An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
http://www.techmeme.com/260319/p15#a260319p15

Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code

https://rjcorwin.github.io/cook/

#HackerNews #Cook #CLI #Claude #Code #Orchestrating #Programming #Tools

Why I love freeBSD

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I love FreeBSD because it doesn't rename my network interfaces after a reboot or an upgrade.

I shall dwell on what Stefano may mean as I have experienced this nightmare on the Linux path countless times

• using the if tools ifconfig ifup ifdown route and others on a LAN local network I repeat on a LOCAL network
• these tools were depreciated due to many issues with them, decades later (IIRC)
• no linux distro ever told me as a user that I needed to use replacements like ip
• I install a new version of a random distro (was on an ESR) and could not address the NIC's no iftools
• names of the NIC's were also replaced with cumbersome cryptic names, again, no fucks given no warning, I should have read the remarks in the GNU tool sources?
• WTF?!?

In that period I needed to enter the world of freeBSD
it was a chilibox experience with three main factors. Great docs, consistent tools logic and control governed by a central body of all, no guerilla tool changes which could disrupt server up keep flow. Just rest, ease and stability

Mind you I know BSD from before the chilibox, in fact I've played with BSD way before even Linux was in the balls of though of Torvalds

TLDR;

• choose BSD for your servers if you need consistent OS behaviour for decades
• choose Linux for bleeding edge changes and chances of breaking server (VMs) at regular updates
• choose win64 for love of being tortured
• choose mac to give away your aurum to the mac overlords
• choose the abacus for absolute stability

#freeBSD #Linux #ifconfig #ip #win64 #mac #aurum #IT #notes #ITNotes #dragas #programming #OpenSource #no #Linux #logic #analysis

Excellent win. Matildas found a new gear in the second half.

#WAC2026 #Matildas #CHNvAUS

Sam Kerr and Cait Foord.

Show me a better combination, I’ll wait

#AFCASIANCUP2026
#Matildas
#CHNAUS

We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:

mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.

Every single time.

And every single time it happens,
the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!

—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and biometric data from millions of people turns out to be a security nightmare

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

1. Trump gets nervous about the Epstein files, so he deliberately creates a disaster.
2. The media talks about the new disaster. Trump feels better.
3. Trump takes too much heat from the new disaster, so he creates an even bigger disaster.

I hope everyone understands where this feedback loop ends.

Hint: Sun Tzu has a quote about evil men who will burn their own country to the ground just to rule over the ashes.

#FreeBSD 15.1 On Track With Better Realtek WiFi & KDE Desktop Install Option

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-Realtek-KDE-Wins