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I've been working on assembling my one-kilogram QSO¹ kit. I set a 1kg limit including the case into which to cram everything I need to work POTA on a whim because it's just bouncing around in the bottom of my backpack. I'm still working out what to carry for filter, choke, and ununs; after I'm done, I'll write up the whole kit with pictures.
I just swapped out a 20Ah Anker power bank for an 88g

Dans son étude diffusée jeudi, Médiamétrie établit d’ailleurs que Google a été le principal pourvoyeur d’audience pour ces faux sites d’actualité (77 % du trafic), suivi par Meta (10 %). De quoi confirmer les critiques émanant du secteur de la presse en ligne sur le poids de Google dans le succès de telles fermes Š contenus générés par IA, et l’absence de modération adéquate de la part de l’entreprise.

Les faux sites d’information générés par IA récoltent déjà une audience significative, selon une étude Médiamétrie
L’institut de recherche s’est associé au média spécialisé Next, qui documente l’essor et le trafic de ces fermes à contenus générés par l’intelligence artificielle générative.

from my link log —
diesel-guard: check for expensive PostgreSQL migrations in Rust.
https://dev.to/ayarotsky/your-diesel-migrations-might-be-ticking-time-bombs-30g7
saved 2026-01-16

Your Diesel Migrations Might Be Ticking Time Bombs
Handshake deployed what looked like a routine migration during their regular multi-daily release...

Heute dann gegen 14:45 Uhr doch noch #rausgeschafft, sodass ich kurz vor Ladenschluß bei der Bike-Zone Baden war, um ein Velorücklicht mit gelben Seitenmarkern (ja, aus Amiland 🤓) zu kaufen, das ich eigentlich nicht brauche, dort aber deutlich günstiger war als sonstwo. Das war ein guter Motivator für eine #Radtour

So my other big piece of the day is an inside look at the struggle for the future of the CVE program that just went live at CyberScoop.
Many thanks to Jay Jacobs of Empirical Security, Nick Leiserson of the Institute for Security and Technology, Mitchel Herckis of Wiz, Brian Fox of Sonatype, Peter Allor of the CVE Foundation, Ben Edwards of Bitsight and a few experts who go unnamed for their insight.

Meta's win over the US FTC may mean Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others can resume buying startups to stay ahead of the pack, after a slowdown under Lina Khan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-ruling-silicon-valley…

Meta’s Victory Opens the Way for Silicon Valley to Go Deal Shopping
To avoid regulatory scrutiny, big tech companies had steered clear of buying start-ups outright. Meta’s antitrust win may change that thinking.

“My oldest daughter had a lot of trauma as a child,” Andreatta said.
“Something really terrible happened to her when she was very young that I would hope never would happen to any other child.
And as a result of it, she's a lesbian.
She's gay, and she's married to a woman.
And sometimes that's a little bit of [an] internal struggle for me
because I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
After the speech, Andreatta opened the …

California Turning Point USA club in jeopardy after city councilwoman's controversial comments
Comments by Lincoln City Councilmember Holly Andreatta at a Club America meeting at Twelve Bridges High School have drawn attention to the emergence of Turni...

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
SARKOFF: To my decision? Of course not.
BLAKE: No, of course not. [Checks watch a final time then looks up] Right. Stay here, please. [Exits]
SARKOFF: Where else would I go? This is all I have left.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/268 B7B4

from my link log —
A new Protocol Buffers generator for Golang.
https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/
saved 2021-06-03

Vitess | A new Protocol Buffers generator for Go

FT's Tim Cook retirement story could be a "trial balloon" from people close to him, if Cook makes the decision to leave on a high note after Q1 earnings report (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/tim-cook-retirement-apple/

Let Tim Cook
Might Tim Cook retire as CEO of Apple in early 2026? There are signs...