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For whatever reason, I seem to have ended up with a position high on the list of people who, somebody thinks, are desperate to borrow money for their company from random people who show up offering it. It's generally at least a half-dozen phone calls and texts per day, plus all of the emails.

I'm guessing the scam is something like "we'll wire you the money right away, just give us your account number", or "the financing is all lined up, we just need you to pay an administrative fee first". I am not curious enough to find out.

It sure would be nice if all those bozos would go away.
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Every town in Italy (as in much of Europe) has its own special cheese that is made only there. Still, this one, found in Norcia, struck me as a bit more special than most...

No, I didn't try it.
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There are days when I feel like I want to find a different world to live in; this post from Kevin Kelly has brought that feeling to the fore. Consider:
Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that their books are included in the education and training of AIs.

Or perhaps...

If a book can be more easily parsed by an AI, its influence will be greater. Therefore many books will be written and formatted with an eye on their main audience. Writing for AIs will become a skill like any other, and something you can get better at. Authors could actively seek to optimize their work for AI ingestion, perhaps even collaborating with AI companies to ensure their content is properly understood, and integrated.

Kevin has certainly consumed large amounts of Kool-Aid on this one. Personally, I plan to keep writing for humans, even if that is seemingly obsolete.

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Taken in Porto last week - definitely a pretty place
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It would appear that US folks have until Monday to provide comments on the administration's plan to say that greenhouse gasses are just fine and there is no need to try not to emit them:

https://electrek.co/2025/09/20/2-days-left-to-comment-on-epas-plan-to-raise-gas-prices-76c-gal-kill-thousands/
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On the radar: running multiple Linux kernels on a single system:

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250918222607.186488-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com

Just really looking at the patches now, could be interesting.
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Some days simply require going for a bike ride
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Ouch, Stefano Benni is gone. Reading "Terra!" and "Elianto" in Italian was a great joy; he will be missed.

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2025/09/e-morto-lo-scrittore-stefano-benni-aveva-78-anni-e080cace-95a3-4b81-8dc2-6133e48c9c7c.html
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...that feeling of dread that comes when your bank starts sending cheery emails about how wonderful their reimplemented app is going to be...
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For folks (like me) who have a SunPower solar monitoring system installed, this is of interest. A CVE for the system providing power to my home!

On the one hand, it's a gaping hole in a bit of critical household technology that could let an attacker screw with my power production. On the other, it may also be a path toward gaining more control over this device, which (I like to think, at least) I happen to own.

https://daganhenderson.com/blog/2025/09/cve-2025-9696
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Under the current administration, the nation's public health infrastructure has been thoroughly and deliberately wrecked. Among other things, that has made it difficult to obtain COVID vaccines. Some of us would still really rather not catch COVID, so this is a problem.

For those of us who live in Colorado, at least, the state government is a bit more together; the public health department has essentially written a prescription to all Colorado residents enabling them to be vaccinated if they so choose. I've made my appointment.

https://cdphe.colorado.gov/covid-19/vaccine
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Software Freedom Conservancy

Worried about the future of installing your own software on your Android device? @conservancy is hosting a Q&A to update you about sideloading software as well as other tips about how to ensure your phone runs the software you want, without any artificial restrictions. Join us on BigBlueButton this Friday September 5th at 15:00 UTC (08:00 US/Pacific, 11:00 US/Eastern, 17:00 CEST)

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/sep/3/sfc-qa-on-how-to-keep-your-sideloading/
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Sigh ... it seems that the Groklaw domain has fallen into the hands of people who ... are inconsistent with the history of this site. I guess it's time to replace all the links on LWN with wayback machine equivalents.

https://fossforce.com/2025/08/groklaw-domain-hijacked-site-now-serving-crypto-content/
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For several summers now we have gotten our veggies by way of a community supported agriculture program. It's a great way to get lots of fresh, hyper-local produce, always getting the best of what's in season.

I will confess, though, that I begin to weary of zucchini season.
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@brennen This is one of the reasons why I haven't been hugely tempted to add a system like Anubis to @lwn ... it always seems that, once it started actively getting in the way of the scraperbots, they would just add the code to solve the challenges. These people aren't running the scrapers on their own computers, after all, they have little reason to care about burning more CPU time.

What a world we have created for ourselves.

RE: https://federation.p1k3.com/@brennen/115034083662379513
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The fact that Microsoft is reorganizing the management of GitHub, which it purchased in 2018, is not particularly surprising.

The fact that it is being moved into Microsoft's AI operation, though, says a lot about what GitHub is actually for now.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
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So it seems that the Constitution of the United States, as posted on congress.gov, is missing a few sections, including insignificant text like "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended".

I'm sure this is just an innocent editing mistake.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
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For a while now, the kernel's configuration and build systems have been an area of concern for me. Almost nobody truly understands those complex subsystems, which were handled by a single maintainer.

That maintainer, Masahiro Yamada, has just stepped down after eight years on the job:

https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8d6841d5cb20

Happily, Nathan Chancellor and Nicolas Schier have agreed to pick up the build system. The configuration system, instead, is now unmaintained. That ... seems less than optimal.

Thanks to Masahiro for doing this work all these years, and to Nathan and Nicolas for stepping up!
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This ... is not something I approve of ... to put it politely ...

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding
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"I credit a good portion of my success to knowledge and insight I've gained from lwn articles."

("sophacles" on HN)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747514

That is what we want @lwn to be, so it is nice to read a comment like that.
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