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I went to check on the fireflies this season. But I didn't see any. Instead lots of moths. At first, I thought it might have been still too light, but it was already dark enough for me to miss and destroy a snail shell. Bummer. Maybe it was too wet tonight. Although, it's probably just another or two weeks until my glowing friends will finally show up.
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A deer, multiple frogs, several thousand fireflies and something else. It was already very dark when I was silently drifting along on a nice soft mossy path, enjoying the firefly show left and right and in front of me. I then heard some rustling about 30 meters in the distance in the shrubs. I thought that I must have scared up a deer. But it kept on rustling without any worries. And I closed in without seeing anything.
Only when I heard the quick oink from just 10 meters away, I froze. Shit, no deer, but a boar! Suddenly, I was the one who was scared. It probably hadn’t noticed me before. But did it notice me now? Was that grunt a warning or just completely unrelated? The rustling appeared to slowly come closer. What if there were also piglets around? I couldn’t figure out how many boars there were. Maybe just one, possibly more. A wild boar easily rips a hunting dog apart, so I didn’t want to take any chances and decided I will not wait for them to eventually pass me behind the brush in just a hand full of meters, so I can keep on going. While I was just turning around, I heard another oink and was frighened to death. I ran 20 meters, before calming down a little bit. I listened for half a second and nobody was following me. Phew. I then walked back the path.
What an adventure, I tell you. That was my second (or maybe third?) wild boar encounter in the woods ever. A hell lot more scary at night than during daylight when you can actually see something.
Oh boy, I absolutely hate this stupid trend of not writing changelogs anymore! Why the fuck would one seriously consider it to be a viable option to just let some shitty bot spew all merge requests on a goddamn GitHub release?! First of all, these merge request titles suck balls. The order of the changes in this “changelog” is completely random (well, probably merge time, which is as useless as the dick on the Pope). They are not grouped by anything at all. Additions, changes, removals, deprecations, etc. randomly mixed up in one giant list. And then “Add feature X”, seventeen kilometers further down “Revert ‘Add feature X’”. Fuck you! Don’t include this shit in the first place!
Fits absolutely perfect in the pattern of rapid decline.
I must rip out all dependencies as soon as possible whose maintainers just don’t give a shit.
I Was Scammed Buying GLP-1s Online. I’m Not Alone
Customers have complained that a telehealth network selling compounded GLP-1s has been ripping them off—even after it had to pay $5 million to clients as part of a settlement with the US government. ⌘ Read more
RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
Article URL: https://blog.oscars.dev/posts/rip-software-hackathons-long-live-the-hardware-hackathon/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468766
Points: 6
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US sports host tears into Trump
US sports host Stephen A Smith rips into Donald Trump after his ill-fated appearance at the NBA Finals. ⌘ Read more
Luxury Australian lodge has bounced back from disaster better than ever
A tropical cyclone ripped through this region in November, but a first-time visitor would barely notice. ⌘ Read more
Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026
Article URL: https://ringmast4r.substack.com/p/in-1999-this-was-a-federal-crime
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436542
Points: 4
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Joey rips into Dragons star
Andrew Johns reacts to a terrible missed tackle from Dragons centre Moses Suli that leads to a try. ⌘ Read more
Alan Ritchson’s Motor City Reveals Gritty Poster: ‘Love Will Drive You Mad’
Alan Ritchson’s Motor City just dropped a poster that looks like it was ripped straight out of a 1970s grindhouse theater. The upcoming action thriller reveals its retro-inspired one-sheet alongside a tagline that teases the film’s revenge-fueled storyline. Motor City gets a new poster Independent Film Company has released a new poster for the upcoming action thriller Motor City. […]
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RIP: Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning Star Wars Editor, Dies At 80
```Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 brings word that Marcia Lucas, part of the editing team for both Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, has died at age 80 after a battle with metastatic cancer.
Married to George Lucas from 1969 to 1983, Marcia is remembered by The Wrap as “a powerful asset in the early days of the Star Wars series, helping sh … ⌘ Read more`
It’s official now: People are vomiting AI code into a repo that I’m supposed to maintain. At the same time, I don’t have the authority to decline those PRs.
RIP.
KMD Brands launches business review, opens door to possible sale
KMD Brands is reviewing its business and is open to a possible sale after rejecting a Rip Curl de-merger proposal earlier this year.
The dual-listed company announced the review alongside the release of its results for the third quarter of 2026. ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: OpenSUSE site age restrictions; Lots of LSFMM+BPF coverage; The tenth OpenPGP email summit.
Briefs: Firefox 151.0; pgBackRest funding; RIP Peter G. Neumann; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
RIP Peter G. Neuman
We have received\
word that Peter G. Neuman, who, among many other things, ran the RISKS Digest for decades, has
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 30, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: Famfs; Python packaging council; Zig concurrency; pages and folios; Strawberry music manager; 7.1 merge window.
Briefs: GnuPG 2.5.19; Copy Fail; Plasma security; Fedora 44; Ubuntu 26.04; Niri 26.04; pip 26.1; RIP Seth Nickell; RIP Tomáš Kalibera; Quotes; …
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AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create “clean room” clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. “It works,” Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for … ⌘ Read more
[$] Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac
It has been a little while since LWN last surveyed tools for managing a digital\
music collection. In the intervening decades, many Linux users have moved on to
music streaming services, found them wanting, and are looking to curate their own
collection once again. There are plenty of choices when it comes to
ripping, managing, and playing digital audio; so many, in fact, that it can be a
bit daunting. After years of tinkering, I’ve found a few tools … ⌘ Read more
RIP Vim 😢 https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825 https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/19413#issuecomment-4000394026
Scientists Crack the Case of ‘Screeching’ Scotch Tape
The screeching sound that Scotch tape makes when you rip it off a surface – that fingernails-on-a-chalkboard noise most people try not to think about – is produced by shock waves from micro-cracks that travel across the peeling tape at supersonic speeds, according to a new paper published in Physical Review E.
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Court Rules That Ripping YouTube Clips Can Violate the DMCA
A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions – a decision that could reshape how one of the platform’s most popular content genres operates.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the … ⌘ Read more
At least 22 killed as fire rips through office block in Jakarta
The fire broke out on the first floor of an office building in Indonesia’s capital around midday on Tuesday, with at least 100 firefighters deployed to contain the blaze. ⌘ Read more
Watch: Australia wildfire rips through homes
Multiple homes were left damaged after a wildfire swept through a coastal area north of Sydney. ⌘ Read more
Elderly accountant jailed for $9.6m scheme ripping off friends, family
An elderly Perth accountant who stole nearly $10 million from family, friends and former clients is jailed for more than 11 years. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is an eight-year-old boy who was taken to hospital with a “nasty cut to the head”. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more
Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
The children are being assessed by paramedics after the double-decker bus hit a bridge in Lancashire. ⌘ Read more
Jo had her baby ‘ripped away’ at birth — she’s one of thousands across Australia
Decades on from Australia’s forced adoption era, just two states have set up a redress scheme for the mothers who were harmed. Survivors are calling for South Australia to take similar action — warning time is running out. ⌘ Read more
UK To Ban the Resale of Tickets For Profit To Protect Fans
Britain said on Wednesday it would ban the resale of tickets to concerts, sport and other live events for profit, disrupting ticket touts and the platforms that benefit from their activities. From a report: Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said touts were ripping off fans by using bots to snap up batches of tickets for coveted shows and reselling them at sky-hig … ⌘ Read more
Queensland family faces fine over ‘immaculate’ lawn
A Gold Coast family has found themselves on the wrong side of the law, facing a notice to rip up their “immaculate” artificial turf. ⌘ Read more
Fire rips through Chinese restaurant after gas stove left on
Fire has ripped through a well-loved Chinese restaurant in Perth after a gas stove was left on in the kitchen. ⌘ Read more
XSLT RIP
Article URL: https://xslt.rip/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873434
Points: 501
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If there was any reason to miss the game of your life… this would be it. RIP ⌘ Read more
Grrrrr…eat, one of my Bessey spring clamps broke. Ripped the arm right in half. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just designed in Germany but actually made out of Chinesium. :-( I will attempt to glue it back together with two component adhesive tomorrow, but I don’t have high hopes.
Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart
A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and devouring an enormous star ⌘ Read more
The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry
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‘RIP free and fair elections’: Critics aghast as another red state OKs election-rigging
Brad Reed, Common Dreams Staff Writer - Raw Story | Common Dreams
_Stephan: The Republican Party in all the Red States is doing everything it can to rig the election, just as I have been telling you since Dictator Trump was elected by Americans. These state politicians are fascists who want to dismantle democracy in the United States and guarantee th … ⌘ Read more
Tribute story of my childhood cat, the fearless Princess, RIP. ⌘ Read more
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Now that’s interesting. Some of these bots start crawling at URLs like this:
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Chances are the database bought wasn’t cheap at all and was aold by some scam company that probably ripped them from six figures or more for a database that’s full of rubbish. 🤣
RIP Android:
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.
I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.
I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.
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Sooooooooo, things happened, and I now have a dot matrix printer again. 😍😂
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de What do you define as “expensive”? 🤔 (I’ve always thought of modern-day painters as a “rip”, and the ink my god 🤯)
A cargo train ripped off several hundred meters of catenary and during construction they found a WW2 bomb. If I had gone to the office today, I would not have made it home for two reasons. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/stuttgart/bombenfund-in-stuttgart-untertuerkheim-100.html
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