Trump’s Onslaught Hits Staffers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Henry Carnell, Digital Fellow - Mother Jones
_Stephan: The Trump coupsters have no interest in the science of renewable non-carbon energy. In fact, because the carbon energy oligarchs support Trump, there is an active effort by his administration to keep the United States dependent on carbon energy. The result is going to be disastrous for social and individual wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Jason Burke and Julian Borger, International Security Correspondent | Senior International Correspondent - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: The fascist Israeli Netanyahu administration’s Palestinian genocide continues without a negative comment from the Trump administration. Probably because the Trump family hopes to profit from what the Israelis have in mind for Gaza after they kill or push out all the Palestinians … ⌘ Read more
10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries for Life on Mars
The discovery of extraterrestrial life would be the greatest scientific achievement in history. While lots of science and technology exist that’s crazier in technical terms, finding life has the grandest existential implications. Right now, the best place to find it is Mars. In fact, there are plenty of intriguing life signs and promising environments for […]
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Grâce aux efforts de tous, le chaos s’installe gentiment
Au moins la France peut-elle s’enorgueillir d’avoir, outre des paysages magnifiques, une situation sociale très… fluide, qui évolue de plus en plus vite. Ce qui est un événement hallucinant un mois donné devient un fait divers cocasse le mois suivant et passe dans la routine le mois d’après. Tenez, prenez par exemple cette amusante histoire […] ⌘ Read more
The 10 Toughest English Language Words to Pronounce
Nobody ever said English was an easy language to learn. In fact, many people will tell you that it’s one of the hardest languages to learn! Even for those who are native speakers like us, we seem to get surprised nearly every day by the way a word is pronounced or used or whether it […]
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Refurb iPhone 15 Models Now Available From Apple’s UK Online Store
Apple is selling refurbished iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max models to its online store in the United Kingdom, around four months after introducing the discounted models in other European countries.
The iPhone 15 is priced starting at £589, while the iPhone … ⌘ Read more
[$] Filtering fanotify events with BPF
Linux systems can have large filesystems; trying to keep up with the
stream of
fanotify filesystem-monitoring notifications for them can be a struggle.
Fanotify is one of a few ways to monitor accesses to filesystems provided by the kernel.
Song Liu led a discussion
on how to improve in-kernel filtering of fanotify events to a joint
session of the filesystem and BPF tracks at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memo … ⌘ Read more
Release Candidate of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Available, Public Release Coming Soon
A release candidate build for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5 is now available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs. For users not in the beta testing programs, what this basically means is that the final versions of these system software releases is coming soon, perhaps even next week. macOS Sequoia … [Read More … ⌘ Read more
[$] Improving FUSE writeback performance
In a combined filesystem and memory-management session at
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Joanne Koong led a discussion on
improving the writeback performance for the Filesystem in\
Userspace (FUSE) layer. Writeback is how data that is written to the
filesystem is actually flushed to the disk; it is the process of writing
dirty pages from the page cache to storage. The current FUSE
imple … ⌘ Read more
Announcing OpenReports: Standardized Kubernetes Reporting
The Kubernetes ecosystem, while powerful, is a sprawling landscape of tools. As organizations scale their deployments, ensuring compliance and security becomes paramount. But how do you effectively track and report on your Kubernetes policies and scanners… ⌘ Read more
Apple Seeds iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 Release Candidates
Apple today seeded the release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 updates to developers and public beta testers, with the software coming a week after Apple released the fourth betas. The release candidate represents the final version of iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 that will be released to the public should no bugs be found.
iOS 18.5 … ⌘ Read more
In ‘Highly Unusual’ Move, Trump DOJ Sues to Block States From Holding Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Climate Crisis
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: The Trumpian fascist coup shows you almost every day that it cares nothing about your wellbeing, and it seeks to suppress any preparation to ameliorate the devastation of your life, and the lives of your children a … ⌘ Read more
Trump Sons’ Deals on Three Continents Directly Benefit the President
Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany, Investigative Reporter | Contributing Writer - The New York Times
_Stephan: Are you having problems with your grocery costs? Were you stunned by what your pharmaceuticals cost? Were you appalled by the prices you saw when you looked to buy a new car? As ordinary Americans struggle with the economic chaos that aspiring dictator and psychopath Trump h … ⌘ Read more
Study reveals stark differences in life expectancy across US states over the past century
Colin Poitra, Staff Writer - Medical Press
_Stephan: Look at the graph at the head of this article. What do you notice? I have been telling you for 30 years that by every objective measure I can find, from happiness to literacy to life expectancy, Republican governance is always inferior to Democratic governance, even as flawed as it often is. … ⌘ Read more
A militarized conspiracy theorist group believes radars are ‘weather weapons’ and is trying to destroy them
Andrew Freedman, Reporter - CNN
_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation on social media, plus America’s gun obsession, plus the rise of fascism in the MAGAt world, is creating a serious distortion of the U.S. culture. Here is an example of what I mean. The only thing that is going to change this is you an … ⌘ Read more
foss-north 2025
I attended foss-north, a free / open source conference covering both
software and hardware from the technical perspective, at Chalmers
Conference Center in Gothenburg on April 14 & 15. A great conference.
Lots of interesting talks:
https://foss-north.se/2025/speakers-and-talks.html
My own presentation was “Forking QEMU to emulate and secure the
Tillitis TKey”. Recording is here:
@ You seem to be a bit ahead of your time: https://darch.dk/timeline/conv/jl2mf2a
Ten Formidable Bugs and Insects That Scientists Recently Discovered
The insect world is home to strange, menacing creatures that, if you were a little bug, you would be wise to steer clear of. Year after year, researchers uncover new species of ferocious creepy crawlies, monsters of the minibeast world. Parasitic wasps, exploding ants, beetles with punky hairdos, there is no shortage of grisly wonders. […]
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10 Things Humans Are Weirdly Bad at Predicting
Humans like to think of themselves as rational, forward-looking creatures. But when it comes to forecasting the future—even our own—we’re often laughably wrong. From personal choices to global crises, our brains are wired with cognitive shortcuts and emotional biases that lead us to consistently underestimate, overestimate, or misjudge reality. Sometimes, the error is small. Other […]
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Buffett Says Tim Cook Made Berkshire More Money Than He Ever Did
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett offered rare public praise for Apple CEO Tim Cook at the holding company’s annual shareholder meeting on Saturday, during which Buffett confirmed he was stepping down.
“I’m somewhat embarrassed to say that Tim Cook has made Berkshire a lot more money than I’ve ever made,” Buffett told the audience, alluding … ⌘ Read more
Use a Proximity Gesture to Play Music from Spotify / Apple Music on HomePod with iPhone
Whether you have a HomePod or HomePod mini in your own house, or you’re visiting elsewhere with a HomePod, you can quickly and easily play music from Spotify or Apple Music on the HomePod from your iPhone with a simple physical proximity gesture. This trick is so simple and useful but it’s not well known, … Read More ⌘ Read more
Deals: $150 Off M4 MacBook Air, $300 Off M4 MacBook Pro, iPad mini 7 for $399, & More
Amazon is back with more great deals on Apple products, taking $150 off the price of the M4 MacBook Air series in both 13″ and 15″ display sizes, up to $320 off the M4 MacBook Pro in select configurations, the latest iPad mini for $399, $100 off the M3 iPad Air, plus discounts on AirPods, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/05/deals-150-off-m4-macbook-air-300-o … ⌘ Read more
Use a Proximity Gesture to Play Music from Spotify / Apple Music on HomePod with iPhone
Whether you have a HomePod or HomePod mini in your own house, or you’re visiting elsewhere with a HomePod, you can quickly and easily play music from Spotify or Apple Music on the HomePod from your iPhone with a simple physical proximity gesture. This trick is so simple and useful but it’s not well known, … Read More ⌘ Read more
V8 JavaScript engine gets eager compilation hints, but will devs use sparingly as advised?
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Announcing the Automated Governance Maturity Model
We are entering an era where Governance is increasingly important; with AI systems generating code and becoming a critical part of application’s runtime infrastructure, we can produce outputs at an increasingly rapid pace. Organizations and individuals… ⌘ Read more
Building Trust with OpenID Federation Trust Chain on Keycloak
OpenID Federation 1.0 provides a framework to build trust between a Relying Party and an OpenID Provider that have no direct relationship so that the Relying Party can send OIDC/OAuth requests to the OpenID Provider without being previously… ⌘ Read more
@ About the URL, since it no longer used for hashing there might be no need to change it. I agree that we keep all the parts that already are out there for the most parts. Instead of a contact field you could also just use links like: link = Email mailto:user@example.dk or link = Signal https://signal.me/sthF4raI5Lg_ybpJwB1sOptDla4oU7p[...]
On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of the Midwife https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/05/midwives.html #programming #project #devjournal
Apple’s M4 MacBook Pro Hits New Record Low Prices on Amazon at Up to $479 Off
Today we’re tracking a collection of discounts on Apple’s M4 MacBook Pro at Amazon, including as much as $479 off select models of the computer. These computers are seeing frequent price fluctuations on Amazon right now, so be sure to shop soon if you’re interested.

_Stephan: Just as hurricane season and flooding events are poised to begin, despot psychopath Trump and his administration of lackeys have just destroyed the science centers that predict oncoming weather events and warn of flooding. And yet still it is not clear to millions of American voters that Trump cares nothing for their wellbeing. … ⌘ Read more
Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
Rob Stein, Staff Writer - npr
_Stephan: For the past 20 years I have written a column for the largest holistic medicine journal, Explore. I am also on the editorial board of about 8 other peer reviewed journals in a spectrum of disciplines, and, over the years, I have been the editor of several scientific journals. I tell you this to make it clear that I understand the peer review pr … ⌘ Read more
‘It’s bad’ MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow slams Trump for ‘killing miracle’ drug
Erik De La Garza, Staff Writer - Raw Story | MSNBC
_Stephan: Yet further proof that psychopath Trump and his MAGAt servants care nothing for the wellbeing of Americans. I just don’t understand how this could get any clearer, nor how Americans fail to understand we are becoming a neo-medieval society. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, particularly young people who use drugs, are aliv … ⌘ Read more
10 Outrageous Horse Racing Scandals
Horse racing has always been known as one of the more prestigious sports, but its history is filled with scandals and misconduct. People have tried to manipulate races for betting purposes, horses have been swapped to increase their odds of winning, and racehorses have even been abducted. Performance-enhancing drugs and the mistreatment of horses have […]
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Grâce aux écolos européens, votre prochain black-out sera continental
Lundi 28 avril 2025, vers midi et demie, l’Espagne et le Portugal ont fait une première expérience audacieuse et fort réussie d’application consciencieuse de la doctrine « Net Zéro » avec plusieurs années d’avance sur le calendrier prévu : la péninsule ibérique s’est retrouvée complètement privée de courant pendant plusieurs heures. Rapidement, les questions fusent : comment est-ce possible, [ … ⌘ Read more
Open Home Foundation Marks Second Year with Structural Changes and Home Assistant 2025.4 Update
April 2025 marked the start of the Open Home Foundation’s second year. Since its launch at the State of the Open Home 2024 event, the Foundation has grown rapidly, gaining broad community and industry support. Last month’s 2025 event highlighted key milestones from its first year and outlined plans for continued development. Over the past […] ⌘ Read more
Kuo: iPhone 17e Still on Apple’s 2026 Roadmap
Apple will launch an iPhone 17e in the first half of next year, according to respected industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Corroborating a recent report that Apple will switch to a split iPhone launch strategy, Kuo on Monday offered his own interpretation of Apple’s roadmap for the next two years:
- 2H25: iPhone 17 Pr … ⌘ Read more
Once again, we had a lovely sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-05-04/
Today, I did my longest bike tour this year so far. I went north to a lake in a neighboring district, mostly following the Weser-Harz-Heide route, which I already partly followed on my journey from Kassel to Braunschweig last year. There I sat down on a bench for half an hour and then returned. I had plenty of headwinds on the way there and a bit of tailwind on the way back, although the wind was mostly from the side. This time, I luckily did not mess up the OsmAnd tracking. Despite the wind, it was a lot of fun! ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 0M — Remixed Classrooms https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/04/30m-free-education.html #3#0#million #books #diversity #education
Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Himself as Pope, Days After Joking He’d Like to Be the Next Pontiff
Rebecca Schneid, Reporter - Time Magazine
_Stephan: When I tell you that Americans have voted into the office of the President an egomaniacal psychopath, here is some proof of that statement. Can you imagine John Kennedy, George Bush 41, Barack Obama or, in fact, any other president doing something like this? Neither can I … ⌘ Read more
Critics see ‘monumental shift’ in Trump remaking of DOJ civil rights division
Rebecca Beitsch, Staff Writer - The Hill
_Stephan: America’s aspiring dictator Trump, his serfs, and his Republican servants in Congress are working as hard as they can to turn the United States back into a White supremacist, male-dominant society. They are blatant and insistent in their intention, and are destroying the painfully achieved civil rights laws that so ma … ⌘ Read more
‘You will be hunted’: Voting machine company reveals new death threats from Fox viewers
Carl Gibson, Staff Writer - Raw Story / Alter Net
_Stephan: The longer this fascist coup goes on the more it impresses on me that this could only be happening to the United States because there are millions of Americans who are supporting aspiring dictator Trump, the Republicans and their coup. The problem we face as a country is ourselves. Surely you … ⌘ Read more
Inside the Trump family’s 100 days of presidential profit
Zachary Basu , - msn
Stephan: There is no precedent in American history for how Trump and his family have used the office of the president to satisfy their greed and benefit themselves. I think it is disgusting.
The Trump family Credit: USA Today[President Trump](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump?utm_medium=partn … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Takes $100 Off iPad Mini 7 With Return of All-Time Low Prices, Starting at $399
Amazon this weekend is providing record low prices on multiple models of the iPad mini 7, starting at $399.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi tablet, down from $499.00. Colors on sale at this price include Purple, Space Gray, and Starlight.
10 Worst Political Marriages in History
Most royals today are free to marry whomever they please (at least, up to a certain point). But for most of history, marriage was about securing power and wealth, not love. If you hated your husband from the day you met him, well, too bad! You’re stuck with him for the rest of your life […]
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Top 10 Strangest Songs to Have Hit Number One
Billboard’s Hot 100 is the chart every musician chasing success wants to see their name on. Thanks to the United States being the largest music market in the world, the Hot 100—which was launched in 1958—has become a marker of a song’s sweeping popularity. There are many beloved bands and artists that have (at least […]
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Amazon Has Every M4 MacBook Air on Sale for Up to $165 Off This Weekend
Amazon this weekend has record low prices across the entire M4 MacBook Air lineup, with up to $165 off every model in every color.
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Pilogy, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/03/pilogy-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
It is Going to Be More Complicated to Remain a Constitutional Federal Republic Than Many Seem to Realize
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Last Friday ASO Communications and Research Collaborative published a polling memo of data collected by Data for Progress just days before – 18-21 April. It showed that just as the country approaches Donald Trump’s 100th day in office 52% of likely voters acros … ⌘ Read more
Pam Bondi fires ‘warning shot’ at free press with ‘most chilling’ guidelines yet: report
Krystina Alarcon Carroll, Contributing Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: This is all straight out of the Hitler/Mussolini/Stalin/Orban playbook. and completely predictable. You get your uber-rich supporters to buy your seat in office, then you get them to buy major media, as has happened with the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Fox Propaganda, then … ⌘ Read more
U.S. Press Freedom Plummets to All-Time Low
Tom Sanders , Staff Writer - The Daily Beast
_Stephan: The U.S. freedom of the press was ranked 57th in Reporters Without Borders‘ (RSF) annual press freedom index, putting it on par with countries such as Gambia and Uruguay. Fascists don’t want the people they rule to be factually educated or well-informed. That’s why colleges and … ⌘ Read more
How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding
Susan Dominus, Contributing Writer - The New York Times Magazine
_Stephan: As this article describes, scientists have been trying to determine what creates personal happiness for a century, and it is a very complicated research task. But the one constant I see in almost all these studies, and I have been doing and following this research for over 50 years, although it is rarely mentioned as … ⌘ Read more
Coupures de courant : une mise en garde pour tout le continent
Un billet de Henry Bonner Les récentes coupures de courant sur le continent contiennent une mise en garde sur les conséquences de l’instabilité des réseaux électriques. D’après les données à disposition sur les coupures en Espagne et au Portugal, l’impact des renouvelables sur la gestion de courant fait partie des causes. Reuters rapporte ainsi que […] ⌘ Read more
10 Critical Bottlenecks in Modern Civilization Posing a Major Risk
We like to think modern civilization is robust, backed by endless redundancy. But under the surface, there are critical choke points—places, systems, or single providers where failure would ripple through the entire world. These are the brittle backbones of global stability, and most people have no idea how many eggs we’ve put in very few […]
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Top Stories: Epic Games Victory Over Apple, iPhone 17 Rumors, and More
There’s a major shakeup for the App Store in the U.S. this week, with Epic Games winning a major victory that is forcing Apple to make immediate changes in how it works with developers seeking to offer alternative methods for purchasing in-app content and subscriptions.
This week also saw fresh rumors about the iPhone 17 lineup, while Dan and Hartl … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/28 to 05/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/02/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
We went on a 14 kilometers long hike in the heat, only a few spots were in the shade, most of our trip was in the open fields with the sun beating down on us. We reapplied the sun blocker after about two hours or so. All in all it took us about three and a half hours before we reached our destination Besigheim.
Last time I was there it was rainy, now we had the exact opposite. After some yummy Chinese lunch we visited the old town. There’s some gorgeous timer framing to see. When kept in decent shape, it just looks so dang cool.
Since it was too hot, we rode back by train. Despite the heat and some sections near the roaring Autobahn, this was a nice hike. Would do it again. Only in colder weather, though. I certainly don’t wanna trade my comperatively larger (still nothing to other more rural areas), covering forests with the wide open fields and vineyards in summer. That’s for sure.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-von-asperg-nach-besigheim-2025-05-01/
How to Enable Automatic Dark / Light Mode on iPhone & iPad
If you’re an iPhone or iPad user, you might appreciate a feature that automatically switches your devices appearance from Light Mode to Dark Mode, and vice versa, automatically. Furthermore, you can set the automatic enabling of Dark and Light mode to follow sunset and sunrise, or a custom schedule, whichever you prefer. As you probably … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/02/how-to-enable-automatic-dark-light … ⌘ Read more
[$] Flexible data placement
At
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a
combined storage and filesystem session on data placement, which concerns
how the data on a storage device is actually written. In a discussion
that hearkened back to previous summits, the idea is to give hints to enterprise-class
SSDs to help them make better choices on where the data should go; hinting
was most recently [discussed at the summit in 2023](https://lwn.net/Articles/932900/ … ⌘ Read more
iPhone 17: What’s New With the Cameras
We’ve still got months to go before the new iPhone 17 models come out, but a combination of dummy models and leaks have given us some insight into what we can expect in terms of camera changes.
Apple is adding new camera features, and changing the design of the camera bump for some models. You might be skeptical of dummy m … ⌘ Read more
I’m keeping this color scheme on my laptop for now:
Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
Traffic management in Kubernetes can be complex, especially with modern applications composed of multiple services like frontends, APIs, and backends spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As these environments grow, ensuring secure, efficient, and reliable communication… ⌘ Read more
My April ‘25 in Review
April has also been over for two days now. So it’s time to take a look back. What was going on (for me)? ⌘ Read more
PewDiePie | I installed linux
All I can say is.. what? I’m not even sure why this popped up in my youtube frontpage. I don’t generally watch PewDiePie, but in all honesty, it’s a pretty glowing review of Linux, Arch, Hyprland and more. He points out some warts and things here and there around compatibility, but all in all, “PewDiePie takes aim at Microsoft” was not on my 2025 Bingo card…
White House looking for other countries to accept deportees
Gregory Svirnovskiy, Staff Writer - Politico
Stephan: Just as Hitler did, Trump is looking for other countries where he can establish concentration camps, paying for them with citizen tax dollars. Hitler’s principal target population was Jews, whereas Trump’s is immigrants. But both actually imprisoned anyone who opposed them.

_Stephan: If you go back and read the history of Hitler you will very quickly learn that creating youth groups to indoctrinate boys and girls into Nazism. As the Holocaust Encyclopedia describes it, “The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend, or HJ) was the Nazi-organized youth movement. It was made up of different sections for b … ⌘ Read more
Prescription drug prices have outpaced inflation and tariffs would make them pricier
Dieter Holger, Reporter - Consumer Affaairs
_Stephan: I went to the pharmacy to pick up a renewed prescription and discovered it had doubled in price, even with GoodRx. The woman in the line before me was stunned by what her prescription cost. She wasn’t sure she could afford it, and it made me realize the fascist Trumpian coup is beginning to devastate … ⌘ Read more
White House launches Drudge-style website to promote Trump
Alex Isenstadt, Staff Writer - Axios
_Stephan: This article is yet another move straight out of the fascist coup playbook. Get the billionaires to buy big media, both print and electronic. Try to scare and suppress the rest of the media. Create chaos amongst journalists. Start the coup’s own media. Weaponize and distribute misinformation. Everything Trump is doing is straight out of the Hitler playbook, a … ⌘ Read more