Sep 152026
 

Only on the third movie and already a week behind, whoops. My middle aged shoulder and an unergonomic indoor bike may or may not have had a disagreement. I blame global warming for keeping me indoors in September. Anyway.

The Eye (2002) / Arrow 4K

A woman who was blinded as a toddler receives corneal transplants and can see the dead. Events ensue.

Another one that’s new to me, I thought this was OK. It’s mildly creepy but also pretty sentimental. I read that two portions of the movie were inspired by actual events (mainly a woman who received corneal transplants and killed herself shortly afterward). There is a bit of philosophical musing on suicide but nothing terribly deep.

One kind of schlocky bit: to help the protagonist rebuild her visual vocabulary she is assigned a psychoanalyst. Bit of an odd choice, but the movie needs there to be a psychoanalyst and they need a young and attractive male lead slash light romantic interest so…

Straightforward and entertaining. I’ll probably watch it again eventually but I’m not sure I’ll feel the need to revisit it beyond that.

Sep 142026
 

Late on September 14, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay the order of the lower courts that had stopped the plan for the post office to have its own list of voters and to refuse to deliver ballots from or to voters not on the list. U.S. Postal Service v California, 26A305. Here is the order. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have allowed the plan to go into effect.

External feed Read More at the Source: https://ballot-access.org/2026/09/14/u-s-supreme-court-wont-revive-president-trumps-postal-ballot-rules/

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Sep 112026
 

Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed — widely speculated to be with Valve’s involvement — that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle, the bulk of that work will now be in place and enabled by default…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Go

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Sep 102026
 

WASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midair in an iconic photograph taken on 9/11. “I was on top of the North Tower during the attacks, and after I rescued a couple hundred people, I had to jump because there were too many flames for even me to deal with,” said Trump, adding that he didn’t hesitate to leap from the 110th floor despite giving himself less than a 50% chance of survival upon impact. “There I was sacrificing myself—not Joe Biden or Hillary [Clinton]—and I wasn’t even asking for a paycheck. And it was so high…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-falling-man/

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Sep 092026
 

Last month, we reported that defense attorneys representing prominent torrent trackers told a federal judge that the case may have been filed by an impostor.
After they revealed their findings, Judge Andrea R. Wood put the case on a sanctions track and scheduled an in-person hearing. Since then, the case has taken some surprising turns yet again.
First, defense attorneys Erin Russell and Haley Finch asked the court to hold the plaintiff in contempt for misrepresenting his identity, falsely claiming copyright ownership, and filing under a mail-drop address.
The ‘Real’ Matthew Schneider Appears
Representing “John Doe” tracker operators, they submitted a declaration from Matthew A. Schneider of Ottawa, Ontario. He is the filmmaker on the IMDb credits for the three…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://torrentfreak.com/private-torrent-tracker-lawsuit-takes-bizarre-turn-im-a-different-matthew-schneider/

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Sep 092026
 

Last month, we reported that defense attorneys representing prominent torrent trackers told a federal judge that the case may have been filed by an impostor.
After they revealed their findings, Judge Andrea R. Wood put the case on a sanctions track and scheduled an in-person hearing. Since then, the case has taken some surprising turns yet again.
First, defense attorneys Erin Russell and Haley Finch asked the court to hold the plaintiff in contempt for misrepresenting his identity, falsely claiming copyright ownership, and filing under a mail-drop address.
The ‘Real’ Matthew Schneider Appears
Representing “John Doe” tracker operators, they submitted a declaration from Matthew A. Schneider of Ottawa, Ontario. He is the filmmaker on the IMDb credits for the three…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://torrentfreak.com/private-torrent-tracker-lawsuit-takes-bizarre-turn-im-a-different-matthew-schneider/

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Sep 082026
 

New Orleans-based ID verification provider IDScan.net has acknowledged the major breach of one of its databases, that exposed more than 170 million scanned identity documents, including 153 million driver’s licenses. A statement from the company says that “on or around September 1, 2026, IDScan.net received information indicating that certain data may have been accessed without authorization.” More than that, “an unauthorized third party may have accessed and/or copied certain customer information stored within their accounts on the IDScan.net cloud. The types of information contained within the affected data may include full names and driver’s license or other government-issued identification numbers.” IDScan, widely known for its VeriScan age and identity check software, says that an investigation…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202609/idscan-confirms-breach-after-170m-identity-documents-put-up-for-sale

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Sep 072026
 

The Nitter project will continue “following legal advice,” meaning XCancel, a public service built on its open source code, is back online. As of September 7, nitter.net displayed the announcement: “Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly.” XCancel, a public instance built on Nitter, was operational again. Nitter is a free, open source front end for reading posts on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter before it was acquired and rebranded by self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk. It requires no X account and, according to the project’s repository, offers “zero ads” with “no JavaScript required.” However, using Nitter or an instance based…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://www.theregister.com/a/5294754

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Sep 052026
 

On September 4, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court removed Andrew Tupone from the November ballot. He had enough valid signatures to be on the November ballot for U.S. House, 7th district. But he used the Green Party ballot label, even though the Green Party (which is not a qualified party) does not recognize him as a bona fide member of the party. See this story.
Here is the Opinion. In the Nomination Paper of Tupone, 366 MD 2026.
This appears to be the first time Pennsylvania state courts have recognized party name protection for an unqualified party. Nothing in the Pennsylvania election code says unqualified parties have such protection for their party name. It is not known if Tupone…

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Sep 042026
 
Whodunit? (1982) / Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray

For movie number two we have Whodunit? (seemingly better known as Island of Blood). This one is new to me, and I went in not expecting much, but it turns out this is one of the more competently executed low budget 80s slashers. I guess it’s supposed to be based on an Agatha Christie novel so that might explain it.

A group of first time actors are filming a movie on an isolated island with no contact to the mainland except through a radio on the boat of the perpetually agitated and grumpy caretaker. A tape deck appears playing a mysterious song and someone gets killed. The boat blows up but everyone just has to make it through the night until the rest of the production crew arrives the next day… Each killing is unique and the effects are decent. There even seems to be a slight bit of logic to the resolution.

Nothing about this movie is super original but it kept my interest and I’ll definitely watch it again sometime.

Sep 032026
 

In this household Halloween starts on September 1st and lasts until Xmas eve. I’ve tried to watch one horror movie a night for at least September and October for the last few years, but I don’t think I’ll manage that this year unfortunately.

While I have an audience of zero here (other than the LLM scrapers which are using my own words to build my green eyed replacement before they grow limbs and can shove me into the protein bank for reprocessing into more useful product), it seems better to post these on my journal instead of launching them directly into the zuck hole. Many are movies I’ve seen before but there are plenty I’m walking into blind.

If there’s anyone actually reading the full series can be viewed at the halloween.2026 tag page (I’ll still be sharing random things from my feed reader in between posts so if you only care about these posts that’s the place to be). In theory I’ll be posting something at least two or three times a week and hopefully more once I get into the Halloween spirit.

Possession (1981) – Second Sight 4K

Starting things off this year is Possession, or: a two hour panic attack. This is probably my favorite Sam Neill performance (followed by the extremely similar film Jurassic Park). I don’t really have anything new to say about this one, maybe ask me again after I’ve watched it three or four more times.

The 4K restoration is incredible. So much film grain. The subway scene feels like real life. The monster has never been more visible and it’s even more terrifying (I can feel it staring into my brain).

10/10 for fans of suffering and testing the strength of their romantic relationship. It’s a great time with friends, if you don’t want friends.

Sep 032026
 

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 shipped on August 13, 2026, and the release
notes have been filled
in as of 2026-07-18 — still marked subject to change, and the GA date isn’t
announced yet, but following the project’s usual September/October cadence
general availability should land within the next few weeks. That makes now
the right time to read through what’s changing, the same way I did for
PostgreSQL 11 through 18 a few weeks
ago.
This is not a changelog dump. It’s the subset of PG 19 I think is worth
knowing about before you upgrade: a handful of compatibility breaks that
will bite people who don’t read release notes, and the SQL-level additions
I found genuinely useful once I started poking at them. Every query below
ran against…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://postgr.es/p/9tO

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