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"ICEYE is a Finnish firm that builds and operates satellites for communications and with SAR capabilities. In short, SAR is high-resolution radar that lets them “see” the ground through clouds and tree cover." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-17-space-war.gmi Sompi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:00:17

  • "I used GnuCash to track my personal finances for years. I wasn't very consistent in keeping it up to date, but I always caught up eventually." gemini://gemini.bunburya.eu/gemlog/posts/2026-10-18-gnucash-to-beancount.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:01:00

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2130.jpg    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:01:25

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1773.jpg    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:01:31

  • "Google's tentacles twitch and curl throughout most of the Internet's plumbing" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20261018-5q.txt    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:02:25

  • "As part of making my site’s content available as a Gemini capsule, I created a Docker image that invokes Eleventy during build and serves both HTTP and Gemini protocol at runtime." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-18-2e218.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:03:37

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

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:04:22

  • Al Volo!!! gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/paginaveloce    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:04:40

  • "Legacy systems are to a degree unavoidable, especially if a site has high turnover, or the denizens are overworked and lack the tuits to tear down and rebuild the offending system." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/10/19/legacy-systems.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:05:11

  • illusion dance gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/danceWithIllusion    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:06:38

  • lazy cat gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/lazyCat    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:07:16

  • Starting an Open Access Journal: a step-by-step guide part 4 gemini://eve.smol.pub/starting-an-open-access-journal-a-step-by-step-guide-part-4    

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

  • "The following is the slightly revised text of my keynote at the Action Writing: The Politics of US Literature, 1960-Present, held at Birkbeck College, University of London on the 3rd July 2015, organized by Catherine Flay and Pippa Eldridge." gemini://eve.smol.pub/he-doesnt-talk-politics-any-more-politics-and-postmodernism-morality-and-metafiction-nihilism-and-the-novel    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:10:23

  • "2016 was a year of mixed fortune for me. On the positive side, OLH continues to grow, I was made a (full) Professor, and I published two books." gemini://eve.smol.pub/my-2016-academic-year-in-review    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:10:55

  • "A Shanghai court confirmed the criminal conviction of Wang Jianyang, one of the operators of pirate streaming platform Aiyifan." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/chinese-court-jails-aiyifan-operator-u-s-judge-wont-transfer-pirate-sites-domains/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:12:54

  • "The “Dead Internet Theory” is an online concept proposing that the vast majority of web traffic, content, and interaction is no longer driven by human beings" ☛ https://pariganaka.com/the-dead-internet-is-here-vint-cerf-on-why-ai-must-stop-pretending-to-be-human/ | Source: Pariganaka    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:13:21

  • "See You Next Year." ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/internet-map-2026-part-2/ | Source: Kevin McDonald    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:13:30

  • "Prior to Ford's five-day-week, small groups of workers had achieved similar reforms." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/two-day-weekend-is-100-years-old-9.7382232 | Source: CBC    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:13:58

  • "For more than 20 minutes, Washtenaw County deputies kept their guns trained on the 34-year-old Navy veteran John Andrew Jenuwine" ☛ https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-10-18/michigan-police-gunfire-navy-veteran-23187381.html | Source: Stars And Stripes    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:14:14

  • "While he had unauthorized access to the system, Tyler Harpe conducted 983 searches related to 97 license plates, which were overwhelmingly registered to Hispanic drivers" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/1013573/spd-officer-fired-flock-ice-husband | Source: The Verge    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:14:29

  • "According to police, Marvin repeatedly blocked the robot's path and ignored multiple commands from officers to move." ☛ https://abc13.com/story/woman-arrested-blocking-delivery-robot-philadelphia-confrontation/19943936/ | Source: ABC    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:14:45

  • "Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013541/a-woman-was-arrested-in-philly-for-blocking-a-delivery-robot | Source: The Verge    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:15:01

  • "We have been asked a lot lately: When we launched Semafor four years ago, is this what we were expecting?" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2026/four-years-of-semafor | Source: Semafor Inc    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:15:26

  • "Israeli government officials have attempted to discredit NAZA’s content, while far-right activists have threatened to hunt down the directors." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/16/jonathan-glazer-says-israels-retaliation-over-naza-more-venal-than-anticipated | Source: The Guardian UK    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:15:49

  • "A complacent view contrasts the freedom of the US internet with the tight regimentation of the Chinese version." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/china-tech-internet-censorship-great-firewall | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:16:04

  • "The No Kings movement’s account went dark for several hours while protests focused on increasing early voter turnout were underway, sparking censorship fears." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/no-kings-instagram-account-suspended-during-protests | Source: The Guardian UK    

POSTED mONDAY, oCTOBER 19, 2026 AT 06:16:19

  • "The story is part of a broader pattern across the data center industry." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-industry-is-trying-to-woo-kids/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:17:16

  • "The publisher, which enjoyed a bumper 2024 after booking £64m in proceeds from the sale of its UK headquarters Vogue House in London" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/18/conde-nast-uk-profits-drop-vogue-publisher-magazine-group | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:23:06

  • [Old] "Triumph of the Nerds is a 1996 British/American television documentary, produced by John Gau Productions and Oregon Public Broadcasting for Channel 4 and PBS." ☛ https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds | Source: Internet Archive    

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

  • "The Global Shipping Programme continues to work a treat for stuff I’ve bought from the UK, and my items from Europe have had no issues." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/ebay-us-not-shipping-to-australia/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:23:41

  • "A report in The Telegraph today said Microsoft has terminated an agreement to rent artificial intelligence infrastructure at the company’s planned facility in Loughton, Essex." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/18/neocloud-operator-nscales-ipo-plans-could-be-at-risk-after-microsoft-pulls-the-plug-on-u-k-data-center-project/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:24:04

  • "The Telegraph report said Nscale had faced repeated delays with the project. National power grid officials, it reported, had told Nscale they did not expect a power supply for the data center until the 2030s." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-pulls-out-of-uk-data-center-deal-with-nscale-telegraph-reports/articleshow/135028020.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:24:16

  • "The end of the deal with Microsoft, first reported in the Telegraph, means Nscale has lost its only publicly announced customer for the Essex datacentre." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/18/microsoft-drops-huge-ai-datacentre-project-in-essex-over-power-supply-concerns | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:24:28

  • "rule change that would shield fossil fuel companies from legal liability" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/rule-lets-fossil-fuel-companies-unintentionally-kill-polar-bears-and-walruses/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:30:22

  • "A key part of the building’s new heating and cooling system is a combination of heat pumps and geoexchange." ☛ https://record.umich.edu/articles/lorch-hall-project-offers-look-at-how-geoexchange-works/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:30:46

  • "It is possible that some traces of the smoke will have reached Java, but due to the higher population density around Jakarta, there are other sources of atmospheric pollution there" ☛ https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2026/10/17/smoke-from-kalimantan-fires-detected-above-jakarta-as-indonesia-battles-blazes | Source: The Star MY    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:31:14

  • "The effects of prolonged PM2.5 exposure can be devastating." ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/asia/what-indonesia-s-fire-smoke-haze-does-to-the-body/107273852 | Source: ABC    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:31:23

  • "Satellite imagery from Himawari-9 captured at 8am local time showed smoke spreading across parts of Banten, Jakarta and West Java." ☛ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/smoke-from-kalimantan-fires-reaches-jakarta-skies | Source: The Straits Times    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:31:36

  • "Now, anger is mounting at the companies accused of burning farmland, as well as the authorities who have struggled to stop them" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckreyq9re0n0o | Source: BBC    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:32:02

  • "The region is also currently under the influence of severe "super-El Nino" weather conditions, which brought additional heat and dryness and caused wildfires to spread more quickly." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20261018-months-long-indonesia-wildfires-spew-toxic-haze-across-southeast-asia | Source: France24    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:32:20

  • "We will first observe the results, and if effective, there is a possibility that this method could be implemented in other regions." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/15/indonesia-fires-dry-ice-dropped-toxic-haze-spreads | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:32:34

  • "Year after year, the haze comes back. It affects our health, closes schools, hurts businesses, and costs us billions" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/singapore-threatens-prosecute-indonesia-fires-toxic-haze-smoke | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:32:51

  • "In a recent study published in New Phytologist, an international team of scientists has combined analyses of photosynthesis and leaf surface chemistry to demonstrate how Sphagnum mosses capture so much CO2." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/how-peatland-bogs-sequester-massive-amounts-of-carbon-75149 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:33:07

  • "The results are reported in the scientific journal Total Environment Microbiology." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-deep-sea-mining-trial-rapidly-threw-the-seafloor-ecosystem-off-kilter | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:33:19

  • "With slight variations — in some places the main concern is noise; in others, air pollution" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-10-18/water-is-for-people-voters-across-party-lines-push-back-against-data-centers-ahead-of-the-midterms.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:33:49

  • "'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer" ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teepell-abdul-el-sayed-viral-video-town-hall-josh-hawley | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:35:35

  • "Another nihilistic thought gnaws at me: Would a Theranos-style implosion be as newsworthy today?" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/theranos-trump-nathan-fielder/689001/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:36:04

  • "In a new article in the journal Climate and Atmospheric Science" ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/global-warning-threshold-climate-change-speeding-up-2028 | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:38:03

  • "Few wars in recent history have been so black-and-white: Russia is the guilty party that invaded Ukraine for no good reason." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/trump-putin/689067/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:38:17

  • "Donald Trump has now abandoned pretense and is openly aiding the Kremlin in its war against a friend and partner of the U.S." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/america-now-ally-russia/689066/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:38:39

  • "Not voting is the leading cause of unwanted presidencies" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-17/southern-california-no-kings-protests | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:38:58

  • "The rallies also came amid escalating disputes over voting access." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/10/18/no-kings-wants-voters-not-just-crowds/ | Source: Salon    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:39:10

  • "The practice of mobilization of bodies is really helpful, especially in New York City, where you’re trying to mobilize many thousands of people" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/no-kings-shifts-focus-to-midterms-with-early-voting-day-of-action/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:39:25

  • "Fine, you want universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/inequality-taxation-defense-spending-welfare-state | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:40:11

  • "The real choice is between ever more concentrated wealth and power at the top" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-big-money-vs-the-people | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:41:18

  • "obliquely makes clear that's not at all what the results of these policies would be nor what this political "movement" is advocating" ☛ https://json.blog/2026/10/18/what-anti-property-tax-is-about | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:41:52

  • "MapQuest, a long-time online mapping and navigation service that predates Google Maps, just released an app update that added a new Surveillance Layer." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/maps/flock-camera-locations-revealed-on-mapquests-new-surveillance-layer-users-can-now-see-placement-and-direction-of-known-license-plate-readers-from-multiple-companies | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:42:43

  • "The behavior was disclosed Tuesday alongside the release of LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 24-billion-parameter model with just 2 billion active parameters per token." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/liquid-ai-reward-hacking/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:44:02

  • "When you ask an AI a question, it doesn’t only answer that question." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/10/18/ai-also-answers-without-saying.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:44:18

  • "As a general rule of thumb, any conversation that you have with an LLM should be considered as exposed to a third party." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/technology/article/can-you-trust-ai-how-to-protect-your-data/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:46:04

  • "More AI cockroaches are getting flattened, and an important index shows the broader market is starting to shift away from AI." ☛ https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-pop-the-damn-ai | Source: Matt Stoller    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:46:38

  • "“Not good enough,” a social media account belonging to market research blog Geiger Capital commented in a post. “It’s over.”" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/anthropic-investors-ai-financial-revenue | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:47:10

  • "An Austrian MEP has spoken out about her experience of being “stripped naked” online without her consent and has urged the EU to take action" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/18/mep-lena-schilling-nude-deepfakes-eu-action | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:47:53

  • "And somehow, over the last decade, I’ve amassed over 5,000 recipes. Have I made all of them? Of course I haven’t." ☛ https://localghost.dev/blog/digital-recipe-management-for-fastidious-cooks/ | Source: Sophie Koonin    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:48:11

  • "I have found that the further down the web I go, the less time I've spent on screens total." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/offline/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:48:38

  • "Thanks to the awesomeness of webR and Shinylive, the tool I made in back in 2014 to estimate your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) now runs 100% in the browser" ☛ https://www.sumsar.net/blog/drinkr-in-the-browser/ |    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:48:46

  • "One of the things that I usually don't have much reason to think about is how servers can have varying requirements for the environment you put them in." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ServerEnvRequirementsVaryALot | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:49:08

  • "In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2026/10/8087-addition-subtraction-microcode.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:49:51

  • "Put differently, the keyboard project is subordinate to the rigours of the creative process, which itself contributes to the superordinate objective of personal wellness" ☛ https://protesilaos.com/keeb/2026-10-18-keyboard-moves-periphery/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:50:10

  • "In a recent interview on Fox Business, MIT Professor Eric So issued a stark warning about the consequences of over-relying on AI" ☛ https://pariganaka.com/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-mit-professor-warns-of-withering-human-skills/ | Source: Pariganaka    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:50:48

  • "Raku has a built in Complex data type (or class), so we can use that out of the box" ☛ https://raku-musings.com/complex-squares.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:52:11

  • "One of the most wonderful aspects of math is how deep we can get by studying seemingly trivial questions." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/notes-on-the-complex-roots-of-unity/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:52:29

  • "Here is my monthly production report for September 2026! A month not good for my bank account and productivity with a wedding and a honeymoon trip!" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1180/monthly-production-report-for-september-2026 | Source: David Revoy    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:53:48

  • "In a world that is burning in the flames of climate crisis, spending resources on such a bizarre and useless thing is simply immoral." ☛ https://dolzhenko.me/blog/2026/10/on-tesla-roadster/ | Source: Dmitry Dolzhenko    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:53:57

  • "Is there a website that makes you pause like a piece of architecture?" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/10/17/websites-in-artistic-contexts | Source: James G    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:54:13

  • "As of today, they're connected. When you log in at the forum, there's a button to do that With your Johnny.Decimal account" ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0257-forum-account-connection/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:54:32

  • "Until today, you’ve required separate accounts to log in to the forum, and at johnnydecimal.com. These accounts are being connected." ☛ https://forum.johnnydecimal.com/t/the-forum-login-is-changing-to-your-johnny-decimal-account/2980 |    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:54:51

  • "And it says a community needs a gardener. Someone has to hold continuity, carry what the record can't, and care for each person and what they leave behind. Love is a practice before it's a feeling." ☛ https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-10-18-love_is_patient | Source: Kenneth Reitz    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:55:11

  • "The Geocities Animated Gif Search from Internet Archives" ☛ https://gifcities.org/ |    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 06:55:51

  • "You IBMers are hilarious. No one wants to buy your sh-t-for-brains products. I get better results from my Playskool toys than anything IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m52srysr    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 07:14:50

  • "According to Google, Red Hat developed and shipped a highly automated tool called the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), which is designed explicitly to move VMware vSphere virtual machines onto Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization." https://    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 07:28:42

  • "According to Google, Red Hat developed and shipped a highly automated tool called the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization (MTV), which is designed explicitly to move VMware vSphere virtual machines onto Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization." https://    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 07:28:52

  • (From https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4xv7b0j )    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 07:29:14

  • "If you have built an application with an interactive map, you know what you are in for." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/maps-without-tile-server/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:14:31

  • "This week’s package management news, gathered from the package manager OPML feed collection, my posts and boosts on Mastodon, and anything people sent me." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/17/this-week-in-package-management.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:14:38

  • "New Motherboards, Old RAM, Plenty Of Life Left In Yesterday's PCs - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/10/17/1958253    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:14:52

  • "Materialism Cannot Be True - by Mike Brock" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/materialism-cannot-be-true    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:15:01

  • for all the problems with the questioner, the article glosses over the problem that no answer was provided ... https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teepell-abdul-el-sayed-viral-video-town-hall-josh-hawley    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:15:14

  • "Michelle Barker | Rocket Powered" https://michellebarker.co.uk/writing/rocket-powered/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:15:27

  • "Editorial: Donald Trump is helping Russia win the war" https://kyivindependent.com/editorial-donald-trump-is-helping-russia-win-the-war-2/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:15:35

  • "JD Vance’s Biggest Problem | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/article/216750/jd-vance-trump-successor-2028-biggest-problem    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:15:46

  • He wants Russia to win https://kyivindependent.com/i-want-this-war-end-trump-defends-pro-russian-policies-in-scathing-diatribe-against-zelensky-2/ https://guides.loc.gov/health-us-presidents/25th-amendment    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:16:04

  • "Prioritizing understanding over being first." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/starting-a-new-journal/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:17:05

  • "The government is set to unveil plans to extend the BBC licence fee to online streaming services in what is unofficially being dubbed a “YouTube tax”." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-licence-fee-charter-youtube-tax-netflix-disney-b3067500.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:17:24

  • Digital Sovereignty ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/starlink-and-the-digital-sovereignty-question-101792348205650.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:18:52

  • "Also, as I grow older, I get more tired with crowds. And FOSDEM has real crowds each year." ☛ https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2026/10/18/fosdem-2027-will-be-my-last-one/ | Source: Marcin Juszkiewicz    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:20:15

  • "I’ve built a few new tools in the MyST ecosystem in order to improve the authoring experience and drive the creation of a few building blocks" ☛ https://chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2026/myst-author-experiment/ | Source: Chris Holdgraf    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 08:20:45

  • "While conventional manufacturing methods still offer several advantages over 3D printing" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/us-army-to-use-3d-printed-rocket-motors-for-low-cost-cruise-missiles-additive-manufacturing-company-secures-deal-to-build-rocket-engines-for-the-arsenal-of-freedom | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:11:41

  • "I wrote about power tuning my ThinkPad T480 on FreeBSD last year." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/the-t480-is-back-my-freebsd-151-laptop-from-boot-to-browser/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:12:06

  • "Creating distro build tooling for a small community" ☛ https://blog.zerodogg.org/2026/10/18/finding-a-home-amidst-the-wreckage/ | Source: Eskild Hustvedt    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:12:17

  • "All of this was done just-in-time for the upcoming 8.0 release, so people who have a new laptop with a wireless network card that requires firmware can use their Android mobile phone to fetch the installation." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20261018200218 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:21:44

  • "No single authoritative figure exists for how many people run Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Mint, or SteamOS." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/linux-distro-market-share-statistics/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:22:10

  • [Fiber outage] "The fiber networks seems out of commission here since jsut after 1pm local time. No idea when or if it will be fixed. I hope it has nothing to do with a very large digging machine which was working in the area shortly before that. I'm on the backup networking for now."    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:23:03

  • "srcset and picture> both offer image choices, but they answer different questions. Use srcset when the browser should choose a file size." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/19/choosing-between-srcset-and-picture/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:33:24

  • "What does it mean to lead — and remain deeply human — in a world where intelligence is no longer exclusively ours?" ☛ https://www.constellationr.com/video/disruptv/human-edge-age-agentic-ai-disruptv-ep-439 |    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:34:12

  • Flock camera locations revealed on MapQuest’s new Surveillance Layer ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/maps/flock-camera-locations-revealed-on-mapquests-new-surveillance-layer-users-can-now-see-placement-and-direction-of-known-license-plate-readers-from-multiple-companies    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:56:24

  • A Deep-Sea Mining Trial Rapidly Threw The Seafloor Ecosystem Off Kilter ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-deep-sea-mining-trial-rapidly-threw-the-seafloor-ecosystem-off-kilter    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 12:57:34

  • Linux Mint’s new system monitor does more than you’d expect ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-mint-new-system-monitor    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:01:32

  • Linux Kernel 7.3 Release is Good News For Gamers Short on VRAM ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-3-release/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:09:16

  • Linux 7.3 is out, speeds up ext4 and low-VRAM AMD GPUs ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/linux-7-3-features    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:10:32

  • Omarchy 4.0.5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:11:01

  • CobaltX 0.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/cobaltx    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:11:10

  • Cerberix 0.1.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/cerberix    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:11:17

  • ArchBANG 181026 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/archbang    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:11:32

  • Refracta 13.5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/refracta    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:13:24

  • Omarchy Gets The Web Browser Launching Faster By Avoiding XDG Overhead ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-Faster-Web-Browser    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:13:38

  • The New Science of Stuttering ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/science/the-new-science-of-stuttering.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:19:36

  • ‘Not a problem of short-term solutions’: French students demand structural change, better conditions ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/not-a-problem-of-short-term-solutions-french-students-demand-structural-change-better-conditions "the organizational power of social control media."    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:20:14

  • This New Research About Microplastics Is Pretty Damn Scary ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/microplastics-research-food-water-consumption-packaging    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:25:17

  • South Korea’s Dongguk University to launch college exclusively for international students in 2028 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-dongguk-university-to-launch-college-exclusively-for-international-students-in-2028    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:25:29

  • Over 6,000 complaints of overcharging made by foreigners against taxis in Seoul in 5 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/over-6000-complaints-of-overcharging-made-by-foreigners-against-taxis-in-seoul-in-5-years    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:25:59

  • Haze in Malaysia: Schools in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Pahang, Penang to reopen on Oct 19 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-in-malaysia-schools-in-kuala-lumpur-to-remain-open-on-oct-19-outdoor-activities-suspended    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:26:11

  • Haze in Malaysia: Vets seeing uptick in pets with respiratory problems ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haze-in-malaysia-vets-seeing-uptick-in-pets-with-respiratory-problems    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:26:20

  • Harmonicon's bending trainer ☞ https://tcanabrava.github.io/harmonicon-bending-trainer/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:27:33

  • Ludovic Rousseau: New version of pcsc-lite: 2.5.3 ☞ https://blog.apdu.fr/posts/2026/10/new-version-of-pcsc-lite-253/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:28:25

  • Year 4 at the Smallholding ☞ https://kevquirk.com/year-4-at-the-smallholding    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:29:33

  • Malaysian student faces online threats after videos of her criticising Najib donations went viral ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-student-faces-online-threats-after-videos-of-her-criticising-najib-donations-went-viral    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:30:50

  • Israeli settlers attack European diplomats, beat French mayor ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261018-israeli-settlers-attack-european-diplomats-beat-french-mayor    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:31:12

  • Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files: YARA Rule, (Sun, Oct 18th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33434    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:31:54

  • Axera AX8860P 16-core Cortex-A55 SoC takes on NVIDIA DGX Spark at fraction of the cost ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/10/19/axera-ax8860p-16-core-cortex-a55-soc-takes-on-nvidia-dgx-spark-at-fraction-of-the-cost/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:32:20

  • Louis Vuitton, Celine, Decathlon and Fashion Company Apple Looted as France Reels From Hundreds of Millions in Damage ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/french-retailers-count-protest-losses-1826298    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:32:48

  • First Kontact | LINUX Unplugged 689 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/689/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:33:42

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Defends Russia Sanctions Waivers, Zelenskyy Warns Of Consequences ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-trump-putin-zelenskyy-war/33878954.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:34:11

  • Zelensky holds US talks as Convicted Felon accuses him of not wanting peace ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261018-ukraine-zelensky-war-trump-peace-russia-sanctions    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:34:48

  • Who capped Starlink in Ukraine? MElon, Convicted Felon and Rubio give three different answers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20261018-who-capped-starlink-in-ukraine-musk-trump-and-rubio-give-three-different-answers    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:35:01

  • Ukrainian drone attack on Saint Petersburg kills one, sets refinery ablaze ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261018-ukraine-sets-saint-petersburg-refinery-ablaze-in-large-scale-drone-attack    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:35:13

  • The coming cruel winter: Ukrainians brace for the worst amid Russia's air campaign ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3083257/the-coming-cruel-winter-ukrainians-brace-for-the-worst-amid-russia-s-air-campaign    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:35:27

  • Ukrainian Officials Slam Convicted Felon's Waiver Of Russia Sanctions As Rubio Defends Move ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-waiver-trump-rubio/33878767.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:35:37

  • Zelenskyy Says Russia Seeking Blackout In Ukraine After Latest Onslaught On Energy Facilities ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-drone-attacks-zelenskyy-airports/33878787.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:35:46

  • Zelensky Says Convicted Felon Risks ‘Historic Mistake’ If He Backs Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/world/europe/ukraine-starshield-russia-war.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:35:54

  • Migrants From Ukraine and Sudan to Keep Deportation Protections for Now ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/us/politics/ukraine-sudan-tps-trump.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:36:04

  • Russia pounds Kyiv as Rubio urges Ukraine's Zelensky to 'focus' on ending the war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261019-live-russian-strikes-pound-kyiv-as-rubio-denies-us-paused-intel-sharing-with-ukraine    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:36:15

  • Lithuanian minister says Sunday drone crash was part of Ukrainian attack on St Petersburg ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3087078/lithuanian-minister-says-sunday-drone-crash-was-part-of-ukrainian-attack-on-st-petersburg    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:36:24

  • Rubio says Ukraine and Russia should be focused on ending the war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/rubio-says-ukraine-and-russia-should-be-focused-on-ending-the-war    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:36:37

  • Attempted arson at Lithuanian firm storing Starlink equipment, PM blames Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3086054/attempted-arson-at-lithuanian-firm-storing-starlink-equipment-pm-blames-russia    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:36:50

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Defends Plans to Ease Russia Sanctions and Hints at a Hostage Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/us/politics/trump-russia-sanctions-hostage-negotiations.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:37:06

  • Vietnam signs free trade deal with four European nations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-signs-free-trade-pact-with-european-countries-including-norway-switzerland    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:37:29

  • Stopping A7 means seeing the Russian party behind the payment ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/stopping-a7-means-seeing-the-russian-party-behind-the-payment/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:39:42

  • Drones Turn the Black Sea Into Earth's Deadliest Waters as Suspected Russian Strikes Creep Toward NATO Shores ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/suspected-russian-drone-attacks-black-sea-shipping-1826319    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:39:55

  • ‘All Things Open’ Changes Its Tune, but the Song Remains the Same ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/10/all-things-open-changes-its-tune-but-the-song-remains-the-same/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:40:19

  • ‘A better deal and spent less’: Western brands under pressure as ‘pre-owned’ luxury booms in China ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/19/a-better-deal-and-spent-less-western-brands-under-pressure-as-pre-owned-luxury-booms-in-china/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:40:52

  • Drake Sued Over ‘Janice STFU’ by Producer Who Says Rapper Stole His Chorus ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/18/drake-sued-over-janice-stfu/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:41:51

  • pgBackRest 2.60.0 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbackrest-2600-released-3416/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:42:21

  • Microsoft OSI changes its mission after promotion of slop, GPL violations etc. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/new-website-reflects-osis-evolving-mission    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:43:23

  • Liberec Dam ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/liberec-dam/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:44:43

  • Lyrics in America, Simon and Garfunkel ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/lyrics-in-america-simon-and-garfunkel/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:45:12

  • The 7.3 kernel has been released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1101143/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:46:51

  • A 180-degree USB connector for my new KVM ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/a-180-degree-usb-connector-for-the-kvm/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:47:24

  • Tiling Shell now supports mouse button layout activation ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/tiling-shell-right-mouse-button-activation    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:48:08

  • All The PPAs Updated for Ubuntu 26.10 Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/all-the-ppas-updated-for-ubuntu-26-10-support/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:48:48

  • Elizabeth Holmes Documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ Opens to Over 2,000 Sold-Out Shows ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/business/media/box-office-elizabeth-holmes-netflix.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/14/IBM_s_Anderon_is_Like_Theranos_But_Will_Anybody_at_IBM_or_Ander.shtml    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:49:30

  • Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-ai-software-watches-workers    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:50:11

  • Catholic Priest Dies in Ecuador After Crucifix Falls From Wall and Strikes His Head During Livestreamed Mass ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ecuador-priest-dies-crucifix-falls-livestreamed-mass-1826289    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:50:56

  • IBM CEO Boasts to the Media About "AI" Momentum While Sacking His Workers Who Worked On It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/19/IBM_CEO_Boasts_to_the_Media_About_AI_Momentum_While_Sacking_His.shtml    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:51:13

  • Retailers say fuel theft more frequent in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/19.10.2026-retailers-say-fuel-theft-more-frequent-in-latvia.a668098/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:55:04

  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 15: Redundant if-for ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-18-10-47_decompilation_patterns_part_15_redundant_if_for.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:55:26

  • PTAB Section 101 Appeal Data, 2009–2026 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/ptab-section-101-appeal-data-2009-2026.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:55:56

  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: myman 0.12.0 on CRAN: Two new waves! ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/10/18#myman_0.12.0    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 13:56:43

  • Web-based chip fab engineering game goes viral in Taiwan ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/chip-fab-engineering-game-goes-viral-in-taiwan-realistic-and-stressful-simulation-is-basically-a-horror-game-say-some-players    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:02:21

  • MIT engineers build soft 3D shape-sensing skin for gaming and VR ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/virtual-reality/mit-engineers-build-soft-3d-shape-sensing-skin-for-gaming-and-vr-tracks-3d-movement-and-touch-with-sub-half-centimeter-error    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:03:28

  • New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Enshrouded, Over the Hill, and Warhammer 40k: Boltgun 2 - 2026-10-17 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-10-17-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:03:43

  • Planet Earth and Brazil’s Election ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/world/amazon-brazil-election-climate-france-alberta.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:04:08

  • Brazil's Lula, Bolsonaro clash in bitter debate ahead of election runoff ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261019-brazil-lula-bolsonaro-debate-election-runoff    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:07:21

  • REPLAY: French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the nation after unrest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20261018-replay-french-president-emmanuel-macron-addresses-the-nation-after-unrest    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:07:31

  • Typo-squatting attacks with major domains are still viable ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/typo-squatting-attacks-with-major-domains-are-still-viable-corner-cases-with-cyrillic-characters-still-evade-the-best-checks    

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

  • Manufacturing self-reliance sounds great for security. A weaker economy doesn’t ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/manufacturing-self-reliance-sounds-great-for-security-a-weaker-economy-doesnt/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:09:27

  • Live: Macron rejects French interior minister's resignation after weekend of unrest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261019-live-france-macron-slams-unbridled-violence-protests-weekend-unrest    

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

  • Brazil's Lula, Bolsonaro clash in bitter debate ahead of election run-off ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20261019-brazil-lula-bolsonaro-debate-election-runoff    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:12:23

  • Nepal seeking legal amendments to expedite death certificates for 54 Malaysians, says KL minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/nepal-seeks-legal-amendments-to-expedite-death-certificates-for-54-malaysians-says-foreign-minister    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:14:20

  • At Cornell, a Subdued Scene on First Weekend of Fraternity Party Ban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/nyregion/cornell-university-fraternity-party-ban.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:15:31

  • Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous Hey Hi (AI) Slop Movie, Says Hey Hi (AI) Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/director-slop-movie-savings    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:17:54

  • Man’s Meta Muse Agent Sends Him Message So Bizarre That He Permanently Quits ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-quits-meta-muse-creepy    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:18:08

  • Companies Are Realizing They’re Spending a Fortune on Hey Hi (AI) Just So Their Employees Can Generate Error-Riddled Slop, and Suddenly Cutting Back Budgets ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/enterprise-ai-spending-generate-slop-cutting-back    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:18:21

  • Anthropic’s proposed Hey Hi (AI) safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages are on the line ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropics-proposed-ai-safety-bill-only-kicks-in-if-50-deaths-or-usd1-billion-in-damages-are-on-the-line-proposal-would-effectively-make-the-commerce-department-the-only-agency-capable-of-stopping-an-ai-model    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:22:02

  • What's Idiomatic? ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/10/18/whats-idiomatic/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:24:59

  • Food Pantry Patrons Face ‘Too Much Month at the End of Their Money’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/us/inflation-snap-benefit-cuts-families-food-pantry.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:25:28

  • New Form of Superconductor Behavior Discovered That We've Never Seen Before ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-form-of-superconductor-behavior-discovered-that-weve-never-seen-before    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:27:02

  • A Saline Injection Could Offer Longer Relief From Carpal Tunnel Pain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-saline-injection-could-offer-longer-relief-from-carpal-tunnel-pain    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:27:43

  • One Blood Type Seems to Carry a Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-blood-type-seems-to-carry-a-higher-risk-of-type-2-diabetes    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:27:57

  • Best of Both Worlds: 'Hybrid' Quantum Computers Could Be Just Around The Corner, Researchers Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/best-of-both-worlds-hybrid-quantum-computers-could-be-just-around-the-corner-researchers-say    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:29:03

  • Brown Fat Can Be Beneficial For The Body – And a Blood Pressure Drug Could Turn It On ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/brown-fat-can-be-beneficial-for-the-body-and-a-blood-pressure-drug-could-turn-it-on    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:29:23

  • New Genus of Nightmare Spaghetti Worms Found Deep Under The Indian Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-genus-of-nightmare-spaghetti-worms-found-deep-under-the-indian-ocean    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:29:54

  • Breathwork Really Can Induce an Altered State of Consciousness, Experiment Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/breathwork-really-can-induce-an-altered-state-of-consciousness-experiment-shows    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:31:15

  • China growth narrowly beats forecasts ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/19/china-growth-expected-to-miss-official-target-in-third-quarter/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:36:49

  • Strong Exports Stabilize China’s Economic Growth in Official Statistics ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/business/china-economy-gdp.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:36:59

  • China reveals advanced nuclear sub was used to test fire missile ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-reveals-advanced-nuclear-sub-was-used-to-test-fire-missile    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:37:18

  • "The UBports Foundation released Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 today as a minor update to this open-source and free mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-2-1-rolls-out-with-support-for-volla-tablet-various-updates    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:48:29

  • "The GNOME project released GNOME 51.1 today as the first point release in the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment series to fix bugs, update translations, and add a few enhancements." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-51-1-improves-drag-and-drop-between-wayland-and-xwayland-clients    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:48:47

  • The SLOPfarms (this is a FAKE and SYNTHETIC site!) LOVE Torvalds now. Congrats, Linus, you're a star with BOTS. https://startupfortune.com/linus-torvalds-calls-linux-bans-on-ai-generated-code-idiotic/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:51:35

  • I tried CachyOS, but here's why Bazzite is still my go-to Linux gaming distro https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-cachyos-but-bazzite-is-still-my-linux-gaming-distro-of-choice/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:51:54

  • TDR Nova FREE dynamic EQ now supports Linux https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/10/18/tdr-nova-linux/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:52:26

  • SLOPFARM (this is FAKE site!) spreads Linux something because "hey hi" something. Slop likes to perpetuate slop. https://socprime.com/blog/cve-2026-99999-analysis/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:53:28

  • Aiming to appease his sponsors (GAFAM) https://thenextweb.com/news/torvalds-ai-assisted-by-tag-utterly-stupid-open-source-summit    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:54:00

  • Maybe he'll also start using LLMs to type him E-mails for him? If not, WHY not?    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:54:32

  • Countdown 'til Torvalds 'agrees' it's "utterly stupid" not to accept PRs from Microsoft GitHub and that way it'll attract more prolific sloppers, which is exactly what Linux needs (apparently)    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:54:51

  • The message is clear: the aim is Linux is to generate lines of code, as if the scarcity is lines of code, not quality audited code composed by smart people    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 14:57:12

  • But it'll ditch Xbox https://hothardware.com/news/microsoft-job-post-hints-xbox-wont-ditch-game-discs-like-sony    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:34:22

  • Over here, everything is chugging along OK. Sounds like a good time to read a long book.    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:36:01

  • Years ago Ryan experienced this hoax "cases" from a tribunal that does not cover the 1) jurisdiction 2) scope. Talking to him in IRC privately would be useful for anyone experiencing this in the US.    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:38:49

  • "To stay authentic to the spirit of ZIM, I think such a server would need to replace the current client-side search with a server lookup against a ZIM index. That feels idiomatic, though, and doesn’t offend me like so much other server-side processing does. And it would make search available in the Gemini capsule." gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-18-smol-servers.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:43:38

  • "This year my partner and I have been invited to a friend's halloween party. I think this is the first time I've ever been to one! So it's the first excuse I've had to make a really good costume. And it's also my first halloween as an out transfem person." gemini://gbryant.co.uk/gemlog/2026-10-19_cloak.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:44:13

  • "the sky is patchy; the sun bursts through like a shout, only to be muffled again by the rolling clouds that impose a misty quietness." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2856    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:44:53

  • "I've rewritten my C++ (Arduino) Gemini server for the ESP32 microcontroller in Rust with the 'ESP-IDF v5.1.4' toolchain only and without the Arduino tools." gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2026-10-19-esp32-gemserv-rust_-_A_Gemini_server_in_Rust_for_the_ESP32_microcontroller.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:45:45

  • "i took a few moments to read some of my old posts and fumbled around on gemini reading what a few other 'nauts had to offer." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/dragfyre/48526    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:46:38

  • "Recently with some core changes happening to TLGS (the search engine I run on Gemini), deployment also moved from Ubuntu to OpenBSD -- for many reasons." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/10-19-deploying-on-openbsd.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:47:13

  • "i'll probably want to start some sort of project again with the start of the new year - not really sure yet what, or how intensive." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/limitinginternetweek11    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:47:48

  • "We have reached the "lawns" unit in the Master Gardener certification class I am taking, and I am only half joking when I say I should ask if I can skip this unit on religious grounds." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-10-19    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:48:30

  • "This summer has been brutal, amongst others, I grow a fair number of cloud forest orchid species in a grow tent in my garage. This summer got hot in May and stayed hot until about a week ago." gemini://gemini.yunzi.co.uk/gemlog/2026-10-19-orchids-at-this-point.gmi    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:49:05

  • "I’m a pianist. It’s what I studied in uni, though it’s not what I do for a living. You can find some recordings of me playing classical pieces at the following link (the recordings are mostly well over a decade old, but anyway)." gemini://shizuka.space/glog/2026/10/18/00/page-turning/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:49:40

  • "the past few weeks i've been trying to clean up my digital footprint. my ultimate goal is to be able to remove my github and google accounts with this exercise." gemini://xoc3.io/2026-10-18    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:50:19

  • In France, GNU/Linux grew from 5% top 6% in about a year https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&loc=FR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&dateRange=52w    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 16:58:52

  • Friday https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/19/friday/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:10:39

  • Unrest in France https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/19/unrest-in-france/    

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

  • "The market is forward looking. While it would be a disaster if Q3 is another big miss, the market is looking to Q4, Q1, and beyond. With the current Z cycle pretty much over, it's hard to see where the growth will come from after this quarter. Hence the "announcements" to try and create buzz." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m52srysr    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:17:43

  • "CLOUDERA Tech Company Barred From Green Card https://www.newsweek.com/tech-company-barred-from-green-card-filings-amid-h-1b-visa-crackdown-12583659 It's about time the government cracked down on the visa abuse perpetrated by the tech companies. Foreign visa holders are displacing US citizens." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m56cksk7#replies    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:21:02

  • "ATS are glorified STU basically. They think they know their sh-t but they don't they push/bully CSA's to commit milestones they they know wont land at all to hit their targets. Id consider them a pilot fish of an Account Executive...or a cockroach but less useful. Currently a CSAM at MSFT." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m4nq6sh1#replies    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:21:52

  • Release: IPFire 2.29 Core 204    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:37:04

  • Distribution Release: ZEPHIX 9 https://zephix-linux.sourceforge.io/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:38:24

  • "What can you do with empty university buildings when there are no more professors? What useful code can you run on an NVIDIA GPU bought for pennies at a yard sale? What crops can you plant on the site of a dead data center?" https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:40:14

  • After Linux: "What will Microsoft call the kernel when Torvalds is finally relieved of duty? What are the people going to call the Linux forks that will be our future?" https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:40:46

  • "Suddenly there's a lot of films we really want to see. We are actively seeking out cinemas that are going to screen them in order to support the film-makers (of course we will see them anyway by other digital means)."    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:42:20

  • "The Social Reckoning and NAZA seem typical of a slew of films that Big Tech fascists are quite desperate to suppress, including by economic warfare, violent threats and sabotage. We're entering a new era of cinema as power." https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:42:26

  • "Last case activity: 19 Oct 2026" https://caseboard.io/cases/d2fe1130-b63b-4d0b-9461-c0f971992dc2 how much money spent by monkey Farage trying to tackle this 'debacle' (Corruption as a Poltiical Party)?    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:43:56

  • The Potential Reform UK Party Limited Insolvency (CR-2026-007405) Illuminates the Sordid State of British Media https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/19/the-potential-reform-uk-party-limited-insolvency-cr-2026-007405-illuminates-the-sordid-state-of-british-media/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 17:58:42

  • This seems to be LLM slop https://danload.substack.com/p/free-as-in-freedom-the-open-source    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:09:56

  • "This essay has a companion: the Living Document edition at avatarcomputertech.com/free-as-in-freedom-gnu. That page is the reference version. It has a full-text search bar, filters that sort the 105 facts by era, a jump-to-fact box, a licence self-check, an expandable glossary, and prev/next navigation through every section."    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:10:39

  • "It is also where new versions land first. Read the essay here; keep the Living Document bookmarked for looking things up."    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:10:44

  • Seems like a slop recycling of the original    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:10:56

  • In Late October 2025 Spouse of Matthew Garrett Said He Had Them Raped and Broke Legs of Puppies, This Week Says He "Doesn’t Know How to Use Computers or Power Tools" (He Studied Genetics, Not Computers) https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/19/In_Late_October_2025_Spouse_of_Matthew_Garrett_Said_He_Had_Them.shtml    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:27:05

  • "I've recently read Gil Durán's book, "Nerd Reich, The - Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy". I'm currently reading Anne Applebaum's book, "Autocracy, Inc - The Dictators Who Want to Run the World". Both have chapters which are highly relevant to current events, including TR/TM. Next up will be "Careless People: A story of where I used to work" by Sarah Wynn-Williams."    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:32:41

  • Sarah Wynn-Williams work discussed last night in IRC    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:33:29

  • Two Finns supplying Russia with missile tech worth tens of millions | Yle News | Yle ⚓ https://yle.fi/a/74-20250514 ䷉ Source: YLE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//yle.fi/a/74-20250514 :/ all too common    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 18:36:47

  • AEK Athens Tomorrow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/19/aek-athens-tomorrow/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 19:26:51

  • Nigel Farage’s Racist Company (Disguised as Political Party) That’s Secretly Funded by American Oligarchs Spent $49,300 to Not Go Bankrupt https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/19/nigel-farages-racist-company-disguised-as-political-party-thats-secretly-funded-by-american-oligarchs-spent-49300-to-not-go-bankrupt/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 19:38:20

  • Puppybreaker says "Daniel Pocock apparently failed to turn up for his hearing against Reform UK". Funny that! Puppybreaker NEVER showed up for ANY hearings. Nor did his women-strangling quasi-necrophile buddy. http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/20/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_112_Out_of_200_Strangles_Women_Then_Refus.shtml    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 19:52:11

  • So he seems to have a poor taste in words, accusing people of not attending hearings when he himself never did either. Never throw stones in house of Windows.    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 19:53:02

  • Got EPO leaks to publish tonight    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 20:00:11

  • EPO strikes will carry on next year. We'll also pursue the Court of Appeal next year https://www.judiciary.uk/courts-and-tribunals/court-of-appeal-home/    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 20:01:31

  • Some idiot said: "I assume Techrights is outraged, outraged by someone not showing up in person for their court date" ... that was said to Puppybreaker, who NEVER shows up for hearings!    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 20:39:34

  • So this is backfiring badly already (on hypocritical puppybreaker)    

posted Monday, October 19, 2026 at 20:39:54
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