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Kinda related to #Gentoo, so cool" or "they stopped using it, so sad". And I'm like, "why should we care?"
Do they donate money to Gentoo? They don't. And if they did, it would probably come with obligations making this not worth it.
Do they contribute back? Rarely, and if they do, they are unreliable. They benefit more than we do. They just want to dump the packages they need, quickly duct taped together, so that we would maintain them going forward. Their employees rarely reveal that they're paid to do this, and if they do, it's not so they'd be held to higher standards, but to emphasize their importance: "you must placate us."
Well, sometimes they hire Gentoo developers. It's nice that these developers get some gratification for their work, especially if they're able to continue contributing on work time. But in the end, company priorities win. We are either left with loads of new packages with no maintainer and unclear significance, or a Google employee who appeared every once in a while to dump a bunch of ChromeOS patches and never bothered handling the fallout.
So, sorry, but I'd rather care for volunteers who want to make Gentoo better, than companies who see some profit incentive in it.
PS. I'm probably focusing too much on the negative aspects, and we likely had some positive interactions that are far less known and usually don't meet with such fanfare.
#FreeSoftware

Each April, during the week of the new moon,
International Dark Sky (IDS) Week invites people to reclaim the experience of wonder
Timed for the darkest nights of the lunar cycle, the observance encourages individuals and communities to turn off unnecessary lighting and reconnect with the stars.
What began as a small grassroots effort has grown into a global movement with profound ecological, cultural, and spiritual implications.
The event traces its origins to 2003, …

Into the Night: International Dark Sky Week Begins
International Dark Sky Week begins as advocates urge a return to darker nights. As light pollution grows, the observance highlights ecological harm, threatened species, and even the spiritual loss of the stars that once shaped human ritual, story, and connection.

Today in the drizzle I stopped by the Living Library, a beautiful native plant garden near SF's Balboa Park at the San Jose/Seneca intersection. Highly recommend a visit to see some #ceanothus in bloom and California poppies and island mallows beginning to, and much more.

The iMac Pro wouldn’t boot anything including recovery/internet recovery even after a T2 restore.
Hardware test claimed everything is fine. Because hardware test ran fine but it can’t boot and won’t see SSDs even in target disk mode, I’m suspecting one of the SSDs (the iMac Pro has two in a RAID) to be defective (hardware test doesn’t really look into those).
I’m replacing the SSDs and blowing the air ducts out and redo the thermal paste just in case.
Fingers crossed that that will fix it. 🫣
#Marchintosh

from my link log —
ACME, a brief history of a protocol which has changed Internet security.
https://blog.brocas.org/2025/12/01/ACME-a-brief-history-of-one-of-the-protocols-which-has-changed-the-Internet-Security/

As so often, the Internet Archive has come to save the day.
At its newly opened Aadam Jacobs Archive, you can now listen to nearly 2,500 of the concert recordings that volunteers have digitized and uploaded so far.
In that more than a terabyte of files, you’ll find concerts by Nirvana, Phish, Tracy Chapman, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Stereolab, Liz Phair, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, They Might Be Giants (recorded four times in 1988 alone), and the Mekons, a…

10,000 Chicago Concert Recordings Are Being Uploaded to the Internet Archive: Nirvana, Phish, Sonic Youth, They Might Be Giants & More
Perhaps you've had the experience of moving to a new city and immediately being told that you've missed its golden age of live music. To an extent, this has happened in more or less every period of the past fifty or sixty years.

A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822–24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude; and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. To which is added, much useful information on the coasting navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands.
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A voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24: containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude, and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants : Weddell, James : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
iv, 276 p., [4] leaves of plates: ill. (some folded, 1 col.), maps (some folded); 22 cm. Subtitle: To which is added much useful information on the coasting...

On Wednesday night, the Senate rejected a pair of resolutions that would have blocked the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel.
Although the "Joint Resolutions of Disapproval", which were introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) failed to pass,
a record number of Senators backed the effort.
40 Senators backed a resolution would have blocked the sale of $295 million in D9R and D9T Caterpillar bulldozers to Israel
and 36 members voted for a resolution that w…

In historic Senate vote, over 75% of Democrats vote to block arms sales to Israel
In a historic vote, 75% of Senate Democrats backed an effort to block weapons to Israel. The resolutions failed, but the vote was the latest sign of Democrats’ growing consensus against aid to Israel, as support for the country hits an all-time low.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin,
a Michigan Democrat on the Armed Services Committee,
introduced a bill Tuesday to regulate the Pentagon’s use of AI,
-- an opening salvo in how Congress might address the military's use of the technology

Senator introduces bill to limit AI use by military
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, has introduced a bill to the Senate to regulate the Pentagon’s use of AI.

Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months,
including the war in Iran,
the Trump administration has
⚠️ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami.
The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for migrant childrenwho entered the country without parents or adult family members.

Trump Admin Cuts $11 Million in Grant Funds to Catholic Org Amid Feud With Pope
The funds went to an organization that provides shelter and other resources to unaccompanied migrant children.