2026 Week 40 Links

A short compilation of links to end September. Finished my last shift at work on Sunday and didn't get home until late, and then was exhausted. But I am officially unemployed again and definitely need some recovery time. This week should be relatively empty schedule-wise and I'm hoping to hear back from the job I interviewed on Friday. commetchat a matrix chat client (and therefore requires hosting a Matrix server to be used) Meet the pardoned delete mechanic who wants to stop your car from spying on you by Clair McFarland (CowboyStateDaily) is a very interesting story, both about the titular guy's background (didn't know what a delete mechanic was before) and his efforts to put a kill switch in cars to turn off all the tracking shit. Brazil’s Lula government proposes to ban online casinos less than two weeks before presidential elections by Nick Corbishley (naked capitalism) and good luck to them for doing so. Large battery fires (CBC) are only going to become more and more common…