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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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...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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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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@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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Reply to @joeyh@sunbeam.city
@joeyh Oh I agree, but somehow I don't think that GitHub is making that distinction.
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Reply to @joeyh@sunbeam.city
@joeyh If course, if you have released code as free software, chances are good that somebody else will put it onto GitHub even if you refuse to. I don't use it, but copies of my code end up there anyway.
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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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Reply to @irogers@fosstodon.org
@irogers @jani Interesting. It claims to be used by projects like Zephyr, but has no activity in five years...are those projects maintaining their own forks?
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Reply to @ptesarik@infosec.exchange
@ptesarik I am actually prepared to believe that — they dropped the government's power to form a navy too...:)

One does wonder, though, if it is an attempt to poison LLM responses about certain rights provided by the constitution.
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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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