2026-04-15 20:46:14
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sally Shapiro:
🎵 Guarding Shell
#SallyShapiro
https://sallyshapiro.bandcamp.com/track/guarding-shell-tommy-86-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OivevZQv8Y25Vz7YbLsZq
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sally Shapiro:
🎵 Guarding Shell
#SallyShapiro
https://sallyshapiro.bandcamp.com/track/guarding-shell-tommy-86-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OivevZQv8Y25Vz7YbLsZq
Oh I do love how you have your Kitten¹ app’s database in memory – thanks to Kitten’s built-in JavaScript Database (JSDB)² – and accessible via the Kitten Shell (REPL)³ during dev.
(If I do say so myself.) ;)
:kitten:💕
¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
²
Sources: Microsoft sidelined some Copilot-branded AI features on Windows 11 after the Recall delay, and shipped some promised features without the Copilot name (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.
Paramount President Jeff Shell faces a $150M lawsuit over an alleged PR contract from an ex-advisor who also claims Shell disclosed Paramount's plans to him (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-jeff-shell-sue…
Wahey! Finally got a shell on my Asus Zenbook (the one with the deadscreen); the hacked ePD converter is working in the firmware, but Linux isn't happy with it - yet - so a lot of cloud-init hackery with the qualcomm ubuntu images was needed; I still need to figure out how to run the install to the M.2 🙂
'Snapdragon(R) X - X126100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) CPU 460 CPU @ 3.2GHz'
🧵 1/n
Ich glaube ja nicht an diesen "Öl- und Gas-Preis-"Schock""! Preisschwankungen bei Öl und Gas hat es auch früher schon gegeben. Als Kinder haben wir uns einen Spaß draus gemacht, die höchsten (Shell V Power) und die niedrigsten (LPG) Preise an den Tankstellen auszumachen! Diese ganze Hysterie um Öl- und Gaspreise dient doch nur dazu, Big Strom noch bigger zu machen!!!
Zena Linux, that bootc container image with Mangowc and Niri, is humming along nicely. Finally spending some time to clean up configs for both wm's. And Fastfetch to do also 😜
#archlabs #mangowc #zenalinux
Wayland-Referenz-Compositor Weston 15 mit Lua-Shell und Vulkan-Renderer
Der Wayland-Referenz-Compositor Weston ist in Version 15 erschienen. Sie bringt einen Vulkan-Renderer und eine Lua-Shell mit.
h…
Sources: Paramount is unlikely to appoint a direct successor to Jeff Shell after his departure; Shell had few direct reports and did not lead WBD negotiations (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-jeff-shell-replacement-plans-1236785050/…
The Steve Buscemi meme where he wears the backward hat, has slung a skateboard over his shoulder, and is wearing a generic band tee.
https://bsky.app/profile/shellelittle.bsky.social/post/3meohry532s2k
Gail Slater,
the chief antitrust enforcer at DOJ,
has just resigned,
-- a prelude to this settlement happening.
Slater was cut out of the negotiations with MAGA lobbyists on the Live Nation case.
DOJ is just a corrupt shell at this point.
https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.s…
Gina Verrastro will speak on 'Give ‘Em Shell: Joyful Automation For The Busy Programmer' as part of our Developer track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Source: Jeff Shell is ousted as Paramount president even as a report from a law firm cleared Shell of claims that he shared confidential information (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/jeff-shell-fired-paramount-president-1236784545/
Okay, removed the second MiSTer and made room for the OG Mega Drive/Genesis. Got it hooked up, found the right power adapter and SCART cable, and even cleaned it up a bit. Think I'm done futzing around with the shelf for the time being.
#retrogaming #nes
from my link log —
emacs-tramp-rpc: high-performance TRAMP backend using MsgPack-RPC.
https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
saved 2026-02-07
She helped decriminalize homosexuality in India. Now she'll become its first out Parliament member. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/03/she-helped-decriminalize-homosexuality-in-india-now-shell-become-its-first-out-parliament-member/
'A shell of our former self': How Trump and Musk's spending cuts are hampering US government readiness amid the Iran war (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/doge-government-spending-cuts-iran-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p38#a260310p38
I found an odd shell bug & I'm not entirely sure who's at fault. Some interaction between screen, ANSI colors & grep seems to make a char disappear.
Reproducer: run this in screen on a terminal with 80 chars width:
echo -e 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx12345'|grep 234
The "4" disappears mysteriously... Seems to be caused by escape code '[K' from grep. I'd appreciate explanations whethe…
Today was one of the rare occasions when I bought gas (petrol) for my plugin hybrid car. I went to the local Shell station to use its car wash as a great deal of salt is being put on the road recently and I wanted to protect the car, if I could.
When I got home I checked out the Shell webpage and found this item
💻 Supported RAT commands: ping (heartbeat every 60s), info (system recon), cmd, powershell, run (background shell), screenshot, download, upload, stop
🛡️ Shell execution probes disable_functions and picks first available method from: popen, proc_open, exec, shell_exec, system, passthru — resilient against common #PHP hardening
🔄 C2 connection retries every 15 seconds in a persistent l…
Running legacy services directly on a public IP is a mess in 2026.
I've got a toy project listening on :23 (Telnet) and :22 (SSH), on a public IP. I've only shared this information with a few friends. Scanners are finding it.
I had to put a “enter nnnn at the prompt" on the Telnet port.
Tonight's new abuse: one SSH connection but MANY session channels within that connection, probing for accounts (on a system that is not serving login/shell on this ssh port)…
Wondering what to do rather than buy a missile or bomb today?
You could feed all the region's hungry children for the cost of this war
Or cure a disease
Or buy this €30,000 🪗 instead of a drone
Cavagnolo Digit AiR Série LB12 Carbon Fibre Digital/Analog Optical Switch Bluetooth OLED Screen, weighs 1.5 kilos (3.3 lbs!)
Attempting to use arch, btw, in a VM for the first time (to set up a ngscopeclient CI builder).
Coming from Debian... wow this is not a noob distro lol. So far I've had to manually partition the disk in a shell, configure everything from the keymap to the time zone by editing config files or creating symlinks. There's no top level install tool as far as I can tell.
And grub didn't auto detect anything so now I have I think a fully installed system but I'm stuck in…
This newly processed image from the NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest view yet of the #EggNebula: #PreplanetaryNebula, a structure of gas and dust created as a Sun-like star approaches the end of its life. The Egg that we see now will eventually hatch, revealing a white dwarf at its centre and leaving its shell to become a spectacular planetary nebula.
What I was talking about previously. This is exactly what I wanted 😎 Zena is a bootc-based, immutable Linux desktop with the Cachy kernel, Niri, MangoWC, and Dank Material Shell. Even more importantly: it uses an adaptation of the Nix pkg manager (Zix) to install applications (next to Flatpaks and Distrobox). Wow!
#zena
I used this as reference when teaching Bash and would recommend students picked up a copy. Don't know how the 2026 edition is but previous editions were worth the money, especially to new shell programmers. https://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/shop/eh
TIL that in :nixos: #nix, "${./mydir}" will survive a garbage collection, but a plain ./mydir will not!
Took me way too long to figure this out. Didn't help that `just` gives a stupid error message about a missing shell when it can't change into its -d working directory. 🤦
The 'pv' #Linux utility is quite nice as you can track any process read process with the -d option. But what if it is not installed?
p=long_run_prog_name; while pgrep $p >/dev/null; do echo $(date -Isec) $(awk -v s=$(stat -c %s infile) '/pos/{printf "%.3f %%\n", 100*$2/s}' $(eval echo /proc/{$(pgrep -d, $p)}/fdinfo/3) ); sleep 30;done
'infile' is …
Hat sich Wadephul inzwischen dazu geäußert, was genau die langfristige Strategie der USA im Iran ist, die er verstanden haben will? War das "verbrannte Erde und Shell räumt hinterher auf", oder was?
Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell (in epileptic mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64269-2
Shell's share price is sharply up since Trump and Netanyahu started their war.
Investors seem confident that its assets in the Gulf will survive.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/shell-says-pearl-gt…
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeff-shell-negotiating-exit-…
A comprehensive line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition (1973) source code. Covers the kernel, file system, device drivers, shell, and utilities.
https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
The thing I would most like to see come from the Claude Code leak is not (just) that all the LLM-focused tools incorporate the features that were exposed, but that *bash itself* build in the things that Claude is trying to do with scripting, and make them part of the shell.
Man, 24, sparks evacuation at French hospital after doctors find 8ins-long live WW1 artillery shell in his rectum (Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15519391/Man-24-sparks-evacuation-French-hospital-doctors-8ins-long-live-WW1-artillery-shell-rectum.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p120#a260202p120
Running legacy services directly on a public IP is a mess in 2026.
I've got a toy project listening on :23 (Telnet) and :22 (SSH), on a public IP. I've only shared this information with a few friends. Scanners are finding it.
I had to put a “enter nnnn at the prompt" on the Telnet port.
Tonight's new abuse: one SSH connection but MANY session channels within that connection, probing for accounts (on a system that is not serving login/shell on this ssh port)…
Huh, I hadn't realised the Shell Sort was named after someone; a Donald Shell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shell
🔀 Native parallel execution: independent phases dispatched as concurrent subagent batches with non-overlapping file ownership — no waiting, no blocking
🛡️ Least-privilege 4-tier security model:
Read-Only − Architect, Code Reviewer
Read Shell − Debugger, Security Engineer
Read Write − Technical Writer, Product Manager
Full Access − Coder, Tester, DevOps
📋 Standalone commands without full orchestration:
/review /debug /security-audit
Ach, ich hab immer via Shell geguckt, ob bei mail was bei username@localhost angekommen ist (für privaten Rechner brauch ich kein Forwarding an richtige Mail).
Gerade der Gedanke, ich kann die einfach in Thunderbird als lokalen Ordner anzeigen. Mit Flatpak grob so
1. Bei Flatpak Zugriff auf Ordner /var/mail erlauben
3. `ln -s /var/mail/USERNAME "/home/USERNAME/.var/app/org.mozilla.Thunderbird/.thunderbird/CHECKMICH.default-release/Mail/Local Folders/System-Mail"
So far, so good. Getting ready to tackle the Phantom Forest in FF6 (about 4.5 hours in) and everything is proceeding smoothly. No issues with SRAM or the EPROM. Also, FF6 is so very, very good...
#snes #customCart
Paramount President Jeff Shell was absent on Monday's WBD investor call, sources say amid an internal probe that he leaked details about a UFC deal in 2025 (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/paramount-president-jeff-she…
SHELLING OF KYIV: Russians carried out a MASSIVE strike #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/shelling-of-kyiv-russians-carried.html
Europa’s ice thickness and subsurface structure characterized by the Juno microwave radiometer: #Europa
😻 "A comprehensive line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition (1973) source code. Covers the kernel, file system, device drivers, shell, and utilities. This commentary explains not just what the code does, but why it was designed that way."
https://gith…
I added enough Linux support to picolibc to run lua; the lua test suite found a number of core picolibc bugs. This whole adventure suddenly turns out to have actual value and not just comic relief.
I now have a shell script that adapts gcc to using picolibc and have built a small number of applications including snek, nickle and lua.
exec cc -static --specs=picolibc.specs "$@"
If you're using #gnupg with a keyserver for "gpg --refresh-keys" and you're running into the bug of getting aborted with "No data", this script is a good workaround for updating your keys of a single email domain using a (organization) key server:
Just found out about the "take" command in Oh My Zsh, and oh my (pun intended) is it useful!
As the name suggests, it's a command that takes you where you want to be, combining multiple tools (e.g. mkdir cd) into one neat little command.
Found a nice article explaining what it does for anyone who's not familiar with it already:
Non-dipole effects in two-photon sweeping of the K-shell of an atomic ion
A. N. Hopersky, A. M. Nadolinsky, S. A. Novikov, R. V. Koneev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07283 https://…
My #Lego stash was getting out of hand and taking over most of my office. So, enjoy some pictures of the build process.
Another day of dealing with the headache caused by Unixy text processing tools, close to writing a custom one for my purpose instead of chaining up a pipeline of... 4? 5?
curl, csplit, head, sed... aaaah...
Wrapping it all in a Makefile turned out to be hard yet again, so part of it is delegated to a shell script.
[Paramount president] Jeff Shell Pushes Back On Threatened Lawsuit Over Paramount Information
https://deadline.com/2026/02/jeff-shell-lawsuit-threat-paramount-1236734038/
Idea: a moltbot that agentically finds shell scripts online and `curl | bash`es them as root to see what they do
GNU Parallel is such a nice program. It has a bunch of features that, sure, you could cobble together with a program or shell script, but that with Parallel are just a flag away.
Like, “read 1MB chunks from stdin, adjust chunk boundaries so they always start with a specified delimiter, then run N copies of this command where each copy gets a subset of chunks on stdin”.
It’s just --pipe --round-robin --recstart 'some delimiter'.
Last night I used this to search a Li…
"Back in my day, we walked to school in the snow. Uphill. Both ways. And we spent hours at the terminal learning commands and syntax." 😂
https://www.nlsh.dev/
from my link log —
landdown: simple sandboxing for shell scripts.
https://git.sr.ht/~marcc/landdown
saved 2026-04-03 https://dotat.at/:/FP8TQ.html
🥳 New JavaScript Database (JSDB) release
• Fix: Now properly handling array indices on `JSTable.PERSIST` events in the `keypath` property that’s passed to the event handler.
Just noticed that the pretty keypaths of the JavaScript deltas written to the append-only log were ignoring array indices while playing with a new database introspection call I’m adding to the Kitten Interactive Shell (REPL) and fixed it.
I’ll be updating Kitten shortly to use this version of JSDB and I…
i don't remember pip complaining this much about virtual environments and running as root and whatnot. i'm trying to run a shell script piss off
Observant walkers
Will soon find broken turquoise
Shards along the path
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt - shell
"Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in fossil fuel firms rise despite divestment claims"
#Climate #ClimateChange
Still not feeling great, but figured today would be a great day to finally test out the entirety of the custom FF6 cart I built so long ago. Broke out the Sony PVM-2530, got everything hooked up, and now it's time to beat all of the things down.
The SNES is modded with Voultar's SNESRGB mod, and the video/audio goes out via a SCART connector into the SCART switch (`gscart`), then into the CMPTR adapter, _then_ into the Sony PVM.
I do have two SCART switches, and if you…
Cowboys Free-Agent ‘Wish List’ Includes Speedy George Pickens Replacement https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/free-agent-wish-list-george-pickens/
I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with
Steve Bourne is internationally known for his work on the UNIX operating system.
During his career he spent 20 years in senior engineering management positions at computer systems and networking companies.
These included Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment and Silicon Graphics.
Since 2000 he has been Chief Technology Officer at El Dorado Ventures (now Rally Ventures) in Menlo Park, California
Upcoming
The Design of Unix Shell, Stephen R. Bourne
…
Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)
Filing: Paramount president Jeff Shell says the allegation that he leaked corporate info is an "utterly false tale" created by a "fixer" who sued him for $150M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/param
Just ran a successful non-interactive build and test cycle of ngscopeclient in a Debian VM with a PCIe passthrough GPU.
Just start the VM from the snapshot, paste a handful of shell commands into a SSH session, and I get this.
Still need to work out how to actually spawn the VM, specify the hash I want to build, shut it down and revert when done, etc.
Took only three and a half minutes on this instance (16GB RAM, 16 vCPU, GTX 1630) which is pretty decent considering there w…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Me'Shell NdegéOcello:
🎵 Picture Show
#MeShellNdegéOcello
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Mark Vernon:
🎵 Only the Shell Can Tell
#MarkVernon
Apple might be in a better position than others to launch this successfully because it can build it on an established base (all iPhones out there). Still don‘t see the use cases though. And don‘t even mention privacy issues 🙄
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin - https://apple.slashdot.org/s…
An outside law firm is probing a claim that Paramount President Jeff Shell leaked details of 2025's Paramount-UFC deal almost a month before its announcement (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.
In all excitement et all I tend to forget how solid nwg-shell on Sway actually is. All frills if you want them, it just works. Foot as terminal is making a strong comeback also. Slackware Tilers has been my main home for 40 days now. Ain't leaving anytime soon.
#slackware #nwg_shell
Es gab mal eine Zeit, da habe ich den vi sogar zum Schreiben von Artikeln genutzt.
Das war im Endeffekt ineffektiv.
Dennoch kann ich jedem, der immer mal wieder auf der Shell arbeiten muss, empfehlen, den Umgang damit zu lernen.
https://www.
Shelling of Zaporizhzhia: consequences of Russia’s attack on a residential district #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/shelling-of-zaporizhzhia-consequences-of.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Me'Shell NdegéOcello:
🎵 Deuteronomy: Niggerman
#MeShellNdegéOcello
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yILjuHFFSNM0NsT7KQjyt
Me: I really need to launch the things I’m building with Kitten¹ this year.
Also me: You know what would be sweet? If I added an introspection API to make working with the Kitten Shell (REPL)² easier.
(It is going to be sweet though. Prototyping it in the REPL now and I’ll record a little demo when I’m done and it’s released. It’s going to make examining and affecting the state of the client from the server interactively even easier.)
¹
shell scripts wear out over time btw
sh is not a shell
SSH is not a protocol
🎭 Threat actor also published 3 clean packages (lara-media, snooze, syslog) to build credibility before deploying malicious ones — classic supply chain deception
💀 Impact: Full remote shell access, arbitrary file read/write, harvesting of .env contents including database credentials & API keys — RAT runs at app boot with same permissions as the web app
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/115990762258946955
shell prompt reinforcing situational awareness by containing username, hostname, working directory
“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…
Michigan Attorney General
Dana Nessel on Friday
filed an antitrust lawsuit against four major oil companies,
asserting they have colluded for decades to forestall competition from renewable energy,
including electric vehicles.
The suit filed in U.S. District Court in western Michigan
names BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute.
The suit said the companies acted
"as a cartel, agreeing to reduce the production and d…
Start of the Dutch hydrogen backbone: Shell's 200 MW Holland Hydrogen 1 electrolyser (to be commissioned end of this year) now connected to 32 km of regional hydrogen pipeline of Hynetwork through the Port of Rotterdam.
https://www.
Dripping to Destruction - Exploring Salt-driven Viscous Surface Convergence in Europa’s Icy Shell: #Europa
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tim Reaper:
🎵 Z Shell
#TimReaper
https://koolfm.bandcamp.com/track/z-shell
https://open.spotify.com/track/6kEUHqiaYhYFzCEnYY251G
It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."
hmm i had got the impression that poached eggs are tricky
because of all the fussy things tv chefs do
like swirling the water or adding vinegar or separating the loose white from the tight white
but i thought, what’s the worst that could happen if i don’t do any of those things?
it turns out, nothing bad
so, just
bring a pan of salted water up to a bare simmer
break eggs from the shell directly into the pan so they are a few cm apart
leave them…
The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637 - A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a #Supernova Progenitor Star: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae04de -> Webb locates former star that exploded as supernova: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2604/ & https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-telescope-locates-former-star-that-exploded-as-supernova/ -
Webb shows star was surrounded by a vast shell of carbon-rich dust.
Cool thing of NixOS. You need a package temporarily (i.c. wget), run 'nix-shell -p wget" and after some brief magic you can use it in that session. So that Crux iso came down very smoothly.
Anyone for the outdatedness of Slackware?
My Slackware Tilers setup runs Sway, with the nwg-shell. And Mangowc with Noctalia. And Niri with Dank. Hyprland is available, but not installed. And Slackware Current. All from one iso and repository by @… . Smart thing: package sets are linked by symbolic links. Type "slackpkg install dank" and you'll se…
A look at Clickout, which has bought hundreds of websites to harvest their reputations and pack them with casino links; in 2024, it had £40M in revenue (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-seo-parasites-bu…