Picture of Boston Globe obituary: David Farber, work in academia earned him nickname 'grandfather of the internet'. Published February 15, 2026.

Happy Sysmas aka System Administrator Appreciation day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_Day. I think Sysadmin's themselves should celebrate on a Sunday (today). Related: I emailed Martin F. Krafft https://wiki.debian.org/madduck a few years ago to ask: why did he make the Debian checkarray cronjob run on Sunday? No answer yet. I change that on all systems I admin. Something tells me that appointing Sundays as the day for finding and fixing broken raid arrays was a crime against system administrators everywhere.

Are you one of the 513 million people in 11 countries party to the CPTPP trade agreement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_and_Progressive_Agreement_for_Trans-Pacific_Partnership)? Do think you've benefited from the "intellectual property" "protections" in it?