⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Iran imposed a nationwide internet shutdown; the ongoing blackout incident is the most severe tracked since the November 2019 protests and impacts the public's ability to stay connected at a time when communications are vital ⏱️

Say what you will about Windows (OS), but the NT kernel really is an engineering marvel that still puts Linux to shame in many ways. The quickest way to describe it for a programmer, is NT was more like an object-oriented language, with a strong security model from day one, whereas Linux is very…not. A lot of the “good” features in Linux feel bolted-on (SELinux, Capabilities, Namespaces) because…well they were. I love to imagine an alternate history where NT won. IMO, Microsoft *should* have made an “Open NT” in the early 2000s; not fully GPL-style open, but one where a large org could say…swap out a memory allocator for their own. (they sorta did this with limited source access, but it was too restrictive) You could imagine say…an early Amazon forking OpenNT to create an “AmazonNT” for EC2, where they have a modified scheduler, network stack, whatever. But, the security+compatibility contract keeps a stable baseline on the Microsoft side. Controversial take, but if we enter this era where users are giving AI agents increasingly higher levels of access control; the Linux kernel is legitimately a poor fit. Think about it; answer the question “What exactly is this AI agent allowed to do?” On Standard Linux, it’s disgustingly messy with lots of overlap. Do you use UIDs? GIDs? ACLs? CGROUPs? Policies? SELinux? Filesystem modes? There’s not a singular coherent graph of capabilities you can point to. Too many ways you can escape an initially narrow scope. NT, by comparison, can go the route of explicitly typed resources, and then you could have these really strong centralized audit trails when an agent goes haywire…etc. I know I’m rambling, but the point is…if you were greenfielding an OS kernel from scratch, in 2026, with the intent of being forward-looking, it would *not* look like Linux. Frankly, it’d probably look a lot closer to NT, or even a BSD fork…

In 2026 we have almost everything besides IPv6 everywhere. This has bothered me every day for half my life.

Views from of one of the first 26 Starlink V3 satellites successfully deployed to orbit by Starship Thanks for the ride, @SpaceX!

نسخه ۱۲.۲ مهساالرت منتشر شد. - ریدیزاین کامل - هشدار منطقه‌ای - مانیتورینگ ترافیک هوایی و دریایی - شخصی‌سازی نوتیفیکیشن‌ها - بهبود عملکرد و رفع باگ‌ها نسخه Android در Google Play در دسترس است. لینک دانلود: s4i.co/QNUp1 نسخه iOS به‌زودی در App Store منتشر می‌شود. #مهساالرت #MahsaAlert

The Iranian representative didn’t want the starlink :(

نتانیاهو در سخنرانی‌اش در سازمان ملل، با نشان دادن یک دستگاه استارلینک از ترس جمهوری اسلامی از دسترسی مردم به اینترنت آزاد گفت و به کنایه افزود: «این را بدهید به هیئت ایرانی؛ وقتی از حکومت جدا شدند، بتوانند داستانشان را در شبکه‌های اجتماعی تعریف کنند.»

Michigan student confronts El-Sayed over Iran stance in tense exchange: 'Do you stand with us?' trib.al/zdWkZaq

یک پیام در تلگرام یا واتس‌اپ می‌تواند نقطه شروع یک عملیات جاسوسی هدفمند باشد. سازمان FBI خانواده بدافزاری HEAVYGRAM را به عوامل سایبری فعال به نمایندگی از وزارت اطلاعات جمهوری اسلامی نسبت داده است؛ خانواده‌ای که بریتانیا آن را با نام CHOSEN BRICK رهگیری می‌کند. ۱/۳

So Omarchy has gotten over 20 millions in funding within a month. This is at least 20 times more than what Linux Mint has seen in the 20 years of its existence. What makes Omarchy so attractive to (enterprise) donors?