Tootfinder

Two extreme views of the same event (the recent Cloudflare outage):
"I didn't notice a thing and if it wasn't for chatter on IRC I would never have learned about it"
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.na…

"At its heart, Nemo is an in-memory data processing engine, written in Rust."
"Nemo is a university-based OSS project and still a prototype, so bear with us if you discover bugs."
Glad we've cleared that up.
https://lists…

the most excellent @… has posted his tapes from the very tasty looking fly around festival from august, with a bunch of great contemporary acoustic improvisers (powers/rolin, elkhorn) & a few songwriters (myriam gendron, joan shelley). looking forward to getting autumnal with a bunch of these sets soon.

"First off, that 127.0.1.1 has to go. There are active changes underways to change the 127/8 allocation to an 127/24 one, to free more IPv4 addresses."
lolno
That might happen in Linux and inside some large private networks like cloud providers (e.g. already did happen with 240/4 inside AWS and Verizon), but I'm fairly confident this will never happen in general across the Internet.

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

I rarely make electronic shopping lists, so I only discovered today that the Notes app has a handy feature that converts kilograms into tons. Even when using the comma as decimal separator! It doesn’t recognize “dl” (customary in Switzerland), though, and come to think of it, it has none of the features demoed by Doug Engelbart in 1968.

I have way more Electron apps installed than I realized. I hope devs update their apps soon, this bug with WindowServer is really frustrating.

Law lists fake critical elements "friezium" and "stralium" based on coal lawyers’ names #NorthDakota
https://northdakotamo…

Everyday #Emacs #orgmode task: merge two tables
I'm grading, and want to merge the class list with the list of assignment submissions. Include the two lists as named tables, and a tiny R-snippet will produce a merged table (also named).

Winners, Losers: Former Day-2 WRs end up on opposite lists for Cowboys in Week 7 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/10/21/cowboys-winners-and-losers-from-sundays-game-against-the-comma…

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network.
https://delightful.coding.social/delightful_fediverse_clients

delightful fediverse clients
Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.

Hope that moderation lists make it over from Bluesky as a feature on here.
E.g. I'd love to share onr of alt-right people and their collaborators in the Ruby community so it's easy to mute or block them.

If you or your colleagues have ROAs in the #AFRINIC #RPKI repository, see this email from @…
Those with a non-conformant subject name can reissue the ROA themselves, the other…

Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/extinctions-already-happening-in-wales-as-report-lists-3000-at-risk-species/
…

Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species
Nearly 3,000 species in the country of Wales, in the U.K., are now found in just a handful of locations, according to a recent report. These species include hundreds of plants, fungi and mosses, as well as 25 bird, six mammal, five freshwater fish and one amphibian species. The report, produced by Natural Resources Wales […]

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848435/openai-chatgpt-characteris…

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.

Wait... has Adobe changed the layout/features of the Creative Cloud desktop app? All it lists for me are installed apps and the market place... There's no font management 🤔
#Adobe #CreativeCloud

@… Also, take note of your address and phone number somewhere.
It has been surprisingly common for me to need to provide lists of all addresses I’ve had in the past X years, and dig through geotagged photos of old apartments to recall the addresses.

About a month ago I was a bit too optimistic*, the admin took over a month to complete....: Only last Tuesday Reasonable Sourcery was officially inCOOPerated.
Today we finally sent out the official introduction:
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2025…

I use Rogue Amoeba’s software daily. They make kickass products that revolutionize how I use my Mac.
https://mastodon.social/@RogueAmoeba/115577778426778740

Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

Microsoft Ranked #1 on Forbes’ World’s Best Employers 2025.
...for the second year in a row.
✅ Forbes World's Best Employers 2025 - Top Companies To Work For
https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/

Is there a mailing list service (as in “I want to send concert announcements to a few people”) that’s not objectionable, not predatory, and not run by vile people?
For years Mailchimp was the go-to, but I see them landing on boycott lists of late.

volume 2 of the 7th edition of the unix documentation has the long-form tutorial and reference material (vol 1 has the man pages)
the table of contents lists each paper with its title, author(s), and a brief blurb
for instance
UNIX Assembler Reference Manual.
D. M. Ritchie.
The ultimate dead language.

🧐

In the latest defense filing,
Luigi Mangione's lawyers claim
Pam Bondi was a partner at the lobbying firm
Ballard Partners
before she became attorney general,
and the company lists UnitedHealth Group (UHG) as a client.
As a result,
Bondi derives and continues to receive personal and financial benefits from Ballard
"in the form of a profit-sharing plan from Ballard's professional association with UHG,"
according to cour…

Luigi Mangione Says Pam Bondi Has Financial Ties to Murder Victim's Company
Luigi Mangione says he now knows the real reason why Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking the death penalty against him ... she allegedly has deep ties to the murder victim's health care company.

Discover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:

In episode 207 I shared advice from six former podcast guests on what they do to improve or maintain their own mental health. Sam had some great things to say about lists and writing things down

So, that's the story: 1) PocketCast changed my lists into Smart Playlists. 2) PocketCast desktop/web doesn't support Smart Playlists. 3) Therefore, they made desktop/web unusable for me.
Great.

So, something that's become clear to me is that we still have a real need for self-managing community email lists like we used to have. Many people still use Google Groups, which are horrible. The old Ezmlm and Mailman lists I used to run are now creaky and hard to maintain... I've done a bit of a look around - I implemented Listmonk, but it's not what I'm after - it's broadcast/marketing, not any subscriber to all subscribers. So I've come back to Mailman, now on v3.…

Material para el inicio de una nueva «guerra santa» en el rock: Billboard publicó su listado de las 50 mejores bandas de rock según su staff.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-rock-bands/
El top 10:
1 The Beatles
2 The Rolling Stones
3 Led Zeppelin
4…

Larry Summers steps back from public commitments after his Jeffrey Epstein emails were released; OpenAI still lists Summers as a board member and didn't comment (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-

'I am deeply ashamed': Larry Summers to step back from public commitments after new Epstein emails
Sen. Elizabeth Warren had called for institutions affiliated with Summers, who served as treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, to sever ties with him.

“By 2040, the Locational scenario could reduce the total system cost by 23 – 59 Bn. EUR annually. These savings are in the order of magnitude of those associated with the integration of European electricity markets.”
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/J…

Locational Price Signals in Europe
As Europe strives to become the first climate neutral continent, grid congestion is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, with the potential to lead to large-scale curtailment of renewables and undermine the system’s security. Accordingly, the Mission Letter to Commissioner for Energy and Affordable Housing Dan Jørgensen lists the task to improve locational price signals. These aim to ensure that investments occur where they are most beneficial to the system, while incentivizing an efficien…

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

Looking for a phantomjs alternative, ran a search and ended up on a page with a seemingly good comparison of possibilities, until you realize the page is on zenrows.com domain. I don't think I'll take YOUR word for your product. Not sure what snakeoil they might be selling but feels overtly self-aggrandizing at least

Yeah! How hard would it be anyway to get thousands of volunteers who work on a completely free project to emulate these other commercial entities with full time employees who are making stuff that they sell for actual money? Just, like, commit to some schedule, folks! What? No, I can't use something else that suits me better. I like your thing.

I love that everyone has different unique tastes. And many people will probably find some of the things on my favorite albums list this year to be bizarre and unpleasant. But some of the things on some of these other (mainstream AND indie) 'best albums of 2025' lists.. whew. I can't even imagine listening to these ONCE, much less multiple times 😂

Single Answer is Not Enough: On Generating Ranked Lists with Medical Reasoning Models
Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Natpatchara Pongjirapat, Krittaphas Chaisutyakorn, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Tossaporn Saengja, Kunat Pipatanakul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20866

Single Answer is Not Enough: On Generating Ranked Lists with Medical Reasoning Models
This paper presents a systematic study on enabling medical reasoning models (MRMs) to generate ranked lists of answers for open-ended questions. Clinical decision-making rarely relies on a single answer but instead considers multiple options, reducing the risks of narrow perspectives. Yet current MRMs are typically trained to produce only one answer, even in open-ended settings. We propose an alternative format: ranked lists and investigate two approaches: prompting and fine-tuning. While promp…

Gute Neuigkeiten vom Bündnis @…:
> [Die] Deutsche Vereinigung für #Datenschutz (#EDRi) als europäischer Dachverband mit über 50 Mitgliedsorganisationen haben sich unseren Forderungen angeschlossen.
👋 Eine Bitte:
> Falls [wer Kontakt hat] zu KollegInnen & Organisationen in #Frankreich / Mittel- & #Osteuropa, ladet sie bitte herzlich ein, mit uns in Kontakt zu treten.
Newsletter abonnieren: https://lists.digiges.net/mailman3/postorius/lists/offene-netzwerke.lists.digiges.net/

Good example why open sources projects should self-publish or even counter-publish as a GNA in @…
Distributed publishing is not weakening the security advisory publication but it’s providing additional valuable sources.
#gcve

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003330.html
For freebsd-update:
― "THE STEP OF UPDATING YOUR EXISTING SYSTEM FIRST IS NECESSARY …"

Today, a customer lost some changes due to git stach drop. This meant that they were no longer accessible with git reflog. As a last resort, git fsck came to our rescue: https://www.python4data.science/en/latest/productive/git/review.html#fsck

Review
log: Filter and sort:$ git log [-n COUNT], lists the commit history of the current branch.--n, limits the number of commits to the specified number.,.,,$ git log [--after=" YYYY-MM-DD"] [...

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

IPv6 on average ~2ms lower latency than IPv4, and has been pretty much since 2015.
There are many reasons why, including things like usually on newer equipment, and no CGNAT.
Sometimes counter-intuitive as IPv6 headers are larger than IPv4 ones.
https://lists.n…

@… Also these related lists of all prebuilt "templates" and "features" have come in handy so I'm not re-creating something that's already there:
https://containers.dev/templ…

cursed

You use @… ? A mail account or a mailing list? Please help to keep it going:
"We ask that individuals with email accounts or owners of lists give monthly or yearly.
If you are broke, live in the global South, or live somewhere with a devalued currency, we don’t expect you to give. This means that those with money in the global North should contrib…

Historian Timothy Snyder lists eerie similarities between how Stalin came to power and how Stephen Miller came to power.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-and-stephen-miller-video
So now I'm watching "The Death of Stalin" streaming.

Color me confused - I see that el cheeto's dog, Lindsey Halligan, is listed as a lawyer in Virginia.
Yet, when go to the Virginia bar website and search for her in their lists of Virginia attorneys I get zero hits.
Huh?
The page below says that she is a member of the Virginia Bar, but the Virginia Bar seems not to know who she is?
Am I fat fingering something on the Virginia bar's attorney search site?

Lindsey Halligan - Civil Rights, Criminal Defense Lawyer | Lexinter Law Directory
Lindsey Halligan, attorney and political appointee, became Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2025 under Donald Trump.

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
#accessibility

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
Thursday marks a first deadline,
set this month in a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
for all federal law enforcement agencies to “coordinate delivery”
to the FBI of their intelligence files
on “Antifa” and “Antifa-related” activities.
Bondi has tasked the FBI with using those files to draw up lists of Americans and foreigners to investigate
as part of a campaign directed by …

Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

Sources: Vanity Fair's February issue, already in print, lists Olivia Nuzzi as West Coast editor; staffers are yet to get an update on VF's Nuzzi investigation (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-book-vanity-fair-conde-nast-…

Vanity Fair’s West Coast Woes
The Olivia Nuzzi scandal has become a slow-burn crisis inside Vanity Fair, engulfing Condé Nast leadership and raising broader questions about the magazine’s future.

"CSKA, its owner, managing director, and even the banks it dealt with were all explicitly named in #sanctions lists.
West Ham defended itself by citing “force majeure”. The club argued that it was impossible to make the payments without violating British law.
But #FIFA insisted: a…

New #BandcampFriday purchase, Void Ecstasy by Nostalghia was available for free, but I paid $5 to support the artist and add it to my collection.
https://bandcamp.com/pmarg

Took an early look at some of the 'best albums of 2025 so far' lists and wow. It's never the kind of stuff I'm into really (and less and less every year with the modern 'pop' 'music' now), but this year is super sparse hahaha
At least many lists had MIKE, Hannah Cohen and Saya Gray. Everything's out there for someone, I have to remind myself. 😂

it's weird enough coming across old allmusic reviews by experimental banjo weirdo eugene chadbourne, but somehow weirder still to discover that he loved... "heavy turbulence" by merl saunders. https://www.allmusic.com/album/heavy-turbulence-mw0000854277

Heavy Turbulence - Merl Saunders | Album | AllMusic
Heavy Turbulence by Merl Saunders released in 1972. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

LLM-Assisted Web Measurements
Simone Bozzolan, Stefano Calzavara, Lorenzo Cazzaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08101 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08101

LLM-Assisted Web Measurements
Web measurements are a well-established methodology for assessing the security and privacy landscape of the Internet. However, existing top lists of popular websites commonly used as measurement targets are unlabeled and lack semantic information about the nature of the sites they include. This limitation makes targeted measurements challenging, as researchers often need to rely on ad-hoc techniques to bias their datasets toward specific categories of interest. In this paper, we investigate the…

Source is this opinion piece, which just lists the obvious but lists it well:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/25/why-is-trump-demolishing-the-white-houses-east-wing-because-he-wants-to

Beyond Cons: Purely Relational Data Structures
Rafaello Sanna, William E. Byrd, Nada Amin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03170…

Beyond Cons: Purely Relational Data Structures
We present {Kanren} (read: set-Kanren), an extension to miniKanren with constraints for reasoning about sets and association lists. {Kanren} includes first-class set objects, a functionally complete family of set-theoretic constraints (including membership, union, and disjointedness), and new constraints for reasoning about association lists with shadowing and scoped lookup. These additions allow programmers to describe collections declaratively and lazily, without relying on structural encodin…

I wish could mute or filter out quote boosts that quote posts that had been filtered out by my filter lists.

Keir Starmer has announced an "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/pm-unveils-online-hospital-plan

NHS unveils 'online hospital' plan to slash waiting lists
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a landmark "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.

Dallas Cowboys make 3 intriguing roster moves for final stretch of season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-3-intriguing-roster-moves-final-stretch-nfl-season

Solid list:
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2025/10/06/102-lessons-from-102-books/?ck_subscriber_id=389259318
Don't run through LLM, it's already a very concise list. Take time and look through it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/115415146417702654
After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.
So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @…

Far-Right Watch Lists Are Putting Black Professors in Danger
https://capitalbnews.org/black-professors-watch-list-threats-kirk/

Clapshot: open source browser-based media review like frame.io
https://cinelinux.com/en/2025/10/04/clapshot-a-alternativa-open-source-ao-frame-io-para-revisao-de-videos/
Haven't tested it yet, but the review seem…

Am I right to call out these weirdos who are collecting lists of women? I dunno. It just creeps me out.

List Recoverable Codes: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown (hopefully not Ugly)
Nicolas Resch, S. Venkitesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07597 https://arxiv.…

List Recoverable Codes: The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown (hopefully not Ugly)
List recovery is a fundamental task for error-correcting codes, vastly generalizing unique decoding from worst-case errors and list decoding. Briefly, one is given ''soft information'' in the form of input lists S_1,...,S_n of bounded size, and one argues that there are not too many codewords that agree a lot with this soft information. This general problem appears in many guises, both within coding theory and in theoretical computer science more broadly. In this article we survey recent resu…

Esbarrei aqui agora com este canal contendo všrios cursos do MIT, de všrias šreas diferentes. Todos em inglês. Mas acho que podem interessar a alguns:
https://www.youtube.com/@mitocw

With the impending arrival of Typhoon #OpongPH (#Bualoi) and the recent protests against corruption in government-funded flood control projects, the recent release of the 2025 World Risk Report, with its topical focus on flooding, is very timely.
And to the surprise of no one, the

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003265.html>
― FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.
<

A couple of weeks ago I learned that you can set sysfs values for Linux MD arrays in the mdadm.conf:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/10/msg00318.html
Then I learned this doesn't actually work for incremental assembly (which is how ~all modern Linux does …

The political right wouldn't stand for something like this coming from the left. So why are they allowing it now?
https://reason.com/2025/09/29/trumps-executive-order-against-political-violence-is-an-un-american-atta…

Trump's executive order against 'political violence' is an un-American attack on free speech
The order lists "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity" as common threads among "domestic terrorists," though all are protected by the First Amendment.

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

"I suppose it will take time, but if XLibre carries the FOSS X server torch moving forward, folks will likely want it for these technical reasons."
Yep my completely reasonable just-asking-questions brother in FOSS, those folks sure do want to carry some torches, you got that right.
(car crash at <h…

The #fediverse is the best verse.

/bin/sh: history: not found
Why no history with the live system after using FreeBSD Installer?
Is this a bug, or to be expected within the constraints of a FreeBSD live system?
Edit: the footnote from <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgb…

The Trump administration is drawing up “secret lists of terrorist groups inside the United States,”
Senator Elissa Slotkin said on the floor of Congress yesterday
— the first such reference to the effects of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7).
The directive lays out Donald Trump’s policies with regard to equating “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist” sentiment with domestic terrorism.
As a result of the directive, the FBI’s domestic terrorism watch…

Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans
NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

one of the reasons mastadon is obviously the best social media network is because i don't think sp**ify even offers a way to post their lists here. also, mastodon still has a headphone jack.

SCRIBES: Web-Scale Script-Based Semi-Structured Data Extraction with Reinforcement Learning
Shicheng Liu, Kai Sun, Lisheng Fu, Xilun Chen, Xinyuan Zhang, Zhaojiang Lin, Rulin Shao, Yue Liu, Anuj Kumar, Wen-tau Yih, Xin Luna Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01832

SCRIBES: Web-Scale Script-Based Semi-Structured Data Extraction with Reinforcement Learning
Semi-structured content in HTML tables, lists, and infoboxes accounts for a substantial share of factual data on the web, yet the formatting complicates usage, and reliably extracting structured information from them remains challenging. Existing methods either lack generalization or are resource-intensive due to per-page LLM inference. In this paper, we introduce SCRIBES (SCRIpt-Based Semi-Structured Content Extraction at Web-Scale), a novel reinforcement learning framework that leverages layo…

some jimmies are gonna be rustled
"I plan to introduce hard Rust dependencies and Rust code into APT, no earlier than May 2026. This extends at first to the Rust compiler and standard library, and the Sequoia ecosystem.
[…]
If you maintain a port without a working Rust toolchain, please ensure it has one within the next 6 months, or sunset the port."

FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Now Available
#FreeBSD

SpamAssassin project has been looking for a new logo for three weeks now and apparently hasn't had a single submission.
They are trying to break the link between the name and the old feather logo so it would be good if they could get some help there.
https://lists.apache.org/list?users@sp

@… thanks for linking to the September email,
Plan for "distribution set" deprecation
Do you know of a search engine that can reliably find archived FreeBSD email? Google somehow lost the ability long ago.

Sept 3: Judge Diane Goodstein put a hold on DOJ's request to deliver South Carolina kvoter lists to the federal government.
This is the judge's house in Colleton County on Saturday,
Oct 4.
Three people were hospitalized and law enforcement is investigating

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Love how you can tell people your actual hands-on experience and they will still tell you that you're wrong because it conflicts with what they have read of in theory.
It's like with USB storage. Loads of people will tell me "but the specs! It should work!" and it does, right up until it doesn't. But they won't be told. They have to experience the pain personally first.

Police are investigating after the home of Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein, 69, roared in flames on Edisto Beach.
On Sept 3 Judge Diane Goodstein had put a hold on DOJ's request to deliver South Carolina voter lists to the federal government.
Goodstein's four-bedroom, four bath home went up in smoke at around 11.30am on Saturday, Oct 4
Her family, including her ex-senator husband Arnold Goodstein, was rushed to hospital.
South Carolina Chief Justice John K…

Top judge's $1.5M beachfront home is burned to the ground as her ex-senator husband is rushed to hospital
South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's home became engulfed in flames, causing three to be rushed to hospital. Police have launched an investigation.

I was looking at a set of dumbbells described as "20kg adjustable". The product description lists the individual weights:
4x 0.5kg, 4x 1.25kg, 4x 2.5kg
Plus two bars.
That adds up to 17kg right? So we can determine that each bar weighs 1.5kg by themselves for a max of 10kg per dumbbell.
The reviews are absolutely full of people giving 1 star and writing NOT AS DESCRIBED ONLY 17KG and CAN'T MAKE IT 20KG UNLESS PUT ALL WEIGHTS ON ONE BAR.
🤦‍♂️

Mastodon lists for people's posts excluding boosts.
Is this a feature of any Mastodon client?
I want the from: effect. Focused on the person.
#Mastodon

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

Donald Trump is dialing up pressure on the Justice Department to freshly scrutinize ballots from the 2020 election,
raising tensions with administration officials who think their time is better spent examining voter lists for future elections.

In recent private meetings, public comments and social media posts,
Trump has renewed demands that members of his administration find fraud in the five-year-old defeat that he never accepted.
He recently hired at the White Ho…

Trump escalates demands for 2020 election investigations and prosecutions
The renewed focus on 2020 comes as Trump has begun to see results from his demands to prosecute his critics, including former FBI director James B. Comey.

The latest flurry of activity on the @… users mailing list arguing against my complaint that mailing lists are not fun to operate seems to have caused two lurkers to unsubscribe so far. Presumably because the sudden influx of email made them remember they are on a mailing list.

What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege
— a Capitol Hill concierge service offering the kind of round-the-clock care and personalized access that, in the private sector, is the sort of luxury care only millionaires can afford.
All the while, the nation’s public health care system lists beneath it. 
When a lawmaker collapses, Washington treats it like a national emergency.
In 2012, Senator…

Congress Enjoys Ultra-Luxe Health Care as It Fights to Gut Yours
Congress has ensured its members receive ultra-luxe health care as Republican keep the government closed over stripping it from Americans.