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  • Technique significantly boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell ⚓ https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-technique-significantly-boosts-unix-shell.html ䷉ MIT http://techrights.org/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:18:36


  • They must be downplaying this. He must have committed some serious crime if he was seen as that much of a liability, even by Microsoft's standards https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/08/kipman/ http://techrights.org/2022/06/09/alex-kipman-vs-antonio-campinos/ http://techrights.org/2022/06/09/another-theranos-moment/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:20:39


  • Can MongoDB Build A Humongous, And Profitable, Database Business? ⚓ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/07/can-mongodb-build-a-humongous-and-profitable-database-business/ ䷉ Source: nextplatform    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:23:24


  • Why We’re Sticking with Ruby on Rails at GitLab - The New Stack ⚓ https://thenewstack.io/why-were-sticking-with-ruby-on-rails-at-gitlab/ ䷉ Source: thenewstack    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:25:23


  • 🔤SpellBinding — TFMNRSA Wordo: SCRUM gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2022-06-11.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:26:23


  • Math in Gemtext. LaTeX in Unicode gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-06-11-unicode-latex.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:28:24


  • "He announced his retirement from professional football in June 2022." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Tevez did a lot for both Manchester United and Manchester City https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/carlos-tevez-every-premier-league-goal-63790367    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:48:16


  • Familiar media operatives disguised as “journalists” are still at it two decades later; it’s nice to see that Todd Bishop is still covering up for liars from Microsoft and for Bill Gates (more on these issues in our latest Daily Links) http://techrights.org/2022/06/11/geekwire-doxing/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:52:15


  • Puerto Ricans are powering their own rooftop solar boom https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/puerto-ricans-are-powering-their-own-rooftop-solar-boom    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:53:07


  • No, USAID. Democracy is NOT being promoted by USA. It just tends to bomb places and provide bombs. https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/jun-7-2022-administrator-power-calls-reinventing-playbook-strengthen    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:54:18


  • Fortune promoting buzzwords and scam. What has happened to the media? https://fortune.com/2022/06/07/what-designers-should-know-when-designing-metaverse/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:54:56


  • Open Source Geospatial Foundation https://www.directionsmag.com/pressrelease/11581    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:57:15


  • Immigration Bureaucracy Threatens 11-Year-Old’s Spot on Transplant Lists ⚓ https://www.physiciansweekly.com/immigration-bureaucracy-threatens-11-year-olds-spot-on-transplant-lists/ ䷉ Source: physiciansweekly    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:58:05


  • "IBM-provided prize" = PR stunt https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/bcnews/science-tech-and-health/technology/tristan-receives-acm-software-system-award.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 00:59:14


  • Colleges and universities must NOT become PR outlets of corporations. But it happens more over time...    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:00:02


  • Social Control Media is not social and not media. What is this??? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/8-best-indian-smm-panels-to-get-popular-on-social-media/articleshow/92058826.cms    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:00:58


  • Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) gaze is conspicuous at ecologically-relevant distances https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13273-3    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:01:39


  • Kali Linux team announces free cyber security training delivered live on Twitch https://www.techcentral.ie/kali-linux-team-announces-free-cyber-security-training-delivered-live-on-twitch/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:04:28


  • "BSDCan, a BSD conference held in Ottawa, Canada, quickly established itself as the technical conference for people working on and with 4.4BSD based operating systems and related projects. This year the conference was held online." https://www.streetinsider.com/Newsfile/Tevano+Announces+Availability+of+BSDCan+Presentation+with+Antranik+Wartanian%2C+CEO+of+Tevano+Subsidiary+Illuria%2C+Inc/20201662.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:05:13


  • Gulag Clown is STILL losing BILLIONS of dollars. Clown Computing is a trap and a bubble, partly subsidised by US taxpayers with "defence" graft. Meanwhile Azure has LAYOFFS. https://www.fiercetelecom.com/cloud/google-cloud-launches-2-new-regions-us    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:06:30


  • Python 3.11 vs Python 3.10: Why Developers Love the Latest Version More? https://www.analyticsinsight.net/python-3-11-vs-python-3-10-why-developers-love-the-latest-version-more/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:07:57


  • LOL. NFT. WTF!!! https://www.voguebusiness.com/technology/cliniques-glam-squad-bridges-diversity-gap-in-avatar-pfp-makeovers NFTs = scam!    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:09:00


  • Marketing spam disguised as review (the site even admits doing that) https://www.makeuseof.com/creality-sermoon-v1-pro-3d-printer-review-beginners/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:11:43


  • "OpenWiFi" = openwashing. WiFi is NOT open, many patents and IIRC NDAs https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_technology/netexperience-announces-general-availability-of-second-generation-open-wi-fi-platform/article_97d56c23-2595-561d-a710-dd973c54b58a.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:15:43


  • Sudo Show: [Buzzwords] Revisited https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/sudo-show/sudo-53/ multiclown is when not one but two (or more) acts of outsourcing are embraced in tandem to burn your money even faster and leak out data to more corporations    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:19:54


  • "The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation is a non-profit organization for driving the further development and adoption of Erlang, Elixir, LFE, and other technologies based on the BEAM virtual machine." https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/emq-announces-official-sponsorship-of-the-erlang-ecosystem-foundation-eef--364535.shtml    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:55:36


  • "WhatsApp secures content data (i.e., the message itself), but shares meta data with other Facebook companies to enhance their services (limited in EU by GDPR)." https://felixonline.co.uk/issue/1803/science/how-to-secure-your-digital-life    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 01:58:23


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

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 05:57:21


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

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 05:57:27


  • Do we need blockchain? https://alirezahayati.com/2022/06/07/do-we-need-blockchain/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 07:33:45


  • "I’m sick and tired of online debates. I used to do them. I used to spend a lot of time trying to convince people of certain matter or trying to trigger them to become angry and explain certain things to me." https://alirezahayati.com/2022/06/06/online-debates/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 07:34:30


  • #HowTo change MySQL port in Ubuntu Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165905    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 07:34:42


  • "I made a small Proof-of-Concept: cs-mitm.py is a mitmproxy script that intercepts Cobalt Strike traffic, decrypts it and injects its own commands." https://blog.didierstevens.com/2022/05/27/poc-cobalt-strike-mitm-attack/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 07:37:04


  • Agriculture and renewable energy development in a state of drought and climate change https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/agriculture-and-renewable-energy-development-in-a-state-of-drought-and-climate-change/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 07:51:36


  • This did not age well (less than a week before the invasion): "In his latest essay, John Pilger describes the changes in the reporting of war crises such as the 'imminent invasion' of Ukraine, and the rise of what he calls 'raw propaganda'." http://johnpilger.com/articles/war-in-europe-and-the-rise-of-raw-propaganda    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 07:53:00


  • "I hope I've persuaded you to write good HTML from now on." ☛ http://lofi.limo/blog/write-html-right |    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:53:03


  • "For a long time, the Linux kernel text console on x86 hardware used VGA text mode (also)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/TextAndFramebufferConsoles | Source: uni Toronto    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:53:08


  • "This began as a reply to another article by Lucas F. Costa; it lists practices to improve user-experience (UX) " ☛ https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/06/10/cli-best-practices/ | Source: Rohan Kumar    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:53:14


  • "Sure, it works but you still introduced a middle man in your pristine homelab setup and the itch never goes away to get rid of it." ☛ https://yarmo.eu/blog/synapse-cloudron-ansible/ | Source: Yarmo Machenbach    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:53:19


  • "Ratpoison is a wonderful and light weight tiling window manager" ☛ http://box.matto.nl/ratpoison-window-manager-on-galliumos.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:53:50


  • "The core of the circuit board is an STS-5 Geiger-Müller tube." ☛ https://www.hackster.io/news/the-just-bananas-method-for-generating-true-random-numbers-0e67c763dc1a | Source: Hackster    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:54:33


  • "The possible way using bananas is that of radioactive decay" ☛ https://www.valerionappi.it/brng-en/ |    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:55:18


  • "Let’s start by understanding what the chi-square (also referred to as \chi^2) is and how it works." ☛ https://www.valerionappi.it/chi-squared/ |    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:55:23


  • "Threaded articles posted to Usenet were organized into different newsgroups, e.g., comp.software, misc.education, talk.politics" ☛ https://matt-rickard.com/web3-usenet-moment/ | Source: Matt Rickard    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:55:46


  • "I was worried that the market solution would be mass-produced knockoffs, which admittedly has happened (just look at eBay)." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/portable-digital-audio-players-still-exist/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:58:50


  • "Health Canada Friday proposed a regulation mandating warning labels on individual cigarettes and cigars." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/06/canada-health-authority-proposes-warning-labels-on-individual-cigarettes/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:59:30


  • "This project relies on a Nano Every to read the ambient temperature/humidity as well as control up to six motorized windows via three L298N dual H-bridge drivers." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/06/09/automated-window-system-helps-keep-the-greenhouse-climate-regulated/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 08:59:50


  • [Old] "A further insult is the implication that I make buying decisions based solely on price." ☛ http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2021/08/Screw-You-Microsoft-Edge.html |    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:02:21


  • "The results of their real-world experiment around the UC San Diego campus are impressive: [...]" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/you-can-be-tracked-via-your-bluetooth-signal/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:02:48


  • "Mobile devices increasingly function as wireless tracking beacons. Using the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol" ☛ https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~schulman/docs/oakland22-bletracking.pdf |    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:03:30


  • "As a society, we would not accept it if the government wanted to track our movements every few minutes of every day" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/11/world/canada/tim-hortons-privacy-data.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:03:36


  • "Oracle's board chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison said that patient data would be anonymous until individuals give consent to share their information" ☛ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/oracle-developing-national-health-records-database-larry-ellison/92148642 | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:03:45


  • "Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after Jan. 6, to overthrow the government" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0610/Democracy-remains-in-danger-House-hearings-on-Jan.-6-begin | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:05:01


  • "I receive many death threats now from Muslims" ☛ https://www.firstpost.com/world/dutch-mp-geert-wilders-gets-death-threats-from-muslims-for-supporting-nupur-sharma-over-her-prophet-muhammad-remarks-10775711.html | Source: Firstpost    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:05:30


  • "Captured on surveillance video, UI police identified Quraishi as the alleged rock thrower" ☛ https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/ui-student-facing-hate-crime-charges-over-rock-thrown-at-jewish-students-during-protest-march/article_b2228803-6688-5991-b8a3-1f69113f23bc.html |    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 09:05:45


  • "In this guide, we learn how to manually configure static ip address on Fedora Linux (Fedora 36 Workstation)." ☛ https://www.linuxtechi.com/configure-static-ip-address-on-fedora/ | Source: LinuxTechi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 10:44:28


  • "The PICO-V2K4 uses AMD’s 7nm processing technology and accommodates the AMD Ryzen V2718 or the V2516 variant." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-pico-v2k4-runs-linux-win10-on-ryzen-v2000-embedded-processor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 10:45:22


  • "Anti-piracy coalition ACE has booked another victory by shutting down We-Play, one of the largest piracy portals in Thailand." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ace-shuts-down-pirate-site-that-caused-0-50-in-damages-per-visit-220611/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 10:55:51


  • "50-year-old Frenchman Max Louarn began his hacking career in the 80s and during the following decades built up quite a reputation." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-nemesis-max-louarn-hacker-rebel-and-wanted-by-the-fbi-220611/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 10:55:56


  • Turkey https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkeys-economic-troubles-intensify-as-currency-resumes-slide-11654688734    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:02:56


  • The Code: Story of GNU and Linux (2001) Complete Documentary - SoylentNews ⚓ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/06/10/1242257 ䷉ Source: soylentnews    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:03:21


  • More ammunition https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-reports-ammunition-shortage/6613391.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:03:40


  • Turkey https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/03/turkeys-inflation-soars-to-73percent-as-food-and-energy-costs-skyrocket.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:04:14


  • Turkey https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkeys-inflation-surges-to-24-year-high-of-735-percent-in-may-news-60898    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:04:29


  • GP guilty of misconduct for asking Muslim woman to remove her veil could be struck off - LBC ⚓ https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/gp-guilty-of-misconduct-for-asking-muslim-woman-to-remove-her-veil-could-be-stru/ ䷉ Source: lbc    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:04:57


  • Omar https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/lefts-coalition-cracking-ilhan-omar-enrages-robert-spencer/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:05:18


  • Turkish lira’s slide accelerates as Erdoğan vows to continue slashing rates | Financial Times ⚓ https://www.ft.com/content/4f56465e-d315-4502-b117-6dbd833e02e7 ䷉ Source: ft    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:06:01


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165906    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:33:25


  • LibreOffice 7.4: Top New Features and Release Details • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165907    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 11:53:54


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D613.jpg    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:26:16


  • Voronoi tessellation to measure tree spatial distribution gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/~johngodlee/posts/2022-06-12-voronoi.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:26:58


  • "OK, so reading up a bit on Al Feldstein’s process; he would start on page one and hand write in pencil directly on the bristol board, writing the text and indicating narration plates and speech bubbles, but no art. As in, he was writing it in one go." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/feldstein    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:28:09


  • "Hedonism should not be endorsed by any means. Long term gratification is much more worth it for the individual than short term fleeting pleasures, because it demonstrates one's ability of self control, resulting in more wise decisions." gemini://altesq.net/~masqq/gemlog/2022-06-12.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:29:10


  • gaming on void (and a thinkpad) gemini://altesq.net/~lelkins/gemlog/2022-06-12.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:29:53


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D246.jpg    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:31:02


  • Homebrew An OS From Scratch? Snowdrop Shows How It’s Done • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165908    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:32:31


  • 12 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165909    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:35:28


  • Education ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/11/what-does-it-mean-that-women-now-dominate-higher-education/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:36:25


  • Profiteering ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/pulse-museum-profiteering-pain/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:36:40


  • "cursory controls" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/nation-bleeding-gunshot-wounds | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:43:59


  • "It is time for an unusual but long overdue revolt by the 150 million tax-with-held taxpayers" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/time-taxpayer-revolt-how-corporatist-politicians-make-you-subsidize-big | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:44:15


  • "Mass shootings are good for gun sales" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/how-long-will-us-sacrifice-kids-gun-lobby | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:44:34


  • "When it comes to trolling eBay for cool stuff, some people have all the luck" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/06/11/inside-an-ebay-marking-laser/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:44:59


  • "The structure of computer game assets can be a bit of a mystery, even more so the older a game is, and some amount of reverse-engineering can be expected" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/06/11/the-tools-that-lovingly-tore-apart-a-vintage-computer-game/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:45:21


  • "The idea of a macro keypad is a great one, a set of keys programmable with frequent but complex tasks." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/06/11/odd-inputs-and-peculiar-peripherals-a-macropad-with-a-handy-layout-screen/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:46:00


  • Insurrection hearings ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/even-if-never-convicted-donald-j-trump-will-live-infamy | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:47:01


  • Amazon ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/11/sanders-and-gillibrand-call-amazon-recognize-historic-union-victory | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:47:29


  • CIA ☛ https://thedissenter.org/in-one-week-spanish-court-summoned-pompeo-and-uk-admitted-it-spied-on-wikileaks-attorney/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:48:05


  • Loans ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/cancellation-of-corinthian-loans-is-only-the-beginning-of-student-debt-abolition/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:48:38


  • "Some stones make arrowheads. Others make sparks." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/06/11/glass-classic-but-mysterious/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:49:20


  • "If you worked with computers back in the 1970s" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/06/11/odd-inputs-and-peculiar-peripherals-using-a-commodore-light-pen-on-a-modernish-computer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:49:43


  • "In recent years, voting rights advocates and state lawmakers have made significant strides in restoring voting rights to U.S." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/11/movement-restore-ex-felons-voting-rights-now-focusing-states | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:50:05


  • "The majority of Hungarians don't want to get closer to Russia, the desire for belonging to the West is still much stronger in the country." ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/06/11/research-reveals-how-hungarians-see-putin-and-other-world-leaders | Source: Telex (Hungary)    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:50:23


  • Cops ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/we-dont-need-more-evidence-that-police-cant-be-trusted-we-need-real-safety/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:50:42


  • "Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job and keep us safe from gun violence." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/11/march-our-lives-call-nationwide-strike-schools | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 14:51:47


  • 201: openSUSE Leap 15.4, Tails 5.1, Blender 3.2, PeerTube, Atom Discontinued and more Linux news! - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital ⚓ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-201/ ䷉ Source: TuxDigital | GNU | Linux    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:01:43


  • "you’ll never use one of those “Internet of Shit” products." https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/06/12/is-your-smart-home-product-being-shutdown-just-buy-the-company/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:05:48


  • 22 Open-source WYSIWYG editors for 2022 https://medevel.com/20-os-wysiwyg-editors/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:08:52


  • "Right now, running EasyOS 4.0.1. Have taken out Gimp, Samba and HexChat, and brought back SeaMonkey. 'easy.sfs' is 748MiB. I have posted about the easy*.img file having a 767MiB boot-partition, and running into a problem as now using lz4-hc squashfs compression, easy.sfs has suddenly become too big." https://bkhome.org/news/202206/the-return-of-seamonkey-and-a-fundamental-rethink.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:10:18


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165910    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:14:06


  • FreeBSD Foundation: Foundation Elects New Officers, Interviews Outgoing Board Members • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165911    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:14:13


  • "My new job wants me to do my work on a Macbook Pro, which in most ways is only a little more terrible than the Linux laptops I am used to. I don't love anything about it, and one of the things I love the least is the Mystery Key." https://blog.plover.com/2022/06/02/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:16:50


  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165912    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:28:42


  • Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165913    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:28:49


  • Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165914    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:29:44


  • "The VME subsystem graduated from staging into a top-level subsystem in 2012, with commit db3b9e990e75 ("Staging: VME: move VME drivers out of staging") stating" https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/commit/?h=staging-testing&id=35ba63b8f6d07d353159505423cfca5a4378a11c    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:30:37


  • "The non-initialized AMX state can be the cause of C-state demotion from C6 to C1E. This low-power idle state may improve power savings and thus result in a higher available turbo frequency budget." https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/fpu&id=43843d58393026fef4a43d192b641a4fabdc42bf    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:36:33


  • libinput 1.21.0 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165915    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:43:39


  • MakuluLinux Shift 2022 Final - Released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165916    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:43:47


  • MenuLibre 2.3.0 Released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165917    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:44:04


  • LINMOB.net - Weekly #LinuxPhone Update (23;2022): Linux on Apple A7-A8X, flaws in U-Boot and the number 100 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165918    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:51:33


  • 10 Free and Open Source Game Engines • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165919    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:51:58


  • Surveillance through wearables, spying on people in one's surroundings https://siliconangle.com/2022/06/10/meta-reportedly-scales-back-plans-upcoming-ar-glasses/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:57:49


  • Should also investigate Microsoft for a large number of actual crimes https://siliconangle.com/2022/06/10/uk-antitrust-regulator-investigate-apple-google-mobile-app-practices/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 15:59:12


  • Fictional valuations in businesses which might in fact be losing money https://www.securityweek.com/billion-dollar-valuations-cant-halt-layoffs-onetrust-cybereason    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:00:06


  • "When COVID hit, the Federal Reserve tried to stimulate the economy with a massive bond-buying program" and after 12 trillion more in debt the economy is collapsing https://reason.com/2022/06/10/has-inflation-peaked/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:01:11


  • Twitter operates at a LOSS and its crank promotes new scams https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epzgwn/jack-dorsey-fuck-it-were-doing-web5    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:02:03


  • A new "Pokemon"-type game for the Command Line https://lunduke.substack.com/p/a-new-pokemon-type-game-for-the-command    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:05:25


  • Use Authenticator to Generate Two-Factor Authentication Codes on Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165920    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:23:32


  • [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 5.19-2 - Hans de Goede ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8c5b557d-7e6b-cbb7-316b-f26c567b08cd@redhat.com/ ䷉ Source: Red Hat | ICBM | GNU | Linux    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:24:16


  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165921    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:25:13


  • COVID-19 Finally Hits at Home https://www.roguelazer.com/2022/06/covid-19-finally-hits-at-home/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:32:13


  • prior-art-dept.: ProleText, encoding HTML before Markdown (and a modern reimplementation) https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/06/prior-art-dept-proletext-encoding-html.html    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:33:07


  • "First of all, why does every fan and lightbulb need its own remote? Are we so ****ing lazy that we can't get off our butt twice a day and walk over to the window?" gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-06-12.midea.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:34:38


  • Inspired by malware? https://www.tumfatig.net/2022/windowmaker-theme-inspired-by-windows-10/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:37:17


  • If you can automate it in your life, try https://rubenerd.com/if-you-can-automate-it-in-your-life-try/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:38:10


  • John Gruber running sponsored BS. Proprietary software ads as "CONTENT" in his blog.    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:45:59


  • "I’ve enjoyed writing software for 40+ years now. Lots of activities fall into that “writing software” basket, and here’s my favorite: When you have a body of code with a decent unit-test suite and you need to make it go faster." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/06/10/Quamina-Optimizing    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:47:42


  • Anthropometric Birthday Cards https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/06/anthropometric-birthday-cards/ "Besides the epidemiological interest in these anthropometric curves, they have dual-use potential for reproducible birthday cards."    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:49:36


  • "The last reason — the claim published by Yahoo but never matched by another outlet that Pompeo responded to the initial Vault 7 release by asking about the possibility of assassinating Julian Assange — is a more dubious argument still." https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/12/josh-schultes-continued-attempts-to-hack-the-judicial-system-may-not-be-limited-to-legal-code/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:52:09


  • "Here’s a quick round-up of what happened around the Steam Deck in the past 2 weeks." https://boilingsteam.com/steam-deck-software-updates-official-and-unofficial-docks-news/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 16:57:01


  • Ventoy Now Supports More Than 900 ISOs, Enables Secure Boot by Default • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165922    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 18:05:14


  • "IBM is working with several partners to “tackle” the talent shortage" while LAYING OFF ITS OWN TALENTED WORKERS and "training underrepresented communities in the technology" while PROFITING FROM EUGENICS https://www.datamation.com/careers/ibm-partnering-train-underrepresented-communities-cybersecurity/ http://techrights.org/2021/04/25/ibm-germany-history/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 18:27:49


  • Vitals – Display CPU Temperature, Fan Speed, Memory Usage in Ubuntu Panel https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/06/display-cpu-temperature-fan-speed-panel/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 18:49:17


  • 282: Linux on Smartphones & GNOME Shell on Mobile - Destination Linux - TuxDigital ⚓ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-282/ ䷉ Source: TuxDigital | GNU | Linux    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 18:55:06


  • What happens to the Third World when the First World no longer needs it? gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1007 "Observation: Amazon's sole advantage is that it ships stuff fast, but the quality of what you find and price of the stuff that you find isn't that much cheaper than buying stuff second hand from a site such as Ebay, where you typically filter by location."    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:02:02


  • "In 2021 I started using Emacs and learning to use the vanilla keybindings." gemini://box.matto.nl/vim2emacs.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:03:07


  • A script for making a blog index tozip.chickenkiller.com    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:03:47


  • "I decided to do a little bit of automation on my blogs. I now create "blog.gmi" using the following script..." gemini://tozip.chickenkiller.com/2022-06-12-blog-script.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:04:23


  • New Gemini server gemini://tozip.chickenkiller.com/2022-06-12-new-server.gmi "A new, more secure, server has been set up to host my gemini account."    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:05:14


  • HP DEV ONE: is this Linux laptop a THINKPAD KILLER? - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2gQbOsTXRLY The Linux Experiment doing ads again?    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:10:49


  • Linux Around The World: Ireland https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-ireland/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:26:17


  • "But here’s the thing, and this is why I think this idea is valuable: Let’s call out those obstacles as the actual obstacles." https://danielmiessler.com/blog/just-copy-what-works/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 19:30:36


  • Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165923    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 21:08:28


  • KDE Frameworks 5.95 Released with More Than 180 Changes for Plasma and KDE Apps • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165924    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 21:11:10


  • postmarketOS 22.06 Brings Plasma Mobile 22.04 and Release Upgrades to Linux Phones • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165925    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:09:11


  • "my everyday GNU/Linux usage. There were two laptops before this Thinkpad. The last one is now ten years old, and it let me down almost two years ago. It shook the entire look on GNU/Linux of my own." gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2022-06-12-ThinkPad-T530.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:10:37


  • 🔤SpellBinding: CEULNRK Wordo: CUBBY gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2022-06-12.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:11:39


  • Linux Around The World: Saudi Arabia https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-saudi-arabia/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:17:29


  • KDE Ships Frameworks 5.95.0 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165924#comment-33956   

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:20:39


  • Audiocasts/Shows: mintCast, The Linux Experiment, and Destination Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165926    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:25:34


  • "I've been using Arch for a few years and it's a great distro however it's not the distro for everyone regardless of what some people shilling the distro might say, so here's the case against Arch Linux." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_L3MehoLEzI    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:33:02


  • As noted here some days ago, UPC faces a lot more perils than the EPO and Team UPC wish to acknowledge; we’ve meanwhile stopped or temporarily suspended our weekly rebuttals to UPC misinformation/disinformation (not because it is unimportant but because it is repetitive and we’ve repeatedly made a point) http://techrights.org/2022/06/12/another-reason-unified-patent-court-upc-is-a-hostile-coup-that-will-fail/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:38:21


  • We’ve spent this weekend ungoogling the Web site; Google (or “Gulag”/”Goolag” as we mockingly call it) is not a friend of civil society and its “news” services are increasingly just a filter (censorship) full of misinformation, outright spam (due to neglect or loss of commercial incentive to tackle the issue) http://techrights.org/2022/06/12/google-free/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:38:44


  • EPO workers are being surveyed regarding the ongoing industrial action; they should vote to affirm (Gandhi started as a trade union leader) http://techrights.org/2022/06/12/epo-obsessed-with-speed/    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:38:57


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165928    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:39:10


  • Steam Deck: Software Updates, Official and Unofficial Docks News • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165930    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:39:17


  • GNU/Linux: Arch Linux, "Linux" Around The World, and Linux Format 290 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165929    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:39:25


  • "Have all the regular causes been fixed now? Because if everybody gets a warning, it's not useful." https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/6/12/193    

posted Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 22:40:15



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