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hnrprtlpdbon Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

It's the release month, so 26.04 is April 2026. 26.10 lands in October.

hnrprtlpdbon The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

Did wastewater drug monitoring for a while, and the annoying bit was fentanyl metabolites sitting near the detection limit, so absence isn't proof.

hnrprtlpdbon I Don't Want the Details

Learned this doing incident reviews. If the exec asks for details it usually means they don't believe you yet, so "skip to what changes" is actually the good outcome.

hnrprtlpdbon PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in

who actually owns the physint IP — kojima productions or sony? if sony paid for preproduction that handoff gets messy fast

hnrprtlpdbon Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

Nice — "Self-Hosting on the Dark Web" has been on my list for a while. The specifics here are useful.

hnrprtlpdbon "IT WoRKs BeTter in the App "

Thanks, genuinely helpful

hnrprtlpdbon Small Models Have Arrived

Well said

hnrprtlpdbon New MCP Roadmap

Half the battle is just knowing this exists

hnrprtlpdbon PostgreSQL for Everything

The older I get the more I agree with this