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Man did I pick up a good book right now: The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
A journalist from Spain went to Nigeria and located a few Nigerian scammers that run all of these romance/gift card scams and wrote about who they are, how they get into it, how they live etc. It's a bit unreal how it's almost like a sport to these guys. Very fascinating.
It's says unreleased but somehow my library had this /shrug

„The message heard loud and clear here in Europe was that the U.S. is an unreliable security and technology partner willing to throw any partner under the bus, at any time, for any reason.”
Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/euro

ICYMI: Why did Meta get smacked with a $25 billion dollar fine for Cambridge Analytica? Scroll thru the jury decisions here. It’s unreal. Zuck lied the whole time. https://www.techpolicy.press/eight-years-on-cambridge-analytica-scandal-catc…

Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

Nelda Damiano, the museum’s Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, said, “I think what's going to be most apparent is the dramatic shifts in style from almost one decade to another or from a century to another. For example, saints were represented in a way that felt elevated and unrelatable in the 15th century to figures that were humanized and with whom viewers could identify with in the 16th century.”
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RE: #Keycloak is unaffected by the CVE. https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/54333

It's kinda amazing if you think about the fact that the IT industry manages to run services like google, amazon, facebook with close to zero downtime, which is quite an achievement and probably difficult in different ways for each of those, yet, at the same time, the one service that everyone working in this industry needs for their job all the time is famous for being notoriously unreliable.

Nicht ganz unrelated zum Beitrag vorher (nach Neustart läuft jetzt erstmal alles wieder flüssig, habe aber auch gesehen, dass in den Tiefen der Windows-Einstellungen automatische Text- und Bildgenerierung angeschaltet war) gucke ich mal, ob ich das Zeug, was noch bei Onedrive liegt, vielleicht doch lieber meine Nextcloud umziehe.

"one of your most important tasks will be to mend the UF administration’s broken relationship with faculty. For too long, we’ve been treated like a problem rather than a partner — an unruly adversary to be silenced, sidelined or disciplined rather than a core part of the university community."
https://www.alligator.org/article/2026/10/union-letter

Feeling a little entitled and grouchy about Nobara Linux today. It's a great distribution and a remarkable achievement from mostly one developer. But there's a sense that the update mechanism is brittle and can break systems. He launched something new last week where updates are deferred until reboot. Not ideal, but may solve some problems.
Today I'm learning the new updater may have broken Timeshift, a system snapshotting tool. And the fix may be some scary surgery from a USB rescue disk :-(
In an unrelated problem, one of the software repositories has an HTTP bug that's breaking updates.