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It is far too late in the day for me to try to figure out how to turn a github PR with one file change into an actual patch that applies cleanly to either the latest FreeBSD binary build or the latest version in ports (i.e. current release.) I figured out how to get Github to give me an actual patch file (why is this not a button???) but it’s against some intermediate version and <sigh>.
Maybe I just need to wander off into the woods. I’ll freeze to death soon enough…

I noticed only now that the ubiquitous Costa Coffee in Poland is no longer owned by Coca Cola, it's French since 2023 (Lagardère).
From our classic "No Logo" nemesis to a billionaire-controlled #copyright cartel: not sure how I feel about it.
It's one of those chains where a #vegan g…

Lagardère Travel Retail builds on its strategic partnership with Costa Coffee to become the brand’s master franchise partner in Poland - Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe
Lagardère Travel Retail and British coffee shop chain Costa Coffee, a Coca-Cola owned company, announce that their long-term partnership has further developed with the transfer of control of the brand’s 142 stores in Poland and Latvia to Lagardère Travel Retail, as master franchisee. This confirms Lagardère Travel Retail’s strategic ambition to become a global leader in Foodservice and to cover travelers’ needs holistically. The transfer of control of Costa Coffee’s network of stores…

Here's how Cowboys, Diggs relationship soured to point of divorce https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/30/recap-of-how-cowboys-trevon-diggs-relationship-sour…

To people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over the Epstein files is perplexing.
The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret.
It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals.
In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.
The president has also made …

In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are
Trump is desperate to distract his base

I’m looking at age for many times especially to replace OpenPGP. They did a new release and for encryption at rest, it’s indeed a good replacement.
But how to integrate it with email encryption ? They recently did a keyserver https://words.filippo.io/keyserver-tlog/ and releas…

I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild

#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:

The woman who survived
five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall,
-- only to be criminally charged and then cleared,
now wants a judge’s permission to share records that
show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”
#Marimar #Martinez

Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the entire country in the dark."

Unusual Suspects,
I've blabbed before about how much I like runit, yes clean and very simple.
Also wanted to have a look at beta 7 and roll into the final release of Cosmic DE. Enter Artix Linux.
Now, that was fun, played with it this afternoon and it'll be promoted to a more prominent NUC soon. Ticks all the boxes!
#artixlinux

"The partial, obscured release of these [Epstein] files has been billed by the Trump administration as an act of bold transparency. But what it actually reveals is how, in an environment of broken trust, in an age where conspiracy theorizing has become the lingua franca of American politics, no amount of information may ever be universally satisfactory."

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The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

Nearly 47 million Americans live near hidden fossil fuel sites #America

Nearly 47 million Americans live near hidden fossil fuel sites
A nationwide analysis has uncovered how sprawling fossil fuel infrastructure sits surprisingly close to millions of American homes. The research shows that 46.6 million people live within about a mile of wells, refineries, pipelines, storage sites, or transport facilities. Many of these locations release pollutants that may affect nearby communities, yet mid-supply-chain sites have rarely been studied. The findings reveal major gaps in understanding how this hidden network affects health.

Yup, as I suggested yesterday the new law to release the Epstein materials from the Justice Dept is just a sham that the R-party maga-klan inserted (and the D-party missed or ignored) and that Bimbo Blondy Bondi will drive a truck through.
The D-Party certainly needs to listen to the Who's Song "Won't Get Fooled Again" because they certainly got fooled again.
How dumb is our D-party? It appears that it is really and sincerely dumb.

Epstein files bill includes exceptions that could affect what gets released and when
Attorney General Pam Bondi has she will "follow the law" once it's signed.

The justice department’s release of a cherry-picked subset of highly redacted Epstein files on Friday
signaled how the agency is trying to bury and obfuscate Donald Trump’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d

"Perhaps the biggest difference between the two novels is that Goldratt’s protagonist gets promoted after demonstrating the success of his techniques, while Kim’s is promoted while it’s still clear to him and his manager that he has no clue what he’s doing. This ass-backwards career progression is necessary to make the book realistic in a software development context."

Play It Again, Sam
While the phrase "Play it again, Sam" never occurs in the film Casablanca, the sentiment does. Sam is asked to play "As time goes by", a song about how some things remain the same despite the passage of time. The song was originally part of a 1931 Broadway musical, and perhaps ironically due to a musician's union strike when Casablanca was released, the studio were unable to release a new version of the song as a record. Instead, they re-issued the original version, recorded over a decade earli…

I wrote a short story, a sort of parable, and you can read it first if you subscribe (for free) to my ghost. I'll release it to subscribers later today. I am titling it "To Sea."
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David August
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We made pretty heavy use of OmniOutliner while working towards shipping OmniOutliner 6!
(I kept checking for outlines under File > Open Recents and realizing that 30 recent outlines wasn't enough to get back to the outline I was looking for. But I didn't really want to bump my recent menus up to tracking 50 documents, either.)
https:…

Ainsley (@ainslaw@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 2 images How many OmniOutliner documents *does* it take to ship an OmniOutliner release?

It's surprisingly hard to find a changelog or release history for `apt` itself.
I just wanted to find out when apt 1.1 has been released but the usual search terms all result in links to "how to get changelog for a package using apt" or similar.
At last I just searched for "apt 1.1" and found an article from 2015 showcasing the features of apt 1.1.
I guess, the real solution would have been something like `apt-get changelog apt` or similarly silly :-…

Not all flower visitors are equally helpful to the flower; separately tracking bees that buzz to release pollen and bees that steal pollen from flowers in a bunch of Chamaecrista species shows how tracking visitation alone would misrepresent the interactions
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70758
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Source: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-near…

ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google’s Gemini nipping at OpenAI’s heels. On Monday, I wrote about how Gemini’s share of weekly mobile app downloads increased in late November following the release of Gemini 3, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower, ...

Today is going to be a good day for several large (very large) shots of Scotch.
Working with client for a test file and asked questions on how we are to set up the test environment. It hit me after I asked that I didn't even know what the hell those changes to the files were for.
I checked our current release documents and the next release documents. Zero notes on the changes. I am the release coordinator and I remember nothing on the topic for the current two releases. …

I've added another script to my bikeStats Python scripts. It's all pretty simple stuff, but maybe someone will find it useful.
I need to clean up and release all the bike mapping GPX stuff I've been working on lately as well.
https://codeberg.org/raster/milesBiked

milesBiked
A Python script to make bar graphs showing how many miles I've biked...

📽️ Pirated film quality and ticket costs shape U.S. moviegoers' viewing choices
#movies

Pirated film quality and ticket costs shape U.S. moviegoers' viewing choices
Movie studios face unique challenges in managing their operations. The success of a film relies not only on its artistic merits, but also on studios' operational decisions, particularly those related to a movie's initial box office release. A critical concern for the industry is how to manage movie piracy, a form of digital counterfeiting that undermines legal box-office sales.

Congressional negotiators are expected to release a
bipartisan health care package
as soon as today
that revives major parts of a deal that was torpedoed in late 2024 by Elon Musk and then President-elect Trump.
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities like
— an overhaul of the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers — the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurers
— and new controls on how hospitals bill for outpatien…

Scoop: Bipartisan health package likely moving forward
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities but no extension of Obamacare subsidies.

A new report from the grassroots organization #RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not:
publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign.
While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s
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“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign. While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s “Democratic Autopsy” looks at how factors like “service to corporate power, hostility to the progressive wing of the party, …

How to absolutely *not* do #OpenSource: require people to commit to work on other issues with your project in order to file bugs. So, sorry, #Typer, I won't be filing bugs. You figure out how you messed up your release yourself.
Also, please don't use #FastAPI. They are clearly bothered by the fact that people dare use their projects and waste their precious time with support requests.
#Python #FreeSoftware #Gentoo