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SpaceX opened its 2026 launch campaign with a mission for the Italian government.

09 Jan 2026 3:50pm GMT

Microsoft is discontinuing its Send to Kindle integration in Word, ending a feature that allowed Microsoft 365 subscribers to send documents directly to their Kindle e-readers and preserve complex formatting through fixed layouts. The company updated its documentation to announce that beginning February 9th, 2026, the Send to Kindle feature will no longer work across Web, Win32, and Mac platforms. Microsoft has not disclosed why it's killing the integration but recommends users switch to Amazon's official Send to Kindle app. The feature launched in 2023 and was particularly valued by Kindle Scribe owners who could annotate the transferred documents.

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09 Jan 2026 3:30pm GMT

Abstract of a paper on NBER: We construct an international panel data set comprising three distinct yet plausible measures of government indebtedness: the debt-to-GDP, the interest-to-GDP, and the debt-to-equity ratios. Our analysis reveals that these measures yield differing conclusions about recent trends in government indebtedness. While the debt-to-GDP ratio has reached historically high levels, the other two indicators show either no clear trend or a declining pattern over recent decades. We argue for the development of stronger theoretical foundations for the measures employed in the literature, suggesting that, without such grounding, assertions about debt (un)sustainability may be premature.

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09 Jan 2026 2:59pm GMT

People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.

09 Jan 2026 2:56pm GMT

The world's oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025, continuing an almost unbroken streak of annual records since the start of the millennium and fueling increasingly extreme weather events around the globe. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity's carbon emissions ends up in the oceans, making ocean heat content one of the clearest indicators of the climate crisis's trajectory. The analysis, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, drew on temperature data collected across the oceans and collated by three independent research teams. The measurements cover the top 2,000 meters of ocean depth, where most heat absorption occurs. The amount of heat absorbed is equivalent to more than 200 times the total electricity used by humans worldwide. This extra thermal energy intensifies hurricanes and typhoons, produces heavier rainfall and greater flooding, and results in longer marine heatwaves that decimate ocean life. The oceans are likely at their hottest in at least 1,000 years and heating faster than at any point in the past 2,000 years.

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09 Jan 2026 2:07pm GMT

Canceled contracts and scaled-back product plans turn out to be costly.

09 Jan 2026 2:02pm GMT

Did you know you can have newlines in pathnames? The design is very human and this absolutely doesn't have any unforeseen consequences! Also a friendly reminder that you can store anything on a nameserver if you try hard enough.

Originally posted by me on donotsta.re (2025-12-23)

09 Jan 2026 12:00am GMT

Since we entered a new year, we also entered a new quarter, and that means a new quarterly report from the Hurd, the project that aims to, to this day, developer a kernel for the GNU operating system. Over the course of the fourth quarter of 2025, an important undertaking has been to port dhcpcd to Hurd, which will ultimately bring IPv6 support to Hurd. For now, the port only supports IPv4, only works on Ethernet, and is still generally quite limited when it comes to its functionality. It's a great start, though, and an amazing effort. Furthermore, Q4 2025 also saw improvements in symmetric multiprocessing support on x86, not exactly a small feat. There's a ton of work left to be done, but progress is being made and that's important considering today's processor landscape. There's also the usual load of fixes, smaller improvements, and changes all over the operating system, and the report makes it clear that Debian's recent announcement that APT will start requiring Rust is not a major issue for Hurd, as it already has a Rust port.

08 Jan 2026 9:15pm GMT

MenuetOS, the operating system written in x86-64 assembly, released version 1.58.00. Since the last time we talked about MenuetOS, the included X server has been improved, networking performance has been increased, there's now native versions of classic X utilities like XEyes, XCalc, and others, and more. There's also the usual smaller improvements and bug fixes.

08 Jan 2026 8:54pm GMT

There's so much shit going on in the world right now, and we can all use a breather. So, let's join Carl Svensson and look at some pretty Amiga Workbench screenshots. Combining my love for screenshots with the love for the Amiga line of computers, I've decided to present a small, curated selection of noteworthy Amiga Workbenches - Workbench being the name of the Amiga's desktop environment. ↫ Carl Svensson I love how configurable and flexible the Amiga Workbench is, and how this aspect of it has been embraced by the Amiga community. All of these screenshots demonstrate a sense of purpose, and clearly reflect the kind of things their users do with their Amigas. I think "Graphics Card Workbench #1 (1997)" speaks to me the most, striking a great balance between the blocky, pixelated "old" Amiga look, and the more modern late '90s/early '00s Amiga look. The icon set in that one also vaguely reminds me of BeOS, which is always a plus. That being said, all of them look great and are instantly recognisable as Amiga desktops, and make me wish I had a modern Amiga capable of running Amiga OS 4.

08 Jan 2026 3:43pm GMT

2025 was a crazy simulation. A lot of glitches, plot twists and fun stuff™.

31 Dec 2025 12:00am GMT

Same as last year, this is a summary of what I've been up to throughout the year. See also the recap/retrospection published by my friends (antiz, jvoisin, orhun).

• Uploaded 467 packages to Arch Linux
  • Most of them being reproducible, meaning I provably didn't abuse my position of compiling the binaries
  • 35 of them are signal-desktop
  • 29 of them are metasploit
• Made 53 uploads to Debian
  • All of them being related to my work in the debian-rust team, that I've been a part of since 2018
  • …

31 Dec 2025 12:00am GMT