Welp, I inadvertantly did an rm -rf, holler if anything seems obviously missing from here, searching for my backups now...

I'm looking at Hetzner's shared webhosting product (and would like to recommend it to a few other people), both for static web hosting and for email, but apparently it's not possible to host a .com or .net domain there, even if you have DNS with another provider?

Anyone figured this out?

Edit: Never mind, figured it out.

Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency- Seeking? Evidence from MBA Students Marcel Preuss, Germán Reyes, Jason Somerville, Joy Wu. tl;dr: no.

We find that MBA students implement substantially more unequal earnings distributions than the average American, regardless of whether inequality stems from luck or merit. Their redistributive choices are also highly responsive to efficiency costs, with an effect that is an order of magnitude larger than that found in representative U.S. samples. Analyzing fairness ideals, we find that MBA students are less likely to be strict meritocrats than the broader population.

Via.

Okay, this is kinda interesting. Grant Gould @nonnihil@hachyderm.io posted that his company is looking for an educational non- profit or school to take a donation of UR-3 robot arms.

So I type "UR-3 robot arm" into Vivaldi's address bar, it takes me to the Startpage search, which has as its top sponsored link Vention.io selling them for $33,011.

I wonder if Google gives me different results, so I hit there, and the top sponsored result is the same link, but titled "Universal Robots UR3e - $38,363 USD".

Huh. Anyway, clicking through gives me the same $33k.

The actual product page appears to be Universal Robots UR3e. It's got a 3kg payload. It looks like the stock version doesn't have a gripper.

It's great that companies like Physical Intelligence (π), are training robots to fold laundry, but it's gonna be a while before I shell out for two of these, plus hands, on a mobile base, to fold my underwear.

I mean, you don't actually own your phone, especially with Google going after F- Droid, but they're also scanning your content for nudity. Google's Android System SafetyCore scans your photos for 'sensitive content' - how to disable it

I like this framing: Liz Dye: SCOTUS Blessed "Kavanaugh Stops." Will They Also Give Thumbs Up To "Roberts Residencies?" Maybe Barrett Bookings? Alito Arrests? Gorsuch Guest Passes?

On September 8, the Supreme Court effectively legalized racial profiling. Naturally, they did it on the shadow docket, in a one-paragraph order <span> in which five of the six conservative justices voted to stay a trial judge’s order “pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.” So far, so blahblahblah. But Justice Kavanaugh, likely stinging from criticism of the Supreme Court’s unexplained shadow docket rulings, took it upon himself to explain that the conservative justices are very definitely greenlighting racial profiling

Via which quote skeeted P. Andrew Torrez ‪@andrewtorrez.bsky.social‬.

Moment of hesitation while I tried to figure out if the Macarena craze happened before or after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, but 100% on today's Timdle!

Wow. Saw that there were two hang gliding related fatalities at Lookout Mountain Flight Park, near Chattanooga, today. Went to look for news, not much out there, but Startpage's news tab has more info right now than Google's.

The tide of search may be shifting.

Rather than the awful tree-layered GUI experience that is QT's MaintenanceTool.app, it sure would be nice if there were a command-line "install whatever your name for the module identified by 'webenginewidgets' is" tool.

Sometimes it takes a great cover to pull me in to a long read. This one is worth it.

Trump has pardons and tanks.... What do you have?

Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the United States -- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution.
Here's how that works out in a specific case --

https://storage.courtlistener....82460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.26 1.0.pdf

Judge Young is on fire:

"And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for maskingup and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason - - to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

Oh, good, pulling the open source project i work on I see that someone has added the QT "webenginewidgets" component.

Now I have to figure out WTF that's called in the Qt Maintenance Tool.

This is why I love software development. Not.

Local climate & active transportation activist has just discovered AI, and the cognitive dissonance is great with this one.

NBC, August 26, 2025: The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses

CDC, September 26, 2025: Listeria Outbreak Linked to Prepared Meals

Frozen meals from Walmart and Trader Joe's leave 4 dead and 19 hospitalized

The CDC is warning consumers to check their fridges as two ready-to-eat pasta meals sold at Walmart, Kroger, and Trader Joe's locations nationwide have been recalled due to Listeria contamination.

Listeria outbreak from recalled frozen meals sold at Trader Joe's and Walmart leaves 4 dead, 19 in hospital

Via Emma Evans ‪@trance.bsky.social‬ and rahaeli ‪@rahaeli.bsky.social‬

I mentioned that Firefox's AI/make the system harder to configure/don't fix bugs thing drove me away, and the thing I miss about that rendering engine is "show selection source".

The Chromium-based ones don't seem to do this, just "inspect".

Nextdoor post saying "I've got some excellent news to share with my neighbors!! I've gotten clearance from my doctor to drive again! I'm going to take it real slow and only go to nearby places at first until my confidence grows."

And on the one hand, I'm glad for her, on the other hand I'm scared to walk now.