Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

I'm frequently despondent when I see organizations remove or hide once public Internet operational status and trending data.

At one time, lots of networks used to publish a variety of status and traffic summaries. The non-profit Internet2 for example was exemplary in this regard. Cloudflare, a commercial organization, now provides far more public benefit data than they do.

A big loss earlier this year was the once public Equinix network status page - https://community.equinix.com/blog/videostutorials/introducing-equinix-status/519

As the Internet becomes increasingly complex and inconsistency abounds, having access to trends and data from diverse vantage points is as important as ever, but unfortunately increasingly difficult to get.

General reminder:

The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.

Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.

You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.

Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.

An update on how well the International Energy Agency is doing at predicting solar generation growth.

(source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032125000449)

bridge(4) VLAN filtering has landed in FreeBSD main: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=range&q=9c2509f831e8194ef8c30aa5d839a7eb2197ff7f..c5f5d0cf49bfa042aa6f8416449010370853e2bc

$ ifconfig bridge0 create
$ ifconfig bridge0 addm ix0 untagged ix0 20 tagged ix0 100-200
$ ifconfig bridge0.20 create inet6 ...

now you only ever need a single bridge interface, no matter how complicated your network configuration is. (well... maybe.)

#freebsd

Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-cloudfront-https-dns-records/

#aws #cloudfront #DNS