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
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…
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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"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.