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posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 04:41:24

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posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 04:41:29

  • A walk through Amsterdam gemini://hans.gerwitz.com/gemlog/2026-10-20-a-walk-through-amsterdam.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 04:42:02

  • "I recent checked out a university copy of "a course in the slide rule and logarithms" by E. Justin Hills (Ginn & Company, Revised Ed, © 1950) through our library system." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20261020-0.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 04:42:55

  • the archer gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_archer    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 04:44:31

  • Three Goals, Three Days https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/21/three-goals-three-days/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 05:04:24

  • "Cybershow has been running for several years now and we've accumulated a fair bit of artwork. Some of that might go well on T-shirts and coffee mugs as a way to help pay for our project, so Helen is on a mission to make some cyber-merch!! We may even get some real artists to make us fresh, original art." https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 05:05:24

  • "Though his language is mild, it is encouraging to see Prof. Christopher Marquis aggree with the thoughts discussed in our recent episode Colonised By Wankers. He echoes many points on the toxicity of the MBA, the damage done by that ideology and what the conceit of "professional management" has done to our economy, institutions, culture and humanity." https://cybershow.uk/content/home/home.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 05:05:47

  • "Top NYC business school professor agrees with us [...] Yes, "business schools" are last-century products of the Thatcher-Reagan era, and we absolutely should abolish them for failing society. The question now is, how shall we restructure industry and education for human survival?"    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 05:06:08

  • "If your Windows PC's Secure Boot certificates are out of date, your system is vulnerable to malware like rootkits." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3256049/check-your-windows-secure-boot-status-now-later-could-be-too-late.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 06:05:59

  • UEFI and Restricted Boot Are Promoted by Bad Actors and Microsoft Staff Who Don’t Know Security, But Courts Look for Other Arguments (Pertaining to Law) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/21/uefi-and-restricted-boot-are-promoted-by-bad-actors-and-microsoft-staff-who-dont-know-security-but-courts-look-for-other-arguments-pertaining-to-law/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 07:22:15

  • IRC Instead of E-mail https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/21/irc-instead-of-e-mail/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 07:39:12

  • https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/21/challenging-racism-in-the-courtroom/   

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 07:54:20

  • Challenging Racism in the Courtroom https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/10/21/challenging-racism-in-the-courtroom/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 07:54:26

  • "Copyright takedown requests tied to OnlyFans and other adult content creators are revealing how attackers exploit vulnerable university and government websites" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/onlyfans-copyright-takedowns-expose-compromised-websites | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:19:24

  • "Meta will have to name the people who greenlit its torrenting of pirated books." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/judge-orders-meta-to-name-employees-who-approved-torrenting-annas-archive-and-libgen/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:19:37

  • Right of Publicity ☛ https://geshan.com.np/blog/2026/10/gemini-text-to-speech/ | Source: Geshan    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:27:00

  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3256049/check-your-windows-secure-boot-status-now-later-could-be-too-late.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:28:08

  • "The results show a mixed picture. Fixed-Internet penetration has increased, and territorial inequality has declined, yet substantial differences remain." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/20/being-connected-is-not-enough-territorial-inequalities-in-fixed-internet-access-and-performance/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:29:10

  • "On August 31, the Trump administration sent formal notice of a $1.42 billion grant to California to supply broadband access to 270,000 households and businesses, as authorized in the 2021 infrastructure law signed by President Biden." ☛ https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/press/trump-administration-could-nullify-california-internet-protections/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:29:30

  • "From there, it would continue underground over Canadian territory, passing through Quebec before reaching Montreal." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/norwegian-undersea-cable-builder-pitches-2-800-mile-transatlantic-data-link-between-canada-and-europe-to-bypass-the-us-canadian-majority-partner-sought-to-help-fund-and-build-new-usd620-million-fiber-connection-to-reduce-reliance-on-american-routes | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:29:50

  • "underground over Canadian territory, passing through Quebec before reaching Montreal." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/norwegian-undersea-cable-builder-pitches-2-800-mile-transatlantic-data-link-between-canada-and-europe-to-bypass-the-us-canadian-majority-partner-sought-to-help-fund-and-build-new-usd620-million-fiber-connection-to-reduce-reliance-on-american-routes | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:30:07

  • "Yesterday I was able to vote early at my local town hall. I had to go there to pay my property tax. The process could not have been easier or smoother." ☛ https://austinwhite.org/posts/voting-is-the-way | Source: Austin White    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:30:55

  • "Our trip up to this point had shed light on the beauty of our country. This stop was a reminder that beauty is fraught, and we need to preserve our past while reforming the future." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/10/20/montana-heritage-center/ | Source: Chris Glass    

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

  • "They have reasons to be mad. The school conditions in many parts of France are atrocious." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/20/la-france-beats-her-children/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:31:20

  • "terrorist activities" ☛ https://www.404media.co/dhs-said-they-searched-man-who-wiped-grapheneos-phone-for-child-abuse-material-they-lied/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:31:34

  • "The lumbering corporate retail giant that has for so long set the industry standard for working conditions has finally conceded to the union. Why now?" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/canada-logistics-walmart-union-contract | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:31:51

  • "Labor conditions are especially brutal, with workers complaining to the publication about working extremely long shifts without proper training or health and safety protocols in place." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-nscale-norway-prison-barge-workers | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:36:54

  • "No, I have to stop this." ☛ https://6abc.com/post/woman-arrested-blocking-delivery-robot-center-city-philadelphia-confrontation/19941323/ | Source: ABC    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:37:07

  • "I know they’re taking the jobs of human delivery workers" ☛ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/78-year-old-arrested-protesting-delivery-robot | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:37:16

  • "It is hard to see any justification for Vladimir Driagin’s prolonged detention" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-calls-for-release-of-dissident-russian-journalist-vladimir-driagin/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:40:23

  • "Robinson, 43, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/tommy-robinson-used-bully-boy-intimidatory-tactics-against-mail-journalists/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:40:40

  • "when Feinberg asked Trump another question five minutes later, Trump appeared not to recognize him, and even threatened him." ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/216863/you-better-be-careful-trump-lashes-white-house-reporters | Source: New Republic    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:41:00

  • "ludicrous, twisted narrative" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/10/20/bari-weiss-pro-maga-cbs-news-pivot-is-falling-flat/ | Source: Salon    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:41:10

  • "Authorities have not yet disclosed which news report or social media post prompted the investigation." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-ismail-ari-detained-after-complaint-from-former-media-regulator-chief-324642 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:41:42

  • "hierarchy of needs" ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/10/19/be-indieweb-enough/ | Source: Joe Crawford    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:42:11

  • "it is non-binding, does not create criminal offences, and does not restrict Charter-protected expression." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/10/position-has-not-changed-the-canadian-government-reaffirms-that-antisemitism-includes-anti-zionism/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:42:53

  • "Following the temporary suspension and lockout of the No Kings Instagram account during the largest single-day voting activation in U.S. history, the coalition demands full public transparency from Meta by October 21" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/no-kings-coalition-issues-open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg-demanding-answers-on-metas-censorship-of-historic-early-vote-mobilization | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:43:06

  • "Our response should be the same either way." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/accident-or-not-the-no-kings-takedown-is-why-you-shouldnt-rent-your-megaphone-from-zuck/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:43:18

  • "The Israeli government has threatened to strip the NAZA directors of their citizenship and prosecute them." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/10/naza-film-review-veterans-israel | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:43:28

  • "Ternus’ hard technical skills may not translate easily to a position that involves toggling from Hollywood to stockholders, to politicians shaping policy, to rival CEOs in the constellation of tech companies whose power challenges nation-states." ☛ https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/apple-iphone-duo/ | Source: Time    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:44:00

  • "Data Center War" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/10/no-war-but-data-center-war/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:45:39

  • "The Republican Party once stood for limited government, active opposition to Soviet aggression, and a balanced budget." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-tragic-death-of-the-republican | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:46:53

  • "I am delighted to share the news that Blythe Masters has been appointed as the next Chair of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Board of Trustees." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-next-chair-of-the-board-of-trustees-blythe-masters/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:47:12

  • "While trust in government has been low in the United States for decades, polls suggest it is a more recent phenomenon in Europe." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/1020/france-protests-democracy-debt-crisis-europe-spain-germany | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:47:29

  • "The bill would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/16/anthropic-ai-safety-01124654 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:47:48

  • "imminent threat" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-regulation-government-ai-harm-risk | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:48:09

  • "Co-authoring her latest book, End Times Fascism, alongside Astra Taylor, Klein argues that humanity is facing a dangerous convergence of ecological crises" ☛ https://pariganaka.com/naomi-klein-on-the-end-of-capitalism-inside-bbc-radicals-deep-dive-on-end-times-fascism/ | Source: Pariganaka    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:48:35

  • "This post explains why this company is needed, what changed in the NGI TALER consortium, and how citizens who want to see Taler succeed can help, including as investors." ☛ https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html | Source: GNU Taler    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:49:00

  • "Some 200 countries are gathering in Yerevan, Armenia over the next two weeks for COP17" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/what-earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-means-for-humans/a-79680410 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:56:23

  • "According to the National Parks Service, the path now connects many of Bryce Canyon's most visited destinations, including the Bryce Canyon Visitor's Center" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51638860/final-phase-of-24-mile-bryce-canyon-shared-use-path-complete | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:56:36

  • "The current and expected power draw of AI data centers has been the subject of strong discussion, but today, there appears to be some good news." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/us-takes-unprecedented-step-of-recommissioning-nuclear-plants-due-to-ai-power-demand-2-25-gw-currently-on-tap-from-refurbished-reactors | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:56:58

  • "AI Guardrail #1: Rein in data centers, starting with a total national pause on data center development until more regulations are in place. This is necessary AND popular." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-protect-humanity-from-ai | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:57:18

  • "Scientists working on coral found that when they had a bleached and healthy example accidentally touching in the lab" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/20/spreading-life-to-bleached-coral/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 08:57:30

  • "As plastic fragments into smaller and smaller particles, its surface area increases enormously" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-are-chemically-active-and-could-cause-biological-harm | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:01:55

  • "The new law eliminated many of those regulations and cut reporting requirements to the state’s environmental agency — reducing the state’s ability to track future wetland loss." ☛ https://wpln.org/post/data-centers-and-wetlands-where-tennessees-district-9-candidates-stand-on-the-enviornment/ | Source: Nashville Public Radio    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:05:15

  • "The signal crayfish did deliver on fishing. It has provided good fishing opportunities in southern Sweden, and built fishable populations in lakes Hjälmaren and Vättern." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/in-the-1960s-sweden-introduced-signal-crayfish-to-support-fishing-the-plague-carrying-invaders-helped-cut-native-noble-crayfish-populations-fourfold-101791798115650.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:05:26

  • "A different approach has been to associate the malicious intentions with Grendel rather than Beowulf. C. L. Wrenn" ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/10/was-beowulf-the-villain-new-study-re-examines-the-old-english-epic/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:06:31

  • There are phone emulators for Linux; no need for a "Real Thing" anymore. For Android, there are many options.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:08:03

  • "The collective cognitive failure to be able to read Donald Trump has blinded us to the extent to which Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine is about Iran Iran Iran as much as it is Russia Russia Russia." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/20/trumps-latest-russia-russia-russia-turn-is-about-iran-iran-iran/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:08:12

  • ctrl-shift-m in FF is nice, it does help show what some pages might look like on the SmallScreens    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:09:39

  • "soldier’s death" ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/hegseth-honors-terrorist-with-firing | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:09:59

  • "Trump’s support for Putin is unique in American history" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-traitor-in-chief | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:10:15

  • "One thing that still staggers me is: the undramatic slow painstaking action of getting voters to the polls had real consequences on January 5; it achieved its goal." ☛ https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-democracy-vs-oligarchy-showdown-is-here/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:10:39

  • "ECHOTRIBBLE" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/us-army-reportedly-developing-program-that-would-deploy-ai-agents-to-autonomously-seek-and-destroy-targets-in-enemy-digital-infrastructures-experts-warn-echotribble-program-could-have-disastrous-consequences | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:12:27

  • "Among the proponents of these programs are the influential Koch family network and Pennsylvania billionaire Jeffrey Yass, who has spent more than $350 million since 2015 on political campaigns" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/west-virginia-school-choice-billionaires-vernon-criss | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:12:43

  • "In recent months, in reviving debunked theories about the 2020 election, the Trump administration has declassified troves of records, including sensitive material that state officials provided to CISA" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-gutting-of-election-security/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:13:04

  • "Given the administration’s poor track record at tackling corruption, here are some tips you can submit to the website: [...]" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/post/216855/report-trump-anti-fraud-website | Source: New Republic    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:13:14

  • "What they found was a large and hidden pool of Main Street millionaires." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/10/your-neighbors-no-bezos-but-he-might-be-stealthy-wealthy/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:13:48

  • "The restriction cut Ukraine’s access to the satellite service and hurt both defensive and offensive drone missions against Russian forces." ☛ https://www.outlookindia.com/international/elon-musk-ordered-starlink-slowdown-that-disrupted-ukraine-drone-operations-report | Source: Outlook Publishing India Pvy Ltd    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:14:02

  • "Some US officials, the report said, believed Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump did not specifically order retribution against Ukraine." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/elon-musk-ordered-a-slowdown-of-starlink-in-ukraine-report/a-79718899 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:14:12

  • "SpaceX representatives contacted their White House counterparts to agree on a statement saying the company and the Trump administration had coordinated their actions." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/21/did-trump-know-musk-was-about-to-restrict-ukraine-s-military-starlink-service-wsj-reports-they-discussed-the-decision-afterward-some-sources-say-they-also-spoke-beforehand | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:14:24

  • "Russia’s invisible hand in the UK's cost of living" ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/10/19/from-russia-with-hate-russias-invisible-hand-in-the-uks-cost-of-living-extremism-and-immigration-crises/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:14:41

  • "Which leads me to an obvious problem. That check-in data is intimate stuff. It probably shouldn’t be something private equity can just inherit and do whatever with." ☛ https://werd.io/foursquare-died-at-the-hands-of-private-equity-what-happens-next/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:15:07

  • "Online rights have been slowly stripped away, but to be fair they haven't been taken away as much as we have given them up in exchange for convenience." ☛ https://var0.xyz/posts/introducing-syrinx.html | Source: Var Zero    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:15:18

  • "In addition to running 23andMe, Wojcicki is the CEO of the Chrome Holding Company, the entity that settled with Bonta." ☛ https://therecord.media/23andme-california-data-breach-settlement | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:15:29

  • "In a victory for data privacy, a federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE [sic] agents." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/victory-court-rules-opms-disclosure-personal-records-doge-unlawful | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:15:46

  • "A technical post-mortem and analysis of the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise, detailing the 8-bit entropy defect, Key Generation Ceremony findings, WebPKI revocation gaps in backend systems, and mitigation steps." ☛ https://lorbic.com/emudhra-ca-compromise-web-pki/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:19:59

  • "Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, though it's unclear how the keys were compromised." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/tech-giants-emudhra-certificates-compromised-keys | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:20:09

  • "New Nozzle research shows Google has been serving rank trackers normal-looking SERPs with the results swapped out, and 8.4% of SERPs have come back poisoned since September 13." ☛ https://coywolf.com/news/seo/rank-trackers-getting-poisoned-serps-from-google/ | Source: Coywolf LLC    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:20:19

  • "This is an update to articles I posted in May and October 2026 ahead of the DNS root KSK rollover on 11 October." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/21/rolling-the-root-key-what-happened/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:20:34

  • Windows TCO: "In Secureframe’s 2026 State of Federal Cybersecurity Report" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/10/cybersecurity-awareness-must-extend-beyond-passwords-and-phishing-to-become-truly-operational/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:21:24

  • Windows TCO: "They use legitimate tools to compress files and exfiltrate them before deploying the ransomware on victim devices." ☛ https://therecord.media/fbi-says-safepay-ransomware-gang-among-most-active-600-victims | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:21:32

  • Windows TCO: "halted normal enrollment data processing and paused certain testing activities while the security of its systems are assessed" ☛ https://therecord.media/california-warns-all-public-school-students-of-data-breach | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:22:09

  • Windows TCO: "As a consequence, British police are reportedly examining whether their own inquiry could lead to a charge of unlawful killing." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/qilin-ransomware-arrested-synnovis-patient-death | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:24:35

  • "Facebook has decided that Pages need to pay to share more than two hyperlinks per month. I share six per week." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/10/20/good-blogkeeping-shutting-down-my-companion-facebook-page/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:25:45

  • "What did the Times report that might be useful to its readers?" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/enough-with-the-false-equivalencies | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:25:58

  • "TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/french-government-calls-emergency-meetings-with-platforms-over-protests/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:28:13

  • "The study, ordered last year by then-Equality Minister Magnus Heunicke and Digitalisation Minister Caroline Stage" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20261019/study-young-men-in-denmark-see-misogynist-content-after-minutes-on-social-media | Source: The Local DK    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:28:51

  • "For another, this definition lets us understand that (for most of its existence) Google was the most successful publisher in human history" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/20/main-character-syndrome/#scroogled | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:29:15

  • "Note that when they say "about" $4.2T they really mean "at least" $4.2T — it could be $4.8T." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/10/the-underpants-gnomes-step-2.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:29:27

  • "Their ideas on where "about" $4.2T of new revenue to pay for data centers would come from are laughable. For example, they suggest that autonomous vehicles would supply 10% of it but don't notice that the AI for the vehicles wouldn't be in a data center, it would be in the vehicle."    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:29:52

  • Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-giants-hidden-off-balance-sheet-debt-ai    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:30:06

  • "I don't want to read lengthy blog posts that have been spat out by a Large Language Model (LLM), because the author hasn't felt they want to write the words to share their point." ☛ https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/10/20/ai/ | Source: Jamie Tanna    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:30:16

  • "I found out this week that a fleet of AI agents used httpbin to get past their sandbox." ☛ https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-10-20-i_built_the_escape_hatch | Source: Kenneth Reitz    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:30:45

  • "Still, there’s still time to act before the first big AI-enabled tragedy strikes, according to new research from the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/10/is-it-already-too-late-to-reduce-catastrophic-ai-risk/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:30:59

  • "In narrow circumstances, speech alone can break the law, and here things get trickier." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/ai-firms-should-answer-for-what-their-models-say-on-the-same-terms-as-everyone-else/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:31:11

  • "AI detectors use machine-learning models to analyse patterns in writing. They compare these patterns with characteristics learned from human-written and AI-generated text." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/top-5-ai-detection-tools-check-content-job-recruiters-india-139432344.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:31:21

  • "Every AI system that can use an organisation’s data and systems needs a named human owner, a defined approval boundary and a record of what it did. These must be in place before it acts." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/before-an-ai-agent-acts-name-whos-responsible/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:31:31

  • "Five questions every business should answer before putting AI to work, from a veteran South African AI researcher." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/responsible-ai-doom-wrong-question-business/287476/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:31:41

  • "I had a Word file, hosted on a SharePoint server, and when I went to edit it I simply could not insert nonbreaking spaces, no-width nonbreaks and other invisible characters." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/word-file-in-which-i-cannot-insert-nonbreaking-spaces/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:32:08

  • "The good news is, Plex actually patched these vulnerabilities back in September." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3265049/hackers-are-hijacking-plex-servers-to-mine-crypto-update-asap.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:32:17

  • "Compare OpenWrt routers for homelabs, budget builds and SQM. Check exact firmware support, VLAN needs, ports and shaping performance before buying." ☛ https://bufferspeed.com/blog/best-openwrt-routers |    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:34:00

  • "PCWorld reports that a 16-year-old security flaw called WPSplinter affects millions of routers from major brands like Asus and Netgear, with no full fix currently available." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3265053/millions-of-routers-have-a-16-year-old-flaw-that-nobody-plans-to-fix.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:34:30

  • "I ran into wall after wall. A death certificate only helped so much, too. Had he taken a few steps for digital estate planning" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3260417/my-friend-died-suddenly-i-wish-hed-taken-these-4-steps-for-digital-estate-planning.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:34:50

  • Puppy Breaker is very jealous of Daniel Pocock because he accomplished a lot without spending a million dollars on racist lawyers and does not collaborate with men who strangle women    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:36:39

  • Puppy Breaker also says "I'm a security professional"; yeah, like everybody is a chef and every programmer is a medical doctor. He's just full of himself. https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/14/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_149_Out_of_200_It_Took_a_Long_Time_to_Sho.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_150_Out_of_200_Always_Independently_Verif.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:38:10

  • "I can still remember a few years ago when people were claiming the cost of SSDs were going down so fast" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/how-were-dealing-with-a-data-space-crunch/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:42:34

  • "Type sample — a blocky sans serif typeface. Ketys for 4 currencies, cedilla, section sign, 4 horizontal bars, eszett, and a hash" ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/olympia-sg3-made-in-mexico/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:42:47

  • "I write this because I increasingly feel a strange social pressure. It's like I'm not "supposed" to enjoy this any more." ☛ https://chriskiehl.com/article/it-is-still-ok-to-enjoy-programming |    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:43:15

  • "When people see AI as a more competent, trustworthy, and preferable source of input than a colleague, they replace human interactions that otherwise would have built or maintained trust." ☛ https://werd.io/ai-can-weaken-relationships-between-people-and-teams-suffer-as-a-result/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:43:28

  • "There's a huge bias towards talking about people who were very notable or "successful" when young. So here are some interesting people who came through a little late." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/late-bloomers/ | Source: Atharva Raykar    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:43:45

  • "Much of the code is about as good as you’d expect. What stood out was how obsessed I was with finding clever ways to accomplish things, especially if I could squeeze them into very few lines." ☛ https://seg6.space/posts/questionable-cleverness/ | Source: Ömer Faruk B    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:43:58

  • "Anthropic is deceptively campaigning to end software engineering to support a trillion dollar IPO. Anything they say to devs is part of that process whether good, bad, or indifferent." ☛ https://raymyers.org/post/coding-is-largely-something/ | Source: Ray Myers    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:44:10

  • "In 1947, Martin Luther King Jr." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/10/the-idea-of-a-university/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:44:31

  • "Research Information’s Scholarly Publishing: Trends for Constructive Growth report offered a useful counterweight to the product discussions." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/10/20/from-content-to-trusted-knowledge-reflections-on-frankfurt-book-fair-2026/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:44:42

  • "is key X in this set?" ☛ https://www.calabro.io/ohbf |    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:45:01

  • "We are launching the Bourgain Project, a community-driven initiative to revisit, expand upon, and explore the body of work of Jean Bourgain" ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/the-bourgain-project/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:45:11

  • "Recently, various digestions and simplifications of the argument have been produced by Banks, by Kerr, and by Green." ☛ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/a-sketch-of-the-proof-of-non-existence-of-siegel-zeroes/ | Source: Terence Tao    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:45:34

  • "With everything assembled, the circularly-polarized antenna installed, and the computers up and running" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/20/going-whole-hog-on-a-first-satellite-ground-station/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:45:45

  • "Working out loud is more than telling people what you’re doing. It has two halves, and each one on its own falls short." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/10/20/working-out-loud-is-making.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:46:09

  • "And that’s when it occurred to me. My seven-year-old might already understand the very thing that I have spent all semester teaching my legal research students." ☛ https://ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/check-your-source-mom-what-a-seven-year-old-can-teach-us-about-legal-research/ | Source: RIPS Law Librarian Blog    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:46:17

  • "Snap back to reality. But it’s not the same reality. That precious little pause lingers." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/precious-pauses/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:46:28

  • "Insider jargon, previously known as cant, is designed to keep outsiders out." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/10/thieves-cant-slang/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:46:39

  • "It’s an unofficial wiki, though ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) does sponsor it." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/icann-has-an-unofficial-wiki/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:56:17

  • "How can we parse an IPv4 address with a throughput of 75 instructions in 15 CPU cycles, taking as low as ~3ns on an M6 processor?" ☛ https://blog.mahdibm.com/posts/a-very-fast-ipv4-parser-in-swift/ |    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:57:14

  • "When designing software, the requirements you don’t have are as important as the requirements you do. Identifying what you can compromise on — what can be slow, or stale, or inflexible — is usually the key to an elegant design." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/what-requirements-dont-you-have/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:57:24

  • "When implementing Zincite1, I wanted a query language similar to the one I had built for Zirium." ☛ https://zayenz.se/blog/post/zirql/ | Source: Mikael Zayenz Lagerkvist    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:57:35

  • "Only vulnerabilities deemed to be HIGH or CRITICAL will be kept private in the HackerOne tracker." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/10/20/do-minor-curl-vulnerabilities-in-the-open/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:58:06

  • "The upshot of this is that you no longer need to rebuild the IDE if you want to add components, controls and Lazarus extensions." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/10/20/lazarus-and-the-free-pascal-compiler-gain-dynamic-package-support/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:58:21

  • "Some committee members lead specific tracks or have other significant roles in planning the conference." ☛ https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/blog/what-happens-after-you-submit-scale-proposal | Source: SoCal Linux Expo    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 09:58:58

  • "Hugo shortcodes and render hooks both produce custom HTML, but I choose between them by looking at the source content." ☛ https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2026/10/21/when-to-use-hugo-shortcodes-or-render-hooks/ | Source: Ronalds Vilciņš    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:02:39

  • "I wrote a somewhat flippant piece for a friend’s site (sadly now defunct) some time back about my frustration with people asking for websites as a sort of off-the-shelf, finished thing." ☛ https://alexmagill.com/writing/2026-10-20-no-such-thing-as-a-website/ | Source: Alex Magill    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:03:48

  • "The original idea was modest: a personal RSS reader I could self-host." ☛ https://andreinc.net/2026/10/20/lectura.info-a-new-rss-reader/ | Source: Andrei Nicolin Ciobanu    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:03:58

  • "For the past few years, my rss feeds have lived locally on my phone only. There was a good idea behind that I can mostly take time to read when I’m away from my computer anyway" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/nixos-is-making-me-less-afraid | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:04:16

  • "In June 2026, rOpenSci marked its 15th anniversary with three community celebration events: a themed coworking event and two extra events." ☛ https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/10/20/15yo-events/ | Source: rOpenSci    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:04:36

  • "There are a bunch of Eglot-related resources in the Coding category today. Nice to see people working on lots of cool stuff!" ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/10/2026-10-19-emacs-news/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:04:47

  • "Signal’s end-call button could fail to fully end a call because of a critical RingRTC flaw fixed in a code change." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/signal-ringrtc-flaw-audio-after-hangup/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:04:56

  • "This sure looks like a proximity-based radio capability if you ask me." ☛ https://justin.sh/blog/2026/10/cellebrite-advanced-unlocks/ |    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:05:45

  • "This demo connects ESP32-P4-PC to our USB-LTE4G-EU LTE Cat 1 bis modem over UART." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/10/20/esp32-p4-pc-got-two-new-software-demos-gsm-lte-connectivity-and-full-hardware-features-check/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:06:06

  • "Crazy how technology has evolved in the last 20 years, but naturally the obvious question is by how much exactly?" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/20/five-million-to-one-two-arduino-boards-20-years-apart/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:06:15

  • "Turns out, it’s a great case. It’s very light, as expected, but protects well the board that fits perfectly inside." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/a-nice-case-the-orange-pi-6-plus/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:06:25

  • "[...] Then, in our Questions and Answers column, we discuss SELinux and AppArmor, two kernel-level technologies used for protecting the operating system." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20261019 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:07:27

  • "Raspberry Pi and retro games go hand in hand, with people emulating classic consoles and computers on Raspberry Pi devices since shortly after the release" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-guide-to-retro-gaming/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:07:58

  • "The SSH agent cannot use the Secure Enclave identities as-is, but Apple has us covered with a small translation layer in the form of ssh-keychain.dylib" ☛ https://nmattia.com/posts/2026-10-19-setting-up-ssh-keys-touch-id/ | Source: Nicolas Mattia    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:28:14

  • "I have opted for oklch over lch, as oclch is the OK version of LCH." ☛ https://benfrain.com/colour-variants-from-base-colours-with-oklch-css-relative-color-and-css-functions/ | Source: Ben Frain    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:28:25

  • "So you’ve been shamefully using US Big Tech giant Clownflare for DNS? It’s time to find an inopportune time to migrate away to a “European alternative”." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/10/20/how-not-to-migrate-from-cloudflare-dns/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:28:51

  • "The real elapsed time is not just 457 days. It is 457 × 24 hours, plus the difference between the UTC offset at the start and at the end of the period." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/10/20/summer-failure/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:29:31

  • "When it comes to creating a new file with ed and a here document, there is a difference between "GNU ed" and "ed" on BSD." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/creating-a-file-with-ed-and-a-here-document.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:29:41

  • "Listen (or read the excellent transcript, thanks so much Zachary!) to the episode to hear about what bloggers can learn from Wikipedia" ☛ https://alexsirac.com/my-episode-on-the-web-weaving-podcast/ | Source: Alex Sirac    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:30:15

  • "Since my rambles are lightly edited videos of me talking into the camera, they're a perfect fit for listening to without video." ☛ https://brettcodes.com/introducing-the-brett-codes-show-podcast/ | Source: Brett Chalupa    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:30:38

  • More Xbox layoffs start THIS MONTH. The month is already over, so....    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:31:58

  • "In Episode 24, I chat with Alex, the author of alexsirac.com about, among other things, collective intelligence in public commons, what the IndieWeb can learn from Wikipedia, community in comments, and more." ☛ https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/24 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:32:09

  • "A 14-year-old from Canada just won a prize for a new theory of dark energy. I had a look at what he submitted, and it ticks all the boxes of a typical journal paper." ☛ https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2026/10/14-year-old-wins-prize-for-new-theory.html | Source: Sabine Hossenfelder    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:32:43

  • AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 expands support to older Desktops, Laptops, Handhelds, Consoles and Vulkan | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/amd-fsr-upscaling-4-1-expands-support-to-older-desktops-laptops-handhelds-consoles-and-vulkan/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:34:17

  • Here's the highlights from the recent 2026 Out of Bounds Showcase | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heres-the-highlights-from-the-recent-2026-out-of-bounds-showcase/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:34:38

  • HEAT: Pedal to the Metal by Days of Wonder is getting an official video game adaptation | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/heat-pedal-to-the-metal-by-days-of-wonder-is-getting-an-official-video-game-adaptation/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:35:13

  • Unforgiving cave-exploration survival simulator Casualties: Unknown arrives November 9 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/unforgiving-cave-exploration-survival-simulator-casualties-unknown-arrives-november-9/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:35:39

  • Score touchdowns and win it all in the retro-inspired, side-scrolling Classic American Football | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/score-touchdowns-and-win-it-all-in-the-retro-inspired-side-scrolling-classic-american-football/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:36:12

  • Helldivers 2 switches over from GameGuard to Easy Anti-Cheat | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/helldivers-2-switches-over-from-gameguard-to-easy-anti-cheat/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:36:18

  • "The recent Linux Foundation research report, Navigating Open Source Software Development in the Generative AI Era, sponsored in part by Red Hat, offers useful evidence for thinking about what that foundation should look like." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-ai-open-source-way-research-insights-red-hat-and-linux-foundation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:38:16

  • Red Hat is now selling slop as "Open Source". Ludicrous and insulting.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:41:34

  • GAFAM front group LF and IBM try to sell the moral fraud and lie of "open source AI" - same lie OSI sells. "As Red Hat continued this work, conversations with our enterprise users exposed a new reality. Getting a single server to perform efficiently was table stakes." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/crossing-threshold-dependable-open-source-ai-serving | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:42:29

  • Microsoft paid OSI to sell this lie and moreover to attack the GPL by legitimising GPL violations.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:42:54

  • Red Hat is so proud of slop peddling: disinformation, plagiarism, fraud, pyramid scheme etc. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-delta-air-lines-scaled-ai-native-development-1200-engineers-cloud-development-environments | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:43:36

  • IBM Red Hat quit pretending to be a Linux company, it's 100% about slop plagiarism and the technical details don't matter, let alone 'pesky' legal aspects☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mlops-edge-ai-managing-ai-models-across-distributed-fleets | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:44:27

  • Ahead of IBM's results 100% of Red Hat's official blog is only about slop, basically selling lies, false promises, and liabilities to gullible companies (or IBM shareholders) ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/shared-gpus-without-shared-latency-priority-aware-serving-in-red-hat-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:45:27

  • Here's some interesting Native Linux demos in Steam Next Fest Oct 26 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-interesting-native-linux-demos-in-steam-next-fest-oct-26/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-interesting-native-linux-demos-in-steam-next-fest-oct-26/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:46:58

  • Time-looping claymation puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You launches in January 2027 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/time-looping-claymation-puzzle-platformer-uvsu-you-vs-you-launches-in-january-2027/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/time-looping-claymation-puzzle-platformer-uvsu-you-vs-you-launches-in-january-2027/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:47:37

  • Time-looping claymation puzzle-platformer UvsU: You vs You launches in January 2027 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/time-looping-claymation-puzzle-platformer-uvsu-you-vs-you-launches-in-january-2027/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:47:47

  • Dark first-person fishing adventure DREADMOOR looks awesome, arrives November 9 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/dark-first-person-fishing-adventure-dreadmoor-looks-awesome-arrives-november-9/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:48:05

  • Red Hat Speaks and Advertises as If It Abandoned Linux to Sell Slop Plagiarism so as to Help IBM Inflate the Stock (Based on Vapourware, False Marketing) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/21/Red_Hat_Speaks_and_Advertises_as_If_It_Abandoned_Linux_to_Sell_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:50:19

  • GE-Proton 11-11 released to fix more issues with Windows games on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/ge-proton-11-11-released-to-fix-more-issues-with-windows-games-on-steamos-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:50:40

  • Steam Next Fest Oct 2026 is live with thousands of demos | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-next-fest-oct-2026-is-live-with-thousands-of-demos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/steam-next-fest-oct-2026-is-live-with-thousands-of-demos/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:51:11

  • Intel submits code to Proton to improve XeSS to use the fast upscaler XMX | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/intel-submits-code-to-proton-to-improve-xess-to-use-the-fast-upscaler-xmx/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:51:38

  • Linuxiac is STILL LLM slop. Still verified as slop. Fake site, no person running it.... just crap spat out by LLMs.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:53:01

  • Same in ubuntubuzz    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:53:23

  •    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:54:35

  • Porvoo's cycling simulator was a successful pilot project – it changed many people's minds | "Borgås cykelsimulator var ett lyckat pilotprojekt – fick många att ändra åsikt | Östnyland | Svenska Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/7-10107197    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:54:45

  • "Withings introduces Scale-As-A-Service; SaaS hits a new low" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/withings-introduces-scale-as-a-service:8    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:54:58

  • "I'm with SLOPPER – Geir's Everything" https://isene.org/2026/10/Linus-On-AI.html self-nuke    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:55:17

  • "A sick guy — Numeric Citizen Blog" https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/10/19/a-sick-guy.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:55:49

  • "Trump, 80, Says Minnesota Now Has Fewer Lakes Thanks to Somalis | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/216862/donald-trump-minnesota-fewer-lakes-somalis    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:56:01

  • "CNN Threatens New Legal Action Against Trump Over Media Ban | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/216842/cnn-threatens-new-legal-action-trump-media-ban    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:56:13

  • "Putin has Trump right where he wants him - Salon.com" https://www.salon.com/2026/10/20/putin-has-trump-right-where-he-wants-him/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:56:23

  • "Donald Trump, human wrecking-ball | World News" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/donald-trump-human-wreckingball-101792551699614.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:56:45

  • "Estonian MFA: Europe must fill the gaps left by the US in supporting Ukraine | News | ERR" https://news.err.ee/1610170996/estonian-mfa-europe-must-fill-the-gaps-left-by-the-us-in-supporting-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:57:16

  • "Efter Chat Control kommer Bank Control" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/10/20/efter-chat-control-kommer-bank-control/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:57:44

  • Young men encounter misogynistic content after just a few minutes of scrolling | "Unge mænd møder kvindefjendsk indhold efter få minutters scrolling - TV 2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2026-10-19-unge-maend-moeder-kvindefjendsk-indhold-efter-faa-minutters-scrolling    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:58:11

  • "Slop, slop, slop, slop, slop, slop, håndværk og slop | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/slop-slop-slop-slop-slop-slop-haandvaerk-og-slop    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:58:24

  • iophk: boo hoo. cry me a river. https://www.democrata.es/en/europe/the-spanish-industry-warns-that-restricting-foreign-cloud-services-may-cut-the-potential-of-european-ai/ https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10:59:41

  • We don't need EUROPEAN Ponzi Scheme. We need NO Ponzi Scheme.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:00:04

  • Let Americans and Saudis crash their own economies with slop http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Pensions_Tied_to_Ponzi_Schemes_Are_Themselves_Ponzi_Schemes.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:00:33

  • "We do that too." ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/the-first-step-toward-digital-independence-why-awesim-matters/ | Source: Purism    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:02:19

  • "Cincoze’s DX-1300 is a compact, fanless industrial computer based on Intel Core Ultra 200S processors, supporting up to 96GB of DDR5 memory and modular I/O expansion." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-core-ultra-industrial-pc-gains-external-emc-protection/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:02:29

  • eMudhra CA compromise fixes available ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/emudhra-ca-compromise-fixes-available | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:03:27

  • Creating a file with ed and a here document ☞ https://box.matto.nl/creating-a-file-with-ed-and-a-here-document.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:08:31

  • A Pretty Case for the OrangePi 6 Plus ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/a-nice-case-the-orange-pi-6-plus/index.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:09:34

  • Five million to one: two Arduino boards, 20 years apart ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/20/five-million-to-one-two-arduino-boards-20-years-apart/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:10:02

  • ICANN has an (unofficial) wiki ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/icann-has-an-unofficial-wiki/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:13:00

  • Audacious 4.6.2 Released with MPRIS OpenUri Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/10/audacious-4-6-2-released-with-mpris-openuri-support/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:13:37

  • How we’re dealing with a data space crunch ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/how-were-dealing-with-a-data-space-crunch/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:15:25

  • Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/20/main-character-syndrome/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:20:17

  • Cybersecurity awareness must extend beyond passwords and phishing to become truly operational ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/10/cybersecurity-awareness-must-extend-beyond-passwords-and-phishing-to-become-truly-operational/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:23:47

  • Rolling the root key: What happened? ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/21/rolling-the-root-key-what-happened/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:26:32

  • U.S. Army developing program that would deploy Hey Hi (AI) agents to autonomously seek and destroy targets in enemy digital infrastructures ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/us-army-reportedly-developing-program-that-would-deploy-ai-agents-to-autonomously-seek-and-destroy-targets-in-enemy-digital-infrastructures-experts-warn-echotribble-program-could-have-disastrous-consequences    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:29:03

  • Microplastics Aren't Inert After All: In Water, They Make DNA-Damaging Free Radicals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-are-chemically-active-and-could-cause-biological-harm    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:29:40

  • AOSC OS – general-purpose GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aosc-os-general-purpose-linux-distribution/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:33:30

  •    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:34:50

  • HPE HEY HI SPAM!!! The Register MS again FAILED to add disclosure it gets PAID to do this SPAM. https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/20/hpe-to-launch-ai-straight-to-the-moon/5303983    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:34:57

  • SLES 15.6 repositories are being retired ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/sles-156-repositories-are-being-retired-3415/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:45:36

  • RHEL 10.0 and 9.6 repositories are being retired ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/rhel-100-and-96-repositories-are-being-retired-3411/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:45:43

  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1101617/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:46:16

  • Nigeria Announces First Case of Ebola in Current Outbreak ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/world/africa/nigeria-ebola-outbreak.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:52:52

  • Nigeria records first Ebola case as outbreak spreads across Africa ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20261020-nigeria-records-first-ebola-case-as-outbreak-spreads-across-africa    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:53:06

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man signs an order aimed at boosting women’s health research, a plan backed by the first lady ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/10/trump-will-sign-an-order-aimed-at-boosting-womens-health-research-a-plan-backed-by-the-first-lady/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:53:16

  • ‘Memorial runs’ for athlete who died during race in South Korea spark debate online ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/memorial-runs-for-athlete-who-died-during-race-in-south-korea-spark-debate-online    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:56:11

  • Coral reef health at Malaysia’s Tioman, Redang islands worsening due to rising sea temperatures ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/coral-reef-health-at-malaysias-tioman-redang-islands-worsening-due-to-rising-sea-temperatures    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:59:40

  • Malaysia expects tourism fallout from Indonesia haze ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-expects-tourism-fallout-from-indonesia-haze    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 11:59:59

  • China says it is ‘safeguarding order’ around Taiwan-controlled South China Sea atoll ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-it-is-safeguarding-order-around-taiwan-controlled-south-china-sea-atoll    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:00:17

  • China says it is 'safeguarding order' around Taiwan-controlled South China Sea atoll ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-it-is-safeguarding-order-around-taiwan-controlled-south-china-sea-atoll    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:03:03

  • China-Laos air base could be another Southeast Asian forward outpost for Beijing ☞ https://rfa.org/english/laos/2026/10/20/china-laos-air-base-ban-keun-ream-cambodia/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:05:35

  • Hong Kong International Airport sees 10.2% growth in September passenger traffic ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/20/hong-kong-international-airport-sees-10-2-growth-in-september-passenger-traffic/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:06:12

  • Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from BBC, Metro, Guardian, Future, Reach ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:20:45

  • Reuters, Reach, Independent and Metropolis give us ALL a headsup: their sites are quietly becoming LLM slop, should therefore be skipped, avoided, not trusted ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-events/ai-in-the-newsroom/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:21:37

  • Tommy Robinson told Daily Mail editor ‘expect me to come knocking’ in voicemail, court hears ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/tommy-robinson-told-daily-mail-editor-ill-make-you-famous-in-voicemail-court-hears/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:21:56

  • If your headline is LLM slop, or if the text of the article is spewed by LLMs instead of humans, then it is not reporting    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:31:42

  • And it is fundamentally suicidal to one's reputation, credibility    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:32:07

  • Water May Be a Hidden Trigger Behind The Spread of Alzheimer's in The Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/water-may-be-a-hidden-trigger-behind-the-spread-of-alzheimers-in-the-brain    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:33:12

  • Mozilla Security Blog: Protecting Firefox users following the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificates ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/10/20/protecting-firefox-users-following-the-compromise-of-emudhra-intermediate-certificates/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:33:43

  • Jonathan Blandford: Crosswords 0.3.19 — New Layout and Acrostic Editor ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2026/10/20/crosswords-0-3-19-new-layout-and-acrostic-editor/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:34:12

  • Deliberately forgotten: internet shutdowns with no end ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/indefinite-internet-shutdowns/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:34:58

  • Russell Coker: Cixin Liu is a Bad Person ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/20/cixin-liu-bad-person/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:35:19

  • Micron union in Taiwan to launch one-day strike as bonus dispute escalates ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/micron-union-in-taiwan-to-launch-strike-as-bonus-dispute-escalates    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:52:25

  • The midterms as a story of power and balance ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/From-the-Editors/2026/1020/power-balance-midterms    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:52:39

  • More than 150 killed in Sudan drone strike on disputed Abyei border region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20261020-more-than-150-killed-sudan-drone-strike-disputed-abyei-border-region    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:53:06

  • OpenSSF front group promoting slop☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/10/20/new-openssf-guide-finding-and-fixing-vulnerabilities-using-ai/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:54:14

  • Still intentionally ignoring all the cocaine, scandals and strikes at the EPO. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/epo-revokes-divx-streaming-patent-after-upc-munich-upholds-it-in-parallel-case-against-netflix/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:54:53

  • These are software patents, which should never have been granted, and UPC is illegal    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:55:33

  • This serves to show that UPC is just an instrument of the software patenting cartel.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:56:00

  • Google Reports Cloud Disruptions in Europe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/technology/google-cloud-down-outage-europe.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:56:43

  • Linux Plumbers Conference: LPC 2026 – Kernel Testing MC ☞ https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2026/10/20/lpc-2026-kernel-testing-mc/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:57:18

  • Solder-down COM brings i.MX95 to GNU/Linux dev kit ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/solder-down-com-brings-i-mx95-to-linux-dev-kit-2/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:58:19

  • PS5 Linux hack now supports (some) newer firmware versions ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ps5-linux-hack-newer-firmware    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:58:54

  • OmegaLinux 2026.10.20 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omegalinux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:59:30

  • Kiro 26.10.20 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kiro    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 12:59:49

  • HAOS 18.4-rc1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/haos    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:03:18

  • CatOS 2026.10.09 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/catos    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:03:26

  • Omarchy 4.5.0-rc1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:03:37

  • BlueOnyx 5212r-20261019 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/blueonyx    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:03:45

  • Build your own physical interface with the new Arduino® UNO™ Q SBC Controller Bundle ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/10/20/build-your-own-physical-interface-with-the-new-arduino-uno-q-sbc-controller-bundle/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:04:14

  • GNU Taler news: Taler Operations AG is getting ready to operate Taler in Germany ☞ https://taler.net/en/news/2026-13.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:04:47

  • Ultraprocessed Food May Be Silently Damaging Your Brain's Blood Vessels ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/eating-more-ultraprocessed-food-linked-to-silent-vascular-brain-injury    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:06:24

  • Cats And Their Owners Seem to Share A Weird, Hormonal Connection ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cats-and-their-owners-seem-to-share-a-weird-hormonal-connection    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:06:46

  • This Heart Treatment From The 1970s Could Also Improve Memory in Alzheimer's Patients ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-heart-treatment-from-the-1970s-could-also-improve-memory-in-alzheimers-patients    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:07:12

  • Researchers Identify New 'Circadian' Subtype of Depression Affecting 1 in 4 Patients ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-identify-new-circadian-subtype-of-depression-affecting-1-in-4-patients    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:07:30

  • The Way You Sleep Can Reveal Your Risk of Heart Failure Up to 10 Years in Advance ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-way-you-sleep-can-reveal-your-risk-of-heart-failure-up-to-10-years-in-advance    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:07:51

  • So surprised he gets arrested for stoking up racism. Again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8omnB1_KQQ    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:08:31

  • A Strange New Time Crystal Emerges From Synchronized Vibrations ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-new-time-crystal-emerges-from-synchronized-vibrations    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:08:55

  • "Mr Veitch has bail conditions that include not entering Manchester city centre inside the ring road." https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/february/man-charged-following-public-order-incident-in-city-centre/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:10:27

  • Two Kurdish children die, third missing after boat capsizes on Turkey-Greece border ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/two-kurdish-children-die-third-missing-after-boat-capsizes-on-turkey-greece-border-324640    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:10:47

  • WTH happened to Qt? What next? Fake-coins? https://www.qt.io/blog/updated-qt-code-review-skills-reduce-token-costs-by-up-to-75    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:11:10

  • Beyond the Seat at the Table: Raneem’s Journey from Policy to Action ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/10/beyond-the-seat-at-the-table-raneems-journey-from-policy-to-action/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:11:33

  • Intel asks FCC for waiver to buy foreign robots ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-asks-fcc-for-waiver-to-buy-foreign-robots-chipmakers-automated-guided-vehicles-could-run-afoul-of-agencys-sweeping-robot-ban    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:15:24

  • Recipe Scammers Are Using an AI-Generated Emily Blunt as a Slop Puppet to Promote Their Garbage ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/recipe-scammers-ai-generated-emily-blunt    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:18:41

  • We Regret to Inform You That “GatGPT” Is Exactly What It Sounds Like ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gatgpt-ai-gun    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:19:09

  • Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-humans-empty-vessels    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:19:22

  • Government is about to start enforcing a new set of rules for buying Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/10/government-is-about-to-start-enforcing-a-new-set-of-rules-for-buying-ai/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:19:32

  • SoundExchange’s Lawsuit Against Sonos Gets Put on Ice As Appeal Against SiriusXM Lingers On ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/20/soundexchange-sonos-lawsuit-update/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:19:48

  • Art Basel Paris Preview Draws Interest Despite Protests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/arts/art-basel-paris-france-protests.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:20:37

  • China’s push for contributions to bolster social insurance schemes draws online backlash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-push-to-bolster-social-insurance-schemes-draws-online-backlash    

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

  • Cornell Gang Rape Lawsuit Takes Unexpected Turn as Former Chi Phi President Is Dropped After Mistaken Identity ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-cornell-chi-phi-president-removed-lawsuit-1826835    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:21:33

  • Federal Judge Orders Meta to Identify the Employees Who Authorized Shadow Library Piracy — Including ‘Everyone in the Group Who Participated in Making That Decision’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/20/meta-ai-lawsuit-shadow-library-discovery/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:22:01

  • Beijing sends naval forces to monitor US warship near disputed South China Sea shoal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-navy-says-us-ship-near-sabina-shoal-jeopardised-maritime-security    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:22:57

  • UN says 19.2 million Afghans facing acute food insecurity by April 2027 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/un-says-19-2-million-afghans-facing-acute-food-insecurity-by-april-2027    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:23:16

  • Taiwan security agency flags rise in Chinese disinformation ahead of local elections ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-security-agency-flags-rise-in-chinese-disinformation-ahead-of-local-elections    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:23:28

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Could Interfere in Midterms, US Security Officials Fear as They Quietly Advise States ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-officials-prepare-states-trump-election-interference-1826837    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:23:48

  • Hong Kong issues amber travel alert for France amid spreading social unrest ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/20/hong-kong-issues-ambert-travel-alert-for-france-amid-spreading-social-unrest/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:24:12

  • How French police are harnessing social control media to identify looters ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20261020-how-french-police-are-harnessing-social-media-to-identify-looters    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:25:54

  • Italy sends troops, toughens security laws after Milan clashes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/italy-sends-troops-toughens-security-laws-after-milan-clashes    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:26:13

  • Italy announces new security measures after Milan riots, deploying 500 soldiers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261020-italy-announces-new-security-measures-after-milan-riots-deploying-500-soldiers    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:26:25

  • Live: French PM Lecornu to meet with unions ahead of new protests ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261021-live-french-pm-lecornu-to-meet-with-unions-ahead-of-new-protests    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:26:54

  • Critical PHP security update coming ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1101687/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:28:24

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Department of Homeland Security Secretly Ordered Cybersecurity Operatives to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-homeland-security-voting-machine-hacking    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:28:57

  • 970,000 Medi-Cal Members Affected by Paradigm Healthcare Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/970000-medi-cal-members-affected-by-paradigm-healthcare-data-breach/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:29:25

  • Hackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-steal-1-8-million-records-from-nikkei/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:29:39

  • Ahold Delhaize Restoring Services Disrupted by Cyberattack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ahold-delhaize-restoring-services-disrupted-by-cyberattack/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:30:44

  • EU sets out a new Strategy for the Arctic ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_2203    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:36:00

  • KDE Plasma 6.8.1, Bugfix Release for October ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.1/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:36:29

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Calls Reporter Andrew Feinberg a 'Sick Person' as JD Vance Brands Him an 'Imbecile' ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-feinberg-oval-office-whistleblower-rewards-clash-1826846    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:37:47

  • revolt against data centres ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20261020-ai-on-the-ballot-voters-in-us-midterms-revolt-against-data-centres    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:39:07

  • ConnectWise customers hit by supply-chain attack linked to compromised API secret ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/connectwise-cloud-backup-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:42:43

  • Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/krishna-and-radha-exchanging-clothes    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:43:04

  • NixOS Is Making Me Less Afraid ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/nixos-is-making-me-less-afraid    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:43:52

  • Possible new Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/possible-new-cellebrite-iphone-radio-zero-day.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:44:57

  • Your Selfie Could Soon Sit in Your Medical Record as Hey Hi (AI) Learns to Predict Cancer Survival ☞ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-tool-predicts-cancer-survival-face-photo-1826829    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:45:29

  • WordPress 7.2 Beta 1 is Ready for Download and Testing ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/10/wordpress-7-2-beta-1-is-ready-for-download-and-testing/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:45:52

  • Budapest Audio Expo 2026 ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/budapest-audio-expo-2026/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:48:33

  • The Serial Strangler is now attempting "trial by phone calls" (behind the back of the other side). When you strangle women and tell them to kill themselves you'd not obey laws anywhere, would you?    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:49:34

  • Steinar H. Gunderson: Decompilation patterns, part 17: Loop rotation ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-10-20-23-33_decompilation_patterns_part_17_loop_rotation.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:49:58

  • PTAB Affirmance by Rejection Type, 2009–2026 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/10/ptab-affirmance-by-rejection-type-2009-2026.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:50:37

  • Letter Submission to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/6/letter-submission-to-the-advisory-committee-on-civil-rules    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:51:16

  • Quantefi Wi-Fi patents being investigated ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/19/quantefi-wi-fi-patents-being-investigated    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:52:16

  • $2,000 for Multimedia Technologies smart TV patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/10/20/2000-for-multimedia-technologies-smart-tv-patent-prior-art    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:52:32

  • The slop is proprietary, so this is It's FOSS: 1) shilling non-free plagiarism; ) boosting Microsoft https://itsfoss.com/news/microsoft-scope-self-hosted-agent-testing/ Boo.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:55:27

  • FOSSASIA PGDay 2027: Bangkok, 9 March – CFP Open ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/fossasia-pgday-2027-bangkok-9-march-cfp-open-3398/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:55:43

  • IBM-sponsored SPAM about SLOP https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/20/ibm-backed-llm-d-framework-adds-controls-for-running-ai-models-in-house/ this site is a hub which promotes white-collar crimes, many are aware of it but keep paying it to do this    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:56:29

  • OpenBSD 8.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1101536/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:56:58

  • eMudhra intermediate CA compromise ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1101643/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 13:58:25

  • Backing up my gitea via mirroring ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/10/20/backing-up-my-gitea-via-mirroring/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:00:14

  • U.S. Begins Disclosing C.I.A. Interview Reports From Scrutiny of Post-9/11 Torture ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/politics/cia-interview-reports-sept-11-torture.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:00:52

  • Prepare your custom plug-ins for Red Bait Developer Hub 2.1 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/20/prepare-your-custom-plug-ins-red-hat-developer-hub-21    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:01:47

  • Gaslight people by tossing slop trash at them and pretending they're catered for ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/20/speeding-up-ticket-resolution-with-agentic-ai    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:02:27

  • Red Hat is too busy cheering for slop while laying off thousands of its workers. This won't end well. ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/10/20/jev-bounded-semantic-judgments-messy-text    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:03:15

  • Give Nautilus file manager the ‘Computer’ view it lacks ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/nautilus-my-computer-view    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:03:49

  • Firefox 158.0.1 is out with important security fixes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/firefox-fixes-emudhra-secuity-issue    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:04:16

  • Linux Mint 27 Set for a Christmas Release ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Mint-27-Set-for-a-Christmas-Release    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:07:08

  • Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo: Restricting device memory usage on Linux 7.3 ☞ https://cascardo.eti.br/blog/dmem_cgroup_7.3/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:08:02

  • How To Install qBitTorrent on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-qbittorrent-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:11:47

  • MAIA Universe Secures Major Label Partnerships and a Strategic Investment from Bjorn Ulvaeus ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/20/maia-universe-major-label-deals/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:12:49

  • Today in Social Media Infringement Cases: LG and Kroger Sued for Allegedly Using Viral Track ‘Cheese Tax’ in Fentanylware (CheeTok) Videos ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/10/20/cheese-tax-lawsuit-kroger-lg/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:13:20

  • Lithuanian Orthodox Church warns proposed law changes could deepen divisions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3088262/lithuanian-orthodox-church-warns-proposed-law-changes-could-deepen-divisions    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:15:04

  • Russian GRU hackers hit NATO shipbuilder, aircraft engine maker, law enforcement agency in espionage campaign ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russian-hackers-apt28-target-nato-defense-firms/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:15:19

  • Freemasonry museum opens in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/culture/20.10.2026-freemasonry-museum-opens-in-riga.a668371/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:15:35

  • Why Zelensky Took the Gloves Off This Time With Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/world/europe/ukraine-war-zelensky-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:15:47

  • Ukraine rescues wounded soldier using drone in daring 'world's first' UAV evacuation of a human ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/ukraine-rescues-wounded-soldier-using-hexacopter-drone-in-daring-first-heavy-lift-uav-brought-the-injured-infantryman-11-miles-back-to-safety    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:15:56

  • After Oslo Talks, Zelenskyy Thanks US As Missile Intelligence 'Works Now' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-attack-zelenskyy-oslo-meeting/33880037.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:16:04

  • Zelensky meets Witkoff as US-Ukraine relations sink to new lows ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/zelenskiy-meets-witkoff-as-us-ukraine-relations-sink-to-new-lows    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:16:14

  • MElon throttled Starlink in embattled Ukraine ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/20/elon-musk-throttled-starlink-in-embattled-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:16:31

  • Is Putin’s Waiting Game Working? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/world/putin-trump-ukraine-war.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:16:45

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says He Asked Putin to Release an American Jailed in Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/politics/trump-russia-prisoner-stephen-hubbard.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:16:59

  • NebiOS 10.3-rc2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nebios    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:17:09

  • Megaphone of GAFAM and LF, now pusher of slop plagiarism ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/10/20/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-76-s3e28-invisible-infrastructure-autonomous-agents-and-10-years-of-cloud-native-with-cncfs-chris-aniszczyk/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:19:00

  • Established to promote fake security with Microsoft in charge, now it's a "hype mill" for a pyramid scheme.    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:19:56

  • Xbox reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs, with the first wave coming as early as this month https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-layoffs-october-november-january-report http://techrights.org/n/2026/10/21/More_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Weeks_From_Now_Then_Again_Months.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:22:11

  • Any sane person with a head screwed onto the shoulders can see that XBox is heading towards shutdown    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:22:56

  • It’s Easy to See Why People Love Linux Mint https://medium.com/@michaelswengel/its-easy-to-see-why-people-love-linux-mint-e5d3c26ba957    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:32:13

  • Microsoft won't like this open source project to get Game Pass working on SteamOS and Linux, but I think it's pretty neat https://www.pcgamer.com/software/microsoft-wont-like-this-open-source-project-to-get-game-pass-working-on-steamos-and-linux-but-i-think-its-pretty-neat/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:38:08

  • Xodus Nexus Project Opens Access to PC Catalog Game Pass on devices running Linux and SteamOS operating systems https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/proekt-xodus-nexus-otkryvaet-dostup-k-katalogu-pc-game-pass-na-ustrojstvakh-operatsionnykh-sistem-linux-i-steamos    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:38:42

  • Linux beats Windows at these 3 things, and Microsoft still has no answer https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-beats-windows-at-these-things/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:39:41

  • Helldivers 2 has moved to Easy Anti-Cheat, and the devs say Linux and Steam Deck compatibility remains safe https://www.pcguide.com/news/helldivers-2-has-moved-to-easy-anti-cheat-and-the-devs-say-linux-and-steam-deck-compatibility-remains-safe/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:40:13

  • Intel XeSS Could Soon Deliver Better Performance On Linux As Intel Works To Enable XMX Acceleration Through Valve’s Proton https://wccftech.com/intel-xess-could-soon-deliver-better-performance-on-linux-as-intel-works-to-enable-xmx-acceleration-through-valves-proton/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:40:51

  • I asked How-To Geek's writers which Linux distros convinced them to quit Windows, and I was surprised by some of the answers https://www.howtogeek.com/i-asked-how-to-geeks-writers-which-linux-distros-convinced-them-to-quit-windows-and-i-was-surprised-by-some-of-the-answers/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:43:51

  • "LF Research" is marketing propaganda. IBM pays to misuse the brand to promote slop. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-lf-research-survey-shows-generative-ai-cuts-open-source-coding-time-in-half-but-25-of-incoming-pull-requests-are-considered-ai-slop-302913843.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/What_Linux_Foundation_Research_is_Paid_Marketing.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:45:13

  • Here's some interesting Native Linux demos in Steam Next Fest Oct 26 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/some-interesting-native-linux-demos-in-steam-next-fest-oct-26/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:45:32

  • More slop from Jack https://www.zdnet.com/tech/free-adobe-premiere-clone-alternative-filmcraft-linux/ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/10/15/Jack_Wallen_is_Promoting_Slop_ware_LLM_Slop_Plagiarism_Other_Tr.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:46:13

  • I'd pick a 10-year-old desktop running Linux over a new $300 Windows laptop every time https://www.xda-developers.com/id-pick-a-10-year-old-desktop-running-linux-over-a-new-300-windows-laptop-every-time/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:46:31

  • More slop from Jack https://www.zdnet.com/tech/deckcraft-powerpoint-clone-presentation-app-linux-hands-on/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/10/11/Slop_ware_Is_Not_Newsworthy.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:47:52

  • Xodus Nexus Successfully Brings Game Pass Games to Linux https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/10/xodus-nexus-successfully-brings-game-pass-games-to-linux    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:49:12

  • A free SDR receiver for macOS, Windows and Linux https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/10/19/a-free-sdr-receiver-for-macos-windows-and-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:49:48

  • Xodus Nexus Launcher Brings Xbox Game Pass to SteamOS and Linux with Easy Management and Installs https://www.techpowerup.com/353885/xodus-nexus-launcher-brings-xbox-game-pass-to-steamos-and-linux-with-easy-management-and-installs    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:50:14

  • "The development team behind MocaccinoOS, a Gentoo-based, independent distribution for desktops, released MocaccinoOS 26.10 today as the latest stable ISO snapshot with updated components." https://9to5linux.com/gentoo-based-mocaccinoos-26-10-released-with-cosmic-1-10-and-kde-plasma-6-7-5    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:50:39

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux is Now Directly Available on OCI blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/red-hat-enterprise-linux-on-oci    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:51:07

  • 3 overlooked Linux desktops that are just as good as GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon https://www.howtogeek.com/overlooked-linux-desktops-as-good-as-gnome-kde-and-cinnamon/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:51:24

  • Your Linux habits might be slowly breaking your system https://www.howtogeek.com/your-linux-habits-might-be-slowly-breaking-your-system/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:52:53

  • Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-exploit-plex2shell-flaws-to.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:53:18

  • Steam on Linux is going 64-bit as Valve leans harder on the platform https://www.techspot.com/news/114260-steam-linux-going-64-bit-valve-leans-harder.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 14:56:02

  • Hack may be behind outage at Albert Heijn https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/12/cybersecurity-incident-hack-may-behind-outage-albert-heijn    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:02:57

  • Shock and surprise after FBI arrests Canadian cybersecurity expert in ShinyHunters hacking case https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canadian-cybersecurity-expert-arrested-fbi-shinyhunters-9.7378256    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:03:19

  • Cult-like behaviour https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/10/10/2155227/ubuntu-2610-will-offer-a-rust-based-gnupg-replacement-option    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:05:56

  • The sneaky practice of prompt injection (and what to do about it) http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/10/ai-in-patent-industry-sneaky-practice.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:07:38

  • distress signal https://www.vox.com/climate/505726/chinstrap-penguins-zavodovski-colony-collapse-ocean-warming    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:08:20

  • Evidence in Exxon Mobil Climate Deception Case https://www.truthdig.com/articles/protect-value-and-preserve-options-new-evidence-in-exxonmobil-climate-deception-case/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:08:36

  • Making a Mess of Climate Week https://www.truthdig.com/articles/making-a-mess-of-climate-week/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:09:13

  • Big Beef https://www.truthdig.com/articles/inside-big-beefs-90s-campaign-to-rewrite-its-climate-story/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:09:34

  • Millions Spent on Climate Plans at Risk as Three Data Centres Threaten New Mexico and El Paso Goals https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/texas-new-mexico-data-centres-climate-emissions-1825835    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:10:20

  • COP31 https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-green-taxonomy-paradox-ahead-of-cop31-nuclear-energy-and-fossil-gas-are-unacceptable-324254    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:11:00

  • Rising energy prices mean cost of district heating will go up in Denmark next year https://www.thelocal.dk/20261012/rising-energy-prices-mean-cost-of-district-heating-will-go-up-in-denmark-next-year    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:11:14

  • NHG: Buyers of low energy label homes now have to borrow more for sustainability https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/13/nhg-buyers-low-energy-label-homes-now-borrow-sustainabilit https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-14/global/eu-warns-of-worsening-energy-costs-as-winter-approaches/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:11:43

  • Türkiye: End Internet Censorship https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/10/12/turkiye-end-internet-censorship    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:12:31

  • art censorship https://jacobin.com/2026/10/bauhaus-nazis-afd-art-censorship    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:13:07

  • Death Penalty for Facebook Comment https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/10/13/saudi-arabia-death-penalty-for-facebook-comment    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:14:11

  • Another journalist detained over reporting on Turkey's investment fund crisis https://bianet.org/haber/another-journalist-detained-over-reporting-on-turkey-s-investment-fund-crisis-324461    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:15:10

  • X account blocked in Turkey https://bianet.org/haber/pro-kurdish-mezopotamya-agencys-x-account-blocked-in-turkey-324406    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:15:46

  • takes over top news channel https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-government-raids-takes-over-top-news-channel/a-79662749    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:16:05

  • journalists arrested for ‘spreading disinformation’ https://cpj.org/2026/10/turkey-4-more-journalists-arrested-for-spreading-disinformation-as-media-crackdown-intensifies/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:16:24

  • Turkey's under-15 social media ban could affect adults as well https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-under-15-social-media-ban-could-affect-adults-as-well-324340    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:16:47

  • CPJ, partners ask Turkey and social media platforms to halt online crackdown on journalists and rights defenders https://cpj.org/2026/10/cpj-partners-ask-turkey-and-social-media-platforms-to-halt-online-crackdown-on-journalists-and-rights-defenders/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:17:16

  • Summer Day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/OCT2026/entry-3    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:23:15

  • "Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya break record for latest day of 30 degrees" https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16982771    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:23:41

  • "I often hear that we in the Western world have enough food to easily feed all the hungry of the world. In terms of raw caloric totals of the food on market shelves, I don't doubt that claim. However, I can't help but question the quality of that food." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202610/20261020-whole-food-for-the-whole-world.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:24:19

  • fm-1 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/fm1 "Fast forward a couple month, and the fm-1 built momentum. Due to it's open firmware, the device started to be hacked and many custom firmware came about."    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:25:09

  • "It’s easy to create tables from text once you have a template which you can copy, and if your editor supports column select, it’s even easier. Some HTML-to-Gemtext converters even create (Unicode) tables from HTML tables." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-10-21-how-to-create-tables-in-gemtext.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:26:10

  • "i was excited to try this book. i respect monteleone's depth of knowledge and for some reason i could never sit through a video of his, so i was ready to read." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/books    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:28:13

  • "Starting tomorrow, I'm counting down my ten favorite Halloween songs, one a day, with #1 landing on Halloween night." gemini://gemini.sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-countdown/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 17:29:22

  • "Talk is cheap. Alvind talks a lot but his achievements in 2026 leave a lot to be desired by investors. In short, he is pathetic as a CEO. He lost his mojo and it isn't coming back anytime." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m52srysr    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:12:21

  • emotionally intelligent https://theconversation.com/women-are-more-emotionally-intelligent-than-men-and-thats-a-problem-landmark-study-293385    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:20:12

  • the outcome favours big tech https://theconversation.com/experts-have-voted-to-stop-adding-extra-seconds-to-clock-time-the-outcome-favours-big-tech-294297    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:20:53

  • Amazon Package Drivers Rev Up Organizing To Become Direct Employees https://scheerpost.com/2026/10/11/amazon-package-drivers-rev-up-organizing-to-become-direct-employees Pluralistic: Expedia amazoned hotel rooms (15 Oct 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/15/enshittipedia/    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:21:37

  • colour marks http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/10/colour-me-orange-german-supreme-court.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:22:02

  • figurative marks http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/10/different-standards-for-coloured.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:23:00

  • ANNOUNCE: Perl.Wiki V 1.56, CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.33 https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/10/announce-perlwiki-v-156-cpanmetacurator-v-133.html    

posted Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 19:23:30
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