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Ok found some prime day codes, which one is better?
This one for $330
GMKtec Gaming Mini PC, M7 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (4.70GHz) Dual NIC LAN 2.5G M7 Desktop Computer, 32 DDR5 RAM +2TB Hard Drive PCle SSD, Dual USB4, HDMI 2.1, USB-C
amazon.com/GMKtec-4-90Ghz-Desk…
And this one literally $10 more
MINISFORUM UM870 Slim Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 8745H(8C/16T), Mini Desktop Computer 32GB DDR5 RAM 1TB SSD, USB4/HDMI/DP 8K@60Hz Output, 2.5G LAN Port, 4xUSB Ports, WiFi 6E, BT5.3, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
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Amazon.com

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Doctor Who - Out of Time - The Complete Series bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-wh…

Doctor Who - Out of Time - The Complete Series - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
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🦔 Eine kleine Lücke mit großer Bedeutung. Früher streiften Igel durch ländliche Hecken, Gehölze und artenreiche Magerwiesen. Heute kämpfen sie in urbanen Gärten und Parks um ihre Reviere – zwischen Zäunen und Straßen wird ihr Zuhause leider immer kleiner.

🪚 Du willst ihnen ein Stück Lebensraum zurückgeben? Zeit für ein Igel-Tor! Der Einschnitt im Zaun sollte am Boden mindestens 13 x 13 cm groß, ohne scharfe Kanten und am besten in der Nähe von Hecken und Sträuchern platziert sein.

Ein Igel schaut aus dem Gebüsch. Darunter der Text: Mut zur Lücke Bahn frei für den Igel

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America’s Mobile Security Crisis: Time for a Secure Alternative

ABC News reports a disturbing reality: smartphones used by U.S. officials, journalists, and tech execs are being hit by zero-click cyberattacks—many tied to Chinese state-backed hackers.

Learn more at Purism:
puri.sm/posts/americas-mobile-…


America’s Mobile Security Crisis: Why It’s Time for a Secure, Private Alternative – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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Just listened to this solid episode of the Statecraft podcast: How to Digitize the Government. I had the chance to meet Joel Burke in #Estonia at the e-Governance conference earlier this year.

I had the chance to meet Joel in Estonia at the e-Governance Conference earlier this year. Our conversation there echoed many of the themes in this episode.

Well worth a listen if you’re serious about modernizing public services.

statecraft.pub/p/how-to-digiti…

#XRoad #DigitalID #Digital #Podcast


What Can We Learn From Estonia?

"You can’t bribe a computer"
Santi Ruiz (Statecraft)
#digital #podcast #digitalid #Estonia #XRoad

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🚨 WhatsApp is getting ADs 🚨

First #MetaAI in your messenger & now #ADs. 🫣

But will it stop there? Probably not!

Find out more here 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

#WhatsApp #WhatsAppAds

Screenshot of WhatsApp's new ads in status feature. Next it is a quote by Jan Koum, Co-founder of WhatsApp that reads, "Remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product"

How to turn off WhatsApp ads – once and for all. | Tuta

WhatsApp users say hello to ads - or turn them off with this guide! Meta-owned instant chat app has announced that it will soon start showing ads. But why did WhatsApp break its no-ad promise?
Tuta
#whatsapp #ads #MetaAI #whatsappads

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Lidem, kteri vydelaji hromadu penez a s tim spojenou slavu/viditelnost v nejakym bode totalne jebne. Naprosto bez vyjimky.

Kdyby ty penize pouzili a nasli si kvalitniho psychologa, tak by to dost pomohlo cele spolecnosti. A sam doufam, ze to neni uplne pravidlo a jde vydelavat penize bez nutnosti se prepnout do modu chodiciho ekonomickeho a sociologickeho think tanku a snazit se ridit spolecnost podle mustru Thiela a Muska.

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Nejhorší by bylo, kdyby to spustili bez nás

První díl podcastu Druhé ekonomické transformace se věnuje tématu rozhýbání peněz Evropanů a zavedení takzvaného 28. režimu EU. Hosty byli Jana Brodani výkon...
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🤦 Aby toho zmatku nabylo málo je tu “Zmatek v koncesionářských poplatcích. Část OSVČ se registrovat nemusí” kde tisková mluvčí vykládá zákon. Má to ale háček, ten nehovoří o nutnosti vlastnit, ale stačí už jenom “užívání”. Neměli by to konečně jasně vysvětlit (a napravit) zákonodárci?

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Zmatek v koncesionářských poplatcích. Část OSVČ se registrovat nemusí

Nový systém placení koncesionářských poplatků vyvolal mezi podnikateli zmatek. Řadě lidí není jasné, kdo se musí registrovat a kdy hrozí pokuty.
Magdalena Maňáková (Seznam Zprávy)

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Re: last boost, especially read @tante's article on "vibe coding": tante.cc/2025/05/23/on-vibe-co…

On "Vibe Coding"

The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double wha…
tante (Smashing Frames)
@tante

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🚀 Openfire 5.0.1 is out! This update fixes several issues found in the 5.0.0 release that we did last week. Check out the blog post for more details: Openfire 5.0.1 Release #Openfire #XMPP discourse.igniterealtime.org/t…

Openfire 5.0.1 release - our 100th! (maybe)

Openfire 5.0.1 has been released! Openfire, created by the Ignite Realtime community is a powerful chat server that lets you communicate in real-time with your team or friends.
Ignite Realtime Community Forums
#xmpp #openfire

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Look, a new #curl option proposed by @icing: '--out-null'

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1780…


curl, new long option '--out-null' by icing · Pull Request #17800 · curl/curl

Add a new commandline option --out-null that discards all response bytes into the void. Replaces non-portable use of '-o /dev/null' with more efficiency. Feature earliest for 8.16.0
GitHub
#curl @icing

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Distracted dolphin or frolicsome frog? Did you notice that in Raccoon themes are named according to a strange convention? Have you ever wondered why? My latest article explains the localization journey which has brought to this result.

livefasteattrashraccoon.github…

Playful themes: what’s in a name?

Localization and customization are first-class citizens at Procyon, as already discussed. An feature in which they come together is the choice of the color theme to apply to the app.
LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon (Procyon Project Blog)

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Wayback Machine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wa…

Book Talk: Art Above Everything with Stephanie Elizondo Griest (IN-PERSON)

A 10-year global investigation into the sacrifices women make to be artists. Ticket Link Join us for a presentation and discussion with Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest. 5:45 PM: Doors open […]\n
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Paul Harvey’s ‘The Rest of the Story’ Is Returning To Local Radio Stations cordcuttersnews.com/paul-harve…

Paul Harvey's 'The Rest of the Story' Is Returning To Local Radio Stations | Cord Cutters News

A well loved voice is returning to radio stations around the country as Paul Harvey’s ‘The Rest of the Story’ is returning to radio stations.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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Molly White @molly0xfff) is the best journalist (by a considerable margin) covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and its metastasizing spread into the endlessly corrupt Trump world and -- this should scare the hell out of you -- now into our banking system.

citationneeded.news/issue-87/


Issue 87 – SO ORDERED

Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
Molly White (Citation Needed)
@Molly White
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I went through and cleared out a load of unnecessary subscriptions, and put some of that to become a Friend of GNOME. It’s important to me to support my favourite thoughtful, usable open-source desktop environment (and who knows, perhaps one day my favourite phone environment too)

#gnome

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Peter Bui (@pnutzh4x0r@social.ndlug.org)

Attached: 1 image Despite my aversion to subscriptions, I decided to become a Friend of GNOME today to support software I love :} If you wish to join me, checkout: https://donate.gnome.org/ #gnome
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#gnome
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Open letter from #EPA employees says their boss has
has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)."
electrek.co/2025/07/01/hundred…

Hundreds of EPA employees have asked their boss, Lee Zeldin, to stop lying

Nearly 500 EPA employees wrote a letter calling out Lee Zeldin for injecting politics into the agency, ignoring science, and spreading misinfo
Jameson Dow (Electrek)
#science #epa

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Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?

Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.

Read the blog at Purism:
puri.sm/posts/google-restricts…


Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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An iPhone app called ICEBlock, which allows anyone to lawfully and anonymously report ICE sightings and get notified about nearby ICE agents, went viral overnight after criticism from the US Attorney General.

FYI: The app doesn't collect or store user data. (I checked by doing a network traffic analysis of the app.)

techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceb…


ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism | TechCrunch

The citizen app for anonymously reporting ICE agents and raids went viral after criticism from the U.S. attorney general.
Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)

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Given that currently 8% of the people detained by ICE for deportation are factual violent criminals, American citizens should take note that the words of a dictator are fucking meaningless gravy.

Merely having the wrong meme on your phone and not enough money for the best deals on a golden Trump card can get you thrown into a gulag in another country.

#FuckYourCitizenship
#DeathToDemocracy

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ProgressivePower (@ProgressivePower@newsie.social)

Attached: 1 video Breaking: Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country.
Newsie
#fuckyourcitizenship #deathtodemocracy
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Do it anyway.


I hate running. I used to believe that, over time, this would change. I thought, over time, that I would grow to love running out of sheer repetition. This has not happened.

I used to think that if I could write for a living I’d never have to work—my hobby would be my job. This also has not happened. It turns out that when you have to do something for multiple hours every day it’s not always fun. Sometimes the day goes by quickly because of how much fun you’re having, sure, but not every day. Some days you don’t feel like being creative but have to anyway. Some days you have absolutely nothing to say but need to keep talking because that’s the job.

Sometimes things are hard, is what I’m saying. It’s a universal human experience.

Companies, naturally, are trying to sell you things to “solve” this unsolvable problem. The logic of consumerism runs deep in all of us thanks to the hundreds of hours we’ve all spent listening to advertising’s constant rituals. In thirty second we see a problem presented, a solution offered at a reasonable price, then a moment of ecstatic relief as the product solves the problem. It’s the story we’ve all seen more than any other, drilled into our heads, shaping the way we see the world whether we realize it or not.

So obviously we all think we’re one purchase away from solving things that aren’t really solvable. Do you hate running? Buy a Fitbit and you can turn those dreaded workout into something fun. Are you having trouble feeling motivated? Maybe buy this fancy project management software, or notebook, or anything else you might come to believe will finally make it easy for you to do things you don’t actually want to do.

I am not, for the record, saying all of these things are useless. They have real purposes. But no tool is every going to make it easy for you to do things you don’t want to do. I am never going to like running—I’m just going to have to convince myself to do it anyway.

I’ve found ways to make running suck less. I do it first thing in the morning—that way I don’t spend all day dreading the workout to come. I always run with my wife, which creates the social pressure I need to actually follow through. I listen to music while I run, mostly so that I have something to think about that isn’t how much I hate running. And we basically always run the same route—that way I know exactly how much running is left and can avoid the need to make any decisions while I’m tired and angry.

None of this makes running fun. It does make it suck less. And part of doing things you dislike—or even doing things you like on days you’d rather not—is realizing that there’s never going to be some purchase or trick that will magically make it easy. There is never going to be some magic moment of truth where things click and you stop resisting the things you know you need to do.

Sometimes you just have to push through it. Sometimes it’s hard, and that’s okay. Do it anyway.

Featured image from the forth century CE depicting someone who enjoys running more than me.

Stuff I wrote this week


It’s been a few weeks since I published anything here—I’ve been away from home for a while. Here’s some stuff I published while I was out.


Stuff you should read



An adorable black and white cat looking at the camera from the carpet.

A forth century tile mosaic of someone actually enjoy running.

Why induction stoves are better than gas | Popular Science

The expression 'cooking with gas' is hopelessly outdated.
Justin Pot (Popular Science)

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Happy #CanadaDay. I figured, it might be fun to share this #CanadaLand episode where one of the McKenzie brothers explains the role #CanCon played in helping #Canada get a reputation of saying "eh?" David Thomas does a great job explaining the history of #SCTV — funny how culture comes into being. Welcome to the Great White North!

canadaland.com/podcast/1164-da…


#1164 Dave Thomas of SCTV on Why Canadians Rule Comedy

 Dan Aykroyd blew in from Ottawa.  Andrea Martin came in from Maine and Joe Flaherty came in from Pittsburgh. Paul Schaffer came in from Thunder Bay. Marty Short and Eugene Levy and I came in from Hamilton.
Canadaland
#canada #canadaland #canadaday #cancon #sctv
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