"President Donald Trump may have made a major miscalculation about Venezuela’s oil.

Trump has expressed excitement over the prospect of US oil companies getting their hands on Venezuela’s vast oil resources.

But industry sources tell CNN that American oil executives are unlikely to dive headfirst into Venezuela for multiple reasons: The situation on the ground remains very uncertain, Venezuela’s oil industry is in shambles and Caracas has a history of seizing US oil assets.

Perhaps the biggest problem is that oil prices are too low today to justify spending the gobs of money – possibly tens of billions of dollars – that would be required to revive Venezuela’s decaying oil industry.

“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low. We have no idea what the government there will look like,” one well-placed industry source told CNN on Monday. “The president’s desire is different than the industry’s. And the White House would have known that if they had communicated with the industry prior to the operation on Saturday.”"

edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/bus…

#USA #Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Oil #FossilFuels

David Rosen, co-founder of SEGA, just died. He was 95 years old.

Wait. He wasn’t Japanese?

That’s right. SEGA started as an American company. The reason SEGA is capitalized is because the original name was Service Games. And the “Service” in that name refers to the American military—its first customer base.

SEGA remained largely American until the 1980s, when David Rosen—along with Japanese business partners—bought the company from its parent, Gulf+Western, which also owned Paramount Pictures.

This initiated one of the most innovative and creative periods in video game history. SEGA produced classics like Space Harrier, OutRun, Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, and Virtua Fighter.

For nearly two decades, SEGA was the primary rival to Nintendo, separating itself through speed and attitude.

Along with Atari, it was one of the companies that defined my childhood.

R.I.P., David Rosen. May you enjoy that great arcade in the sky.

theguardian.com/games/2026/jan…

Sega co-founder David Rosen dies aged 95

Rosen, who led Sega from the 1960s into the 90s and who died on Christmas Day, was a hugely important figure in the history of arcade and home gaming

^{Keith Stuart (The Guardian)}

Three years ago I bought @juliette an electric kettle for her birthday (because romance is not dead).

Looking for a stainless tank, hidden heating element, and temperature settings, I found the Krups KE07. Bit expensive, but it'll last decades. Right? Button 1 broke after a year. Button 2 today..

Thread in three parts

1. How it broke

2. Why I think you should not buy a Krups / Tefal appliance

3. How to fix it with a 3D printed part

1/x

#enshittification #plannedobsolescence #righttorepair

Who approves licenses of subscriptions in a company in the end who buys, like via whose decisions do startups in sv remain afloat or die

When an enterprise buys from a startup, who actually signs off? Trying to understand who the real decision-maker is in the buying process

People who can approve or release budget for recurring software subscriptions inside organizations.

Run your own Chatmail relay, but don't do it on someone else's computer!

hackea.org/notas/selfhost-chat…

#selfhost
#thereisnocloud
#deltachat
#chatmail
@delta

I spend a ridiculous amount of my time on #curl security these days. Because I think that's my responsibility.

something something open source sustainability

RE: zpravobot.news/@denikcz/115847…

Asi to moc dobrý rok nebude 😔

The year's 6th day just started and we just clocked in our 8th hackerone report on #curl for the year.

This doesn't work.

6,000 #curl stickers. 3 Kg.

Get yours at #FOSDEM

I've just seen the following comment posted on Lemmy, and I'm reeling at the spiciness of their take. It feels like genuine bravery to straight up admit this in public:

"Dredd (2012) was a technically proficient, but ultimately mediocre piece of uncritical copaganda action schlock, and a vastly inferior film to Judge Dredd (1995). i will die on this hill."

Just...astonishing.

“You cannot disable this thing! A ton of people use it!”

People file bugs and write docs on how to disable it, too. You know what would be great to verify claims about use? Telemetry!

“You cannot enable telemetry! Mah preevacee!”