Tesla body count: The autopilot full self driving system killed seven more people in the month of July.
https://electrek.co/2026/09/15/tesla-four-fatal-driver-assist-crashes-july-2026/
#negligence #autopilot #safety #death #tesla #fsd #-
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbtA linkblog by @nelson@tech.lgbt. Contains a few links a day hand-chosen by Nelson.
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Trump's rolling coup: A sober argument about the Republican effort to subvert American democracy
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-rolling-coup/
#democracy #politics #trump #uspol #coup #-
Adobe fuckery: Company is now modifying critical system config files so it can market to you better
https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/comment/oe1ap9h/
#creativecloud #networking #malware #windows #adobe #hosts #-
White House terrible app: Some super amateur or sinister programming from some flak for the Trump people
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
#whitehouse #government #politics #privacy #malware #uspol #trump #-
RNGdle: Silly daily game, nicely made
https://www.rngdle.com/
#via:waxy #clicker #games #idle #+
1Password + Flatpak browser: A fix for a thorny integration problem for Linux systems
https://github.com/FlyinPancake/1password-flatpak-browser-integration
#integration #1password #container #security #flatpak #browser #linux #+
guppylm: A tiny LLM trained on a constrained domain. A learning exercise, showing you can build your own LLM
https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm
#via:hackernews #programming #llm #ai #+
Bluesky $100M VC funding: Only disclosed now, a year later, and after a CEO switch
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
#enshittification #socialmedia #corruption #bluesky #vc #-
Sniffies $100M: Gay cruising app takes on an enormous amount of investment
https://gayety.com/sniffies-match-group-100m-investment
#enshittification #investment #sniffies #cruising #lgbt #apps #gay #vc #-
rpm-ostree: Fedora's atomic package manager. Instead operating systems plus user customization in snapshots you can easily apply or rollback
https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/
#immutable #sysadmin #versions #software #linux #+
Claude postmortem: Details on why the AI acted dumb the last few weeks
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
#postmortem #claudecode #claude #bugs #llm #ai #+
Building a cloud: Manifesto from the exe.dev founder about what they're doing
https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
#development #computing #hosting #exedev #cloud #flyio #ai #+
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Systems expert with a very critical take on AI from a thoughtful perspective.
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
#correctness #systems #aphyr #kyle #llm #ai #+
Switching to OpenStreetMap: Driving business in Oman saves a bunch of money moving from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap
https://iamarshrx.medium.com/we-were-paying-8-000-month-for-google-maps-then-we-stopped-ff966798be7e
#opensource #nominatim #geociding #routing #maps #osrm #osm #+
AI security reviews: Report from Linux kernel team seeing they're seeing a significant rise in legitimate security bug reports, AI generated
https://lwn.net/Articles/1065620/
#development #security #kernel #linux #bugs #ai #+
GrindrPlus: Mods for the gay sex app on Android, involving installing your own version of an app and a modding framework
https://github.com/R0rt1z2/GrindrPlus
#adblocking #android #hacking #grindr #xposed #lgbt #gay #+
Moonfrost: Nasty story of a cryptoscam game trying to reinvent itself as a cozy game
https://www.reddit.com/r/cozygames/comments/1s72z06/before_you_wishlist_moonfrost_you_should_know/
#moonfrost #cozygames #games #scams #nfts #web3 #-
Homocore anthology: Essential 90s queer punk zine has a revival
https://48hills.org/2026/03/four-decades-later-seminal-queer-punk-zine-homocore-blasts-back-into-view/
#tomjennings #homocore #lgbt #punk #gay #+
pr-review: Standalone tool that looks at code changes in git and applies four different AI agents to do a code review
https://github.com/llimllib/pr-review?tab=readme-ov-file
#programming #claudecode #coderview #allm #git #ai #+
DMARC statistics: Data on email signatures. About 30% of domains now are saying "if the mail is not signed right treat it as spam". More than I'd guess!
https://dmarcdkim.com/dmarc-adoption
#signature #dmarc #email #dkim #spam #+
Linux VRAM management: Experimental work to give certain programs priority for GPU memory
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/valve-engineer-shocks-linux-community-with-game-changing-vram-hack-for-8gb-gpus-breakthrough-solution-turbocharges-gaming-by-prioritizing-vram-for-games-while-background-tasks-take-a-back-seat
RIP Stuey Weills: Beloved Nevada City community member passed away, a nice obituary of her impact on our small town
https://www.theunion.com/news/shes-a-rainbow-nevada-city-says-goodbye-to-gray-goose-shopkeeper-stuey-weills/article_8427ff13-75f8-482e-9066-525152b56b84.html
#nevadacounty #grassvalley #nevadacity
Grass Valley welcome arch: In 1901 visitors entered through the legs of an odd statue of a gold miner
https://www.activenorcal.com/the-story-behind-the-giant-gold-miner-arch-that-once-welcomed-visitors-to-grass-valley/
#grassvalley #photography #goldminer #history #kitsch #photo #arch #1901 #+
India health survey (PDF): Huge 2021 government survey of household health In India of over 600,000 households. Includes a remarkable amount of detail.
https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR375/FR375.pdf
#health #census #survey #india #+
Squares in Squares: Pictures of optimal square packing going up as many as 2000 squares
https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
#squarepacking #algorithmic #geometry #diagram #+
ugetty: A modern replacement for the venerable Unix login system. This one can handle serial logins with password, start PPP sessions, start ssh sessions..
https://github.com/ryancdotorg/ugetty
#login #linux #getty #unix #+
Hunky Jesus 2026 (NSFWish): Positive queer vibes
https://www.thebolditalic.com/hunky-jesus-saved-me-again-just-like-renewable-energy/
#sanfrancisco #blasphemy #easter #lgbt #gay #+
Trump vs DAF: Republicans' absurd vendetta against the Southern Poverty Law Center means a major form of charitable donation now can't donate to them.
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-trump-admin-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-bankrupt-the-southern-poverty-law-center/
#corruption #politics #fidelity #splc #daf
Series A for exe.dev: New software development infrastructure raises $35M in VC
https://blog.exe.dev/series-a
#development #agents #flyio #code #vms #+
Is GitHub Cooked?: Another third party GitHub uptime monitor. This one is less apocalyptic than the unofficial monitor but may give a better picture of casual usability
https://isgithubcooked.com/
#scalability #monitor #systems #github #uptime #+
Farrow on Altman: Famed investigative journalist Ronan Farrow digs deep on Sam Altman and characterizes his management and business persona. Also briefly talks about allegations of sexual abuse and dismisses them.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
Containers vs VMs: Exploration of security concerns of containers and the practicality of using VMs to run untrusted code like AI agents
https://emirb.github.io/blog/microvm-2026/
#container #security #agent #kvm #vm #+
Sahlins biography: A friend of mine has published a peer reviewed lengthy biography of the famous anthropologist Marshall Sahlins
https://www.berose.fr/article4299.html?lang=fr
#anthropology #biography #academics #sahlins #golub #+
GitHub update: Some explanation of the failures at an essential piece of software development infrastructure. They're under 90% uptime for the month according to the unofficial status page.
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/
#development #reliability #scaling #github
Chinese Cooking Demystified: Excellent food channel on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC54SLBnD5k5U3Q6N__UjbAw
#chinese #cooking #youtube #food #+
Oil Refineries: Details on how oil processing works
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works
#distillation #cracking #refinery #energy #texas #oil #+
Gay Kaiser scandal: A series of early 1900s political scandals involving the Kaiser of Germany which resulted in the weakening of the kingdom
https://www.dw.com/en/queer-as-folk-the-gay-scandal-that-shook-the-german-empire/a-76940939
#kaiserwilhem #politics #germany #history #lgbt #gay #+
Jujutsu Tutorial: Overview of the new version control system that can replace git
https://steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tutorial/
#versioncontrol #programming #vcs #git #jj #+