More issues with the Rust-based “drop in” replacements for the GNU Core Utils keep popping up in the current (and upcoming) version of Ubuntu. Both “du” and “sort” appear to have significant issues which could break some scripts and applications. In fact, it turns out that the Rust-based sort replacement is incomplete — only implementing a portion of the GNU sort function. In other words: not a drop in replacement. A fact which the Rust clone developers, and Ubuntu developers, were aware of prior to Ubuntu deciding to make the switch to the clones.

I have spent the last 72 hours running through thousands of arrest records in North Carolina. I've looked at something like 10,000 arrests. What I'm discovering is so shocking, so horrifying, it cannot be a coincidence. Hundreds of individuals are clearly being mislabeled in the arrest records system. It's not a one-off or remotely rare. There are hundreds of these, possibly thousands... just in North Carolina. The clearest and most damning examples are when a repeat offender is arrested multiple times and his race is obviously changed between arrests. I found at least 18 instances of this. Here's the kicker... it NEVER happens the other way. White men are NEVER labelled hispanic. Neither are black men. It's always hispanic (FOR WHICH THERE IS AN OPTION!!!) men being labelled a) Caucasian b) White c) Other d) Unknown Again, there is a CLEAR and often-used option to label an individual as Hispanic and it is deliberately not being used. EVEN WHEN the person has originally been arrested and labelled "H" = Hispanic. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th arrest will label them "Caucasian" I cannot think of any rational, reasonable explanation for why this is occurring, AT SCALE, in North Carolina. At the minimum, we cannot trust any race data coming out of North Carolina arrest records. If that data feeds into any federal system, we cannot trust this either. Even, for the sake of argument, if the data is NOT being intentionally manipulated... the data is clearly and wildly inaccurate. I am open to all explanations, but this looks like major data manipulation to me.

Sometimes Linux developers are M0R0NS. Ubuntu 22 LTS, apt upgrade to kernel 6.8, rebooted, networking is gone, no interfaces ... why? Because some IDIOT decided to move a huge amount of network drivers to the linux-modules-extra package, not installed by default. Once you reboot, without networking, you can only install it via USB drive ... if you manage to figure out WHY your network interfaces are all unclaimed. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

Boom! Grok 4 Fast now has a huge 2M token context window! Why is this important? This context window can allow substantially documents or code bases to be loaded as a single prompt for interrogation and consideration. With the added bonus of being insanely fast with almost no memory leakage. I am running test this morning that are quite mind blowing. More soon.

Grok 4 (Blazing) Fast with 2M window context

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Blocks the road… did you just hit me? 🤦‍♂️

The reason government programs are so inefficient is that, unlike a commercial company, the feedback loop for improvement is broken, because they have a state-mandated monopoly and can’t go out of business if customers are unhappy. No matter how bad the service is at your DMV (sorry to pick on DMVs), you still have to use your DMV, because it’s a monopoly.

14 days. Lucy Martinez has still not been fired or disavowed by Hale Elementary School.

It's the tech equivalent of bemoaning an indie band for "selling out" if they dare produce a hit that lets them play stadiums. Defining your identity around using Linux BECAUSE it's not mainstream is the same sort of hipster pathology.

There's a great misunderstanding that The Year of Linux on The Desktop depends on approval the kind of existing Linux losers who think their nerd status is contingent on shitting on newcomers and their excitement.

Hey @YouTube / @YouTubeCreators : Is there some reason why you are blocking ALL comments on this video? So far there have been 100 comments made (in the first 28 minutes of the video being live)... and they all disappear as fast as people post them. piped.video/watch?v=KAzXypM5…

You can spot an aggrieved Linux loser by the attempt to gatekeep the term "distribution" like it was a royal distinction of honor. I don't give a fuck what you call a compilation of configs, tools, and programs with a custom installer that ships on an ISO.

GNOME Declares War on Framework Computer GNOME OS Team says Framework "supports Fascist and Racist s***heads", "does not feel comfortable in further collaboration". GNOME Board wants to talk to groups "reconsidering working with Framework".

Randy Adams, veterano do Exército dos EUA, foi atacado em Chicago em 2021. Sofreu uma infecção grave que destruiu parte do rosto. Passou um mês em coma, fez várias cirurgias e agora é palestrante motivacional, compartilhando sua história de resiliência.

Let us be thankful for all He has done and continue to do!

“I want to have a family. I’ve always wanted to be a young mom, and I’m worried about how this industry puts stigmas on young women who have children” Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney refused to apologize for her "good genes" commercial. She is probably the most bad ass celebrity on the planet right now! Hollywood needs more people like her?

BREAKING - Justin Calhoun, the 19-year-old transgender Democrat who attacked TPUSA staff at the University of Iowa and flipped over their table, has been arrested by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department.

This expression should forever be our reaction to the school marm, lecturing, sanctimonious culture police every time they demand we play their guilt-ridden, apology, carny games.