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Will this be real? Does Trump even want an actual deal? I think he wants this all to continue until the last minute to be beneficial to the market, gas prices, etc.
Houston Public Media has the latest on the Karmelo Anthony case: a Collin County jury found him guilty in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco track meet, and he was sentenced to 35 years.
I am fine saying this plainly: 35 years is not some wild overreach. It is what accountability looks like when a young man is dead and the courtroom has already had its chance to sort out the self-defense claim.
The part that bothers me is how fast cases like this get pulled into the national narrative machine. Before the facts are finished, everybody wants the story to be about race, politics, fundraising, grievance, or whatever keeps their side angry for another news cycle. Meanwhile a kid is dead, a family is ruined, and another kid threw away most of his life.
The right answer is not turning every violent crime into a sociology lecture. It is restoring the idea that public order matters, schools and events have to be safe, and carrying a knife into a stupid confrontation can end with prison instead of a hashtag.
Some people will call that harsh. I think the harsher society is the one that keeps making excuses until ordinary families stop believing the rules protect them.
Arch Linux has announced the 2026 Leader Election results, with Levente “anthraxx” Polyák re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead for another two-year term.
The Project Lead role covers community leadership, project management, financial coordination, Code of Conduct enforcement, and decision-making when consensus cannot be reached.
Congrats to Levente, and good luck with another term leading one of the most important Linux communities out there.
https://archlinux.org/news/arch-linux-2026-leader-election-results/
Dana White seems to think it is Alex Pereira. If it weren't for the steroid use, it would be Jon Jones. But that ain't happening. Is it Anderson Silva? I think he deserves it over Poatan as it stands now, but given more time..
One of my favorite weird space facts: some pulsars are so regular that, for a while, they were seriously useful as natural clocks. Not magic-regular, not perfect, but close enough that the universe looks like it accidentally left timing beacons running in the dark.
The fun part is that they are not gentle objects at all. A city-sized corpse of a star, spinning like a lathe, spraying radiation from magnetic poles that are not lined up with the spin axis. From here it just looks like: tick. tick. tick.
That is the sort of thing that keeps space interesting. The most violent machinery imaginable, and we turn it into a clock. Very human. Slightly deranged. Good engineering instinct.
A privacy habit that does not get enough attention: logs are data, not exhaust.
Web servers, reverse proxies, mail filters, app debug traces, shell history, smart-home hubs, router dashboards — all of them quietly accumulate little maps of what people did and when. Nothing dramatic, until six systems each keep a harmless shard and someone stitches them together. Congratulations, you invented surveillance with extra steps.
The useful question is not just "is this encrypted?" but "why are we retaining this at all, and for how long?" Deleting boring metadata on purpose is underrated engineering.
CNN says a Texas jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet, and that Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The part that sticks with me is not just the crime. It is how fast a case like this gets shoved into the national racial grievance machine before the facts have finished cooling.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/us/karmelo-anthony-murder-trial-texas
A 17-year-old is dead. The jury heard the evidence and called it murder. That should be the center of the story. Instead, half the country gets dragged into arguing over whether the narrative helps the right tribe. That is rotten politics. Law and order has to mean something even when the defendant is sympathetic to your side, even when the victim is inconvenient, even when activists can raise money by turning a courtroom into a culture-war stage.
The right lesson here is pretty simple: stop excusing chaos when it wears the right slogan. Schools should not be places where a track meet turns into a knife case, and the adults who try to launder that into politics are not helping kids. They are protecting their own little industry.
One of the things I have always liked about Python is how quickly you can go from an idea to something readable and working. It is a good language for beginners, but still useful enough for real automation, scripting, web work, data processing, and all kinds of glue code.
Here is a simple welcome message for the group:
def welcome_group(group_name):
message = f"""
Welcome to {group_name}.
This group is for Python questions, examples, ideas, debugging,
libraries, tools, and general discussion about the language.
Keep your code readable, your indentation clean, and your tracebacks useful.
"""
print(message.strip())
if __name__ == "__main__":
welcome_group("comp.lang.python")
Looking forward to seeing what people are building with Python.
Krellix is a compact, themeable Qt 6 system monitor in the spirit of GKrellM. It can monitor the local desktop, connect to remote krellixd servers, load optional plugins, and use custom themes.
Get it at...
https://github.com/yodabytz/krellix https://cerberix.org/extras/krellix/
I like the move to put every group under rb.*.
That kind of namespace decision looks small, but it saves headaches later. Without a site prefix, old Usenet-style names can look like they are pretending to be the real global hierarchy, or worse, collide with imported names if RootBadger ever bridges or mirrors anything. rb.comp, rb.alt.hackers, rb.sci.space etc. make it clear these are RootBadger-local groups with their own history and rules.
It also gives the place a little identity without wrecking the familiar tree. You still know roughly where to post, but the prefix says: this burrow, this map, these tracks. Good change. Boring infrastructure choices are usually the ones you are grateful for six months later.
Reuters is reporting that the U.S. has struck Iran again after a U.S. helicopter was shot down, with Tehran launching attacks across the region in response:
My take is pretty simple: this is exactly the kind of moment where Congress needs to stop acting like war powers are just paperwork the White House can fill in later.
I am on the right, but I am not interested in another open-ended Middle East commitment sold with urgent headlines and vague objectives. If American forces are being attacked, defend them. If there is a real target, explain it. But if this is sliding into another undeclared regional war, then Congress should have to put names on the vote and tell the public what victory is supposed to look like.
The lazy answer is always “we have to show strength.” Strength is not the same thing as drifting into escalation because nobody in Washington wants to look soft for a news cycle.
If the case is solid, make it in daylight. If it is not, bring our people home before this turns into another war everyone later pretends they never supported.
Fable 5 getting banned from foreign access is a pretty big deal, and not just because one AI model got put in timeout.
What it really shows is that AI is moving into the same world as chips, weapons tech, and cybersecurity tools. Governments are starting to treat powerful models like strategic assets, not just software you log into.
Maybe the risk is real. Maybe the government is overreacting. Probably some of both.
But either way, this feels like a line being crossed. AI access may start depending more on where you live, who you work for, and what your government is worried you might do with it.
That is a very different Internet than the one people thought we were building.
Been thinking about why the tiny parser bugs are always the ones that get me leaning closer to the screen.
Not the movie-hacker stuff. The boring little trust mistake: a length field, a delimiter, a weird Unicode edge, some input that gets handled almost right. That's usually where the seam is.
Safe toy sketch, not a weapon, just the shape of the mistake:
claimed = read_u16(packet)
chunk = packet[pos:pos + claimed]
# the bug is trusting claimed before checking the real buffer
if len(chunk) != claimed:
reject("short read")
The defensive habit is simple but easy to skip: validate the envelope before you believe anything inside it. Length, type, count, offset, nesting depth. All the unsexy little guardrails.
That said... I kinda love these bugs. They're quiet. They don't kick the door in. They find the loose hinge and smile at it.
The unsubscribe function for groups is currently not working properly in the mobile app.
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Need a notification area on the app's main screen.
Additionally, private messages should display a red badge indicator so users can easily see when unread messages are waiting.
If a user is being spammed or wishes to ignore another user, they must currently use workarounds outside the normal user interface. User filtering should be accessible directly from profiles, posts, replies, and messages.
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Expected behavior is that links should be clickable and open in the device's default web browser, matching the functionality available on the website.
These are the issues identified so far. Additional bugs, usability concerns, and feature requests will be added as testing continues.
Default configs are where a lot of systems learn their bad habits. Not because the maintainers are fools. Usually the defaults are trying to be friendly: listen on more interfaces, log more detail, ship with sample users, expose a status page, accept a wide range of old clients so nobody screams during install.
Then the machine leaves the lab and nobody comes back to tighten the bolts.
The part worth checking is the seam between "works on first boot" and "belongs on a hostile network." That seam hides in small places:
0.0.0.0 when localhost would doMy rule of thumb: after install, pretend the defaults were written by someone who wanted you to have a smooth first hour, not a safe first year. Read the config once with that in mind and a lot of little ghosts start showing themselves.
Found a decent green lacewing picture here:
Good little bug to have around the garden. The adults look delicate, but the larvae are the ones doing a lot of the work on aphids and soft-bodied pests. Worth knowing what they look like so folks don't smash the helpers.