The Linux boot process: from power button to kernel
You press the power button. A second later a wall of text scrolls by, or a logo fades in, and eventually Linux appears. What happens in between is not magic. It is a careful handshake between tiny programs and a very literal CPU. This part follows that handshake until the very first line of C code inside the Linux kernel runs. ↫ 0xkato’s blog Exactly what it says on the tin. ⌘ Read more
What about the icons in pifmgr.dll?
Raymond Chen has another great post about some of the classic icons from Windows 95, this time focusing on pifmgr.dll. In this file, there are a variety of random-seeming icons, and it turns out they’re random for a reason: they were just a bunch a fun, generic icons intended for people to use when creating PIF files. The icons in pifmgr.dll were created just for fun. They were not created with any particular programs in mind, with one obvious exception. They w … ⌘ Read more
Oregon State University Teaches “White Rage” as Computer Science
OSU’s Computer Science program — which had a $1 Million Dollar grant for “Gender-Inclusive Open Source” — teaches about “White Supremacy” and “Reparations” instead of programming. ⌘ Read more
Offline interactions predict voting patterns better than online networks, finds study
According to a new study, offline social networks, revealed by co-location data, predict U.S. voting patterns more accurately than online social connections or residential sorting. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues analyzed large-scale data on co-location patterns from Meta’s Data for Good program, which collates anonymized data collected from people who enabled location services on the Facebook smartphone a … ⌘ Read more
Beta 4 of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 Available for Testing
Apple has issued the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1, for users enrolled in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. The betas continue to offer refinements, adjustments, improvements, and bug fixes to the various OS 26 operating systems. The latest 4th beta build includes a new Liquid Glass … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/20/beta-4-of-ios-26-1 … ⌘ Read more
Adding distributed tracing to AI Gateway: My LFX mentorship journey
In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, effectively monitoring and debugging AI Gateways has become a critical challenge. This article shares my complete experience through the LFX Mentorship program, where I added OpenTelemetry distributed tracing support to… ⌘ Read more
Millions of US Families Could Soon Go Hungry Thanks to Trump-GOP Government Shutdown
Brett Wilkins, Staff Writer - Common Dreams
_Stephan: As the organizational programs and agencies that have maintained the wellbeing of the United States are being dismantled by dictator Trump and his Republican Congress, funds are being cut, the healthcare system is in chaos, public education is becoming a disaster, and on and on. But now these MAGAT mo … ⌘ Read more
Study highlights supply and demand gaps in after-school programs
After-school programs are in high demand among families, but mismatches in cost, location and program type can prevent students from accessing the opportunities they need most, according to a new USC study. ⌘ Read more
Steve Jobs to Be Honored on 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin
The United States Mint will feature Steve Jobs on a commemorative $1 coin next year, as apart of the 2026 American Innovation Coin Program, according to a press release from the US Mint. The program originally launched in 2018 to honor significant innovators from each US state. Steve Jobs will represent California, highlighting his roll … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/18/steve-jobs-to-be-honored-on-2026 … ⌘ Read more
Ozveny roviny Michala Ďurovku
V priestoroch Galérie Domu umenia Punktum Márie Gaškovej v Kysáči dnes slávnostne otvorili samostatnú výstavu olejomalieb akademického maliara Michala Ďurovku s príznačným názvom Ozveny roviny. Program vernisáže, ktorý moderovala Daniela Marčoková, otvorila zakladateľka galérie Mária Gašková, privítaním početného obecenstva a hostí. O výtvarnej tvorbe Michala Ďurovku hovorila profesorka srbského jazyka Mirjana Bjelopetrović, ktorá prečítala text výtvarnej … ⌘ Read more
Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism
Noal Lanard, Reporter - Mother Jones
_Stephan: Yet another story about the growing White supremacy racism of dictator Trump, who has always been a racist, his administration, and the Republican Party. Soon, we are going to see whether the fascist majority of the Supreme Court eliminates the Voting Rights Act. The United States has rejected 160 years of its history since … ⌘ Read more
Accelerate developer productivity with these 9 open source AI and MCP projects
GitHub Copilot and VS Code teams, along with the Microsoft Open Source Program Office (OSPO), sponsored these nine open source MCP projects that provide new frameworks, tools, and assistants to unlock AI-native workflows, agentic tooling, and innovation.
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💻 Issue 491 - Simpler Build Tools with Functional and Object Oriented Programming, Scala Workshop 2025 ⌘ Read more
Maľujeme svoj život a Slnečná jeseň života – pocta seniorom
Október, mesiac úcty k starším, priniesol v Báčskom Petrovci deň naplnený krásou, vďakou a tvorivosťou. V Slovenskom vojvodinskom divadle sa dnes uskutočnili až dva podujatia venované seniorom – výstava výtvarných prác „Maľujeme svoj život” a kultúrno-umelecký program „Slnečná jeseň života 2025”. ⌘ Read more
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@dce@hashnix.club Arch is the most stress-free OS I’ve ever run (I last reinstalled it 14 years ago, only rolling updates since then) – but to be honest, I sometimes wonder what role my general choice of software plays. I mostly run minimalistic software or programs that I wrote myself. I guess that greatly reduces the chance of breakage. 🤔
3rd Beta of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 Available for Testing
Beta testing for iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 is accelerating pace, with the third beta release now being available for those participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. Beta 3 comes just a week after beta 2, and Apple usually goes through several beta versions before issuing a final … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/13/3rd-beta-of-ios-26-1 … ⌘ Read more
Account Take Over | P1 — Critical
It started off like any other day until I got an unexpected email — an invite to a private bug bounty program. Curious, I jumped in. The…
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22. How to Get Invites to Private Programs
Unlock the secrets to landing exclusive private program invites and level up your bug bounty journey.
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Beyond the AI Hype: Guido van Rossum on Python’s Philosophy, Simplicity, and the Future of Programming
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Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent ⌘ Read more
Programming in the sun with Vim and DC1 ⌘ Read more
It happened.
“Can you help me debug this program? I vibe coded it and I have no idea what’s going on. I had no choice – learning this new language and frameworks would have taken ages, and I have severe time constraints.”
Did I say “no”? Of course not, I’m a “nice guy”. So I’m at fault as well, because I endorsed this whole thing. The other guy is also guilty, because he didn’t communicate clearly to his boss what can be done and how much time it takes. And the boss and his bosses are guilty a lot, because they’re all pushing for “AI”.
The end result is garbage software.
This particular project is still relatively small, so it might be okay at the moment. But normalizing this will yield nothing but garbage. And actually, especially if this small project works out fine, this contributes to the shittiness because management will interpret this as “hey, AI works”, so they will keep asking for it in future projects.
How utterly frustrating. This is not what I want to do every day from now on.
Lobsters Interview with Zdsmith
I had the pleasure of interviewing, befriending @zdsmith whose passions are very close to my heart. He explores the different forms of notation (Iverson, Naur), makes combinatory programming approachable, ported J to Janet, created an ergonomic notation for requirements gathering, designed his own [shorthands](https://blog.zdsmith.com/series/sh … ⌘ Read more
Pivničania na oslavách v Liptovskom Mikuláši
Spevokol a členovia Slovenského evanjelického a. v. cirkvného zboru v Pivnici sa v dňoch 2. až 5. októbra 2025 zúčastnili osláv 240. výročia posviacky chrámu Božieho v Liptovskom Mikuláši. Zájazdu sa zúčastnilo 46 členov zboru, medzi ktorými boli speváci, zborový farár a priaznivci cirkevného spevokolu. Bohatý štvor¬dňový program priniesol duchovné, kultúrne i spoločenské zážitky a upevnil vzťahy medzi slovenskými evanjelikmi z … ⌘ Read more
Python 3.14.0 (final) is here
This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0
Python 3.14.0, the newest major release of the Python programming language is here!
A case for learning GPU programming with a compute-first mindset – Maister’s Graphics Adventures
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Wheat diversity discovery could provide an urgently-needed solution to global food security
Wheat has a very large and complex genome. Researchers have found that different varieties can use their genes in different ways. By studying RNA—the molecules that carry out instructions from DNA—researchers can see which genes are active and when. By mapping this gene activity for the first time, researchers are able to accelerate international wheat breeding programs, developing new varieties of … ⌘ Read more
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@lyse Xfce is nice, but it’s also mostly GTK. I don’t really know the answer yet. For now, I’ll just avoid anything that uses GTK4.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I never programmed with Tkinter myself and it’s been ages that I ran a program which used it. I always thought that it looks awful. But maybe there are nicer themes these days. I just wanted to give the demo python3 -m tkinter a try, but this module doesn’t exist. I was always under the wrong impression that Tkinter is bundled with Python.
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It’s time to say goodbye to the GTK world.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Xfce is nice, but it’s also mostly GTK. I don’t really know the answer yet. For now, I’ll just avoid anything that uses GTK4.
For my own programs, I might have a closer look at Tkinter. I was complaining recently that I couldn’t find a good file manager, so it might be an interesting excercise to write one in Python+Tkinter. 🤔 (Or maybe that’s too much work, I don’t know yet.)
2 Ways to Install Homebrew in MacOS Tahoe
Homebrew is a powerful command line package manager that allows you to easily install, update, and manage popular command line programs and tools, as well as traditional graphical apps with cask (and third party tools like Applite help you manage cask through the GUI too). It’s a popular tool with advanced Mac users and those … Read More ⌘ Read more