someone mentioned compression of filesystem entries and i think i could do that the same way i was gonna do python wheels by registering prefix dictionaries per known file type. i think that is a rabbit hole and i'm 27 rabbits deed atm

Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'

https://www.businessinsider.com/mistral-ceo-warns-europe-2-years-avoid-us-ai-dependence-2026-5

#HackerNews #Mistral #AI #Europe #VassalState #TechDependency #FutureOfAI

First of all, *most* of FOSS security reports nowadays (that I see in #curl and #apache httpd) are non-threatening.

They are edge cases under highly constructed preconditions. Yes, not impossible, but unlikely to be ever encountered.

Before LLMs, no researcher would have invested the time to explore those scenarios. my guess.

Yes, we fix them. But, they could also have been a bug report.💁🏻‍♂️

@happyborg it's okay! Backups are more important than (remote) access... :-)

@randahl

Israeli police... a shower of utter bastards...

@simon_brooke @Tupp_ed noteworthy how reform convinced people to vote

> Alberta separatists vow to appeal petition denial as soon as US State Department tells them how

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/alberta-separatists-vow-to-appeal-petition-denial-as-soon-as-us-state-department-tells-them-how/

WSJ - US regulators are inquiring about suspicious betting on Kalshi and Polymarket tied to political events and military operations. (Polymarket has a data partnership with Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.) https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/government-prediction-markets-betting-2126dcb3?st=oWag9Z

@phoffer yep!

Musk is imposing new rate limits to free users on X.

Things are working out it seems.

Sen Bill Cassidy’s defeat in Saturday’s #Republican #primary in #Louisiana will be covered as evidence of Trump’s grip over the party. #BillCassidy voted to convict #Trump after his second #impeachment following #Jan6, 2021, & this was payback.
At the same time, Cassidy’s third-place finish highlights another unfortunate trend in #US politics: the decline of open primaries across the country.

#elections #USpol #democracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/17/bill-cassidy-defeat-highlights-decline-open-primary-elections/

@davidgerard just like with GDPR, the objections seem to mostly come from people doing the bad thing the policy is intended to stop

@overholt
And g'bless archivists, every one.

On the streets of Andorra yesterday, calling for decent housing and protesting against the accumulation of property for short term holiday lets by companies like Airbnb.

#Housing #Protest #ClassWar

We shall overcome injustice
and oppression

History in Your Hands: an introduction to archives in six panels. https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/archives-history-in-your-hands-an-illustrated-pamphlet/

Someone brought their cat in and she immediately decided she was a tiny shopkeeper

#Trump Remarks Reveal a [Callous] #Billionaire Out of Touch

With his generational wealth, his 20-acre Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, FL, & his lucrative family businesses around the world, Trump has never…[been]…an ordinary American.

Instead, he has argued that he could use his [bogus] business savvy to help lift up the country’s forgotten men & women.

#US #economy #inflation #CostOfLiving #affordability #recession #trumpcession
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/to-critics-trump-remarks-reveal-a-billionaire-out-of-touch.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

We shall defeat [[Moloch]]
for the benefit of beings

I love that @KevBot re-measured himself on the family wall and added a mark for Kevin '26.