tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

I once wished a friend on facebook a happy birthday with the message "congratulations on not being dead " turned out they had died two months previously.

A good Sunday read: Why Kim Jong Un never talks about his mother - or her controversial bloodline
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvp3xn489no

I'm running Borland Turbo C++ for MS-DOS from 1993 and the reason it doesn't work is because Ubuntu 18.04 is too old

Tja, det är väl det högern säger, allihop? Tycker de ska vända på det, dock: "Det ska vara kostsamt att bli sjuk.", är en ärligare beskrivning.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5gebf7niwfkwbjbnyeklqggw/post/3mpdijboabk2c

Heads up, North America.
(Maps end at the border, heat does not).

"A major heat wave will expand across the Midwest and much of the East during Fourth of July week, with blistering hot temperatures and oppressive humidity posing a danger for millions from the Plains to the East Coast.

Triple-digit heat indices are likely for many, and daily low temperatures will remain very warm, offering little relief in the night."

https://weather.com/2026/06/24/forecast/national/heat-wave-fourth-of-july-week-midwest-south-east

daniel berntsson, one of mullvad's two founders and owners, has donated millions to a local fascist/populist party. (swedish link to flamman, a socialist news site)

the örebro party are mainly known for using unusually aggressive rhetorics and racism.

in the article, berntsson specifically mentions supporting the örebro party's politics of forced repatriation of swedish citizens born abroad.

EDIT: …and should you decide that you're not renewing your subscription, then may i suggest telling them about it? i mean it's arguably a good thing if they're made aware that they're losing customers because of the owners financing this crap. and they can't get away with it since anonymous donations to political parties are prohibited in sweden.

you could even tell them here on fedi. it's mullvadnet(at)mastodon.online

"This summer shows that at 1.4°C of global warming, extreme heat is already reaching the limits of our societies’ ability to cope.

Intense heat is increasing rapidly even in living memory, with such events tens to hundreds of times more likely since only 2003 and virtually impossible just 50 years ago. A rapid phase-out of fossil fuels is critical if we are to avoid even higher temperatures and their consequences in the future."

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-emissions-have-rapidly-worsened-european-heatwaves-in-just-a-few-decades/

Let's goooooooo

#NORFRA #FIFAWorldCup

Oh cool, SCOTUS just ruled on party lines that the Trump administration can violate international law, based on a selective interpretation of what the word “in” means.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/trump-news-at-glance-supreme-court

#uspol

“Luckily, I’m told that frontier models have surpassed PhD-level intelligence in the summer of 2025. Most of the books in question were published mid-2026 and the artwork points to a flagship model from a major US-based lab. So, in all likelihood, there’s nothing to worry a—”

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ai-childrens-books-body-horror-edition

This is pretty cool. Ioan Hadade showing images of Earth taken by Artemis astronauts and the same images as forecasted by #ECMWF models. The cloud cover looks almost identical. #ISC26

lol James Lin at #ISC26

#HPC

China’s back at the top of Top500. I guess the threat of not being allowed to buy US-designed chips is no longer a compelling reason not to submit top systems.

Happy 250th, USA.

#HPC #ISC26

At 15:24 CEST on 15 June 2026, a faint blue glow in space was switched off for the last time: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/End_of_the_blue_glow_BepiColombo_turns_off_solar_electric_propulsion_for_Mercury_arrival - after powering the eight-year journey of #BepiColombo across the inner Solar System, the spacecraft's solar electric propulsion (SEP) system completed its final thrust arc, marking the end of BepiColombo’s long cruise phase and the beginning of its arrival at Mercury.

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting_46_05_en.pdf

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

I finally published my new project, the Banned Book Library! Think of it as a #Cyberpunk dead drop. Reprogram an #esp32 WiFi light bulb to host a web server with books banned in your community. Screw them in wherever is convenient :D. You can't stop the signal!

https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/

This was partially inspired after reading @benbrown short story "Library" a while back.

https://benbrown.com/library/