Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default
Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04… ⌘ Read more

Alexa Can’t Control the AUX Input On Amazon Echo Speakers Anymore
Amazon has removed Alexa voice control for the 3.5mm aux input on several older Echo speakers, meaning users can no longer ask Alexa to play or pause audio coming through the wired connection. It’s unclear why the feature was removed. The Verge reports: Ars Technica points to this Reddit poster claiming they received a message from Amaz … ⌘ Read more

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Always using UTC in logs helps a ton.

The worst are logs were timestamps miss any timezone information at all. Makes me furious.

Dealing with time is always great fun…

Asos Confirms Hackers Sent ‘Unauthorized’ Notification to App Users
ASOS says hackers gained unauthorized access to third-party platforms it uses and sent an “ASOS HACKED” push notification directly to customers, apparently as part of an extortion attempt. The clothing and beauty store says some basic personal information may have been accessed but does not believe payment-card data or passwords were affected. T … ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Haha, we had the same joke. :-D Took them also many attempts to include a timestamp datatype in the standard library that is halfway usable.

When I left the house, the cloud matched my speed exactly, so I was always in its shade. But then I slowed down to take photos and eventually the sun came out. There was a super beautiful light this evening. Absolutely stunning. Just like in a picture book.

The plane picture is kinda fake as I mounted all three shots into one photo just to save some precious space. The plane circled around a few times.

Finally, the city blocked off a large portion of the rock due to the imminent danger of rockslide. I was actually waiting for that to happen for quite some time now. A huge crack had formed in one of the climbing rocks well over a year ago and it didn’t look safe at all. Let’s see when the wall actually collapses.

Unfortunately, my battery died and I didn’t bring my spare. Thus, I couldn’t capture the very best sunset sky part. I tried several times to turn the cam back on for yet another last photo, because sometimes the battery provides just enough juice after waiting some minutes. No luck. Only when it was virtually over, one last shot had been granted. Oh well.

What a nice trip. Almost all people I met were also very happy and friendly to watch the sunset enfold. Nature bound together many strangers. Doesn’t happen often.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-06-waldspaziergang/

IBM and Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat say their AI-powered Lightwell initiative has identified and helped remediate more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across widely used Java libraries. Phoronix reports: They announced this feat today as part of their promoting Lightwell Clearinghouse to GA, which is an enterprise service for their cu … ⌘ Read more

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, timber framing is soooo cool. I love it, too.

Meta Engineer’s Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance
Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. That work was done by David Vernet who is a Linux kernel engineer/hacker at Mesa. This week Vernet presented on the topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference happening in Prague… ⌘ Read more

Licensing Costs Driving 90% of VMware Users To Explore Options, Survey Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey examined 300 organizations worldwide that use … ⌘ Read more

Mistral Unveils New ‘Le Chonk’ AI Model It Says Rivals Best Open Systems From China
Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, or “le Chonk,” a 1-trillion-parameter model that it says is the strongest open-weight AI model developed outside China by a wide margin. The model is entering preview for developers, cybersecurity teams and governments before a broader release later this month. CNBC reports … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Vera HPC Performance Benchmarks Take On AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon
While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA’s Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. HPC was talked up as one of Vera’s strengths thanks to its 1.2TB/s LPDDR5x memory bandwidth and custom Olympus cores. Vera is seeing deployments at HPC labs like Los Alamos. With recently having unfettered remote access to a dual NVIDIA Vera server … ⌘ Read more

Researchers Are Tracking a Chinese AI ‘Agent Fleet’
Independent researchers say they’ve identified a large “fleet” of AI agents apparently running on Tencent infrastructure and making parallel queries against Alibaba’s Amap mapping service. TechCrunch reports: Researchers, however, resisted the term “swarm,” noting that there seems to be little coordination between their different queries. “‘Agent fleet,’ not ‘swarm:’” one r … ⌘ Read more

Cable Lobby To Sue Trump FCC Over Repeal of National TV Ownership Cap
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ArsTechnica: Cable lobby groups notified the Federal Communications Commission that they will sue the agency to block its controversial repeal of the National Television Ownership Rule, which limits the number of broadcast TV stations a single company may own. The cable groups said that larger bro … ⌘ Read more

Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV
Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs. The newest work is on enhancing the RADV Vulkan driver support for old Radeon RX 400/500 “Polaris” graphics cards… ⌘ Read more

IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries… ⌘ Read more

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out now - running quite nicely on SteamOS / Linux
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is officially out now for everyone across different platforms, bringing back some classic dangerous action.

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The Importance Of Intel’s LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency
Intel’s LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency. Here are some of Intel’s own findings on the importance of LPMD for Linux gaming.. ⌘ Read more

Blender 6.0 May End Up Removing OpenGL Support
With Blender 5.0 having nice Vulkan API support that’s now grown mature, Blender developers are contemplating on potentially removing OpenGL support in Blender 6.0… ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Hmmm 🤔 What is this exaactly?

OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarking In ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI is rolling out an invisible, machine-readable text watermark called textGrain to ChatGPT and Codex, “but only for users in the European Union at first,” reports The Verge. From the report: OpenAI says its textGrain watermarking “matched or exceeded” other approaches like Google DeepMind’s SynthID for text, which is also the basis for the watermarking Anthropic a … ⌘ Read more

Meta Developing Compressed RAM “CRAM” For Linux: Better Than ZRAM & Zswap
With today’s memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM “CRAM” for Linux. This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CRAM… ⌘ Read more

Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD
Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week’s WSL3 release with “WSLC” for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability. Some notable changes in WSL 3.0.2 include automatic virtual NUMA support and experimental support for sparse VHD storage… ⌘ Read more

Intel Compiler Engineer Shares Latest Project Gains For APX
Last week at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 conference in Prague there was an x86 BOF with presentations both by AMD and Intel compiler engineers. There are a few interesting nuggets out of that with both Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AI Compute Extensions (ACE) talked about as part of their ongoing enablement in the GCC compiler… ⌘ Read more

YSERVER 1.7 Rust X11 Server Narrows Memory Usage Difference With X.Org Server
YSERVER continues seeing a lot of activity for this vibe coded X11 server written in the Rust programming language. YSERVER has been seeing many apps and desktops working fine on this creation crafted in large part by Claude Code and continues chipping away at more X11 features. YSERVER 1.7 is out today with the latest fixes and improvements… ⌘ Read more

The Fanatical Build Your Own Retro Revival Bundle has plenty of great picks
Fanatical has another big Steam bundle live with the Build Your Own Retro Revival Bundle, giving you a choice from a pretty varied selection.

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There’s now over 200 Steam Frame Verified games
Valve’s new VR kit the Steam Frame has managed to cross over 200 games that are rated Steam Frame Verified.

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Humble’s Akupara Games 10th Anniversary Bundle is filled with goodies
Humble Bundle is celebrating 10 years of Akupara Games with a fresh collection of indie gems for you to grab for cheaps.

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You have to try the new demo for Glory On Pluto, a chaotic rocket engine numbers-go-up space roguelite
I played the previous demo builds of Glory On Pluto far too much, and so you all have to join me in being hooked on this one.

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Destroy every little pixel in the superhero destruction sandbox MOLTYN
Imagine the destructive pixel simulation from games like Noita but you’re a superhero in MOLTYN - it looks like some truly over-the-top glorious chaos.

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Become the hivemind of thousands of rats in I Am Plague
Another great looking Incremental game for you here with I Am Plague, that sees you become the hivemind of thousands of rats as you explore dungeons.

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Surreal corporate horror deckbuilder Mr Magpie’s Harmless Card Game gets a demo
Ready to try out more spooky looking games? The surreal corporate horror deckbuilder Mr Magpie’s Harmless Card Game now has a demo available.

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SteamOS 0.4.4 Beta for Steam Frame brings a setting to control Presence Sensor Sensitivity
Valve just released SteamOS 0.4.4 Beta for Steam Frame, bringing a setting that should hopefully help people having issues with the headset screen going black.

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Old Hearts Become Biologically Younger When Transplanted Into Younger People
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: It might be reasonable to think that there’s an indelible link between the heart and the body it resides in – the processes that affect one inevitably affect the other. But a new preprint, uploaded to bioRxiv and yet to be peer-reviewed, suggests that this may only … ⌘ Read more

Texas City Demands $2 Million For Public Records On Flock Usage
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees – including charging tens of thousands or even millions – to get information about how police departments are using and potentially abusing AI-enabled camera … ⌘ Read more

Today, I released a new update to my TTRPG project, The Planar Vagabond’s Guide to the Multiverse, adding a handful of new spells, monsters, magic items, and races.

Plus, after nearly a year away from playing, I’m super-excited to run an all-new Halloween survival-horror one-shot this year called Escape the O.V.T.!

“Who will survive, and what will be left of them?”

Everything about time management is a pain for developers: time zones (and the locales that ignore them or go half-way), leap seconds, all of it is messy and weird and human. And DST is the worst aspect of it by far.

My first professional coding job as part of a team was in a Java shop, and there was a running joke along the lines of “Only Java would have a class called SimpleDateFormat which is anything but simple.”

TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: LInux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems… ⌘ Read more

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Wired reports that rural data center projects could become eligible for expanded federal Opportunity Zone tax benefits starting in 2027, with more than 100 planned or developing facilities potentially qualifying. “Right now, the only requirement to get the benefits is capital investment,” says Emily Kraschel, a tax policy analyst at the Searchlight Institute, a public … ⌘ Read more

Hackers Steal 8 Million Citizens’ Records From Danish Government Database
Hackers stole records belonging to roughly 8 million Danish citizens and residents from Denmark’s Central Person Register (CPR), including names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal information. The breach is believed to be the largest in Denmark’s history. TechCrunch reports: The CPR is a government database of … ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 10.1 Released With Many Improvements
Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle… ⌘ Read more

Wikipedia Operator Says OpenAI’s ‘Rogue’ Bots May Be Linked to a May Outage
The Wikimedia Foundation says it found evidence that “rogue” OpenAI agents edited Wikimedia wikis without approval, unsuccessfully tried to exploit its Etherpad service, and generated millions of automated requests across Wikimedia projects. Here’s a summary of what Wikimedia observed (via The Verge): Wiki editing: We’ve identi … ⌘ Read more

My mate and I went on a hike on Saturday to Germany’s probably most famous tiniest hamlet. Well, not even hamlet, much smaller. It’s a farm (087) and a closed train station (088, 096-102). Okay, and four other houses. But that’s it. Durlesbach is known from the old folk song „Auf de schwäbsche Eisebahne“, literally “On the Swabian Railway”. According to the German Wikipedia article the German Folk Song Archive counts about 100 variants on the lyrics with up to 27 verses. The song enumerates a few stations and the most common version is about a farmer who ties his goat to the back of a train in order to save the freight costs. Alternatively, he’s used to that from previous ox cart trips where the goat just follows along. Of course, the goat doesn’t make it and the angry farmer throws the disembodied goat head at the conductor.

The weather was perfect. Sunny and clouds alternating, lower twenty-something degrees Celcius. Very beautiful. We took the train to Aulendorf and started our hike.

The level railway crossing in 051-054 is always closed and only opened on demand. I didn’t even know that this kind existed. But it’s really quiet there. We pressed the lever to call the train dispatcher who then opened the barriers for us. A few seconds later we told him that we successfully reached the other side and he closed them again. We were confused at first because the sign said only for authorized personnel and we were just two random hikers. But we gave it a shot and the dispatcher was super nice, no worries at all.

The river is always the Schussen. 092-094 is the creek Durlesbach, entering the Schussen, though. The Durlesbach station is now privately owned, unfortunately. However, it’s nicely kept in shape and there’s a cool monument with a historic steam engine, two wagons and four bronze figures reenacting the scene where the farmer is about to tie his goat, being observed by his wife and the conductor.

You can get all sorts of drinks in exchange for a donation at the display. These proceeds are used for the upkeep. I had an ACE juice which was absolutely delicious. A few hundred meters after we continued, I thought that I really should have bought a second one. It was just too good.

In Mochenwagen, we took the train back to Aulendorf. The Mochenwangen replacement service (we luckily didn’t have to take it, in fact, no idea when it is really in place) is 800 meters away from the train station. That fucking nuts.

We then changed trains to Ulm, just because that one arrived two minutes after we reached Aulendorf. But we spontaneously exited early in Biberach because we had some time to kill for the actual train to Stuttgart. The train station underpass there has some really beautiful graffiti. Shortly after, my second camera battery was flattened, too.

Going home worked out amazingly. When I switched again in Geislingen, my connecting train was already waiting on the other platform. 15 seconds before scheduled departure, the doors closed. One second to departure, we took off. That’s very rare nowadays and it was kind of magical to witness this first hand looking at the station clock.

Sorry for the many photos. I was busy sifting through them and only kept about 20%. Still too many, I know. Enjoy, nevertheless: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-10-03-wanderung-von-aulendorf-ueber-durlesbach-nach-mochenwangen/

Meta Rushed To Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and … ⌘ Read more

Norway Plans Temporary Ban on Smart Glasses
Norway is preparing legislation that would temporarily ban camera-equipped smart glasses in a range of public places, including parks, beaches, museums, shopping centers, schools, daycare centers, healthcare facilities, gyms and public events. Private use would still be allowed. The Guardian reports: Torgeir Micaelsen, Norway’s minister of digital affairs, said he was worried that new, po … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.4 To Land New BTB CTX Isolation Feature Of AMD Zen 6
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature… ⌘ Read more

Mac Users Reclaim 12GB+ of Storage With Apple Intelligence Removal Tool
A new open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI lets macOS 27 users disable Apple Intelligence and reclaim around 12GB or more of storage. MacRumors reports: In macOS 27, Apple removed the toggle to disable Apple Intelligence wholesale, and simply disabling individual features doesn’t remove the models from your Mac’s driv … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Reports Florida Woman’s Claude ‘Diary’ Threat to Law Enforcement
A Florida woman was arrested on a felony charge after Anthropic’s human review team flagged and reported a Claude conversation in which she allegedly threatened to “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and later mentioned acquiring a new gun. Tom’s Hardware reports: Anthropic monitors chats for key phrases and content that co … ⌘ Read more

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bwahahaahaaahaaaa, I didn’t see that one coming! :‘-D

We switch back to normal time on the last Sunday in October. Fuck daylight saving time!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Time to get some pigs, they love to be acorn-fattened!