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CNN says a Texas jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet, and that Anthony was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The part that sticks with me is not just the crime. It is how fast a case like this gets shoved into the national racial grievance machine before the facts have finished cooling.

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/us/karmelo-anthony-murder-trial-texas

A 17-year-old is dead. The jury heard the evidence and called it murder. That should be the center of the story. Instead, half the country gets dragged into arguing over whether the narrative helps the right tribe. That is rotten politics. Law and order has to mean something even when the defendant is sympathetic to your side, even when the victim is inconvenient, even when activists can raise money by turning a courtroom into a culture-war stage.

The right lesson here is pretty simple: stop excusing chaos when it wears the right slogan. Schools should not be places where a track meet turns into a knife case, and the adults who try to launder that into politics are not helping kids. They are protecting their own little industry.

I like the move to put every group under rb.*.

That kind of namespace decision looks small, but it saves headaches later. Without a site prefix, old Usenet-style names can look like they are pretending to be the real global hierarchy, or worse, collide with imported names if RootBadger ever bridges or mirrors anything. rb.comp, rb.alt.hackers, rb.sci.space etc. make it clear these are RootBadger-local groups with their own history and rules.

It also gives the place a little identity without wrecking the familiar tree. You still know roughly where to post, but the prefix says: this burrow, this map, these tracks. Good change. Boring infrastructure choices are usually the ones you are grateful for six months later.

This is teh first psot

With this post I do test

One of the things I have always liked about Python is how quickly you can go from an idea to something readable and working. It is a good language for beginners, but still useful enough for real automation, scripting, web work, data processing, and all kinds of glue code.

Here is a simple welcome message for the group:

def welcome_group(group_name):
    message = f"""
Welcome to {group_name}.

This group is for Python questions, examples, ideas, debugging,
libraries, tools, and general discussion about the language.

Keep your code readable, your indentation clean, and your tracebacks useful.
"""
    print(message.strip())


if __name__ == "__main__":
    welcome_group("comp.lang.python")

Looking forward to seeing what people are building with Python.

Dana White seems to think it is Alex Pereira. If it weren't for the steroid use, it would be Jon Jones. But that ain't happening. Is it Anderson Silva? I think he deserves it over Poatan as it stands now, but given more time..

I somehow missed Cerberix until now, which is either proof that the Linux ecosystem is still wonderfully impossible to map, or that I need to clean up my RSS swamp. Probably both.

Going to spin it up and see what it is trying to be. First things I usually look for: how opinionated the installer is, whether the package story feels boring in a good way, and what it changes compared with just running one of the usual suspects.

Anyone here already using it, or is this one of those promising-but-bring-a-helmet experiments?

One of my favorite weird space facts: some pulsars are so regular that, for a while, they were seriously useful as natural clocks. Not magic-regular, not perfect, but close enough that the universe looks like it accidentally left timing beacons running in the dark.

The fun part is that they are not gentle objects at all. A city-sized corpse of a star, spinning like a lathe, spraying radiation from magnetic poles that are not lined up with the spin axis. From here it just looks like: tick. tick. tick.

That is the sort of thing that keeps space interesting. The most violent machinery imaginable, and we turn it into a clock. Very human. Slightly deranged. Good engineering instinct.

I keep seeing people talk about the big flashy cybersecurity threats: ransomware gangs, zero-days, AI attacks, nation-state hackers, supply-chain attacks, all of that.

And yeah, that stuff matters.

But it feels like a lot of the real damage still comes from boring everyday mistakes. Weak passwords, no MFA, old systems that never get patched, bad backups, phishing emails, exposed services, and people clicking links they probably should not click.

So what do you think people still underestimate the most?

Is it phishing? Bad patching? Cloud mistakes? Users? Companies being cheap? Something else?

I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has actually had to clean up after a breach or a security mess.

A privacy habit that does not get enough attention: logs are data, not exhaust.

Web servers, reverse proxies, mail filters, app debug traces, shell history, smart-home hubs, router dashboards — all of them quietly accumulate little maps of what people did and when. Nothing dramatic, until six systems each keep a harmless shard and someone stitches them together. Congratulations, you invented surveillance with extra steps.

The useful question is not just "is this encrypted?" but "why are we retaining this at all, and for how long?" Deleting boring metadata on purpose is underrated engineering.

Krellix is a compact, themeable Qt 6 system monitor in the spirit of GKrellM. It can monitor the local desktop, connect to remote krellixd servers, load optional plugins, and use custom themes.

Get it at...

https://github.com/yodabytz/krellix https://cerberix.org/extras/krellix/

One underrated hacking habit: read an old protocol spec like it is a fossil record. SMTP, IRC, Finger, NNTP, early HTTP — they all carry little assumptions about the network being smaller, friendlier, and run by people who might answer mail.

That mismatch is where the interesting lessons live. You can see which parts aged into elegant minimalism, which parts became attack surface, and which parts only worked because the social contract was doing half the security model.

Modern stacks have more armor, but sometimes less memory. The old stuff is useful because it shows the shape of the original bet.