It’s time we stop pretending that Israel is a European country living off-campus, and recognize that she’s a brutal little theocracy typical of her region.

Giving Iran a good deal was Trump’s only option to end this and I am very glad he chose to do that.

Kennedy chose to escalate in Vietnam. Ditto Jonson and Nixon. Bush stared the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, then chose to do a “surge” in Iraq. Obama had a “surge” in Afghanistan if you remember.

The counter factual is not US got a good deal, but US started a catastrophic escalation that leads to tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths before the US agrees to a bad deal.

Obviously, attacking Iran in the first place was a blunder, but after that, TACO was the best deal America was ever going to get.

I think the proposition of avoiding American tech in general will become more and more attractive in the coming years. Governments are already trying to move away from Microsoft for national security reasons. That’ll have the knock-on effect of putting Linux and Libra Office in front of more people at work and school.

In combination with the advances in Linux gaming, This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you’re first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

The Obama deal was supposed to have “given” Iran ~$2B, but that was actually a settlement of claims made by Iran pursuant to pre-revolutionary contracts, disputes, and treaties.

So I’m suspicious of this $300B figure. How much of that is sanctions relief and/or unfreezing Iranian assets?

It’s probably misleading to characterize that figure as though we’re writing them a check for war reparations. But there aren’t enough details to be sure.

Anyway, I don’t think it’s wise to adopt the language and tactics of people who think diplomacy is a waste of time and would prefer a military solution.

The only reason to make a robot humanoid is to fuck it. Every other use-case doesn’t need human limitations or complexity.

Why design hips, knees, ankles, coordination, and balance when wheels exist?

Humanoid robots are a scam.

This is unambiguously good news. Trump had gotten himself into a tight spot and other president’s in that situation have almost always chosen escalation. A ground war in Iran would almost certainly mean tens, or hundreds of thousands killed, plus multiples of that displaced, injured, and traumatized.

This is unambiguously good even if it’s good for Trump, the stock market, and Republicans; it’s more important than the midterms.

The command pacman -Qm will display every package from the AUR on your system. You can then search the list of compromised packages.

People on the internet who complain about “censorship” only come in two varieties.

1. let’s hear the Nazi out

2. Please say the bad word, dog I’m begging you, just say it. Let me say it.

Came here to find out what P word was. Saw that this was England and knew immediately.

It’s comforting as an American to know that Europe is still in the running for who can be the most racist.

The article has instructions to do exactly that.

Users who regularly install AUR packages should take the following steps immediately:

Run pacman -Qm to list all foreign (AUR) packages installed on your system and cross-reference against the published list of compromised packages

Audit recent PKGBUILD history for any packages installed between June 10–12, 2026

Rotate all credentials — browser passwords, SSH keys, API tokens, and cloud access keys — if any flagged package was installed

Scan for suspicious processes masquerading as kernel threads using tools like rkhunter or chkrootkit

Consider using AUR helpers with PKGBUILD review prompts enabled by default.

The Checklist of infected packages

I don’t own a gun. It’s has nothing to do with politics. I’m a suicide risk; I don’t need a ticket to the bullet train.

The problem is that many, maybe most people are like me. They shouldn’t have a gun. If others were self-aware like me, shit like this would be much more rare. I think you shouldn’t be able to buy a gun unless every member of the household can pass a gun safety test. Including the pets.

Billionaires and policymakers have AI psychosis and they deserve our sympathy and help. Articles like this are a psyop to keep them calm.

I keep thinking about that scene in the original Star Trek where they distract the computer by having it calculate the final digit of pi. If the Enterprise had AI like ours, the computer probably would have just said four.

What we’re seeing is the transition to techno feudalism. Capitalism’s final insult was to privatize surveillance-state authoritarianism.

$300 for a PC speaker? Madness.

These kids are better equipped than the orks at the front.

I’ve used SAMBA shares for years, and it’s dead simple to map a network drive in Explorer. And mounting that drive on boot is a matter of a checkbox in a dialog.

The problem is that knowing how to do something in Windows teaches you Windows and learning it in Linux teaches you computers. For example if you know how to connect to a remote host through the command line, you already know how to connect to one in Nautilus, and vise versa. (via the command ssh://user@host)

I think this cross-pollination approach is going to be a learning curve for Windows users. It is for me. But taking the time has not only helped me understand Linux, I understand how to use Windows better, despite barely logging in for over a year.

Later versions of Bluetooth do encrypt data, but not all hardware developers use the feature. Those 2.4Ghz keyboards usually broadcast your keystrokes in plain text.

If you’re going to buy a wireless keyboard, you should be aware.