Roy Schestowitz

• Ronaldo FC beats Spurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx_3vHBQoV8    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:47:52

• The newer ones have back doors too and even more extensive surveillance. The real question should be, should any sane person still carry around such malicious devices in spite of everything publicly known about them? https://www.maketecheasier.com/should-you-use-older-android-phone/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:49:52

• "On first launch with Proton 7, what it was verified against, it tells you it needs to install the Rockstar Launcher before you can play. The annoyance begins here of course as I've already waited on a 100GB download." LOL, 0.1 TB!!! https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/steam-deck-verified-has-issues-grand-theft-auto-v-edition    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:50:32

• Automount USB storage with Raspberry PI OS Lite: fstab and autofs ⚓ https://peppe8o.com/automount-usb-storage-with-raspberry-pi-os-lite-fstab-and-autofs/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:51:44

• "Really, Valve needs to take another look at how they run Deck Verified if trust in it is to be a real thing. Otherwise, like my friend Nick from The Linux Experiment said in our big collaboration video, the green Verified tick will end up meaningless if strict standards aren't followed" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/steam-deck-verified-has-issues-grand-theft-auto-v-edition    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:52:42

• How to give Microsoft and the NSA root over your machine: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iXcBm7PpZJo see http://techrights.org/2022/02/28/microsoft-github-expose-part-xviii-the-story-of-npm/    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:58:37

• Why Is There No Software For Linux!!! - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JLTErwGqP44 ䷉ it is about QUALITY, not QUANTITY    

posted Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 23:59:11

• Ulauncher: A Powerful Linux App Launcher to Improve Your Productivity • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162483    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:01:02

• Ulauncher: A Powerful Linux App Launcher to Improve Your Productivity • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162483    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:03:32

• "Today in dystopian nightmare, Walgreens replaces glass freezer doors with advertisements." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/today-in-dystopian-nightmare-walgreens-replaces-glass-freezer-doors-with-advertisements/ wait till they install cameras in store to score you and ensure you "swallow" all the ads. It's part of the CUX. CUstomer eXperience.    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:05:00

• "Pretty much the last straw for me at Walmart will be if they copy Walgreens on this and I have to watch ads to know which door the frozen peas are in, along with their incessant price hikes." Justified using bogus pretexts, notable "Putin" and "Xi-19" https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/today-in-dystopian-nightmare-walgreens-replaces-glass-freezer-doors-with-advertisements/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:11:59

• "LaTeX has better quality type setting than lout, by a lot, and it’s great if all you wanna do is use templates that some other sucker had already done for you. If you wanna do any real layout work of your own, LaTeX is a brick wall." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/typesetting-engines    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:28:46

• "I use public key cryptography email many times every day but… only with people I’ve exchanged keys with, obviously. Sometimes I wanna email someone and I see their key and just as I’m about to import it, I realize that since they don’t have my key, they won’t be able to open my message." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/yay-autocrypt    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:29:59

• GTL v0.7.0 gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/03/13/gtl-v0.7.0/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:31:41

• "Better late than never. Finally, I created Git repositories for my Gemini and Gopher files." gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:32:31

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162485    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 00:50:09

• Links 12/3/2022: Lots of Microsoft Windows Ransomware in Ukraine and Arch Linux Turns 20 | Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/arch-linux-turns-20/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/12/arch-linux-turns-20/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 01:02:14

• Videos and Games: Myths, Warnings, and Steam • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162486    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 01:02:21

• Standards: UNIX, Streaming, and PDF • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162487    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 01:02:29

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162488    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 01:02:37

• Keyboards have become fashion statements. So that keyboard companies can tell them to you at x10 the production cost. https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2022/03/12/my-first-real-mechanical-keyboard/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 01:30:52

• #Techrights Bulletin for Saturday, March 12, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:04:44

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

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:04:51

• "Removing support for old hardware is difficult enough, but there does often come a point where it becomes possible." https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/886708/bb94ce7c5231d242/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:06:37

• "Some 45%-54% of the world's semiconductor grade neon, critical for the lasers used to make chips, comes from two Ukrainian companies" https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/strategy-and-management/ukraine-halts-half-of-worlds-neon-output-for-chips-clouding-outlook/90152882    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:08:23

• "Wyoming’s new roadkill feature within the state Department of Transportation app helps people quickly claim accidentally killed deer, elk, moose, wild bison or wild turkey after documenting the animal and reviewing the rules for collecting roadkill to eat." https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/road-table-wyomings-app-claiming-roadkill-83408733    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:09:05

• "Analysts for the U.S. National Security Agency, French government cybersecurity organization ANSSI, and Ukrainian intelligence are assessing whether the remote sabotage of a satellite [Internet] provider's service was the work of Russian-state backed hackers" https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital-security/u-s-spy-agency-probes-sabotage-of-satellite-internet-during-russian-invasion-sources/90163260    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:10:22

• "The Soviet-era Tu-141 reconnaissance drone crashed in the Croatian capital late Thursday, damaging around 40 parked vehicles, but no one was injured." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1879299.html    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:10:50

• "There is no evidence to support the claims, which President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department have all unequivocally denied." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/us/politics/us-bioweapons-ukraine-misinformation.html    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:12:04

• "Below we summarise some of the bill’s problems, which the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Chile have also raised with the Senate Committee studying the bill" https://medium.com/wikimedia-policy/a-chilean-bill-would-prohibit-community-based-content-moderation-2488d84022f4    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:12:55

• "Russia’s attempt to block independent news of its war in Ukraine has been met with a surge in digital circumvention tools" https://www.voanews.com/a/vpn-use-spikes-as-russians-seek-out-facts-on-ukraine-war/6482178.html    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:13:50

• "The federal government responded by accusing European lawmakers of “corruption, lies and hypocrisy” and describing them as misinformed sheep" https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/european-lawmakers-amlo-sheep/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:14:26

• "Rights organisations say many do not receive fair trials in Saudi Arabia, an allegation the government rejects." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-60722057    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:15:24

• "we take a closer look at certain factors that may be contributing to the the resiliency of the Ukrainian Internet." https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/the-resilience-of-the-internet-in-ukraine/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:15:58

• "Some people may not have known this, but the popular "NPC" Internet meme did not have a explicitly right-wing origin. The underlying sentiment is that many people these days, regardless of their political leanings, tend to simply repeat what everyone else in their group of choice says--especially when on the Internet." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202203/20220312-the-npc-meme.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:17:29

• "Gemini bucks a lot of these online trends, to its immeasurable credit. Geminispace is small enough to prevent most dogpiles, and the vast majority of Gemini users communicate with each other in good faith, even when they disagree with each other." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202203/20220312-the-npc-meme.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:18:16

• "MPA and ACE want Clownflare to hand over the personal details" https://torrentfreak.com/ace-mpa-target-dozens-of-streaming-pirates-some-with-a-subtle-new-trick-220312/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:22:26

• iophk: gets Microsoft role in attacking ODF (and other open standards) backwards, furthermore, no one not even M$ itself uses ISO/IEC 29500 https://youtu.be/QzzIftKz600?t=50 https://castro.fm/episode/cBq9TF    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:26:32

• They try to cover the whole thing up https://abcnews.go.com/US/jeffrey-epstein-estate-nearing-settlement-us-virgin-islands/story?id=83398196 just like MIT http://techrights.org/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:30:09

• Anything to justify ripoffs, increasing the profits of good giants https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/03/12/war-in-ukraine-will-cripple-global-food-markets    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:30:52

• GOPKKK and disregard for women https://www.teenvogue.com/story/republicans-rape-comments-abortion-oped    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:31:13

• On the Internet, facts come to die https://factcheck.afp.com/list/all/all/39405/all/2526   

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:34:55

• Gulag GulagTube has moved beyond removing videos over copyright pretexts https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/youtube-donald-trump-nelk-boys-full-send-podcast-interview-1320041/   

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:35:42

• "At the Corporation, we use `syslog()` to log stuff. I know it's not popular among the hipster crowd, but honestly, I don't find the modern replacements to be all that great, nor as ubiquitous, as `syslog()`." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/03/08.1    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:43:44

• 189: Linux 5.17, Mesa 22.0, Budgie Desktop, Wine, Dirty Pipe Vulnerability and more Linux news - TuxDigital ⚓ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-189/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:45:31

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162489    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 07:53:57

• 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 #IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 12, 2022 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/13/irc-log-120322/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/13/irc-log-120322/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 08:23:27

• In Sweden, on desktops/laptops, only 60% use Windows, according to Statcounter: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sweden/#monthly-202111-202203 if you also count mobile, Linux is about the same as Windows    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 08:37:14

• Web traffic from China is about 53% Android or 55% "Linux" https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china/#monthly-202111-202203    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 08:41:19

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162490    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 08:58:18

• "IMHO, Gemini is surprisingly popular. How did it come?" gemini://envs.net/~pen/gemini/popular.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 12:19:52

• "I was listening to the Alpha Rhythm podcast and learned that there is a DnB album called "Together with Ukraine" on Bandcamp and all revenue is donated to the Ukrainian Red Cross, so I picked it up. 136 tracks and the minimum price is set at 12 GBP." gopher://sdfeu.org:70/0/users/glaciurso/phlog/2022-03-13__DnB.md    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 12:21:09

• Linuxfx 11.1.1108 is out http://www.linuxfx.org/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 12:39:02

• GNOME Shell & Mutter 42.0 coming https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/commit/44b4b02c3f772a50e6f8b8fd2dca6d9dc3a98725    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 12:40:02

• Michael Larabel celebrates sheer bloat from his sponsor https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Closing-4-Million http://techrights.org/2022/02/03/phoronix-went-too-far/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 12:45:53

• LibreWolf: A Trusted Open-source Firefox Fork for Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162491    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 12:46:30

• Media lexicon: Russia billionaire = oligarch. EU/US billionaire = philanthropist.    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 13:38:36

• KDE Frameworks 5.92 Improves Dolphin and KRunner, Plugs Memory Leaks, and Fixes Bugs • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162492    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 13:38:58

• A dozen more active Gemini capsule and we're at 1800 known to Lupa gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 14:59:05

• #HowTo Install Transmission BitTorrent Client on Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162493    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 14:59:27

• "I prefer emacs to Filezilla. Now, GNU Emacs is more friendly than before. Let us ave and see what happens." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ayaron/byefilezilla.txt    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:07:12

• "I believe allowing linking to headers within a document using fragments would be massively useful; is in line with the ethos for Gemini—linking to parts of a text document isn't any different than any other link to a text document; and (can be) implemented extremely simply." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-12-11.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:28:37

• "I take notes on my computer too of course. I have used a variety of apps in the past; I am currently using a combination of Vim, Joplin, syncthing, git, and nextcloud. Notes stored on my computer are more often for procedural or repetitive task, or things that I may want to copy and paste." gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-03-13-pen-and-paper.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:33:22

• "Debian does not have i3-gaps in their repos, just plain i3. If you are running debian, and already have i3 from the debian repos installed, and you want to use i3-gaps, I recommend uninstalling the version from the debian repos before proceeding." gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-02-06-how-to-build-and-install-i3-gaps-on-debian.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:34:39

• You know the WWW has become a pile of shit, a distraction-filled POS, when you literally have to cover one eye to focus on what you are reading or move part of a browser window OUT of the screen. Because it's the only way to properly focus and concentrate on what you intend to read (not what's pushed to you).    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:39:18

• "In a statement to the BBC, Huq revealed that in two separate instances its "app partners" had not asked for consent from its users, but added swiftly that the issue had now been rectified." gemini://galaxyhub.uk/articles/huq.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:50:29

• This person does not know about Chafa. gemini://jfh.me/posts/2019-02-23-ascii-face.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:52:07

• "Ian over at gopher.icu [0] has announced a new gopher search index [1], he calls it Quarry [2]. Always nice to see more work on the gopher search front. The quality of results seems pretty good, and the facility for automatically submitting gopher URIs to be (re-)indexed is very cool." gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/new-gopher-search-engine-quarry.md    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 15:52:52

• Zuckerberg and Microsoft crap interjected into postgres codebase https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=e9537321a74a2b062c8f7a452314b4570913f780    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:00:14

• Top 10 FTP Clients For Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162494    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:00:34

• 8 Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks - LinuxLinks ⚓ https://www.linuxlinks.com/frameworks/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:01:12

• "I need to improve on my workflow with publishing to my Gemini capsule on Flounder, as presently I am doing it by first committing with Git, then looking at the changes list, then using `pass -c flounder.online` to get the password in my clipboard for 45 seconds, and then running `sftp sftp://mkf@flounder.online:2024`" gemini://g.mikf.pl/gemlog/2022-03-07.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:19:48

• "I want youth to learn to see computation as a part of how they can be in the world, not because programming is a way of getting The Big Money or even because it's something that needs to be enjoyed for its own merits, but like writing as a useful tool to engage with the world and explore their own thoughts and beliefs." gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/gemlog/2022-03-08-cc.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:23:31

• "In life, people don't have only one task they're meant to do and nothing else--they often want to live full, rich lives with a myriad of experiences. To that end, sometimes I find the increasing popularity of positive-regulation concepts in society rather concerning." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202203/20220309-social-least-privilege.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:26:04

• Techrights has its best month so far with quarter million hits over gemini:// in less than 13 days gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 16:28:04

• "I saw a toot on mastodon today talking about the program checkrestart. checkrestart, which is part of the debian-goodies package, can check and see which processes need to be restarted after an upgrade . So why is this cool, what does it do, and is it worth installing?" gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-01-18-checkrestart-needrestart.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 17:06:41

• "From a historical perspective it makes sense, the first language designers were American or British and so used English, and from that point on if you're a programmer that could create a new language you also spoke English and would make your new language be English to fit in, and it got to the point where all programming is English basically." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-10-31.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 17:08:19

• Hashtag wars in social control media are useless. After a day or less nobody pays attention and it does not help spread information, it's pigs wrestling in mud.    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 17:59:32

• Got the next part of the long series about Microsoft/GitHub/Copilot ready for tonight or tomorrow. It's quite long, detailed, and fact-checked.    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 18:00:06

• Why I hate gulagtube more and more over time: people with cameras, looking for youtube drama, provoking homeless people with their minds already in a bad state, in order to make a scene at risk to oneself (then running to the police for help, as he does in another video after provoking the police for 12+ years) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFM5mPQYB20    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 18:18:24

• YouTube is sometimes hailed as an accountability tools (for corrupt cops/PDs), but actually a lot of the time YouTube's very existence encourage people to act badly, abuse people, even abuse cops (not those who are up to no good). Gulag social control media is no better than Facebook's. Also technically.    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 18:20:01

• A world (or World Wide Web) without social control media was.... and WOULD again be... far more civil. We need to eradicate this 'web cancer'. Stop participating in it. That's a start. http://techrights.org/2022/03/01/twitter-happier-during-wars/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 18:21:52

• Steam Deck LIVE: Vampire Survivors + Q&A - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XbXPg2qRwm8    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 18:58:32

• Why am I building a programming language in private? ⚓ https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/13/Why-am-I-working-in-private.html    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:00:01

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162495    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:00:27

• 8 Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162496    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:07:45

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162497    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:07:53

• Hmmmm... is W3C dying? Replaced by GAFAM itself? Directly? For weeks now their validator has been broken. Unavailable too. It had worked for 18 years for me. Can they not bother anymore?    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:09:01

• KDE Frameworks 5.92.0 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162492#comment-33055   

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:09:29

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162498    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 19:55:37

• Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Less - LinuxLinks ⚓ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-tutorials-learn-less/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:02:09

• Reiser(FS) will die. While he's in prison. https://appuals.com/reiserfs-may-lose-support-in-linux-kernel/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:03:26

• Best Linux Distro for Beginners in 2022: Top 5 Picks • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162499    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:03:32

• Doing it wrong, copying malware: "This is pretty recent and first trials. Not in master (or trunk) and some goals need to be achieved first in order to be ready: Working perfectly in one core when SMP is activated" https://nitter.eu/reactos/status/1503008686750539778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:05:34

• "Hello! Today I want to talk about – how do you know you’re getting better at programming?" https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/13/celebrate-tiny-learning-milestones/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:06:14

• postmarketOS // v21.12 Service Pack 3 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162500    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:18:49

• 11 more gemini capsules and it's 1800 active ones gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:19:54

• Extend Ubuntu LTS Support Period to 10 Years With Ubuntu Advantage • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162501    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:23:58

• Why Is the Linux Logo a Penguin? The Story Behind Tux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162257#comment-33056   

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:27:57

• OSMC March update is here with Kodi v19.4 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162502    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:34:56

• Still paid to promote the scam that is Startpage https://yewtu.be/watch?v=F97b4Iv82vY see Startpage reality: http://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:36:45

• The Linux Experiment in becoming an 'influencer' http://techrights.org/2022/03/12/on-influencers/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:37:23

• "Source code licensing can be very complex and because of this there are loop holes which can arise with GPL style licenses where companies can completely avoid sharing the source code. Remember I'm not a lawyer, seek a professional for actual legal advice" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cXLFXV6zIyk    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:38:06

• A friend of the EPO‘s Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos is now in (partial) control of the European Commission, which makes one wonder if oversight is possible at any level http://techrights.org/2022/03/13/european-commission-involved/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:39:13

• 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 #IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 12, 2022 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/13/irc-log-120322/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:40:14

• Some interesting numbers or trends from Poland this month • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/13/poland-and-gnu-linux/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:40:21

• "I took my first step towards my goal of bringing interest in the Free Software movement back here in Mexico: I invited RMS to give an online conference at a tech event in my school. He accepted!" gemini://avalos.me/gemlog/2021-10-24-update-october-2021.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:43:02

• "Even the well-intentioned privacy-focused legal obligations, not to mention not-so-well-intentioned copyright-focused legal obligations, that are being applied to operators of internet services are, in my opinion, helping separate internet participants into those who consume and those who produce." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-06-15-Dwarves-and-Gophers.txt    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:44:04

• "The backup server runs sshd, and that's pretty much it. A cron job takes backups every now and then from the home directories on it and from the service server, and from another server that I help maintain. It's a very simple setup. " gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-03-13-well-that-was-a-busy-weekend.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:45:57

• "A new programming language is a major undertaking. We’re building one with an explicit emphasis on simplicity and we’re still not done after two years." gemini://drewdevault.com/2022/03/13/Why-am-I-working-in-private.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:47:17

• "I thought what a different world it was. The internet was not a toy. Originating from the military network, provided by the state to the academic network, it produced real information that was not intended for entertainment." gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2022-03-13-Gopher-novice-part-x.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:48:21

• "Today I noticed how out-of-touch with the world I've gotten. I sometimes just sit in front of my computer and don't even think about doing anything productive, I end up watching YouTube and just consume product. I don't even know what I am typing anymore because I don't even have to consciously type" gemini://metalune.xyz/glog/14-03-2022.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 20:49:41

• [Teaser] Microsoft’s GitHub: Plagiarism Enabler | Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/13/copilot-plagiarism-enabler/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/13/copilot-plagiarism-enabler/   

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 21:22:06

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162503    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 21:34:09

• GNOME 42 Release Candidate Brings Back Fingerprint Dialog in Control Center • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162504    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 21:34:16

• Linux 5.17-rc8 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162505    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 21:34:46

• Planet Computers Launched Astro Slide 5G, a Smartphone Packed with Updated Specifications http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162466#comment-33058   

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 21:37:11

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162506    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 21:41:48

• "It's a stock market simulator where you compete with other teams to make the most money by, just trading, like a real stock market. In case you needed proof of Idiomdrottning's point about “investors”/gamblers benefiting at the expense of others it's literally a game-like competition." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2022-01-16.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 22:06:19

• "This is as bad as it could possibly be. The first question on everyone's mind has to be, 'How on Earth did someone exfiltrate 125GB of the most sensitive data imaginable without tripping a single alarm?' There's going to be some very hard questions asked internally." gemini://galaxyhub.uk/articles/twitch.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 22:08:18

• "Users and usage can cause significant issues. Even something like good traffic could cause an issue. But there are also scenarios where bots or malicious traffic can cause a lot of issues." gemini://jfh.me/posts/2019-04-14-release-it-notes.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 22:11:23

• :-) Imran Khan works at SUSE now https://www.suse.com/c/truelayer-spearheads-the-open-banking-revolution-with-kubernetes-and-suse-rancher/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 22:19:40

• As we shall see tomorrow, the FSF ought to speak out against what Team Mono had done to us all while working for Microsoft directly (before it left, following an arrest and some certain exposé) http://techrights.org/2022/03/13/copilot-plagiarism-enabler/    

posted Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 22:20:30