Speaking of which ,its not so uncommon as idea. In real life frequently small children or even grownups close their eyes seen something repulsive. Also before getting blindfold i think we could find other countermeasures against those who seek weaknesses to harvest our attention daily and every second.  One possibility being supporting the developement of  new DisplayServers that move away from pixel-centered protocols .

Looking forward hearing from you.

Daemonia Nymphe - Summoning Divine Selene

There was never much in the way of support with these packages anyway - they're simply make-it-work rebuilds of sury's work.  Creds to them,, but grr @ the debian project for requiring systemd...

Primary use case is gaming, usually old stuff.

$ neofetch
   ..,,;;;::;,..                   alexk@ng3 
           `':ddd;:,.              --------- 
                 `'dPPd:,.         OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) x86_64 
                     `:b$$b`.      Model: 90BJ008CUK Lenovo H30-05 
                        'P$$$d`    Kernel: 6.12.111+deb13-amd64 
                         .$$$$$`   Uptime: 29 mins 
                         ;$$$$$P   Packages: 3419 (dpkg) 
                      .:P$$$$$$`   Shell: bash 5.2.37 
                  .,:b$$$$$$$;'    Resolution: 1920x1080 
             .,:dP$$$$$$$$b:'      DE: Xfce 4.20 
      .,:;db$$$$$$$$$$Pd'`         WM: Xfwm4 
 ,db$$$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`             WM Theme: Default 
:$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`                  Theme: Clearlooks-Phenix-Sapphire [GTK2/3] 
 `$$$$$bd:''`                      Icons: oxygen [GTK2/3] 
   `'''`                           Terminal: xfce4-terminal 
                                   Terminal Font: Monospace 12 
                                   CPU: AMD A8-7410 APU with AMD Radeon R5 Grap 
                                   GPU: AMD ATI Radeon R4/R5 Graphics 
                                   Memory: 1338MiB / 7362MiB

The printer is a LCD colour laser printer/scanner/copier that uses toner cartridges. It was bought via Amazon on 1 July 2019 & has worked flawlessly under Devuan using standard CUPS drivers ever since.

Very recently it reported "Toner Low for Y + M (yellow + magenta catridges; there are 4: CYMK [Cyan | Yellow | Magenta | Black]). This was the first ever change with the exception of changing the black catridge.

After the replacing the Y+M with non-Brother catridges it appeared to restart OK but still refused to print. lpstat -p reported "unplugged or turned off".

I then had a 4-day hair-pulling horror, which included struggling with a Brother online AI which lied to me by saying that it would connect me with a human, but did not do so.

I got a hint whilst searching that the printer needed to be rebooted.

In the end, I rebooted computer + printer both at the same time (remove the power socket from the printer & reconnect only when the computer booted up). Before the desktop came up I heard the printer print my Virgin statement. It worked! Afterwards:

$ lpstat -p
printer BRPPL3510CDW-CMYK is idle.  enabled since Mon 12 Oct 2026 01:26:11 BST
printer DCP3510W-RGB disabled since Thu 09 Oct 2025 23:34:55 BST -
	File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_dcpl3510cdw" not available: No such file or directory

HTH

Almost every bank is a "terrible company", and none of those terrible companies are going to release the source code for their online banking apps...

Fair point...

- the developer of xscreensaver, former Netscape developer and Mozilla founder.

There is a clear strategy of plaigarism among these big LLMs. For those of us who are not the morons on the "it's a great tool!" bandwagon, it's all too obvious.

It's also just a small part of a wider corporate strategy to undermine and destroy FOSS software - in particular that which is licensed under the GPL. If you can get an LLM to "assist" in rewriting some GPL software, then release it under e.g. the MIT licence - profit. There will be enough corporate schills promoting and supporting the "fork", to ensure the obsolescence of the original. Any copyright issues can be sidestepped by rewriting in a fashionable "memory safe" language. Which also adds some much needed security theatre.

Anyway I don't mind LTS, i've run those types of distros before now.  Normally you have to update the kernel, but 15 comes with 5.x so it should be fine given Chimaera is on 5.10.0.46 and works well for what I use and need, so i will probably grab the latest version of 5.10, patch it to 46 and use that.

https://craphound.com/news/2026/09/20/technopolitics/

imhho, if everyone read everything Cory Doctorow ever wrote and/or spoke, the world would be much better off.

and, along those lines:

https://craphound.com/news/2026/07/12/12659/

ymmv.

It seems that full report data are not uploaded.

After an Q&A  with the programmer he says that tha db is freely downloadable.

Just picked the last of the cucumbers from the greenhouse. Having a little experiment in the greenhouse at growing a ginger plant from store-bought root. I will have to bring it indoors for the winter, to keep the temperature about 20 C.

I've usually grown beans from seed packets, and they usually take at least a couple of weeks to sprout. This year, after picking the last of a batch of broad beans, I thought I would plant some now, and over-winter them in the greenhouse. I was amazed that they sprouted vigorously within two days. I guess that's something to do with the freshness of the seed beans.

Still have a veg bed full of beetroots, will leave them until the first frosts come.  I have one surprise earlier this year, from the previous year's beetroots, there was one beetroot I'd missed, and was now going to seed. I've patiently waited until the seeds start to turn brown before harvesting them, to save them for planting outside in April.

tech-bro-oligarchy

No doubt they've contributed to bloat, along with many others.  The authors of the composition softwares which create the JavaScript heavy pages.  Administrators who don't know what "HTML5", "JavaScript" and etc. mean.  Page authors who grab any tool allowing page composition without thought of output.  Customers who are unconcerned until a crime happens. Humans don't always act in their best interests.

Regards,                     ... P.