LG wanted to charge me £1200 for the repair of my 40” monitor, which considering I bought it new in 2022 for £1500, not worth it. We tried replacing the boards ourselves, that wasn’t the problem.
Put it on Freecycle for spares and repair.
The person who comes to collect says “I think it’s the backlight, if I can fix it do you want it back?”
It’s a good world!
What Bezos, Musk and even the nice folk at NASA have done is they've managed to abstract humanity. To them, humanity is merely an object in a great masterly program, called upon when needed (for funds extraction), otherwise null, a hindrance even, when it appears unbidden.
Our priorities need revision.
Until we can buy time by mitigating climate change, all this stuff is fireworks at the close of a long weekend—except come Monday, we won't be going back to work.
Do you have a firewall?
"The Army’s top uniformed officer was fired today, effective immediately, with no explanation, no transition period, and no confirmed permanent replacement. His interim successor is the Defense Secretary’s former personal aide. This is the latest in a fourteen-month pattern of removing senior military officers and replacing them with individuals personally trusted by Hegseth."
So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
Tribblix m39 released
Tribblix, the Illumos distribution focused on giving you a classic UNIX-style experience, has released a new version.
There are several noticeable version updates in this release. The graphical libraries libtiff and OpenEXR have been updated, retaining the old shared library versions for now. OpenSSL is now from the 3.5 series with the 3.0 api by default. Bind is now from the 9.20 series.
Issy Long
Gift Articles
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧
Linux Renaissance
AlcorNews
William Lindsey 
Aral Balkan
OSNews
tante