Links May 2026

May 31, 2026| etbe| 0 Comment| 22:08

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Ron Garrett wrote an interesting blog post about the mathematical possibility of abiogenesis [1].

Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting blog post about the way the current antics of right wing extremists are forcing permanent changes in society away from the old systems [2].

William Angel wrote an insightful blog post comparing the costs of a Macbook and the Openrouter hosted service for LLMs [3].

The Register has an informative article about the threat that management systems built in to Intel and AMD CPUs pose to data sovereignty in EU owned cloud providers [4]. But this is just the first stage of building sovereign clouds, all significaant cloud services run at least 2 types of CPU and adding EU manufactured CPUs at a future time will be easy.

Benn Jordan made an interesting YouTube video about the infrasound problems caused by data centers, we need FOSS to measure infrasound [5].

amarok on the Purism forum made a great post about how to setup profiles in Firefox for different uses [6].

fralb5 wrote an informative post on the Purism forum about how to use a Librem 5 (or any other FOSS Linux phone) to firewall spyware on an Android phone [7].

Michael Prokop wrote an interesting blog post about debugging input event problems on Linux which turned out to be due to an analogue headphone connection [8]. This gave me some useful pointers to investigating an input device problem which is probably very different.

Patrick Boyle made an insightful youtube video about the ridiculous IPO of SpaceX, it seems like a scam from start to finish [9].

Anarcat wrote an insightful blog post about the LLM apocalypse comparing it to the horsemen of the apocalypse [10].

The Wikimedia Foundation (that runs wikipedia.org among other things) is sacking union organisers and trying to corporatise the organisation which means stealing the donations from the community [11].

Tianon Gravi wrote an informative blog post about containers, Debian, and Docker options [12]. We need a lot more work on these sorts of things in Debian.

Memory Tagging and how it improves C/C++ memory safety is an interesting paper from Google researchers giving an overview of the benefits of tagged memory hardware for pointer validation on SPARC and ARM64 [13].

In 2013 a faulty beer fridge motor acted as a spark gap transmitter and blocked mobile phone service for several Melbourne suburbs [14].

[1] https://tinyurl.com/25p5w844
[2] https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration
[3] https://tinyurl.com/2az3uazq
[4] https://tinyurl.com/26aygdv6
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo
[6] https://tinyurl.com/yvnszuyh
[7] https://tinyurl.com/ymmcpt9t
[8] https://tinyurl.com/2859uflr
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI
[10] https://anarc.at/blog/2026-05-16-four-horsemen/
[11] https://tinyurl.com/26mhk6ok
[12] https://tinyurl.com/2dba3jut
[13] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.09517
[14] https://tinyurl.com/2cfo3nsa

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