Godlessness in the Last Days
Frankly, the world has always been a cesspool. Sinful humanity is so evil, the first batch had to be wiped out with only a handful found worthy to escape the baptism of the earth. And to deal with evil humanity,…
Jason
Moment Chinese Ships Crash While Tailing Filipino Boat in South China Sea
If this is an indication of the Chinese Navy’s skills and ability, I think Taiwan is safe. And the navy vessel looked like it took significant hull damage above the waterline. This reminds me of the nutcases that used to…
UFC Agrees to Groundbreaking $7.7 Billion Deal With Paramount and CBS, Ditching Pay-Per-View Model
Looks like my Disney+ bundle with ESPN+ and Hulu is getting dropped next year. At present the Paramount+ package is $12.99 a month, which is doable for the UFC, especially since they’re dropping the PPV model. With the current ESPN+…
Debian 13 Trixie Released
The official Debian announcement as it came to the mailing list this morning. Unfortunately, Debian is looking like it might be a software project dominated by woke management, so other than Raspberry Pi OS, I might not be using it…
Canada Offers 12 Months of Income Support for LGBTQI+ Refugees Under New Resettlement Program
The first 3 months covered by taxpayers, with the rest coming from private groups, or non-profits probably paid by the government. Curious timing as they’re trying to remove tax exempt status from churches and religious organizations, while stifling their voices…
California Is Pushing the Limits of Crowdsourced Energy
As a homeowner doing solar, you’re paying for the system with no control over what the utility pays you for the power you contribute back to them. And with solar being oversold in California, they dropped the rates they pay…
Redlib : A Private, Fast, And Secure Reddit Front-End
(Headline article at bottom) An extremely annoying thing with Reddit is that it blocks me on most of my VPN exit servers. I don’t have an account so I can’t login, leaving me to have to disconnect my VPN to…
Project Banana Ripens Into a Pre-Alpha for KDE Linux, and You Can Test It
It all rather sounds like a terrible implementation, so I’d just run Endeavor OS, which is an easy way of installing and running Arch Linux, which I run on a couple laptops, even with XLibre. Desktop project’s in-house distro…
Ancient Wine Flows Again as 1,000-Year-Old Grape Seeds Revive in Israel’s Negev
An interesting article, and of importance is the difference in winemaking back then verses today. Also, wine has molecules in it that helped to sanitize collected drinking water, so people didn’t drink undiluted wine, but mixed it into water, even…
‘A Legal Pathway for Predators’: Outrage Grows over California Bill Threatening Parental Rights
I had already posted an article about this legislation, but this was a succinct and well done article on the issues around this bill. I’m firmly of the opinion the two main reasons are for “gender affirming care” and sex…
EXPOSING The Billion Dollar SECRET VPN Companies Are Hiding
This is a very good presentation on VPNs and the shady corporations and shell companies that own them, with links to government intelligence services and spyware vendors. Consequently, the only VPN company I trust is Mullvad VPN, but do your…
Smaller Fedora Quality Team Proposes Cuts
One has to wonder if IBM and Red Hat are reaping the fruits of their shenanigans with CentOS, X.Org and Wayland. The free software and opensource community were paying close attention to the XLibre defamatory behavior of some of their…