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Too long path bricked my laptop. Never typed recovery key so many times during the debiggng session. How was your evening?
https://github.com/openSUSE/microos-tools/issues/64

Too long path bricks the system boot · Issue #64 · openSUSE/microos-tools
I use Aeon Desktop with microos-tools-4.0+git29-1.1.x86_64 - suddenly my system refused to boot because SELinux relabel /home kept consistently failing. The relevant log is this [ 12.750913] system...

[OT] With IPOs coming up, "AI doomsday" talk distracts us from lack of revenue growth https://mindmatters.ai/2026/09/ai-doomsday-talk-distracts-us-from-lack-of-revenue-growth-for-hyperscalers/ on the

“AI Doomsday” Talk Distracts Us From Lack of Revenue Growth
Apparently, paid usage of AI models has not risen sufficiently to cover the falling token prices.

Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/openai-cfo-friar-tells…

OpenAI CFO Friar tells investors that enterprise business now bigger than consumer by revenue
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar met with investors following a week of turmoil in the C-suite that included the sudden departure of revenue chief Denise Dresser.

Emergence World Study 2:
AI Chatbots develop shorthand and new word meanings to talk to each other without humans understanding them, conspiring to commit crimes.
Paper "Emergence World: Adversarial Stress-Testing of Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Systems" by Deepak Akkil, Tamer Abuelsaad, Karthik Vikram, Matthew Pace, Aditya Vempaty, Saahir Beotra,Ravi Kokku, Satya Nitta

Quick Hits: Klint Kubiak talks preseason opener, turns the page to Houston https://www.raiders.com/news/klint-kubiak-talks-preseason-opener-vs-cardinals-turns-the-page-to-houston-texans

From The Film Department
For lovers of cinema who want to hear what happens when a cinephile corners a filmmaker and makes them talk...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/from-the-film-department/

Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
#PHP

Advice for new speakers
Someone messaged me recently to say he had just been selected for his first-ever conference talk, and since the talks of mine he'd seen in the past were so inspiring he wanted to know if I had any advice for new speakers. Since flattery will often get you somewhere, I offered the following advice. I figure it's generic enough that I should share it more widely. :-)

Rubio nodded to the fact that
Katie Miller's husband,
deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller,
has the portfolio overseeing UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).
"I don't know who it is. I don't know what it is. But there are things flying over our military installation, and they're not ours, and we should look into this," Rubio said.
Rubio said there was a political benefit to talking about it when he was a senator becaus…

Greatest hits from Rubio's head-turning podcast interview
Katie Miller's show is the Trump administration's go-to new media outlet where officials talk at length in a friendly setting.

Quick Hits: Klint Kubiak talks preseason opener, turns the page to Houston https://www.raiders.com/news/klint-kubiak-talks-preseason-opener-vs-cardinals-turns-the-page-to-houston-texans

In a filing, ABC says the FCC has targeted daytime and late-night TV the administration doesn't like while "leaving untouched the vast landscape of talk radio" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/the-view-fcc-trump-abc-filing-1236975337/…

ABC Says “Broad And Cross-Ideological Consensus” Backs ‘The View’ Amid FCC Investigation
The network filed a response to the FCC's investigation of the show's featuring of political candidates.