Tootfinder

OK so checking tracking it looks like the 4U case for the VM server is coming Tuesday, so is the power supply. The heatsink isn't due until Friday.
But I might re-case the box even with the existing heatsink when the PSU/case come in. It will let me swap some PCIe cards around, and hopefully improve thermals at least a bit with the larger fans and better airflow even before the big heatsink comes in.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Hot Snakes:
🎵 Gar Forgets His Insulin
#HotSnakes
https://hotsnakes.bandcamp.com/track/gar-forgets-his-insulin
https://open.spotify.com/track/47OcwjhB4AQhBlJxo15NZh

UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools (Carter Johnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

En nu gaat iedereen natuurlijk roepen dat een minderheidskabinet niet gaat werken, maar #hetkanwel 😀 #D66 #politiek

One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.

Justice Dept.'s Civil Rights Division Is Investigating Star Witness Against Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/nyregion/doj-cassidy-hutchinson-investigation-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p114#a260407p114

🥳 New module release: Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI Client
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/hetzner-cloud-openapi-client
This is an OpenAPI client for Node.js generated from the official Hetzner Cloud OpenAPI specification using Massimo.
Recently, while reviewing t…

"Do you need a liberal education? We say that it is unpatriotic not to read these books."
""The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
Robert M Hutchins (of Great Books fame)

London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/02/05/bound-secures-245m-series-a-to-expand-fx-hedging-tools/…

We speak with economist
Michael Hudson,
who details how Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations.
“The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,”
but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson.
The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says

A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade
We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations. “The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,” but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson. The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says.