In-reply-to » Thank you for https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-11-09/0/POSTING-en.html, @movq! I never configured systemd timers, but I would have gotten it wrong, too. Good to know when I eventually stumble across that in the future. I'm still using cron. Yeah, its field order sucks and I always have to look it up (because I don't deal with that all that often). Indeed, systemd's order sounds more reasonable.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, I’m glad I’m not the only one who didn’t get this right. 😅 You never had to configure a systemd timer? Lucky. 😅

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Microsoft Bets on Influencers To Close the Gap With ChatGPT
An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 1 
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Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that aims to end a 20-year-old legal dispute by lowering fees stores pay and giving them more power to reject certain credit cards, WSJ reports, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: Under terms being discussed, Visa and Mastercard would lowe 
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Can openSUSE Tumbleweed Compete With CachyOS Performance?
Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution’s select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it’s been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mi 
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Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed
Firefox 145 release binaries are now available. Most notable with this release is what’s not there: the 32-bit Linux builds are no more
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What’s the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?

Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who’s researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts:

In space, as on Earth, industrial structures degrade with time, and a truly sustainable life support system must have the capa 
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POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem
Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel’s cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains
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Tencent Proposes Semantics-Aware vCPU Scheduling For Over-Subscribe KVM Linux VMs
Tecent engineers have been working on addressing long-standing inefficiencies within the Linux kernel scheduler code around over-subscribed virtualized environments
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DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report
Carl Gibson,  Staff Writer  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: We do not have a functioning Congress in large measure because the Republican members are trying to protect “king” Trump from what the release of the complete Epstein files will reveal about him. That’s why Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz), has yet to be sworn into office. Over 800,000 citizens in A 
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How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
Jesse Drucker,  Investigative Tax Reporter  -  The New York Times

Stephan: The federal minimum wage for 2025 remains at $7.25 per hour. Elon Musk just got a one trillion dollar pay deal, a number so large most Americans could not even write it – $1,000,000,000,000, (one followed by 12 zeros).
_Why? Because the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum has not changed since 20 
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‘Not gonna happen!’ Trump official says Thanksgiving travel about to ‘slow to a trickle’
Alexander Willis,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I have been thinking about what is coming in Thanksgiving, unless major good news changes occur in the next few days. Families will not be able to gather together because air travel, as described in this article, declines “to a trickle.” And what where will millions of Americans get the food for a c 
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Trump’s dollar delusion: how trade war risks ending the US’s ‘exorbitant privilege’
Eduardo Porter,  Contributing Economic Analyst  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: For as long as you have been alive the U.S. dollar has been the world’s benchmark currency. Now, some in “king” Trump’s administration seem to want that to end. This report in The Guardian, a British publication, describes what is going on, and is almost entirely being missed or not d 
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LoongArch LA32 Target Proposed For The GCC Compiler
While LoongArch 64-bit is already part of the GCC compiler for the past several years, LoongArch 32-bit is now being proposed for the GNU Compiler Collection
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NVIDIA Connects AI GPUs to Early Quantum Processors
“Quantum computing is still years away, but Nvidia just built the bridge that will bring it closer
” argues investment site The Motley Fool, “by linking today’s fastest AI GPUs with early quantum processors
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NVIDIA’s new hybrid system strengthens communication at microsecond speeds — orders of magnitude faster than before — “allowing AI to stabilize and train qu 
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Rust Foundation Announces ‘Maintainers Fund’ to Ensure Continuity and Support Long-Term Roles
The Rust Foundation has a responsibility to “shed light on the impact of supporting the often unseen work” that keeps the Rust Project running. So this week they announced a new initiative “to provide consistent, transparent, and long term support for the developers who make the Rust p 
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Patches Proposed For Radeon GCN 1.1 GPUs To Use AMDGPU Linux Driver By Default
For those still using an AMD GCN 1.1 “Sea Islands” GPU like the Radeon R9 290/390 series, HD 7790 / 8870, or other Radeon Rx 200 / Rx 300 series GPUs, there is an exciting early Christmas present this year. Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux graphics driver team sent out the patch series on Sunday for enabling the GCN 1.1 GPUs to use the newer AMDGPU driver on Linux by default in place of the existing “Radeon” driver. This can mean 
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Nonprofit Releases Thousands of Rare American Music Recordings Online
The nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation is making thousands of historic songs accessible to the public for free through a new partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. The songs represent “some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression,” according to the 
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What Happens When Humans Start Writing for AI?
The literary magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa society argues “the replacement of human readers by AI has lately become a real possibility.

“In fact, there are good reasons to think that we will soon inhabit a world in which humans still write, but do so mostly for AI.”

“I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for Al as well, 
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