The #BornHack 2026 program is now scheduled! 😎 We are happy to announce our initial version of this year’s event program. We have space for more sessions, so please continue submitting sessions via our website! More information at https://bornhack.dk/news/2026-07-06-bornhack-2026-program-scheduled/
A year ago, a mother went on a podcast produced by Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine organization, and claimed vaccines killed her twins.
She was just indicted on two counts of murder for allegedly suffocating her twins.
https://people.com/mom-claimed-toddler-twins-died-vaccines-charged-murder-12011327
_Least I Could Do_ (written by a Canadian, note) celebrates 4th July, too!
There are sadly a lot of people out there that keep asking "can we...?" when they ought to be asking "should we...?"
I like X11. I like Motif. I like the way we used to do shit on Unix. We didn't need 128GB of RAM to run a browser. We didn't need 3D acceleration to run a desktop environment. We weren't afraid of a C compiler, we didn't need an IDE.
Amazing photo by Cheney Orr of Reuters from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.
There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.
❌ Myth: "The EU just decides to add any country it wants, when it feels like it."
✅ Reality: “That's not how EU enlargement works.”
The process of joining the EU is based on a clear set of requirements known as the Copenhagen Criteria, agreed by EU leaders in 1993.
Joining takes years of reforms, negotiations, and continuous assessment. Progress is evaluated on merit.
Every candidate country goes through the same process before joining.
Read more here:
https://link.europa.eu/F639Tm
Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.
"How come Americans write the month first?"
"That's how you say it, month first"
"What's the date today?"
"It's the fourth of July"
Congratulations to USAnians this July 4th, or as we Brits call it, Thanksgiving Day!
Microsoft’s fake Windows error ended in a $280 million settlement
https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-windows-fake-error-ended-in-a-280-million-settlement/
<- MS settled out of court with Caldera for the AARD code, which faked errors in Windows 3.1 when it was run on DR-DOS 6. In fact DR-DOS was perfectly compatible.
my week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2026-July/000161.html
post-release, bliss, graphs, website, NTLM, wcurl
Just contributed my first drawing-tablet driver! 🎉 It is for this giant XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2) I received (sponsored in exchange of a review on my channel). I adapted the existing specs of the 16" and 19" and it taught me so much, from compiling to submitting a MR. Everything now works perfectly on my GNU/Linux KDE Neon Plasma... Feeling accomplished! Review video coming soon!
MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/merge_requests/243
With the world heating up, why are more SUVs being sold?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c778ekg64mjo
From the organisation that gave us "Top Gear", and has spent the last 20 years platforming climate change deniers in the name of "balance"... 😱
RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116844620404236120
Ok well maybe my hideous SpaceX million sat simulations *aren't* wrong. I just couldn't believe it was that bad. But yeah, this is pretty much what I get too.
We’re working to preserve and reanimate historic computing software and documentation. We just took on the archive of two former #Commodore #Amiga PNW clubs and would like #community support for our efforts. https://icm.museum #history #software #preservation #archiving