@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

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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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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

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

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New Antibiotic Could Be a Breakthrough in Treatment for Killer TB, Trial Suggests
A new treatment for tuberculosis could boost cure rates and shorten the time needed to treat the disease by months, trial results suggest. The Guardian: Globally, an estimated 10.7 million people fell ill with TB last year and 1.23 million died from it. In its annual report on tuberculosis, launched last week, … ⌘ Read more

AMD Begins Posting Open-Source Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen GPU IP
Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it’s not clear what this new hardware enablement is for whether it’s RDNA5 / UDNA or some RDNA4 refresh. In any event, the … ⌘ Read more

Netgear Accused by Rival of China Smear To Fan Security Fear
An anonymous reader shares a report: California-based TP-Link says it may take a sales hit of more than $1 billion because of erroneous reports that the networking company’s technology has been “infiltrated” by Beijing. In a lawsuit, TP-Link claims its competitor, Netgear, orchestrated a smear by planting false claims with journalists and internet influen … ⌘ Read more

US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday. Previously known as Three Mile Island Unit 1, the plant is expected … ⌘ Read more

Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing
Last week’s Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering “SER” is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance… ⌘ Read more

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Fix for Wi-Fi Issues with iOS 26.1 on iPhone: Wi-Fi Not Working, Dropping, No Connection, Slow
Some iPhone users have discovered that wi-fi is not working consistently with iOS 26.1 since updating their devices, and sometimes the wi-fi stops working entirely, the connection drops, wi-fi is active but does not work, or the wi-fi connection is unusably slow, often leading to timeouts rather than established connections. Sometimes you might even see … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/20 … ⌘ Read more

#ptpol #debate #presidencial 2

Hoje o debate é na #SIC, e suponho que muito mais civilizado. Vamos ouvir…

1. ontem na #TVI o debate começou com atraso para termos de gramar com publicidade. Hoje não SIC é pior, temos de levar com vários minutos do #NunoRogeiro, personagem que não se percebe como ainda tem quem o deixe falar…

2. E começa o debate com a questão da greve geral. Marques Mendes diz que não há drama. Espera que haja acordo entre governo, entidades patronais e UGT (e o resto das centrais sindicais? A CGTP?) António Filipe diz que LMM está preocupado com a Greve Geral, ele está preocupado com o pacote laboral. (Com um o pacote passaria, o outro vetaria). LMM imita Seguro e diz que o António Filipe está na eleição errada, só que não se compara. E LMM aproveita para criticar a CGTP e a defender a UGT - o que vai contra a sua conversa que seria um presidente de diálogos e consensos.

3. 25 de Novembro, António Filipe não iria às celebrações enquanto Presidente - porque essa celebração é para menorizar o 25 de Abril. LMM diz que o 25 de Novembro é uma data “igualmente importante”, e que no 25 de Novembro “o PCP perdeu” (re-escrevendo ou tentando reescrever a história).

4. maior desafio e prioridade: LMM diz estabilidade (fazendo com que se aprovem OE)

#LMM x #AntónioFilipe

The final ride of the year?
Today I did another bike tour, following several I’ve taken recently. I didn’t blog about those, although they were quite nice and I truly enjoyed them, now more appropriately dressed.1 ⌘ Read more

To finish, we have #Macron. #Sovereignty? Nah, what he wants is:

• less regulation
  
• a “smaller”, “risk-based” #GDPR
  
• postpone 1 year the #AIAct obligations for big tech
  

With a straight face, he recommends these anti-sovereingty measures as things that somehow will be good for our tech sovereignty….

At least he puts emphasis on enforcing #DMA, and make sure that hyperscalers comply with it.

He also defends EU-first public procurement, but his examples are SAP and Mistral (and their non-interoperable solutions)…

Finally, he things it is important to speed up AI adoption, going as far as saying that next year instead of a digital sovereignty summit we’ll have an AI summit…

No, not finally! To finish, he wants to “protect the children”! We all know where that one leads…

AMD ROCm 7.1 vs. RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp With The Radeon AI PRO R9700
In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD’s ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used. ⌘ Read more

Kgateway v2.1 is released!
Kgateway is an open source implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API that unifies ingress, API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway capabilities in a singular modular control plane. Built for performance and flexibility, it secures and… ⌘ Read more

The afternoon didn’t start better: we got a talk about the EUDI, with the implied idea that an “European ID” is automatically an example of digital sovereignty, when in fact what is being implemented isn’t.

I could go further into it, but instead I’ll leave here a link to the comment I was impelled to write on the EUDI project after the presentation:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19#discussioncomment-15001433

The #EUDI panel was followed by Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister for Digital Affairs of Denmark. The tldr; of her keynote - which had two points of note: 1) “I support AI gigafactories” (because all that is shiny and new is something we should invest in), and “innovation is sovereignty” which is her way of saying that she wants to use the sovereignty topic not to talk about sovereignty but as an excuse to promote “innovation” - in that ideology brand that supports the idea that in order to innovate more we need to simplify and de-regulate…

MLPerf Client 1.5 Introduces Experimental Linux Support
MLPerf Client as MLCommons’ machine language inferencing benchmark for client form factors / PCs now has a Linux build. MLPerf Client 1.5 was released yesterday with an experimental Linux build but for now at least is not nearly as full-featured as this AI benchmark on Windows and macOS… ⌘ Read more

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#ptpol #debate #presidencial 1

Seguro só me tem desagradado… Até hoje. Neste debate, vi pela primeira vez um decente candidato presidencial, e principalmente vi alguém que conseguiu fazer algo que é muito difícil: manter a calma e rebater com civilidade às provocações de Ventura. Com elevação, Seguro sublinhou usando as palavras de Ventura porque é que V. não tem qualificação (ou até interesse) em desempenhar o papel de Presidente da República.

Que Seguro “ganhou o debate” já era para mim resultado pré-anunciado, mas Seguro conseguiu fazer uma coisa com que me surpreendeu: agora desgosto menos dele.

#Seguro #Ventura

Harvard Has Almost Half a Billion Dollars in Crypto
An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation’s oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter.

The digital currency amounts to a little less than … ⌘ Read more

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iPadOS 26.2 Beta 3 Adds New Drag and Drop Multitasking Functionality
In the initial version of iOS 26, Apple removed Slide Over and Split View multitasking in favor of a new window-based multitasking system. A replacement for Split View was available in an added tiled mode, but Slide Over was entirely gone.

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iPad users missed Slide … ⌘ Read more

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