Ukraine war latest live: Minibus carrying soldiers shot at near Lviv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/ukraine-war-latest-live-minibus.html
En Hongrie, des milliers de manifestants demandent la démission de Viktor Orban après la révélation de maltraitances dans l’aide sociale Š l’enfance
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Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
How can foreign defense manufacturers benefit from Ukraine’s Defense City regime?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/how-can-foreign-defense-manufacturers.html
@axbom@axbom.meGot my config manager POC’d up at all levels now.
Single resource on the CLI
Idempotent shell scripts
Manifests
Globally distributed runner with patterns like rolling restarting deploys etc.
All with hierarchical data delivered via key-value store
The distributed model is using tech that. Is currently running on 7 figure node deployments.
Exciting stuff. Will make a video.
Next to make it a bit more robust etc
Crucial BX500 SSDs (still being manufactured in 2025) don't appear to support SMART self-tests. They support SMART attributes etc, but none of the testing functionality.
I'm quite surprised. I realise these are budget consumer drives but that is some aggressive market segmentation there.
The utopias of yesterday – GfZK Leipzig presents the history of Robotron...
(Robotron was East Germany's largest computer manufacturer and they also made the machine I first got to use on my way to becoming a "computer toucher"... Almost exactly 10 years ago, I wrote about those early experiences and the lessons learned already back then in this long read article here:
@axbom@axbom.meCanada-based CoLab, which makes collaboration software for manufacturers, raised a $72M Series C led by Intrepid Growth Partners (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2025/11/10/manufacturing-software-colab-72-million
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