**How to get the Windows 10 ESU Enrollment Back** Apparently it doesn't check the system's eligibility every time you launch Windows Update, or even every time you boot. I also found that it checks *per-user*, and it was cheerfully offering the teenager a chance to enroll the box in it even […]

**ASAN Condemns Administration's Rampant Misinformation about Autism, Acetaminophen, and Vaccines; Calls for Respectful, Fact-Based Approach** "On September 22nd, President Trump, RFK, and other members of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership held a press conference that […]

**Meshtastic** "An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices" #MeshNetwork #connectivity #networking

**RSL: Really Simple Licensing** An XML standard to indicate whether or not you approve of AI uses of your site (or specific parts of it), and under what licensing conditions if so. Like robots.txt, so the less scrupulous AI crawlers will keep scraping your writing and photos. #WebDev #AI […]

**The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas** "The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the […]

**China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool** "China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool" Apparently Microsoft hasn't followed up on their own experiment, though they considered it […]

**Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It Underwater** 2017: "Microsoft wants to submerge data centers to keep them cool and to harvest energy from the sea" I should look up whether this approach panned out at all. #underwater #Energy #DataCenters #cooling

**Hurricane Katrina Showed How Quickly It Can All Fall Apart | Defector** " I rewatched a few of his earlier movies, including his sweeping 2006 documentary about Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke. More than any other event of the 21st century—including 9/11 and the 2008 financial […]

**The Parity Public License** "Parity is a public LICENSE for software that requires users who build with your software to share their work with the community, too." #SoftwareLicenses #ParityPublicLicense

**The Thousands of Atomic Bombs Exploded on Earth** "From Orbital Mechanics, a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945." #history #visualization #NuclearWeapons #NuclearTesting

**Personal Book Archival with Calibre and Kobo** How to use Calibre and its plugins, plug Calibre-Web and Tailscale, to build a personal ebook library safe from DRM-induced deletion and sync it with a Kobo eReader. #ebooks #DRMfree #Kobo #Calibre #HowTo #Tailscale

**LaudatioC Font** Similar to Poppl Laudatio Condensed, the font used for the Debian logo. #fonts #Debian #Linux #logo

**Rogue** "Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans" #gaming

**Network Of Time** "Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures." #history #photography #privacy #panopticon #BaconNumber

**Web Browsers without AI** With just about every major web browser integrating some sort of "AI," this site decided it's easier to list web browsers *without* it. At this point it's just Vivaldi and Orion. #WebBrowser #AI #Vivaldi #OrionBrowser

**Byte - a visual archive** Every page of every issue of Byte Magazine, mapped visually #magazine #RetroComputing #ByteMagazine

**What Happens When an Entire Scientific Field Changes Its Mind** "In retrospect, one can’t be surprised that the first experiment to carefully examine the aether failed to find it. But it would be extremely surprising if, after decades of experimental verification, quarks were shown not to […]

**Radioactive Shrimp** "Do I know exactly how this happened? No and it is likely to be a while until we get any definitive answers, if ever. But I do have a pretty good idea what happened by which I understand the established processes and how they fail."- Funranium Labs #FoodSafety […]

**ASCII Smuggler** LLM prompt injection vulnerability using Unicode to hide text. #LLM #AI #ComputerSecurity #Unicode #ASCII

**LibreWolf AI discussion** #WebBrowser #AI #LibreWolf #Firefox #Mozilla

**Gulf of Tonkin incident** "The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005 proved material misrepresentation by the US government to justify a war against Vietnam." #history #war […]

**Sketchbook of a GPS Artist** #art #cycling #GPS #maps

**smolweb HTML specification** "smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate." #HTML #SmallInternet #spec #smolweb

**Thread on Ladybird and"politics"** #LadybirdBrowser #WebBrowser #politics

**List of Internet Software for Linux** Arch wiki, breaks down apps by type and subtype (ex: console web browsers, gui web browsers based on Chromium, etc.) #ArchLinux #Linux #WebBrowser

**There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses** "The fediverse is not a place, it is the means to build a place. It’s the means to build a million different places." Perspective on what the Fediverse is, isn't, and can be. #Fediverse #perspective

**LibreWolf marked as"deprecated" on homebrew** Librewolf issue on the removal of unsigned packages from Homebrew. #macOS #Homebrew #LibreWolf

**Homebrew is deprecating unsigned applications.** "- We are rejecting unsigned apps already for new registrations. - Keeping unsigned apps is only for the intel based macOS users. - Signing is required to run on silicon based macOS. - Apple announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last version […]

**Yet another LLM rant - Dennis Schubert** On why LLMs will lie to you confidently, and an analogy on how actual human brain learning is different from that LLMs do. #LLM #AI #ChatGPT

**Only 8% of Americans would pay extra for AI, according to ZDNET-Aberdeen research** "Tech vendors are racing to integrate AI into everything and selling it as a transformational moment. New data reveals a big enthusiasm gap from users." #AI #TechIndustry

**How To Make Schema Changes and Not Die Trying** "The most important things to consider while preparing a schema change." OK, I've got to admit I like the title. #MySQL #Percona #IT #database #concurrency #servers

**How to Install Yay on Arch Linux and Use it** Easier than cloning the repo and running makepkg yourself. #Linux #ArchLinux

**The Threebody world** Simulating the view from the fictional Trisolaris planet using different parameters for the real Alpha Centauri system, with stable/chaotic eras and when life and/or civilization might have time to develop. #SciFi #ThreeBodyProblem #Astronomy

**MQ Assessment** Monotropism questionaire #self-evaluation #autism #neurodivergence #monotropism

**Modos Paper Monitor** "A fast, low-latency, open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit" Finally launching! #eink #Modos #ComputerDisplays #hardware

**Release Notes for Debian 13 (trixie)** #Linux #Debian #DebianTrixie #Documentation

**Offpunk** an offline-first command-line browser #WebBrowser #GeminiProtocol #OfflineFirst #offline

**Loom - Abandonware DOS** "Loom is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Lucasfilm Games (now LucasArts). It was designed by Brian Moriarty and is known for its unique gameplay" #games #MSDOS #LOOM #LucasArts #Abandonware

**writerDeck.org** "Information about dedicated writing devices, digital typewriters, or modern word processors." The goal: find or build something that only lets you write, so you don't get distracted by anything else on the device. #WriterDeck #hardware #DIY #WordProcessor

**Tilde Text Editor** A console-based text editor with text-based menus. The screenshot reminds me of the old QBasic editor. #TUI #Tilde #editor #TextEditors

**Distrochooser** "The Distrochooser helps you to find the suitable Linux distribution based on your needs!" #Linux #OS #quiz

**Tinker WriterDeck** "Convert any laptop and most chromebooks into a writer deck. A device designed solely for writing. No distractions. No internet. No apps. No games. No social media. Just writing." #OS #writing #laptop #Linux

**CDE - Common Desktop Environment** Yes, it's still around! And it's been open for a decade! #unix #desktop #CDE

**CryptPad.org** "End-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite" #collaboration #office #cloud #WordProcessor

**Zoho Writer** Online word processor with collaboration features. Possible alternative to Google Docs? #Zoho #writing #WordProcessor #collaboration

**Radeon™ Software for Linux® Installation — amdgpu graphics and compute stack unknown-build documentation** #AMD #Radeon #Linux #drivers #GPU

**AMD Radeon™ RX 9060 XT Drivers& Support** #AMD #Radeon #drivers #GPU

**Retro** "A friends-only photo journal for moments big and small" #photography #socialnetworking

**Sly** "A friendly image editor that doesn't store your photos and requires no preexisting expertise. Just open a photo and have at it." #software #ImageEditor #apps

**80s Fantasy Film Club - Reactor** Collection of articles looking back at fantasy movies of the 1980s, some of which have aged better than others. #1980s #movies #fantasy