Joe Lewis, the British billionaire and former owner of Tottenham Hotspur FC, has been
pardoned by Donald Trump over a 2024 conviction for his part in a “brazen” insider trading scheme.

Lewis, 88, was fined $5m (£3.8m) and given three years probation by a New York judge last year
but was spared jail time after pleading guilty to involvement in a plan that prosecutors said was designed to enrich his friends, lovers and employees
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/13/trump-to-pardon-british-billionaire-and-former-tottenham-owner-joe-lewis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you’re using macOS Time Machine to a NAS Time Machine server using Samba SMB services, beware Samba 4.22:

“As part of the backup TM tries to rename a directory while having an open file within the directory. Windows requires this to fail and this is what Samba also implements. There used to be a workaround for Macs by using fruit:posix_rename but that option was removed in 4.22 as it imposed an unreasonable development burden due to introducing hard to follow logic in very complex code. As part of implementing SMB3 UNIX Extensions in Samba, this part of the code has to be modified and this was only sensibly possible after removing the fruit:posix_rename code.

As an alternative, fruit shuld be extended to internally make macOS clients POSIX clients so they can benefit from the existing logic in Samba that allows such renames if all opens (recursively) are POSIX opens.

Have patch, need bugnumber.”

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15926

Also:

“fruit:posix_rename
This option of the vfs_fruit VFS module that could be used to enable POSIX directory rename behaviour for OS X clients has been removed as it could result in severe problems for Windows clients.

As a possible workaround it is possible to prevent creation of .DS_Store files (a Finder thingy to store directory view settings) on network mounts by running

$ defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

on the Mac.”
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4.22_Features_added/changed#fruit:posix_rename

#macos #samba #timemachine

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe poor Elon must be seething with jealousy

I bet their robots fall over without the human assistance Elon's have to rely on

No thank you.

Sorry, I won’t even use #FaceID or that #fingerprint shite, #tech knows far too much about me as it is.

#iPhone users can now add #US #passport info to their #digital wallets

#InfoSec #privacy #BigTech #surveillance #law
https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-travel-passport-ae7ab15d6a32e6005d9c85def4e39737?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-13-One+Tech+Tip

Ayylmao, got Linux running on my @hackaday #supercon badge.
Now it just needs a display and keyboard driver :3

" #Bonfire Networks is a tiny software org that has spent the past couple of years building a framework for communities on the open social web. At the end of last week, they released #BonfireSocial, a microblogging app. Like Mastodon, Bonfire Social runs on #ActivityPub, but it takes differently opinionated approach to sociability."
Check it out!
https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

Discordant art.

#StreetArt #Graffiti #Art #Travel #Roadtrip #Photography #Darktable

"A fantastically written cyberpunk story... an emotionally gripping tale," --Neofeud Reviewer https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #indiegame #IndieGamesFestival #SteamDeck #steamdeals #adventuregamefriday #RetroGaming #cyberpunk

Learned today that it's actually an important calibration step to point your new studfinder at your companion and say "hehehe, found one", the studfinder does not work correctly without this step. #JustHomeownerThings

Gingko Golden snow? ;-)
Always enjoying one of the neighbors' Gingko trees this time of year.

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have condescending mollycoddled shit.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

This could be said of technologies before. Doesn't make it wrong.

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