Did Virginia Regulators Downplay Data Center Health Concerns?
Politico reports that in the Virginia area alone there’s dozens of data center projects “that altogether need 70 gigawatts of power — equivalent to 70 nuclear plants” — currently seeking connection to their grid. But there’s also concerns about a Virginia data center powered with natural gas and backup diesel generators:
When Virginia’s top environ … ⌘ Read more
Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds
“In many parts of the world, lakes are drying out at a scale so massive that scientists are warning they may be emitting enough greenhouse gases to rival our fossil fuel habit,” reports ScienceAlert:
In a new study published in Science, scientists say the Aral Sea — the world’s largest desiccated lake — has emitted a whopping 204 megaton … ⌘ Read more
Hyundai Claims Humanoid Robot Plan Is Not Part of Talks With Striking Workers
Ars Technica reports:
Hyundai Motor Company’s plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company.
The automaker is disputing news reports that partial labor strikes by the Hyundai Motor union at the world’s largest automot … ⌘ Read more
Amazon Cracks Down On Use of AI Images By Sellers
CNBC reports:
Amazon is requiring that third-party sellers label any product images or videos that contain “AI-generated people” after New York recently passed a law mandating greater transparency around “synthetic performers” in ads… The policy directs sellers to tag images [and videos or other graphics on listing pages] with specific metadata keywords before they’re uploade … ⌘ Read more
@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com lol! “Yeah, it was me. What you gonna do about it? Hm? Hm?” Cats. Typical arrogant cats. 😂
For this week’s #Caturday, I have an image that requires a bit of backstory…
Shortly after Emperor Maximilian I retained us as his caretakers (over 8 years ago), we would often return home from our travels to find a handful of pairs of socks scattered around the floor, typically taken from our son’s sock drawer (which was usually overflowing and therefore often left slightly open). We weren’t sure if it was Max (as he was not the only cat in the house) until the day we came home to find this:
Top Online Sites Debate Cutting Off Google’s Crawlers
Futurism reports:
[Some online publications] are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall Street Journal reports, illustrating an increasingly fraught relationship between the tech giant and the publishers that are creating content its AI models are regurgitating. According to the newspaper, prominent outlets including USA Today, Politico, the Eco … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Pretty good! Had an apple, too. 🤣
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ha! 😂
China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones
CNN reports on yaks “designed and cloned” in secretive, high-altitude labs in Tibet — 2.4 miles (4,000 meters) above sea level. They’re a critical part of the local economy, and researchers “hope to create an ‘elite’ herd of super-yaks, healthier and more fertile than their predecessors.”
Both domestic yaks and their wild cousins have been facing threats for years, with som … ⌘ Read more
Board game for one person? Ironing. :‘-D
@david@daiwei.me Oh yeah, a full belly stops everything. :-D
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dang it! You gotta have a chance again after sunset. :-)
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@prologic@twtxt.net Sounds cool, I gotta take a look at it when my brain has some free capacity. :-)
Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You’re a Real Human
Facebook announced Friday they’re launching a badge “that verifies there’s a real person behind a profile”.
“You record a short video selfie, which we check against your existing profile photos to confirm a match. The process is free and typically takes just a few minutes. Accounts must meet our trus … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de A mate showed me a graph reaching 40°C… :-O It’s going to be hell on earth.
Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy
Posted this week is a draft copy of the Fedora Conflict of Interest policy being worked on for dealing with identifying, disclosing, and managing any actual, actual, or perceived conflicts of interest within the Fedora Project… ⌘ Read more
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@prologic@twtxt.net Congrats! 🤘 That sounds disturbingly low-level to me, but I know that it’s no small feat.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de @klaxzy@klaxzy.net @david@daiwei.me I’m in a similar boat, they pushed us to use it, then pushed us to keep our usage below a certain threshold (although they do allow certain “power users” go beyond the limit, LOL). I dragged my feet at first, but they finally broke my spirit about a month before the limits were put into place. Unfortunately, I’ve been doing more managing than coding lately, so I mostly just use it for creating JIRA tickets (I find it to be very good at producing “Agile artifacts”).
@prologic@twtxt.net Copyright infringement is still your best entertainment value.
Risks of Parkinson’s Disease May Increase With Prolonged Exposure to Road Traffic Noise
A large Danish study found a modest but consistent association between long-term road traffic noise exposure and higher Parkinson’s disease risk, with a 3% increase for every 11.5 dB rise in noise at the most exposed side of a home. The Guardian reports: The researchers modeled noise exposure at the … ⌘ Read more
Trump Threatens New Tariffs Against EU Over Google Fine
President Trump threatened a “substantial” new tariff on the European Union after Brussels fined Google more than $1 billion over alleged illegal trade practices. “The European Union will pay a very big price for this illegal and highly unethical conduct, which I have consistently warned them about,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “The penalties will be entirely reve … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I also got up at 5 (I always do 😅) and went on a quick stroll around 6:30, but boy, that was chilly. So I said to myself: Screw that, I’ll try again later.
And now we’re at 32 °C. 🤣
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s “shaping” up to where I think I want it to go 😅
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, sound impressive, I gotta try this. 👌
Next heat wave coming up?
Still a few days to go, luckily, and these models aren’t super accurate … we’ll see …
@david@daiwei.me Yes!
So, a hobby OS, just like Linux was for Linus?
Although this is really an exercise is self-hosting a lagnguage, then self-hosting the language to build a self-hosting OS. It’s all meta-circular.
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
I just taught the scc SLOC tool I use how to detect and recognize the Mu programming language. So it’s actually a bit worse than your estimate. It’s more like ~60/30 at the moment:
>>> mu = 1445
>>> asm = 2365
>>> T = mu + asm
>>> mu / T * 100
37.9265091863517
>>> asm / T * 100
62.07349081364829
muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly "nucleus", most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
@david@daiwei.me It’s somewhat expected to have a fair bit of Assembly (machine code) to get some of the bits you need going. But I think I can reduce this a bit. Let’s see…
Dunno if anyone will find this interesting… But some ~6 months or so ago I experimented briefly with creating a whole bootloader + kernel + userland – Basically an entire OS in the Mu programming language (which as you know I also designed and created) – 6 months later I’ve worked on it some more after spending the last week working on improvements to Mu itself, which is now able to compile itself with its own Mu implemented compiler and now have an os/arch backend called muos/amd64 that boots into a running shell, with a tiny little vfs, UNIX-like semantics, syscalls, read/write, etc. It works pretty nicely, and aside from a small Assembly “nucleus”, most of the Kernel and Userspace is written in Mu.
Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME
Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME… ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.14 Released
Wine 11.14 is out with initial WoW64 mode support on FreeBSD, allowing 32-bit Windows applications to run on a 64-bit system without relying on 32-bit multilib support. The release also adds Start Menu icon support in Wine Explorer, 7.1 format conversions in DirectSound, AES-GMAC support in BCrypt, and 21 bug fixes affecting apps and games including Adobe Reader, Heroes of the Storm, and Age of Empires I and II. Additional details can b … ⌘ Read more
Bwahahahaha, wie geil! :‘-D Wenn Österreicher Hochdeutsch sprechen müssen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-l1wfIDXY Gestern Abend den Austrian Kiwi entdeckt, ein Neuseeländer, der seit ein paar Jahren in Österreich lebt. Der hat ein paar absolut großartige Videos.
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations
GNU developers today released GNU C Library “glibc” 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms… ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Type hints are just… so weird.
KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool
KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fixes coming about this week too… ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see! :-D So, how was your banana then?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ruff, the formatter/linter, yeah.
Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D
No wonder. I just made that up. 🤣
Why.
Python’s numeric types complex, float and int are not subtypes of each other, but to support common use cases, the type system contains a straightforward shortcut: when an argument is annotated as having type float, an argument of type int is acceptable; similar, for an argument annotated as having type complex, arguments of type float or int are acceptable.
https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/special-types.html#special-cases-for-float-and-complex
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you! It’s so annoying. Ruff, the formatter?
Lol, never heard of that banana moment before, but it sounds very fitting. :-D
Valve begin improving account switching in the latest Steam Beta
Account switching is still not great on Steam but it seems Valve are aware and have started making some tweaks to make it a smoother experience.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
(Wieder so ’n „soll ich’s einfach lassen und lieber ’ne Banane essen“-Moment.)
Bonus points for this:
$ man ruff
No manual entry for ruff
GE-Proton 11-3 brings better OptiScaler integration, AMD FSR4 improvements and lots of game fixes
GE-Proton 11-3 (and 11-2 just before) is a huge release for the popular compatibility layer for SteamOS / Linux.
Read the full article on [GamingOnLinux](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/ge-proton-11-3-brings-better-optiscaler-integration-amd-fsr4-impro … ⌘ Read more
I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo tired of “fast-moving” software. ruff changed a ton of stuff and now all my code bases “need fixing”. Blah.
And SemVer is worth nothing if your 4 year old program with over 16’000 commits is still at “version 0.x”. Blah!
Everything is horrible.
Wine 11.14 brings improvements for DirectSound, BCrypt, FreeBSD
The Wine 11.14 development release is officially out now bringing with it an assortment of new features to improve Windows apps / games on other platforms.
Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. ⌘ Read more
Got up at 5 to have a shower and air out the bathroom before the sun hits, went back to bed. Strolled with my mate for one and a half hours and now I’m absolutely done. At 8 the temps were pleasantly cool, but that didn’t last long.
SpaceX’s Starship Megarocket Hits Key Milestones In Its ‘Lucky 13’ Test Flight
SpaceX’s Friday launch of its massive Starship rocket “went quite smoothly,” reports CNN, with a SpaceX spokesperson calling this mission “Lucky Number 13” (as the 13th integrated flight test for a Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket booster):
During Starship V3’s inaugural test, there were numerous engine i … ⌘ Read more
For the tags feed it would be cool to include the actual changelog entries
Did that now:
🥳