Roy Schestowitz

• The Wine development release 7.4 is now available http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162457#comment-33039   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:21:54

• self-hosting git; or, how git servers actually work, and how to keep yours secure gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-03-07.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:26:46

• OpenZFS 2.1.3 released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162458    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:26:53

• Venezuela: Government Raises Wages as Inflation Hits Eight-Year Low | Venezuelanalysis.com ⚓ https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15472 "near twentyfold salary hike."    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:29:35

• Making Putin's face turn blue? https://www.dbusiness.com/daily-news/dbusiness-daily-update-blue-cross-blue-shield-buildings-go-blue-and-yellow-to-support-ukraine-and-more/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:30:56

• This FUD was funded by Microsoft proxies and used Microsoft data. Now it's being used against Linux, which the Linux Foundation happily harms for Microsoft proxies that have infiltrated it. https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/hundreds-of-open-source-components-could-undermine-security see http://techrights.org/2022/03/07/marketing-with-microsoft-npm/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:34:07

• Linux Foundation is like Republican Party, named after the thing it is attacking    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:34:48

• Wow. Lunduke got canceled. See this text. https://www.osnews.com/story/134655/elementary-os-is-imploding/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:42:04

• "Cancel Culture is a real danger. Remove traces of every{body,thing} we don’t agree with…so orwellian…is it the future we really want? Freedom and ability to face the truth is what should we expect from FLOSS/Freedom community….but it’s taking reverse…." https://www.osnews.com/story/134655/elementary-os-is-imploding/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:43:43

• "Yeah that’s the problem. We’re replacing one mob with another. I wish we could evolve past this and recognize vindictiveness as socially harmful in and of itself." https://www.osnews.com/story/134655/elementary-os-is-imploding/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:45:02

• When the Water Stops: Water Survival Skills for a Disaster ⚓ https://cedarmillnews.com/article/0322-community-news/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:49:22

• Linux Foundation: FUD, Microsoft Outsourcing, and ’Clown’ Computing • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162459    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:49:31

• ZDNet is now shilling the CompTIA disloma mill. CompTIA helps Microsoft corruption.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:52:47

• Poor zoo animals in Ukraine, starving, being shelled, shot at :( (I mean literally zoo animals). So sad... as if being in a cage wasn't bad enough already.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 00:58:47

• LOL. Delete it. https://www.maketecheasier.com/revisiting-facebook-privacy-settings/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 01:00:06

• "Yes, we can run Linux Ubuntu from SSD or HDD which is not embedded on PC/laptop." https://www.fosslicious.com/2022/03/can-i-run-ubuntu-via-external-ssdhdd.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 01:01:14

• FSF still hiring https://www.fsf.org/news/contract-opportunity-bookkeeper    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 01:06:27

• Kali Linux adds VM-like snapshot feature to bare-metal installs http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162443#comment-33041   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 01:10:03

• "If you know about Gemini’s early developmentᵃ then you know that Gemini evolved from /Gopher/, not from HTTP! As such, Gemini attempts to capture Gopher-era sentiments about the web. Gopher is absolutely not a “do everything” protocol, it can serve like 8 types of media and text files." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-02-14.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 01:13:21

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162460    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 01:14:22

• #Techrights Bulletin for Friday, March 11, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 06:59:00

• #Techrights full #IPFS index updated just now http://techrights.org/ipfs available as plain text @ http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt #dweb #sharing    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 06:59:09

• "How hard could it be to fix a vintage solderless breadboard that doesn't quite work?" http://www.righto.com/2022/03/reverse-engineering-waveform-generator.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:05:49

• "However, there is now an SCD41, which is much smaller, and neater." https://www.revk.uk/2022/03/environmental-sensors-scd41-co.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:06:14

• "To get my feet wet with the whole "investigations" thing that we'd do, I started looking into this one day and chose one of the many temp sensors which were being logged by the servers." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/10/13/temp/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:07:02

• "M. Brown's idea was interesting enough for me to think about it and write an article." https://blog.plover.com/2022/03/09/#notation    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:09:40

• "China Fabricated Top Official's Quote" https://www.voanews.com/a/european-union-says-china-fabricated-top-official-s-quote/6481835.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:10:34

• Adding a layer of proprietary software and spying is not really security https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-setup-aws-bastion/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:11:57

• Spying on users in the US https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22972530/tiktok-oracle-china-bytedance-trump-cfius    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:12:37

• Why would you trust Texas with data? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-project-texas-bytedance-user-data?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:13:36

• "Though he was alone in his room, he was using drugs with other people. As he was injecting methamphetamine, he connected with hundreds of other individuals doing the same thing over Zoom." https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/internet-meth-underground-hidden-in-plain-sight/index.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:14:57

• "More than 450 attacks were recorded against banks, more than four times higher than the figure for February." https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital-security/russian-company-websites-hit-by-increased-hacking-in-march-says-cyber-firm/90163070    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:16:22

• "Last week's assault by Russian forces on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was far more dangerous than initial assessments suggested, according to an analysis by NPR of video and photographs of the attack and its aftermath." https://text.npr.org/1085427380    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:17:31

• "What was once seen as a niche play for tech enthusiasts and investors crypto is now becoming a mainstream financial asset." https://text.npr.org/1084166077    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:21:12

• "Many zoos worldwide are joining Tallinn Zoo's example of collecting donations to help Ukrainian zoos and their animals" https://news.err.ee/1608529006/tallinn-zoo-launches-fundraising-for-ukrainian-zoos    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:22:27

• Microsoft 'proxy' as censorship https://www.komando.com/technology/duckduckgo-fighting-russian-disinformation/829782/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:25:16

• Well, disinformation is bad, but these companies usually tolerate one side (of disinformation), not the other https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/performative-conservatives-are-mad-that-a-search-engine-wants-to-downrank-disinformation/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:26:38

• NOT the Internet we need... https://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/597922-white-house-briefs-tiktok-creators-on-ukraine    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:27:10

• New avenues for government propaganda https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok-ukraine-white-house/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:27:35

• "Over the last 4 years, I've onboarded 28 national government CERTs onto Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) and given them free and open access to APIs " https://www.troyhunt.com/setting-the-bar-for-government-access-to-have-i-been-pwned/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:28:22

• "Sunk cost is cost that's already been incurred. You can't reverse sunk costs." https://matt-rickard.com/ignore-sunk-costs/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:28:49

• Great example of political bias. Calls for death tolerated by Facebook. https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/1878502.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:29:51

• Facebook and violence https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22972460/russia-threatens-instagram-ban-meta-violent-threats-russian-soldiers    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:30:33

• “to post information containing calls for violence against Russian citizens" https://thehill.com/policy/technology/597875-russian-regulators-restrict-access-to-instagram    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:31:19

• Twitter is violence http://techrights.org/2022/03/01/twitter-happier-during-wars/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:31:54

• “We grew up making fun of our parents’ and grandparents’ falling for spam emails, but every single day I see young people falling for false narratives" https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/ukraine-conflict-shows-gen-z-isnt-immune-misinformation-online-rcna19606    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:34:56

• Social control media misleads people https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/well-oiled-conspiracy-theorists-push-ukraine-disinformation-1090585.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:35:30

• Social control media needs to be avoided. It's bad for the brain. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/ukraine-war-conspiracy-theorists-move-to-ukraine-crisis-after-covid-disinformation-2818548    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:35:52

• Imagine the people who did this to him own a football club in ENGLAND!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-60714086 "caused a global outcry and he became an emblem of rights abuses in the country."    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:40:19

• China doing what a lot of the West already does too (usually in more subtle ways) https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-state-censors-at-work-to-control-messaging-on-war-/6480253.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:40:56

• ">The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus (GUBOPiK) has detained prominent Wikipedia editor Mark Bernstein, according to the Belarusian publication Zerkalo." https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22973293/wikipedia-editor-russia-belarus-ukraine    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:41:42

• Gulag collusion against the Internet/Web https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/1878731.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:45:58

• To surveillance companies https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/11/22972384/eu-uk-antitrust-investigation-google-meta-facebook-jedi-blue-adtech-deal they have ruined Mozilla, too http://techrights.org/2019/11/03/the-privacy-scam/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:46:37

• Social control media promoting violence https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/22970705/russia-ukraine-moderation-facebook-instagram-hate-speech-violence-policy see http://techrights.org/2022/03/01/twitter-happier-during-wars/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:47:51

• EU should also investigate Microsoft crimes https://thehill.com/policy/technology/597855-eu-uk-probe-meta-and-google-on-advertising-agreement e.g. http://techrights.org/2021/03/22/epoleaks-report-march-2021-finale/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:48:29

• Due to lawyers and the copyright cartel you cannot make decent music anymore (it is fiscally risky) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/katy-perry-ninth-circuit-dark-horse-copyright-verdict-1319870/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:49:31

• Cracks, not "hacks" https://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-hacks-russias-roscomnadzor-site-blocking-agency-220311/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:50:08

• Legal channels leave you behind https://torrentfreak.com/spider-man-no-way-home-blu-ray-leaks-early-on-pirate-sites-220311/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:50:44

• "his long presence on the show allowed him to continually contradict stereotypical characterizations of Mexican Americans and other Latinos on television, while also demonstrating that bilingualism and biculturalism were indeed American." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/emilio-delgados-luis-sesame-street-was-rebuttal-latino-stereotypes-rcna19715    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:51:56

• "Pressure on Russia’s independent media and international outlets has forced several to close or move operations outside the country" https://www.voanews.com/a/journalism-has-been-lost-in-russia-says-novaya-gazeta-journalist/6481450.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:52:55

• "Finland's biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat, has begun publishing articles in Russian, covering Moscow's invasion of Ukraine" https://yle.fi/news/3-12352547    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:53:27

• Apple ranks LAST in USPIRG repairability report ⚓ https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/apple-ranks-last-in-uspirg-repairability:1    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:54:05

• Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21 - The Lancet ⚓ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21 - The Lancet ⚓ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02796-3/fulltext of note: http://techrights.org/2011/01/10/lancet-gates-exxon-mobil/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:55:48

• Estimating excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis of COVID-19-related mortality, 2020–21 - The Lancet ⚓ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02796-3/fulltext of note: http://techrights.org/2011/01/10/lancet-gates-exxon-mobil/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:57:38

• iophk: "it is just another corporate handout unless this includes work to actively migrate away from Windows" https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/597902-spending-bill-includes-large-funding-increase-to-boost-cybersecurity http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:58:43

• There are much better reasons to boycott duckduckgo https://www.mediaite.com/news/duckduckbye-conservatives-revolt-after-duckduckgo-vows-to-down-rank-russian-disinformation-sites/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 07:59:41

• Ukraine is Paying the Price for the U.S. “Recklessly” Pushing NATO Expansion https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/11/andrew_bacevich_iraq_connection_russian_invasion    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:01:24

• Delete Windows https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/report-recent-10x-increase-in-cyberattacks-on-ukraine/ http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:02:07

• An event in support of Julian Assange https://dontextraditeassange.com/events/set-julian-assange-free-oslo/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:04:51

• Twitter = violent propaganda https://www.propublica.org/article/infamous-russian-troll-farm-appears-to-be-source-of-anti-ukraine-propaganda    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:05:53

• "One of Tikhanovskaya’s senior advisers, Franak Viacorka, confirms that Putin had planned for the Belarusian military to join his invasion (which Minsk denies)" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/belarus-military-dissent-could-be-a-key-to-peace-in-ukraine/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:14:05

• When war enters the gaming scene https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/video-games-for-good-itch-io-releases-bundle-for-ukraine-raises-millions-of-dollars/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:16:35

• This week in KDE: fewer korners, more multi-cursor, better apps • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162461    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:20:41

• "A month ago, the controversial EARN IT Act sailed through a markup hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/ignoring-earn-its-fourth-amendment-problem-wont-make-it-go-away/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:22:57

• "By now you surely know that former Congressman and current satirical cow censor Devin Nunes has become quite well known for his series of SLAPP suits against people who made him feel bad" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/devin-nunes-loses-appeal-of-slapp-suit-against-liz-mair/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:24:52

• Russia's Internet https://www.thenation.com/article/world/russia-censorship-war-ukraine/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:29:34

• $249 Rockchip RK3588 8K mini PC comes with up to 16GB RAM • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162462    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:30:51

• Patents kill millions https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/nobel-laureates-world-leaders-mark-two-years-covid-simple-call-end-patents    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:33:08

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162464    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:36:53

• "Corporations are quick to blame this new reality on the pandemic, but another major culprit is hiding in plain sight: their own profiteering." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/its-not-just-inflation-its-price-gouging/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:52:29

• Police" officers routinely engage in excessive force, especially when dealing with residents suffering from mental illness" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/survey-says-portland-cops-should-be-locked-out-of-recordings-until-after-theyve-written-reports-answered-investigators/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:54:18

• "corporate efforts to monopolize repair resulted in a flood of proposed state and federal laws" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/farmers-unions-right-to-repair-coalition-files-ftc-complaint-against-john-deere    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:54:57

• Surveillance https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/11/following-the-murder-of-george-floyd-the-minneapolis-pd-built-a-large-scale-surveillance-program/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 08:55:58

• Human Rights Watch should issue a statement about the patents https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/two-years-pandemic-human-rights-watch-warns-lessons-not-learned    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:00:27

• These sorts of prophecies only give excuses for food giants to increase the prices while production costs stay the same https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/un-warns-russias-attack-ukraine-could-spike-global-food-prices-22    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:04:25

• Pandemic plunder: 11 trillion more in PUBLIC DEBT. Who pockets it all? https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/700-us-billionaires-got-17-trillion-richer-during-two-years-pandemic    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:05:31

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:14:36

• Patents kill. These sorts of messages need to become a DAILY routine. https://truthout.org/articles/130-world-leaders-nobel-laureates-scientists-call-for-end-to-vaccine-patents/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:14:42

• How Putler deals with criticism on the Internet https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/amnesty-condemns-kremlin-blocking-its-russian-language-website this is part of a worrisome trend: http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:18:51

• Techrights Gemini capsule: 86,000 objects http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-110322.html#tMar%2011%2017:54:00    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:39:21

• Obarun 2022.03.12 https://web.obarun.org/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:43:24

• "What is particularly sad is the truths in that person's forum post. He referred to the great lie of "weapons of mass destruction" used as an excuse to invade Iraq. Yes, I believe that Tony Blair of the UK and George W. Bush are war criminals" https://bkhome.org/news/202203/the-sad-history-of-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:47:02

• "Crystal-ball gazing, trying to think of possible futures, none of it looks good. Is Moldova next on the invasion-list? Finland, if it chooses to join Nato?" https://bkhome.org/news/202203/the-sad-history-of-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:47:59

• "There are tutorials on how to install EasyOS to a hard drive partition..." https://bkhome.org/news/202203/easier-frugal-install-of-easyos.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 09:50:36

• "Imagine my excitement when I discovered the new second edition of an important book by Brian W. Kernighan, one of the leading figures in the creation of Unix, author or co-author of many influential books, and a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University." https://opensource.com/article/22/3/review-understanding-digital-world    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:00:41

• "US software development company EPAM is one example: It is currently trying to find ways to relocate its displaced Ukrainian devs - all 14,000 of them, Thomson adds." https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/ukraines_war_developers/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:01:47

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp 1.0.8.2: Hotfix release per CRAN request http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/03/11#rcpp_1.0.8.2    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:03:42

• "If I am to believe various free software implementations talking to such boiler, the interpretation of the line of numbers differ between type of boiler and software version on the boiler." https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Publish_Hargassner_wood_chip_boiler_state_to_MQTT.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:04:30

• XS versus clang: Infinite warnings http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2022/03/xs-versus-clang-infinite-warnings.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:05:06

• Only 3 out of 13 target Windows (this article conflates that with "PC") https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-typing-games/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:06:13

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162465    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:16:02

• Connecting an electric typewriter to a modern computer ⚓ https://jbb.ghsq.ga/2022/03/12/electric-typewriter.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:25:07

• It needs external, real, physical keyboard though https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/steam-deck-gets-a-15fps-option-new-keyboard-themes    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:26:18

• "We care until it's inconvenient or unpopular or expensive to care. Forgive me for feeling pessimistic about COP26." gemini://sixohthree.com/log/packt-like-sardines.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:28:01

• "I've grown very fond of older tech. Me and kelbot egged each other on to get a Palm m500 and it's been pretty great!" I still have 2 Palm PDAs and use one of them. gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-09-25-2.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:29:19

• "I picked up a Palm Ultra-Thin Keyboard which is supposed to be better than the Portable Keyboard anyways so I'll probably be writing away on my Palm soon enough." On my Palm keyboard, which was shipped from the US more than 20 years ago (a real struggle), some keys no longer work. gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-09-25-2.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:30:46

• "with part of this being moving toward an "offline first" mode of computing, where I connect to the internet only when I need to for as long as I need to to accomplish some specific task. My primary motivation for this was to cut down on distraction and procrastination, both of which a permanent internet connection facilitates wonderfully" gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/progress-toward-offline-first.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:31:26

• "deprecated a.out support with the promise to remove it a couple of releases later. That commit landed in v5.1. Now it is more than a couple of releases later, no one has complained so remove it." https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/cleanups&id=f9444ea5e20847d1dd4a98d4dff4cc97655834bb    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:35:23

• "That idea hadn’t even been listed for twenty years before it was converted into code by HexTheDragon and landed in curl the other day (with this commit). To get included in the pending curl 7.83.0 release." https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/12/curl-no-clobber/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:37:00

• Disclosure ('gift') missing https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zW8XeqCLf4o    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:38:18

• "On Monday the Wikidata Data Reuse Days 2022 start, a series of online events from March 14 to March 24 for users of Wikidata content. I’ll present KDE’s use of Wikidata in our travel apps KTrip and KDE Itinerary on Thursday March 17 at 15:00 UTC." https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2022/03/12/kde-itinerary-wikidata-data-reuse-days-2022.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:39:16

• roadtest: a driver testing framework https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220311162445.346685-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:57:33

• 2021: "Hello from my Palm m500! Unlike last time I'm writing on an actual real Palm Ultra-Thin Keyboard rather than slowly and painfully writing out paragraphs in Graffiti." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-06.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:21:56

• "If you're interested in getting a PDA, I would get one now because I think we're right on the border of them being old enough to be cool again and they'll get really expensive—right now we're still in the "they're junk so I'm giving them away for cheap" stage." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-06.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:23:13

• "Diop underscored that women are mainly the ones who are severely affected but stressed the "resilience of women in Africa" is not publicized well enough." https://www.dailysabah.com/world/africa/au-special-envoy-coins-woman-as-soft-power-in-politics    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:24:12

• Slackware on Calibre 5.x - I can’t create a working package | Alien Pastures ⚓ https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/calibre-5-x-i-cant-create-a-working-package/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:27:36

• Bloat on top of bloat on top of bloat. https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/15529/how-to-dockerize-a-node-js-web-app/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:28:27

• Astro Slide 5G Hands-On: Slider in your hand, Debian in your pocket • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162466    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:30:41

• It's amusing. There's this vegetarian alternative to meat in the fridge. It says in massive fonts, all caps, right at the front: "CARBON NEUTRAL". Greenwashing marketing for overpriced foods. Livestock is more expensive to grow than vegetables.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:42:55

• You Can Build Your Own Sushi Train https://hackaday.com/2022/03/11/you-can-build-your-own-sushi-train/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 11:59:03

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162467    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 12:20:26

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162468    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 12:20:33

• Devices/Embedded Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162469    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 12:20:42

• "First, let’s look at gemserv. My computer was already tarnished with rust when I accidentally installed it as a dependency, so I decided to poke around in the package since cargo was already polluting my hard disk anyways. I decided to run a simple `cargo tree`, and oh my, what a mistake that was." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-04-13.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 13:58:34

• Rust sucks: "Why should something as simple as Gemini need over 100 dependencies? For reference, Molly Brown uses one (1) dependency, and it doesn't even have anything to do with the server itself, all it pulls in is a TOML parser for configuration!" gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-04-13.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 13:59:12

• "I've complained before about Go making massive fucking binaries. Even if you count in the runtime which adds some heft, the compiler just doesn't seem to be that efficient at stripping away unneeded stuff. The molly-brown binary is 5.8MB despite it being pretty simple code. However, the compiled gemserv binary is /36 fucking megabytes/!" gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-04-13.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 13:59:51

• "For a """""systems programming language""""" rust certainly doesn't seem to have any of the qualities of one. No real architecture support beyond the most common desktop arches, massive binaries that would barely fit on anything with even moderately constrained sources." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-04-13.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 14:00:41

• Best 5 Alternatives to Microsoft Office [Compared] • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162470    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 15:10:45

• "First, we have to talk about the absolute galaxy brain decision by Stéphane Bortzmeyer and Sean Conner to use gitlab of all places for discuss the Gemini specification." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-10.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 15:41:14

• "Okay, so after that big “fuck you” to anybody not using a graphical browser, you open up your non-chromium and non-firefox NetSurf browser. Every single page is blank except for a partially populated but broken sidebar. “Fuck you” again, you have to use the status quo and open up your mainstream browser." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-10.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 15:41:53

• "Oh yeah gitlab also uses cloudflare, woe betide the reader who dares use Tor or cares even a modicum about their privacy (nobody on Gemini cares about privacy, right?)." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-10.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 15:43:13

• "I like to shoot on manual all the time, and most smartphones don't let you even adjust something like aperture (most phone cameras are fixed-aperture) or shutter speed & iso (even though phone cameras support manually setting it)." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-06-17.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 15:48:25

• "I am living proof that, even someone like me who has suffered from occasional impostor's syndrome, can, and will, be accepted into the linux and Free and open source software community." gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-01-31-fosstodon.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 15:49:39

• A paradox. Windows itself is a toy or a game. You're being played, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjHfCDPfLdI    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:11:00

• Wine 7.4 Dev Released! Vkd3d bundle, Defauts to Light Theme http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162457#comment-33043   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:12:25

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162471    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:16:19

• http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33044Afraid of the big bad Linux desktop? Zorin 16.1 is here   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:18:55

• Afraid of the big bad Linux desktop? Zorin 16.1 is here http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33044   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:19:16

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162472    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:19:46

• Has Gardiner Bryant defected over to marketing for Valve? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=E_qKUNUly7M see http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/on-influencers/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:21:12

• Steam Deck Benchmark Battle: I wasn’t expecting this! - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=c7_SlNWm3oc    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:21:49

• The EPO has long behaved like its sole goal was money maximisation, not science, let alone compliance with the EPC, so it’s hardly surprising that it is stiffing its very own workers (who do and did all the actual work) http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/epo-behaving-like-a-bankster/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:22:29

• The images above, explained in the video below them, hopefully sum up the state of the Web, the state of ‘You’Tube (GulagTube), and the state of journalism; online cabals — and sometimes corporate mobs — are running ads as “content” http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/on-influencers/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:26:47

• The workforce of Europe’s largest patent office (notably patent examiners from all across Europe) is being robbed by corrupt management that illegally transformed the EPO into a gambling vessel, exploiting longstanding impunity to destroy not only the Office but also the European economy http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/killing-its-own/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:27:06

• "A quick post today, but I just released comitium, yet another feed aggregator for Gemini! None of the other aggregators that I've found do quite everything I want them to do, so I decided to write my own." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-03-20.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:31:23

• "I'm doing well! My hatred for the node ecosystem has reached previously unimaginable heights. Definitely justified." gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-03-12-anti-procrastination-update.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:32:54

• "Today I set up GPG in my mutt on sdf.org account. It wasn't as easy, as it could be. As always it is need to search some manual on the Internet, and look under the hood of the car." gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2022-03-12-Three-decades-of-easy-public-key-cryptography.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:35:23

• "It is also interesting that the survey was conducted within a group of secondary school and college teachers. So where we expected a lot of interest in Gopher. Additionally, school teachers in the US and their counterparts in the world were listed." gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2022-03-12-So-how-much-time-people-spent-on-gopher-in-the-90s.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:36:24

• "If I don't need them Tasks, who does? Well, those poor souls called project managers, they need them. Their perspective on real life is totally different from mine. For them the mile-high pile of funny and not so funny details about my portion of real life is ... invisible." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20220312-rant-jira.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:37:46

• "Ticket systems are not for the people who have to use them. They're for people who want to know "What are those tech people DOING??"" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2022-03-12_Re__Rant__Ticket_System.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:39:03

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Wireless Security Tools • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162474    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:39:11

• PinePhone Keyboard Review gemini://ainent.xyz/gemlog/2022-03-11-pinephone-keyboard-review-part-ii.gmi "if you are looking for a small, lightweight, low-powered and cheap 'laptop' or 'PDA', you can definitely make do with this"    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:41:19

• 6 Best Open Source Firewall Distros (Updated 2022) • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162475    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:41:26

• 8 Best Whiteboard Apps for Linux: Useful for Teachers & Project Planners • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162473    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:46:46

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162476    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:51:52

• Manchester United 2 - 1 Tottenham Hotspur. Ronaldo on the scoresheet.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:52:18

• Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Rise and Fall of Nation-States ⚓ https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2022/03/the-rise-and-fall-of-nation-states.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:54:41

• Thomas Koch - lsp-java coming to debian ⚓ https://blog.koch.ro/posts/2022-03-12-lsp-java-coming-to-debian.html ䷉ #koch | more in http://schestowitz.com/2022/03/12/#latest    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 18:59:56

• Kingdom of the Dead: Obra Dinn FPS, Review on Linux - Boiling Steam ⚓ https://boilingsteam.com/kingdom-of-the-dead-fps-review/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:01:37

• Denemo 2.6 released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162477    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:01:44

• "kitty is a terminal with some nice features (I particularly like the focus on low latency, and the best-in-class support for emoji) but with a rather unusual default configuration." http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2022-03-12-19-03_kitty_rxvt_like_config.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:02:58

• You know you’ve been in Finland too long, when… https://dt.iki.fi/you-finland-too-long    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:04:13

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppGSL 0.3.11: Small Maintenance http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/03/12#rcppgsl_0.3.11    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:05:14

• "Spotted within the IGSCU FU in Linux, the Intel SOC3 which is the codename for the DG2-256 GPU has been spotted." https://wccftech.com/intel-dg2-256-soc3-gpu-spotted-with-256-eus-2048-alus/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:07:05

• Jolla brings AppSupport for Android apps on Linux platforms • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162478    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:10:45

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162479    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:10:53

• Hey, "WindowsReport", tell Windows useds [sic] how to install REAL GNU/Linux, not Microsoft's fake that's an ATTACK on GNU/Linux https://windowsreport.com/uninstall-wsl-windows-11/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:15:53

• Microsoft-loving sites also love (bashing) Linux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33045 see Microsoft-loving sites also love (bashing) Linux    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:16:47

• BTW, it’s my birthday - Arch Linux becomes 20 years old today • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162480    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:16:55

• Sounds like someone has a "mancrush" https://www.modernghana.com/sports/1144581/i-want-to-play-with-cristiano-ronaldo-before-he.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:17:37

• Manchester United 3 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur. 2 more mins+extra time.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:18:03

• John Cleese Absolutely OBLITERATES ’Woke’ BBC Interviewer on Her 'Cancel Culture Agenda' - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tJ7PPUTT3KY    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:29:07

• HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/neuromorphic_chips_sandia/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:34:18

• Joseph 'Stalin' Biden resorts to xenophobia in the dying economy that is his own. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/politics/biden-putin-inflation.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:37:21

• When the real economy is collapsing no wonder many run away to fake/parallel ones https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/biden_executive_order_cryptocurrency/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:38:12

• "The Canadian government is investing CA$240m ($187m) to boost the country's semiconductor and photonics segments in hopes of bolstering its role in the global market." https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/canadian_chip_investment/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:39:31

• Trust in British media almost lowest in the whole of EU - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ULfqhCNHQPA    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:46:02

• hat trick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_3vHBQoV8    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:56:13

• Akin to Trump-era blackmail https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/us_warns_chinese_chipmakers/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 19:57:56

• FSF appoints program manager Kooyman as executive director http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162003#comment-33047   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:02:14

• The mainframe is dying: just like IBM... https://www.cio.com/article/306280/the-mainframe-is-dying-long-live-the-mainframe-application.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:04:56

• Here’s how I brought a 2010 MacBook Pro back to life • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162481    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:05:02

• Gulag collusion https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/cma_ec_blue_jedi/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:07:10

• your   

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:09:26

• "This is often done with a "TOTP app" or "Token-Based Authenticator", which is normally installed on your smartphone." IOW, a back door. Bad solution. gemini://ruario.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-03-10_MFA-involving-TOTP-simplified.gmi    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:09:34

• DevSecAISmartClownSomethingOp https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/tip/Top-DevSecOps-certifications-and-trainings maybe learn real kills, not cargo cults and bullshit    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:11:03

• Linux Foundation = ‘Diploma Mill’ http://techrights.org/2021/09/23/lf-diploma-mill-and-narrative-control-by-fake-research/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:11:50

• File sharing is better off done on Free protocols, not NSA contractors' junk https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/12/windows-file-shares-are-still-buggy-on-macos-its-time-to-fix-it-once-and-for-while/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:13:02

• Apparently "UNIX" has a new meaning now... https://williamsrecord.com/460007/features/one-in-two-thousand-maki-yoshimura-22-5/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:13:55

• Well, mainframes are very proprietary; can openwashing save them? https://malaya.com.ph/news_special_feature/open-source-on-mainframes-pushed/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:14:52

• Russia increasingly used as an excuse to break the Internet https://fee.org/articles/misinformation-isnt-a-russia-problem-1/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:15:53

• "Mozilla Firefox's new update fixes not one, but two zero-day vulnerabilities, which are actively exploited by [cra]ckers." https://www.techtimes.com/articles/272645/20220306/mozilla-firefox-new-update-fix-firefox-exploited-bugs-firefox-mozilla.htm    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:17:36

• Bezos oligarchy's spin https://www.theday.com/business/20220306/millions-of-baby-boomers-have-left-workplace-since-2020-are-they-coming-back    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:18:36

• Making excuses for oligarchy, reputation laundering based on a false assumption of meritocracy https://fee.org/articles/why-anger-against-the-elites-is-misplaced/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:19:19

• Wall Street bubbles https://seekingalpha.com/article/4493205-elastic-stock-buy-near-2018-ipo    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:20:34

• Plenty of money available for fake 'journalism' https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:21:52

• Fake security has been popularised https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-pass-the-hash-attack/ we already know states DO want back doors, they even MANDATE these    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:23:08

• This is mostly adding complicity and bloat https://hackernoon.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-use-docker    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:24:04

• This is mostly adding complexity and bloat https://hackernoon.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-use-docker    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:24:13

• The Register now pushes fake news for Microsoft Azure, which not only failed but also has layoffs. They use fictional meters to make it seem like AWS loses to Microsoft.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:25:24

• The real cost of Microsoft Windows https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/fbi_says_ragnar_locker_ransomware/ see http://techrights.org/2021/05/02/ransomware-task-force/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:27:06

• "Yet another top-tier PC maker seemingly isn't interested right now in Microsoft's vision of hardware-level security for Windows 11 systems." https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/dell_pluton_microsoft/ fake security http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/ppp-traitors/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:28:00

• When the real economy is collapsing people resort to fantasies and there are people looking to prey on them https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/12/cryptocurrency_atms_banned/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:29:04

• Steve and Connie Ballmer avoid paying tax https://www.philanthropy.com/article/montana-governor-gianforte-and-wife-give-50-million-to-state-u in the US the oligarchs paint themselves as "philanthropists" for tax avoidance reasons    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:31:41

• Greenwashing and glorification of surveillance. Forbes = the voice of oligarchy. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmorris/2022/03/12/connected-cars-are-just-as-revolutionary-as-electric-vehicles/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:33:45

• Pump-n-dumping. Financial webspam is abundant, as journalism online is so rare. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/looking-for-safe-double-digit-returns-check-out-dropbox-stock    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:34:41

• HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI! APPLY TODAY!! HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI. "AI Platform Senior Software Developer..." https://it-online.co.za/2022/03/11/ai-platform-senior-software-developer-semi-remote-r680-per-hour-at-emerge-it-recruitment/ Then you have recruits on the phone asking about "Smart" and "Clown" and "HEY HI"    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:49:06

• Ha! I almost spat out my coffee when I scrolled down to pricing. Come on, Apple, add a trigger warning for laughter. https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/226594    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:51:22

• It would be obsolete if more people used ODF https://www.androidheadlines.com/2022/03/30-years-later-the-idea-of-pdf-still-living.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:57:58

• No, Samsung, we don't need so much RAM and CPU cores... on a "phone" https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-Galaxy-A53-5G-Leak-reveals-an-Exynos-1280-and-other-details-of-the-imminent-mid-range-phone.606689.0.html or 64,000,000 crude, lousy pixels from undersized aperture. Massive files, no crispness.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 20:59:28

• WordPress became so ubiquitous. https://wptavern.com/strattic-acquires-wp2static-plugin-plans-to-relaunch-on-wordpress-org I was involved in its earlier years    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:02:19

• Maybe rename the company? https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2022/ecommerce-tumbles-for-dicks-sporting-goods/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:16:06

• HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI. Now that call everything that... https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/new-on-netflix-ryan-murphy-programs-an-ai-to-read-the-andy-warhol-diaries-aloud/Content?oid=31146606    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:16:59

• Gulag might even care ABOUT REAL SECURITY.... one day https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/08/google_buys_mandiant_5_4bn_dollars/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:21:13

• LOL. A bubble like never before? Who fabricates these numbers??? https://www.fastcompany.com/90721894/canva-design-platform-most-innovative-companies    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:22:14

• These mashups are good because they help show how much of music is really just recycled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nQoRH3vRFM    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:23:19

• This is a lie: "Microsoft has gone out of its way to bolster the Windows 10 system against attack and compromise" https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterprisedesktop/tip/Key-native-features-for-Windows-10-security-and-maintenance No, they add back doors: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:25:30

• The espionage family is trying openwashing now. Yes, we spy on the planet, but open open something https://cziscience.medium.com/growing-our-support-for-scientific-open-source-e71d692e7772    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:26:46

• Blame HEY HI HEY HI. No algorithms. Not programmings. Not companies... It's thhhhheee Heeeeeey Aiiiiiiii https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/driverless_car_first_chinese_company/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:40:25

• "your mom dies in a car accident? it's the hey hi, real sorry, lol..."    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:41:06

• Windows TCO https://videocardz.com/newz/stolen-nvidia-certificates-are-now-used-to-sign-malware    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:42:16

• "a decade since Google released Android 3.0 Honeycomb, the first version of the company’s mobile operating system specifically designed for tablets." https://liliputing.com/2022/03/lilbits-google-is-taking-android-tablets-seriously-again-elementary-os-troubles-and-more-about-apples-m1-ultra.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:43:18

• Slower production? Good. For the planet, too. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/ukraine_neon_supplies/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:45:03

• Gartner is a lie firm. Stop propping up frauds and liars. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/gartner_only_29pc_of_it/ http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gartner_Group    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:45:45

• The CA 'cartels' or pyramid scheme revealed for what it is... or was all along https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/russian_ca/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:46:31

• Of course Microsoft ("you may remember me from Microsoft loves Linux and Ukraine loves Putin") will deny a port to GNU/Linux https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/quake-remastered-5-reasons-revisit-quarter-century-old-fps-masterpiece    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:47:59

• Wall Street DESPERATE for "external devil" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/opinion/putin-ukraine-russia-usa.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:49:46

• No, JavaScript is not a community. There's plenty of evidence of that. https://thenewstack.io/debate-in-javascript-community-over-proposed-types-syntax/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:50:38

• I'm sure Huawei would protest a lot if/when China physically invades Taiwan with tanks https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/huawei_uk_board_members_resign/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:51:46

• What's with this picture? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opinion/north-carolina-pennsylvania-gerrymandering.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:53:53

• As if Russia suffers from this. Well, this does come to shown 'clown' computing is a suicide cult. https://www.insideimaging.com.au/2022/photo-industry-sanctions-russia/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:55:10

• "Runa Sandvik, who has previously helped journalists secure their devices and data at The New York Times, Freedom of the Press Foundation and the Tor Project, recently discussed her work on the Decipher Podcast. This is a condensed and edited version of the conversation." https://duo.com/decipher/q-and-a-runa-sandvik    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 21:56:10

• Does not say which OS is impacted. Too vague, maybe intentionally. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/canadian_netwalker_ransomware_extradited_america/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:02:05

• Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162482    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:02:14

• Wait, this is what the US wanted when it sought to expand NATO to the border of Russia https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/opinion/nato-russia-the-west-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:02:45

• Some of these run natively on GNU/Linux, the rest can use WINE https://gameranx.com/features/id/292103/article/best-city-builder-games-you-cant-afford-to-miss/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:04:14

• It should say lay OFF. Notice how they spin bad news as "GROWTH" ... in a PAID-FOR "press" [lie] "release" https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220310006035/en/ATT-Lays-Out-Growth-Strategy-for-Company-Following-Pending-Close-of-WarnerMedia-Transaction    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:05:30

• OK, so the criminals from Microsoft needs to bribe Jim Zemlin and his corrupt friends some more to help with the greenwashing lies https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/microsoft-climate-carbon-emissions.html see http://techrights.org/2021/11/09/linux-foundation-greenwash/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:06:37

• How much do IBM and Red Hat pay the NC media to spread these lies and corporate propaganda? This isn't journalism, it's just embarrassing https://wraltechwire.com/2022/03/11/ibm-ceo-hails-big-blue-progress-we-dont-just-create-business-value-we-create-progress/ "IBM has defined a clear strategy to lead in the era of hybrid cloud and AI." HEY! Hi! Tell me more!    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:10:55

• They've taken the mask off. US tech companies are just extensions of military/imperialism/hegemony, disguised thinly... as "neutral" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-11/tech-walls-off-russia-like-never-before-posing-new-risks-for-u-s    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:12:05

• "Profit motivations come a distant second, as least for now." Clownflare admits it! We're trying to take control of you, we'll screw you and milk you after we've closed our grip/fist around your neck. Pay attention, Mozilla, stop working for Empire. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/cloudflare_disrupt/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:13:28

• Should move to GNU/Linux. Those problems don't exist there. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/769648/lost-activation-status-now-in-trial-mode-pro-x64-bit/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:21:43

• “still very, very early in development (about 55% complete), and as such, lack of polish, and game-breaking bugs are to be expected.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/03/11/aim-lab-valorant-king-george-r6/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:25:21

• MIT pushing HEY HI nonsense https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/extreme-innovation-with-ai-stanley-black-deckers-mark-maybury/ while covering up for pedophiles: http://techrights.org/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:26:15

• It means not approved by US Empire https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2022/03/08/what-does-the-connection-not-private-warning-really-mean    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:27:02

• Comcast pushing DRM https://www.engadget.com/apple-tv-plus-comcast-xfinity-x1-flex-xclass-tv-161729218.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:27:44

• Didn't Mozille peddle this trash until Mozilla's own founder BLASTED the company for it? https://www.business2community.com/cryptocurrency/dogecoin-price-prediction    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:30:40

• "patent licensing compulsory" as in "screw patents", we ignore this monopolistic crap https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/08/russia_software_piracy/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:32:07

• Wait, this is GULAG... which PAID 40 million to a manager who was getting blow jobs from subordinates. PAID HIM! And now they pretend to care for women????? https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/business/google-s-jigsaw-unit-open-sources-code-for-harassment-manager-tool-in-partnership-with-twitter/article_f224d3b9-aa83-5ebc-aef8-6baa58273ca5.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:33:16

• Remember, kids!!!! First one's free! That first one becomes half. And then it's not free at all https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/07/amazon_cuts_credit_for_charities/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:35:24

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/revil_suspect_ukrainian_arraigned_us_court/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:36:06

• Security for buzzwords ;-) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/03/08/oems-iot-security/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:37:06

• If it's GPL, Russia laughs, forks, and stops paying them https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/red_hat_suse_russia/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:38:37

• They very recently ported to GNU/Linux https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/spec_developing_benchmarks_for_ml/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:39:30

• Does the pope poop in the woods ;-) ? https://news.trust.org/item/20220304092506-aky0c    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:40:12

• Contact tracing predates COVID-19. In 2020 it was formalised and normalised. They even said that all this data collection was for your safety/protection/security. Disagree? Then you're a filthy dangerous conspiracy buff/crank.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:41:26

• Oracle wants to become "too big to fail" by stealing everyone's medical data. Don't let them do it. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/oracle/ really awful company with notorious CIA roots. http://techrights.org/wiki/Oracle    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:42:34

• Literacy? A lot of today's "tech"... e.g. social control media, actively LOWERS literacy and harms comprehension skills https://www.streetinsider.com/PRNewswire/SXSW+EDU+Panelists+Discuss+the+Role+of+Technology+in+Addressing+Low+Literacy/19758790.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:43:42

• Companies testing their OWN products, find "diagnostic accuracy of 98.5 per cent". https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-field-based-patient-trial-cell-free-zika.html one year ago companies told us their vaccines were 96% effective, after just a few months of self-testing and no long-term clinical trials    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:45:16

• Meanwhile, government propaganda organ BillBC (bribed by Bill Gates to lie to us and sell stuff of his, though we are also forced to pay this organ) admits that in spite of 92% of the adult population in the UK being "vaccinated" COVID-19 is surging again    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:46:40

• This is not a gendered issue, no need to interject identity politics into it https://fortune.com/2022/03/10/female-entrepreneurs-not-paying-themselves-as-they-launch-businesses/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:47:38

• IBM/Red Hat pay this publisher now; so puff piece come out https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/ibm_redhat_strategy/ IBM is sucking the life out of Red Hat, FAST http://techrights.org/2021/08/21/ibm-layoffs-in-marketing/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:48:55

• Is this journalism? Looks like classic webspam to me. :/ I.e. the usual... https://www.fastcompany.com/90724386/most-innovative-companies-design-2022    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:54:22

• LOL. The tamperer in chief is Mark Zuckerberg, who calls you "dumb fuck" (he did) and said he's "fuck you in the ear" https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/whatsapp_cloudflare_code/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:55:10

• Airlines are dying, so they try a new approach for improving their image (while they treat passengers like cattle, presuming they're all terrorists and all suitcases are time bombs) https://www.aviationpros.com/airlines/press-release/21259526/jetblue-the-jetblue-foundation-announces-2021-grantees-and-opening-of-next-foundation-granting-cycle    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:56:29

• Crankfest. Posers showing off how much energy they wasted to make something that does not even exist. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/industry-events/the-bitcoin-conference-differences    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:57:26

• "400Gbps and 800Gbps Ethernet networks respectively." Now Bill Gates can get his CP faster, without hiring another Rick Allen Jones. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/spirent_400g_800g_ethernet/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:58:29

• "the ability to block access poses a threat to the decentralization of the ecosystem." https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-promise-of-stateless-ethereum    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:00:01

• How do states target decentralised platforms? Easy. Home raids. See what Russia did to Tor node operators...    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:00:47

• Openwashing for the most part: "The Eclipse Foundation, which champions open-source software development, has formed a new Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) working group dedicated to developing a software platform for the automotive industry" https://www.automotivetestingtechnologyinternational.com/news/test-equipment/industry-led-initiative-looks-to-create-open-source-automotive-software-platform.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:03:55

• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) pushing Microsoft talking points. What a truly awful way to end his career. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/where_are_the_russian_cyberattacks/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:05:03

• Selling people GPUs they don't really need isn't a long-term strategy, esp. with production woes and collapsing economies. They want more vendor lock-in now. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/nvidia_software_services/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:08:25

• Sonatype still singing its sonata for Microsoft and other companies which actively undermine real security https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/Sonatypes-sonar-smart-sonata-for-open-source    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:16:15

• Internet is being destroyed https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/lumen_quits_russia/ see http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:17:53

• It looks like Microsoft Tim nearly left or was marginalised by The Register. I hope the latter. Microsoft boosting there decreased a slight bit this year. They even hired Liam to focus on GNU/Linux news.    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 22:19:58

• Yeah yeah, they've promised us such computers for at least 25 years. Hype and buzz. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/germany_qsolid_quantum_computing/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:09:42

• Microsoft proxies https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/infosys_wipro_russia_silence/ Microsoft profiting from Russia by proxy? See http://techrights.org/2022/02/27/microsoft-complicity-russia/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:10:27

• Scenes from Ukraine. https://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2022/today-in-the-fintech-ukraine-daily-airbnb-utah-jazz-foundation-team-to-provide-housing-for-ukrainian-refugees-bunq-ceo-debuts-people-for-people-to-aid-ukraine/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:12:00

• Paid-for press release trying to paint Twitter and Gulag as allies of women https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/news/google-s-jigsaw-unit-open-sources-code-for-harassment-manager-tool-in-partnership-with-twitter/article_6be80c54-b88d-5aa2-91ab-45de1237cf38.html see http://techrights.org/2022/01/10/twitter-streisand/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:12:44

• Proprietary software: "Miscreants have launched massive, amplified distributed denial-of-service attacks by exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel collaboration systems." https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/mitel_amplification_ddos_attack/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:18:36

• Fake coins collapsing in perceived value? No way!! Quick, hurry up and find new gullible people to inject some real money into this pyramid scheme. Until you run out of gullible people (as always happens with MLM) https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/03/26011417/why-defi-coins-fantom-and-yearn-finance-are-seeing-major-slumps-today    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:20:40

• Russia will now collapse. No more gaming! Who is punished here? https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/playstation_quits_russia/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:21:49

• Microsoft webspam disguised as "news" https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/microsoft_windows_11_insider_tabs/ see http://techrights.org/2021/10/19/vista-11-hoax/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:22:28

• This used to be an IBM business, but today's IBM is too busy making a killing.... killing Red Hat like it killed CentOS https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/lenovo_thinksystem_truscale/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:23:49

• More hey hi from Hoffman https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/linkedin_hoffman_ai/ Jeffrey Epstein associate: http://techrights.org/2020/08/11/linked-in-to-pedophilia/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:25:43

• Microsoft Windows TCO (see between the lines) https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/russia-invasion-cyber-war-rages/ see http://techrights.org/2021/09/30/azure-brute-force/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:28:09

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/conti_leaks_code/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:30:07

• A lot of that boils down to nepotism really. It's highly rigged. https://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/putnam_news/some-high-income-jobs-can-be-done-without-college-education/article_b4d09dbd-4ad7-5cb1-9b00-032b1366d208.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:32:07

• Interesting use of the word "inclusion" https://www.thereporteronline.com/2022/03/10/congressman-announces-inclusion-of-more-than-6-5m-for-local-projects-in-house-appropriations-bill/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:33:48

• To corporations, there's no such thing as inclusive policy and diversity. It's PR. It's inclu$ive (of money) and diver$ity (of income sources; they're open to everyone's revenue stream; give us YOUR money, TOO!).    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:35:17

• Moneitisng defects after selling MySQL to SCOracle (well, SUN initially). https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252514448/Tech-brands-sign-on-to-HackerOne-responsible-security-drive    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:37:25

• "Smart Speaker" = not really a speaker but a microphone that spies not only on your but on people around you, whom you hurt without their consent https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/03/10/2401017/0/en/Benetech-Unveils-Bookshare-Reader-Suite-for-Smart-Speaker-Web-and-Mobile.html    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:38:28

• Technology becomes more authoritarian over time: "Twitter has added a number of features to try to be a more welcoming, less toxic online destination, such as asking people to reconsider their tone when drafting angry tweets" https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/harassment-manager-this-google-app-to-look-into-social-media-attacks-see-details-11646898937016.html http://techrights.org/2022/01/10/twitter-streisand/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:39:20

• Twitter is ALL ABOUT the attack.s This is how Twitter tries to actually make money, for a change (it wasn't profitable until Trump became president, causing havoc there) http://techrights.org/2022/03/01/twitter-happier-during-wars/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:40:29

• Burkina Faso is a convenient test set. If they die, they cannot sue. https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003943 Bill Gates likes doing clinical trials on them http://techrights.org/2020/06/25/philanthropic-racism/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:41:30

• "Unplug the... oh, wait... your catheter is defective. lol, real sorry" https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/medtronic-fda-expand-hawkone-atherectomy-recall-include-turbohawk-catheters    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:42:34

• Automated analysis of activity, sleep, and rhythmic behaviour in various animal species with the Rtivity software https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-08195-z    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:43:05

• Just more buzzwords and nonsense from NSA partners that sneak back doors into everything https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/csa_zero_trust/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:44:09

• Western media puts scare quotes around "standards" when the standards aren't set and imposed on the whole world with Western patents and monopolistic steering https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/11/bytedance_alibaba_tencent_video_standard/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:45:23