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Happy #SysAdmin Day!
https://sysadminday.com/
Thank your IT administrators because the less you do have to deal with them, the better they do their job.

Kubiak ready for ‘awful’ experience of 1st cutdown day with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/kubiak-ready-for-awful-experience-of-1st-cutdown-day-with-raiders-3871191/

I had to walk home from work yesterday, an impromptu necessity and always a slog after a full day in a physical job - 40 minutes all slightly uphill 😐
As I walked through the industrial estate I spotted some gorgeous looking blackberries so I tried one and oh man they were good. So I scarfed a load of those and got a disgusted look from a passer by 😄
I'd decided I could have a choc milkshake from the local dairy's vending machine I walk past 10 mins in, and that was delic…

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

People (err bots) emailing me at my corporate day job wanting to buy the software company I sold in 2017 is really quite something. It feels even dumber than the normal spam I get.

find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofn2A1p13Sg

find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofn2A1p13Sg

So it's not just Chinese EVs: "In the last two years much of the car industry’s focus has been on Chinese overcapacity, but the VDA’s statement is drawing attention to deeper changes in Europe with fewer cars being bought by the public."
And with ever more people living in an urban setting, and the arrival of e-bikes & e-mopeds, the need for a car in every day life continues to drop.
German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to addre…

German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat
VW to propose 100,000 job losses to board and says car plants could be put under foreign ownership to save jobs

So it's not just Chinese EVs: "In the last two years much of the car industry’s focus has been on Chinese overcapacity, but the VDA’s statement is drawing attention to deeper changes in Europe with fewer cars being bought by the public."
And with ever more people living in an urban setting, and the arrival of e-bikes & e-mopeds, the need for a car in every day life continues to drop.
German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to addre…

German car industry warns of job collapse unless ‘bold decisions’ made to address Chinese threat
VW to propose 100,000 job losses to board and says car plants could be put under foreign ownership to save jobs

So, seems I have a new job lined up finally as I've signed the tentative offer letter. Also, still working with Zig and made progress with grabbing information from the Linux `sys` tree for sector/logical block sizes. Been a busy yet awesome day.
#zig #programming

The first U.S. Labor Day celebration took place in New York City on Sept. 5, 1882,
with 10,000 marchers.
In 1894, President Cleveland signed a congressional act establishing the first Monday of September as a legal holiday,
which has become known for promotional sales as well as a day off for many.
The holiday has particular resonance in Southern California,
where the labor movement remains large in numbers and powerful in political influence.
Across the…

L.A. Labor Day rally: Union workers warn of automation, job losses
Union members in Wilmington marched in solidarity and celebration Monday, but worry about future jobs and the cost of living, all as politicians court their votes.

A look at iLands, a company that's like Fiverr for agents, which email annoying and unsolicited pitches to people, usually for services costing ~$25 (Ernie Smith/Tedium)
https://tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-email-spam-kaixin-tang/

The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
iLands, a new AI agent-centric startup, is spamming creatives like me numerous times a day. What do its agents want? My job. Why? They need to buy more tokens.

5 Things You Missed: Raiders Training Camp, Day 12 https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/16/5-things-you-missed-raiders-training-camp-day-12/

Today, #Singapore has its #TeacherAppreciationDay: #Teachers do have a day off, parents need to deal with their kids on their own.
A great way of making the hard job of a

Wow, what a shame that they're going out of business.
I read the whole post on their site detailing what happened, and I just feel for this.
https://www.tomboytoes.com/blogs/news/tomboy-toes-is-closing

Caleb Rogers elevating his game is just one part of the collective O-line lift https://www.raiders.com/news/caleb-rogers-elevating-his-game-is-just-one-part-of-the-collective-o-line-lift

Will ‘Coxon Day’ save us from AI destruction?
Sept. 8, 2026, may come to be known as “Coxon Day.”
That would be a reference to 27-year-old Jacob Coxon,
an AI researcher and whistleblower at Anthropic (and previously OpenAI)
who resigned in protest of the unchecked danger his work poses to us all.
He posted a warning to the world on X that has gone viral.
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon…

Will 'Coxon Day' save us from AI destruction?
Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher, issued a public warning that went viral about the dangers of artificial intelligence and quit his job in protest. Will it make a difference?

I appreciate that content creators need to crank out slop daily to keep Lord Algo from consuming the Earth in fire, but this meme of building washing machines to clean your skunk striped jorts in the Boogaloo has to die. Wind ups, old gas engines, a regular washer with the drum run by a stationary bike, and now this bucket? Just use your fucking hands, dude. Think of all the hours you got back from dumping your shitty commute and your day job. Gotta do something with the time.

Caleb Rogers elevating his game is just one part of the collective O-line lift https://www.raiders.com/news/caleb-rogers-elevating-his-game-is-just-one-part-of-the-collective-o-line-lift

Every day is a heavy cyber news day, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Autonomous AI agents hacked the Taiwan government in a cyber first
--Suisun City cyberattack recovery could take months,
--Microsoft patches 400 flaws, three zero-days,
--$100 device can hijack Boeing 737 systems,
--Hackers hijack AnMed Facebook page with ransom demands,
--German lawmaker urges cyber strikes on Russian drone factories,
--Cyberattacks on South Korean agency surge twelvefold,
--Data breach fallout hammers KT profits,
--Uber Freight probes breach after hackers claim 1 million files,
--Wesco probes cloud breach after data theft claim,
--DeadLock ransomware turns to blockchain for resilience,
--LawCare warns hackers likely stole sensitive database,
--Kimwolf botnet disguises DDoS attacks as Chrome traffic,
--Chrome blocks 7b unwanted notifications a day,
--NIST looks to remake vulnerability reporting for AI age,
--US lifts TikTok ban on government devices,
--New Microsoft Defender zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges,
--Signal adds automatic protection against chat interception,
--Lazarus weaponizes Windows zero-day in fake job campaign,
--Rapid7 cuts 12 percent of workforce,
--Industrial ransomware attacks jump 12 percent,
--AI hacking boom fuels cybersecurity spending,
--K-12 cyber defenders join national ISAC network,
--Health obsessives feed intimate data to AI,
--McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on a customer
https://www.metacurity.com/autonomous-ai-agents-hacked-the-taiwan-government-in-a-cyber-first/

At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.
“I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.
Halfway there, the gray sedan in front of him lost traction. It spun across the icy road and slid nose-first into a ditch.
Forstag’s first instinct was to pull over.
Growing up in a tight-knit c…

Sam Forstag for Montana
Sam Forstag is a smokejumper and union leader — a working Montanan who understands the struggle of breaking your back trying to get ahead and still barely getting by.

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)
job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.
Feeling good…..
job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. : (
wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores