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Let's Encrypt appears to restrict certificate issuance in certain U.S. sanctioned territories due to legal compliance requirements as per the laws. While this is unfortunate from a security POV for affected users or IT pros, it is understandable given that the organization operates under U.S. laws. It may be worth finding whether similar free certificate services based in other region could help improve secure communications and internet infrastructurre
https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf
I donβt know what was worse, Stack Overflowβs moderation system, which many IT communities find annoying, or AI killing the site π€ Both extremes seem bad for the open webβ¦. I still think that we donβt need three chatbots controlling everything. I fear Wikipedia might be next. This is not good for the Internet
The AI automation arms race layoff trap:
1 Competitive pressure pushes firms to automate using AI more than needed for market
2 Now jobless workers can't buy products/services, harming both labor & firm owners
3 Suggested solution by AI companies like UBI/upskilling/lower wages cannot stop the AI doom cycle
The study concludes that only a Pigouvian automation tax can fix the problem. Policy makers must address the competitive drive to automate, not just the post AI fallout afterward
Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry https://xcancel.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963 π
Guess what? Most of code is either slop or even old good regex like for detecting negative sentiment in users prompt which is then logged
the pressure from social media worked. In systemd, age verification has finally been reverted and removed for good. Linux is always for privacy conscious users, it isn't just another Microslop SlopOS
Thanks to WINE, Proton, and Valve's hardware, a significant milestone has been achieved with 90% of Windows games running on Linux, making nine out of ten Windows games accessible on a new Linux installation. Users are flocking to other platforms during the transition from the Windows 10 to 11 eras. Thank you Microsoft once again for enabling the age of Linux gaming, you are our biggest marketing partner π
I saw people getting upset over Rust bugs causing issues in Ubuntu for replacements for sudo and base utils. Let me tell you, all SDKs and languages have issues. Rust, by default, avoids many issues, especially memory safety. As long as they are fixing those bugs and compatibility issues, you are good to go. This is why using an LTS release is important, and they provide an easy way to switch between GNU and Rust utils
You can now use OCI Containers on FreeBSD. Here is a quick introduction to Containers on FreeBSD operating systems using Podman which is a fully featured container engine that is a simple daemonless tool. Podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable command line that eases the transition from other container engines and allows the management of pods, containers and images. Give it a try FreeBSD users and developers. You no longer need Linux server or desktop for dev work.
End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.
The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.
This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.
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The website Keep Android Open is an initiative to protest and advocate against a new policy by Google which bans slideloding apps. The goal is to pressure Google to reverse or modify this policy to protect the open nature of the Android platform and the ability to sideload or use 3rd party app stores without excessive restrictions
Anti bloat IDEs. The good old days when you didn't need an internet connection, an API key/LLM subscription to write more bloat. People still built awesome games, apps, and solved real life scientific problems.
oryx is a TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux that can do:
+ Real-time traffic inspection and visualization.
+ Comprehensive Traffic Statistics.
+ Firewall functionalities.
+ Metrics explorer.
+ Fuzzy search.
A good tool for sysadmins, developers and IT folks.