CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
Helen Branswell, Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases - STAT
_Stephan: American healthcare already the worst amongst the developed democracies of the world and by orders of magnitude the most expensive, has been so severely destroyed that your healthcare is already seriously compromised and your health may be at risk. Imagine, we have a system in which th … ⌘ Read more
The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Publicity
James Poniewozik, Chief TV Critic - The New York Times
Stephan: The one thing the monster and his MAGAt vassals are good at is the weaponization of misinformation. It is the main tool they use to keep the low IQ, low education, resentful and racist worshippers in a dark fantasy reality. And your tax dollars are being used to pay for this.
 Military Parade in D.C.
Tom Sherwood, Staff Writer - Washington, D.C. City Paper
_Stephan: I have been waiting for this. All dictators like nothing better than huge ceremonial military displays. Think about Nazi Germany, North Korea, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and Putin’s Russia. So it appears So, that’s where we are headed on Saturday, June 14, for the maximum leader’s 79th birthday. It will cost tens of mill … ⌘ Read more
10 Iconic Landmarks That Were Nearly Called Something Else
Some of the world’s most iconic places have instantly recognizable names—imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, New York without Times Square, or Australia without the Great Barrier Reef. But history doesn’t always work out the way we expect. Many of these landmarks were nearly given completely different names, some of which would have changed how […]
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10 Musicians Who Became Famous After Death
Musicians understand that they may never achieve stardom, but there is no way of knowing if they will turn into legends posthumously. Some musicians work hard at their craft and spend decades trying to succeed. They write and record multiple songs and albums, earn record deals, and travel the world, playing their music anywhere that […]
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5 Biggest Changes Rumored for iPhone 17 Pro
Later this year, Apple will introduce the iPhone 17 series, which includes the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max, two new high-end flagship devices that will be sold alongside the regular iPhone 17 and an all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air.
If you have been holding out for the iPhone 17 Pro or its bigger sibling, here are five of the b … ⌘ Read more
[$] An update on pahole
Pahole (originally “Poke-a-hole”) is a Swiss Army knife for exploring and
editing debug information. Pahole is also currently involved
in the kernel’s build process to rearrange the information
produced by various compilers into a form useful to the BPF verifier, although
there are plans to render it unnecessary.
Pahole maintainer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo shared some status
updates about the project at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF summit. Interested readers can find his slides … ⌘ Read more
Mandated use of AI at work
Although I also use AI for some features on this blog and sometimes chat with some AI agent (whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot), I have mixed feelings about its mandated use at work (Shopify is just one company doing it). ⌘ Read more
This time it’s just a station to change to another train. Another hour and a half to my new/old home station. ⌘ Read more
And we’re back to the regular landscape! Not only in subject but also photo orientation. No more silly portrait. I can’t recall it exactly, but I reckon that was one of ~20°C days. The evening sun was really crazy that day, made a great combination with the puddles: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-02/
CalDigit Launches New Thunderbolt 5 Docks
CalDigit today announced the upcoming launch of two new Thunderbolt 5 docks, the TS5 and the TS5 Plus. Both docks support transfer speeds of up to 80Gb/s with a speed boost feature when paired with Apple’s Thunderbolt 5 Macs.
The TS5 has a total of 15 ports, including four Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-A ports, three USB-C ports (including tw … ⌘ Read more
[$] Three ways to rework the swap subsystem
The kernel’s swap subsystem is complex and highly optimized — though not
always optimized for today’s workloads. In three adjacent sessions during
the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Kairui Song, Nhat Pham, and Usama Arif
all talked about some of the problems that they are trying to solve in the
Linux swap subsystem. In the first two cases, the solutions take the form of
an additional layer of indirection in the kernel’s swap … ⌘ Read more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day Three Keynote Recap
The last day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 dawned bright and sunny again, with attendees streaming in to learn the latest about cutting edge topics including LLMs, 5G and 6G, and more. Here’s a snapshot… ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, 1994 Rwandan Genocide https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/07/rwanda.html #programming #project #devjournal
Apple Releases New Immersive Video App for Mac and Vision Pro
Apple today released a new app for managing an immersive video library on a Mac.
Apple Immersive Videos are 3D videos recorded in 8K resolution, with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio. For example, recent performances by singer The Weeknd and … ⌘ Read more
Editor’s Note –Thank you, On The Mend
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
Stephan: Thank you all for your good wishes and healing intentions. I am on the mend from a flu-cold I apparently caught from someone last week at a community gathering. A nasty passage, but nothing serious. ⌘ Read more
The entire tariff Executive Order is based on bogus numbers and a fake expert economist
, Contributing Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: This should be the most important story in the news on every media platform, but it is not; either because except for Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, and a few other commentators, journalists and their editors and producers are afraid to publish or broadcast it, or they don’t understand it. Here is the truth abou … ⌘ Read more
White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego An ‘Inside Joke’
Scott Horsley, Chief Economics Correspondent - npr
Stephan: Here is the proof that both the media and psychopath “emperor” Trump have known for years that Peter Navarro is a fraud and pseudo-economist. Yet how many Americans do you think know anything about this? Why isn’t it mentioned every time Navarro’s name comes up?
_Stephan: I keep watching to see whether American voters are clear that as long as psychopath “emperor” Trump is President nothing is going to be done to prepare and obviate the impact of climate change on their lives. He is completely corrupt and in the service of the carbon oligarchs who bought him his office. Do you think MAGAt … ⌘ Read more
10 Scientists Convicted of Serious Crimes
“Follow the science” and “trust the science” have become mantras of late. Science is, after all, typically regarded as being unbiased, producing reliable knowledge based on empirical methods that are independent of sociopolitical and economic influences, falsifiable, and replicable. The problem is that science’s accuracy and reliability depend on the ethics of the scientists who […]
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Droits de douane : la manœuvre Trump
Panique et gesticulations, en Occident et sur les marchés : l’administration Trump vient de frapper un grand coup avec l’imposition de droits de douanes salés ! Et même s’il est bien trop tôt pour déterminer si ces droits de douane seront un avantage ou un inconvénient pour les États-Unis dans les prochaines années, cela n’a cependant pas […] ⌘ Read more
10 Formerly Secret Tunnels That Are Now Open to the Public
From hidden passageways beneath ancient cities to wartime bunkers turned tourist attractions, tunnels have long been shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Over time, many of these once-concealed corridors have been unlocked for public exploration, offering a glimpse into history that was once kept under wraps. Whether they were built for defense, transport, or escape, these […]
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iPhone 17 Pro’s New Rear Camera Bar ‘Same Color As Rest of Device’
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models will feature a redesigned rear camera module that spans the width of the device, but it will be the same color as the iPhone itself, rather than being part of a two-tone design.
MacRumors render showing the two-tone design that Gurman has ruled out
That’s according to [Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman]( … ⌘ Read more
** Muddy weeknotes **
Some RSS exclusive week notes:
- I finished reading Emily St. James’ Woodworking
- I started reading Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo
- I took a break from re-watching Frieren for the third time
- I used that break to start watching The Apothecary Diaries, which isn’t at all what I assumed it was. It is more a detective show than anything else, so far, and I dig it
- I started to play Citizen Sleeper
- I cleaned so much, yet the house remains not clean
- It has stopped snowing (for now), we are now solidly in … ⌘ Read more
FOSDEM 2025
I recently attended the large Free and Open Source Software conference
FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. I went there by train, of course,
via Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Cologne. The same route back.
I lived in the rather expensive, allegedly fancy hotel Le Châtelain in
Brussels. It was really not that fancy, but they had a … ⌘ Read more
Pretty sunset from last weekend: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-03-30/
No SR Edition Today
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Stephan:
Stephan is still recovering from illness. There will be no report today. ⌘ Read more
Get $100 Off iPad Mini 7 on Amazon, Available From $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.
10 Amazing New Uses for AI
AI can be one of our greatest scientific friends rather than a technological boogeyman, as it’s often portrayed. AI has positively revolutionized healthcare, manufacturing, commercial industries, and many more. Yet, it’s gotten a bad recent rep due to the prevalence of AI writing and art, which has replaced at least a few human writers and […]
The post 10 Amazing New Uses for AI appeared first on [Listverse](https: … ⌘ Read more
10 Male Heartthrobs Who Became Known for Something Else
Plenty of actors, singers, and athletes were dubbed male heartthrobs over the years. In many cases, this label continues to define their public persona, but occasionally, male celebs will go on to do something that overshadows their sexy image. A career change may alter the public’s perception of them. Sometimes, they might become famous for […]
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And now, let’s finish it off with Besigheim’s old town. Only when we left, the sun peaked through the clouds. That was a bit unfortunate, but what can you do? It has some nice buildings. https://lyse.isobeef.org/besigheim-2025-03-30/
I visited this place four years ago, but today my family and I went to the Todtnau Waterfall again. This time there’s a new suspension bridge from which you can see the waterfall from above and get an even better view of the valley in the black forest. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nose Ears, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/05/nose-ears-2.html #freeculture #bookclub
Editor’s Note – Thank you
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: I want to thank all of you who wrote to send me good wishes. I really appreciate it. I have some kind of flu-cold, and it is as bad as when I got Covid. But, after spending the day in bed, I felt a little better and decided to come down and try to do SR, inasmuch as the United States, indeed the whole world, has been severely damaged by the madness of psychopath Trump. Anyway, I hope this illness is ending, and I tha … ⌘ Read more
A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk
Dylan Scott, Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: In 2024 the United States was ranked by the World Health Organization as the worse healthcare, yet by orders of magnitude the most expensive, in the developed democracies. Thanks to psychopath “monarch” Trump American healthcare will now get significantly worse, Almost unbelievably America’s h … ⌘ Read more
Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
Angela Hart, Staff Writer - MedPage Today | Kaiser Family Foundation
Stephan: In so many ways psychopath Trump, who sees himself as a kind of medieval lord, makes it clear he couldn’t care less about those whom he sees as American peasants. I see example after example of his attitude in the choices he makes; this article reports on his views of the homeless.
Stephan: Yet another example of the neo-medieval trend that is socially reshaping the United States. You have probably never heard of Bradbury, California, and that is the way the residents want it. It is the richest city in California.
 That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)
Grab the iPhone 16e Default Wallpaper
Perhaps you recently saw that Apple had released the iPhone 16e and drooled with envy at the iPhone 16e default wallpaper, which sort of looks like a drop of Liquid Metal (why did macOS Sequoia autocorrect capitalize “Liquid Metal”? Who knows, but it did it again, so let’s go with it) or maybe a water … Read More ⌘ Read more
The photo series covering old stuff continues. This time, Gundelsheim. Actually, mostly the castle hotel Horneck, I hardly took any photos from the town itself. I really should have, though. Let me just blame… aehm… yeah, the rain! It’s totally the rain’s fault!! When it started to drizzle, I actually took the first photos, so it’s a total lie. https://lyse.isobeef.org/schlosshotel-horneck-in-gundelsheim-2025-03-30/
[$] The state of guest_memfd
A typical cloud-computing host will share some of its memory with each
guest that it runs. The host retains its access to that memory, though,
meaning that it can readily dig through that memory in search of data that
the guest would prefer to keep private. The guest_memfd subsystem removes (most of) the
host’s access to guest memory, making the guest’s data more secure. In the
memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Su … ⌘ Read more
[$] The future of ZONE_DEVICE
Alistair Popple started his session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit by proclaiming that ZONE_DEVICE
is “the ugly stepchild” of the kernel’s memory-management subsystem.
Ugly or not, the ability to manage memory that is attached to a peripheral
device rather than a CPU is increasingly important on current hardware.
Popple hoped to cover some of the challenges with ZONE_DEVICE and
find ways to make the stepchild a bit more attractive, if not bring it into
the fa … ⌘ Read more
[$] A strange BPF error message
Yonghong Song brought a story about tracking down the cause of a strange verifier error
message to the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF
Summit. He then presented some possible ways to improve Clang’s user experience for
anyone running into the same class of error in the future. Toward the end of his
allotted time, he also discussed the problems with optimizations that change the
signature of functions — a problem that José Marchesi had also brought up in
[the previous session] … ⌘ Read more
TikTok Gets Another 75-Day Reprieve From Ban
U.S. President Donald Trump today said that he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days as his administration continues to work on the sale of the social network’s U.S. operations.
TikTok was barred from operating in the United States when the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [went into effect on January 19 … ⌘ Read more
MacRumors Giveaway: Win Custom Retro AirPods From ColorWare
For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with ColorWare to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a set of AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods 4 that have been custom designed with a classic Mac aesthetic.
No SR Today Due to Illness
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Stephan:
Stephan is unable to work due to illness. There will be no report today. ⌘ Read more
10 Political Terms With Curious Origins
The words we use in the context of politics reveal much of the history of how humans have attempted to govern themselves. Many originate from ancient Greece and Rome, where the first representative assemblies closely matching our own arose. The very word “politics” comes from the Greek polities, meaning “city, citizen.” The Romans gave us […]
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Nicolas, 35 ans, désespère de l’Éducation Nationale
Un billet à 4 mains par Citronne et h16 Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) apprécie plus que tout sa petite routine. Le matin, après un bon petit déjeuner, il emmène ses enfants à l’école et se rend au travail ; il apprécie sa petite pause-déjeuner avec ses […] ⌘ Read more
10 Ways Your Brain Actually Changes in Warmer Weather
As spring and summer near, the world outside transforms—but so does your brain. Warmer weather and longer days bring real, measurable shifts in mood, cognition, hormones, and even decision making. You’re not just feeling different… you are different. Neuroscientists have found that sunlight, temperature, and seasonal cues can alter everything from memory and sleep patterns […]
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iPhone Users Report CarPlay Connectivity Issues With iOS 18.4 Update
Multiple iPhone users are reporting problems with CarPlay functionality after updating to iOS 18.4, based on complaints on Reddit and elsewhere.
The most widespread issue appears to affect vehicles equipped with CarPlay instrument cluster i … ⌘ Read more
Let’s fix OAuth in MCP
Let’s not overthink auth in MCP. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Chase https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/03/chase.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
My March ‘25 in Review
My monthly review is a few days late, but there’s so much to do that I don’t really get around to blogging. ⌘ Read more
Hirschhorn also offers a nice old town. The castle with all its many buildings up the mountain is very beautiful. This is my absolutely favorite one, it just looks soo great:
Walking back down the narrow stairs with all the crooked, well-worn steps of different heights and lengths was quite challenging.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day Two Keynote Recap
Over 12,000 attendees streamed into the ExCel Arena for the second day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025, enjoying yet another sunny day in London and primed to hear real world stories of cloud innovation. Here’s… ⌘ Read more
How to Turn Off Mail Categories on iPad
The Mail app for iPad has been updated to include the Mail Categories feature with iPadOS 18.4. The Mail Categories feature is intended to automatically sort your email inbox within the Mail app into particular email categories, including “Primary”, “Transactions”, “Updates”, and “Promotions”, along with a mostly hidden “All Mail” option. While the intention may … Read More ⌘ Read more
An even better Komoot alternative? – OsmAnd
After quickly trying out Outdooractive, I think I found an alternative that fits my needs a bit better and is also more inline with my values: OsmAnd. ⌘ Read more
Enjoying the nice weather, my monthly review will be a little late. 🌷 ⌘ Read more
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 216 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that … ⌘ Read more
[$] Page allocation for address-space isolation
Address-space isolation may well be, as Brendan Jackman said at the
beginning of his memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, “some security
bullshit”. But it also holds the potential to protect the kernel from
a wide range of vulnerabilities, both known and unknown, while reducing the
impact of existing mitigations. Implementing address-space isolation with
reasonable performance, though, is going to require some signific … ⌘ Read more
[$] Better hugetlb page-table walking
The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes
to carry out various operations. This “page-table walking” tends to be
performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador
used a memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to talk about strategies to
unify the kernel’s page-table walking code just a little bit by making
hugetlb pages look more like ordinary pages. ⌘ Read more
Rust 1.86.0 released
Version\
1.86.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support
for trait upcasting, the ability to index multiple elements of HashMaps and
slices mutably, and a number of stabilized APIs. ⌘ Read more
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
Lauren Aratani and David Smith, Staff Writers - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been predicting since Trump was sworn in as President that the United States will be in recession by June, and the American economic sectors, farming, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and others will be in crisis. If you actually look at the list Trump is holding you will see he is putt … ⌘ Read more
The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows
Spencer Woodman, Reporter - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
_Stephan: As I told you yesterday, it is my view that Trump made a deal with a group of fascist billionaire oligarchs to dismantle American democracy and give them a level of influence and control they have never before attained. If they would buy hi … ⌘ Read more
JD Vance is now in charge of making museums racist
Oliver Willis, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: Psychopath “monarch” Trump has always been a White supremacist, as was his father before him. Now, seeing himself as an authoritarian leader of a fascist pseudo-democracy who can not be overruled, he is rewriting American history, as this article describes. As he does this, the spineless MAGAts in Congress are silent, and the American people themselves, as the voters of … ⌘ Read more
Travel Cancellations Surge as US Faces New Decline in Tourism: Canada, Western Europe, and Mexico See Increased Interest in Alternative Destinations
, Contributing Writer - Travel and Tour World
_Stephan: As this article says, “For decades, the United States has consistently ranked as one of the top three most visited countries in the world.” Well, that’s over. If you work in a … ⌘ Read more
CNCF Fuels Cloud Native Growth with New Silver Members Driving Open Source Innovation
As cloud native technologies evolve, CNCF welcomes new members driving open source innovation and scalable infrastructure KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 3, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Ant Group as the Top End User Award Winner
Recognized for pioneering cloud native scalability and shaping the future of open source services KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 3, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for… ⌘ Read more
10 Crazy Cultural Practices from Deep History
Culture includes everything we do, believe, and have done to us. Culture comprises everything humanity has achieved and learned. Looking back into the deep past, we can better appreciate how our civilization has evolved over the vast sweep of millennia. Some of the following findings stretch back to the dawn of humanity itself, while others […]
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10 Low-Tech Solutions Beating High-Tech in Developing Regions
In the most resource-challenged parts of the world, the fanciest technologies often gather dust while simpler solutions thrive. Against unstable electricity, limited technical expertise, and scarce resources, a quiet revolution in appropriate technology transforms lives through elegantly simple designs. These low-tech innovations succeed by working with existing constraints rather than fighting against them, usi … ⌘ Read more
OLED iPad Mini Display in Testing Reportedly Made by Samsung
Apple is currently evaluating a new small-sized OLED display for its next iPad mini model, according to a Chinese leaker with sources in Apple’s supply chain.
Weibo-based account Digital Chat Station today made the claim in a brief preview of upcoming tablets from different brands. The leaker wen … ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 3, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Calibre 8.0; Fedora reproducibility; OpenWrt One; 6.15 Merge Window; LSFMM+BPF coverage including BPF in GCC, Rust merging process, and more.
Briefs: Ubuntu namespaces; New FPL; PorteuX 2.0; Firefox 137.0; GCC Rust; Rockbox 4.0; Rust specification; Thundermail; Dave Täht RIP; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, confer … ⌘ Read more
1st Beta of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Released for Testing
While Apple may have just released the final versions of MacOS Sequoia 15.4, iOS 18.4, and iPadOS 18.4 to the general public, they’re already back on the beta train. This time around we’ve got the first beta versions of iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5. It’s not clear what the focus of these … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/02/1st-beta-of-ios-18-5-macos-sequoia-15- … ⌘ Read more
Deals: M2 MacBook Air for $749, iPad mini for $799, $50 Off M3 iPad Air
Amazon is offering some intriguing deals on Apple products at the moment, including a deeply discounted M2 MacBook Air, iPad mini 7, and a nice little discount on the latest M3 iPad Air. Check out the deals! M2 MacBook Air 13″ for $749 Amazon is discounting the M2 MacBook Air 13″ model for $749 in … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/02/deals-m2-macbook-air-for-749-ipad-mini-for-799-50-off-m … ⌘ Read more
A hike to the highest mountain in the Odenwald, the Katzenbuckel, lit. cat hillock. It was very windy and the sun very rarely showed its face, so it was quite chilly. Nice scenery, nevertheless. Surprisingly, this ski-jumping hill is still in operation. I’ve never expected this in a hundred years, judging by its state. https://lyse.isobeef.org/katzenbuckel-2025-03-29/
[$] An update on GCC BPF support
José Marchesi and David Faust kicked off the BPF track at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with an extra-long session on what
they have been doing to support compiling to BPF in GCC. Overall, the project is slowly working
toward full support for BPF, with most of the self-tests now passing using
Faust’s in-progress patches. However, the progress toward that goal has turned up
a number of problems with how Clang supports BPF that needed to be discussed at
length to … ⌘ Read more
How to Disable Mail Categories on Mac
Apple has brought the controversial Mail Categories feature to the Mail app on Mac, and you will find that it is enabled in the Mail app by default. The idea behind Mail Categories is that your inbox is now sorting itself automatically into four categories; Primary, Transactions, Updates, and Promotions. There’s also a hidden “All … Read More ⌘ Read more
[$] Approaches to reducing TLB pressure
The CPU’s translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the results of
virtual-address translations, significantly speeding memory accesses. TLB
misses are expensive, so a lot of thought goes into using the TLB as
efficiently as possible. Reducing pressure on the TLB was the topic of Rik
van Riel’s memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. Some approaches were
considered, but the session was short on firm conclusions. ⌘ Read more
Amazon Makes Last Minute Offer for TikTok as Ban Looms
Retail giant Amazon today made an offer to acquire TikTok just days ahead of when TikTok must be sold off or face a ban, reports The New York Times. Unspecified participants involved in the TikTok talks “do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously,” and multiple interested parties are scrambling to plead their cases for a TikTok purchase.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Day One Keynote Recap
On a bright sunny London day, attendees from all over the world flocked to the ExCel Arena for the first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025. Here’s a quick recap of the keynotes. The crowd was… ⌘ Read more
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk
Adam Edelman, Reporter - NBC News
_Stephan: Finally, we have some good news. You have probably already heard that Susan Crawford has beaten Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court despite the tens of millions of dollars Elon Musk spent trying to buy the election outcome for “monarch” Trump and his MAGAt cult. The media is covering all this, but as I have thought about what happened t … ⌘ Read more
Widespread firings start at federal health agencies including many in leadership
Rob Stein, Sydney Lupkin, Selena Simmons-Duffin, Joseph Shapiro, Carmel Wroth, and Yuki Noguchi, Staff Writers - npr
_Stephan: Today psychopath “monarch” Trump gutted your healthcare. The result is going to be not just increased death, as Senator Bernie Sanders said, but a significant increase in avoidable injuries and illnesses. The lifespan of Americans is alr … ⌘ Read more
Sanders Says 67,000 Could Die Awaiting Benefits Under Musk Cuts to Social Security Administration
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: As I am writing this the media is telling me that Republicans have won the two House races in Florida, a state where many people can’t get home insurance; where universities are having courses removed, and public school curricula is being altered from education to indoctrinati … ⌘ Read more
How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?
Robin Buller, Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: As I have told readers again and again, one of the things that stands out about American society is how poor, and yet how expensive everything about childhood is. It is hard to be born as a baby in the United States, our infant mortality rate is the highest in the developed world, and even if the child survives American maternal mortality is almost f … ⌘ Read more
Ericsson Upgrades to Gold Membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to Drive Cloud Native Transformation in Telecom
Ericsson expands cloud native innovation in telecom, leveraging CNCF projects to advance 5G and 6G KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, London, UK – April 2, 2025 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems… ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Member HAProxy Technologies Upgrades to Gold Membership
Strengthening its cloud native commitment with 25 years of open source innovation in application delivery and security London, England – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – April 2, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which… ⌘ Read more
Ten Disturbing News Stories Involving Chatbots
Artificial intelligence has changed the world as we know it, for better and worse. With so many new developments, disturbing stories are sadly arising all around the globe. These range from vicious cyberstalking to chatbots encouraging users to harm themselves or others. AI has a dark underbelly. With the growth of platforms like ChatGPT and […]
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L’Allemagne de pire en pire
On peut tortiller les choses de mille et une façon mais à la fin, la réalité reste là, impérieuse aux gesticulations et l’évidence s’impose : l’Union Européenne, c’est d’abord et avant tout l’Allemagne. Ce n’est pas trop étonnant : la plus grosse économie européenne dicte en effet la plupart des politiques de l’Union. Cela lui a relativement […] ⌘ Read more
10 Genius German Words with No English Equivalent
The German language has a knack for packing complex ideas into a single word or brief phrase. From time to time, those phrases work their way into the English language. For instance, you’ve probably used the word “zeitgeist” to convey the defining mood or spirit of an era or “schadenfreude” to express the joy you […]
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iOS 18.4 Bug Seemingly Resurrects Previously Deleted iPhone Apps
Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 software update appears to be causing long-deleted apps to reappear on some users’ iPhones, based on corroborating reports on forums and social media.
MacOS Sonoma 14.7.5 & MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 Security Updates Released
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 and MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 as security updates for Mac users running Sonoma and Ventura operating systems. These updates are security patch focused and do not include new features that are otherwise available in the latest MacOS Sequoia 15.4 update that was released simultaneously. Separately, you’ll find software updates available … [Read More](https://osxd … ⌘ Read more
iOS 16.7.11, iOS 15.8.4, & iPadOS 17.7.6 Security Updates Released for Older iPhone & iPad
While iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates were just released for modern iPhone and iPad devices, Apple has also released a bevy of software updates for older iPhone and iPad devices. Each of these updates include important security fixes and are therefore recommended for all eligible users and their devices to install. Specifically, you will … [Read Mor … ⌘ Read more