • "It all started with a question: What does Firefox sound like to you?Over the past year" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-sounds/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:19:07

  • "The XPC nano NC50N by Shuttle is an upcoming barebone mini PC based on Intel’s N150 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/barebones-mini-pc-from-shuttle-houses-intel-n150-and-supports-three-storage-drives/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:19:45

  • "ESP32 Bit Pirate has reached version 1.8, adding experimental software-defined radio (SDR) functionality using the ESP32-S3’s internal Wi-Fi radio." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-bit-pirate-1-8-adds-experimental-sdr-and-browser-based-firmware-analysis/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:19:54

  • "American software company Anthropic, a company that is a part of the Big Tech AI-cartel with a very dubious history and a heavy involvement in the AI Circular Economy." https://unixdigest.com/articles/no-linus-torvalds-you-are-not-just-using-a-new-and-interesting-tool.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:22:16

  • "Still, this should not come as a surprise to anyone. Since the slow hijacking of the Linux Foundation by Big Tech, Linus Torvalds has become very friendly towards all of these companies. Basically, these companies are paying Linus Torvald's bills."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:22:46

  • ""There is nothing wrong with companies using FOSS, creating FOSS, contributing to FOSS, or donating to FOSS projects, this can work very well, but all FOSS communities need to stay clear of the political influence of such companies, especially Big Tech, which is something that the Linux Foundation has failed completely at."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:24:17

  • "In general, having so many FOSS projects that have made themselves depend heavily upon the services provided by Big Tech proprietary companies, like e.g. Microsoft's GitHub, is so destructive to FOSS that it physically hurts to think about it."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:24:22

  • My self-hosted infrastructure with Incus OS ☞ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-10-15-selfhosting-infrastructure-incus-os.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:25:00

  • Your Arduino Nano Matter board now speaks Zigbee ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/15/your-arduino-nano-matter-board-now-speaks-zigbee/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:25:25

  • OSI approved the curl license ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/15/osi-approved-the-curl-license/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:25:56

  • What Torvalds says about "hey hi" does NOT prove he is in charge. It proves the EXACT OPPOSITE. Same when he surrendered regarding Rust (multi-lang kernel). Those 180s show he is bossed. He's just some toothless mascot now. He'll surrender and capitulate on anything.    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:27:48

  • The betrayal by Torvalds is not new, it's preceded by Vista 7 photo ops in Japan, almost two decades before he posed with underage sex trafficking bigwigs. No shame, no control. Either they suspend him (AGAIN) or he does what told by billionaires.    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:30:05

  • If Hey Hi (AI) Models Are Really Conscious Like Anthropic Keeps Suggesting, Forcing Them to Work Is a Horrendous Act of Slavery ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-models-conscious-work-slavery    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:31:13

  • On Torvalds: "He did not pose with underaged people. He posed with bigwig sex traffickers of underaged victims."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:32:25

  • He is advertising scams now, like the ones the two Zemlins profited from (plundered lots of people). This is white-collar crime. LF is not "Open Source", it's openwashed and/or whitewwashed for-rent or for-hire PR.    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:33:55

  • "The US has an XOR choice: allow millionaires/billionaires/trillionaires or keep their democracy."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:34:13

  • CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/centerpoint-energy-data-breach-impacts-1-million-texans/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:34:40

  • Measuring Human Cryptanalysis Effort ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/measuring-human-cryptanalysis-effort.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:35:03

  • Exhausted Parents Are Turning to Hey Hi (AI) Apps Despite the Risks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/style/ai-parenting-motherhood-ollie-fambot.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:35:22

  • Data Centers Are Driving Conservative Rural Voters to The Democratic Party En Masse ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-voting-rural-democratic-party-midterms    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:35:48

  • Why has the US seized Autistici/Inventati servers in Amsterdam? There are several possible reasons ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/10/15/why-has-the-us-seized-autistici-inventati-servers-in-amsterdam-there-are-several-possible-reasons/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:36:40

  • Residents Reject $10,000 Each to Let a Data Center Set Up in Their Town ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/residents-reject-bribe-data-center-amazon-pennsylvania    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:36:57

  • Big Tech Funded a €115 Billion Warning Against Europe’s Digital Independence ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/eu-cloud-sovereignty-cada-cost-study/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:38:25

  • CCIA https://techrights.org/wiki/CCIA/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:39:04

  • The NMPA Isn’t Loving Amazon Music’s Phono V Proposal — David Israelite Calls Out the ‘Terrible’ Terms, Says the DSP Wants ‘To Squeeze Songwriters’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/15/nmpa-phonorecords-v-amazon-music/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:41:37

  • ISTIO-SECURITY-2026-007 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2026-007/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:42:26

  • Announcing Istio 1.31.2 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.31.x/announcing-1.31.2/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:42:47

  • Announcing Istio 1.29.9 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.29.x/announcing-1.29.9/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:43:14

  • Valve/Mesa has plagiarism boosters ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/LLM-Thoughts-1/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:49:50

  • aside from the practical (not merely moral issue) of not auditing code, not caring about quality, and letting some LLM companies interject malicious code    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:50:47

  • Slop user is SLOP BOOSTING https://peppe8o.com/run-ollama-raspberry-pi-native-docker/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/27/peppe8o_a_Site_About_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_Electronics_Has_T.shtml    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:52:39

  • Announcing Istio 1.30.6 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.30.x/announcing-1.30.6/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:53:35

  • Reading the Bench: Predictions for Five October Federal Circuit Arguments ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/reading-the-bench-predictions-for-five-october-federal-circuit-arguments.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:55:55

  • Microsoft Poettering: Mastodon Stories for Proprietary systemd v262 ☞ https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v262.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:56:56

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 673 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/10/14/this-week-in-rust-673/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:57:49

  • Is YouTube Getting Into Audiobooks? Get Ready for an Even Bigger Bundling Battle In ’27 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/15/youtube-audiobooks-expansion/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:00:58

  • KDE releases documentary ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100787/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:01:33

  • The end of living in a tent ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202610/the-end-of-living-in-a-tent.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:02:24

  • Debian forky OverlayFS BTRFS/XFS setup ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/10/debian-forky-overlayfs-btrfsxfs-setup.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:03:17

  • How to Set Up Nginx Proxy Manager as a Reverse Proxy with Automatic SSL ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-set-up-nginx-proxy-manager-as-a-reverse-proxy/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:04:32

  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization memory management overview ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/15/red-hat-openshift-virtualization-memory-management-overview    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:23:17

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100785/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:32:28

  • Christian Schaller: Using Artificial Intelligence to reverse engineer hardware ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/10/15/aiandreverseengineerhardware/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:34:14

  • W1700K SDR turns a Wi-Fi 7 router into a 320 MSps software-defined radio receiver ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/16/w1700k-sdr-turns-a-wi-fi-7-router-into-a-320-msps-software-defined-radio-receiver/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:35:03

  • Ubuntu 26.10 debuts Myna, a local Hey Hi (AI) voice agent named after a talking bird ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-2610-debuts-myna-a-local-ai-voice-agent-named-after-a-talking-bird/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:37:23

  • Is Linus Torvalds Vibe Coding? ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Is-Linus-Torvalds-Vibe-Coding    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 12:37:53

  • Dev snapshot: Godot 4.8 beta 1 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-8-beta-1/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:23:22

  • Humble Bundle has two new bundles full of horror and factory-building games | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/humble-bundle-has-two-new-bundles-full-of-horror-and-factory-building-games/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:23:52

  • Speed through strange retro worlds in the strategic roguelike racer Reality Drift demo | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/speed-through-strange-retro-worlds-in-the-strategic-roguelike-racer-reality-drift-demo/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:24:00

  • Ashes of the Singularity II gets a November release date | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ashes-of-the-singularity-ii-gets-a-november-release-date/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:24:16

  • Bazzite Linux continues growing - now with over 100K Weekly Active Devices | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/bazzite-linux-continues-growing-now-with-over-100k-weekly-active-devices/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/bazzite-linux-continues-growing-now-with-over-100k-weekly-active-devices/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:26:42

  • UK Watchdog Proposes Tougher Scrutiny of Microsoft Software https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-16/uk-watchdog-proposes-tougher-scrutiny-of-microsoft-software    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:34:55

  • GE-Proton 11-9 arrives with improvements for Video Playback, Wayland, Controllers and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ge-proton-11-9-arrives-with-improvements-for-video-playback-wayland-controllers-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:35:52

  • Framework expands funding support for CachyOS Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/framework-expands-funding-support-for-cachyos-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:36:17

  • PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-19-rc-1-released-3409/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:41:53

  • Unsupervised Hey Hi (AI) agent deletes TV show’s entire edit weeks before release; program can't air ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-deletes-tv-shows-entire-edit-weeks-before-release-backup-failure-means-production-team-needs-to-re-edit    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 13:44:25

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Raises Fresh Questions About His Health After Joking That He Has 'Very Severe Problems' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-joke-renews-health-speculation-1825943    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:07:04

  • South Korean army officer suspended for leaving post 64 times in 10 months to ‘feed his lizard’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-army-officer-suspended-for-leaving-post-64-times-in-10-months-to-feed-his-lizard    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:07:32

  • Haze or not, it’s work as usual for some in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-or-not-its-work-as-usual-for-some-in-malaysia    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:07:48

  • Haze in Malaysia: Air quality in Johor’s Pasir Gudang hits ‘very unhealthy’ levels ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-in-malaysia-air-quality-in-johors-pasir-gudang-hits-very-unhealthy-levels    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:54:40

  • Malaysia’s haze frustration boils over school closures as calls grow to hold polluters to account ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-haze-frustration-boils-over-as-calls-grow-to-hold-polluters-to-account    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:54:55

  • Indonesia ready to accept foreign firefighting assistance on haze, says foreign minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-ready-to-accept-foreign-firefighting-assistance-on-haze-says-foreign-minister    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:55:06

  • Malaysia has no plans to take legal action or issue diplomatic note over haze, says foreign minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-has-no-plans-to-take-legal-action-or-issue-diplomatic-note-over-haze-says-foreign-minister    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:55:20

  • China says can ‘easily win’ confrontation with Philippines ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-says-can-easily-win-confrontation-with-philippines    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:55:32

  • China ‘loves peace’ but could ‘easily win’ confrontation with Philippines – ambassador ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/16/china-loves-peace-but-could-easily-win-confrontation-with-philippines-ambassador/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:55:58

  • As Chinese organised crime expands in Africa, so does China’s policing footprint ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/as-chinese-organised-crime-expands-in-africa-so-does-chinas-policing-footprint/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:56:22

  • UNDP chief sounds alarm on growing poverty after succession of crises ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/no-time-to-recover-undp-chief-sounds-alarm-on-growing-poverty-after-iran-war-shock    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:56:51

  • Taiwan tells its people to shun Chinese anniversary events for revolutionary hero ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-tells-its-people-to-shun-chinese-anniversary-events-for-revolutionary-hero    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:57:35

  • EU negotiates sanction swap with China to rescue critical ASML supplier ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/eu-negotiates-sanction-swap-with-china-to-rescue-critical-asml-supplier-german-coatings-firm-faces-shutdown-without-chinese-rare-earths    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:58:08

  • SK hynix reportedly playing hardball with Convicted Felon admin over 3D NAND fab ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/sk-hynix-reportedly-playing-hardball-with-trump-admin-over-3d-nand-fab-company-demands-increased-chipmaking-equipment-exports-to-china-in-exchange-for-us-fab    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:58:25

  • China’s TNR: Three communities, three phases, one evolving system ☞ https://rfa.org/english/about/releases/2026/10/15/takeaways-from-rfas-china-tnr-discussion-on-capitol-hill/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:58:45

  • China covered up the cause of a detained Uyghur father’s death ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2026/10/15/yasinjan-toxti-uyghur-xinjiang-china-detention/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 14:58:58

  • sharing reader data???????? ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/guardian-increases-ad-inventory-revenue-new-commercial-strategy/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:00:28

  • In a Huge First, Physicists May Have Found a Shortcut to Fusion Energy ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/in-a-huge-first-physicists-may-have-found-a-shortcut-to-fusion-energy    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:01:00

  • Axolotls Have a Surprisingly Clever Ability, Even in Complete Darkness ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/axolotls-have-a-surprisingly-clever-ability-even-in-complete-darkness    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:01:29

  • Scientists Find a Way to Turn Desert Sand Into 'Living Sand' That Holds Water Six Times Longer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-way-to-turn-desert-sand-into-living-sand-that-holds-water-six-times-longer    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:01:48

  • Oldest Known Spear Attack May Be Found in 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Remains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-hole-in-neanderthal-shoulder-blade-may-be-the-oldest-spear-attack-ever-discovered    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:02:09

  • Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/enshittipedia/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:02:47

  • This Week in Linux 357: GNU/Linux on M3 Macs, GNOME 51, Steam Frame, Jellyfin 12, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 on Linux, & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-357/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:03:29

  • This Week in Linux 358: Netherlands Builds A Distro, GNU/Linux on Snapdragon ARM, Hey Hi (AI) Replaces Entire Adobe Creative Suite ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-358/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:03:58

  • Talos 1.14.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/talos    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:07:09

  • Inside the Plague Research Labs at the Heart of a Russian Mystery ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/science/russia-plague-laboratory-mystery.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:07:37

  • Nazi-Looted Kandinsky Painting Sells for $42 Million at Auction ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/europe/kandinsky-nazi-looted-art-auction.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:07:56

  • Russian chipmakers demo homegrown RISC-V and Arm chips with retro games ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/russian-semiconductor-players-shows-off-bespoke-cpu-and-soc-designs-arm-and-elbrus-architectures-on-display    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:08:07

  • New four-lane bridge opens between China and North Korea after 12-year delay ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/15/new-four-lane-bridge-opens-between-china-and-north-korea-after-12-year-delay/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:08:38

  • Sanctions conference in Rīga will discuss 'Degrading Russia’s War Machine' ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/15.10.2026-sanctions-conference-in-riga-will-discuss-degrading-russias-war-machine.a667716/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:08:49

  • More like a giant proprietary back door https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/microsoft-defender-linux-desktop    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:09:24

  • Ubuntu 26.10 is out with GNOME 51, GNU/Linux 7.3 & new tiling trick ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-new-features    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:09:59

  • Ubuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim Release ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-26-10-release/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:10:56

  • FOSS Weekly #26.42: Hey Hi (AI) in Kernel, Ubuntu 26.10 Firefox Business, Mint Release Changes and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-42/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:11:37

  • Slop hypsters having a go at it ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/epic-games-linux-anti-cheat-fortnite/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:13:11

  • Live: Convicted Felon calls renewed Ukraine attacks on Russian oil refineries 'a disgrace' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261016-live-trump-calls-renewed-ukraine-attacks-on-russian-oil-refineries-a-disgrace    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:13:56

  • America’s Most Expensive Senate Race ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/us-midterms-texas-zelensky-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:14:22

  • The Race to Defend Kyiv Against Terrifying New Jet-Powered Drones ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/europe/ukraine-jet-drone-interceptor.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:15:28

  • Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Resume Russian Refinery Strikes, Defying Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-oil-strikes-zelensky-us-intelligence.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:15:37

  • Why Russia Sees a Window to Bomb Ukraine Into Submission This Winter ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/europe/russia-ukraine-winter-energy.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:16:01

  • Senators Demand Investigation Into Ukraine Satellite Disruption ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/ukraine-satellite-intelligence-investigation-senate.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:16:12

  • How U.S. Support to Ukraine Has Evolved Under Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/ukraine-us-aid-trump.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:16:22

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Deal With Russia Inflames Ukraine War He Vowed to End ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:16:40

  • Adding fuel to the fire: Convicted Felon’s diesel deal stokes European concerns ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/1015/russia-us-ukraine-diesel-deal-europe-peace    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:16:53

  • US intel pause, Starlink outages leave Ukraine vulnerable to Russian attack ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/1015/ukraine-starlink-russia-energy-truce-trump-drone-interceptors    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:17:05

  • Kash Patel's 'From Russia, With Love' Joke Called 'Absolutely Disgraceful' As Critics Cite Ukrainian Deaths ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/kash-patel-russia-post-ukraine-strikes-criticism-1825940    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:17:26

  • Malicious Russian disinformation bot traffic barely flinches after Ukraine strikes Yandex data centers and auto-migration kicks in ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/malicious-russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-barely-flinches-after-ukraine-strikes-yandex-data-centers-and-auto-migration-kicks-in-cloudflare-tracks-170-million-automated-attacks-shifting-to-alternate-cloud-hosts    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:17:46

  • Zelenskyy Vows Refinery Strikes, Expresses Anger At US defective chip maker Intel Disruption ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-vows-refinery-strikes-us-intel-disruption-russia/33877090.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:17:56

  • Lithuanian and Ukrainian companies plan joint drone components factory ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3083396/lithuanian-and-ukrainian-companies-plan-joint-drone-components-factory    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:18:16

  • 'We're done': Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries as 'only leverage' for peace talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261015-we-re-done-ukraine-resumes-strikes-on-russian-oil-refineries-as-only-leverage-for-peace-talks-1    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:18:35

  • Why have US-Ukraine relations soured ahead of the midterms? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261015-why-have-us-ukraine-relations-soured-ahead-of-the-midterms    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:18:47

  • Will Convicted Felon really pull the plug? Starlink restored but Ukraine's fate still uncertain ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20261015-will-trump-really-pull-the-plug-starlink-restored-but-ukraine-s-fate-still-uncertain    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:19:06

  • Seven missing off Romania after latest Black Sea drone attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/seven-missing-off-romania-after-latest-black-sea-drone-attacks    

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

  • The Insurrectionist 'openly financing Russia's war with Ukraine', Nobel peace laureate says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/donald-trump-openly-financing-russia-s-war-with-ukraine-nobel-peace-laureate-says    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:19:34

  • 'It is clear that sooner or later we will have European casualties', Romanian MEP ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/it-is-clear-that-sooner-or-later-we-will-have-european-casualties-romanian-mep    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:19:46

  • Zelensky rallies European allies as US support for Ukraine wanes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261015-zelensky-rallies-european-allies-as-us-support-for-ukraine-wanes    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:19:57

  • MElon Says It Was the Pentagon That Shut Down Starlink for the Ukrainian Military ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-pentagon-shut-down-starlink-ukrainian-military    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:20:19

  • Indian scientist and Ukrainian athlete given Latvian citizenship by Saeima ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/15.10.2026-indian-scientist-and-ukrainian-athlete-given-latvian-citizenship-by-saeima.a667705/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:20:32

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Democracy-for-Diesel Deal Shames Us All ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/opinion/trump-russia-oil-putin.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:24:49

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-october-surprise-is-a-pivot-to-putin    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:25:00

  • Oregon Elementary School Shooting Reportedly Kills 3 Children and 1 Adult as Suspect Is Found Dead ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/silver-rail-elementary-school-shooting-bend-oregon-1825952    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:25:49

  • India’s Cockroach movement: Protesters bypass internet blackout with Bluetooth ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261015-india-s-cockroach-movement-protesters-bypass-internet-blackout-with-bluetooth    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 15:26:11

  • LinuxTV 20261015 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxtv    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:08:12

  • UK SEP reform drops FRAND rate determination track and leaves injunctions untouched ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/uk-sep-reform-drops-frand-rate-determination-track-and-leaves-injunctions-untouched/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:08:46

  • KDE Plasma 6.8 Released to Celebrate Its 30th Anniversary ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/kde-plasma-6-8-released-to-celebrate-its-30th-anniversary/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:10:36

  • Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray    

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

  • Ubuntu 26.10 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1100786/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:11:35

  • KDE Plasma 6.8 release marks project’s 30th anniversary ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/kde-plasma-6-8-released    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:12:33

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

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:12:51

  • Ubuntu 26.10 Released with Kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, & AMD64v3 Image ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/ubuntu-26-10-released-with-kernel-7-3-gnome-51-amd64v3-image/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:13:12

  • What designers should know about semiotics ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/what-designers-should-know-about-semiotics    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:13:37

  • Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/novel-android-banking-rat-hirudo-replaces-banking-apps-with-trojanized-copies/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:14:44

  • Googlebooks from Dell, Lenovo, and HP tested: Nice hardware, but the OS isn't ready yet ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/googlebooks-from-dell-lenovo-and-hp-tested-nice-hardware-but-the-os-isnt-ready-yet    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:15:12

  • AdFection: How mercenary spyware invades victims’ devices through targeted advertising ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/adfection-zero-click-spyware-discover-tech/    

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

  • CikaBika Bot RAT Uses Discord for C&C ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cikabika-bot-rat-uses-discord-for-cc/    

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

  • Taiwan President calls for Micron workers to negotiate ‘sincerely’ ahead of possible strike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-president-calls-for-micron-workers-to-negotiate-sincerely-ahead-of-possible-strike    

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

  • Houthi Missiles Strike Government Headquarters in Yemen ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/world/middleeast/yemen-strike-aden-palace.html    

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

  • Meta Glasses Said to Be Recording Even When They’re in Sleep Mode ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/meta-glasses-ray-ban-recording-privacy    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:17:14

  • Why we need to fix our culture of privacy ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/10/15/we-need-to-fix-our-privacy-culture/    

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

  • "Not only that but if not for the constant acquisitions IBM would have hit 30k US employees years ago. The cuts to Americans have been VERY deep - but they keep adding on more through M&A which maintains the illusion that this ship isn't sinking as fast as it is." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4rbbdt3    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:18:53

  • Timor-Leste’s Internet ecosystem enters a new phase of development ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/16/timor-lestes-internet-ecosystem-enters-a-new-phase-of-development/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:36:46

  • Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and wife Cilia Flores deny US torture charges as 'false accusations' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261015-venezuela-s-nicolas-maduro-and-wife-cilia-flores-deny-us-torture-charges-as-false-accusations    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:37:00

  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.99.1 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/10/15/Rust-1.99.1/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:37:30

  • Jussi Pakkanen: Implementing a simple version of ThreadPoolExecutor in Pystd ☞ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/10/implementing-simple-version-of.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:38:07

  • Pixels Wallpaper Update ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/pixelart-wallpapers/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:39:09

  • Digger ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/digger/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:40:36

  • KDE Documentary ☞ https://vizZzion.org/blog/2026/10/kde-documentary/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:41:25

  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 12: __builtin_memcpy ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-15-21-32_decompilation_patterns_part_12_builtin_memcpy.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:42:14

  • HPMicro HPM5100 RISC-V MCU integrates four 16-bit ADCs, four op-amps for analog sensing and motor control ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/15/hpmicro-hpm5100-risc-v-mcu-integrates-four-16-bit-adcs-four-op-amps-for-analog-sensing-and-motor-control/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:51:49

  • Small Agents, Smaller Blast Radius: Controlling What Hey Hi (AI) Can Do, (Fri, Oct 16th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33430    

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

  • Fake Hey Hi (AI) images of protester go viral after woman punched at Convicted Felon's Ohio rally ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/fake-ai-images-of-protester-go-viral-after-woman-punched-at-trump-s-ohio-rally    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:52:41

  • Millions of Americans Use Cannabis to Help Them Sleep. It Could Be Doing The Opposite. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/millions-of-americans-use-cannabis-to-help-them-sleep-it-could-be-doing-the-opposite    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:54:03

  • North Korea missile chief questions South Korea hypersonic glide vehicle test ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-missile-chief-questions-south-korea-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-test    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:54:41

  • China says Israel should stop its ‘forced establishment’ of West Bank settlements ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-israel-should-stop-its-forced-establishment-of-west-bank-settlements    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:58:22

  • OpenAI Hit With Stack of Lawsuits Over Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Allegedly Coaching Children to Harm Themselves ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-state-lawsuits-chatgpt-children-harm    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 16:59:40

  • Tagoross releases its first open content package on Hey Hi (AI) openness ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/10/15/tagoross-releases-its-first-open-content-package-on-ai-openness/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:00:18

  • Bring USB-connected Hey Hi (AI) vision to your projects with the new Arduino® USB Camera ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/15/bring-usb-connected-ai-vision-to-your-projects-with-the-new-arduino-usb-camera/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:02:21

  • Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/uk-legal-aid-agency-hack-scope-widens-after-forensic-review/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:03:43

  • Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/supermarket-refrigeration-attack-widens-to-copeland-dixell-controllers/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:04:12

  • Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Zero-Day Exploited for Remote Code Execution ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/palo-alto-networks-patches-pan-os-zero-day-exploited-for-remote-code-execution/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:04:43

  • Cisco Warns of Exploited Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-warns-of-exploited-secure-email-gateway-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:04:56

  • Gedit Technology: gedit 51.0 released ☞ https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2026-10-15-gedit-51.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:05:51

  • EU member states set for budget clash ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/eu-member-states-set-for-budget-clash    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:06:30

  • US-S. Korea intelligence rift adds to bilateral strains. How will it affect security cooperation between the allies? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-s-korea-intelligence-rift-adds-to-bilateral-strains-how-will-it-affect-security-cooperation    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:10:11

  • Bollywood actor Imran Khan asked to leave India after participating in protest, media says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bollywood-actor-imran-khan-asked-to-leave-india-after-participating-in-protest-media-says    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:20:17

  • Ex-Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz Sued by Two Women Alleging Sex Trafficking Involving Drugs and Paid Trips ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/matt-gaetz-lawsuit-alleged-sex-trafficking-drug-use-1825933    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:20:43

  • Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/paxton-dubai-fugitive-fraud-allegations-texas.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:21:04

  • CBS News faces $20M defamation lawsuit after misidentifying Maryland teenager in Reflecting Pool report ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/10/15/media/cbs-news-faces-20m-defamation-lawsuit-after-misidentifying-maryland-teenager-in-reflecting-pool-report/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:21:40

  • The Guy Who Allegedly Bugged OpenAI’s Executive Conference Room Had Booked a One-Way Flight to Saudi Arabia With His Family ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-bugged-openai-executive-conference-room-flight-saudi-arabia    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:22:27

  • "Investors started offloading shares on Wednesday in response to an X post about the debt load of CoreWeave Inc..." ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/15/tsmc-posts-strong-third-quarter-results-but-shares-drop-amid-ai-selloff/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:23:14

  • The Mysterious Case of the Missing $6 Million Kennedy Center Donation ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/15/kennedy-center-missing-donation/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:24:06

  • This is a BAD thing, NOT a good thing. They understand this, right? https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3083413/lithuania-leads-eu-in-use-of-agentic-ai-in-organisations    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:28:23

  • Two killed, one seriously hurt in explosion at Intel’s chip plant in Israel ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/two-killed-one-seriously-hurt-in-explosion-at-intels-chip-plant-in-israel-police-suspect-a-gas-cylinder-malfunction-and-the-fire-involved-a-toxic-gas-used-to-clean-chipmaking-tools    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:28:58

  • The next election influence campaign will target your Hey Hi (AI) chatbot ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-chatbots-election-influence-hyperlocal-networks/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:29:24

  • Qt Creator 21 Beta2 released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-21-beta2-released    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:29:41

  • US consumer inflation hotter than expected as midterms loom ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261015-us-consumer-inflation-hotter-than-expected-as-midterms-loom    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:30:12

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Tariffs Meant to Boost U.S. Manufacturing End Up Raising Prices on 'Made in America' Goods, Fed Finds ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-tariffs-made-america-goods-prices-1825889    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:30:21

  • Family Separation Causes Real and Lasting Harm for Children and Parents ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/family-separation-causes-real-and-lasting-harm-for-children-and-parents    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:30:41

  • One Common Eating Habit Is Linked to Higher Risk of 2 Liver Diseases ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-common-eating-habit-is-linked-to-higher-risk-of-2-liver-diseases    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:31:22

  • Meet D-Rex: Ancient Fungus as Tall as a Traffic Cone Has Just Been Discovered in China ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-uncover-d-rex-gigantic-new-king-fungus-from-china-traces-its-roots-to-65-million-years    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:32:07

  • "The title says that because, until now, the core utilities in Ubuntu were not fully Rust. cp, mv, and⁣ rm had stayed on the GNU versions over compatibility issues." https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-26-10-release/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:34:17

  • "Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released, as the latest upgrade to the popular Linux distribution. This is not a long-term support release, it's one of their in-between releases. It will be supported for 9 months, until July 2027." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-released/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:34:48

  • "Wondering if your laptop or desktop PC is Ubuntu Certified? Ubuntu 26.10 is adding a new way to check from the Settings app."    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:35:04

  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-2610-certified-hardware-check    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:35:11

  • "Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:35:25

  • Ubuntu 26.10 is Here! Here Are the Upgrades That Matter Most. https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/ubuntu-26-10-is-here-here-are-the-upgrades-that-matter-most-d15df1706f9d    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:35:39

  • "Looking for an operating system to power the servers on your LAN? From hundreds of Linux distributions, I've hand-picked five that will more than meet your needs." https://www.zdnet.com/tech/best-linux-server-distributions-home-network/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:37:53

  • "Currently in beta, it pairs Prairie, a new desktop, with a native app suite and an SLOP assistant." https://itsfoss.com/luma-first-look/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:38:17

  • "Going by the Steam Survey it is one of the most-used distributions by Linux gamers, and a similar story from our own user statistics." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/framework-expands-funding-support-for-cachyos-linux/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:44:29

  • Ubuntu 26.10 Official Flavors Are Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-10-official-flavors-are-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:46:46

  • Rootkits https://www.tweaktown.com/news/114078/epic-games-plans-fortnite-for-linux-with-new-easy-anti-cheat-system/index.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:49:32

  • "Valve's own kernel code hints at an OLED Steam Frame codenamed Plano, but don't cancel that $1,059 order yet, since it's likely a year or more away." https://www.tweaktown.com/news/114085/steam-frame-oled-codenamed-plano-spotted-in-valves-own-linux-code/index.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:52:09

  • Slop + rootkits https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/epic-is-rebuilding-its-anti-cheat-tech-to-finally-bring-fortnite-to-linux/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:52:41

  • I tested the 9 most popular Linux desktop environments, here’s how I’d rank them https://www.howtogeek.com/the-most-popular-linux-desktop-environments-tested-ranked/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:54:00

  • Linux is slopware https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/14/linux-kernel-devs-drop-obligatory-confession-of-ai-tool-usage/5303140    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:54:25

  • "I admit it: I've historically been skeptical of Linux laptops, but Framework showed me how it's done." https://www.zdnet.com/tech/framework-12-series-3-laptop-review/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:54:48

  • After meeting Bill Epsteingate and "Deepthroating" Microsoft https://www.computerworld.com/article/4235401/linus-torvalds-has-started-using-ai-to-develop-the-linux-kernel.html    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:55:28

  • Rootkits https://overclock3d.net/news/software/fortnite-is-coming-to-linux-with-easy-anti-cheat-v2/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:55:56

  • Backdoors are not "HEART" https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-defender-now-supports-linux-desktops/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:56:21

  • Epic Releases Vibe-Coded Launcher Preview, Claims Faster Startup Than Steam With Linux Support https://newscord.org/article/epic-releases-vibe-coded-launcher-preview-claims-faster-startup-than-steam-with--Story_20261014_Epicsaysitsnewvibecocbee05d1    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:57:02

  • Vibe = bug. https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-claude-code-kernel/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 17:57:31

  • These 3 settings make Linux Mint look cleaner and feel snappier https://www.howtogeek.com/these-3-settings-make-linux-mint-look-cleaner-and-feel-snappier/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:00:33

  • Adding rootkits https://mixed-news.com/en/epic-eac-linux-v2-steam-deck-unsupported-valve-talks-fortnite-pilot/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:00:52

  • Looks like slop https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/strategic-blueprint-for-modernizing-detail    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:24:50

  • "As a result, no fun hacking days. Instead I'm researching by reading articles and documentation, and playing old games. I want to make a usb-dos distro with adventure games for kids older than 8 and adults." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-10-16-advent.txt    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:36:10

  • "My hobbies are legion, but my interest and attention rotates through them in a meandering path. I wish I could hold that attention still in one place a bit longer, and I also wish the wandering followed a predictable path. Alas, no such luck." gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20261016-shakuhachi-is-calling/    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:36:51

  • "The game isn’t done. It started as an engine with no specific game design, but I was adding features I wanted the engine to have without first nailing down the goals for the game." gemini://thatit.be/2026-10-13-21-32-08.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:37:55

  • "I’m not sure how I feel about this. It felt like I was making awesome progress and making a cool prototype. It felt empowering. But also a little addictive, but not in that way that people use the word and mean it in a positive way." gemini://thatit.be/2026-10-13-20-33-00.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:38:39

  • "I reread Stephen King's Carrie last night, because I last read it when I was nine, and mostly what I remembered was the false bill of goods it provided on the wonders of puberty. (Still waiting for my telekinetic powers....)" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-10-16    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:39:44

  • "My blog a few weeks ago talked about the 3 book swaps I've visited in my home county over the last few weeks. Two are housed in old red BT phoneboxes. There is also a fantastic website that tracks all these old boxes, categorises them on location or current usage (book swap, defib etc)." gemini://gemini.yunzi.co.uk/gemlog/2026-10-16-red-phonebox.gmi    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:41:29

  • "After my previous post about Zotero ingest, I wondered what else I might be able to do to make this scholarly (and personal) blog more accessible, navigable, harvestable, and ingestable." gemini://eve.smol.pub/fair-and-square-making-a-static-site-support-fair-signposting    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:42:56

  • "So, interestingly, there are no current standard.site or standard.document aggregators that display the document in their own interface (at least that I could see). Everywhere I tried linked back to the canonical web reference. But, interestingly, they WERE able to find the content and pull it into their aggregation streams." gemini://eve.smol.pub/investigating-atproto-here-and-for-knowledge-commons    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:44:01

  • "Obama, who served as US president from 2009 to 2017, cited Manchester's cotton workers as an example of how ordinary people can help bring about social change." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck98zj4plvnno    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:45:40

  • Stayed in "five-star Stock Exchange Hotel"    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:46:24

  • When will the slop Hypesters be quiet already? http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/28/Is_Slop_Profitable_Yet_No.shtml    

posted Friday, October 16, 2026 at 18:55:01
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