Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop.

Cameras and Lenses.

Why Germany struggles to go digital.

Ceding control of the Taiwan & Luzon Straits would effectively give China a veto over the economies of Japan and South Korea.

How Kraft Heinz Lost Its Lock on Mac and Cheeseโ€”and American Shoppers. Buzzy upstarts and supermarket knockoffs eat into market share of leading brand; years of cost cutting, underinvestment and corporate chaos. Always tasted like garbage, now tastes like even worse garbage.

Ukrainian spies fake commanderโ€™s death to trick Russia into paying $500,000 bounty.

Setting up a new PC used to be fun, now it is ad-ridden nightmare. If you use Windows, that is.

Brain organoids are helping researchers, but their use also creates unease.

Americans brace to start New Year without healthcare.

'Stop and re-check everything': Scientists discover 26 new bacterial species in NASA's cleanrooms.

Three Months, 19,687 Nautical Miles: This Lengthy Trade Route Is Peak Globalization.

NASAโ€™s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts. Clownish idiocy.

You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories.

Change a Lot

With Claude Code and ChatGPT, I am pretty sure I could rewrite the functionality of most SaaS software as companies actually use it in a couple of weeks.

I don’t mean re-write all of SalesForce or whatever. No, I mean, the 2% of the features most particular companies use, I could duplicate them well enough. By myself.

A lot of people don’t realize this is coming. But it is. And it’s going to change a lot of things.

Their Own Doom

What. The. Fuck.

If I saw something like that, I’d be out of there so fast you’d hear the sonic boom in Zurich. Pulling out my phone and taking a video would not even be a thought. I guess most people don’t realize how quickly fire can spread. Most people don’t realize most anything.

Gen Z has no brains left.

Yes All Men

This was the height of “all men are evil default rapists from the moment they are born” that still hasn’t disappeared, just gotten somewhat milder. Now it’s “nearly all men” instead of “absolutely all men, period.”

Which, I might add, doesn’t even help women to believe that all men can only think about rape 24/7. I mean, come on. Most men are as repulsed by rape and sexual assault as women. At least Western men.

Certifiable

Changing the cert expiration period to 47 days is a good example of everything that is wrong with my industry.

This is a pointless change that will cause untold chaos, issues and labor with the most likely outcome being an overall decrease in security — all for the only the appearance of increased security while actually doing worse than nothing.

A lot of effort and noise, achieving only harm. Yeah that’s how it’s working these days in my career.