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This Medieval ‘Super Ship,’ The Largest Of Its Kind Ever Found, Was Just Discovered Off The Coast of Denmark

https://allthatsinteresting.com/copenhagen-denmark-medieval-ship-svaelget-2

Measuring 92' long by 30' wide & capable of carrying up to 300 tons, the Svaelget 2 is the largest vessel of its type ever found.

Two pieces of personal news: first, after 14 years, I've effectively quite my job as a translator. The industry is in the process of collapsing - you know why - and I've been feeling the squeeze for a while now, and I like going out on my own terms. I've known this day would come, and I'm not sad about it. My motto: it is what it is.

Second: I have decided to focus all my work attention on @osnews from here on out. This is risky, scary, and I'm absolutely terrified of what this will mean. Right now, my OSNews income does not even come close to what I earned as a translator, so I've got work ahead of me to increase readership, give y'all more reasons to sign up for our Patreon, and hopefully find sponsors for the site to generate more income. End goal: rely entirely on reader and sponsor support, to remove ads altogether.

If all this fails, I'll have to find another line of work, which would mean the end of OSNews. Not trying to scare you - just being honest.

Anyway, this is a big deal for me - I've only ever been a translator (aside for the one 8-year teenage job I had), and I do not like taking risks.

Anyway, want to become a Patreon? Or a sponsor? Pretty please? 😰

Big fundraiser for @osnews, in honour of my 21 year tenure and 20000th post. Since my wife can barely work due to health issues (caused by her work, ugh), my family has to rely on my income much more heavily. And that means OSNews donations.

https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/goal?g=2

I've also got a few fun incentives:

1. Make me use Windows 11
2. A photo/video tour of my office and all my computers/devices
3. Make me use (and review) macOS
4. A tattoo of the OSNews logo (my first tattoo) on my shoulder

More details:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144982/the-21-years-and-20000-posts-osnews-fundraiser-a-euro-for-every-post/

Your support keeps OSNews free from ads and corporate influence, and allow me to continue to run what is one of the very last people-focused, independent technology news sites left in the world. Also, OSNews is militantly "AI"-free, in every step of the process.

So @osnews is entirely a volunteer effort, and it's thanks to my readers that I can keep the lights on. It's my full-time job that supports my family. Since my wife cannot currently work due to work-caused health issues, our kids and us rely on OSNews quite a bit.

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I don't run any ads, do not use any "AI" whatsoever, and unlike virtually every other tech site out there, OSNews is not owned by some media conglomerate telling me to be nice to the tech billionaires I report on. That makes OSNews one of the very few places left that actually doesn't take big tech's bullshit.

Let's keep it that way. Also, donations keep the bunny emoji happy:

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By sheer coincidence, I just wrote a minor lecture about flash a couple of days on VCFED:

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/cf-card-vs-hdd.1258645/#post-1515080

The important bit is:

FLASH IS SIMPLY NOT A SUITABLE ARCHIVE MEDIUM!

"I talked about Republicans and the swagger they had coming into Trump's White House in early 2025. There is no swagger right now. There's an active attempt to try and promote ideas that are not sticking. And so it feels like there's about to be a monumental shift in Washington... Making over Washington, D.C., renaming lakes, and just a plethora of other things that smell of desperation [are] coming out of this White House as a distraction.”

— Sarah Ewall-Wice, The Daily Beast

Been hosting at dreamhost for ages. Thinking about upgrading to something that gives me root privileges. Happy to hear your recommendations.

We strongly recommend against buying Pixel 11 devices. Pixel 8, 9 and 10 have much better overall security for GrapheneOS. Pixel 10 is cheaper with similar hardware and MTE. Pixel 11's Titan M3 should improve BFU security for users without a strong passphrase, but losing MTE craters AFU security.

I mean, James T. Kirk has a pretty good history of dealing with rogue AIs. Has anyone thought of enlisting him in this, our current challenging time?

Meet our team at @emberfest in Prague this September. Nick will give a talk on modernizing the Ember router, @marcoow agentic engineering with Ember, and @real_ate on Ember on Vite and what's next.

Full schedule and tickets 👉 https://emberfest.eu/

#emberjs

Zohran Mamdani won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems endorsed Cuomo anyway.

Angie Nixon won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are saying they would’ve spent millions on Vindman, but won’t on her.

Abdul El Sayed won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are refusing to endorse and threatening to leave the party.

The anti-Black, anti-Arab, & anti-Muslim hate from the centrist “vote blue no matter who” Dems rivals that of MAGA fascists. We need to call it out for what it is.

@ChrisMayLA6 We might not be far away from non-government-spyable networks, and anonymity especially being banned.

The funny part is they’ll probably ban personal anonymity due to ”far left terrorism”, but at the same time promote anonymity of private property like crypto.

My advice is to start doing digital prepping. Host your own cloud, host your own server. Get a symmetric fiber subscriber line with proper upload, so you can help others.

I was hired as a VP in #AWS Marketing and built a developer evangelism team by hiring people that the open source communities already knew and trusted. Zaheda Bhorat and Arun Gupta (who now runs Open Source at NVIDIA) were my first hires. Shirley Bailes used to run OSCON for OReilly, she got the budget to sponsor and operate all the Open Source conferences for AWS (FOSDEM, All things Open, Kubecon etc). Deirdre Straughn created and operated the social media and blogging channels.

I joined #AWS ten years ago and recruited the team that figured out how to teach AWS how to run and support open source projects and foundations. We moved the reputation of AWS in the open source community from very negative to reasonably positive over a few years, and helped internal teams learn how to launch, manage and contribute to open source projects.

I'm not the only one to note that there is something very wrong in this country when criminal damage to a golf course is rendered as 'terrorism' but marauding white gangs threatening & terrorising people from ethnic minorities are treated as having 'legitimate grievances';

there was a time when I thought claims we were on the road the fascism were over-wrought & hyperbolic, but I have come to the conclusion they were right & I was being complacent.

Democracy is disappearing fast!

#politics

If you are cooler than your moist surroundings you may be entitled to condensation.

ICANN de-accredits "bulletproof" domain registrar Trustname
L: https://domainnamewire.com/2026/08/28/icann-de-accredits-bulletproof-domain-registrar/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487906
posted on 2026.08.29 at 04:02:56 (c=0, p=4)