Zlib-ng 2.3.1 Released With More CPU Performance Optimizations
Zlib-ng 2.3.1 is out today as the first stable release in the v2.3 series for this Zlib replacement that carries a variety of performance optimizations for speedier compression/decompression… ⌘ Read more

Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap

While generative AI (GenAI) promises productive efficiency, it can paradoxically lead to lower-quality work. We conducted an experiment with professional illustrators and found that AI assistance flattens the quality curve—it accelerates initial gains but sharply diminishes the returns on sustained effort. Faced with this, a significant number of professionals made a strategic choice: they sacrificed the final quality to save time.

From http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf

I haven’t read this and can’t vouch for it; seems vaguely AI-boostery. Still, the conclusions are interesting. This seems to be the picture that is emerging about generative AI generally: most people don’t like it and find that degrades the quality of work. Coders seem to like it and think that it helps them, but in fact it makes the slower, less productive, and more bug prone.

By all measures it’s a bad technology. We should just be honest about it. There is no need to make excuses for multi-trillion-dollar corporations.

Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” Snapshot 1 ISOs Published
Canonical announced today the Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” Snapshot 1 images as their first monthly ISO snapshots of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release… ⌘ Read more

Tired to re-enable the Ege route to git.mills.io today (after finishing work) and this is what I found 🤯 Tehse asshole/cunts are still at it !!! 🤬 – So let’s instead see if this works:

$ host git.mills.io 1.1.1.1
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

git.mills.io is an alias for fuckoff.mills.io.
fuckoff.mills.io has address 127.0.0.1

PS: Would anyone be interested if I started a massive global class action suit against companies that do this kind of abusive web crawling behavior, violate/disregards robots.txt and whatever else standards that are set in stone by the W3C? 🤔

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This caveman is getting too old for the Internet… 😅 It took me 1 hrs and 50 mins to catch up with what’s been going on my feed.

SA woman suffered permanent brain injury after hospital failed to diagnose stroke, court hears
An Adelaide woman is suing a southern suburbs hospital for $1.5 million in damages alleging she suffered a “permanent neurological injury” when doctors failed to diagnose her with a stroke, court documents reveal. ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4
Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Malaysia’s Johor Bans Low-Tier Data Centers Over Water Strain
Malaysia’s Johor, one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing data center hubs, has announced it will no longer approve applications for Tier 1 and Tier 2 data centers because of their enormous water consumption – up to 50 million liters daily, or roughly 200 times what higher-tier facilities require.

The Malaysian state has approved 51 data center projec … ⌘ Read more

Rocky Linux 10.1 Released As Community Alternative To RHEL 10.1
Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1… ⌘ Read more

US National Parks to raise fees for foreign visitors to popular sites
Changes set to take effect on January 1 will include annual park passes jumping to $US250 for foreign tourists, while US residents will continue to be charged $US80, according to authorities. ⌘ Read more

HP To Cut About 6,000 Jobs By 2028, Ramps Up AI Efforts
HP plans to cut 4,000-6,000 jobs by 2028 “as part of a plan to streamline operations and adopt artificial intelligence,” reports Reuters. From the report: HP’s teams focused on product development, internal operations and customer support will be impacted by the job cuts, CEO Enrique Lores said during a media briefing call. “We expect this initiative will create $1 billi … ⌘ Read more

I’ve once again brought up a Gitea instance on my server space, but there are two highlights here:

1. No self-registration (accounts are tied to the e-mail server, which is in turn tied to the system accounts)
   
2. Going beyond the landing page requires to be logged in, no excuses. (It also could scare the AI crawlers to oblivion, avoiding Anubis at that)
   

That’s it.

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Newly formed Queensland company secures 1,000 coal mining jobs
A newly formed Queensland company has taken over a majority shareholding in a Bowen Basin coal mine, securing 1,000 jobs. ⌘ Read more

Client Registration and Enterprise Management in the November 2025 MCP Authorization Spec
The New MCP Authorization Spec is Here! Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Model Context Protocol, and with it, the launch of the new 2025-11-25 specification. ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debate #presidenciais2026

1. 25 de Novembro - LMM está mal, Ventura pior. Ventura tem sempre o problema extra de ser candidato a Presidente e Primeiro Ministro ao mesmo tempo. O problema do Ventura é com “a esquerdalhada”, que também fica muito bem a um candidato a Presidente (not). AV diz que o 25A trouxe só problemas, e o 25N é que foi bom; LMM mostra que Ventura é só teatro, e também que não tem o sentido de estado que é preciso de um Presidente (até como deputado é inqualificável). “Políticos a mandar prender era na altura da PIDE”, relembra LMM. AV diz que “são todos corruptos” para não dizer nada. Ouvir isto é sofrível. AV quer que LMM diga que o presidente da Angola é um ladrão. LMM acusa AV de branquear a ditadura, e que Ventura não é candidato a sherife de Portugal que isso não existe.
   
2. corrupção: a única preocupação ou ponto em que LMM e AV estão de acordo, de acordo com o LMM. AV acha que a solução do LMM não funciona, enquanto a solução dele é o que ele tem feito no parlamento (que não é algo que um presidente faz ou pode fazer, mas pronto). A outra solução do Ventura é dar um murro na mesa (bela solução, coitada da mesa). AV continua a insistir que LMM é mau porque não disse ainda que o presidente de Angola é ladrão… LMM aponta outra vez contradições de AV
   

1/n

AMDGPU Driver Lacks HDMI 2.1 While AMD-Xilinx Driver Has Some HDMI 2.1 Support
Those following Phoronix and the open-source AMD Linux kernel graphics driver know that the HDMI Forum has prevented AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 support in their open-source “AMDGPU” driver as due the driver implementation would run afoul to the organization’s licensing requirements. It’s been pointed out online this week that the AMD-Xilinx DRM driver though does have some HDMI 2.1 support albeit different hardware… ⌘ Read more

Four more arrested in connection with Louvre jewel heist
Four other people were already arrested and placed under formal investigation on October 29 and November 1. ⌘ Read more

X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To Fix Several Regressions
For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Probably wouldn’t help, since almost every request comes from a different IP address. These are the hits on those weird /projects URLs since Sunday:

    1 IP  has  5 hits
    1 IP  has  4 hits
   13 IPs have 3 hits
  280 IPs have 2 hits
25543 IPs have 1 hit

The total number of hits has decreased now. Maybe the botnet has moved on …

libinput 1.30 Released With Support For Writing Plug-Ins In Lua
Red Hat’s leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer released libinput 1.30 today as the newest update to this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland desktops… ⌘ Read more

Asbestos scare school bill tipped to exceed $1.5m in SA
SA’s Minister for Education, Blair Boyer, is calling on retailers to help pay the climbing clean-up bill for removing coloured sand products linked to the asbestos scare. ⌘ Read more

Calling Rust from Go
1 points posted by pj ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Pledges Up To $50 Billion To Expand AI, Supercomputing For US Government
Amazon is committing up to $50 billion to massively expand AI and supercomputing capacity for U.S. government cloud regions, adding 1.3 gigawatts of high-performance compute and giving federal agencies access to its full suite of AI tools. Reuters reports: The project, expected to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1 … ⌘ Read more

1. desistir da campanha - deixem-se disso
   
2. corrupção no SNS - #Cotrim diz que há corrupção no SNS, #JorgePinto diz que não, mas que o SNS tem problemas e que têm de ser resolvidos, aponta exemplo de proposta do Cotrim enquanto deputado que a DECO alertaria aumentaram a desregulação do SNS. Cotrim fica picado porque não concorda que o SNS é uma coisa importante e até o quer trocar por saúde privada. JPinto diz que a constituição é para cumprir
   
3. clima - é mesmo uma emergência? Um jornalista perguntar isto é triste. JPinto confirma que é uma urgência - e também que estamos a perder oportunidades de negócio. Cotrim diz que o Pinto tem contradições (imputado ao Pinto coisas q o outro nega, uma atrás da outra). Cotrim diz que o bem estar humano está acima q combater as alterações climáticas (como se esse combate não fosse necessário para o bem estar humano!). Acha que a cena do clima só se resolve com “Inovação tecnológica” (o método mágico que devemos todos acreditar que vai aparecer um dia).
   
4. pacote laboral e greve - Cotrim acha que o pacote é bom e necessário, mas greve é legítima. Trickledown economy. JPinto diz que já temos muita precariedade e desigualdade, e o pacote piora essas cenas. Tem propostas alternativas que levariam a + salário
   

#ptpol #debate #presidenciais2026

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Obesity Jab Drug Fails To Slow Alzheimer’s
Drug maker Novo Nordisk says semaglutide, the active ingredient for the weight loss jab Wegovy, does not slow Alzheimer’s – despite initial hopes that it might help against dementia. From a report: Researchers began two large trials involving more than 3,800 people after reports the medicine was having an impact in the real world. But the studies showed the GLP-1 drug, which is already … ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux 10.1 Released - Complete With Btrfs Support
Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 from two weeks ago, AlmaLinux 10.1 is now available in GA form for this community-oriented RHEL10 downstream. Making AlmaLinux 10.1 all the more interesting is the project’s decision to promote Btrfs file-system support… ⌘ Read more

How An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study - Until It All Fell Apart
In May MIT announced “no confidence” in a preprint paper on how AI increased scientific discovery, asking arXiv to withdraw it. The paper, authored by 27-year-old grad student Aidan Toner-Rodgers, had claimed an AI-driven materials discovery tool helped 1,018 scientists at a U.S. R&D lab.

But within weeks his … ⌘ Read more

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From a Mystery Investor. But Now the ‘Investor’ and ‘Money’ Are Gone
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:

On November 20, at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, Napster held an online meeting for its shareholders; an estimated 700 of roughly 1,500 including employees, former employees and individual investors tuned in. Th … ⌘ Read more

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Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions
Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR… ⌘ Read more

#presidenciais2026 #debate #CatarinaMartins #GouveiaEMelo #ptpol

1. GeMelo antes de responder à pergunta que lhe fazem, gasta 1 minuto a tentar atacar a Catarina Martins por ser de esquerda (e por não querer dar posse a um governo fascista). Depois tem de responder à pergunta sobre o pacote laboral… diz que as coisas têm de ser flexibilizadas, mas não diz como ou porquê - enfim, não diz nada. CMartins aponta problemas concretos no pacote laboral. Perguntam-lhe se não há coisas que devem ser mexidas e ela diz que sim mas são no sentido inverso à proposta do Governo. Mas defende-se também dos ataques do Melo, dizendo que ela não é diminuída por ser uma deputada eleita, bem pelo contrário, tal como não é mau ela querer defender a constituição e portanto rejeitar derivas salazarentas. Já GMelo almoçou com Ventura e magnatas.

2. saúde: GMelo gosta de saúde privada, CMartins quer é investimento no público. CM tem ideias concretas, GM acha que as pessoas vão aos hospitais porque não têm dinheiro para ir ao privado de proximidade e que isso é o que se tem de resolver - acho que nem ele concorda com o que disse, que só disse porque se atrapalhou.

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Chlieb náš každodenný
Chlieb je symbolom jedla, symbolom prežitia. Vôňa chleba je vôňou vôní. Je to pravôňa nášho tuzemského života, vôňa harmónie, pokoja a domova. V dejinách ľudstva chlieb sa postupne stal univerzálnym ochrancom života, používa sa vo všetkých obradných úkonoch. O chlebe a stravovaní našich predkov sa môžeme viac dozvedieť z knihy Rudolfa Bednárika Slováci v Juhoslávi i (Slovenská akadémia vied, Bratislava, 1966). V stati Charakteristika stravy čítame: Chlieb býva spravi … ⌘ Read more

One Company’s Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground
Long-time Slashdot reader jenningsthecat shared this article from IEEE Spectrum:

By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction occurring far below the s … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19
NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware… ⌘ Read more

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still…). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

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‘The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming’
In a 2023 pitch to investors, a “well-financed, highly credentialed” startup named Stardust aimed for a “gradual temperature reduction demonstration” in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. (“Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles,” says one slide. “Equivalen … ⌘ Read more

And regarding those broken URLs: I once speculated that these bots operate on an old dataset, because I thought that my redirect rules actually were broken once and produced loops. But a) I cannot reproduce this today, and b) I cannot find anything related to that in my Git history, either. But it’s hard to tell, because I switched operating systems and webservers since then …

But the thing is that I’m seeing new URLs constructed in this pattern. So this can’t just be an old crawling dataset.

I am now wondering if those broken URLs are bot bugs as well.

They look like this (zalgo is a new project):

https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/

When you request that URL, you get redirected to /git/:

$ curl -sI https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:13:51 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 510
Location: /git/

And on /git/, there are links to my repos. So if a broken client requests https://www.uninformativ.de/projects/slinp/zalgo/scksums/bevelbar/, then sees a bunch of links and simply appends them, you’ll end up with an infinite loop.

Is that what’s going on here or are my redirects actually still broken … ?

I just noticed this pattern:

uninformativ.de 201.218.xxx.xxx - - [22/Nov/2025:06:53:27 +0100] "GET /projects/lariza/multipass/xiate/padme/gophcatch HTTP/1.1" 301 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
www.uninformativ.de 103.10.xxx.xxx  - - [22/Nov/2025:06:53:28 +0100] "GET http://uninformativ.de/projects/lariza/multipass/xiate/padme/gophcatch HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Let me add some spaces to make it more clear:

    uninformativ.de 201.218.xxx.xxx - - [22/Nov/2025:06:53:27 +0100] "GET                       /projects/lariza/multipass/xiate/padme/gophcatch HTTP/1.1" 301 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
www.uninformativ.de 103.10.xxx.xxx  - - [22/Nov/2025:06:53:28 +0100] "GET http://uninformativ.de/projects/lariza/multipass/xiate/padme/gophcatch HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/112.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"

Some IP (from Brazil) requests some (non-existing, completely broken) URL from my webserver. But they use the hostname uninformativ.de, so they get redirected to www.uninformativ.de.

In the next step, just a second later, some other IP (from Nepal) issues an HTTP proxy request for the same URL.

Clearly, someone has no idea how HTTP redirects work. And clearly, they’re running their broken code on some kind of botnet all over the world.

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🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1531 ARCHIVED:91198 CACHE:2766 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14

João Cotrim Figueiredo estava bem a mostrar o quão fraco é o argumento de Gouveia e Melo de que quem tem partido não pode exercer como Presidente com independência.

Mas depois orgulha-se de ter apoiantes do Chega, enquanto acha preocupante que Gouveia e Melo ter apoiantes do PS que tiveram poder durante o Governo Sócrates…

Gouveia e Melo contra-ataca (fracamente) com um tema bem escolhido ao falar da Revisão Constitucional que Cotrim Figueiredo defende, Cotrim diz que defende mas se for Presidente como jura cumprir a constituição que temos, cumprirá.

O povo escolheu que há duas formas de governação possível, ou “de centro” ou “de centro-direita”, diz G.Melo, referindo-se a AD+CH ou AD+PS…

Cotrim acha que as buscas à TAP foram más porque prejudicam o negócio da privatização (então e a justiça?)

Greve Geral: Cotrim acha que o que está em cima da mesa neste momento já é favorável a ambos (trabalhadores e empresas), porque trickle-down economy. Cotrim promulgaria como está, Gouveia e Melo não quer dizer o que faria.

Defesa: enviar militantes para a guerra da Ucrânia, se a NATO disser para mandarmos, mandamos (diz Cotrim). G.Melo diz que em vez disso defenderemos o Atlântico.

½

#ptpol #debates #presidenciais #CotrimFigueiredo #GouveiaEMelo

VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan
VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month’s feature freeze for the upcoming Wine 11.0 stable release… ⌘ Read more

Who is OpenAI’s Auditor?
OpenAI won’t say who audits its books. The company, which projects to hit an ARR of $20 billion this year and is valued at $500 billion, has committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers over the next decade. It accounts for roughly two-thirds of unfulfilled contracts at Oracle and two-fifths at CoreWeave. Microsoft alone holds around $375 billion in unfulfilled contracts with OpenAI.

Reuters reported the company may t … ⌘ Read more

Daily pill could offer alternative to weight-loss injections
Orforglipron, a GLP-1 drug taken as a pill, achieved positive results in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes, although it seems less effective than injectable drugs ⌘ Read more

Single executable container image with Go
1 points posted by Everton Marques ⌘ Read more

Adobe Bolsters AI Marketing Tools With $1.9 Billion Semrush Buy
Adobe is buying Semrush for $1.9 billion in a move to supercharge its AI-driven marketing stack. Reuters reports: Semrush designs and develops AI software that helps companies with search engine optimization, social media and digital advertising. The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of next year, would allow Adobe to help marketers better … ⌘ Read more