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Taken in Porto last week - definitely a pretty place
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Reply to @liw@toot.liw.fi
@liw @lwn the world will survive, barely, but we miss you anyway!
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Reply to @liw@toot.liw.fi
@liw I have found https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/ to be a most helpful add-on for such sites; I think there's a Chrome version too.
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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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Reply to @pixelambacht@typo.social
@pixelambacht The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner featuring, among other things, the original network worm! Had I not encountered that book at an impressionable age, I might never have entered this field at all.
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Jonathan Corbet

Some days simply require going for a bike ride
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Reply to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft The LF has essentially left the LLM question to each of its sub-projects to answer; official guidance at:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai
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Reply to @sjvn@mastodon.social
@sjvn I agree with @etchedpixels that this is a wasted effort. Given the effort that these companies go through to bypass any sorts of controls that web sites try to put up, they certainly aren't going to pay attention to an additional file purporting to lay down conditions for use.
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Reply to @_hic_haec_hoc@fosstodon.org
@_hic_haec_hoc The image that always stuck with me was the emergency backup space-weather radar.

(Four dogs cowering under the table).
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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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Jonathan Corbet

...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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Reply to @sjvn@mastodon.social
@sjvn Interesting ... it turns up various versions of Linux Device Drivers, of course. But it also finds a refereed paper I published in 1994 ... those were the days ...

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/75/5/1520-0477_1994_075_0783_zsfida_2_0_co_2.xml
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Reply to @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
@jwildeboer @briankrebs @Em0nM4stodon @joriki "Shame" is not something these folks know much about. I was approached by Bright Data, which offered a special program to protect LWN from their scraperbots ... a nice little protection racket they run on the side, it seems...
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Jonathan Corbet

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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Reply to @josefbacik@hachyderm.io
@josefbacik Oh wow ... I'm glad for you, but you'll be badly missed in these parts. Do come visit sometimes, OK?
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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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