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Getting all the battery banks charged up and ready just in case we lose power this weekend.
#scwx #preparedness

Many Americans with student debt are again facing future upheaval
after a federal appeals court recently ordered the end of a Biden-era student loan repayment program,
known as the Saving on a Value Education (Save) Plan,
-- a move that coincided with another grim revelation:
🔥new education department data shows that by the end of 2025, 7.7 million borrowers had defaulted on $181bn in federal student loans.

Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of "unnecessary" Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-mi…

Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies
Microsoft's Windows boss just sent out a long non-apology to frustrated Windows 11 users, promising big changes. Here's a translation of what you can really expect.

«Root-Zugriff und mehr — Sicherheitslücken gefährden Millionen von Linux-Systemen:
Angreifer können anfällige Systeme zum Absturz bringen oder Root-Zugriff erlangen. Standardmäßig angreifbar sind Ubuntu, Debian und Suse.»
Mist, ich vertraue den Linux Distros so zu sagen blind. Nun gut, ich aktualisiert meine Linux-Systeme immer automatisiert vorzuh — was eigentlich mMn so eingestellt werden sollte.
💥

Root-Zugriff und mehr: Sicherheitslücken gefährden Millionen von Linux-Systemen - Golem.de
Angreifer können anfällige Systeme zum Absturz bringen oder Root-Zugriff erlangen. Standardmäßig angreifbar sind Ubuntu, Debian und Suse.

Power loom built by T. Larmuth & Co., in Manchester, around 1860 - now at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.
> "By the early 19th century, new machines like this power loom could make cloth more quickly and cheaply than people. Groups of angry handloom weavers raided cotton mills at night. They burnt and broke power looms to protest against the new technology."
This aspect of the Industrial Revolution is now being breathlessly repeated by those who s…

Related to my earlier posts, this is a good demo of custom properties:
https://css-tricks.com/the-radio-state-machine/#utilize-custom-properties (anchor link)
But…
This demo does the same without WCAG violations:

The Radio State Machine | CSS-Tricks
One of the best-known examples of CSS state management is the checkbox hack. What if we want a component to be in one of three, four, or seven modes? That is where the Radio State Machine comes in.

Fotoğraflar Altan Öymen'in bir dönem bir çocuk kitabından. Ankaradaki Kızılay binasının ilk hali ve şimdiki durumu.
Gittikçe geri gidiyoruz ve betonlaşıyoruz.
Aslında para ve insan arasındaki öncelik sorunu.

This study's results suggest that LLM sycophancy amplifies publication bias (the "file drawer" problem)
The LLMs didn't like to tell the user that their hypothesis was not confirmed by the data
H/t @…

If the first answer to any problem on a Linux system is "oh just update all the packages again" that is evidence of a broken and fragile package management system.
My experience (at home) with Manjaro so far has been absolutely terrible compared to my experience (at work) with CentOS and Rocky Linux.
With Manjaro, working packages regularly break after updates or new installs. It's clearly not managing dependencies properly. And I've had other weird problems o…

Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a "blow-up" with Evan Spiegel over strategy (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/figmas-answer-to-the-ai-software

Figma's answer to the AI software sell-off
My chat with CEO Dylan Field ahead of today's earnings call. Also: Snap loses its head of Specs right before the big launch, and OpenAI poaches another key Meta exec.