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Destined to melt: Study warns glaciers’ ability to cool surrounding air faces imminent decline
Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. But for how long? The Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has compiled and re-analyzed an unprecedented dataset of on-glacier observations worldwide. Their findings, published today in Nature Climate Change, demonstrate that glaciers will likely reach the peak of their … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » 🤔 💭 🧐 What if, What if we built our own self-hosted / small-web / community-built/run Internet on top of the Internet using Wireguard as the underlying tech? What if we ran our own Root DNS servers? What if we set a zero tolerance policy on bots, spammers and other kind of abuse that should never have existed in the first place. Hmmmm

Intranets have been around since Jesus times (well, not quite 😂, but you get the idea). They are fun to play with, but that’s about it. I mean, the “fun” of the Internet comes from its variety.

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In-reply-to » 🤔 💭 🧐 What if, What if we built our own self-hosted / small-web / community-built/run Internet on top of the Internet using Wireguard as the underlying tech? What if we ran our own Root DNS servers? What if we set a zero tolerance policy on bots, spammers and other kind of abuse that should never have existed in the first place. Hmmmm

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m pretty sure that’s going to happen at some point or has already happened. 😃 Is this “the dark web”? 😅

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Trump considers massive bailout of at least $10 billion for American farmers hurt by his trade war
Alayna Treene and Bryan Mena,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: You and I are about to spend over 10 billion dollars of our tax dollars to bail out the farmers whose economies have been put in a tailspin by the stupidity of Trump’s tariff madness. It surprises me that millions of Americans still support this psychopath, but that is alw … ⌘ Read more

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How Trump’s Supreme Court lackeys pushed us to the brink of one-man rule
Graham G. Dodds,  Professor of Political Science, Concordia University  -  Raw Story | Commentary

Stephan: This is a good assessment of how the Republicans perverted the Supreme Court, creating its corrupt fascist majority.

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RFK Jr. Ties Autism to Circumcision and Tylenol in Bonkers Rant
Farrah Tomazin ,  Political Correspondent  -  Daily Beast

_Stephan: US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert Kennedy, Jr, is now the man overseeing your healthcare and medical wellbeing in the Trump Republican coup. This is his latest insanity that circumcision results in autism. Never forget that Kennedy was a heroin addict in high school and college, and does not have 30 minutes of medica … ⌘ Read more

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News organizations hold out on signing Pentagon media policies ‘designed to stifle a free press’
Jeremy Barr,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Part of the Trump Republican Party fascist strategy is to use the American military to take control of Democrat controlled cities. And one aspect of that strategy is to suppress a free press from covering the military. Here is a good description of what they are doing. It has nev … ⌘ Read more

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LED light blasts cancer cells and spares healthy ones
A new cancer treatment combines LED light and tiny tin flakes to neutralize cancer cells while shielding healthy cells and avoiding the painful side effects associated with chemotherapy and other treatments. ⌘ Read more

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It happened.

“Can you help me debug this program? I vibe coded it and I have no idea what’s going on. I had no choice – learning this new language and frameworks would have taken ages, and I have severe time constraints.”

Did I say “no”? Of course not, I’m a “nice guy”. So I’m at fault as well, because I endorsed this whole thing. The other guy is also guilty, because he didn’t communicate clearly to his boss what can be done and how much time it takes. And the boss and his bosses are guilty a lot, because they’re all pushing for “AI”.

The end result is garbage software.

This particular project is still relatively small, so it might be okay at the moment. But normalizing this will yield nothing but garbage. And actually, especially if this small project works out fine, this contributes to the shittiness because management will interpret this as “hey, AI works”, so they will keep asking for it in future projects.

How utterly frustrating. This is not what I want to do every day from now on.

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10 Surprising Things Found or Left on the Moon
The Moon’s surface is a desolate place, a landscape composed of dusty craters and barren mountains. But since 1959, its inventory of objects has been steadily expanding thanks to humanity—beginning with the Soviet probe Luna 2, the first human-made object to reach the lunar surface. While it’s well known that the Moon is now a […]

The post [10 Surprising Things Found or Left on the Moon](https://listverse.com/2025/10/10/10-surprising-thin … ⌘ Read more

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She saw a car-sized object above a Texas farm and found a wayward hunk of NASA equipment
When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky. ⌘ Read more

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Lessons from Ascension Island’s shark troubles could help boost conservation
Understanding people’s attitudes to interactions with sharks could help halt the global decline of shark numbers, according to new research carried out on Ascension Island. ⌘ Read more

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DL40N Fanless 1.3L Mini PC with Intel Twin Lake Processors
The DL40N is a fanless 1.3-liter mini PC powered by Intel Twin Lake processors and up to 16GB DDR5 memory. It supports triple 4K display output, dual 2.5G Ethernet, and multiple USB and COM ports for reliable 24/7 operation in applications such as factory automation, digital signage, kiosks, and more. Built on Intel’s Twin Lake […] ⌘ Read more

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Fire provides long-lasting benefits to bird populations in Sierra Nevada National Parks
Researchers have found that low to moderate-severity fires not only benefit many bird species in the Sierra Nevada, but these benefits may persist for decades. In addition to a handful of bird species already known to be “post-fire specialists,” a broad variety of other more generalist species, like Dark-eyed Juncos and Mountain Chickadees, clearly benefited from wildfire. ⌘ Read more

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**‘A famous victory’ - South Africa stun India after De Klerk’s heroics **
Nadine de Klerk hits 84 off 54 balls as South Africa recover from 81-5 to chase down their target of 252 with seven balls to spare, securing a famous three wicket win against hosts India at the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup. ⌘ Read more

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The good thing about having a tablet now and spending time with it instead of my laptop the last few days is that I finally brought down my reading list in Miniflux a lot. I also answered emails and checked a few other tasks off my (mental) to-do list. ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:

@thecanine@twtxt.net I am not arguing you didn’t do the right thing™, and even if the impact is minimal, or nothing, you did what you thought was right (and I agree). I don’t agree with certain rules the EU wants to impose, not in this particular case. There are rotten potatoes everywhere, and I don’t get fooled by the EU often sacrosanct behaviour.

But who am I to say anything, right? Look at the grotesque clown utterly shit show we live with on this side!

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In-reply-to » My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:

@bender@twtxt.net To add some context, I’m not one to write open letters often, nor do I expect to become some kind of martyr, the European Union will unite over, to fight Google.

However Google did loose to Epic Games in European courts, that determined Google maintains a monopoly over its Play Store, restricting competition and developers choices. And pretty much right after courts determined this, Google gives them the middle finger and proposes changes, that would destroy F-droid - the biggest and really the only competing app store, that’s actually competing and not just taking the apps from Googles Play Store and passing them on.

There are many more qualified and likable parties, who already reached out to them, with these concerns, I just think it’s important everyone impacted by this, politely contacts them too, to convey this is not just some niche non-issue, a few IT nerds made up.

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In-reply-to » My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I submitted it via the form on their website (https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/contact-dma-team_en) and got the following response:

Dear citizen,

Thank you for contacting us and sharing your concerns regarding the impact of Google’s plans to introduce a developer verification process on Android. We appreciate that you have chosen to contact us, as we welcome feedback from interested parties.

As you may be aware, the Digital Markets Act (‘DMA’) obliges gatekeepers like Google to effectively allow the distribution of apps on their operating system through third party app stores or the web. At the same time, the DMA also permits Google to introduce strictly necessary and proportionate measures to ensure that third-party software apps or app stores do not endanger the integrity of the hardware or operating system or to enable end users to effectively protect security.

We have taken note of your concerns and, while we cannot comment on ongoing dialogue with gatekeepers, these considerations will form part of our assessment of the justifications for the verification process provided by Google.

Kind regards,
The DMA Team

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[$] Last-minute /boot boost for Fedora 43
Sudden increases in the size of Fedora’s initramfs
files have prompted the project to fast-track a proposal to increase
the default size of the /boot partition for new installs of
Fedora 43 and later. The project has also walked back a few
changes that have contributed to larger initramfs files, but the
ever-increasing size of firmware means that the need for more room is
unavoidable. The Fedora En … ⌘ Read more

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Ubuntu 25.10 released
Ubuntu\
25.10, “Questing Quokka”, has been released. This release includes
Linux 6.17, GNOME 49, GCC 15, Python 3.13.7,
Rust 1.85, and more. This release also features Rust-based
implementations of sudo and coreutils; LWN covered the switch to the
Rust-based tools in March. The 25.10 version of Ubuntu flavors
Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu
Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubun … ⌘ Read more

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Testing asynchronous workflows using OpenTelemetry and Istio
Learn how to test complex asynchronous workflows in cloud native applications using OpenTelemetry for context propagation and Istio for traffic routing. Explore cost-effective approaches to isolate test environments without duplicating infrastructure. Introduction Asynchronous architectures have become… ⌘ Read more

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I keep getting this email occadionally:

Your iCloud storage is almost full

Now for various reasons, I don’t want my children to be using iCloud to store data, files, photos or any of the sort. They’re free to use iMessages, and other Apple services like the App Store, etc, but not storage.

So I’ve set about blocking iCloud Storage API(s) via AdGuard Home tonight as well as ensuring that my local network (client users) cannot bypass DNS policies and get out other sneaky ways, because some applications will just use other DNS servers, or DOH or DOT.

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Apple Hosts Unusual Colorado Event to Showcase Latest Hardware
Apple has invited a group of social media influencers to Colorado this week for an unusual event involving group hiking, trail running, and other outdoor activities designed to showcase the company’s recently launched iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.

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LoRA Explained: Faster, More Efficient Fine-Tuning with Docker
Fine-tuning a language model doesn’t have to be daunting. In our previous post on fine-tuning models with Docker Offload and Unsloth, we walked through how to train small, local models efficiently using Docker’s familiar workflows. This time, we’re narrowing the focus. Instead of asking a model to be good at everything, we can specialize it:… ⌘ Read more

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Toxoplasmosis: How the pathogen exploits its own cell envelope
According to estimates, about a third of the world’s population is infected with the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the pathogen of toxoplasmosis. Although harmless for most people, the infection can be dangerous for unborn children and people with weakened immune systems. In these cases, the pathogen can propagate rapidly and destroy infected tissue. It obtains the energy it needs for propagation by tapping the ho … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @lyse Great job!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org In my case it was a silver necklace, a hummingbird with a wing connected with the cold welding I mentioned using thin brass wires.

It made it in a goldsmithing class (I went to a private craftmanship high-school) so no phones allowed (no photos of it) and no “take home” of the works.

Here’s a rough sketch of it drawn by memory, the dots in the wing is where it connects to the body.

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The technique is basically the same as i described, but the scale is much smaller, the whole piece was about 5-6 cm on the largest side.

The rivet was made by drilling a hole through the parts, than with a short and thicker drill you widen the hole on the surface to let the rivet settle flatter on the piece, then with a rubber hammer you hit it to flatten the head until it’s snug on the hole, lock them together by doing the same on the other side.

Note that widening the hole with a thicker drill head won’t make a difference with bigger holes, mine had holes of about 1-2 mm of diameter maximum.

Here’s a sketch of what is going on for clarity.

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In-reply-to » I always wanted to build a terrarium, but after cleaning my keyboard today, I think I already have one...

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I actually decided to clean it after my mouse clicks became weirdly unresponsive.

As I began to pull dust out of the gap in the scroll wheel, a mysteryous red fluffy hair ball came out for some reason, so I decided to open it to clean the rest.

After I was done, I went and cleaned the keyboard too.

The mouse was but a teaser of the gore scenes I was about to see… 😱

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Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’
Dani Anguiano,  West Coast Breaking News Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I have been telling you repeatedly, what Trump and the Republicans are doing to healthcare is not only blatantly nasty, consider the coming outrageous monthly premium increases, it is also harmful to the wellbeing of millions of Americans. Rural healthcare is becoming do … ⌘ Read more

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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: ‘We’re bad memers’
Adam Nichols,  Editor-in-Chief  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I keep telling you that it is getting harder and harder to get accurate information for SR because of the vast Trump MAGAT Republican disinformation campaign, and here is a classical example of what I mean. If it is hard for me, I can easily understand why typical MAGAT Republican voters – overwhelming … ⌘ Read more

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