sam
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Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units"—everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.
The company motto is "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesised drinks to the company of a robot, or "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with", as their robots are described as by the aforementioned Marketing Department.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." #hhgttg #HitchhikersGuide
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
How Accurate is a 125 Year Old Resistance Standard?
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/how-accurate-is-a-125-year-old-resistance-standard/
I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉 [1]
Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.
If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.
Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!
[1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f43-election-results/
On 23 Dec 2025, the #UKgovt lost a huge #Judo contest. #GretaThunberg used the #UKgovt's own power against it.
In July, the UK banned #PalestineAction as "#terrorist". Arrests for supporting PA total ~2,500, mostly older people. #Greta is the latest.
UK public opinion opposes the arrests. But Greta's fame takes the disdain global.
If Greta is convicted, the UK globally looks cruel. If she is acquitted or uncharged, it globally looks weak.
The UK govt has trapped itself, with no way out.
Cloudflare are Making Changes to Avoid Breaking the Internet Again in 2026 https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/12/cloudflare-are-making-changes-to-avoid-breaking-the-internet-again-in-2026.html
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.
The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”
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I did notice the Welcome, Email Verification and Request to join emails still reference your long dead Twitter account. Maybe it’s time to link here instead? 🙂
As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.
@librewolf hi, and thanks for the message.
Just for me to be sure, that's something that comes from Firefox, and you missed it when updating the fork, is that right ?
@librewolf Thank you so much for deciding to not include Generative AI because I am tired of it. It is really nice.
Huh. I did not know YouTube has a size limit on Watch Later.
Leave it to an AuDHDer to find it, eh.
5000.
You can have 5000 videos you've gaslit yourself in to being confident you will later watch.
Currently on Zen (and happy enough tbh) but moving house in a couple of months and constant posts like this give me no choice but to take the opportunity to switch.
BINGO TIME! With CVE-2025-58034, Fortinet secures the crown in my Insecurity Appliance Bingo. This is technically a "high" severity vuln, but since it's being actively exploited and has landed a spot on CISA KEV, I'm admitting it.
Reaching a bingo took longer than expected, with FortiNet and Ivanti sitting at 5/6 vulns since about July. But now, there is a well-deserved winner.
I'm now taking new vuln class and vendor suggestions for next year's edition.
Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.
Blog: Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know - https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2025/11/12/ingress-nginx-retirement/ #Kubernetes
Executive dysfunction is a core component of ADHD and often involved in autism, depression, bipolar, and OCD.
It's a big barrier with widely ranging impacts, from struggles getting started to being unable to stop, from memory issues to indecision.
But, what exactly is executive dysfunction? 🧵
End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.
The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.
This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.
Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446
Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it
Three high severity CVEs in runc announced today https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q4/138, which present a risk of container escape, worth making sure you're patching!
It's not necessarily widely known but runc is a core component in most Kubernetes clusters. Often times you don't install it directly but get it as part of other packages like containerd, but it is there launching all the containers in your cluster.
From a first read through of the advisories, one quote that particularly resonated with me :-
"it is very difficult, if not impossible, to run an untrusted program with root privileges safely."
It's been good advice for a long time to run containers as a non-root user and even where the container needs to run as root, with user namespace support available in Kubernetes, it's a lot easier to avoid the risks of running containers as the host root user!
Hello Fediverse!
We now have an account for Aurora on here :)
Our stable branch is getting ready to move from Fedora 42 to 43, hopefully next week. Also at the same time we are working on our new ISOs that will use the new Anaconda WebUI installer.
We hope to get this to "beta" stage with the F43 stable release.
#LibreWolf v144.0.2-1 is now available!
https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/144.0.2-1
https://librewolf.net/installation/
No major changes from LibreWolf's end.
See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/144.0.2/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.