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“Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Link: community․signalusers․org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49689048”

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“Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts off inflammation and prevents harmful immune cells from building up sciencedaily․com/releases/2026/09/260911214306․htm ⌗wellness ⌗immunology ⌗research”

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“‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn | Pfas | The Guardian
theguardian․com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-wave-forever-chemicals-ai-industry-demand-datacentres All t…”

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That didn't take long.

"Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all."

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Backflip-Apple-now-wants-to-train-AI-models-with-user-data-after-all-11451252.html

#apple #ai #llm #privacy #tech #news

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“Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts off inflammation and prevents harmful immune cells from building up
sciencedaily․com/releases/2026/09/260911214306․htm
Researchers have identified a natural braking mec…”

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I have some questions for the #FreeBSD folks in the room:

1.) What are the best practices for Poudriere and Packages. I understand one shouldn't mix Ports and packages, but I want to have some custom builds for my machines, like vim, zsh, wget, mutt, nano, while not relying on compiling everything. Is there a safe way to do this? Presumably one tracks the same quarterly ports tree as packages. But is there more to it?

2.) When managing software using Poudriere and Ports, how does one manage emergency OOB patches? I would imagine switching Poudriere to use LATEST is an operational death wish.

#RunBSD #homelab #tech #unix #software #sysadmin

Dear tech companies!

Yesterday, me dear uncle had a hand surgery. He has spent so much time using Computers as he is head of IT department in the company. So the hand which uses mouse so often needed fixing for it to continue working. He is not that old. I would say he is more like a big brother than an actual uncle.

I want to be able to use the computer with much less harm for me hands, and for me eyes. And I want an inexpensive and widely available solution. Can you please go in this direction instead of feeding people the tech and the gadgets which don't solve any problem? Can you please solve real problems, rather than solving problems which never existed and then cheat people to think otherwise?

#Tech #Technology #BigTech #stopBigTech #smartGlasses

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“Escaping the AI safety nightmare: What can governments do? – POLITICOA case in point is that OpenAI agents hacked a German website b…
⌗Europe ⌗EU ⌗Auditing ⌗Aviation ⌗BernieSanders ⌗Buildings ⌗…”

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“The tech oligarchs’ world-abandoning project * 'Most people have the capacity for awe, to gasp at the jeweled beauty of a songbird or the otherworldliness of a whale’s exhalation or the intricate latticework of an anci…”

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“AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research agentsdock․net/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49678435 ⌗HackerNews ⌗AgentsDock ⌗IDE ⌗agenticAI ⌗research ⌗technology ⌗innovation”

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“Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
Link: devblogs․microsoft․com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
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“So, ⌗Google will no longer let you see even basic details - like hours - unless you login․ Which, of course, I can't since I have no account․ ⌗enshittification ⌗bigtech ⌗tech”

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“Automated decision-making, GovAI and a non existing human rights act'Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools․'…”

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“The New Nation (Bangladesh): 554 heritage sites listed, digital archive planned․ 'The government has published a list of 554 gazetted immovable archaeological sites and is planning to establish a National Digital Cultur…”

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“There’s a whole intellectual tradition in the Marxist historiography from the 1970s and ‘80s analyzing incumbent firms tendency to ask to be regaled in times of industrial ferment, because when regulators are captured, …”

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“Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? yoshuabengio․org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49678969 ⌗HackerNews ⌗AI ⌗Ethic…”

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“Sick of the media and white boy podcasts? Give the roots of change podcast a listen!We flip the script of traditional media to uplift the unheard voices who are working to create lasting liberatory change for all․ There…”

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“NASA: NASA Boosts Open Science, Data Sharing with Artemis Accords․ 'The science from every Moon rock sample, lunar dataset, and discovery produced through NASA’s Artemis program will be shared by the agency with the glo…”

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“﹫Jdb_env 👍 very plausible, however Pinterest also organizes and displays Pins in rows of 4-6 on my desktop․Feels like they are intentionally using confusing language in that paragraph 😅 ⌗Bigtech 🤢”

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“Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)
Link: belderbos․dev/blog/how-libraries-run-rust-inside-python/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49685037”

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So, #Google will no longer let you see even basic details - like hours - unless you login. Which, of course, I can't since I have no account.

#enshittification #bigtech #tech

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“In high-risk OpSec architectures, a single unmutated frame is a permanent identity leak․The Packet Transformation Engine couples a Rust core with a C NFQUEUE adapter․ But the real stealth happens at the egress․ TC/eBPF …”

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“Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some mundane activity ⌗life ⌗coffee ⌗music ⌗linux ⌗research”

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“'One prominent technology and AI researcher, Timnit Gebru, has been especially fiery, posting on X and Bluesky about the overlapping ideas and ideologies that she thinks led us to this bizarro moment․ Previously, Gebru …”

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“Ways to get off ⌗BigTech a whether it’s off the shelf Google Drive / Microsoft 365 replacements or as a dev building apps off ﹫nextcloud or integrations into Slack etc․ Day 2 of ﹫berlinfediday at ﹫cbase”

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“I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant
Link: medium․com/﹫ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770661dd77
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49640913”

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“'Taken together, the current spread of misinformation by federal ⌗health agencies and the dismantling of much of our ⌗PublicHealth and medical ⌗research infrastructure and ⌗healthcare safety net constitu…”

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“europesays․com/africa/423039/ Before MeerKAT, South Africa’s Karoo telescope had its own ways of reading the stars ⌗|XamTraditions ⌗Africa ⌗AntonBinneman ⌗BleekAndLloydArchive ⌗CentralKaroo ⌗Cultural…”

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“europesays․com/3248104/ Wells open to changing digital harm bill after Coalition censorship concerns ⌗AnikaWells ⌗australia ⌗BigTech ⌗CensorshipConcerns ⌗coalition ⌗DigitalHarm ⌗DutyOfCareLaw…”

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Search Usenet newsgroup archives — text posts from 1981 to present…

https://www.usenet-rewind.com

#usenet #internet #online #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #commodore #amiga #IT #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

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“I have failed at volunteering with my chosen political party's election campaign․ I promised myself that I'd just be chill about their use of big tech but I can't․ A mess of Facebook groups and Whatsapp chats is how the…”

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“🌌💥⌗BigBangTheory - ⌗Church and ⌗Science in Dialogue ⛪🔭How closely related are ⌗physics and ⌗creationism, really? The ⌗history of the ⌗BigBang model reveals a surprising historical twist․🎬 you…”

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“Check out Episode 382 of the EdTech Situation Room Podcast: Order of the Collective, streamed live on September 9, 2026!On Substack with all our referenced links / show notes:
edtechsr․substack․com/p/edtechsr-ep-382-o…”

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“❓ We need to pay attention to Silicon Valley ideologies, their ideologies drive commercial projects that take away our freedom and privacy․ ⌗privacy ⌗privacymatters ⌗bigtech ⌗siliconValley ⌗freedom”

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“Dario Amodei --We Must Pace the Frontier darioamodei․com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier ⌗AI ⌗Technology ⌗Research”

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“Stabilizing Rust's Never Type
Link: lwn․net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49625056”

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“4 awards that recognize up and coming talents around the globe․ Share the post with talented young researchers in your life․Scan QR code to learn more․ Follow us for more posts like this․ ⌗opportunities ⌗computing …”

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“This is a sharp and valid critique of the 'hype cycle' in technology, but it relies on a false equivalence that misses the fundamental difference between a mechanical gadget and a foundational paradigm shift․

The Segwa…”

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“Strategy:* tante․cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/ - thoughts on Omarchy from ﹫blog
* ai․rud․is/posts/2026-09-04-cyber100-llms-txt-census - ﹫hrbrmstr 's survey of llms․txt
* 1password․com/files/resources/fronti…”

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“🥳
⌗discord ⌗bigtech ⌗Fediverse ⌗discourse ⌗socialmedia”

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“WhatsApp was a simple app for communication, but now it has too many features․ ⌗WhatsApp ⌗meta ⌗chat ⌗App ⌗message ⌗communication ⌗text ⌗Tech ⌗Technology ⌗software ⌗BigTech ⌗…”

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“OpenAI has ended its sponsorship of Caltech's Mathathon following a dispute with mathematicians․ The company told the event it no longer anticipates the sponsorship will affect the event in any substantial way․ gizmod…”

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“Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Link: economist․com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49673098”

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“The summer holidays are behind us, time to make sure all those memories are safe, and not stuck on your phone or sitting on some American cloud․To help with that, PixelUnion is running a 50% discount․ 📸👉 pixelunion․…”

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OpenAI GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty targets biological jailbreaks

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty invites researchers to test universal jailbreaks for biological risks in a model built for autonomous, multi-tool work.

https://www.notatechguy.com/openai-gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty-targets-biological-jailbreaks/

#NotATechGuy #AI #Tech

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“Clay Mathematics Institute on the Navier-Stokes Problem claymath․org/news/navier-stokes-announcement/ Comments: news․ycombinator․com/item?id=49668706 ⌗HackerNews ⌗ClayMathematics ⌗NavierStokes ⌗Proble…”

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“The weirdest thing about Big Tech AI is how many of the supposed AI Gurus make a 180-degree turn every other week․ Regulation: Good or Bad? AI: benign or harmful? Agents: secure or destructive? We could just flip a coin…”

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“A simple RAM wipe isn't enough in high-risk scenarios․Forensic tools can extract data remanence․But․․․ Let's talk about how PH4NTXM stealthily does the job in the background․The RAM Seeding Engine runs continuously as a…”

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“How Big Tech Generated Billions In Fines․․․ Then Didn't Pay Them
barrons․com/news/how-big-tech-generated-billions-in-fines-then-didn-t-pay-them-ab5d0a77 ⌗EatTheRich ⌗classwar ⌗capitalism ⌗bigtech ⌗…”

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“Use ⌗bigtech the way they like it: leave your ads behind and flood them - a ghost 👻 network they will be!Doeidag - saying bye bye to bigtech every first Sunday of the month in The Netherlands
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