Chevron’s Gorgon stage 3 backfill development gets $3b go-ahead
The works will connect gas fields in the Greater Gorgon Area to existing infrastructure on Barrow Island. ⌘ Read more

RoboCop Statue Rises In Detroit
alternative_right quotes a report from the Guardian: The statue looms and glints at more than 11 feet tall and weighing 3,500 pounds, looking out at the city with, how to put it … a characteristically stern expression? Despite its daunting appearance and history as a crimefighter of last resort, the giant new bronze figure of the movie character RoboCop is being seen as a symbol of hope, drawing fan … ⌘ Read more

3 - menos estado é melhor estado? Cotrim acha que normalmente sim, com excepção. CMartins explica o despesismo da proposta de Cotrim, a quer financiar público e privado, em vez de só o público necessário. Cotrim diz que não é nada disso que ele quer, mas sem saber explicar como, diz só que “o que temos está a funcionar mal”. Catarina mostra que o que Cotrim quer é mais caro a funcionar pior. Cotrim diz que ela está errada sem dizer o que está mal no que ela diz. Catarina ainda tem tempo para lembrar que garantir saúde é direito Constitucional.

Considerações pessoais: é pena estes debates serem em modelo rápido, aos gritos e sem profundidade, porque dá espaço a criar boatos e fantasmas sobre o que o adversário quer, dando oportunidade aos candidatos a não ter de explicar a sua posição. Ainda assim, vê-se desonestidade em Cotrim mas não em Martins, e, sem surpresas, Catarina Martins está mais alinhada com a Constituição que x futurx Presidente terá de jurar cumprir e fazer cumprir, não confiaria a Cotrim fazer cumpri-la. E claro, estou mais alinhado ideologicamente com a Catarina que com Cotrim.

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V Kulpíne predstavili publikáciu Kulpín – dejiny, matrika, rodokmene
V stredu 3. decembra 2025 v priestoroch Kultúrno-umeleckého spolku Zvolen v Kulpíne predstavili publikáciu Kulpín – dejiny, matrika, rodokmene. Večierok otvorila a moderovala Katarína Pucovská, ktorá priblížila vznik a štruktúru knihy a vysvetlila aj to, ako vznikla spolupráca s Občianskym združením pre genealogický výskum dolnozemských Slovákov v Galante – vydavateľom tejto výnimoč … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 15.0 Benchmarks Versus FreeBSD 14.3 On AMD EPYC
This week brought the official release of FreeBSD 15.0 as the latest major update to this BSD operating system. In being eager to test out this new FreeBSD release, for this first round of FreeBSD 15.0 benchmarking is seeing how it compares to the former FreeBSD 14.3 release on a Supermicro + AMD EPYC Turin server. ⌘ Read more

‘A rumbling sound and a loud bang’ - small earthquake hits homes in north-west England
Lancashire residents say the 3.3-magnitude tremor felt like “an underground explosion”, but there are no reports of damage. ⌘ Read more

Zlib-rs 0.5.3 Expands AVX-512 Usage For Faster Performance
The Trifecta Tech Foundation today released zlib-rs 0.5.3 as the newest version of this Zlib implementation written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety. Zlib-rs is advertised as “a safer Zlib” for use by both C and Rust projects while delivering competitive performance to the C-based zlib-ng… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End
Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series… ⌘ Read more

Earthquake ‘felt like someone driving into house’
Lancashire residents say the 3.3-magnitude tremor felt like “an underground explosion”, but there are no reports of damage. ⌘ Read more

Earthquake shakes homes in north-west England
Lancashire residents say the 3.3-magnitude tremor felt like “an underground explosion”, but there are no reports of damage. ⌘ Read more

Working on day 3 of the Advent of Code 2025: https://adventofcode.com/

My solutions repo: https://git.itsericwoodward.com/eric/aoc-2025

Trump through to UK Championship quarters with ‘edgy’ win
World number one Judd Trump claims a 6-3 victory over Si Jiahui to move into the quarter-finals of the UK Championship in York. ⌘ Read more

$1.6m art installation, including 3-metre gorilla, gets town talking
A statue of a 30-year-old eastern lowland gorilla named Mina is one of 22 donated to Eurobodalla Shire Council by internationally recognised artists Gillie and Marc. ⌘ Read more

Alpine Linux 3.23 Released With APK Tools v3 For Package Management
Alpine Linux 3.23 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and BusyBox that has become quite popular for containers and embedded uses… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org no wonder I picked that cake (albeit coincidentally), I adore almonds, and hazelnuts! Your teammates are absolutely amazing, dude! A very nice project farewell! On leaving places I have a small anecdote.

I know someone who on 3 February 2004 left his job to go elsewhere. At the time his teammates threw a party, and gave him a very nice portable storage. Twenty days later, he returned, and jokingly they asked him for the storage, and money spent on farewell party back. I heard, from a close source, that he gave them his middle finger, but don’t quote me on that. 😂😂😂

@bender@twtxt.net Mate, I don’t know how you do it, but the frequency of words I haven’t come across before is actually quite high in your work. I noticed it in your twtxt messages in the past, but your notes are also full of them. I love it, always learning something new. Thank you for teaching me without knowing. In case you’re wondering, “yesternight” and “squalid” are the ones I stumbled across today. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net That’s the best one of them. An almonds cake with hazelnut chocolate glaze. The one in front is similar, but with chocolate only. Gingerbread on the right. But it develops the best flavor and consistency only in a few weeks, right now it’s quite hard like a rock, but it will soften up.

All those years I always said that my teammates are THE VERY BEST I ever had. Fuck me, look at that, I didn’t leave the company, just changed projects and this is my farewell present: How absolutely beautiful is that, I’m in awe! Now I feel even worse deserting. :‘-(

This emblem is the fleur-de-lis of the world scout movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement#WOSM_emblem I reckon I must have mentioned casually that I’m a scout. ;-)

Chinese Reusable Booster Explodes During First Orbital Test
schwit1 shares a report from CNN: A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday – the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX. The rocket entered orbit as … ⌘ Read more

AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work… ⌘ Read more

LandSpace Could Become China’s First Company To Land a Reusable Rocket
China’s private launch firm LandSpace is preparing the debut flight of its Zhuque-3 rocket, aiming to become the country’s first to land a reusable orbital-class booster using a Falcon-9-style return profile. Ars Technica reports: Liftoff could happen around 11 pm EST tonight (04:00 UTC Wednesday), or noon local time at the Jiuquan … ⌘ Read more

Live: Debate to determine future of Hobart AFL stadium
The future of Hobart’s proposed AFL stadium is set to be decided by a vote in Tasmania’s upper house of parliament, which begins today. Follow live. ⌘ Read more

How a gas cloud killed thousands in world’s worst industrial disaster
It started with a cloud of gas in the dead of night, silently submerging the city in a toxic soup. By morning on December 3, 1984, an Indian city awoke to a nightmare. ⌘ Read more

Can you guess how far it is to these Australian islands? Harder than you think
Do you know how far away Heard Island is? What about Christmas Island? Try your hand at today’s quiz. ⌘ Read more

Steam On Linux Hits An All-Time High In November
Steam’s November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade “thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame,” writes Phoronix’s Michael Larabel. From the report: A decade ago in the early Steam days the initial use was around 3% an … ⌘ Read more

Thinking about doing Advent of Code in my own tiny language mu this year.

mu is:

• Dynamically typed
  
• Lexically scoped with closures
  
• Has a Go-like curly-brace syntax
  
• Built around lists, maps, and first-class functions
  

Key syntax:

• Functions use fn and braces:
  

fn add(a, b) {
    return a + b
}

• Variables use := for declaration and = for assignment:
  

x := 10
x = x + 1

• Control flow includes if / else and while:
  

if x > 5 {
    println("big")
} else {
    println("small")
}

while x < 10 {
    x = x + 1
}

• Lists and maps:
  

nums := [1, 2, 3]
nums[1] = 42

ages := {"alice": 30, "bob": 25}
ages["bob"] = ages["bob"] + 1

Supported types:

• int
  
• bool
  
• string
  
• list
  
• map
  
• fn
  
• nil
  

mu feels like a tiny little Go-ish, Python-ish language — curious to see how far I can get with it for Advent of Code this year. 🎄

Intel Gaudi 3 Driver Support Already Rejected For Linux 6.19
Last night Intel finally posted their Gaudi 3 accelerator open-source driver support for the mainline Linux kernel with hopes of getting that long-delayed AI accelerator support into the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. But as I pointed out, the pull request was coming unusually late for being such a large set of patches and would face an uphill battle to make it for the Linux 6.19 merge window. Sure enough, the pull request was already rejected an … ⌘ Read more

$3.4b Coomera Connector stage one to open after construction cracks probed
Motorists will be able to use the first 4-kilometre stretch of the new Coomera Connector as an alternative to the busy Pacific Motorway from Tuesday. ⌘ Read more

Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel
The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it’s coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Damn. That was stupid of me. I should have posted examples using 2026-03-01 as cutoff date. 😂

In my actual test suite, everything uses 2027-01-01 and then I have this, hoping that that’s good enough. 🥴

def test_rollover():
    d = jenny.HASHV2_CUTOFF_DATE
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(days=7), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(seconds=3), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(seconds=2), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d - timedelta(seconds=1), TEXT)) == 7
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d, TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(seconds=1), TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(seconds=2), TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(seconds=3), TEXT)) == 12
    assert len(jenny.make_twt_hash(URL, d + timedelta(days=7), TEXT)) == 12

(In other words, I don’t care as long as it’s before 2027-01-01. 😏😅)

Are There More Linux Users Than We Think?
“By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market,” writes ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols:

In StatCounter’s latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%. But if you look closer, “unknown” accounts for 4.21%. Allow me to make an educated guess here: I suspect those unknown desktops are actually running Linux. What else could it be? FreeBSD? Unix? OS/2? Unl … ⌘ Read more

(cont.) CM continua a desmanchar o discurso de AV (ou vai fazendo entre interrupções). Está bem, claro, e meteu AV nervoso, mas pena é que já perdemos 14 minutos e ainda não se fez nada a não ser falsr do que o AV quiz trazer para aqui

1. Patriarca de LX critica a normalização do discurso de ódio - AV não vê nada de mal com o discurso de ódio e volta a falar daquilo que quiz logo desde o minuto zero. Catarina Martins diz que obviamente tem razão o discurso de ódio ser um problema, o RASI confirma, há uma ligação directa com a extrema direita. AV chama censura à regulação das redes sociais, e que a CMartins não pode dizer que defende as mulheres porque está do lado de Gaza. CMartins fala de censura quando AV processou CMartins (e perdeu) por ela ter dito que ele era racista (que é) num debate. AV começa na berraria, Gaza e burcas e cenas, mas CMartins explica como defende os direitos humanos. Mais berraria e tal.
   
2. Jornalista pergunta a AV mais uma coisa, AV em vez de responder diz várias coisas que são más (segundo ele) em CM para ver se ela não tem tempo para corrigir cada uma delas. Vendo que não tem tempo, CM fala antes do problema das notícias falsas, e pede que as pessoas tenham cuidado e não caiam em notícias falsas (em sequência das mentiras de AV)

DNA samples found near Toyah Cordingley burial site scrutinised
The former nurse accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley was 3.7 billion times more likely than not to have contributed to a DNA sample found on a stick where she was buried, his trial has heard. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Your gitea thinks the LICENSE file in the yarn repository is SSPL-1.0 instead of GNU AGPL 3.0,
and I can’t help but giggle at that

UK To Tax Electric Cars by the Mile Starting 2028
The UK government will levy a pay-per-mile tax on electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles starting April 2028, UK’s finance minister Rachel Reeves announced, a measure designed to offset some of the fuel duty revenue that will disappear as drivers shift away from petrol and diesel cars. Electric vehicles will be charged 3 pence per mile and plug-in hybrids 1.5 pence per mile, pa … ⌘ Read more

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

GNU C Library Sees Up To 12.9x Improvement With New Generic FMA Implementation
Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3… ⌘ Read more

Common Desktop Environment “CDE” 2.5.3 Released After Two Years
Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech – especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive – CDE 2.5.3 is now avail … ⌘ Read more

Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - “Exclusively Open-Source” With RADV
With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver st … ⌘ Read more

When the manager says we’re “doing agile” and I haven’t seen a single sprint review in 3 months ⌘ Read more

Heather Croall reflects on 11 years leading Australia’s biggest arts festival
After returning from the UK to direct the Adelaide Fringe in 2015, Heather Croall has seen the festival’s ticket sales pass the 3-million mark and box office sales reach nearly $30 million. ⌘ Read more

Affordability crisis triggers surge in outback NSW land values
The combined value of land in NSW passes $3 trillion for the first time, as the affordability crisis sees property prices skyrocket in remote towns. ⌘ Read more

Inflation jumps to 3.8pc in October, up from 3.6pc in September
Inflation jumps to 3.8pc in October, up from 3.6pc in September, according to new complete monthly data from the ABS. ⌘ Read more

LMM continua a dar casos concretos sobre a sua opinião e como o presidente pode actuar em matéria de corrupção. Termina a repetir que Ventura é candidato de legislativas e não presidenciais. Ventura responde como respondeu num debate anterior falando a sua posição nas sondagens- não funciona com LMM que tem tido melhores resultados, mas Ventura diz que não, referindo a sondagem falsa com que tem inundado as redes sociais na última semana (a CNE não devia fazer alguma coisa quanto a isso?). Parece que o debate vai-se ficar por aqui em vez de entrar pelos temas a sério das presidenciais, mas realmente com uma pessoa como o Ventura não dá muito para falar a sério.

1. pergunta final: o que mais o preocupa do seu opositor: LMM diz AV não tem soluções, AV diz que LMM é o responsável por haver lesados do BES (WTF)
   

Este debate teve mais 5 minutos porque jornalista não o conseguiu terminar

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Resumo/opinião pessoal: sem surpresas, AV é o piorio, LMM melhor que AV, muito barulho

AI Could Replace 3 Million Low-Skilled Jobs in the UK By 2035, Research Warns
Up to 3 million low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity. The Guardian: The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation for Educational … ⌘ 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 …

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

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

1. defesa - entrevistadora diz que GeM mudou de conversa, ele diz que não. Ele diz que não é mudança ou contradição. A Clara pergunta como não, ele diz “porque não”, e depois acrescenta “mas vamos antes falar do que CM anda para aí a dizer”. Ela pergunta-lhe se mudou de ideias. Ele diz que quem mudou de ideais foi ela. Ela dá exemplos das contradições dele, ele diz não não, então ela dá mais exemplos (e com isso explica a sua posição), e até diz o que outros presidentes fizeram bem ou mal, e o que ela faria igual ou diferente. “A sua resposta é cínica”, responde GM aparentemente porque CM nem sempre apoiou os mesmos investimentos em defesa que ele, ao que ela responde que realmente não, dando o exemplo do “investimento” no hoje famoso negócio dos submarinos.
   

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Considerações pós-debate: sem surpresas, CM pareceu-me boa candidata, GM mau candidato - que confirmou também a trapalhice e falta de preparação.

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