#ClimateDiary I watched my village disappear in an instant.

“When I finally reached someone — an elder brother’s house — it was his wife who answered. “There’s nothing left in the village,” she said simply. “Most of the people are gone.”

I couldn’t make myself believe it. Sole and Tupche sit nearly a hundred metres above the riverbed. No flood in living memory — in centuries, as far as anyone knew — had ever reached that high.” #Nepal #Glacier

https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-3/2026/08/27/i-watched-my-village-disappear-in-an-instant

@malteengeler

The domain names of
autistici.org / inventati.org (and noblogs.org) are now suspended.
.org being managed by a US entity they were forced to suspend them due to Autisti (the oldest leftwing Italian collective doing web and mail hosting) being declared a terrorist organisation by Trump

Even for WikiLeaks they didn't do that

The US are clearly a fascist state now....

And all your links to your blogs are now dead 😭🥴

(Editing so everyone knows: maybe not. They were dead a few hours ago but not anymore)
(subedit: autistici.org still dead, the other are fine for now)

🎉 Geschafft! Die vollständige Überarbeitung der Empfehlungsecke ist abgeschlossen.

In den vergangenen Wochen habe ich wirklich jedes Thema einzeln geprüft, aktualisiert, ergänzt und an vielen Stellen neu bewertet. Veraltetes ist raus, neue Empfehlungen sind dazugekommen und zahlreiche Hinweise wurden präzisiert.

Jetzt ist die Empfehlungsecke wieder auf Stand August 2026. 😊

👉 https://www.kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke/

#Datenschutz #ITSecurity #Privacy #DigitaleSelbstverteidigung

@davidgerard That's the funniest thing.

probably their last words when the wagon hit them

The reality of global warming is going to change all our economic assumptions. It is ridiculous for the tech sector to believe it will be able to make even more money than it does now in a world where every single essential resource - from food, to energy, to water - is going to cost a lot more. From this article on wheat production:

> “The system we currently have in place depends on three things: seamless trade, cheap energy, stable climate,” said Evan Fraser, a professor who studies the global food system at the University of Guelph in Ontario. “Today, it seems none of these assumptions are met.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/world/wheat-price-iran-war-canada.html

@arj @dlakelan @jonny

it feels easy for others to say "that design is obvious"

I regard that as a complement. If I have explained the problem well enough that you come up with the same solution as me then that tells me two things:

• I have explained the problem well.
• My solution is not obviously stupid.

""
No artificial intelligence

LibreOffice 26.8 contains no generative AI features. Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function. This is a deliberate position.
""

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

#tech #opensource #libreoffice #AI

@randahl It's funny really. No one will call it that, same as gulf of mexico is still just that. It just makes him look weak and pathetic.
Next up: Trump signs executive order to stop the tide coming in and climate change...

I don't think there's ever been a time when the world of tech has been so out of sync with humanity. I just saw an ad for a laptop saying it has "the power of Copilot". So, that's one to avoid like the proverbial plague, then.

Achievements that keep me going:

Posted a great production user call
Reached a university
Welcomed a Summit sponsor
Found a new bhyve-based home for my sites including bhyve.org (role still TBD)
Finally go the replacement tables and oh don’t ask me about folding tables, unless you genuinely need some
Introduced some folks for a secure boot/OpenZFS discussion
Probably a few other things
Bedtime

The problem of fascists in Open Source Software projects has become so bad that some vim users are considering using emacs.

#Neovim #Fascism #OSS #OpenSourceSoftware

Après "les Américains se foutent de notre gueule parce qu'on a pas la clim", voici "les Américains se foutent de notre gueule parce qu'on sait pas ce qu'est une tornade"

faut que j’arrête Reddit (en vrai oui faudrait mais pas pour ces raisons-là...)😩

Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything

except cost you more tokens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAq45fJln70&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260827-your-agentsmd-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything - podcast

time: 4 min 52 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-agents-md-file-doesnt-actually-do-anything/ - blog post

@imanijoy

People are suffering, there is nothing funny about this decaying fascist and his idiot/predator supporters trying to ruin the United States of America.

@subtruth i suspect if it doesn't work, it can't be that stupid you must be prompting it wrong

As governments exert control over access to the Web, people are increasingly turning to VPNs to access social media and to read & share info on upcoming protests.

Check out our VPN guide to learn more:

https://privacyinternational.org/node/5009/

Trailer Park Announces Three-Part Miniseries Exploring What Makes a Podcast Trailer Effective #pressrelease #podcasting https://podnews.net/press-release/trailer-park-effective-podcast-trailers

@cstross In London during WW2 (and for all I know, in Kiev etc now despite their expertise in drones) one of the Air Raid rescue teams' items of equipment was a long stick, with a clamp for a syringe at one end, and a mechanism for shoving the plunger connected to the other.
It might be threaded through unstable rubble to a casualty to provide Morphine hopefully to improve their life before they were extracted.