Tootfinder

Operation Spiderweb and Russia’s record drone assault – Ukraine in photos, June 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/operation-spiderweb-and-russias-record.html

Dritter interstellarer Himmelskörper? – A11pl3Z sorgt für Aufregung
Bislang wurden zwei interstellare Himmelskörper entdeckt, während sie durchs Sonnensystem rasten. Gerade verdichten sich die Hinweise auf den nächsten.

“This considers how two modern cameras handle a difficult color challenge, illustrated by photos of a perfect rose and a piano.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/31/Colors

Perfectly Different Colors

Attacks by…? Come on, you’re so close… you can say it: israel. The murderous regime that’s carrying out a genocide. https://amicale.net/@france24_en/114608756066114347

Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless it is opened (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing…

Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge — but only in Europe
Microsoft’s changes to Windows 10 and 11 in countries covered by the EU’s Digital Markets Act will make Bing less annoying and let you ditch the Microsoft Store

July 1 2021
We did mini mid-pandemic road trip to the Interior and found ourselves in a heatdome induced smokey hellscape in Lillooet. Just down the highway… the day before, after hitting the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada 49.6°C, Lytton,BC was completely destroyed by fire after a train (allegedly) sparked a fire that moved like lightning through the town. It still is not fully rebuilt. 😢 Just a few buildings.
We managed to get out of the smoke as we drove a little further north and east to Cache Creek, stopping at a lake to swim. It was nice. But it seemed like there was fire everywhere around us.
This was the first time we got to drive our new Kona EV on a long distance trip. It performed wonderfully. And the kind shop owner let us plug it in to the wall outlet at the hotel.

How on earth can NYT write this report with no hint that it reflects on Trump's mental acuity? While endlessly speculating explicitly about Biden's acuity a year ago?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/us/politics/trump-musk-isaacman-nasa.ht…

Trump Is Said to Have Known About NASA Nominee’s Donations Before Picking Him
President Trump withdrew his nomination of Jared Isaacman, an ally of Elon Musk, because of donations he had made to Democrats. But people with knowledge of the events say Mr. Isaacman had disclosed the contributions.

Wegwerfnummern: Einleitung und Tipps
Nächste Woche geht es richtig los mit drei umfangreichen Testartikeln zu Wegwerfnummern: Damit man regelmäßig und einfach eine neue zweite Handynummer für neugierige Shops und Plattformen erhalten kann.
Heute starten wir als Teaser aber schon mit einer Einleitung und den allgemeinen Tipps.
Darin unter anderem:
🔹 Warum empfehle ich mittlerweile eine Wegwerfnummer?
🔹 Wie oft soll man die Nummer wechseln?
🔹 Was ist die …

Einleitung und Tipps – Wegwerfnummern Teil 1
Du brauchst eine Wegwerfnummer für Registrierungen? Im ersten Teil der Serie beantworten wir allgemeinen Fragen zu Sinn, Anbietern und Verifizierung.

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

More than 25,000 residents in three provinces have been evacuated as dozens of wildfires remain active and affect air quality in parts of Canada and the US, according to officials.
Most of the evacuated residents were from Manitoba, which declared a state of emergency last week.
About 17,000 people there were evacuated by Saturday, along with 1,300 in Alberta.
About 8,000 people in Saskatchewan had been relocated as leaders there said the number could climb.
Smoke was r…

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/russians-work-with-english-speaking-hackers-for-ransomware-attacks-60-minutes-video-2025-06-01/
Scattered Spider got a 60 minutes segment

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

@… @… tag yourself I’m Offline/Disconnect 😅

Der FDP beim noch härter Nebelbomben zünden zuzusehen, je heißer es diesen Sommer wird, ist auch keine Freude.
Was ist los? Hat Shell damit gedroht den nächsten Parteitag nicht zu finanzieren, wenn ihr nicht einen auf "ist auch nur schönes Wetter!!!11" macht?

die erde wird von einem geomagnetischen sturm getroffen deshalb kann ich morgen nicht zur arbeit kommen

#NowPlaying - my proper canterbury education carries on with henry cow's 1973 debut, like "weasels ripped my flesh" era mothers, but british leftist instead of californian libertarian (not that they really sing much here) & a notch less manic.

Via BBC News uitgebreid item zitten kijken over de drone aanvallen (met video) zitten luisteren.
Die Russen moet een aardige slag zijn toegebracht.
Wellicht geeft het ook een definitieve overgang weer naar een oorlog met drones en afscheid van kwetsbare apparatuur als dat soort kwetsbare toestellen die, als het er op aan komt, moeilijk te beschermen zijn en te kostbaar om snel te vervangen.
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We just went for a walk in Bad Tölz. Nothing special, just going for a walk along the river #isar.
Enjoy your Sunday!
#silentsunday #badtoelz

<i>nur</i> noch 10 Wochen bis Urlaub
Countdown zum Urlaub - Countdown bis 11. Aug 2025 in Berlin
https://www.timeanddate.de/countdown/urlaub?iso=20250811T00&p0=37&msg=Urlaub.2&ud=1&font=sanserif…

Urlaub.2
Countdown bis 11. Aug 2025. Wie viele Tage, Stunden, Minuten und Sekunden sind es noch?

Pay it forward.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward

Vance's potential 2028 Democratic rivals want him to be the face of the megabill (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/vance-one-big-beautiful-bill-2028-00436041
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p166#a250701p166

This is great news!
https://deadline.com/2025/05/king-of-the-hill-revival-hulu-release-date-1236414324/

Girl Tones - Blame (Official Music Video)
#music

🥑 Anthropologist uncovers the 11,000-year history of avocado domestication
#avocado

Anthropologist uncovers the 11,000-year history of avocado domestication
Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado. This monoculture approach poses significant risks, as genetically identical plants are more vulnerable to disease and climate change.

My mind boggled the first time I was walked around some major Canadian city and came across a Hudson's Bay Company store. It'd be like walking around Kolkota and running into an East India Company store—not just the same name but also the same company.

#Ukraine #Putin

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

Första randomiserade studien som visar att mer fysisk aktivitet ökar chanserna att överleva vid cancer. I den här studien tittade man specifikt på koloncancer.
https://apnews.com/article/colon-cancer-exercise-study-recove…

CORS - Cruel Ordeal of Relentless Suffering #web #development #wrongAnswers

s/sudo/doas/
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chwoot: Kritische Linux-Lücke macht Nutzer auf den meisten Systemen zu Root | heise online
https://www.heise.de/news/chwoot-Kritische…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#CanadianMisconceptions

Why does the past of live coding look like what the future of live coding should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSBfFV42Qlk @…

from my link log —
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

What is this about?

Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

#Rust offers different ways to initialize compile time-initialized variables. Recently, I had to create a runtime-initialized variable: existing approaches don’t work in this case. I want to describe multiple ways to achieve it in this post.
http…

La ultraderecha global. Columna de Oscar Contardo.
#Columnistas

"New research confirms residential PV tends to increase household power consumption"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

New research confirms residential PV tends to increase household power consumption
New Swiss research shows PV-powered homes can increase power consumption by up to 11% compared to non-solar households. This rise is linked to electric vehicle adoption or other high-usage appliances, which the study’s author notes is not inherently negative or wasteful.

Ad on the tube says 'Humans were the beta test. The era of AI employees is here'.
I can't *imagine* why people are a bit resistant to AI! At least offshoring never advertised on the tube. The enshittification of 21st century life continues.

@… Is that 11 million lines in Docker Engine, or is it also including Desktop, Compose, libcontainer, etc?

Jets RB Breece Hall on 2025 goals: ‘Just proving that I'm still the guy and still one of the best in the league' https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-rb-breece-hall-on-2025-goals-just-proving-that-i-m-still-the-guy

In Dagstuhl to discuss policy in socio- technical systems

Falls jemand das gerade braucht - es gibt eine Website, die schnurrt.
Was will man mehr.
#catcontent #CatsOfMastodon
https://purrli.com/

The Internet has a Cat! Meet Purrli, the online cat purr generator.
Not just a cat purr, but a cat purring next to you. Purrli recreates the sound and the presence of a cat, online. It's soothing, it's free, and it's purrfect!

Ukraine's power exports surge 2.5 times, recovering to pre-Russian attack levels: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraines-power-exports-surge-times.html

Wer haftet bei einem Phishing-Angriff, wenn Geld auf ein falsches Konto überwiesen wird? 🤔 Das Landgerichts Rostock entschied, dass der Rechnungssteller weiterhin Anspruch auf Zahlung hat, sofern die Fälschung erkennbar war. Das Risiko liegt beim Überweisenden.
Zum Artikel: http…

Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Powell confirmed Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump's tariffs
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning that the central bank would likely have already cut interest rates this year had it not been for the economic shock caused by Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
When asked if Trump’s tariffs on imported goods held up the Fed’s plan to cut interest rates, Powell replied:
"I think that’s right."
Speaking at a c…

@… I wish you all good things in your endeavors!

In a filing, the Newhouse family, which owns Condé Nast, says it plans to sell 100M WBD shares worth around $1.1B total; $WBD falls 4% (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-discovery-stock-sale-newhouse-family/

Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Falls as Newhouse Family Sells $1.1 Billion in Shares
The media giant's shares tumbled over 4% during Tuesday's trading session after the Condé Nast owners sold 100 million shares

Devon Again is a special band.
Devon Again - People v. Maryanne Sue (Official Video) #music

When someone has the compound title of #developer, #dba, and business analyst in their email signature.

She’s not wrong.
https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/114672417919925192

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #maryland, their last of 6 shows at merriweather post pavilion before outgrowing it, not technically banned until after the garcia band shows in 1989. early summer ’85, show #11.
soundboard:

Ahaha, nach meinem "Dude 1 & Dude 2"-Rant hatte ich gar nicht auf LinkedIn geschaut und deswegen ist mir die Dudeception der fragilen Männlichkeit dort gar nicht aufgefallen.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:733231169199…

No cerrar los ojos. Columna de Paula Escobar.
#Columnistas

from my link log —
Dissolving the Fermi paradox.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
saved 2025-04-18 https://dotat.at/:/U1H2Q.html

Dissolving the Fermi Paradox
The Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a high {\em ex ante} probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe. The expectation that the universe should be teeming with intelligent life is linked to models like the Drake equation, which suggest that even if the probability of intelligent life developing at a given site is small, the sheer multitude of possible sites should nonetheless yield a large number of pot…

es sind nicht alle Arschlöcher bei der Polizei
...
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US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/us-sanctions-russian-it-company.html

Gut Ding will Weile haben - jetzt könnt Ihr auch beim @… #Petition|en öffentlich unterschreiben lassen.
https://www.

@… appreciate you sharing your experience!

Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk kills Russian 8th Army commander: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukrainian-missile-strike-on-donetsk.html

WGA East, which represents CBS News writers, says the Paramount settlement is a "transparent attempt to curry favors" with Trump to get Skydance merger approved (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/param

Paramount's Trump Agreement Worries CBS News, Stirs '60 Minutes' Fears
Paramount Global's decision to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against '60 Minutes' and CBS News, worries staffers

Durry - idk i just work here (Official Music Video) #music

A long outage of Columbia University servers last week was due to a hacker,
seemingly with a pro-Trump agenda of stealing data to show the guilty nature of
“woke” university policies.
In particular this hacker gave the data for 2.5 million applications to Columbia over many years to Bloomberg News.
Not sure what this would show of significance other than the already heavily litigated fact that Columbia and most other universities have been practicing affirmative act…

Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says
The attacker, described as a “hacktivist,” shut down computer systems and stole student data last week.

#NowPlaying - clinging desperately to (& savoring) these last pre-gross nights before sealing in with AC for the summer, aided currently by the calming #fiddle drones of mike gangloff's newish "april is passing"

#Ukraine #Budanov

Ukraine to exit mine ban treaty, citing war demands, realities on the ground: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-to-exit-mine-ban.html

@… say more!

A US immigration judge grants bond to Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara, after he was arrested by police while covering a protest and turned over to ICE (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/journalist-

Bond granted for Spanish-language journalist arrested during protest and turned over to ICE
An immigration judge in Georgia has granted bond for a well-known Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering a protest last month. That means he will be free as the government seeks to deport him from the United States. Mario Guevara, who's from El Salvador, was arrested by local police on June 14 while covering a protest just outside Atlanta. He was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement several days later and was being held in a south Georgia immigration detention ce…

Orange County congresswoman targeted by protests over Trump megabill, cuts to healthcare
Protesters railed on Tuesday against Orange County GOP Rep Young Kim
who could be a critical vote on Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars
that helped pay for healthcare for those in need and extend tax cuts for millions of Americans.
Trump’s proposed Megabill narrowly passed the U.S. Senate hours before hundreds of people gathered in a cul-de-sac outsi…

O.C. congresswoman targeted by protests over Trump megabill
Protestors railed on Tuesday against an Orange County congresswoman who could be a critical vote on President Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars that helped pay for healthcare for those in need.

Adopted, because no alttext:
#Ukraine

Putin, Macron hold first call since 2022, discuss wars in Ukraine, Middle East: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/putin-macron-hold-first-call.html

it feels important to keep saying: SPA as an app framework default (and not an opt-in feature) was a mistake

Ukraine's allies invest in drone production, while Russia loses its war machine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraines-allies-invest-in-drone.html

AMC Entertainment reaches an agreement with creditors to reduce debt, including raising ~$223.3M and converting $143M of debt into equity; AMC falls ~6% (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

More Americans have a positive image of progressive Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, than they do of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to new polling data.
Why It Matters
Ocasio-Cortez has been seen as a polarizing figure in politics and within the Democratic Party.
She has drawn backlash from moderate Democrats and Republicans alike since she surged onto the national stage after an upset primary victory aga…

AOC Viewed Positively by More Americans Than Trump and Harris—Poll
The New York progressive ranked third among politicians included in the survey, just behind the Obamas.

Was bisher mangels Bildern bzw wegen spektakulärerer Bilder der russischen Bomberflotte on fire etwas unterging*, auch der Marinestützpunkt von Severomorsk hat seinen Teil abgekriegt.
Möglicherweise weniger sexy von Bildern her, aber noch bedeutsamer als der Verlust der Bomber; dort liegen russische U-Boote mit nuklearer Bewaffnung rum. Evtl. könnten von denen welche permanenten Unterseestatus bekommen haben.
Warte auf Satellitenbilder.
*Pun not intended but there it is 😁

@… @… excuse me, this is lovely

Ukraine to launch joint weapons production program with Ramstein summit countries: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-to-launch-joint-weapons.html

Warner Music and Bain announce a $1.2B joint venture to buy song rights; sources: Warner is in talks to acquire the Red Hot Chili Peppers' catalog for $300M (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8e50bf81-d346-49ec-a4a5-6b379e632140

Warner Music and Bain target $300mn Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue deal
Acquisition would be a coup for record company and private equity firm’s new song rights joint venture

Welcome all Americans who wish to join a moral movement in defense of: 
Freedom, Equality, Justice and
The Constitution
https://www.thesaveamericamovement.org/

The Save America Movement
We welcome all Americans who wish to join a moral movement in defense of freedom, equality, justice and the Constitution.

I am quite confident that there are more trojan containers somewhere in Russia. Russia rotated their bombers around, so Ukraine couldn't have known for a long time where they are. So they had to prepare more containers in case the wanted prey is on other airports. Expecting more Bavovna 💥
#Ukraine

Leading Ukrainian historian Plokhii steps down from top Harvard post after 12 years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/leading-ukrainian-historian-plokhii-steps.html

In a note to staff, Axios says it is changing its AI policy, which promised "NO AI-written stories", as it was "unnecessarily limiting" given AI's progress (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1940037748796047854

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Axios is changing  its editorial policies to be more friendly to AI use. In a recent note to staff, Axios said it was revising its AI language. "The new language replaces our original framing which was centered on how everything we do 'will be written or produced by a real

Want to invest in Ukrainian startups from the US? This platform promises to be the bridge: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/want-to-invest-in-ukrainian.html

Falls mich jemand sucht, ich bin den Rest des Tages in der Ukraine-Timeline zu finden 🚬

Ukrainian forces hit Russian command post in occupied Donetsk Oblast, General Staff says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukrainian-forces-hit-russian-command.html

Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ukraine strikes Russian rear! Crimea is on fire, and allies invest in drones | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-strikes-russian-rear-crimea.html

Crimea strikes and Russia’s allies: what are China and North Korea planning? | Front News: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/crimea-strikes-and-russias-allies.html

Ukraine war latest: Ukrainian drones strike Russian plant 1,300km from border, SBU source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-war-latest-ukrainian-drones.html

Azerbaijan-Russia tensions escalate as Baku accuses Moscow of intentional killing of its citizens: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/azerbaijanrussia-tensions-escalate-as-baku.html

North Korea already using Russian Pantsir missiles to defend Pyongyang, Ukraine's intelligence chief says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/north-korea-already-using-russian.html

Ukraine’s new interceptor UAVs are starting to knock Russia’s long-range Shahed drones out of the sky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraines-new-interceptor-uavs-are.html

Russian missile strike on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kills brigade commander, injures 30 people, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russian-missile-strike-on-dnipropetrovsk.html

Russia is really in pain! Zelenskyy on the effectiveness of sanctions #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russia-is-really-in-pain.html

China sends military to Russia! What does China want to learn from the Kremlin? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/china-sends-military-to-russia.html

Russia is preparing for a confrontation with NATO: will Europe have time to prepare? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russia-is-preparing-for-a.html

'Oreshnik will be on Belarusian soil,' Lukashenko says of Russian missile deployment by year-end: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/oreshnik-will-be-on-belarusian.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,022,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Strategic pain point: why Russia is trying to capture Pokrovsk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/strategic-pain-point-why-russia.html

Ukraine's Constitutional Court appointments: A test of EU commitment: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukraines-constitutional-court-appointments-a.html